Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 23, 1875, Page 6

COUNTY AFFAIRS. Tho Commissioners Condescend to Nolico ihe Pogr-Heuse. MoCafray Admits “Tho Tribune” Reporter Was Thera, But Declares That the Inmates Aro Well Fed. A Committee of Investigation Appointed. a Another Hoport Concerning the Court- Houce. No Names of Arcliitects Mentloned. The roguiar weokly mecting of tho Board of County Commiesioucra was held yeatorday after- noon, Presidont Burdick in the chair. Comimis- nionors Busse, Carroll, Clough, Conly, IIerting, Holden, Johnson, Jonce, Lonergan, McCaffrey, Tusaell, and Selmidt wore presout. VOUING PLACES, ‘Tho Inhabitants of Lake View sont Ina com- munication praying that tho polling-placo at Tavenswood Dopot be removed to the Anderson- ‘ville echool-house. A gontloman in tho audionee, by permission of tho Board, procoeded to show tho grent convou- fonew that would result front tho change. Supervisor Chaso argued that tho ebange would boa great bonodt to the people in that region, Commissioner Crawford moved to postpone tho mattor for ona week, Lost. Amotion to grant tho prayer of tho petition provailod, and it was 89 ordered. ‘Tho citizons of tho Sixth Ward sent inn poti- tlon for an additional voting-placo in the Sixth Ward, to bo established ut No. 1436 South Hal sted streot, On motion of Commisstonor Crawford, tho rules were suspended in order to allow tho Com- miltce on Towns and ‘Yown Accounts to presont their report recommendiug the chaughg of the following polling places: Fourth Ward, to No, 144 Twanticth streat; Fitth Ward, to No, 1812 Stato street; Sixth Ward, to No, 770 Archer ayonue, It’ was also recommonded that a naw polling place be ostab- Jished at No, 159 Archer uvyenne, ‘The recommendation of the Committe re- garding the fourth Ward was jecced und the remaining alterations were agreed to. Polling places were alxo establisued in the fol- loving placos: No. J3t Milwaukeo aventio; southeast corner of Wricht and Jeffarkon etreots; cant eldo of the Culumet Rivor, South Chicago. . ‘The County Clork recommended tho ongnre- mont of Mr, Marvcdel, of tho City {nx Cone iniseloner’s offies, for tho pitrpoze of eupplying tho county with nm deecription of all the aub- divisions filod for record since Muy J, 1871, to Mny 1, i876, Roferred to the Comuuttve ‘on Publio Records, Thomas Tillay'’s attorney, by letter, protested asuinet any action on tho part of tha County Gonrd that might interfere with his right ax solo architect of tho contomplated Comt-lHoxse. Piace-l on ile. ‘THR roon-novEE. Whon tho Poor-Hanso requisitions came up, Commiaslonor Crawtord rose to inquito whether & person cinployed by Suz Trieune hail actually gone through the proces of becoming a pauper, aud whothor tho statements mado by that per- son in rogard to the County-loure wero well founded. Also, if if wos truo that tho inmates wero half-starved, 18 desctibad, and whothor, if tho inmates wero not properly fed and carod for, the reapous sibility rented with the employes of the Inetitue tion or tho Board of County Comnusslonors, At was ono of the strongest changes over mado rsninet tho Board. It appeared to him strango Mt the facts charged should coma to tha knowiedgo of tho Sonrd through the columny of Tire Tutnose rather than the roport of the Com. mitteo ou Public Charitios, whose duty it was to Bco that affairs at tha Poor-House were proper- ly administered. Tf what was stnted by tho re- Porter wax true, bo had done well for the cause of humanity, in that Board, ho (Commissioner Crawford) hnd always beon on the sldoof liberality tothe mifeituunte people who wora obligad to seek: refuge in tho County-Houxe and leone Asylum, io had beon charged with oxtray- agance, but he would rathor be wo charged than have thocrime of inhumanity imputed’ to him, Ale would rather sacrifles half what ho posacssod —yos, ail of 3t, than bo considered niggardly aud hhard-hearted fu regard to tho poor, as thought that three of the best citizens in Cools County, should bo appointed to investigato the matton, Ut way freoly stated around town, and in the county genorally, that tho requisitfona wero out down to so low o figure that the Warden could not properly fecd tha oor, Wo moved that a Committas of Inyeatigation, to consist of John V,. Varwoll, W. FP. oolbaugh, sud John MeCaffory, of Cicero, ba appointed. ‘Tho Chairman stated that. tho motion was not in ordor, but might como up at tho proper time. He did not wish to intorfore with discussion, jowaver, mcarrnry, Commiesloner McUatfrey stated that it wan true that s roportor on ‘Tan ‘Turpone bod boou a0 inmato of tho Poor-Houso for some days, ag ‘8 tuo to secure iuformation. Somo disturbauco had ocourrod out thero, because tho younz mau told tuo paupora that he was n reporter, and anid thoy wore badly treatod, thereby inciting thom to lot. If that was a way to serve Cool County, ho thought It was a voly roprohonsiblo onc. ‘Lio aupors wero vory woll taken cara of, 'uey bad plenty of food,—bread, meat, and molasion, Lvory timo he visited tho Pour-liouso ae round that the paupers wero abundantly aup- piled. COMMISSIONER HOLDEN thought, from the romarks of Mr. Crawford, that they must bo on tho sve of an oloction, Molaseew was not bad, It lad been uged in his + fathor’s family, and it was healthy for thon. Ho did not geo why it should not bo healthy for tho poor, ‘This charge of fusuficiont eupplics ‘was altorethor groundious, Comtulsvionce Crawford snid that ho know Mr. Molden must bo mistakon in bis idead, Tho complaints woro too gonaral. JOUN DINYS WITH THE PAUrEns, Commissioner MoCallrogt hayo oaten dinner in tho Pour-Hause, and thoy bad as good vere. tablo soup, meat, and broad as I over had at any hotel in my life, Connntenloner Crowford—The gontloman had his diunor, no doubt, iu the basement of tho Jusauo Arylum, where thoy get thiuga up in Dotter shapo. Commiesloner McCaffroy—No, alr; Thad diu- Crawford—Then* yon, ner with tes paupers, Comm-asionor or eas Jeuow more about it. Lnovor hud. 8 Wiole quostion was, on motion, roferrt be tue Committes ou Public Charities with nae ct, ‘Tho County Doard of Education advised tho rd that thoy bad agrcod to rasct the Inst Sate Urday of cach month for tho tranuaction of business and. tho auditing of accounts. Nox forred to tho Contnittes ou Education, ‘ho Judiciary Comnuittoo reported in Tegard to tho comumnication of Gnatay Brammelmoyor, zalitlte to the dioting of prisonors in tho County jail . that thoro was no statute of the State of Biinobe Vast ould sinpowor thom to y aaiter tuto iM ct. They recommended that ecmmunication be placed on ilile, Adopted, a the toon.) COLLECTING STATISTICS, wat Mombors of tho Judiciary Committes who tain gente, to visit Jacksonville and axcor Sart i Dumber of Porous in tho differont char~ 8 inutitutions who were chargoable on Cook institution there wore 18; fa fe Gat eoble-Mindod Chitren,'s "yes faetitutlon, for pe Ris in ae {teane Asylum 26 inmates at . physician in char, heaa uufortunatoy iteurabt, ani twas probe ible that, under the law, they would Date to tecp them whora thoy wore, Tt was customar: P.diubanco pupils from the Blind Asylumeies, hey attained tho age of 18—that iu, if thoy had adinary iutollectual cupacity, ‘Tha'deat amb, bd fecble-mminded wero also discharged ney hey appeared to ba eufticiently improved in con. idoa to make their own way in the world. 1g , a aramended that is {Gotnmittoe on Pabllo i uish ona of tho -visilors fro; puny Agent's office witha list of the cone. THE CHICAGO TRIBUN spondents namod in the report residing in Couk County, and also that ho make inquiry and report na to the condition of the pationta now on county chargo, ao that, {f they wore Ina position to do so, thoy could support thom an directed by law. The roport, signed by Commiesionora Johnion, McCaffrey, and Crawford, was ndupicd, The County Attornoy sald that a bill wan now before tho Henate which wonld divide the tata into threo districts for tho threo differant Auv- Inme, It provided, ho said, that avery conuty srould bo antitled to hava inmates in the Asyliims according to the numbor of poople. This would give Couk County the privilege of sending 140 inmates to Elgin, ‘This bill woutd be vers in portant, and onglt to bo attended to, Ho would yinit Springflold in rogard to tho matter during tho pregont woels DIETING PRIgONENS, Commisstoner Holdon asked how the Commit- teo on Jail waa gatting slung with that resulu- tion rolative to the dieting of prisonere, Commissioner Sclinidt—I eau nusvwer the gon- tloman: Wo sro getting slong very nicely, {Laughtor.] We avo had reversal mect- inga already, waiting for Uo fignres—the actual cont of feoding prisoners. Sherllf Agnow prom- ivod tho statistics last wook, but he failed to do +0, probably bocausa St, Patrick's Day camo on topof hin. [Laughtor and elapptig| “Wiven tho bilis for tho ‘Towu of bomant out door retief were presented, Mossrs. Clough nud Holden found fautt, ‘This large drain on the catty ought to be dono away with, ‘Tho billa passed, howover. TUE couRT-itovsn. Tho following report was presented by tho Committee on Public Buildinga: Your Committes on Public Burldings, to whom were committed their former majority wud minority ro ports, and the commuuteation of Commlssioncr Craw- ford, with refereuco to a tew Court-louse, reapect- fully nak leave to report that they havo cousiderei the matler moro fully, nud recomuicnd tho adoption of the following readlutions : Wireneas, It appeara to bo the opinion of the City Authorities of tho Clty of Chicago, and of tits Board, that the thne baa arrived to taka peoinpt oud Limmnest- ate netion to build s new Court-Hotse and City-H fall Auconformity ton contract entered Suto by aati City aud Cook County, of the dato of Aug, 2% 1972, and now on file in thé County Clerk's oltice 7 therofure, be it \ Resolved, That thts Board proceed to elect a Dosrd of Atebitectt, coueistiny of Uircu members, to propare plang, apecitications, etperintend thy coustruction of Ire batttiog, and de euett otter work an aay’ ey te. quized of thom by the Dourd of Pabllo Works of the City of Chteago and the Board of County Commission em of Cook Connly, and, under tho direction of such Monrdy, give such ‘bonds, with auch eveurilice, aa tho city and county inay require for tho faithful and akill- ful performanre of their dutics, “fesoited, That upon the cloction of a Hoard of Arch Stocts, ox above Indicated, the names of much persons stall bo sent by the Connty Cler’: ta the Hoard of Dube Uo Works ef tho City of Chicago, with a request that nuch peraons shall Le chorctt as arclittects In belinif of the city, and, $f s0 chosen by tho city authorities, then they sill 10a Board of Architects of the elly and county jointly, If the Board uf Publfe Works of tho elty do hot conens, then their cloctim by this Roard shall not be bindlug, but the Board of Public Works of the city hall be reqacated to present to this Hoard tho tines of Uaree perons, as architects, subject to thelr eeceplanes or rejcctiun by this Board. ‘Tio compenta- thon of such architects vial, hereafter, bo Dxed by the proper elty euthctitios aud this Board, Comminstoner Clough moved that whou tho Board adjournad, it would do so until noxst Mon- day afternoon, Carried, Commissioner Crawford moved that tho report of the Committee on Public Buildings bo laid cover until the next meoting of tho Board, which ptorniled, THE Poon-Wonse AGAIN, ? Commissioner Holden intudueed the follow- Ing: Wirneas, Tho authorities and cftizens of the Town Nervon ore complilning of a mifeance ludured to toned by the ottat and want! of drainage ut the n end PoorHouwes wow, therefore, bo it ‘ant tha Cemmulttes’ on Pubils Churitica by, directed to Investhysta much come vorlaty sf they aro well to nd to be Just, 0 t abating the utounce and ¢ needed, Laid over under the rates. Comuustoner Crawford moved that s Com- mittee of Investization, to consist of Menara. d. ¥. Farwoll, W. F. Coolbaugh, Jolin MeCaffory (of Ciccro), and Henry Greenobamn, be nppointed to Icok aftor tho Poor-louso irregutaritics. Car- riod, Adjourned unt!! Thursday afternoon. THE CLYLL-RIGITS LAW. OPINION OF A TENNESSEC JUDGE, Muxrins, March 22.—Judzo Emmons, of the United States Court, to-doy delivored an elabor- ato and exhaustive charge to the Grand Jury in refercnce to Civil-Richts. Io said: It is to be rogretted thata question of such excep: fonal iuportance, and ono which ts produ iuch excitemont, abould come befora the (ita form at this early hour in the term, We are, ever, compelled to decide matters you lay betora Tho soverd penalties fraposed by this lve ws, upon tho prosecuting ettorney and othor Giictala will, we aro” advised, be attempted fobo enforced shautd the Grand Jury fatt to indict, ‘To tho eneumplion that their action wilt by controled by euch ofcors, unices tho Court acts, every cou stor ation makes St the duty to auswor your questions at once, You nek whether itis erinio for which you havo tho rigut to nd an juiictmont that a negro tins hve denied tho full and equal enjoyment of ‘secom- Modatious, rdvantages, facilities, aud privileges of theatres aud inns of the State, Silch denial fa not an olfenso over which Congress can give tho Court Juris~ diction, ‘Thero aro matters which the Stato Govorne iment wlono controls, Versor; wha (uink thomrelves agatleved can Uring thelr elvil_uction in this Court ut ouce. Any decisions wo then mako can bo roviowed by the Supreme Court, + . Tio then gave bis reasons for entering into the dotails of tho caso, which nro mainly tho ozcited condition of thy classes whom tho Jaw was in- tondod to affect : Until tho threo recent amendments to tho Nationa Constitution, which mbolistied elavery and attensded to protect the civil and politles! nigate of frevdmen, all parties concedod that tho Federal Government had no power whatever to restrain such an offense as thir, Tue punishment of murder, urson, assault and but- tory, fratdd, injuries to Feputatton, obstruction to Hubtof attending chureli, public schools, theatrox, nn'1 forcing tho right of being accommodated! In fang’ and by common carrlers within tho State, were matters not only uot granted to the Geucral Goveranont, Init in the Constitution iteolf cxnrearly reveivul to tho States, ‘Tho vaut mass of elvil aud Political righta Ine gluded in tho compendious phraso “ Tught ta life, Uberty, aud purnuit of happiness,” rested entirely un: der Bute protection, ‘Lo this fatniiiar and unques Houed trite there was universnl aarent then, cud {5 How. | I'bu only quostion presouted for jullelal doter= inination Js, hive those amendments completely rovy- lutiontzed the “wholo churacter of our Goversment, Uecause t fe entirely ovident that If Congresy has tho power af reguluting tho theatroa aud other places of amusements in Memphisand other citics of tho Uulon, this noceasarily fnvulves tha power of protectiog the moro sacrod aud importuut rights of the colored citi zou, Ifo thon roviows tho Thirteonth Amendment, and declaros that it abohahed slavery and did nomoro, Io slso reviows at great length the Yourteonth Amendment, ond says ita clause for- bidding States to deprive any Person of Ifo, liberty, or property, without dao ‘process of Inw, or deny to any porson equal protection of the Inwa, have no application to thia subject, Thoy aro intouded solely to provont thio arbitrary transfer of pronorty from citizen to citizen with- out logal adjudication or procoss, and provent. tho extablivimont of tribunals for ono clava of Pereons vuryiug from thoso which dotormino the nights of all. ‘These fithlbitious, too, beyond all controversy, aro aimod of tho action of tho Stato only, and have no roferenco to Indi- viduals, Ho quates the docisions in Michigan aud Obio in supportof this, and aluo the slaugh- ter-houso casos of tho Supreme Court {oct Wal- laco),and then denis at groat longth wit! outrages: agalnet the colorod race, aud axpressos his wym- pathy with that large aud rospoctablo cinss of our follove-citizens, including boyond ques “on 8 mojority of the moro Conservative Curistlan goutlemen of tho South who rogrot thero exists nowhoroin olthor Government, State ornatlon, the powor of punlebing these mean oud cowardly murdorers, AN ALABAMA DoDag, Monroomeny, Ala., March 22.—The Logista- ture adjourned to-day sina die. Tho last act waa one withdrawing tha lcenso tax from hotels, and allowlug thein to mako coutracts with boarders, aes THE UFPER MISSISSIPPI TRADE, Special Disvatch to The Chicago Tridune, LaCnossz, Wis., March 25,—Our LaCrosse poo- Pleare vory jubilant to-night ovor tho news from St, Louis that tho Court this morning gavon decision on the great steamboat caso favorablo to tho Daviduony, This scttles tho matter, aud puts the Davidsons in command of the gigantlo Miastuslppi Rivor foot of stoambeats and barges Dotweon 8t. PaulandNowOrloana, Tho decision insures the: ro-catablishment of the Uppor River sbip-yard at this point, a thing of cousiderablo importauce to “tnGronas, tho game giving em- loyment to betweon 2U0 aud 800 mechanica and jaburers, ——_.... RAILROAD BLOCKADE ENDED," Sy ectal Disvateh to The Chicavy Tribune, Sioux Civy, In., March 22,—Tho Weatern Di- vision of the Llinots Contrat Road, which has beou blocked since the last storm, will got traine through to-night for the firat time ainco the 18th inst. “The Sioux City & St. Paul Road, which has been in the same condition for an equal lougth of timo, expect to get their road clear for to-morrow migilt, traipe had but little trouble. gente Fouda bara and are running rogularly, ORIGIN OF THE WORLD, Tho Chaldean Account of tho ; Creation and: Fall. A History Much Longer and Tuller than That in Genesis, Important Discoveries by Mr. George Smith, tho English Explorer, in Assyria. Horaf the London Datty Telegraph: * i, March 8, 1875.—Having recontly mado a sorlos of tinportant discoverion rolating to tho Book of Goncsis, among some remarkable toxta which form part of the colloction present. ed to the British Mnaoum by the proprictora of tho Daily Telegraph, I vonturo onco moro to bring Assyrian subjects before sour readers, In my lectnro on tho Clintdean Account of the Delugo,” which I dolivered on Dee. 3, 1872, Latnted iny conviction that nll the carhor narra- {ives of Genesis would recolvo new light from tho inscriptions so long buried in tho Chaldean and Aneyrian mounds; but I little thought at that timo that F was ao near to finding most of thor, My lecture, as your resdera know, was soon followed by tho proposal of your proprictora and tho organizing of the Daily Telegraph ox« Pedition to Ansyria. When excavating st Konyunjil during that expadition, I discoverod tho missing portion of tho firet column of the Delugo tablet, an account of which { sont home; and, in thosamo trench, I subsequently found the fragment which I afterwards revognized a4 part of tho Chaldean story of tho Creation, which rolic I have noticed alrendy in your columns, I excavated later on, wifilo atill work- ing under your auspless, another portion bo- longing to this story, fur moro precious,—in fact, Ithink, to the general public, tho most interest- ing and remarkablo Cuneiform tablot yet dia- covered, This turns out to contain tho story of man's original innovenen, of the temptation, and of tho fall, Iwas, when I found it, on tho eve of doparting, and had not timo to properly ox- amino my great prize. I only copted the two or threo firet linos, whict (ns 1 had thon no ides of tho geucral subject of tho tablet) did uot appear very valnablo, and I forthwith packed it in tho Lox for transport to England, whore it arrived safely, and wns progonted by tho proprietors of tho Daily Telegraph, with the roxt of their callec- tion, to tho Uritish Mugoum. On my return to England 1 mnde voma other digcoveries among my tore, and in the nprauit of theso this fra ment as overlooked. I subsequontly went a second timo to Assyria, and returned to England in Juno, 1874; but T hud no leisure to look again at thoxe particular logends until the ond of Jan- wary in this year. ‘Cuon, starting with the frag~ mont of the Croation in.the Daily Telegraph col- lection, which I had flrat noticed, J began to col- lect other portions of the series, and among tlexo I soon found tho overlooked fragment which I lind excavated at Kouynnjik, tho first lines of which I took down inthe note-book of iny first expedition, I subsoquontly found sey. eral plecos in tho old Musvtm collection, ata all join or form parts of a continous sorics of Jo+ gends, giving the history of the world from tho Creation down to some pared after tho fal! of man, Ltuked with this, I found alsvotherserics of legonds ou primitive history, incltdiny the slory of the building of the Vower of Babol‘aud .of tho Confusion of Tonyuce, ‘The first sories, which I may eall “The Story of tho Creation and Vat," when complete must havo consislod of ninoor ten tablets at leayt, atthe history upon it ts much longor and fullor than tho corresponding necount fa the Book of Gonesix. With respect to these Geneuia narratives a farions ntrife Has existed for any Yeurs; ovory word haa been scanned by cager scholars, aud covery posstble meaning which the various: popanee could bear tas beon sug- gested; while the ago and authontielty of the narratives havo been discussed on all sides. In particnlar, it may be said that the account of tho fall of man, tho horitnze of all Christin countrics, hag heen the contre of this con- troversy, for it is one of tho pivota on which tho Christian roligion turne, ‘Tho world- wido importance of theso subjects will Uhere- foro give the nawly-discoverod inscriptions, and eapociully the oue relating to tho Kail, an une paralleled value, aud I am glad, indood, that such a treasure should hay resulted from your aspeditea. Whatuver the primitive acconnt may havo beon from whieh the carlior part of the Book of Gen- esis was copicd, it 1 ovident that the briof nar- ration given in tha Pontatench omits a numbor of incidents and Se pinuntloni. for instanco, a5 to tho origin of ovil, tho fall of tho angela, the wickedness of the serpent, ote. Such pointe as thoso are included in tho Cunciform narrative ; but of course I can say little about thom until I prepare full translations of the legends, ‘Lho narrative on tho Assyrian tablets com. monces with a description of the peried bofura the world was croated, wheu there oxisted a chrosor confusion, The desolate and cmpty stata of the universe and the gonoration by chaos of monsters aro vividly given. ‘!he chaos is presided oyor by a female powor named ‘isa. Jat aud Tint, corrospouding to tho Tholatth of Borosus; but as it proceeds the Adsyrian account ayroos rather with the Bible than with the short account from Borosus, Wo aro told, ia the inscriptions, of tho fall of tho celestint bolus who appears to corrospond to Satan. In his umbition no raises his hand against tho sauctuary of tho God of heavou, and tho descrip. tou of him ia really aaacruliioon, Ho is repro- sontod riding in a charivt throngh colostial spaco, surrounded by the storms, with the light- ning playing bofore him, and wlotding « thun- dorbolt aaa weapon, ‘This rebellion leada to awarin hoavon and the conquest of the pawers of py the gods in duo courso creating tho universe in ntagey, as in the Mosaic narrative, surveying each slop of tha work and pronouncing it goad. Tho divine work culminates in the croation ofiman, who is made Upright and froo from evil, nnd endowed by tho gads with the noble faoutty of speach. ‘Tho Deity thon dolivers a loug address to tho newly-created being, instructing him in all hie dutics auf priviloges, and. pontlog ont theglory of his state. But this condition of blessing doca not last lung bofore man, ylolding to temptation, falis; aud the Deity” thon pro: Houuces upon him s terrible curse, Invoking on ‘hls hond alt tho avils which hava winco afilicted To the Ii , humanity, ‘hexo last detail are, aa 1 havo be- forostated, upon tho fragmonts which I exca- vated during my firut journoy to Asuyvia, and. the discovory of this uldgio reilo, in my opluion, incroasos many times oyer tho value’ of tho Daily Vetegraph collection, Tliavo at proxont recovered no moro of tho story, and am not ee ina poaltion to givotho full trauslationa ond dotaily ; but I hopo da:lug the spring to find time to wearch over the collection Of smaller fragmenta of tablots, and to Night Upon any sniallor parts of tho legends which may ave escaped mo. Thero will sriso, bealdos, & number of importans questions us to tho dato and origin of tho legends, their compurinon with tho Littiea! narrative, and as to how far thoy may supplowent tho Mouaic account. Ut will probably be woe few months before my researches ara suficiently advanced to pub- sh thom in full; moauwhite the interout which’ 1 koow tho publio foot in theso discoyerios taust bo iny oxcuse for this short and imporfoct notivo in your columns, Whon my investigations aro cowploted I witl publish o full account and truuutation of these Geuosis Icyonds, all of which 1 hove now been fortunate enough to flud, Some in the old Musoun collection, others by ox- sayation in Assyria, I ata, wir, yours, ke. te Gxonar Santi, Filttoriat Commenta af the Lundsn Dally Telegraph, March 4, “he CHALDEAN ACCOUNT OF CREATION, Wo havo tho ploasure of anuouncing’to the Public this morning, by a lettor roccived from Mr, Goorgo Smith, ono of the most romarkable and intorosting discoverios yot madv iu cunnoo- tion with Assyrian rogoarches. It is, indeed, Gidicult to conceive what imaginable rovonl or document could be considored moze romarkable sud intorosting than tho one in quostion; and our eatisfaction is uot unreasonably ausmentod by the fact that the precious relic thus brought to light forma part of tho collection of tablets which Mr. Sinith's Isbora onabled us to provens to the Britis: Musoum. It had already beon no- Hided that, in eidition to the toxtu alroady de- ciplered upou the Deluge ond othor Soript- ural narratives, this aczomplisiod scholar bad lately found an account of the build- ing of the Tower of Babel and tho Coufuston of Tongues, But that which he bas now re- vealed if no leasthan a tong, coplous, and nearly complete narrative of tho Dogmning of tho World, tha Creation of Man, dis Temptation, y BE: TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1875. Fall, and Cnrao, inscribed, tike all theae early Aewyrinn records, in arrow-hemled writing on thone burnt cakoa of clay with whieh the publi has now grown familiar. Mr. Smith relates tha circumstances of tile siogular trouvaille, aml they adds now flustration of the good fortuna thot attends brave offort. Ie way on tho eye of concluding the exeavations cartie:d ont for the Daily Telegraph, won ho found, ainong the very latest of tho tablets uneartied. a fraginent in appearance much like tha others, aid preset ing nothing at first eight in tte language worth particular roghrd. He contented himself with transcribing in his note-book tho first fow nes of the writing, and thon packed it up with the rept for transmission to England. On bis roturn tor the Museum, other parts of tho collection ene waged bis attention, and shortly afterwards tha recognized value of tho resulta obtained, ine daced the Government to commission Mr. Stith for a recond expedition which was rewarded, au everybody knows, by a frosh and valuable ac- cumulation of ancient munimente. ‘Fheso unt. urally engrossed his time and toils for» while, till about a month ago, when a more careful exe amination of the tabict dug up at Konyunjik in 1973 dinclowed to Mr. Snith that he had before him ono among tho first pages of that antique history of which the Delage tabtets formed part, contafning the Chaldean account of the Crestian of tho World aud of Mau, and ge ng apparontly side by nide with tho Seriptural 1 tion, bud th greater detail, and with many ations, By tho aatonisling akiil po often described in theme colttmnus Mr, Bmith was able to loarn from tho inblot, thus suddenly become #9 valuable, continuations of tho = narrative — from yarious tources, including the former collection iz tho Museum, and tho result which he ane nounces fa a connocted toxt extending from tho Crostion to tho Full and Primal Curse, thua peee senting to us an orginal version of “Genesis” as it was kopt on tho ancred tablets,—an editio prima of such oxtraordiuery import and intorest for all Chriotianity that tho diacoverer davlares the finding of this aly jlo tablet has inerenued many times over th *vaine of the collection which he brought ho! ge to ne. A full translation Uf thoxo books of clay, thus wondorfully preserved, will by nz by ho sven 3 but timo aud etudy are necerrary for thotr care ful translation. Meanwinte, howavor, Mr, Smith bas porused enough of the collocated elabs to furnish tho public this imoraing, through our columns, with o general itoa of thoir contents; and tho firat point which nircata attention 1K their closo srcucral with tho Scriptural narrative, Like tho oor of Genesis, theso inucribed tal earth “without foria and yoid' empty chacs—in the ago preceding “tho Besin- ning.” Like the BMoenic acconnt, thoy tell 1s of an ovit agency in rebellion axninet God, which, afier Man had been produced as the noblest snimated work of tho Creation, tempts him to his tall, and causes hin to forfeit Lis lite of Paradiso and high estate of Iunocenes. Bat Mr. Smith gives ua glimpses of very remariablo ad- ditions and expangions which this Chaldean * Hoult of Gononis” contains; for example, tho primitive chnoa is represented a3 engondor- ing monsters, and tha old erpeat who tempts tho First man has oleady been over- thrown from on hikh in a Miltonic war- faro, “warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchlees King.” ‘Tho Satan of Chaidea has, in lis roprexentation, the titled ebaracterietics of tho Aryan Indra, tho Grecian Jupiter, and tho Zoroastrian Ahriman, ‘riding in n° ebariot through cetestial space, surrounded by the etorms, with the lightning plasing before him, and wielding a thunderbolt a8 a weapon.” Moxt carious, too, js tho montion made uf a feminine power presiding over Chaos, uamed Tizalat or ‘Tiamat, in those tablets, and identiiled vy Mr. Smith with the Thalatth of Berosia. Who word Thalatts or Thalassa is Greek for the sea, and i ‘Visalat or ‘Pbolatth may represent tho Chaldean idea of a praductive fcreo dominating tho formless watora of tho unfinished planet; producing shapeloss things and unoryantzed une diferontis! eozoons and monads; will not this caat a angular light upon tho legend of tho fomin-born Aphrodite, “methor of ten?" Will it not havo a striking intorest even for Darwiniane, who may discover in this most an= clont of written coamogonies suunething to ehow that the [doa of the “ Ascidian,” from which, follawing thor great lender, they treca human oxistonco, I, aftor all, 4,090 yenra old 2 Tha Aphrodite or eea-born Venus of the Greek, is tho Ishtar, Ashtaroth, or Astarto of Aussrin and Phoenicia; and this word “‘Thalatth,” in Rerosus, if 4 translation from the Chaltoan torm, has obviously curious rapport with “tho waters” over which wo nro told tho Spirit of God moved, Besides all this, the Kouyunjik tablets ombraco a relation of tho ongin of evil, of tho fall of tho wickcd angels, tuo natura of tho sorpont, and the aspect of (ho undeveloped world,—nlt’ oniltted or meroly glanced at iu tho Pontntouchal text,—which, ‘however, ro- semblo tho Chaldeau version moro oar. ¥ than doea that of Derosus. Could any- thing bo of moro absorbing novelty to the theo logians, echolaro, archwolugixta, and scientific men of Christendom? A commentator enys of Aint oloven chapters of the Book of Genesis: ‘uey Linyo an jutercat aud an importanco to which no other document of antiquity can pro- tend. If not absolutely the oldevt book in tho world, itis the oldest which Jaya any claim to being a trustworthy history. If tho rellzious books of other nations make any protensions to vio with it iu antiquity, in all othor respects thoy nro immenvurably inferior, Cenosis t4 neither like the Vedas, a collection of hymns more or loss sublimo; nor like the Lendayexts, a philoaophle speculation on the orizin of all things; nor hike tho Yiu-king, an uniutelligibla jumble whose ‘oxpositors could tirist it from ‘a cosutological onssy into a standard treatise on othical philoso- phy. It {s only our rocord of tho boginuing of things, however interpreted.” Aud hora, on a sudden, 19 an account parallel with it all, nnd probably drawn from the enme onrigival source ay that wherefrom tho pages of Beripturo dorived, nuder Providenco, their “hith- erto sulitary narrative! On tho ovo of stoulng, that nowly-openod tomb of Empire at Kouyun]i! @ lucky touch of pick-ax or shovel recovers for the wowitting excavator, and through him for liumanity, what we may call tho “folio cdi- tion,” with the imprimatur of antiquity, of tho very firat legonds of onr race. Wo do not kuow what incldont in the records of research quale the wingularity and romsuce of thuso discoverios. Vrovious tomes of classical toro have been revealed from worm-eaten palimp- desta; yollow and faded parchments have yieldod unexpected facts of hiatory; but this digging up orn Tings Nbrary fn the dust of thirty cote turies, ond finding im it the clear aud logible atory of the Boginning, as Abrahuin heard it in Ur, and tho Poutatouci repeated it,—under cir- cumstances, too, su tull of chance, apparently, that tho entorprigo seemod tu muny ove of little hope befoiohand, and its success almost incrod- iblo,—is passing strange. Nor could auything havo pregorved for uy so valuable 9 possus- gion oxcopt thevo wane Assyrian whards of clay, whiel, with thelr inscriptions, were really all but itaperishsble, Stone, inarblo, metal would huve long ago in euch circumstances have lont the fie impressions given by tho Chaldean priests; Lut these boolis of clay, once put through tho fire, havo remained absolutoly unaltered, and the famous Assyrian of our Musourn ready them #8 cazily ax did tho weribes of Assurbanipal! Whon ho hus fully docipherod the prosout treasuros of hus toil, wo shall ba masters of (ue actual recon! us the. Kings of Ninevoh rocoived aud inscribed it; wo shall all pousoss the vari teetiones of tha Morale cosmoyony, copied, no doubt, generation alter gouoration, from immeasurably alciout tra- ditions, It is of tho deepest fmportanco, we think, tbat the authorities of tho Museum, and oven tho Government itsolf, should direct that henceforth no triviat dopartmental dutios shalt distract the attention of the scholar, to whom so auch iy duo, from the importaut task of editing theo extraordinary discoyories, —_—_-___- FROM THE PINERIES. Special Disvatch to The Chicago Tribune, Osuxosu, Wis., March 22,—Noporls from the Wolf Riyor pineries show that tho total log-crop this aoason will not oxcoed 120,000,000 tat. This is about the samo as last year's product, whilo tho number of tirmy and men engaged has boon much greater. Owing to the deop snows, cold woather, and bad ruads, the wintor bas boon Yory unfavorable to logging. ‘tho amount of old logs ti this city and in tho adjacent streams, Which will roach tho mills beforo tho uaw crop, is, cutimated by good judges at 20,000,000 feat, but thfa will not supply tho mille for moro than half the time, Consequently, as tha now crop cannot reach warkel cather than July 3, the approaching weasou does uot augur yery favorably. Suvoral largo oatab- ishunonts in this city and Fond du Lav will wok atart up uotil goveral wooks later than usual, and one or two will romam idlo all weason. Btill, Imubermon are sangujio and hope for good Prices, Ono walo of wixty car-loady a day or two since was mado at a alight advanco over ruling prices, und woveral othurs havo beon mado ginco thon at an ee, Tho recont advauce in the Minneapolis market Las hotped the market hiezo, and tho lumberuion anticipate » geod busi- Ness 8 NOOU as Bpring trade opens. ge ee Reale ‘The spollomania bas reached Blocmnington, ond is reging fearfully in thot city. Bpolling. schools ara hold almost nightly, and the largest hall in the city is filled on every ovcasion, Bloomington bas challonged Normal to the or- thoxraphio contest, aud the match will come of ou Thureday or Erldsy, THE GOETZE CASE, Trial of Joseph Tanzey for Mader, | The Lvidence Proves to Be Very Weak, Ho Is Asquitted, Abont two yoars ago Tue Trincyr chronicled | tho murdering of Alvcrt Goctze, at saloon, No, 702 Bouth Halete! strove, ‘The unfortunaie victim was etabbed in tho right eido of the neck, severing the jugular vein, and died in a few minutes in tho prowenco of adancing-party of which ho bad been ono. Very littlo light haa beon thrown upon tho trage- dy, notwithstanding that tho groatcut efforts hava beon made. During the following day, March 18, 1873, sovorat parties were arrested, charged with the rims, but upon oxnmiuation before tho Coroner's jury wero dinmis: ‘Tho leader of the arrested partics, Li Healy, © mon who bas always borne the worst possible reputation, it wan thought would havo been held, but ho swore fils inuo- cence, ond succeeded in creating the opiuiou that & boy natned Joseph Tanzey, who wae with him at tho saloon tho fatal night, was tho puilty oue, which resulted in his being released, and his taking a tzip to Ireland. ‘Tho officers tuen cotn- menced KEARCIT YOR TANZET, which was continucd up to about tho middle of December fast, when he was found and arrested iu St, Loula undor tho namo of William Jobu- son, Binco his arrest he baa been in tho County Jail awaiting trial «=on an indictinent returnod by the Grand Jury for murder. Lis caso waa reached yestorday in tho Criminal Court, Judgo Willistas presiding, A. 8. Erude appeared for tho prisoner, and C. If. Reed for the people. After spending #everal bouts in impanoling a jury, the examination of witnesees commenced, eunt-room being cruwded with auxious spectators, DRM Ae 2 was tho fret witness called by the prosecution, He testitlod that ho hold s pozt-mortem oxami- nation of the body of Albert Goetze on the moru- iug of tho 18th of March, 1873, Ie found n so- vero wound on tho right sido of the neck, whien must have been made with n sbarp inatrament byathrust, Lhe wound Jed to the dceeayed’s degth, without duu AX wag tho next witn and ulno the deconso: der sho lived at No. BAYMEYES Eho know tho defendant At the time of the mur- ‘02 Halsted etreet, and pave no ball St. Patrick's mut at her saluon, Goctzo was at the ball car but Tanzev novor came uutil about 4 o'clocit ‘in tho morning. A party camo in with Tanzey, and nt the time Gastzo was sitting inn window with 2 woman near the bar. Tho woman remarked to Goctzo that Tanzey was committing o nuieanco in the room, when Gootze took hold of him and pushed him out of the door., Goetza returned in a moment and fell on the floor, bleoding. When Tanzey wes pushed from the room his friends followed him. Sbedid hos see who etabbed deceased, aud did not seo any one with a kuife, Sho was tending tho bar at tuo time, and, when Gactze camo in aud fell bleeding, his brother car + to him, Crosa-rramined: She uaw Luke ifealy follow Gootzo when ho was pusbing Tanzoy out of tho room, Ho pushed him, nod followed him ont in the street. Tauzoy did not resist as ho was ho- ing putout. Dboro was no fighting insido tho uoloon. REINNOLD GOErZ1, ® brother of the doceased, waa noxt sworn: Tle was wsth Albert Goetze at the danca at Haymever's saloon. Ho kuew Tanzey, but did notice him in tho ealoon. Ife saw the fracce and rushed to tho door, aud thero saw Tanzey witha knife in bis hand standing besido tha door. His brother bad boon stabbed then, and was in another brother's arms, Iicsly at tho amo tino was in tha saloon, and \hea he camo out on tho sidewalk Tanzey tric to stab him. Crass-cxamined : Did uot seo Tanzey strike at tho deceased, but after tho stabbing saw hin witha knifoin bis mght band. Ife did not seo Healy until ho was going out of the room whero tho fracas was, Iealy went out of the door just akealof him, The decossed was stabbed whilo standing in tho door, There was no disturbance in thosaloon, Ilo did not renember stating to avy officers that Healy murdered his brothor, nor of eaying fu the Volico Court that he struck Hesly over the head with a glass whon ho was going Tora doctor to dresa nis brothor’s wound, nor that bo saw a knife in Lis hand, SOPHIA GOETZE, wife of Reinhold Gostze, and the woman who was with Albert Goetze at tho time of his death, tostitied that abo saw the deceased pusls Tanzey out of tho door, but did not rea hin again untilho waa lying on tho floor dead. ‘Tanzoy acted indecently, and she called the decearad’s Attention to tho fact which induced Lim to put him out of tho room, Sho was sitting in tho window at the time, Cross-eramined: When Tanzoy wns pushod out of tuo saloon his friends followed him. Sha saw tha deceased on a boer-table, and tho crowd was upon him, striking him in the face, Tanzoy Was on the outside of the bnilding at the tine, YRED GUETZE was tho noxt witness: Ue was nt tho dance and saw Tanzoy and Healy como in tho saloon to- gother. ‘hoy cailed for liquor, aud, aftor thoy had drank, several other partica camo in aud drank, ‘anzey said to the crawd, “There are soven or cight in our crowd, and ono of ug must die to-night.” Directly bis attention waa called to Tauzoy’s indecent conduct, and he saw do- ceased take hold of him and forces him out of the door. In s momout the deceased turned around, and he saw the blood issuing from his neck. The doceased wont to a table, aud Iaid across it. Tho flow of blood fucroased, and witness went to him and took him in hiuarms. only was in another Part of the room when the stabbing took place, Cross-ezamined: He hsard no angry words be- tween tho docoased and 'Tanzoy, and did not soo Tanzev strike. Ho did not seo any fighting in the saluon. ifo did not sco Healy aud others pushing the deceaved out whilo he Was pushing Tanzoy. ELL aly tho morning of ie hoad was cnt, “Io nover Tuuzvy, but searched for him, but could not fad him. Cross-examinel: io saw Reinhold Goetze at Healy's rosidenco tho mormng efter the mur- der.“ Ho pointed to Healy, aud said ho was the man who lallod his brother, ‘This was in the prevonce of several persons, Guetze had told fins before thut ho could identify tuo munteror by a wound which ho (Gootzo) hnd mado upon hia head with @ beer-glass, Uo was positive that ho could not be mistaken, ond ho arrostod Healy upon tne evidence of Goctzo. ‘The Court then took w recess for thitty min- utes, tho jury belug furnished with lunch in the jury-roon, At tho expiration of tho recess the jury waa ptaie ealied, and tho examination: “was ro- sumed, OFPICER GEORGE MINTAMAN was nvorn: Ho was on tho regular police force. Ho had known the accused for soma years. Ho baw him firet aftor tho murder at St. Louls ino printing ofico, whero ho was kuown as William Johnson, When he arrested him ho deniod that ho had oyor boou in Chicago, or that ho know auything of tho murder of Gootzo. In beloging im here ho wanted 10 know what would be dopo with him. i1o sas frightonod very badly, aud Alnally told tho wituous about his attonding the bail,” Ho romembored bolug thrown out of tho saloon, ond that iealy was wlso thrown out, aud protended not to know anything else about tho affair, but confessod that bo bad a kuife with him that evoniug. Cross-ecamined : Tanzey was willing to coma to Chicago, and uaid tie would glve no troublo, Ho did not examine Tanzoy vary closcly on tho trip te Chicago, for the reason that ho thought tho ovidonce was sufliciont agaivat him to cou- vict him. Tanzey told him that he ,etayed around Chicago four or five days after the mur- Aer, ond knew tho ofticers wore looking fur Lim, Ho wautod to givo himself up, but waw advived. not to do au, ‘The prosecution here rested the caso, when Mr. Trude commenced tho exatiuatun of wite nesscs for the defense, JUSTICE BCULLY waa the first called, by whom the bad character of Healy was to be proved, Tho prosucution objsctod, and the objection ‘was gustulued by the Court. OFFICER ENEUSY was then called; Ho was at Hosly'’s houyo tho morning of the murder, aud Neiubold Gootzo jointed to him fleas) ay tha mau who bad {ited tho deceased, Ho'knew uothiug of ‘Tan- oy until alter the Coroner's fuquest, Ie bad known Tanzey for several yours, and Le boro » 00d charactor, connowonativg. Ex-Oticer Kroutzberg was the noxt witness, who repeated in anbetancs tho evidence of Oil- cors Q'Ponuell aud McEnorny. Oficer Bundling yas the next witness, but nothing was elicited tending to throw any hight upon the ease, PATRICK NOLAN was then callad: Io wap at tho natoon shon Goxtzo was killed, Ifo enw tho deceased taka hold of Tanzey and push him out of tho door, \ ‘lanzey did” not como fn ogain, but Goctvo did, Mo afterward as @ goneral fightin the eatoon in which tho deceased and } Herly were the principals. Ho did not seo any ona with a unife or avy one stab tho daceace’, Vatrick Kearney was next called, aud ropoated the testimony of the lant witn Michael Zimmer, Patrick O'Noil, Timothy Car- roll, Thomas O'Nojl, tho prisoner's father, and Aira. Cook testitied to the good character of the accuged, soserm Tayzicy, was than put pon tho stand: Io went to the estoun to the danco where tho = marder —_ocenrred. Tio was standing at the coustor drinking with, Healy when some cno came a behing him and throw biin out of the door. Ile mado no resint~ ance to being put out, ond did not return to the saloon again, Ho had nothing t» do with tho affair further, Ilo went to St, Louie because he wan 0 advised by his frien When arrested in St, Louis ho offored no resistance whatever, Ho had a knife in his pockot the morning of tho affair, which he generally eartied. Modid not know tho dee and had never oven met him, Jlecamo to Chicacy from 8 yeaty of axe, yeara ogo. Ha wee 0 eof {ho accused, honse morning wos uot courealed. fa did not ‘Tho witness then detsi fig Inovements efter the affair, covering a poriud of reveral mouths, Nor aunty, The caso was thet eubinitted to the jury with. out argninent, which, after an absence of a fuw minutce, returned a verdict of * Not gtulty.” Tho verdict wes received with pleasure by the spectators, but by none with the samo depres of satisfaction a4 it was by the boyish piisones. sade corel RAILROAD NEWS, THE ROCKFORD, ROCK ISLAND & S7, LOUIS, Tho complicated affairs of the Rockford, Rock Island & St. Louis Kailroad Company came up yeatorday in diferent ways before both Judges Drummond and Blodgett. ‘Tho former was oc- cnpicd with o petition of HW. WH. Porter to havo (umed crcr to him a larga number of cara, It sppeared from tho petition that in October, 1869, the Barnoy & Smith Manufacturing Company had sold condi- tionally to tho Mailroad Company rome cars val~ ued at $133,000, on the understanding that the title was to remain in the yeudors until the wholo purchaue-money was paid. One-third was paid in caei, and tho remainder secured by notes, Another third was subsequently paid, but before tho balance was ecttled the remain- ing notes and contract were, July 23, 1371, as- signed to Samuel M. Nickerson, who in turn as- tigued thom to Mr, Porter, the petitioner, A Dow contract was thon made by Porter with tha Railrosd Company by which the flutter ngrecd to Pay rental on the cars until the remaining third of tho purchass-money was paid. A monti ago Portcr filed uis potition atnting thoto facts, and asiing to have the cars delivered tohim under the oripiuel contract mado with tho Manufacturing Company, Judge Drum muon, however. declined to grant the prayer of tho petition, holding that Porter waa not entitled to both the balance duo on the conusct, nud alvo to tho rental. He could oly bo pnb- ropated {o tho rights of ths Munufacturiuy Company, which hd suld the cars. Ou the other hand the Nailroad Company ws entitled to tho absolute title to and possession of tho carson payment of the balance duo Jess tha amount paid to Porter for rent. Air. Torry, tho Keeciver, was accordingly authorized to Tako this payment aud take possession of the cars. Judge Biodgert was ‘erupted with tho con= tideration of a petition of tho Receiver, asking to be allowed to compromise the Boody defal- cation, The Company bud, a4 will be remom- berad, begun euit tm Now York to recover shout €215,000 from HH, Boouy, its former ‘'reasurer, who, it ia charged, had embezzled that amount. Tho Meceivor stated that Mr. Loody's attorney ad mado an aflidavit saying that Boudy was ah old man, 69 years of ago, and that ha owns fnsolvent, and depending -on his daily work for support. — Tho — Receiver alieges in his potition tho prosccution of tho suit against Boody would cost $3,000; that I. H, Cabla and H. UW. Kennedy had given 2 bond in tho euitin tho sum of $20,030 to Henry Curtig, Jr., and that tho Ntailroad Company had transferred to Curtis xomo valuable land ia trast tosecure the wuretics. and this property could not be obtaived until the bonds wero cancelled. Although nothing could be realized from Moody personally, his nephew, D, A. Doody, had of- ferod to convoy to tue Company a 3,207-5,600 ine torest iu S70 acres of coal land in Penn: OLY which was valuod at $150,000, to pay tho coats, releago tho surctica and the property, if hecould have a fall release of the claims oninst hisuncle. Tho Receiver thought this would bo an advantageans compromise, for the further reason also that if Hoody's affairs were adjusted the Company could get his evidence and uc- count booka, which were of gront valuo in the adjustment of gomo hoary claims of Max snd Henry Bridge, Leo Lehman, and Jacob 1, Schirr, against the Compans. ‘An ordor was accordingly fanned by Judge Blodgett requiring alt partios interosted to show eauad by March 39 why the proposed compromian should not bo effected. CALIFORNIA FREIGHT RATES. Tho General Freight Ayeuta of the Chicago, Rock Istand & Pacitic, the Cufeago, Burlington & Quincy, and Chicago & Northwestern Railronds, met Mr. E. P, Vining, Geuoral Frelyht Agent of the Union Pacific Railrond, at the Grand Pacitic Hotel yesterday, for tho purpose of agreeing upon now freight rates from this clty to Ban Francieco. Owing to the gobbling-up of tho Pacific Mail Stoamship Company by Jay Gould, and placing it under tho samo management as the Union Pacific, with which it lad horatofora been at war, the rates from Now York to San Froncizco weroelargely increased, No change was mado at that timo tm the rates from Chicayo and St. Louis to Sun Francieco, Consoquently it was found out that it was moro advantageous for Now York morchants to sbip their goods to San Franciaco, than to ship them diroct from Now York. 3tncb eatibfaction was oxpresid on this account by tho Now Yorkors, Mr. Gould, therefore, delogated Mr, E.'P, Vining to come to this city to aimterviow tho General Froight Agents of tho Iowa pool hnes connecting with the Union Pacttic at Council Binffa, and ‘to pet then to raiso the rates from Chicago also, ‘I'he! Agonts mot, ay ateted above, yesterday, aud «dis- cussed the matter at considorablo lonth, Mr. Vining insisted upon. making tho rates from Chicago aud St, Lovie tho samo us from Now York, ‘To this tho Chicaxo agents objectod, but thoy had finally to subunit, as Mr, Vintug woukl fevept no compromise, ‘Lhe ucw rates adopted aro almovt twica aw high as those chargod heretofore, ‘Tuoy aro o4 follows: First class, 85; scvond class, Ri third class, $33 fourth class, 82,50; Claga A, 62,25; Claxy B. $2; Clasa O, $1.75; Claas D, §1,00, Lhexo rates will go into effect March 31, It is not bohoved thet these rates can be maintained, aa thoy aro docidedly unjust to tho morchants of Chicuzo and St. Louls, Mr. Vine ing stated to a ‘Ininuxe roportor Inst evening that he did not think that they could be main- tainod any lougth of tine, é EASTERN RATES TO COME DOWN, Thouzh tho passouyor rates to the East Lavo been down to tho lowest figures during tho last fow wovks, owing to tha war betweon the Daltl- moro & Ohio and Ponnsylyania Railroad Com- panies, still tho frelght-rates to tho Kast had thus far buon firmly malotained by ali the roads, including the two contesting Macs, It now, howaver, looks ay if tho frelght-rates ara also deatined to tumble, ay the Battimoro & Obio hag Uecided to adhera to tho tariff no longer, Tho agent of the road claims that, when tho Com. pany signed the sgreomont for tho maintexanco of the rates, they wore at peaca with tho Poun- sylvania Ravlroad Company. Things uad, how. over, matorlally changed viuco that time, aud, a8 thoy wero now shipplug their frelghts from Bale timore to New York by steamer, thoy could afford to make a» roduotion. Tho Gencral Vreight. Agents of tho various Hues Icading to the last held a couferanco with tho agent of tho Baltimore & Oblo Mailrond yesterday, to ascor- talu wnothor he had boon cuttlug or not, ‘The agent stated that bo bad, and gave the above reason, Jlo was asked What rato ho was willing to accept, but hu was not willing to givo any tig. ures before ho bad consulecod with bis superiors. Another meeting will bo hold to-day, and an of- fors made to maintain a reasonable tariff, as an unucttled state of affairs In regard to freight rates would not only ut tho roads butalso busl- eas gonorally, The wouble between the Grand Trunk and Great Westorn Railroads is ina fair way of ucts | Chicago, and havo thom reshipped from hero'to | —=>== tloment, and ifastatod that pesca will be do. cared in a day or two, TEST CASE-UNDER THE ILLINIONS LAW, Speciat Diapatch to The Chicazo Trtyune, Srarsarreny, Ti, Blarch 22.~rAtwhios-Get- eral Edeall in engaged in tho proparstiog of his) Srgument to bo made before the Supreme Goutt.t of the United States in the case of, te Stato of Iilinois ys. Munn & Scott, of Chicazo, for a vines Intion of tho Warehouse law of 1874,,, Tho easa- was originally heard in Cook County, and ronnit ed in a verdict for tho State, and a Jhagment for of April next, This caso, like te die How pends! ing in onr own Supreme Court, fuvolsiig all ‘tho | ointa which could be ralved undor. our Railroad jaw, 18 oxpocted to nettio tho cqnstitutidnality oF, our regulating legislation, iy ‘railtodd ens will bo argued by Attorney-Gatibral:Fduoll bi fore our Supremo Court, st Mount Vernon, toi June, anda decision, it is expooted,. will .sopt, , thereafter bo mado. Tho Itairon] ‘ind Warc= house Commiastoners are pretating ‘thatt ovt- denco to refute the chargzen made by thd Décatus » correspondent of ‘Tne Triuxr, “dnd oxpreet: themselves confident of being ablo todo uo, 16° will Le reaty in a fow days, 4H vent THE GRASSHOPPER-SUFFERERS, =: - Oxaim, March 22.—In conlradictiéa of the’ statement telegrapled to Calltofnia and othdr ; Papers, Dr, Miller, elitor of tha Herald esye thero ia no ground fur tho rlatement that tho® Herald is now or over has baen oppused to the work of reliof excopt that it bel exposed and denounced attempts st imoositions whieh Gen. ! Onl and tho Commission have douo their ntmoet toprevent. The Hivelt that, the necossi« ties of the people | nh oxagnernted, ‘Tha necessity for Keed-frain is grozt and uadlsputod. netics Rie Se lal Sealy BLEEDING FROM LUNGS, CATAR, CHITIS, CCMSUFPTICH. A WON CURE. Ra zs RM, Pierce, My Dig Lrsinto, Dean Sin; [ have suffered from eatarrh in an ageravatod form for about twelve veara, and fur eeveral yoars from branchial trouble. Tried many doctors and things with no lasting bencilt. In Mav, 1872, becoming nearly wera out with excersive editorial labors on a paper in New York pity, L was attacked with bronchitia in a severa form, enfering almoat a total loss of voice, 1 returned holne here, but had heen homo oaly two weeks when I was complotely prostrated with nomorrhage from tha lungs, having four severe Ulerding apcils within ten weeks, the fre dhrve insule of nine dt fn the September fol- lowing, Limproved stiiciertly to be nble to ke about, though ins very feobla stute. My Lron- chial trouble romained, and tho catarrh wag tea. fold worse than before. very effort. far relict sormed fruitless, 1 veomed to be losing ground daily, T continued in this foobla atate, raisins blood almost datly until about tho Lat of Marcel, 1873, whon I became 80 bad asi to bo ontircly eon fined to the house. A friend suggeuted’ yout remedies. But 1 was oxtremely exeptical that thoy would do me good, a8 { had Jost all heart in remodiea, and began to loo upon medicine and. doctors with disgust. Howover, I obtained ono. of your cireulars, aud read it earefally, frony which Eeame to the conclusion that you under. stood your business, at Jenet. I finally obtainod a quantity of Dr. Saga's Catarrh Remedy, your Golden Medicat Discovery and Pellets, and come. menced their'vigorous tna according to dires: tions, ‘To my aurpriso, I soon bean to improve: Tho Discovery and Pellets, in x short timo, brought out a severe eruption, which continued. for several weeks. 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