Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 22, 1875, Page 2

THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY FEBRUARY 99 1875: eince the tandenoy of the times is toward in do- pendonce, Among the more prosperous churches gr tho city aro thogo upon an independent bana, After all, then, tho prospects are, thi seemato have been a hardship to Alr. MoKalg will prove # bicssing in disguisu, ————— TEMPERANCE, A Reply to Prof. Swings To the Piiitor of The Ohtcage Triounes Cicaao, Fob. 21.—Having latenod to Prof. Swing's second lecture on temperance, I cannot rofrain from expressing my opinions, It would be impossible for mo to critically analyzo (he aer- mon of Prof, Swing in @ short nowapapor atti- ole, and yot the fact announced by him that wo should trafisfor from the beor gardens, wino-cel- lars, aud samplo-rooms wine, Leer, and brandy to our homo circles, and mako thom a part of tho garniture of our dinnor-tablea, abould not gounrobuked, for, a8 Prof. Swing arguod that midderation in all things, not oxcopting opium smoking, was tho middle ground which the Bavior laid down ad tho straight and narrow way In which wo shoukl walk to cortnin glory and reward, yot wo must ronson around tho circls that just so long as Prot. Birlng and other minlyters of tho gospel will ad- yocate tho uae, in any tay, of alcoholic drinks, whothor tho same may ba Irish whisky, German Leer, Fronol brandy, or ltaliau wing,.wo will reap tho harvest of their sowing iu arunkonnese, ‘Tho lonrnod divine was frees to acknowledgo “that hodid not daro to indulge in adrop of any of them,” and yot he did daro to utter jn tha ears of hit Hetening, ontranced audience, these fearful, dotusive words tbat wo should transfor to our home tables, to our accial gatherings, to our New Year's entortain- ments, tho beer of tha Geriunn garden, tho wine of tho Itallan, the brandy of tho samplo-room, leaving oach man to ‘*dlneriminate,” to “se- Icet,” to nao “his own moderation in tho uso of them.” Whon tho timo has come that a Presby- torinn clorgrman of tho standing aud influonce of Prof. Swing will appear before an audionco on Sabbath morning, aud with his instructions to hia people discominato such dangerous, de- Insivo, atid destrictiyo doctrines ns theso, the milonnium, whon men will got druuk no moro, Is wtill ages in tho future, Tho learned divino is forced to admit that ho dare not induigo in s drop of any Intoxicating arink ; and yet oven he, tho spiritual connsclor and loador of the people, has not tho moral cour ago to advocate the only safe and righteous prin- siplenof temporance, “1 will not say whothor this timidity arieoa from the fact that go many among his admiring listeners aro distillers, wholegalo Siquor dealers, and lovers of wine, beer, aud braudy, or whothor tho music of popular adulation ia so aweot to his enr that ho strikes thia key-note to + awaken tho roverberations which ring their changes upon his name ; but I will say, so long ag ministers of tho Goupel and Christisn men and women, who ara profesacily secking the ro- demption of all mankind frum the curse of in- temperance, advovato the uve, in any dogroo, of any alcoholic drinks, so long will intompor- suev curso and dostroy the race. - Alehotiol is alcohol whether it fa found in wine or whieky, and its effect upon the brain and system are tho same in proportion to consumod, tho pianitity whether they ara taken in the beor-garden or at home, gnd in the sumo degree uniit the mind to “discriminate,” * select,” or to “use modera- tion.” And modoration in the “uso of alcholio drinks is an impossibility; and the eooner that Prof, Swing and other public toachors of hia kind leave {ho Fide of the temporancs causo and go over to tho side of whisky, aud to tho com- pany of others who make their mouoy by its uso, Dy its trafic, its manufacture, aud the the advo- cacy of wuch principles, the better, Kuch mon and stich principles aro atumbting blocks in the way of (ho temperance causo. Joun W. Knraurs. — MENDOTA, ILL. The Cold Wenther and Its Effects, Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Menpora, Ii, Fob, 19.—Tho long-continued cold weather Is being sevorely folt hero, LBusi- nees of all kinds is slack, owing to the serority ¢f tho weather. Tho farming compnuity have their Landy full in cloaring away tho heavy snow- drifte aud oponing up tho rosds for travel, which linve bean impeded since the Inst heavy fall of rnow, of Feb, 10; and only those who cannot void it coma to town, Cattle ura suffering much from the Rrest scarcity of water. Vivo-sixths of tho fanners, for miles around here, havo scarcely enMfcient for household use, ond oro compelled to drive their stock in many instances, 2 or 3 milea off to whero thero isn goorl supply of that now precious liquid ; whilo others take advautago of the snow and melt it,—no light work by tho time 20 or 30 head ofcattle Layo allayed thoir thirst, even onco s dav, ‘This fa not tho only cause for complaint; at lon#t nine-tenths of tho farmers havo had thoir potatoes, apples, beets, cabbazes, and, iu whort, everything in their cellara, frozen, and bavo not had apotato to uso for wocks, 8o farmera, in general, aro having # protty bard timo of it, The peoplo of thin and other towns nround here nro_no better off, Most of tho wails are dry, and, in mauy instances, thoso who bavo water in their cisterns have them frozon, and it is equally inaccessible. Previous to tho suow, ico Was in great domand, and many families havo a goodly quality of ftin their yards for tho pur- jose of melting, If it woro not for the city wells, wo should bo ins very bad stato. Even some of these becomo exhausted early in tho day, and tho morning sees a rash of poo- plo at tho pumps, The city spent be- tweon 910,000 and €19,000 on’ an artesian well, snd wont down some 2,900 feot, whch the dnils aud poles got stuck, and ara thore yet,—tho workmen having failed to recover them: work on it has boen suspended for tha resent. It would proye a great boon now had it beon = succces, Tt ian lard time forthe poor and those who Aro ont of omployment, but Lam happy to say wo havo not many such, Thoxo who had been provident enough to stock thelr collars for wintor nso, iu the majority of instances, havo had everything frozen, Col» lars have froven horo this year that have nover boon knonn to froozo beforo. Vegetablon aro a ecarve commodity, aud atl articles of daily con sumption command s high price, Tha impediunent to trafic by railroad is preatly felt here, too,—most of tho trains being very much behind, expecially from the North and Weat, which are frequently flvo to ton hours late, causing a great iuconvoulouce to passon- Bend, A sudden change took placo Iast ovoning at 11 oelock, ‘Iho thormometor was 25deg. above zero, with a light anow, showing a chango in twenty-four hours of 94 deg. ‘ho barometer fell from 23.80 to 29.35 in the same time ; its ine dications aro the same tu-day, with light snow. fe eg ‘The Outch in Acchine The Pall Mall Gazetle nays; “ Tho Java Bode of tho 10th January brings very discouraging in- tellizouco cs to the position of the Dutch troops iu Atchin. Au iuundation of the Atchin River had caused great damage in the Duteh camp; teevora) ofticers and mon lost their bagyago, aud the water bad ffoodo! tha hospitals, which contain from 700 to 800 nick and wounded, go tuat the pationts wero only saved with great difuculty, Somo of the provisious were de- wroyed, and tho Myundation, which lasted from the “4th to, tho oth ult., lott behind It fetid mud, which caused great anxiety for tho heatth of the troops, Soon after reinforcements, consisting of two battalions of infantry and a battery of field artillery, arrived at the station ; and, as no preparations fiad beon mado for thoir reception, thoy wers obliged to camp out in the open air on tho muddy soul, Mute made of wood and bamboo had been ordered in Datavia, but had nat yot heen kent to Atchin. Tho Command. er-in-Chiet, Col. 10], was suffering from fovor, and Licut.-Col, Wiegaud hed consequently been appointed to act forhim, ‘Tho Mode adds that many men of bad charactor aro among the troops kent to Atchin; that a country whero thoro is vo little military eplric asin Hollaud should not entor upon a war which conte coms. 1,400 men a year, and that noder euch circum- atances a policy of conquest aud annosation is clearly out of piaco,"" A Modern Mother of tMorocs, The correspondent of tho Loudon Daily Tele- graph at Romo writes: ‘Thora tas just died at Turin o Roman lady, tho Counteus Maria Tosi, daughter of tho Marquess Angioletti, Hor husband, Count Vosi di Joul, an oficer in the old Sardinian army, fell covered with with wounds st Novara, IIe bad four sons, of whom Alfouso, the eldest, after vorying in tho Vonetlou. campaign of ’48-49, ourollod under Garibaldi, und died quite a youth at Vollotri. Tho young. ext, Luigi, almodt a boy, wau arrested by tho Papal sutuoritics for troasou, and died in prison iu 18507 ‘The socond won, an otticer in tho Hersagliorl, gained the modal for bravory at Sau Marliuo, aad died a glorious death before Gaota. ‘The third, Antonio, a Nergoant in the army, was also one of Garibaldi's ‘Thousand, aud fell undor the walluof Capua on the 2d of Octobor, 1860, The mother of theso yeu patriots lingered ou fo great poverty in tho refugo for widows at Turin, aud bas just died. Surely she deserves & memorial in commen with Adclaide Caireli.” / A POLITICAL REVIEW. Thurlow Weed on the Causes of the Ro- publican Defeat. The Agitation by the Press of the ** Third- Term” Idea. The Question of the Resumption of Specie-Payments, Squandoring the Public Domain---"' Pro- teotion” and Trades-Unionism. Diffoulties of tho Problem of Reconstruc- tion—-Givil Rights, It Is “Not Expcdiont or Safo to Trust the Democracy with Supreme Power,’? Tho Now York Tribune of Saturday contains » longthy letter from Thorlow Weed upon the political situation, It is addressed to Vivua W, Smith, whoao recent lottor to Spoakor Blaina, “oxplanatory of tho causoa which have ovor- thrown tho Ropublican party,” 3fc. Weed com- mends as *yery ablo, aud, for tho moat part, vory wise.” He says that tho causos assigned for the disastrous defeat of last fall are aufliciont for the overthrow of. 3 dominant party bell responsible for porvading flaaucial distrons, and yet this gonerat stagnation in burlness, was in- ovitablo, resulting from tho oxhaustive conso- quences of the War, Tho lottercontinucs: While no Administration could bavo avorted tho ovils, ours, it must bo admitted, failed to do much that ought have been done to relievo and mitigato thom. 1t might also, iu doing somo thinga ond iu omitting to do others, have catmed rathor than oxasncrated popular focling. The Administration was sorlounly weakoued aud wounded by the Congressional ‘back-pay grab," by Treasury Department {mbeciliticw, by San- born contracts, and Wasblugton City Govoru- ment frauds. ‘THE THIND TERE. Btill another and damaging clement entered into the canvass of 1874. J rofer to 1t reluctant- ly, and only becauso, if wa earnestly intend to recover our fot ascoudency, wo must clearly un- derstaud tho cates of ottrdofeat, that abusos niay by reformod, errors correctod, aud illusions dikpeliod. When tho provs began to agitate about » ''third torm,” few, if avy, euppoted that sitch an {den wan seriously outertained. No such thonght found rosponeible oxprosaion. But tho agitation continued until considerable popular solicitude was awakoned. As the elec- tious approached, Republicans grew apprelion- slyo and anxious, Republican mombers of Con- ress not only wrote to but visited Washington iu the hope of being authorized to contradict tho accusation, But no word waa spokeu, uo sign given by the only person who could, by tho utterance of & single rontence, have disarnicd hia opponents and roassured aig friends, «+ Thoro had not beona day or au hour since Gen. Washington's ontightened and patriotic viowrs, onforeed and foritlied by tho strong, clear, and conclusive argumenta of Gen, Maiilton, wore submitted to the people, that any Presi- dont, however wee, useful, and popular may havo been bis Administration, could Lave secured or approsched an election fora ‘third tora.” Nog waa it over alleged that Jefforeou, Madison, Monrve, or Jackron (sro served two terms) aithor permitted thotr frionds to ontertain such an idea or doluded thomsolyes with such an aa- piration. If there bo anything unaltorably fixed and do- termined in the American mind aud heart—if there bo any ono prinelple to which our people havo anchored, it is tho ‘third term" cxampls of Washington, And {am dovoutly thankful that thoro ia so much left of the toachings of our po- litical fathera to which their deecondants cling. Theso things, addad to the causcos which you so clearly present, both explain and excuso tho focling which found oxpression through tho bal- lot-box sgalnst the Adminiatration, ‘She Republican party for the good work it had dono before and during the Rebollion ought to havo held the Governmeat at Icast ana or tivo Presidential terms longer. Tho Democratic party, both on account of its misrule before and. ita distosalty during the Rebollion, justly for- felted the confidence of the poopla, “Nor has it evincod wince the Robollion anything of tha wis- dom which formerly characterized that groat party. On tho “contrary, its teachings and tondencies justify apprehonsion that a ma- liga oloment, now aa licrotofore, exorta a preponderatihg influence {n its councils, . . It wilkbo useful in our recuperativo efforts to romomber that the Itepuolican Adminiatration way boaten in 1874, not by the susinouted strongth of its opponents, but by tho Miewstion and apathy of its friends, HESUMYTION OF SPECIE-PATMENTS, Mr. Weed Lolioves tho resumption of specio- Prmente entiroly practicable within a reasoua- lo time, and without sorious injury to tho ijudustrics of the country. It ia not so much that specio la required for goncral uyo or eircite lation og that the paola should bo asanred that. specio can bo obtained when it ia actually needed, A gonoral determination to resumo would go moro than hatf way toward its accomplishment, The only serious difiicuity relates to our foreign croditors,—the holders of our bonds, and those from whom wo purchase luxuries ; and to meet this it is seggested that Congress pass a law, limited to ton years, imposing hoavy duties on silks, Jowelry, wine, ctc., so aa to virtually prohibit “thelr importation during tliat timo. The lottor then speaks of tho artificial obstaclos to resumption, tho speculation of the Gold Exchange, tho oateavapance of our poopla in dross and othor Inxurios, tho millions of money spont by idlersin Europe, Thovo great abuses and follies reformed, nothing would ba casior than the resumption of specio payment. Nor does resumption in any case uocosusrily ine volve onorous contraction. Wo havo a strongly protected and uniform na- Howalized curroncy, Hor all domestic uses that currency ia just a4 good as gold and silver, It ia “von better than the dobased motailie currency of Austria. And when tho fact hall have been catablishod that this papor cau bo converted into gold ond silver, tho peuple will profer the bauk- notes, leaving tho gold and silver to meot the foroigu demand, Tho President struck a chill- ing blow at resumption by advocating tho prohi- bition of sil notes under $5. Resumption, coupled with such s prohibition, would be lu- aoflnitely postponed, for the people would noyor consent ta be Goprired of the sinall notes of wolveut spocie-bauking bavks, GUADUAL CONTRACTION FAVORED, Auslous as 1 ain for tho resumption of speclo- paymouts, I would not xcek it by turaing the diusncial screws 60 tightly us to arrest sad para- jyzo business enterprises, upon tho hoalthy workings of which the prospority of all clasuos depends. England, as a consequonco of her protracted wars, waited patiently moro than twonty years for tho opportunity’ of rowuming wpecie-paymouts without doranging her great manufacturing aud commercial interests or dla- trosuing her trado, Wo, bowovar, can, If wo will, calabllsh onr national credit much soonor. Indood, had Con- groes and tho Trousury Department paved tho way, and the people with ono mind bravoly de- termined it ahould bo #0, tho rosuinption of wpecia-paymonth might have beon hailed au a sigual and crownlug glory in the approaching colebration of tho Coutenulal anniversary of our National [ndopondonce, © BQUANDERING THE PEDIC NOsAIN, Worse then all othor evils and follies, Mr. Weed thinks, was ‘the bhud, reckleas, aud criminal aquandoring of the public domain,” ‘Tho Homestead law has proved a failure and 5 dolusion; very fow of tho “toiliug millions” aye protited by it, and the abuses of tho Jaud grant system Lave boon discroditable ta the Goveruinont and disastrous to the public wel- fare, Untold millious, Jin the form of ‘+ Iaud- grabs," which ought to have boon regerved for the usos of the Government, layo gone to en- rich speculators aud capltalinta, If Congress, in ite alacrity to dispousesa tho country of its do- malo, had reserved to tho Goverument one-half or evou one-fourth of all precious motals, miner+ ala, aud coals, & handsomo fund would havo been rescued. A PROTECTIVE TARIFY, Allyou say ou the subject of « protectlya tariff is historicatly truo, I cau over for- got tho high, prosperous, and pany condi~ tfon of our country under tho bonign influ ences Of ‘Bs wise protective tariff from 1818 until 1696, when tho Deniucracy of tho North, to alton ghek and porpetuato its po- litical afiliatious with tho South, bogan to agi+ tate in favor, of a ‘judicious tariff.” During tho Admiuiatrations of James Monroo and Johu Quincy Adams tho wolfare of our poople aud the strongth of our Goycromont were promoted and. sujuuentod by aa wnlightened national policy, $1 our juterosts moved forward harmoniously, Allthe industries of tus conntry thrived. ‘Ihe farmer, the mechaviv, the manufacturor; tho merchant, the importor, and tho capltaliat found themselves working together with « reciprocal intorost ancl to mutual advantage. Whilo all our dontontio ovcupations proved abundantly re- mnnorative, onr canvas—tho canvas of our own woll ladon ships—whitened avery ocean and sea, Anil amid all this individual prosperity and han- inese, the nation was advancing by rapid strides Jo wenith aod power, The natiounl debt was paid off, after which the snrplus procecda of the public domain accumulated so rapidly, and be- caine ao largo sa to croato apprahsnslons that it might become dangerous to the intogrity and stability of the Governmont. = * If we bad that domain now unbroken to fall back upon, it would prove stronger to our (tov~ eromont aaa Snancla) resource than is tho lank of England to the Britian Crown. But those golden days and haloyon hours exist only In re- Tombranco, History will not, { fenr, iu rotors ence to a protective tariff, and cortainly cannot fu regard to nequanderod publiodomain, ‘repeat ituolf."" And, unhappily, tho atateamon to whoso wigdom, industry, and patriotism tho country way then indobted for ite whologomo laws, havo aawed cithor from oarth or into private life. ch as I dosire, and groatly as wo pend, & wino- lyendljunted tariff, Lseo no way of obtaining it until sucrosvors in tho Administrative and Cons greseiounl depattmonta of the Govorument equal to the crisis and the emorgency are found. STATESWEN OF PURE CHARAGTER NEEDED. Nor daro 1 Butlcipate such bappy changos untlt tho fearful domoralization oceasionod by 4 war of unpreeedented magnitude has worked out its ovil mivaion, nor until suffrage, newcheaponod and do- graded, rising to the intolligence, discrimination, and dignity of carlier and bottor days, sesorte its prerogative in the elevation of Representatives. Lor, let i} bo widely proclaimed, that the expori- once and toaabings of a Rapublican form of government prove nothing so slarmingty sug- gestive of and prognant with danger as that cheap suftrage involves and entaila cheap ropro- sentation. TRADES UNIONISiM CONDEMNED, - Mr, Weed devotes cousiderablo space to dis- cussing the evils of ‘I'rades Unionism, and says: “What wo want firat ts a ccrernmontal poiloy, Stato aud national, which will placo the noccssa- riea of lifo within the roach of tho laboring classes at pricos that ravged through the forty oars procodiwg tho broaking out of the Hebel- ion, Conraquent upon such s change, labor would Le in freodomand at rates which could nat bo injurionsly affected by tho exactions of capl- tal on the ove hand, or by o pernicious Trados Unton despotism oa tho other.” DIVFICULTIEN OF RECONSTRUCTION. Reconstruction, from the boginning a most difoult problem, has beon embarrassed by a want of wisdom at Washington and by embit- terod memorics in the South, Tho disorganized condition of tho Southern States ottracted thence bold and unscrupulous Northern adven- turers, who, associated with disbanded roldiors, “the cankers of a loug war,” romnained to do- yautate a conquored country.” ‘Those wrotchos have inflicted upon Sonth Carolina, Florid: Louialana, otc, ote. the worst porsiblo spcci- niens of Stato Governments, At tho lofsroica porpotrated in thego and other rebol States civ- ization blushos. E And yet those who suffer from carpet-bag dishonesty and oppression aro themselves large~ ly to blamo for it. When rebellion was con- quered, if tho white inhabitants, yield- ing to tho inevitable and recogniz- ing thelr formar slaves as freedmen, had treatod them kindly ond offerod thom employ- ments with reasonable wages, tho designs of car- pet-baggera would havo been thwarted: [ affirm this becauso thore 18 undeniablo evidence that in localities whero tho law of kindnoss provails, where masters ondosvored to conciliato thelr former slaves, they wero uniformly successful, and that in sttch localities not only nothing is heard of a ** war between races," but roconstruc- tion has been practically accomptishod. ‘These Jostances of good senso and forbear- anco, I regret to eay, aro oxceptiongs., For the most part thoso who rushed ito the rebellion to divide the Union ara now a8 oggrossive and do- lant as they were when Fort Sumter was tired upon. Unable to cstabliah 2 Confederate Gov- orpmoent, they ecomed datermined to avonge thomeclyea upon the freedmen, who, but for the maduoss aud folly of their mastors, would havo stil} romatnod in bondage. Tho “White Leaguos” of Louislana woro anty too accurately describod by Gon. Shoridan, Suoh organizations ara tot noodad to subservo tho purposes of good govornmont, ‘Chey aro banded togothor to hunt, Lound and, if neads bo, murdor tha negroes, Necoustruction, thorofore, soems of diltcult and distant as it waa at the close of the war, Georgia, alwnys loss ultra and more practical thav South Carolina or Alubama, hag ro-established law and ordor. North Caro- lina, infamously governed for two or threo oats, Becms now.to bo doing botter. That uited States xaldiers ara required in some ox- cited acctions to protect freadinen caunot be doubted, ‘The officom in commaud whould bo mon of intelligence and prudonce, acting only whou the duty is clearly imperative. In Louisiana thors has beon nothing but min- rito, dieorder, fraud, corruption, anarchy, anc violonco from tho clogoof the war. It is dificult to ascertain which party or what faction fa tho worst. Gon, Grant waa not, i fear, for- tnnate in bis early sppolutmonts of Federal _ officers; nor do Of believe the Kellogg Goveramont worthy of tho sacrifices roquirod to maiutain it. The Congros- sional Committes recently in Now Orleans may find a remedy for the ovils which bayo so long seourged that fertile and rich, but mlsorably dis- tracted, Stato, Aftor exprogeing the bopa that the Whig spirit of tho South will rcassers itself, and, uniting with congenial Northern sympathton, work out wholesome results, the letter recura to FINANCIAL MATTENS, T had hoped thut Congress would be able to reach aud remove eome of tho causea which paralyzed the buainess intorests of tho country— xomething that, aw apring advances, would givo life and olasticity to trade, and restore all clasgou to theiraccnstomed oconpations, If this object can only bo reached by oxpansion, I cannot but think that evan that dreaded alromative is pro- ferable to tho dead calm which lisa caused all our material interests to stand still for moro than a year. I make this concession, becauna I have come to tho conclusion that we can roaumoe specie payments without distrossing the laboring vlassoa by stringent * contraction.” THE CLVIL-RIOITS DILL. Too much of the tie of Congress has, I fear, eeu consumed by tho Clyil-Righte bilt—s bill, in its goneral scope and purpose, of questionable wisdom, Allhas boon done by constitutional anondments and Congrossionnl onactments that. is nocossary to place freedmen upon a porfect equality with our own race, * Life, Itborty, and tho pursuit of happinoss” has been guarantoed to thom as tous. ‘Thoy are freo to euter upon sn open aud fair fleld, competing with us upon equal terms for all tho advantages and compon- nations of indusiry and enterprige. . . . Further, wo cannot go. Social equality {4 alike imprecticablo and impossible. When wo rench this point a "higher law” comes in—alaw which nohuman enactments can anaul—s law which will romain fu full force and effoct until white becomes black or black bocomes white, Ail cnactmonts, however stringent, and with what+ ever ponaltiod, designed arbitrarily to constraln social equality, will provo abortive, . . . THE DEMOONATIG PARTY AND THE FRESIDENOY. I do not vollove it expediont or safe, with the oxisting orgauizations and proclivitios of the Democracy, to intrust that party with supremo power, I do not eay this ina partisan spirit, forstmy time of life, and with the viows and feclings I antortaiu aud oherish, I desire noth- Ing but to ves the Governmont of my country woll and wisoly administered. Iehould have loainod little from tho political ordeals through which I havo passed if, toward the closo of a long Ifo, I woro to attribnte all that is bad to one party and all that iu good to anathor. Twould profer tho olection of an onlightonod and honest Damocrat a8 Progideut to the elevation of an incapable Republican of equivocal intogrity. When 1] epoak of au honest andonlightened Demo- rat, I have {n my mind some such men aa Gen. ifenoock, or Gen. Ward, some time Minister to China, froma Gcorgia, or, 80 far as L have been ablo to form an opinion of his ability and char- acter, Gov, Newton Booth, the newly-olacted Sonator from Oaliforuia, But, mth the purposes and passions of tho Democracy, North and Sonth, its nominee for Presidont is not likely to belong to that category: and heuce I ardently hopo that the Republican party will so far reaswuro the people of ita devotion to their proupority and the wolfare of our country as to bo ablo to elect acapablo, experionced, and {ntlexibly lion ost man ne our next President, TW. ——— Ohotera Prophylactic. To a papor read bofore the British Medical As- sociation, Dr. MacCormas speaks of tho eave with which Auiatic cholera yields to early troat- ment—% fact kuown to him, he sys for many years, aud hie method of mecting tho disoase by ottlag in advance of the promouitury diarrhoa feving proved vory auccesafut, ‘Tho prophylace tic ho omploys Sis aimply “sulphuric acid lomon- ado,” adiministored in daily doves containing halt adram of the dilute acid. Itis stated thut on one occasion forty inniatea of the asyluin in which Dr, M. is visiting physician were auddenly attackod by cholera, weventoen of whom wuv- oumbed almout immodiatoly, Ho ordorod sul- phurio acid lomonado for al! the inmates (400), and no ovo clio was attacked, the romainin; casce making good recoveries. Dr, M, ways that water for driuking should be "cookod,” and fla- yored with @ pinch of tca or coffee, clavamon, quasula, ote. _ THE RAILROADS. Prospects of Improved Legisla-= tion in Wisconsin, The Latest Phaso of the Groat Railroad War. ; An Account of Ita Origin, Development, and Onuse, Tho Now Credit Mobilier---A Statement from Both Sides, - WISCONSIN LEGISLATION, ANEW TORN 1% AFFAINS, Speetal Correrponitenes of The CMeago Tribune, Maptsox, Fob, 20.—A yery unoxpected turn was pivon to railroad measures thia week. Tho Commissioners’ report took ® coneorvative view of tha question, and recommonded a modifica- tion of tho Potter law. ‘Thoir conclusions wero elaborated in s vill framed by Commissioner Paul, in which Commissioner Onborna inserted roverat provisions. This draft was completed simultaneously with the publication of tholr ro- port, and was bandod to Mr. Hudd, a membor of tho Assembly Nellroxd Cormittes, and by him was doliverod to tho Chairman, Whon tho con- servative character of the roport became kuown, tho Granger members of the Logielature, who, with tho Jobby presont in that interest, consti+ tute a formidable body, mot in secrot soasion, aud ropudiated the more important conclusions of the Commissionors, and strouuously opposed theie embodimont in the proposed bill, ‘horo- forse Commissioner Osboruo recalled tho bill from the Chairman of tho Railroad Committco on the plea of amending it. Mostntimo tho rep- rosontatlves of the railroad companies, who had Leon obliged to await tho recommondations of the Commissioners beforo shaping their policy, botieving tho bill referrod to was tho beat mens- ure they could hope toceny, lad it printed. Theroupon the Granger faction assorted that o conspiracy extated to fdlat tho grinted bill upon tho Legislature; and 0 effective were thoir avowed suspicions, that Comminsionora Os- borne and Hoyt wero induced to sond a second bill tothe Assembly Committes. After loving it with the Committee one day, tho bill was withdrawn for amondment. Fearing an irroprossibia conflict, Gov. ‘Taylor nilvieed tho loading Grangors to avold repeuting lost winter's tistale. In bis messago tho Covornor had urged a modification of the law, from which po- sition hois understood not to have receded. Thus far hia advice bas beon disregardoi. Among the provisions of tha second bill is ono requiring railroads in the State to publish semi anuual roporto, in which all proposed moasurcs affcoting the status of the Company, leases, con- tracts, of agraements, shall bo aunounced boforo . they shall bo undertaken or consummated. Evon Mr. Orlidgo, the accroditod :epresentative of the State Grange, oud leador of thotr lobby, after aunounoing that ho had had con- sidorablo to do with tho bill, deprecated tho adoption of that feature, aud, by way of illustra~ tion, assured the rural membora thoy would not want to tel! overybody when thoy desirod to buy acertain farm or tonm some weeks bo- foro they could effect the purchase. ‘The bill provides for an appraisal of the sov- oral roada by the Commlesionora, and names Sept. 30 ensuing as tho timo when tho cost shall bo doteriainod and tho clazsifioation mado. Until then the Potter-law rates for passongera and froights aro to be onforced, Theno rates the companies havo shown in thelr momoriat aro insdoquato, ‘They aro stated to bo lowor than thoso found in the freight tariff of any railroad in tho United States or Grent Britain, Inproof, the tariffs of {ro soveral home and foreizn companios aro laid boforo the Legisiaturo, ‘These auacr- tious Lave not boon quoationed in somnilttcs or on the ficor of cithor House, Bolioving tho Pottar-law rates to bo tmremunerative, the com- panies ask for thelr abrogation, and, in doing so, airm that their potition 14 ‘simply for jus- tice. Vor this, beforo both Maltroad Comumit- tees, the companies havo begged hard, ropeat- odly aud carncatly; and npou tho record thus mado they will go beforo the country, Such was the status last ovening. The Gran- ger oloment wero obdurate—urging tho retention of tho Pottor-Inw rates; wlich the companies firmly declared would carry immediato ruin to the wonk companies, and cortain destruction to all, ‘Tho Legislature had agreed to aljoura on the 25th inst. If a resolution to rescind contd bo defeated, tho opponents of modification know nono could be offected by Wedueaday next. But this attompt to ovade tho responsibility was casily dofoated in the Assembly, while in tha Sonate no rosiztauce was shown. An oxtension of time to the dth proximo was seoured, which, if mattors are discretely inanaged, presagon tho ensctmont of an acceptable measure of roliof froin tho objectionable foatures of tho J’otter law, - Max, —->—. THE WAR. Tr RANES HOTLY, "the war botwoon tho Talthmore ¢ Oblo and the Pennaylvania Railroad Companics is atill golng on, but there hog boen but little chango in the situntion, as far as thie city is concerned, sinco hostilities wero commenced, The Peun- aylyauia Railroad still refuses to reduca passon- ger rates from this city, though it haa reduced rates to tho samo figures a8 tho Daltimoro & Ohio Ituilrond at all other points. As oa conso- quence tha Baltimore & Obio is doing an im- menses business iu passonger carrying. Their office has been crowded from morulng till night over inca tho reduction was made on thoir lino, sbout 600 trckots being sold again on Snturday, Tho Gonors! Passenger Agont of tho Pounnryl- yanis Company, Gon, F, 3. Myors, has gone to tho East to consult with tho managora of his line ay to what ia best tobedono, Ho will ro- turn again noxt Wednesday togother with Gon- eral Manayor Laing, when somo moyo will bo mado by this lneto counteract the advantage tho Baltimoro & Oblo now has from this city. Should the difficulty not be settled by that timo, there is o probability that the rates ou tho Ponn- uyisanls Railroad will bo reduced to 8 from this city to Baltimore and Washington, But un- der no ‘circumstances will the Company redtico to Philadotphia and Now York, as such action would involve the othor lines loading to the East in tho quarrel. ‘THE FREIGHT RATES from tho West to the Kost still romain firm, both sho contesting roads utrictly adhering to tho rates outablishedn week ago. ‘The frofght rates from the East to the West bayo, however, gono to ploces, frofgbte being carried at nominal fig- ures, the roads allowing the sbippers iu moat in- stanco# to name thoir owa terms. Whothor thoy will loally do the samo from the West to tho East ia hard totell ot present, but itia un Mkoly that such o thing will bo attempted, aa it would throw a number of tho roads leading from tho West to tho Jiast into bankruptcy, tho finances of most of thom being already in a bad condition. TUE CAUAES OF THE Wan, Tho following articlo from tho Baltimore Amertean of the 18th gives a good iden of the causes of the war Letwoon thotwo giant cor- porations, sud itu effects on them: Tho war between tho Daltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Ceutral Mailroada, under the leadersbip of auch Gonoralissimos of tho rail aa President Garrett aud Veeaident Scott, au a matter of courao, attracta ‘general attention, and is untyersully, though variously, iscussed by the prosa of the large citles, ‘The Phila- dolphia jourusts, with that sharp sensitiveness thot they diapiay with regard to all matters affecting the ftercate of thls cli, ake un tha dofeuss of Lreat~ deut Beott with extrome parilsanship, and demolish his opponents with many bard words and wholesale denunciation, The Now York papors are wore mo- tropollian in their views, and treat the mattor wholly ‘sects the public, wud without apparent feeltu; for elticr of the pariies t tho contest, thouy! the personal features of the correayoudence Lo~ tween the two Previtents do not cacape observa fon, ‘The general oplulon among the railroad men of Now York ts that Br, Scott liad acted Iudependeutly of the New York Coutral ond Erie fu bringing on the Ayt with the Haltimore & Olilo, aud there are many aypsrently good reasons for belleying this to be the case, In the Orst place, the busincya yenorally amuug all rattroada is very poor, and very few of them can atund any further reduction of rates, either for parsene wera or freighta, war between the sainecom- panlee, which was begun tn December, 1873, and lasted until the following April, caused » dead I 1 the companies welling throdgh tickets tothe West, For example, the fore to Chicago, which wan $22 from New ork, wluced to $18.50 ; the fare toCinclunal) wea ¢ratuced from $20 to $19.60, aud to Mitlsburg from 12,00 to $10, ‘These reductions, which amounted toa rue igure in the asgurcgate, benefited the uibilo and the ticket agente ouly, and toa much larger amount than that indicatod by the actual travel, over tho rosde during the tme the reduction existed, Many wholvaale Srma dealing with tho Weat, an well as fhe lolol Lickel agents, Uuylig large alockd of Uckela fowell again, Agsiu, the Baltimore & Obio bas it io ite power to materially reduce tho rates of freight by utting on # line of stesmera between New York and Datumore. Te could then elyn through bills of Ladin, for Western eitics aud deliver the goods almont, if no quite, a3 avon ae if seut by rail from Now Xork, ‘This would make no difference with tha’ abippers, for the road could Insnre {te own fralght by asa, Icaldes, tha Eafe and Now York Gentral do. not own (heough fines to Chicago and other potute Went, ax do the Baltimore & Ohio and the Pennsylvania Oantral, and ff & com- tition wero entered Into the Lake fhora and the Aletigan Central and Groat Weatern Ioada would ob Ject to snbiniluing to any reduction in thelr rates, It would avem, therofore, that nothing ia to he atnot by tho Roads mentioucd fa tho ovent of a atruggic be- tween the Ponnylyania Contra and the Baltimore & Obfo, and that {t {nto thelr intoreat that the presont Tater altould be maintained, Hence itin that Mr, Healt ia boligved to havo acted without previous consultation with them, ant there fen supposed corroboration of Ula in the fact that ho wos tn continnions telegraphte communteatton with Commodore VausterLilt on Mone day, * Bo far as the passengers are concerned, the stoppage of tho male of tickote over the Baltimore & Ohio wil work but little trouble, ‘The agente have ail bought Uckets of the Pennasivanta Central from Naw York to Taltimore, and Curtiinh them to persona busing tickets to pointe beyond, | Thoy say that the recheckiny of the bagaage will not cause any trouble to the pamengers, wlll boate maou agent of the Msitimore & Olio Tuas tho traine before arriving at Baltimore, and will exe clisngo tholr checka for others, On the other hand, it is contended that the Baltte more & Ohio Read cannot afford to put down the passenger-rater, and that tho establishment of a line of atoatnora would not bo of advantage owing to the unpropitiousness of the acason and the high rates of {naurance, Novertlisicas, it Ja geuerally adinittod that tho threat contained in Mr, Gnrrott's lettor to Mr. Scott can be constrited in no other way, os theae are attppored to Lethe only means of offense at his commant, It ia tho determination of the Daitimore & Ohio Company to aak no favora in thin cuntlict, to yield to no compromntae, and to abt it out to the bitter end for the vindication of {ts independence and tta right to ix Ate freight and pasnenger taritta between Uallimore and ite woatorn torn gaus ‘“itiout any regerd to any com- Lination whatover, Me, Garrett stauda on absolutely independont gronnda, ie persuaded that he can maintain himself upon them, and, for such rensone, doca not rearet the situation which hoa been forced upon him, It wiliiutorest New York paople to kuow that the present struggle ts likely to atimulate the ene terprino on foot for tho eatabliahment of two compatt~ tive through routes Letween New York and Waahing- ton, Mr, Scott nu Mr, Garrett each controling ove, ‘With regard to Hcott’s statements that, at {he Noverar ber conference here, Mr. Garrett agreod to the Sara- toga combination, they are iitterly donfed on the tigh- ertauthority, Adthat meeting Mr, Garrett. not only refused to join the combination, but gave hin reasons distinctly and withont reserve for that decision, Ho alav douounce the fant frotyht ines ax the uaual oy clen for trickerles and frauda in transportation th which he terma vamnpires tipon railway futereste, In the event of Mr, Beott's persisiiug tu his vorsion of conferouce, s history of whit really tranapired on ocezelon will be ‘given to the public, In that oveny tho atatement of President Garrott will be fully substantiated, Tt fe deniod that the Baltimore & Ohto Com; any un- dortook to fix rates between New York and he Weat, ascharged by Mr, Scott, What it hos dune wan to make tariffs lowor between Lattimore anil tho West, In consequence of ihe advantages of Baltimore these rates havo been lower than from Now York and otler Eastern cities, aud businera las sought thin port in raferenco to others at witich it munt pay higher ratos, ‘ho result has beon to draw trade away from tho Venn ylyauis Road, and to make Isaltimoro a favorite At~ lantic ontrepot for tho West, ‘The merchauts of Now York, muffering from those differences oporating against thom, linve brought a pressure to bear upot Mr. Scott to do for them what Mr, Gsrrott has done for Baltimore, but as a last resort tomuintsin high rates lo now cndeayors to force the Baltimore & Ohio io his terme by refusing ft access Now York, ‘The Daltimora & Obio Company saya the queation {8 really one which concerns the New York business community quite as inch as ft doce its road. It would be clearly for the interast of New York to havo the Daltimoro & Onio come thera sa a competitor with tho Peonsylyania Roa, but if it is whut off from the metropolis through Mr, Scott's mo- nopoly and Jealonay, 1t still hos ita great outict here, and transportation Will follow the Ing which mccom- modates it with tho Lest and cheapest faciiitics, Asan instance of this fuct, it ia atated that the Baltirsore & ‘Oblo recently made contracts to ship from Baltimore to tufeago 100,000 bags of coffee for Lousce that havo never before mado their importation into. this port. bicaga firms ere now calling for all tho rofined augars that ean bo sent from this port, tho Inrgest refinery now: shipping ita full capactty of a thousand Darrela daily, aud yet not ablo to mect the Chicago demand, ‘Tho Government hea just made coutracts with tho Baltimore: & Ohio for throrgh firstclass mall service In postal cars, between Baltimore aud Chicayo, over the new road, ‘The altnation, on the whole, is held to bo thor- oughly favorable to tho Baltimore & Ohio, whether or not {t gets into Now York by tho Now Jersey roade. or, at somo futuro date, by a now line that can bo placed tu operation at no distint day. ‘There {fe no fear as to the reault, which, it fs genetully bolleved by our bu ness conmunity, inust In any event conduce to the teresis of Daltimore. Lt is nlso understood that the teclana Now York a Company succeeded in tho protracted conflict In 1873-4 {n compolling the Pennayivants Company to allow 116 bualness to bo done over thelr Now Jersoy monopoly line, when {t was without 9 rollable connoction with Chicago, st Lax now no doubt, whatever, af success with tte completed, admirable line, entirely under ita control, between Ballimore and Washington aud Cll cago. THE NEW CREDIT-MOBILIER. THE 169UE NAIBED attha meoting of tho bondholders of the Chi- cago, Dubuque & Mluncsota and tho Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque Railroads, at Boston, Inst Wednesday, will bo fought over again at tho atookholders’ meeting of tho Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Nallrond noxt Wodnosday. Tha com- plaining parties, Mosurs, Torbos and Griswold, have called for proxies, and will moasuro their strongth in the choice of a now Board of Diract- ora, ‘The following is the appeal of the ablove- named gentioman : ‘The understguod havo within a few days become aware of certeiu facta connectel with the Dubuque roada which {n their judgment make a change In your oard of twolve Diructora oxpodient, and tho following huames nro recommonded for olectiou at tho meeting on tho 24th inxt, at Chilcaqo: Jainea M, Walker, Chicago; Q. B, Colton, Galesburg, 1H. 5 ua Corning, Ale bany; Jobn 0, Green, ow York; ‘I. Jofterson Goole {ilge, ostont J, W, Mrooks, Boston; N. Thayor, Hos tou; Biduey hartleti, Moston ; J, 11, Clifford, Boston ; William J, Roteh, Now Bedford, with or without the addition of the nhdersigned, Information may bo had of Messrs, Ward, Campbell & Co,, New York, and of tho uucersigaod, As prostes have already been oztensively called for 4n the intereat of tho present Bostd, you aro now in- vited, {f you approve our nuggertion, to attend the meeting, or to send prosies of n lator’ date, carefully witnessed, to J, N. A. Griswold, care of Watd, Camp~ bell & Co,, Now York. ‘Immedinte action fs necessary, A copy of the uous] prosy {3 for convenience antcxed, which it will be Uoted revokes any prozies ulready given, ‘Higned} 1.3, Fores, (signed Joun N, A, GaiswoLD, Mr. A, T. Hall, the Treasurer of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiucy . Rallroad, had already in his hands enough proxies to re-olect tho old Board of Directors, but since the publication of tho above appeals numbor of these have been withdrawn, and it is, therefore, doubtful which sido will win tho contost, Prouldent Walkor, of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiocy Railroad, save that, in duo time, all the sccused parties will bo vindicated, and it will bo shown that they wero not only not to blame, but, on tha contrary, en- titled to commendation, ‘The following cards, by both parties, will be read with muoli interes by thowa intorosted in thoso roads, as thoy throw much light on the affair : OARD YOM THE DIRECTORS, Boston, Moas,, Feb, 18,--In view of tho recent re= port, submitted fos meeting of some of the bond olders vf tho Chicago, Dubuquo & Minnesota, aud the Chicago, Clinton & Dubuque Haltroad Com- panies, ft vecuus to us duo to ourselvos and to our fel- jow-sufferera to make tho following atatement : Hirat—Long after the above-named corporations had Yeon created anit organized, and after coutracts for their construction bad been entored iuto with certain, corporations called Coustruction Comnpantes, and after tho stock of these companies had best subscribod and partly pal, propovals were made to us, by agen. tloman froin the West of the highest probity aud of the largest exporlunce and judyinent in railways, to become intereated with hitn n the abovo-namad roads Confidlng wholly In hie judgment, aud with no ot means to form ore of our own, wa consented to act with him, We wore informed that the road was belng built under contracts with certain construction come Paulos, but the charactor of theso contracts, except lhat the stock and bonds were to ga to the contractors, wes wholly unknown to ue, aud we Lellevo also to the gentleman with whom we cousented to associate, Nv Cony of thous contracts was over seen by elther of us until within a fow wonths, ‘Thess facta wore, wa bes Move, known to the framera of the report, of some of then, They 1aake no Fartof that roport, Mr. Forbes, fudeed, in bis letter to tho Commitive, says that thoes of “the parties having pecuntary responsibility against whom recourse might thus be bad, were gene ofally themsalves decelvod aud were themecives sutfer- cra." Tho report gives uo token of acquiescence in 1s vow. Wo feel bound to add, that the above communica tions made to us, as to the value and prospects of tho property, were, we believe, notwithstanding the re sult fairly and! honestly miate,—and furluer, that one of the loading molives suggested tous, aud acted upon 5, Cor engaging fn the venture was to secure an'ex- nslve future buslucss for the Chicago, Hurlington & Quincy Company in which wa were wo largely intr ou ‘ ted. Verhaps it may to some extent vindicate our relience without further exauniuation, ou the represontations which led us to be iuterested in this matter, that Mr, Furbes, who we bollevo susisted wa in framiug the re- ee moved and yoted for tho issue of the frst circu- lar, commending tho bonda upon no other grounds aud Uyha no olLer scrutloy. ‘Second—The slucerity of our convictions as to the yalue of the bonds and stock ts perhaps beat abown by the fact that from tho outsct wo were, aud we still are, by fa the largest holders of thcas bonds, and to this is to be addod the fact that not ouly did we deem tho bonds aafe, but considered its shares also of such Valuo that we expended a large sum of money in the purchase (mostly at a premium) of the shares of the jonatruction Company, which carried with them the right to the sharcs as woll as the bonds of the rail- road compaules, and this was done with a view tohare (he roads managed tn the intervst of the Chicago, Bure luugton & Quinoy Company, a4 well a for tho prods of the purchasers, ‘Third—Aw to the auggestion that wo omitted to atate tothe purchasers of the bonds that wo bi ome purchasers fn the stock of the Conalructlon Copa nica, wo desire to state that it does uot sevm to us, al- though there was no couccalinent of the fact, to be in- formation Ukely to Influence the purchavera of bonds, except favorstiy, alnce it showed thut wa consldere the property of much larger value than the mortgage bonda placed npon it, Had the detalle of the oon struction contracts becn then known to ue, wo ahonld hardly haya embarked in the matter, at least without further scrutiny, and wo should not have invited others todo sa without the fillont explanation, Fowrth—An to the constriction of the roads and the application of tha means to build the eame, both were confided, perhays tnwinoly, at the augiestion: of tho gentloman who Invitot ta to tako part in the onterprice, to Mr, Graves, of Dubuque, the Proaident of tho two roads, ‘Thero wan, wo ail nilt, the absences of » thorough supervision by tho Directora In thin regard, arising from the undoubted teatimony as to tho fitnean, acctiracy, and honoaty of Mr. Graver, There was in tho course of constriction an Improper spplicatzon of = portion of our funda to the building of a connecting road, The expenditures on buildings at Dubuqno ate Soemlngly exceasi thongh made with» view tothe tkrge Northern an and Weatern connections of the road, and thore may have been othor errura and mistakes Unknown to 1s, but, from the time we Lecatne aware of the nhore- named errors, we foel confident that a careful ox- aintuation will show (indoed, anch exomination has already shown) that the affafra of the Company havo been earofully and properly conducte Jon N, Duntson, FROM sEASRS, FORNES AND GRISWOLD. the Stockai To,the stockholders af the Cheage, Burlington ch Quincy Wt Duston, Feb, 18,—We have in an advertisemont anked yout to mako some changes in your [oard at tho annual meeting, Fobruary 24, Some moro definite reasons for our courso thal we bad time to state when featning that ndvortixament may secin proper, ‘At the meeting yosterday of the Dubuqto bondhold= er, Br. Joy acknowledged and defended the action of himself and five other Directors in bocoming con- tractors upon the Dubuque Road, whon offerlug the onda to you under the recominendation of your oar Mr, Joy also took the same oceaston to eulogize Mfr, President Graves of tho Dubuque Nailrosd and con- striction compantes, whose misspplication of $160,000 of the money furnished by the unfortunate bondtold~ ere Mr. Joy and bis assoclatos bad already sauctioned by rotaining him 1n office long after his" irregularity!? was known tothem, ‘The debato also developed to the public the fact that the Board of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy had {t= self spplled $240,000 of your funds to paying Dubaque coupons, nnd had allowed your disbursing oificera to. got the Dubuque companies in debt to them fora further sun, It may have been an orror of Judgment on our part tuat we havo endeavored to correct within (he board, without earlier appealing to you, the ovila that have Bcown up, ‘Wo propose now to make a square faaue, If you approve of the connoction of your Directora and other officers, with constriction companies, for building ranch raflroads, and of the mizing up of your funds with {hone of other contpanies, yon will do it with your eyos open, and {¢ you wish hs to remain inthe Board under stich cireumstances, a poworloss minority of the usual quorum, we frankly say wo can do you little good. fo. 28k you to place thers with us three men, who command sour confidence and who canbe counted upon to fnalat with us upon such meastires of reform in auditing accounts and In otherwise manaying your affairs aa seem nocentary, ‘We would pat the most charitable construction pos nila upon the past conduct of ous fellow-Dirextora, including our friend of thirty years’ standing, Jamos ¥, Joy. Wo endeavor to attribute bia and thelr mis txko to an over-sanguine dinposition, stimulated by long yenra of sticceaa under his loadersulp, and not to any futentional misuse of their position s¢ your Dl- rectora, For this reason wo do not consider it dosira~ Vie to mnke any furthor changes thau to relire Mr. Joy und the two of his associates whom you can bea spare, and this with a full conviotion that the position of there two fs the eata fp rogard to tho objectionable past with that of the remaining three. “Tho three whom we hope will remain in tho Board aye long experience in your affaira anda large interest in your stock, and all can be useful to you,—useful, perhaps, to watch the majority to whom wo sak you to confide your larga intorerts, Your Board have to administer tho affairs of » cor= poration whose inveatment reaches $50,000,000, Your annual receipts are over $12,00v,000, ‘Your disbursements over $7,000,000, ‘The most dungorous modo of eapping your re sotirces fa to allow your higher officers to be ralzed np with conatructfon companies or contracts of any sort, which are Lnble to give thom conflicting interosta with ours * Tite tseue wo mako infor m majority of Eantern Die rectors pledged to the administration of your affatra, ‘with a single cya to your intereata, ‘Wo believe that the whole Board wo Lave named, ine cluding those who have made the mistake to which wa havo alluded, will be able to work together in harmony for tho ond which we suggest. As prozies havo been atke: the Treas. urer, Str, Hall, which are Hable to De agains us without baving been #9 intended, wo once more invite proxies revoking earlier ones, sithough we have no doubt that instructions sent to Mr, Tall aa to the usa tio suall make of the proxies conflded to him would be ollowed. A We once more remind you that the mosting will bo on the 24th instant, at noon, at Chicago, making im- mediata netion necéarary, and that nny pkoxtes, reachi- ing Chicago by that time, addressod fo J, N. A. Gris- ‘wold or W. 11, Forbes, will bett sed as you may direct, or, in thoabronce of any diraction, 25 may seem to them for your {nteroat, Your obedient acrvants, 3, M, Foner, aN, A. Gniswotp, == RAILWAY ACCIDENT., A DROREN RAIL ON THE CIICAGO, NOCK ISLAND & PACIYIC ROAD~ONE MAN MILLED AND SEVERAL WOUNDED. Tho oxpress train on tho Chicago, Rock Taland & Pacific Rallroad, duo in this city early yeu. torday morning, was deisyed over an hour by an accident some 2 miles cast of Shofileld, by which a sleeper and two coaches woro thrown, from the traci, resulting in the death of one of tho passongors, the breaking of the arm of an- othor, and the infloting of slight wounds upon soveral others, The accidont occurred about 1:20 a. m., and the train reached the city an hour and 5 half be- hind timo. Most of the wounded lived along the Ine of tho road, between the scene of tho accident and this city. Those who arrived on the train wero only slightly in- jured, and agree substantially In tholr version of tho affair, though none could givo tho pames of the passengers wounded, or even of the ono who has since died, A Mr. John Carter, of Glonwood, Is., was among tho passongora, fo stated to @ roporter yesterday that tho acci- dent was caused by « broken rail, but bow it was broken ha did not know, Ho wasin tho car noxt the slospor when the accidont occurred, aud the first intimation ho had of it was the jumping of tho car over the tics, He started for the door st once, but before he could reach it tho car was thrown down thoem- bankmout. He hoard tho brakeman say, just before the accident, that tho train was hebind time, and bad to make it up bofore roaching Chi- ango, At the timo of the accidont the train was morinog with more than usual speed, and when tho frat alarm was givon bo saw @ man, namo unknown, rush for tho door of the car and jump o!f, Ho jumped Into a cul- vort over which the car was then paas~ ing, aud wos subsoquontly found, almost covered with rock, which it was supposed had baon knocked from the culyort by the bouncing cars, Whoo picked up his log was sovoraly crushed, necessitating amputation, and his body badly brulsed. ‘The unfortunate man got on tho tralo at Annawan, Ho got from. the car aftor it wad still by breaking 8 window, and in the con- fuston ho noticed but little olse, Another passenger confirmed tho abovo state- mont, except that ho did not think tho train waa moving faster than usual at the time of tha accidont. He saw tho man fump from the train, aud saw him aftorward almost tifclers, A phy- aician was summoned from Shoflold as soon aa possible, and during tho amputation of tho orushod Jog tha man died, The railroad ofiiciats: did all in thelr power for the comfort of tho passengers, ond fost no time in gotting them on thelr journoy. A heavy froight train had Just gone over tho track wafoly, and he belleved the engino of tho train to which the accident ocourrod must haye broken the rail, ‘fhe rail was brokon in three pieces, and the en- gine and two cars passad over without trouble, lo did not belleyo the accident would havo proved serious if the passongérs had kept in the cara. 3 ‘Tho wreck was romoved during yostorday, and the traok repaired, Senntor Schurz’s Household. Of Senator Schura's houseliold in Washington, a correvpondont of the Pittsburg Lispatch gays * Carl Kchurz ia undoubtedly the best host in ‘Wauhington for an evoning party, All the mom- Dera of his famlly are intollectualized up to hil grado, and, liko the best olass of Germans, they can throw off profuuduess of chat and liston to music, the hoxt moautime fll pervading, and witty, and soothing; while Mrs. Schurz, with ber dark Hamburg oyee, and almost tenderly interost in young peop lo, receives, aneby one, her callers, aud is obliging, without effort, to all, ifer doughtery aro growing up after the astylo of thelr fathor and mother, sod tho young mon obsorve in them a do- eility and sovaibility quite rare in gonoral socle- ty. In the oveuinge, when bis brother Bouators sro diutributing patronage and writlug goosoy letters to ® hundred numbekul! constituents, paying poker or stufling down food at Wolkor's, Jarl Beburz is at his books, His wife hag put she children to bed, aud is, porhapa, sewing at hig sido, Shovhas nove of the embarrassincnts which attoud fauitiouablo wives whoso daily study it is loulug out what to wear for tho boost of othermen, Tho wtar of his famo Mrs. Schurz adinircs, but doca not worship. Hor idcal isa moro wtable and irugal careor than waits on tho Souate. ‘To husband his resources of tho sind and the parso, tobo a part of somo roal wocloty, and to dovelop moro wlowly, and in the line of happiness, is tis Gorman wife'y dosize.” Boston, Fab, 18, 1875. STATE AFFAIRS, Proceedings in Various Logtsig. tures Saturday, WISCONSIN, BATURDAY'a PROCEEDINGS, Spectat Lispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Mapison, Wis., Fab. 20.—A joint Fesolutloy, passed both Mousses to-day extonding tho tine for flual adjournmont from Ieb. 25 to March 4, In the Asaombly bills wero cancitrrod in to a, propriate 2100 to the Outagamlo County Agricn), tural Sooloty; relating to giving notice of ace, dents on highways; for tho prororration of ducks and othor wild fowls in Greon Lake; tg Provont the eusvaring aud trapplug of deer amonding tha law fixing tho timo whon brook. trout may be caught in Ashland, Dayfold, 9 Douglas Counties; relating to statisticn for the uno of tho Stato Board of Anncsdorn; amenin, the not to enable the City of Watertown to acti its ratlroad indebtedness, - Sonate bills wore pasaed to change the name of the Lutheran Trinity Cheek, 1 Oak Grave, to Evangolicalist Jon's Church; relating tg attornoys’ foes in Justice Courtns amouding the feneral Jaw incorporating villages; to nid the own of Neocdah; to anthorizo Board of Ssipoev lanes of Necedah to loan drainage moneys authorizing J. M, Rounda & Co. to maintain ¢ damou tho Little Wolf River; to amoud tant rolating to tha ofection of Prasidont and Gon grogsinon ; amonding the school coda; rppropri. ating £500 osch to the Bt. Latko's Hoxpltal, of Racing, aud the Cadte Homo, at Groon Lay, ASE MDLY, A resolution to adjourn ovor wntil Tnesdsy morning was adopted ; also a resolution to ex tond the timo for Anal adjonroment ono week, until March 4; also tho joint rosolution to pur. chago 100 copics of the Manual at €2 rer copy, The bill to pay ex-Chiof-Justice Dixon, Judgy Orton, and f. 0. Sloan, for legal services in en. forcing tho Railway act of Inst reasion, wasmady the spociat ordor at 11 o'clock Woduoeday, ‘Tho momorial to Congress to ndopt Gon. War. ron’a third plan for {improving tho Vox and Wis. consin Hivers, by tho construction of » can from Groon Bay to the Mississippi Wivor, wis concurred fn, Assembly bills wore passed toamendtho Regis. try law, contluing ita opsration to fucorporated cities aud villages; to amond tho Rovised Stu. utes rolating to counties and county officers; to nuthorizo trustoos to hold proporty for rellglouy purposes; to provide for uniformity {n toachen’ oxaminations and cortificatos; rolating tothe prosorvation of fiab in Iskoa ucar Madiaon. ‘Tho bill oxtending the timo ilve yonrs for thy exemption of Wisconutn Central Innds from tax. ottbte ‘was mado tho spocial order for 'Tucaday x ®. m. ‘Both|Touses adjournad till Tuesday morning y amark of respect for Washington's birthday, Gov. Taylor. has appointed Indge Steele, of Aparta, Matt Keonau, of Milwaukee, abil reap poluted J. C, Grogory, of Madleon, as University Regents, —.—- MICHIGAN, MIACELZANEOUS NUSINESS, Snectal Dupatch to The Chicago Tribune, Lanatna, Mick., Fob. 20,—This morving Mr, Tomer, of 8t. Clair, moved s reconsidoratlon oj the yote by which the salarioa of officers of thy Btate military forco wero fixed. Tho motion waa carried, and tho bill will bo overbanled again. Thosalary proposed for tho Inspector Gonoral was $1.25, aaum grosily inadoquate ts tho charactor of hia dutics, Tho Committoe appointed to Investigate the condition of the Dotroit Savings Bank, desired authority to visit Dotroit and examiuo porsor and papors. They were given such authority af ter an oxolting dobate, It looks as though the ‘hols past history of the bank will bo invest, gated, Messra. Donjamin, Billings, and Kilbourn were appointad the Committco to invostigate ths body-buatching business In Gonesseo County, and the rotation of the Univoralty thoroto. Tho Govornor has approvad tha bills creating ® Board of Fund Commnisatoudrs ; transforring ingano poreons from tho Dotrott Soldiors' Homo; making appropriations for-tho now Capitol; concorning grauts to hospitals, and making ap propriations for the Btate Normal School, Tho Special Committoo on the Liquor-Trafit in the Honso reported a largo muober of amendmonts to tho Hollon Liquor bill. They wore ordoted printed. They do not change tht character of the blll Substantially Tho Anditor Gonoral informa tho Houeo to-day that $118,917 had Leon oxpended for tho sup port of the Agricultural Colloge. ‘fhe proqseds of the salos of Agricultural Collogo Isnda hare atoountod to $107,879. The interost on the Ag: ricultural College funds during tho laut yeor bit amounted to $14,001, and a large quantity o! Janda he nugold, ‘The Beoretary of the Stato Board of Heslts announced to the Houno that tho salary listo! that Department during the last year amounted to about $3,000, The chiof feature of to-day's bnslnoas in bed Tlouses was the groat numbor of bills fut duced. Thoro aro fue three days moro in which to introduce billa, The Houso passed the bill amending thei incorporating gymuastio associations, and ont or two others of no apccial importance. A resolution reqaosting Congress to give to each honorably dischargod soldier $200 {n Bed waa roferred to tho Committes on Mulitary Af faire. : ‘Tho Logislature adjourned till Monday, ———_—— INDIANA. PROCEEDINGS HATUNDAY, Special Dispatch ta The Chicazo Tribunt, Inpranarouis, Fob, 21.—The Sonate yesterdty passed a resolution of respect to the late Mrs Bonator McDonald, but rofuaed toadjourn,on count of business. Billa woro introduced order fog Truatesa of towns to lovy a tax to pay tle interest and principal of bonds slrondy issued; establishing Btate and District Boarda of Equil- zation; for tho protection of girle under s+ from seduction; for the abandonmout of tht prison at Jeffersonville and ereotion of ona tt Soymour, Bills pasaed to allow the adoption of childron who aro inmatoa of roformatory instita- tions without the consont of their paroota, sa ompowering manual-labor schools to recoive lee tors of iudonture. ‘The standing Prison Comm too was authorized to appoint a sub-committee? continue tho {uvoutigation of tho Southes Prison. In the House the continued absence o Roprevontative Boaray was oxoused to date. Ad fourned out of ,respect to the momory of tit wifo of Sonator McDonald, who was buried at]? o'clock a, m. —_——— MINNESOTA, ROUTINE NUSINESS. Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicazo Tnibuns. Br. Paun, Fob, 20,—The Bonate, last nigth passed aoveral billa confirming land grants so! convoyances thoreunder ofthe Lake Superior Mississippi Natlroad and branches, Tho Houso Committoo roported a bill for grasuhoppor seliof, appropriating $75,000 (ot seod Wheat, and €5,000 for food and clothing, additional to tho $20,000 already appropriated. To-day, In the Bonate, a bill was introd momorializing Congress in favor of the Cansdiat Reelproalty Treaty. Wille passod placing the Farmer’s Matas, of Minneapolis, under the restraints of tho ety eral Insitrance law, and requiring that it shoo havo a permanent capital of $30,000; declantf white datuy aud bull thlatle noxious woods 5 publio uutsancos, In tho House, bills were introduced amending tho charter oxtonding tho timo for « rallros. from Bt. Cloud to St. Poter, aud grauting sem? landa in ite ald ; motmorlatizing Congross for § larger appropriation for the purposo of Doth Houses adjourued to Tucuday. ——- KANSAS. DILLS DISPORED OF, m ‘TVorzxa, Kan., Fob, 20.—The Sonate dlspos A of s Jargo number of bills to-day, Includiogs Diil to ropeal the act for tho organization of Joss and savings companies, and a bill sauthorisos Diatrict Courts to confer tho rights of major? on minors. It also passod a concurront on tion thanking Gen, Pope for is activity 10 tributing the roliof aupplies votod by Copares™ ‘The morning eeasion of tho House we4 c sorbed in cousidoring tno matter of tnvostist ton ot Alig. ax Beotolary of Bias: a is oH “be ation way finally taken out o Eommittee on itetrenchment and 2toform. #4 lacod in charge of tha Judiciary Committe® 5 Pitino afternoon soasion. waa dovoted t0 locdl billy. . ate A Committee of Conforonce has boen 01 wee ed on the matter of tho dhuagroomout . the two Louves concerulng tho proposed 41 Hey rlation of $95,000 for tho solicf of desi tions,