Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 7, 1875, Page 12

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. MARCH 7, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES, 12 : Fe “MADE IIRL: MHD nn ES a ek, SE a ments for definition bonds in due course, “Fellure to | the government of sald Corporation sad thomanare: | THE RIVER. THE SCANDAL. Mr, Ovington’s European Tour | Postponed. He Has in His Possession Certain Let- ters of Value to Tilton Additional Whisperings Concerning the ! Plymouth Church Defense-Fund, “Was Gen, Tracy Justified in Appear~ ing for Beecher? Opinions of Leading Chicago Lawyers on the Point. Wirt Dexter Says Yes, and Judge Will- iams and Others Say No. Conflict of Sentiment as to Tracy’s Argument---The Majority Against It AGlaring Fault in Our Code of Laws--- Manliness ys. Womanliness. Tilton’s Precocity and Egotism. FACTS AND GOSSIP, ‘RUMORS OF WITHDRAWAL» New Yous, March 6.—Rumore provailed yes- -terday, in the absenco of any proceedings iu the “Beecher trisl, that one of the parties to the suit hed withdrown, and that there would necessaaily follow n discontinuance of the case. These ra- mors, doubtless, graw out of the reports that one of the principal counsel had resolved to | withdraw in consequence of the neglect to bia other business which his attendance fortwo mouths in the Brookiyn court had caused. He hss been induced, however, to remain in the tase, and will doubtless conduct it to the close, ‘Mr. Jeffrays, the sick juror, on whose account tho trial was adjourned till Monday, has ontirely recovered from his indisposition. THE ATTENDANCE at the trial is to be limited hereafter, and Judge | Neilson has expressed his intention to allow to enter the Court-room only the number of spec- tators that will just fill the sents. When filled, the Court-room will hold at least G09 pereons, ‘and no day since the trial began have there been less than 500 spectators present. The most im- portunate persons who apply for admittance aze ladies, and eometimes they succeed in passing tho guards. OVINGTON SUBPGNAED BY THE PROSECUTION. Mr. E.J. Ovington, who testified the past week for the defense in the Tilton-Beecber suit, thas been subprensed by the prosecution, and in consequence could not sail for Europe as he in- tended. ‘Mr. Tilton’s counsel have knowledge ofsoveral letters which Ovington wrote, and which they ‘want identified and put in evidence. A EELPING HAND. There is a rumor current that Plymouth Church bas subscribed $115,000 to defray the expenses of this emt. The rumor goes so far into detaila as to relate the action of Bowen, who entered bis hearty protest against the ap- Propriation, and utterly refused to be a party to & —— CEN. TRACY. OPINION OF CHICAGO LAWYERS ON HIS COUnSE. As the connection of Gen. Tracy with the Beecher side of the Tilton-Beecher suit has given rise to some discussion as to the profes- sional ethics of tho case, s reporter waa sent out to learn tho views of some of the lesding lawyers of this city on the sudject. Mr. Tilton, it will be remembered, testified that Gen. Tracy bad given him an unconditional promise not to appear for Mr., Beecher if any collision should in future arise botween hhim (Tilton) and Mr. Beecher. Gen. Tracy fn his address to tho jury, however, stated that he gave the promise on the repre- sentation or with the limitation that the charges against Mr. Beecher were only for improper ad- ances, and when he learned that they were for @ graver crime he deemed himself absolved from the promise. ‘The first whose judgment the reporter asked was JUDGE ROGERS, but the Indge declined to give any opinion for Pablicstion, out of respoct to a brether law- yor. Ho seid he did not think a lawyer could be justified in breaking his promise, thoagh Gen. Tracy's explanation might modify the state of afaira; but as he would not even hint ‘83 opinion on the right or wrong of the mrtter ad tt occurred here, so, though the case might be different, boing in a foreign State, yet ho chose not to commit himself.. With which re- mark the Judge diszppeared down the stairway } With a reasonable theory of Mr. Beecher's inno- @ence can be construed so as to still leave a rea- sonable doubt of s defendant’s it, be should be acquitted, as every. man is supposed to ‘be innocent until the contrary is proved. One curious thing about the’ case ia the destruction of the confession by Mra. Tilton. If Tilton was socking evidence’to fasten the crimeon Beecher, why sbonld be destroy s letter which would be one of the best proofs in his favor? As I said before, the evidence im the case is consistent cence. f Lesving Mr. Dexter, the reporter met zUDG! Tying al the a al! ith doyisi ‘hurrying along the sidewal's, busy with dovising schemes for circumventing the gamblers. The Judge, however, was perfectly willing to state! his views, aud, in answer tothe question as to his opinions on Gen, Tracy's acceptance of & ro- tainer from Mr. Beecher, said he did not con- sider it honorable in Gen. Tracy. .—But the General states that he understood his promise to be limited. Judge W.—I don’t think that excuses him. The qualification is too fine-spun. No man with 8 high sense of professional honor would havo one that, And the Judge continued his promo- nade. . MESSRS. B. F. AYER AND SIDNEY SMITH H were next examined, but pleaded tho rueb of basiness, they botn being engaged in the South | Park condemnation cases, a8 an excnse for not | having read the last reports of tho trial so as to give any opinion on the subject. JUDGE GARY was scen as he eat down to calculste on tho probable temperature of the-next day, bat ie ‘was not in a communicstive mood, a I eafed no fnformatiou rarthes than that he had je up his mind, "ee nes! gentleman whose opinion was asked was GEN, 3t. D, WALDIN, of the firm of Caulfield, Hardin & Patton. Gen. Hardin's views wece clear and well settled. ‘I think,” he said, “that Gen. Tracy’s connection with the suit bas been of great damage to his chent, ana his conduct in associating himeclf with the defenso 13 inexcusable. In a suit | where a man's character is under examination, everything should bo conducted in the most hon- orable raanner, aud the world shonld not havean opportunity to take the least exception to the counsel, The speech was too much like that of & politician.” astly, s call was made at the office of Messrs. Dent & Black. Mr. Dent was confined at home with a sprained ankle ; but * 30h. BLACK had formed his opinion on the question ss to which the reporter desired information, and willingly spared a few momoats to give his views. In reply to the question as to his opinion, Mr. Black ead : “I do nos think o man with a keen senscof pro- fessional honor would have appeared for Mr. Beecher if he had made such a promiso as Gen. ‘Tracy gave, end if he could have harmonized hia conilicting interests he would firat huvo givea Tilton novice of his understanding, and then have taken a subordiaste position. His connec~ tion with the defense has dameged it very sori- ously, more perhaps than anything else.” R.—What do you think of Geu. Tracy's open- ing argument ? i Mr. B.—I think it wes very badly managed in- deed, aside from ita being impolitic and nnpro- fessional to attack outside parties, Gen. Tracy Feould have condeised into four hours all that it was necessary to say. The | proper rule ia to say in the | opening ergument only what you can support by ovidence on the trial. The cage has been miser- ably managed for tho defense. Had they been trylog to securo simply a disagreement of tho jury, they could no: have done otherwiee. ‘Then, again, a great mistake wes made in not having an opening argament made directly after that of the plaintiff wes concluded. Instead of this, tbe jury have been left to have hardened into them the whole evidence of the prosecution ba- fore even the explauation of tho defense was made, . It will be seen from these interviews that the profession generally as represented. by these prominent Inwyers have been diligent readers of the case, and that they have been looking with much intorest on its conduct in all its bexringe, but lawyor-like bave refrained from coming to s conclusion before the evidence was concluded. . It is said that a Jawyer would make the worst joror, aud it would seem so from the opinion of the gentlemen above given. .No two of them are alike. Hsd the alleged crime been murder, and the jury lawyers the verdict would have ranged from murdar in the first degree down to justifiable homicide. ‘TRACY'S CONDUCT. To the Editor of The Chicaco Tribune: Catosau, March 6.—You ask for an expression from the Iawyors on Tracy’s condact. Nine will be brief. Tilton, at the time the promise was mado by Tracy, was sctiug in bad faith, or else he bas since acted in bad faith. Now, whether he was acting in bad faith at the time, or has since broken faith, makes little difference. In either caso, Trecy would be ‘relieved of hia promise not to appear as counsel for Beecher. Judgment must be entered for Teaey. Yours traly, WEL. A FAULT IN OUR CODE OF LAWS. AN OPEN LETTER. Mn. Treopore Tiwrox—Sm: The great tri- als through which you are passing are again making promineut ono glaring fault in our coda of laws, viz.: that there 18 no adequate puniab- ment, under the common Jaw, for the crime of adultery, sud forthe seducer. In consequence of this, we see in print, end hear expressed, statements liko txe following : Adultery is the only cr:me in Anglo-Saxon countries which cannot bo purirhed by law: and cite victim i leyt Sree to redress his on wronsa, It would have been s maniier course for Mr. Tilton, and he would havo stood higher in community, had he put away his wife when he was convinced of het criminal condact, and then punished Beecher as he deserved. Now, suppose we put the above sentiment in different worda: “If Mr. Tilton bad deserted his wife, whom ho had solemnly sworn to ‘lovo and cherish,’ ‘to take for better or for worse,” thereby breaking his oath, and thus made him- self s criminal of the worst hind by taking tho life of another, he would havo stood better be- fore the public.” Thisis s spurious morality, who shall try to enforce it,—testing public opin- ion, which helpa enforce iaw and morslity, This asthe act of afreaman. In this light, who ebalt Bay that women are not slaves—alaves in that vital geoze which renders life iatclorable ? It is to be hoped that, ont of this great pes gle, there may come a protecting and equal law that shall help bind up the broken hearts among women; slaw that shall protect the purity of our homies, aud thereby prolong our nations! life; a law that shall deter young men from! ot lowing the fateful footstepa of those bes 108 “steps take hold on: hell;” a law whose force shall prevent our nation from ending. ite days eB debauchery and profligacy. Should this be the result, then every mother's heart will be glad- dened for the protection of hor sops from this doadly vice, which killeth both soul and body, ‘Her own sorrows teach her that the crime of the Jand—this great and bold-faced crime of adultery —ia eating out the hopes, the love, the prospect of happiness, in this Tit —the very vitality of the soul which she might give to her offspring ield and protect taem. O eaielee coay well call it national, when wo see righam Young at one extremity of our Jand, ie Henry Ward Beecher at the other, both cloxking their great’ sensuality ‘undor the garb of our holy — religion, ‘aud both defying social morality, and hoping for the protection of the public law. What a atory does this tell of national corruption! And to you, dear air, let me say that never was there anoblor champion—perhaps all unconecious—in tho cause of woman, in the cause of truth and prostess, and, above all, in that of virtue. The power of your example will be felt down through allages. Then shail I eay to our women, Lift up your heads, ye sorrowing ones, for life and light ara near at band. It may not come to us, but our daughters’ will lead happier lives, and our gona will lead purer ones. This 18 the civilization which is before us, and this is the acme of women's bappiness,—a trao and faithfal husband. Thea will our nation flourish. For it is truly ead that no man prospers where the women of his household are not happy. As this is trno of home, so is it true of nations, ——— TILTON’S ECOTISM. .WHAT HE Is. To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bunsaxator, In., March-5.—Tilton has heen ehown to be the prince of egotista. The darling of his thonghts is Tilton. The things of his hate are the minds of other men. His vanity makes him to his enemies, a foo); to his friends, ‘& Borrow. What he is, in this, hed its boginning in the ways of hisearly life, He was a precocious boy, and early the object of attention. This brought him praise; and, having no competitors, ho be- came as “the Prince that refused to play with anything but Kings.” His friends made him to know his uncommon parts. They fed natural self-love to the full. They—ina word—made bim the ass be now is. 3 In the life of this man is warning. Who would fore-daton his precocious child aust give him Tilton training. % Precocity runs against odds in this country, since thero are 80 many influences that tend to pervert it and turn it into hatefol vanity. The way of letting American children out into society is ag bad for the forward child, as the custom is nowhere else so licensed. The too early turn- ing of business-like little men in among mor- chants and money-kings, to be petted for their amartness, aud praised ‘for their well-doing, is only to add to our national stock of bras, of which there 1s now asurfeit. The practice of “showing off” to School Inspectors and_to vis- itors the smart pupils, is 23 much to be con- demned as its doing in our schools is general. To cut short, the whole forcing of our society deserves banning. It :obs American character of all comelinoss, and will in timo turn us outa race of braggarts. Jorn. BHODY INDIGNANT. Gov. Eloward, of Providence Planta- tions, Reseuts Alleged Miegal Feder- al Interference. New Yous, March 6.—Gov. Howard, of Rhode Island, prosented in the Senate of the State yea- terday the report of the Cbiof Constable relative to the official interference of United States Marshal Coggerahall st the recont seizure of liqaors which were under the protection of the State. On presenting the report the Goy- ornor made & speech, in tho course of which he said: ‘In the collision between tho officera of the State snd the United Stetes I was called on by s member of the constabulary and informed of an existing difficulty, and asked to interfere in the matter. Although there cannot be a doubt in my own mind that I might direct 8 portion of tho military establishment of the State to sustain tho State officers of the law, yet prodence required that the question might better be'decided by the Coart than by the intervention of the military. I therefore directed the constabulary to make no farther effort to seize the liquor then held by the United States Marshal and the Chief of the Police. Asa result, this has been placerded as a victory on the part of the United States Mar- shal and his Depaty. I agres fully with tho universal opinion that these ab tachmeuts so collusive, and 9 thin- by disgaised sham, and I share the general sense of monification at the indignity to which oar Commonwealth was subjected. Tre- alize, algo, the gravity of the situation, and re- cognize it a8 our imperative duty to take mens- ures for an eerly and proper adjustment of the question, There have beon dinned into our esrs for the past six months threats in regard to Fort Adame and revonue-cut- ters, but so long as these threats were words, and rudo words, they have been treated as such; yet, when it is gravely stated by a respectable and intelligent journal that troops from Fort Adams and the United Stateg revenuc-cutter Samuel Dexter had been placed ab tho disposition of the Marshal, it Seems proper to ask, Why is this donc? It must be for tho purpose of waging war on the people of the State, who, from date of ite settlement, have been noted for their intelligence and pa- which, if a woman should practice it, would brand ~her with shame for tho rest of in eearch of the Graad Pacific Hotel, where he posed to refreab himself after the fatiguo of saring bis class in geography in the South-Park condemnation cases. In bope of finding a more communicative sub- fect, a Visit was noxt made to the office of ‘4m, WIRT DEXTER, . where in s pnrate room, the walla of which ‘were well fitlod with the photographs of Judges and Chief Justices, the stem portrait of Rurns Choate frowned disapprobation on the reporter. Not so Mr. Doxter, and the reporter boldly Plonged in: Mr. Dexter, I should like to obtain your opinion of Gon. Tracy’s conduct in taking on Mr. Beechor’s ldo atter he had, sccord- 1g to Mr. Tuton, given bis promise not to ap- Mr. D.—1 think it was all right, . #.—Do you think his explanation is sufficient ? Mr. D.—Well, yes. But I goback of that, and thus sroid the conflict of evidenco as to tho promise, as ‘far as I understand it, and I hove esd nearly all the evidence, usalanyer, Til- ton, relying on Tracy's assurance, made to him Rote expiaoations, bot no coufidential state- ments connocted with the case now ontnal. If Zitton bad made snore ne seat hes * known facts, Gen. Tracy would no doubt have ‘been prevented from taxing part sgainst him; but if Tilton had only told Gen. Tracy whet the world then knew, it certeinly would not have been at sil to bis discredit to have afterward token Mr. Beecher's part. Otherwiso an attomey could never, for instance, advise 9 in regard to compromising a claim, for the 'y could not make auy stasements without preventing the attorney from going on with hs client's cass, or at least from beinx charged with wngenerous conduct aad with having taken ad- vantage of the ‘facts giyon to him. Of course this role mrust not be carried too far, but alaw- Yer cannot be excluded froma case merely be- gause a partyon the other side may have told bum _soms facts which were not acted upon, aid which were not in the nature of privata com- munications, 5 T.—What is your opinion, Mr. Dexter, in ro~ gard to Gen. Trecy’s Concuct in bringing in ont- ‘sido parties in his speech ? Mr. D.—Weil,.it was s fight to the knife, and he waa obliged to do all he could, as no querier ‘wee shown. Erery one who reads the speoch zoust admit tha 30 BIO Passages of great foreo and power ‘ ‘ R—Was it not too long—is it the custom in the profession to tell the whole case in the open- ng areomeD Tracy was obliged to doit. Be- Mr. D.—Gen. was ol 0 e sides, he had the example of Mx. Morris in his speech, who had gone over the whole ground. It is the best way to outline the defense in opening argument. What is your conclusion from all you have heard in regard to Mr. Beecher’s guilt or icno- cence? z mee Mr. D.—Well, I begin to think him innocent. Ivasaway when the scandal co: only saw somo of the letters, bat since reading | ever from the light of tiath. the evidence I fail to coo that the prosecution has made outacsse. Ithink ths peoplo will begin that the wholes cage is s bogs scoapirany. ‘You sve the law iw thas if ‘hs ave her natural life, and, if followed up by every wife who suffers, would reste civil war. Instead of this, howevor, you havo followed the dictates of a higher law. When Joseph was ‘minded privily to put away” Mary, his betrothed wife, the angel of the Lord ap- Beared unto him and sdvised him to protect her and take her to wife, You hava, like the wife in many other eases, condoned ‘the crime, and at- tempted to bear the shame and degradation in the same heroic way that woman 60 often does,— ‘Mra, Beecher for instance. The absurdity of the popular advice cannot be better illustrated than by applying it to Airs. Beecher, Let her leave ‘Mr. Boecher, and then poison or shoot Mrs. Til- ton. It does not cand well. .. Dhere are two sides to this question as to what is manly end what is womanly. What was Mra. Beecher'a.true coursa towards her busband and Blizabeth Tilton? Was it to ignore the crime, condone the offense, aud to suffer in silence un- til hor very soul was crushed ont under “ the car of the creat Jngzernaut,” adulvery? Othor women have done 60 time out of mind, and no- body ever suggested private revenge. Tne Jaw gevo them no redress; they could not appeal to it. Pooish ber busband, and then keep him to herself, a better and a wiser man?, No; he could buy her up legally with an alimony, whica ho might never pay, and fiauntfia row wife an tho faco of ber unadymg love. ‘This is = woman’s only redress. se ss But you, sir, actuated by Christian sontiment have condoned the wifo'a offexss; you ha tried the womanly course, and Jearned the great anguish which theroin ‘lies,—attemptiug and ng forgiveness from out your own heart for the travggressor. - The franegresscr repsid yoa by again invading your domestic rights. Alas! such is too often the effect which coudonement has upon adultery. Women’s hearta have deen wrong ia an agony of despair, snd there was no redress; they have lived on and on, a living desth, antil the sleep of the just kindly interposed and gave them rest. Thie, sir, is what you have tried to do; and your mauly nature rovolted; it re- quired a more than buman power. ‘ell unto us, O ye voices! whit is this element in man’s usture that sustaing itself; that shrinks not from danger in the face of his vilest and most powerful enemy; this element that meets wroog end aeserts itself? Ah! Ifoar thereply. It is the right of a frea man; men are not slaves. ‘Tell us sgain, O ye voices, is this manliness thet triotism. Your presonco here, Senators, ia a | mockery and s farco. If such proceedings as theso are sustained by the Federal Govern- ment, your honorable Jndiciary and Exec- utive may 2a well resign their offices and leave the control and direction of State affairs to sub- ordinates of the United States Government, No graver question has been forced upon tho State since the first settlement. It is a vital question, for in it are involved the sovereignty of tho Steto and its harmonious relations with the United States. The little Stste of Rhode Island is entitled, on such point, to ag much equal re- spect as sre the larger States or the General Government itself, = SENATOR GEORGE G. WRIGHT. ‘The Fowa Statesman Announces His Intention to etire to Private Life. Des Mornzs, Is., March 6.—The Stale Register of to-morrow morning will publish a Jettor from the Hon. George G, Wright, withdrawing his name for re-cloction a8, United States Senator. He states that he has been for some time con- templating this step, and that he had de- termined it fully several weexs after making certain business arrangements for the future, which wero then ponding. These have now been concluded, and so he makes this doti- niteand positive announcement of hus retire- ment to private life. Ho says he docs not fail fo appreciate the high honors attaching toa Senatorial seat, nor is he unmindfal of the pnb- lic favor which placed him there ; but he finds tho place one of many perplesities and annoyances ‘ta well as honors, from which he will be glad to escape; knowing, too, that in areturn to his pro- fession ho willbe xble to do more justice to himseif and bis family in making for himseif aod them much more than the salary of-9 Senator afforde, Ho renews in the let- ter his carnest allegiance to the Ropub- licen party, saving he considera the continued secendency of the Repnblican party necessary to the well-being of the Republic, and that he will-in private life, as he has in public, labor for the maintenance of its principles, to { the advancemeat of its every good purpose, It is not stated in bis letter, but it is understood here, that the Senator will re-enter the practice of the law, associating bimself with the tirm of Gatch & Wright, of this city. This letter of withdrawal excites very gen- eral scrprise, as it was oot anticipated, the Sena- tor’a recandidacy being universally expected, and his re-election quite genarally concaded. —— subtly creeps into mea's houses; that violates the ‘sacredest love that ever favo to man; thet seduces the loving wife of another; that deceives the loving wife, the wife of bis own bosom, end traduces her in the ears of hig miatrees? Tell us, O ye voices, 18 shis man’s prerepstive? Ah, no! the voices are silent ; the spirits Ofywrong are cowsrds, sod ynenced, sod | they Could that darkness might hide them for- | the National and States Granges, and that their dis- iteelf in obeying the command fo Jorgives in testing the law,—testing its strength,—tast- ‘wenlunss,—teasi ey sir, trae ‘manliness has through [eps Aessing the ty of man AN INDEPENDENT GRANGE, Couxcm, Buurra, Ie., March 6.—Springville Grange No, 1662, of Pottawattamie County, to~ day, in session aesembled, declared themselres freq and independent from all the authority of connection therewith is dissolved. . The griov- been Last Four History of tht Organization of the Sompany. Original and Amendatory Acts of the Legislature. The Propositon to Sell Out in 18 obtain an inside iew of Gonerally it is onlyhrough the medium of court proceedings that teir workings and real con- dition become know to outsiders. But regard- ing one of them, 1e People’s Gas Light and Coke Company, wlkh does the business of il- Jummating the Wee Division, Tae Trrouve is able to foroieh smo, interesting information, which, bappily, is ut derived from bills in chan- cery. These factawill be specially pleasing to Chicagoans, aincethey have all their lives of grievance regarding this corporation, soar a3 ita fluances were con- cerned, They have tid heavy gas bills, that they koow—and sometias paid them grambtingly, ‘but they havo oftemeen assured that the Com- pany, which was onstantly laying pipe on rather unprofitable treets, had all it could do to keep its head abo water. The persons who leave done the arsesng for city and State taxes have algo Isbored ader a similar improssion, the Company somenes not figuring at all on the Town Assossor’acoks. But the followinglocuments will correct all these misunderstanngs, and will exhibit in the brightest colorthe abla management of Mr. A. M. Billings,who for fifteen years has controlied tho interes of this corporation. Its colossal dividends, al its ability to ppgotiate so in o stat Isrgas foreign loxare di all. And now for Directors, Samuel Lat, eq. Hou, Arthur Kinnard& P, john Horatio Lioy#s: ‘of the People’s Gas payable in hdon i of and Ist of gold yer ’anoum. net cost is reduced tabout ‘before undertslg this ‘Umi mecives by thiost satiafy SEARCHING, INDI son, the Compan: the Public Acconnt=nte, Chicago by thelr rept the purpoze, of the Railway Share Tri that firm, who bag just rrned Chicago, ‘The various certifica| on of the Railway Share prospectus, to give inde}lent THE cITy presents one of the motmar! 29,963 persons; in 1370 f 450,000. $48,792,782 in 1854 to $259,470 cotimated at Chicago is supplied witis by People Gas Li tablished in 1 Coke Comnany, | who a. territorial" divisiol district of the People’s of ‘it is es! months at 223,136,864 cuttet, earned in the same peri Gj $001,035; 1873, $388,770; ror taking for the laat two ra of the Garrison, New York City: Com! New York Company, Chicago; Chiczgo;” O. N. Holde f the o Company is $8, fully potd up, and $4,000has mired, tificates, by which it will atracted, a mortgage duly executedho ny, of New York, and and effectual first charge and income of the unde that the Company is or the smount required on the first mortgage ($128,000), Mr. Uy Revcueo will be oust the City of Chi , the mated at about 450, 000. ts boing amongst the safi prokgee pow for sulscs eo margin of security. ‘Thesa bonds bave ee for accrued of Srsteizes American un} considerable margin for security becomes known, tral 6 per cent sterling bon: cent; Philsdolppis & Re: ance alleged wea that the Grange bad Jost all fidence in the National and Btate officers; that the finaoces had been mismanaged, and the Grange kept from the suntal passw. Hi + { { t Q MORE LIGHT. Its Jssessments. It is not vory ofta that the public is able to never taken publioredit to himself, and who has rather sought tronvey the impression that his management hadot been so successfal after THECUMENTS, ‘The Railway Sharo id Trast Company, limited, B.; Sir Philip Rose,irt.; Malcolm A, Lain; George Edward Wytt, Esq., offer for pul ecription £420,000 ($2,000) 6 per cent aterling bonds and Coke Company of Chi- cago, established 2855,! bonds af .£700 each (or $500 in gold), repayable at pon the 1st of November, 190, Interest bond, by hulf-jriy: coupons, on bf May St Novembse ear, accruing fromio Ist of November, 187, payable at the offices ofe Railway Share Trust Com” ny, limltod, 5 Lothby, Z. G., London, and also in Rew York, at tho agent the Gas Company, at $90 of issue, .090 ($450) per 2100 (f500 gold) bon payable as follows: hond payable on alloent, £30 bond on Feb. 2, 1875; £40 bond on krch 1, 1975. Payment of the installments may bmticipated under discount at tho rate of 5 per cent pannum, Reckoning the accrty interest from Nov. 1 Inst, and the discount on aripation of Installments, the bond, which will yi¢to the investor a return of over GY per cent pernum on the outlay, ‘The Directors of the Iway Share Trust Company, ed 0 NDENT INVESTIGATION as to the position of # Company and the correct nesa of the facta and hiresstated herein, Accord- Jogly they obtained rept: First, ag to tho siste and character of the worksom ifr.” Alfred Girard, 31, Inst, C, E,, the well-ing Gas Engineer, for 30 years one of the engineers ofe Chartered Gas Company of London who examincho works in Chicago in per— Second, as to theut and present revenue of 17, from Most Price, Waterhouse & Co., invertigations made in tive, scecially sent out for ‘Third, 28 the legal validity of the mortgage, and of the ¢ter of the Company, by Messrs. Norton, Roce, Non & Brewer, the nolicitors mpany, from inveatiga~ tions made on the spot Ur, P. Points are inclosed herd and the detailed reports may bo seen st the Comp’s office, No, § Sothbury ; they furnish fall informn, and enable the Directors Company, in issuing this Tocineas of all the facts afigures stated. CEICAGO world of rapid progress.) 1850 the. population was increased to 998,977: in 1812 it was 3¢4,577; it is 1 ostimated in 1874 at about ‘Tho valuation gal and has risen in 6 ntill more}d propertion, viz: I'romt ‘$350,000,000,5 year,—1874, bt and CCompany, of Chicago, es— tnd} Chicago ve that purpose hava ppany being the wostorn section of the city compinding about three-fifths of thé whole population chicago. ‘The rapi ress of Chfcago has consntly resulted in sponding increase in the jsumption of gas sttpplied by this Company, In 18t was 106,052,267 cuble feet ; 1871, 142,327,888 ; 1]091,516,425 ; snd in 1874, ted from the sumption, of the first ten ‘THE NPNCONE actual resulta of the frst {months of the year, and. 8 the consumption for the corresponding month{1873, $492,000. - ‘The Director ny re: Cornclius K, lam R. Garrison, Presi- dezt of the United pase rent Steam Mailehip A. M. Bi vany, Titty President of the Feo (Gaslight & Coke Hon, oa: D, Ward, hicago, ‘These names are, to those acquainted ) the United panies the best guarantes for posittoti respectability, and for the continued probity andadence o? management by which this Company leen raised to its present Position, SEAtAPrITaL of which $4,009,000 1s Jeaving 70 per cent availatbr extension af worka as Attention fs requested t® various inclosed cer- Porta, as the result of histatvation.of the works ‘on the spot, that they are Bnd substantially con- . t, Norton & certify that the bonds ahs issued nro secured by whole of the property sa They loonsent of the Comps- timates the present about five years. Tho Company are of the Lif respectability, and future progress is tndiesolyconnected with that of eatments known, and gage bonds paidof, and ther purposes, wud at the price they are offerdz: Eog' os ‘slowug int 3 ($440) reaso in price as the quoted at 106; i; Baltimore & Oto, It Has Negotiated a Loan of $2,000,- 000 in London Statement of Its Dividends for the Years, Report of Examinations by Experts. : great corporations. Ine to one who has AM, P., Chsirman ; ths Sohn Pender, Enq. BL rge Leeman, gab- in sterling at £6 ($30) the lst in each £0 £88 ($40) per £100 isaue, eric Rose, of from his mission to the above-mentioned testimony of the cor- ‘kable instances in the persona] property in 187i, and is now two companies, the jeago’ Gas-Light ‘and’ the city; tha id prog a corre. 1869, $230,715; 1871, the year 1874, on the 30 por cent paid up, that Mr, Upward re- ewer Union Trast Compa- fitutos a completa & Co. cortity that the it year ie about than” three jay the ds, viz: © £25,900 lon of which ie exti- rities are proverbial possess an unusually to replace first mort- £100 gt, and affords 5 stance: N, ¥. Cen- lvanis, 1013 ; Unit Prosperity of the People’s Gas: | ‘ Light Company. pay any installment at the due date will render all Previous payments Hable to forfeiture. Applications on the incloscd form will be received by the Bailway- Share Trust Company (Limited), § Lothbury, E.0., from whom, tu clso from London stock-brokers, prog- ‘pectuses may be had, 6 Loranury, E. 0,, Lonpow, Dee. 4, 1874. hed THE CERTIFICATES, Certificates referring to the People's Gas- Light and Coke Company, of Chicago : OERTIFCATE AS TO WORKS furnished by Mr. Alfred Upward, Gas Engineer 21 Guear Queew Stneez, WesratinstEn, 8, Wo, 29th November, 1874.— the Directors of the Railway Share Trust Company, limitea—GuntLxuEn : I have pertonally examined the works and property of tho eople’s Gas-Light and Coke Company, of Chicago,. and find them well and substantially constructed, making about 823,000 cubic feet of gas per day ; they are capable of supplying up to 1,420,000 of gas per day, without farther outlay, and judging by the rate of progress of buildings, etc., in the city, and its pre- ‘vious progresa, I am of opinion that within about fiva years the rate of consumption from the Company will be double the present amount of gas now supplied by em. Accompanying this certificate,I hand my detailed report, Iam, gentlemen, yours fatthfully, (Signed) ALFRED Urwanp,:Mf. int. 0. CERTIFICATS AS TO REVENUE, fornished by Messrs, Price, Waterhouso & Co., Public Accountant: 2 13 Gnrsuax Srneer, Dec. 3, 1874.—To the Directors of the Kutleay Share pany, limited— GENTLEMEN: We havo examined tho books and ac- counts of the People’s Gas-Light and Coke Company of Chicago, at the ollices of the Company in that city, and certify that, after making cll proper charges aguinat revenue, the net income of the Company for cach of the following years was as follows: 1889... 187 1873, And for the year 1874, on the actual results of the first ten ‘months of the year, and taking for the leat two months the cousumpiion for the corresponding month of 1873............ 422,000 ‘The particulurs of the profit and loss accounts of each of the above years are sont herewith. We are, gentlemen, yours faithfully, Yatce, Warernouss & Co, CERTIFICATE AS TO THE LEGAL TITLE. of moctgages and charters, furnished by Messre, Nor- ton, Rose, Norton & Brewer, solicitors: 6 Viczonta Sracer, Wesrannaten, 8. W., 34 De- camber, 1874.—Yo the ‘Directors of the Railway Share Trust Company, limited—GenTLesten: Ons of our pétluore having, at your request, proceeded to New ‘ork and Chicago, and made inquiries as to the in- corporation and ‘borrowing powers of the People’s Gaslight and Coke Company of Chicago, wo are enabled to atate that the People’s Gaslight and Coko Company of Chicago was duly incorporated by ao act of the General Assembly of the State of Tinois passed in February, 1835, ond that the Company was subsequently invested with further powors by an amendment-act of the General Assembly of that State paseed in the month of Februsry, 1863, under which Jatter act the Company fs (tnter alia)’ authorized to borrow money and to mortgage or lease its property or , aud further that the mortgage-deed secur- ing the first mortgage of £420,000 upon the whole property aud profits, present and future, of the Com- pany, i3, in our opinion, » complete and eifectual first charge thercon, For fuller details we refer you to our Teport forwarded herewith. We cre, gentiomen, yours faithfully, Nortoy, Rosz, Noutux & BaewEn, These bonds were all taken bythe Ist of February. 4 BIT OF HIsTORY. And vow after this exhibition of the strength and resources of this Company, it will be inter- esting to give something concerning its early history, to show how it started, and how it reach- ed its present magnitude. The Chicago Gas-Light & Coke Company was incorpcrated in 1829, with exclusive privileges for ten years, and began operations soon after, laying ite pipes in the West as well as the South Division, though doing bat lictle in the former, woich was comparatively unsettled. In 1855, competition began, and the Legislature passed the following act, incorporating THE PEOPLE'S GASLIGHT 4 COKE COMPANY. SECTION 1, Be it enacted, &s., That Matthew Laflin, L, C, Paine Freer, A. G. Throop, D. A. Gage, Jobn 3, Wallace, George W. Shaw, H, B. Bay, and . H, Foss, and thelr associates be and they ara bereby created body politic and corporate, with perpetual succession, by the name and style of’ “Tho Peoplo's Gaslight & Coke Compsny,” and by that name they and theiz suc- cessors ehall be capable in law of contracting and being contracted with, suing and being sued, defending end being defended in all courts snd places, and in all matters and places whatsoever, with full powers to acquire, ho'd, occupy, aud’ enjoy all such real and personal estate as may bo necestary and Proper for the construction, exteusion, and usefulness of the works of said Company, and for the manage- ment and good governtent of tnesame; and they may havo a common seal, and the same may alter, break, and renew at pleasure. 2. ‘The corporation hereby created shall have fall power and authority forthwith upon their due erganizstion under this act to proceed to the erection of the necessary works for the manufacture of gas and coke, within anid City of Chicigo, and on aud after the 12th day of February, A. D., 1959, to manufacture and sell gas, to be made from any or all tho enb- stances or a combination thereof from which inflam- mable gas is usually obtained, and to be used for the purpose of lighting the City of Chicago, or the atreots thereof, and any buildings, manufactories, public places or houses therein contained, and to erect all uecesaary worka and apparatus a4 aforesaid; and on. and after the said 12th day of February, 1859, or soon- er, by and with the consent of the Chicago Gas Light end Coke Company, to lay pipes for the purpose of conducting the gas in any of ine stree‘s or evenues of said city, with the consent of the City Council, Pro- vided, that no permanent injury or damago shall be done to any street, lane, or highway in ead city, ‘Tha real estata which ‘this corporstion ia entitled to hold shall not exceed in value $100,000, Sxo, 3, The capital stock of said_Compsny © exceed $500,000, to be subscribed for aud Proportions as shail be prescribed ly the rules for regulating the concerns of zal they ahall think properand necessary re management and disposition of the stoc] ry, and extate of eaid Company, the duties of the onicers and agents to be employed, the number and election of Directors, tnd ail such matters az uppertain to tha concerns of said Company, Szc, 4. It ia en exorese ‘provision of the foregoing act of incorporation that the exid Company shali for— nisu and supply to the City of Chicago for ll its pub- Uc uses, at the election of the proper suthoriules of said city, a suflicien’ supply of gas, at arate not exceeding $i per 1,000 feet, and theinnabitanta of said city ata Fate Lot exceeding $2.£0 por 1,000 feat. Notwithstanding the passage of this act, it was impoesible for the new corporation to begin Operations at once, since tho exclusive franchise of the Chicago Gas Light and Coke Company did not expire until 1859. In 1858, the Council paased an order giving permission to the Peo- ple’s Gas Light and Coke Company to loy ita pipes in any atreet in the city, provided, of course, that the cousent of the other Company ‘Was obtained, up to the middie of the following year. This consent, of course, was not given. So soon zs it bocame practicable, the People’s Company began laying its pipes, including in its field of operations asi’ Leke street. For a year, s patty warfare waa car riod on between tho two corporations, both seeking to occupy the came territory. ‘Tho contest was also carried into the Common Coun- cil, and an ordinance was passed by that body aaking contract with the People’s Gas Com- pany to supply the city with gas. ‘This was Yetood by John C. Haines, then Mayor, an act which caused considerable excitement at the time, and the Council. at ita following moeting, reverded its previous action. About 1861, A, XM. BILLINGS came here from New York, and bought up, on his own account and that of his brothers-in-law, the Messrs. Garrison, of New York, the stock of the taen feeble People's Gas Compuny. His first step was to enter into an agreement with the Chicago Gas-Light and Coke Company, by which the two corporations divided the city between them—one taking the Weet Division and the other the North and Suuth. It is be- lieved that, as a consicerstion for this compro- mise, and for the few miles of pipe which the other Company had already ladon the West Side, 8 Lonus of $50,000 was paid. During the early part of 1862, the West Sido Gas Company fairly entered into business, under that ablo management which in a fow years has made it one of the great corporations, of the country. Dy the original act of incorporation it capi stock was limited to $500,000. In 1865, os ever, an amendatory act was passed by the Lag- islature, whioh made several materia} changes in its charter. It is as follows: e204: Be ive emaTOny Law. i Be it enacted, ete,, Tast the secon of said act fof 1853} be, nnd the same in Berea 0 amended as to read as ‘follows, viz.: ‘Ihe coporation hereby crested aball have Yuli power and autnority forthwith to proceed to the erection and maintenanes of the necessary, works for tha manufscturo-of gas and coke within sald City of Chicago, and to man- Bfactore, supply, and | soll gas to be mad from any and all substances, or s combination thereof, from which inflammable gas is tually tained, and to be used for the purpose of lighting the City of Chicago, any streats, buildings, manufscto. ries, public places, ar houses therein contained; and to erect and use all ‘necessary works end spperatus for Such purpoees aforesaid, and, with the consent of the Common Councit of said city, to isy down and nso all necessary pipes for the conducting of gua in and along any of the streets, alloys, evenues, or public aquares of said city: Pr tnat no permanent injury or somage, salt be dane 10 ay such eee alley, avonue, 5 down oj s ne 2 ‘That Sea. 3 of the eaid act te a a tees ereby, so amended 2 toread as fo! iz: capital sick of said Company shall be $500,000, 20 men’ of its affairs and business as they may think Proper, not inconsistent with the laws of this Staite. And the fourth section of said act is hereby repeated ; but ten years after the passage of this act, the Com moa Council of the City of Chicago may, by resolution or ordinance, regulate the prices charged by said com- pany for gus, but said Common Council of the Oits cf ‘Chicago shall, in no case, be nuthorized to compel the said Company to furnish ‘gas at o less rate than $3 per thousand feet, Sxc. 4. The said Company is hereby suthorized to borrow money, and to mortgage or leake any of its property ar franchises, OFFERING TO SELL OUT. During the summer of 1872 efforts were made in the Council to secure tho psssage of ordi- nances chartering new gas companies, and that stirred Ar. Builinga to action. On the 23th of November he sent in s communication to the Common Council in which ho proposed to fur- nish gas to the ‘city at a reduced price which would-afford the Company a profit not excead- ing 10 per cant per annum on the capital or val- uation of the property of the Company, the city to have the power by contract or legislation at any tume in the fature to fix, alter. or reduce tho price to be paid for the gas so as to sliow the rate of 10 per cent annum snd no more. . This arrangement also was to include s contract on the part of the Company: to the ef- fect that, if, after an exporience, iavestigatioa, and thorough understanding of the whole busi- ness, the city should desire to become the owner of the property and franchise of the Company, it should have the privilege of purchase of tho same, upon due notice, at a valuation to be ascertained by competent and disinterested persous chosen for that purpose. In making thess propositions the Company stipulated that it did not do so to tho prejudics, or to impair, change, or alter tha oxis:- ing contracts between it and the city, unless auch propositions were accepted in due form or new contracts founded thereon, and afterwards matured to the mutual satisfaction of the parties, sould be agreed upon. The communication set forth that the proposition oid not contemplate a valuation of the property and franchise of tho Company upon the basis of capital atock, but the valuation contemplated was that of an honest appraisal by persons knowing the valaeof the property appraised. The ides of the Com- pany in mating this offer was to place the capi- ta! engaged in the manufacture and supply of gas 80 that itcould be held and managed in such manner #s to supply the largest amount of good gas at the least possible coat to the public. Asking but a fair profit, they wished to offer to place the supply of gas on such terms that the great multitnde whoare periling life and property by tho use of oils, hardly lesa intlammablo than gunpowder, might have the luxury of itluminat- ing gas at a prica {hat would enable all to use it. _ The Council took no action upon the proposi- tion, and Mr. Billings has not since renewed it, 7 THR ASSESSMENTS. Notwithstanding the shoning of the aboro circular, the People's Ges-Light and Coke Com- pany pays for State and county purposes a per- sonal property tax of 8697, based on an assauu- ment of $40.000. By anerror made at Spriog- field, the West Chicago Gas-Light and Coke Company was aseeased at $227,186, but the offi- ears of the Peopie’s Gas-Lieht and Coke Com- vany disdained any responsibility for the other Company, and out of this grew the contempt vasein waich Collector O’Brien figured. The city assessment on the personal proporty of the Company ig $100,000, which is below the ap- parent valao of the capital atock aa stated m tho above circular. RAILROAD AID BONDS. Important Cases Decided in the United States Circuit Court at Spring. field, 121. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. Srrrvarmxp, Iu., March 6.—Quite snumber of suits, brought by non-resident holders to compel the payment of interest on bonda issued in aid of railroads, were decided this morning by Judge ‘Treat, judgment in each casa being for plaintiff. In one case the anit was contested for the reason that the law chartering the Company to which aid was voted was nover passed regular- ly by the Legislature, snd therefore the Com- pany had no legal existence: another that notices of the time for the holding election ware not properly posted, and still another was con- tos! becauso tho 2id was voted to one Company, and before the bonds were iasued the Company was consolidated with another, by which it was entirely changed in name and purpose from what it was when the aidwas yated. But none of those defenses availed. The bonds baying passed into the bands of innocent pnrchasers,. they ara yalid ag against technicality,” and the interest must be paid The casea wore, D. M. Johnson vs. Township of Drummer, Ford Coun- ty; Augustus 'T. Post ys. Town of Oran, Logan County; same vs. Town of West Lincoln, Logan Connty; Charles Davenport vs. Town of East Lincoin, Logan County; George O. Marcy va. Town of ast Lincoln, Logan County; Oliver Reed vs. Town of West Lincoln. Logan County. In each, judgment was rendered for plaintiff, ‘The Court then dieposed of several unimportant cases, and adjourned till tne June term. CIVIL RIGHTS. Southern Dodges to Evade the Recent Act of €ongress. Ricraonn, Va., March 6.—4Mr, Gilman, of this city, introduced a bill in the House of Delegates to-day to punish parties creating disturbances in hotels, theatres, and other places of amcsement, It provides that per- sons who create disturbanco in hotela by boieterous demands for accommodation, after the proprietor or his agent has declined to en- tertain them for want of room or other reagon- able specified causes, sball be punished by fine and umprisonment. In case of theatres, managers are to have the right to jegue reserved seat tickets atamped “not traneferable,” and when a party, not the original purchaser, demands admittance, the door-keeper can refose him, but the price of the ticket must be refunded, and it he retuses to take the mon- ey, and thereby creates disturbance, he i liable to arrest and fine. In both cases half the fine gocs 2 the hotel:Keepee ‘Or manager, as the case may te ere are similar visicna regarding steamboats and palisonds. ae 6 ATTANOOGA, March 6.—Ovwing to fhe panes: of the Civil-Rights bill, the prokeietors ge of the principal hotels hero have surrenderod their licenses, and will conduct their satablish- ments ag private boarding-nouses. ALABAMA, Senator Spencer Gets an Overhauling in the Legislature. Moxtcouery, Als. March 6.—Tho recent Memorial presented in the United Btates Sonate by Spencer waa printed thia morning, and de- nounced for its statements, Harris White, Ro- Publican Senator, rose in his seaton @question of Privilege and donounced the memorisl. He aaid he never gigned it, and he had neyor seen it until this morning. He voted for nearly all jaws which the memorial eoforces, and con- cluded with the statement that his name was eee ‘oyal, colored Senator, said J. B. Binebam brought the paper to him, 'and asked his sigaa- ture ; did not read it, but understood the paper Was & petition to make Arthur Bmgham Post- masterof Montgomery. He nid he would never have signed the memorial knowingly. Another negro Senator said he thought he was signing a protest againat Parsons’ zppointment tos United States Sudgeship. Several other Republican Senators repudiated all knowledge of i The Senate appointed s committee to find ot who were the parties Rauilty of the fraud. ——— INDIAN BARBARITY. A Woeful Tale er Fwo Girl Captives! Specuat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, ; Mansas City, Mo., March 6,—Advices have Deen received here of the surrender of 1,600 In- diang under command of Stone Calf. They regched the Cheyenne Agancy on: Satar- day last, _ and were accompanied by Ella and Lizzie Germain, survivors of the Smoky il Massacre, where their parants and one sister wera killed by the Indians. Thoy tell a pitiabla igleot suffering and terrible treat- moot. Gray Beard took Bila, aged 17, and Stone Calf had Lizzio, aged li. ‘Ela, who is euciente, pays sho can ident:ty all who took part in the killing. They were dressed in Taian costume, and wore oearly starved. ny may be increased {rom time to. tim may be cetera ie, at the plessure shares, eubscrited for, ‘end transfi | proportions and ‘Gannecon ete pioerital Gee y_lawa and regvlalfoos of eald Vompany, 2 de corporate powers of raid corporst shall te vested in and exereised by a Boastey eee org, and each officers and agents t2 sald Boare mead appoint. ‘The Board cf Directors. shail oonsut of eee less than three, wor mora than. five, stockholders, whe shall be chosen by the stockholders time in auch manner as the mid corporation sat es ne by-laws prescribe, and shal hola ofles aaa uit Successors are clected and qualified, ana may fil any Pro- | vacancies which may happen in tho Board ‘by death, resignation, oF vikerwina, ei ‘They may ndops ANOTHER ENOCH ARDEN. Commissioner Erainerd’s Plan for Averting a Flood, The ‘Vessel-Owners Do Not Fea Nervous, - Craft in the Harbor. Xesterdsy’s warm weather, and the puddles of water which stood upon the atreels, renewed the feeling of anxiety as to 5 Possible flood. The Journal, however, contained a very sensible let. ter from OANAL COMBMSSIONER W. N, BRAINERD, who makes some very judicious BUggestions jy regard to preventing a disaster from the overs flowing of the Despisines. Mr. Brainerd gays: Beyond the flooding of the haseraen! near the river, which’ is quite probable, eaten oily of snow and ics goof with rain, there cercainis 4s no danger from the drainage of the lands fowing 1 to the branches of the Chicago River. People are, peciing mn overflow fram the es Biver, and throaghs the + Osten-Wentworth " Canal, and it ts Yery clear that from thet quarter that can be appretieniee, 33 the only danger THE DESPLAINES RIVER CHANNEL ia now quits free from any very serious o youth of Hiserside. And touth from the mentee oes “ Ogden-Wentworth ” Canal can pass in twenty fore hours, with current fowing at the rate of t miles pop hour, 100,000,000 of eubic foot of water, and a rise ote feot “above ita banks would incrasse its capacity ts oer 9,000,000,000 of cubic fest of water erecy twentge four hours, an amount of water equal to 9 inches desp on the whole Watershed drained by the Desplaice River, Now, ss to the probabilities of serious from the * Ogden-Wentworth " Canal: Having for tho Past two years given that“‘canal "and iteaurrount, ings careful attention, I think I zm perfectly justital fn saying that we bave uothing serious to fesr of a ficod from that quarter, Undoabtcdly a very larg, nantity of water would come down the canal,-raos, ably from 60,000,000 to 75,000,600 of cubic feet of water every twenty-four hours, and for two or three days half as much more from the drains of Cicero an] Hiverside,—but I seo no difficulty in the atility of ihe Chicago Hiver and canal to take {€ away effectually. Chicago River, if open from the junction of 's North and South “Branches, 190 feet wide, with x cas. rent flowing atthe tate of 4 miles per hour, woos Ass over 1,000,000,600 of cubic feet of water evacy twenty-four hours. The canal can take away 26,00,— 000 cabic fect rer day. y Z In the flood of 1819, 38 I understand the facts, the channel cf the Desplaines gorged with ice a abort ds. tance below the present “OGDEN-WENTWORTH ” CANAL, end turned the whole of Desplaines River eas! into ‘Mud Lake and the West Branch of Chicago River, tie overflow extending across the low country nearly a mile in width and entirety uncbstructed 10 ite course directly toward the city. Now the situation is rary different, The Hon, W.B. Ogden ban built a loses from the bigh ground below Riverside, following the margin of the Desplaines on its eastern bank, south to the mouth of tha ~Ogden-Wentworth” end, along the north side of that until it connects with another embankment that runs from the canal serves Mad Lake, and connects with tha lgher ground toward Riverside. This last-oomed embsnkmen: js from a quarter to's half-mile east of the Desplitact River, “There is one opening in tt 20 feet wide, ent ed with plank, for the paasage of the “Ozilen.Wist- worth” Canal Under great pressure this oparing could, pass probably 75,000,000 cubis feet of w.ter overy twenty-four hours,” It'is highly probable thatin casa of a ran of ice that the “ Ogden-Wentwar:ls™ Couai would get gorged much more readily than wo j channel of the Des, for the reson that the current runs directly into the bayon from the river, snd the canal leads north at right angles from it, and the boyoo, boing threo or four times wider than the canal, would float large mauses of ice that would be most likely to bank up and choke the month of i. T think it would baa good plan to have some men at that point wivan the ice moves to assist in chokia? tie ditch with ice. Aa {t seems now to be impomitie to ozena chaunel in Chieago River, from Wella etceet bridge to the lake, tt appears to me that tho Dext Lest thing to do, and to do at once, would be to. cut oat at the mouth of the river, as nesr to the end of the jier ax possible, s vent hole asy 109 fet wide by 4 feet long, to rolieva the pressure when the water begius to move, Tosi is tue manner in which we Telave the isuro above to prevent a of ice, an fehich ia very generally succesefal in" preventing ¢ gorge, while the current running under the ice we-reis out, The limited watar-shed of the Chicago Rivor,— only 7 or 8 square miles,—and the fuct that the business part of the city has been raised several feet since 1849, practically obviate all dangcr of x flood, unless the Desplaines, which drains 700 square miles, should turn its waters this wav. cow to avert that Mr. Brainerd has oxpls:ced, and tnere should tho attention of the Bowd of Public Works be directed. THE VEASEL-OWYERS have been taking all possible precautions, daring the last two or three days, to prevent the property from being injured or der-ros- ed by any flood in the Chicago River. Every craft bas been well secured to the dock, and tho ice around the veaseis baa in eome instances becncut. Though « rit of several feet and a strong current are exrocted in tho river by the veasel-men, they do not caink that there will be an overflow or any damaga dons by it. Tho fact that there was a flesd ia 1849, when the ground was covered with snow and ice just ss at present, is not considered a resson that we should have sflood now, Tho conditions then were very different from what they arenow. At tbat timethe river wae nar- row, and the bridges were low, rickoty stract- ures. Since then the river has been wi:encd and deepened, the bridges made strong acd substantial, and the streets raisod macy feet. Besides, the sewers which empty into the siver have s tendency to rot the ice, and make it break op easily. Btill there isa possibility of trouble, a1 the east wind, which has been blowing for tho las: three or four days, has driven an immense field of ico to this chore, blocking up the mou:h cf the river completely. Nothing but a strong west wind can remove this ice-biockade. ‘hereforo it is of the greatest importance that every pos- sible precaution be taken to prevent @ de:trac- tion of the largo amount of property ‘now bar- boring in the Chicago River. ‘TUS FOLLOWING VESSELS are at’present laid up inthis harbor : Two s‘eam- ers, 1,083 tons; thirty-eeven propellers, 10,093 tons ;nine barks, 4,267 tong; three brige, 769 cons; 855 schooners, 93,741 tons; 14 scows, 1.401 tons; 18 barges, 7,535 tons; 45 tugs, 1,449 tone; meking a total cf 483 veasela, with a tonnage of 145,243 tona, representing a value of over 312,000,000. Besides this, the following vessels aro loaded with grain: Schooner Ponsankes, 36,000 buaiels; schooner E. L. Coyne, 25,000; schooner Brooklyo, 20,000; schooner J. W. Doane, 45,000; schooner Hisgie & Jones, 40,000; schooner Prince Alfred, 20,000; schooner W. B. Allen, 24,000; schooner O. C. Barnes, 40,000. THE GAG-LAW. Hearing in the Buell Cases Sz. Louis, March G.—The habeas corpus case of A.C. Buell, recently arrested here for tke alleged libel of Senator Chandler, of Michiza, came up before Judge Treat in the United Siates Court to-day. The main question tobe argued was whether United States Commissioner Clark had authority to order the removal of the prwouet to the District of Columbia for trial. It was upon this order that = writ of habeas corpus ‘was applied for, but when the case came up to- day it appeared that afser the writ of hatess corpus had been issued District, Attorney F's:- rick fond that, under the law of i874 the Commiesioner bad no right to so order, and had procured from Commlasioner Clark s sia- Die commitmeut of the privover to the cuutely of United States Bara! Newcomb, of this district, to superintend the order previously made, ‘This changed the caso from whether the United Btates Commissioner bad the right to order the removal of the prisoner to tbe Districs of Colambia, or whetber the United States District Court had that autnority. A lengthy argument was then entered into. Cu! Joseph O. Lrodbead, connsel for tho dafenk ant, argued that, whilo the lew of ‘74 enlarges the power of the courts of the Districé of Columbia, it does not change the powers of other courts. Offenders against the laws of the Uniied States may be srreated there and Beut to the district where the offense was committed, but thera is | 20 authority, to arrest aq offender olsewhere and send him to the District of Colambis for trial. United States Attorney Patrick quoted § number of authorities to abow that, when the territory embraced in the District of Columbia was ceded to che United States by the States of Maryland sud Virginia, it was expressly provided that statute lawe those States and the common lav were to be enforced in reapactive portions of the Qunvcy, Til, March 6—A genuine “Enoch Arden” case excites Quincy at present. Six years ago’ John Pimpson, a woalthy maaufec- turer, lett for Europe, with two daughters, and eailed on the United Kingdom, which was over heard from until now, when news ia received that Bimpaon and his ‘daughters are alive acd coming home, In the meantime Alrs. Bimpson has collected $5,000 life insurance on Bimpson's Policy, fe married, and has a child by her second territory so ceded. If an offense syainst Jawa of the United States. is commisted in that pertion of tae District of Columbia that formerly elonged to Marviand, the offender may be a Feated nO Salter here, and sent ines Red sot 1 same Ss though the territo: longi to Maryland. pons SHERIDAN LEAVES NEW ORLEANS. New Ontxays, March 6.—Gen. Sheridan snd Col. Forsyth, of his staff, left this afiernacn for the Weat, vis the Jackson Railroad, Vea USES AMIRI SBR ARARrUU Rare Beek SMB paral eDdins ved secaskicb erga esSnP ORONO aPemnmereneemesn eee cere