Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 13, 1875, Page 10

Ww THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: COLORADO, Among the Mountains. Characteristics of the People, and Beau- ties of the Scenery. Rambles Rocky The Denkey---A Very Important Antmat Ja the Territorial Economy, A Lengthy Trawp—Olimbing Five Peaks: and Finally Gotting Lost. Special Correspondence of The CAteago Tribune, Gronartows, Col., October, 1874.—Colorade faa delightful Territory! I am ready to exclaim aftor having been within its limits for aix weoks, And, although I havo not wandered far from my progent aituation since I arrived here, I havo every day been ginddencd with naw ecenes, which bergar deecription, avd must bo scon to be sppreciated. For somo the moun- tains havo little charm; but for mo, a9 I stroll along their flanks or traverso theic intervening valleys, gazing over and anon at tho snow-crowacd summits. 1am overcome with a reno of their awful grandotr, and realizo my own insignificance whon I contemplate their enormity, Iorwovor, when I havo, after half-a- Joy, reached the summitof onoof the most softy, tho feeling is quite different, and 1 am quite oxullent with joy at having conquered tho ateep ascents and rocky barriers, apparontly im- wasaable. OKOROETOWN, my present location, Is seventy-seven houre from Chicago, 8,400 fest above the aea-lovel, 19 miles from ratlroad, contains about 3,000 intabltante, and ia situated ia an expansion of Clear-Creek Valley, It is 35 milo on an air-lino, and 50 milea by rail and atage, from Denver. ‘Tho Colorado Contral Railroad runa a train from Denver to Golden, about 15 miles, and there vo chango cara aud enter a narrow-gatigo train. ‘Tho cara are not much larger than a Chicago cross-town horse-car; the locomotive la decided ly miniature; and tho whole train prosents the appearance of being the property and dolight of gu amatour Railroad Gompany, Vrom Golden to Floyd Hill, tho rido tx ono of the grandest imaginablo, especially if you aro fortunate enough to make the engineer's acquaintanco and fake agoatin hiacab, I wad thus fortunate; and, a9 I gat fn the firoman’s seat, who has little timo to rest ou this trip, our miniature engine puffed and tugged away with an onorgy truly surprising. ‘I'aa curves in tho canon are #0 ab- rupt that sometimes, a& wa looked abead of us, ag wo woro seated in the en- gino, there seemed to be no opportunity to pro- coed any farther, or, at least, tho only way in which wo might do so was to plungo hoadlong over a steep precipice into tho foaming, surging oresk, which is our constant companion by rail and stage, oven to Ceorgotown, and running through tha grest silvor-mining rogiun of which Goorgetown is tho centre, aud hence haa re- ceived tho sobriquet of the * Silver Quom™ Cuy. Hoon we elackened specd. and stoppod to alako the iron posy's thirst. Ho drank long and deep. Meanwhile I had etepped across {os rude wooden aing which Hone person had placed up- on the rooky banks of tho stream, porbaps for merconary purposes; for, in swinging, ono would ba carried far out above tho dashing | croek. If wo tceren't afraid to wwing, we were | afraid the pony, would start and wa be loft, After ashort rido from our swing station, woar- rived wt Floyd Hill, whon, thanking our hospitable enginecr, aud securing our traps from tho pas- senger-car, wo proceeded to make the mostef the rndo comfort tobe derived from the old- fashioned four-horse stage awaiting us. It was my first view of this pioneer of American travel. It will ascommodato twolve or fifteen passengers xpd their luegage. Tho best placa ty ride is on top; but, as I eyed the driver doultfully, and called to mind the ntories of ‘Mio recklousneas of hia claee in handling tho reine, I chowe the in- terior, which waa lined with solu-loather, ‘The rond was wofully dusty, although rain bad fallen but aday or two previous; and, by tho timo wo reached Idaho, wo woro threatened with deatruction ina manner similar at Ieastto that of Worculauetm and Pompeil. We dined at Idaho, and wero ngainen route, and reached (ivorgetown at 1:30. A ts ret thing that attracts tho tourist's no; tive is THE EXORDITANT PRICES demunded for everything, Iu Donyor, after tea, 1 walked out from iny hotol, and, passing a fruit stand, I invested, and offered fo part payment a S-cont pieco and a 2-cont copper. ‘Doos any ona suppose that merchant would take that kind of bard money? Nothe! should bo do go, and mako a practice of it, he might oxclaim indead wich Othello, **Who steals my purse, steals trash ;” and thona identical coing still do good service in holding my panta’ pocket in oquitib- rium, and are lable to do go till L return. Pen- nies aro nover seen, If yon wants derning- neodlo, you pay woll for it, or the storokoepar will progont it to you. If your purchasa smounts to 7 cents, you pay 5; if to 8 cents, you pay 10, Ordinary day-laborers recoive $3 to $1.50 per day, aud tho poorer claveey livo better hero thau in any other place I havo ever boen, Avother point of notice is, of course, tho dry- nese and rarity of the atmouphoro, Peonto breathe Larder ana deeper, and, on any oxortioa in the way of climbing or manual labor, broath- ing {8 sccolorated, ana ove puffs and blows like my recont friend, the iron pony, though I would not be positive as to whether tho causca of our distressed condition wera identical or not. At any rato, with mouth wide open (liko a Granger in tho clty), to adwit of freor respiration, I halt to (nike a reat, aud new-comers wuut take pro- TAULION ARAIDSt Overoxertion, ay congestion is aot unfraquently, and bleeding at the tose very Traquently, tho reqult, ‘Tho touriet, or pilgrim au he will bo christenod here, on having reached the summit of a bill, however email the hilt, the momont ho boging to jescund will notica the indescribable rpficf he feela. and ho seems to bo propolled without any sfort on his part, and walkiug eecms a ploasuro, Anatuer point tho pilgrim will not fail to antics, z sur, ae jnnide: the backbono af the Continent, in this vicinity, be boars n jubjoct brogehed avo thator ” 9 MINING, mines, and minors’ loan uulesa he make the acqu lady, who will beguilo tho ag ne eral topics, or gowuipif you allow ber achance, ho will sigh for home and wociaty. Mon hora live aud movo just av though they had just eu many yeara, days, aod houra to five Jn tho mining dine trioty, after which time they anticipated to lvo in tho East and enjoy “the almighty dollar” which they here meanwhile aro ptraining very auatyeta: board, undergoing privations inuumer- sule. ‘Yho society ig nnrefived, aa & wholo, It would yocm; but yet oue will’ bo surprised to tind aow stnepy finely-cducated, Intelligent poo- ae thors aro bere = witose —clothinw tro always Leprimmed with dust and dirt, iucl- dent fo their occupshone,—miving, snd ite wistor, milling. 1 bavo yomemp more forc- hly than evor before the old adago, **Nover Judge « hore by bla harness.” There is leas of what {s called loafing in thie than any othor country-town T havo ever soon, Uniike mom uch, whero the stores aro almost alwayw filled with all tho idle man in town, hore every ono shows overy one elso, by bie qnick, clastic gtep, that ho has budinosw to attend to, Thoy have geuuine Chicago goahoaditiveness. Jtowovor, I will close my eulogy upon thelr character, and tell of the way to enjoy oucsolf when in thig country, Jf you 16 tn a hurry, aborso la indipensante; i€ sau come for yours health, the sooner bo ia divpensed with the better. Procure ax heavy a pairot boaty aa you can walk comfortably in, a ood walking-atick, and a good companion ; aud then start out and take suort trempa, iucreaviug daily. ‘I'niu applies to voy io beaith and one in feebleness; for «il mho come hera must guard eget a malady ovculiar to these eliamates, viz. MOUNTAIN FEVER, {. it very much dreaded hore, aud, like most fevers, is'n roault of fregularities and crposure. Your curreapondent was threateued with it, aud. iquite sick for the threatening, notwithstanding hu hed taken precautions agsiost it, Bincothun, if you will allow bim to refer to bis personal exe perence, the dry climate baw herpes strength. cued bin, and alinost entirely cored » chronic wore throat, which, iv Obicago, would scarcely permut uitn to breathe the chill, dawp night-air. Last woek I wag feeling so strong end robust, sud uy pedeutriag ‘fsculties bad sa much in- oteaued, that I conceived tt would be capital to perform oie extraordinary feat ia the way of Weuutap-cliwbing, Accordingly I and a com- panton atarted from Qoorgetown nt 9 a, In. walked along tho valley in & northerly direction for a half-milo, then track the trail for tha tap af Domocrat BMouatain, 2,000 fest above the valley and 12,500 above thoses. £ Buapect many of your raadera may nok compro- hend the meaning of the word trail,—it sounds very wild; bit. if wo substitute the Eastern word path, wo have a synomyn, In this country there aro. few roads, butfmultitudinons traile, over which the indimpensablo, all-pationt don- key, or JACK AS TE 18 BENE CALLED, plods bis weary way,; in praise of which noble animal {co much cannot be said. Aye, nable, although munch abused and depreciated, hin dispomtion ia faultions, and ho always Jooky sich a taco full of mincry and despond- encs, noldom raising hia head toa level with hie back, that a humane porson cannot holp pitying him. But then what loads they crowd ‘upon fim! Lhave soon two balos of hisy for hia princoly brother, tho horse (the donkey nevor off any), a bunch of shingles, and s ham, all upon one jack; on othera, 16-fet boards fastened to thoir backs, and dracging away bohind thom. ain, you will eco one of them Jaden down with the entire kitchen-furniture of a house, in- sluding stove, dishes, tables, ole. ‘These jacks belong mainly tu companies or individuals, who Make # bueinces of packing goods, and havo regular datly or weekly pack-trains of about a dozen Jacks, wndor the charge of one man: aid, with tho exception of an occasionsl etraying from tho trait to pick a bunch of gras, the unbridled animale never give tie ariver any causa for unonsineas. ‘hoy may be heavy-lnden 10 tho dexroo that one would think their slender limbs would succuml tothe cuormous prosaure ; but thoy aro novor tao trad to clunb a ateop hill to obtain that tuft of food, T hog the reader's pardon for straying from ono theme to another, but L wished to pload tho causo of these poor dumb brates. Before wo had gone far upon the trail to tho top of tho Democrat Mountain, wo camo uyon ono of thero pack-trains. Wo bad heard tho shonte of tho driver to bis “pete” avay ahead of ue, bat we could not eo for tbo mavy cnrves iv the tral, Whoo w me up with him, having nlonty of time at our disposal, wo offored to help him urge them along, which pleased lim. Accordingly, my friend took the foromost four, I took the next four, and the driver tho remaining four. In this way they were man- aged mitch more promptly, and we obtained the opportanity to atady thair natura somewhat, Exo wo had procecdad far, one of mg quartetto Jost his toad, which was a amell ono, however, — only two baga of flour, afirkinof butter, o half-dozon codtish, and as packago of sundry groceries. Ia immediately realizad hig condition, and stopped short nntil bo was recbargod with his cargo, Meanwhilo, tho re- inaining jacks wero enjoyiug themselves on tho sides of tho mountains, cating thirties and tiga, which thoy conmdor dessert, Thoy tako their regular moals in the streets of tho city, whero thoy have brown paper haul-baga sud goads- boxes; and I havo soen thom trying to got tho meat off of ncast-off hoop-skirt. { have seen them eat newapanera at the rato of a quiro on hour, and think it wonld have beon a goad idea to havo had them om- ployed — at. tho nowspaper-ollices = to. doyour them aa fast as they came from tho prees during the recent ecandal caso. Une of our jacks, wio was loaded with 16-teat flooring, observed game grass on the eide of tho moun- taln below him, and started towards it; but no sooner had ho left tho trail than tho boards, whowe ends wero dragging the ground, began to push him forward, and he and the bosrds woro in {mminont dauger of tolling down to tho foot of the mountain; but ho saved himeclf, and, focling very cheap, wallod back to tha trail, Mo remndad ua very much of the Yaokeo who fastoned an arrangement to the legs of his fowls, so that, as soon aa they began to ecrateh up his garden, they walked thom- telvea directly out of tho gardau. From this point weyhad hte troublo with tha Jacks, atop. ping uow and then to glake their thirkt froin streams which hero and there Now across the trail, ‘They kept steadily on untif about bals- way up the mountain, when our friends sud their driver turned one way, and wo turved enother overa trail callod (for what resaon I Buow not) THE DEECHER TRAIL; ana he would think ita Beecher trial if he woro to climb it; for, of all climbing I have done, this is tho neareat perpendicular, After much tugging and puffing, we veared the top, which is not above timbcr-lino on this monniain, Buddonly we came uyon on old, ul worked tunnel, leading to a miuo, At its on- trance woro two cabins, ance the abode of min- ers, To call tho furniture boda rude, would bo exaggorating ; thoy were worse. Tho stove was nade ofan old, ompty powder-can, Taking o candlo from our pocuets, Wo sotered the tunuel, sad, proceeding for about 400 feet, wo concluded to go no farther, as the sound of rishing water, away on in tho inky darknoza, told ua that it was flooded, and bly ap old slaft was somowhero voar, Into whieh we might ve burled, aa our candle avo bute falut ight, Returning to the sun- fant, wo continued our ascent to the top. ere and there, whoro the sumuier-sun never reaches, we found banks of snow. But halt! thore is a acabin, aud above the door we read, in rough character, tho words ‘Astor Lodo,” My friend suggosted that wa yo up and get a warm lunch, Tuaid I thought it rather unnecessary, as we car- riod # good one with ua; Ddut, movertheloss. ho claimed they would bo glad to sco ug, and we should haya a good dinner. = there- fore aveented, doubting very much his utate- mont of boing welcome. Here allow mo to in- sort an INTERLUDE ADOUT MINERS, People have very erronsoue ideas about them. My tdea was, that they wero a rough and Jaw- logs set, wrapped up in thofr own affairs, and ready to impose upou tho strangor. Iamol s vory different opinion now. Stepping up to thelr door, «wo are kindly regsived by the iumates—two gentlemen from Cinoin- nad, who had como here te work awhile for health and silver, a8 wo subscquontly learned, ‘They were Reated at lunch, and asked uy to join them, which wo did; and nevor was a better din- nor bottor relished, away hero in the wildorvesa, 80 high up that you could Jook for hundreds of miles away upon the groat prairies to the cast of tho Rockies. While our newly-made frionds were a little moro high-toned than tho average of miners, they were a good sample,—ganeroua, kind, and good-natured; they would be insulted to be avked to receive pay for a meal or a night's Jodging. Game iv quite plenty in this region ; thoy shot a door from their front door the samo wweok wo wero thero, Lidding our friends sdian, we sot out again towards Ropublicau Mountain, which is sho uoxt moyntala south in the range, aud ls o4 much higher than Domocrat sa sai party of the frag part is higher thay aaid party of the scooud part, Wo woro nowimuch above timber-line, and in the region of perpetual anaw. Qveasionaliy wo crossed a tiny brooklet, drawing tho gnow-wator from tho peakw; bub tho watur was just molted enough to fotain its — frigidity. We reached the summit, which is nesrly 14,000 feot above tho ea-loyel, and, with our hammers, chippod off the highaxt inch of thetopmout rock, which was composed of yaaela and mios, making it vory pretty. ‘Thia wo took bomo, aid labeled itinour cabinet. Tho view from the top lw Doautiful. With tho aid of » glaus we could geo Denvor, 50 miles away, aod the great plaing wtrotching away on to the Misaivsippt. low far wo could ger, probably no one could toll, ‘The plains brekent ® uniforin color, excent whero the Platte, rendering ity Danke Breen and productive, forma g ling of emerald, contraating atrongly with whe former, On the other mda, we vould goo Loug's Pval, away to the ‘north, and Gray'a Peak, 15 miles to tho xonth, An it was about 2 o'clock wo continued on southward tothe uoxt mountain, troating it imthe Seine tavang a the former one We still kopt © next mountaiu, which ia ‘ hosaemurees ie » Which iv Brown, ia oy CNTOLD TREAMURES OF SILVEH AND LEAD, Tho famous Dives and Jolicay Mives aro smong the thost iraportant. .Un we kept to the noxt wountain, which ig called Mountain Hany ba i Bigher Huan any of the other mountaing which we wore ou, tive inal, ‘Tho climbing was vory difficult, aa the mountain ix barren’ Int desolate, and without any traitto lta top. At 10 mitnutoa past 5 wo roschod tho tup. All tho day up to thia time tad been spent ia getting sway trom owe; pow wo had an hour orso to get home, The momont wo loft the peak we lost tho sunlight, aud made our way along the mountain-vide, "gradually dvucendiny, Gur plans was to reach the valley, \f pouable, bas foro dark, and bon Wo might walk home ig Bos moonhght with esse. We bad wrongly calcu. lated, and, by tae time we reached timberdine, it wau nearly dark. We wore tn an entirely strange roigion, without # trail, aud not 6 sigu of buman hife anywhere to bo found. Usfore we had started down from tho peas, we tad amused cuz. selves by loosening immense bowldorw of halts ton weight, aud sendiug that dows the aun. tulu’y side. When wo reached the tunbor, wo observed the worl of destruction which our Lowldery had accomplished. One bad felled twa pine-treoa; another hud severed as ton i twain which lay in ity cousse. Prom this point until we had got out. euio our suppers, we had nothing to auuad us. At wus wtcin reality, WE WEY SO8T, PRACTICALLY, ‘with 17¢ miles between us gud the world, which 1); wilea lay through a very wild region of deuse foreaa, ig which bears Lave koeu plouty nop a longer ago than antodilityian times, and wherd | Intely they have been killed | traquontly, and wo liad foolielily = como — away without weapons of any kind. Wo felt somowthat — imi and owhy should not we ?—although @ bear-fight would bo lorious, provided wo were victorious, To at- empt to reach the valley through the woals without a guide waa Coll; Bo wo kopt along tho edgo of {ie timber until wo camo toa enistt stream, bound, no donbt, for the same valloy wa were, Wa accordingly accepted it an onr Jeador, and plunged into the pines, which shut out what Hittlo fight wa still Hugering in tho hoavons. Our progress wan very slow indeod, and the dovcont sometimes very rteep nud danger- our,—holaing on to the branches of treca to prayont our elipping and being dasbad to piecee, Aftor about an honr’s toil, the muon appeare: above tho opporite peaks, and wo were enabled to mako better progress, Always stoorlng clear of any black object, although it aftorwarde raved, in overy instance, to be merely a atump; Bae ‘on know {¢ might havo beon a boar comug down to dripi under the cover of tho night. Although our situation was anything but on- viablo, Wo stopped cecasionally to look back and npward on the stroam whose course wo had followed. Hero and thera were beautiful cascadoa and waterfalla, which slate and glistoued in the sunlight like purest silver, Our hard work of climbing over rocks and fallan trees was becoming very laborious, avd wo were in @ faver-loat of excitement, whon suddenly before us sre could eo TRE OLINMER OF A LIGNT, and noon after wo discovered tho samo clear creck which bad been our companion on tirat arriving i tho mountaina, but bere it fluwod more gently, and noyer did it xeom = =80 important to our woal na that night, Wo wore soon | upou tho wagon-toad which traverses its banks, and, with 10 milea bafore us, wo were Lappy, for wo should anticipate no moro hard olimbing, We arrived at home at hajf-psst 8, to tho relief of friends; but we wore contont in baving por- formod a noteworthy, at least, day‘s travel, and climbing 25 miles in an air-line, aud much moro by the sarpentino trails and todious climbing. Reader, have you ever climbed a full-qrown mountain? MW Hobe aro incapable of form- ing any concoption of the maguitudo of the un- dortaking. Timuet cloro my already lengthy lettor, es 1 am just ready to start fo South Park, and pass through the miost beautiful vatuial econery on tho Continent. includiag Mavitou, the Garden of tho Gods, Colorado Springs; slvo, @ region in South Park abounding with deor, alk. otc. Wo aro well armed mith riflea and revolvers, and anticipato 8 glorious trip. Our horses aro ready and full of apirit, Adict. W. OC. dL. THREE AMERICAN PEERESSES, ‘Khe Niue Bleod of Baltimore. Appletons’ Journal recontly publiahad aa arti- clooutho ‘Threo American Pesrexses” from BaNimore, Tuc New York World soys that thie article containg aome errors, and gives * tho truo story" of those ladica, a8 below : ‘The “thres American Perresses” in qnostion wore three young Inties of Uattimore, graud- daughters of Charloa Carroll, of Carrolltou, who waa generally rogarded. at ‘the timo when the Declaration of Independence sas signed, as the wealthiest of the American rebels. Mo came lawfully by his robellious tondencier, at least, for he was of Irish blood, and there are some ‘tales of o graudfather” in his family history that would not discredit bsilitf-basting Galway horvelf. Dut that ie not now tothe point. Ha bad been educated in England, and he had very early and its trying circumstances proved himeolf to posses tho spirit and determination which mado him a loading figure in the Rovoiution. Ho had‘two daughters, oue of whom married Mr. Caton, an Englishman of Lincolaahiro, If wo inistake not, but a citizen of Baltimore, and the other Mr, Qoadloa Harper. Mr. avd Mra. Caton had four daughters. all famons for their boauty, and threo of these young ladios eventually became Hritlah Pecress- o4, mainly through the dauntiess social ambi- tion of the eldovt of thoir numbor, Misa Mari- ane Caton, who married early in life Mr. Rob- ert Pattersov, of Baltimore, the son of @ North of Ireland merchant, who had gettled in this country and acquired what in those days was re- warded as a very great fortuuo, Iobart Patter- son's sistor, Elizabeth, married Jeromo Bonaparte, the youngest brother of Na- poleon, who, after carrying her acioss tho Atlantic to Portugal, loft her there to find hor way as beat aho could to nae Jand, and cventually, atthe command of hin brother, aubmitted to an illogst snd uorighteoua divorca from her, and married again a Jrivocas of Wurtemberg. ‘This was o great blow, no doubt, tothe Patterson family, but it im not quito correct to represent Hobort Patterson while in Europo as * bothered boyond measure with the afaire of bia sister, hia aiippory brothor- in-law, and the angry Firse Conaul.” Tho “sngry First Consul” gayo bimeelf very httlo trouble about tho Pattersons, beyond ordoring his worthloea brother to drop the whole family ‘and to ingult his tite (which he obediently did) by offeriog hor 60,000 franca o yoar to give him up and go home. After thao fall of Napoleon, Mr. and Mra, obert Pat- terson Went to Paris, Thoy wero accompaniod by Mrs, Patterson's younger sistera, Elizabeth and Loutea Catherine. ‘They wero ait beautiful, and Paris at that time was full of military, dip- lomatic, and Hoval poreunagas deoply doyoted to the worabip of beauty. Foremost among theso aliko in renown und gallantry was the Duka of Wellington. Thanks to the friondship of the rest conqueror, Mry, Patterson and hor sistora wont overywhers snd saw everything. A Parieian tradition records that at the first grand ban- quet given by Louls XVIII. to the allied avvarelgne the Pattorson party were tho only ordinary mortals invited, and that Mr. Robore Patterson, being tired of standing bobind his ebnir with tho rest of tha company, crested a decidod sensation by pulling nis claire out and nitting down in it, boforo the Hoys! personages with wound of trumpete and the dinging wide opon of doublo-doors had made their uppoar- auco. ‘Two year afterwards, in 1817, Miss Louisa Caton marriod one of the Duke of Wollington’s aidex-do-camp, Colouel, afterwards sir Felton Elwell Bathurst-Horvey, Bart. Sic Felton Bath- urst-Hervey committed suicide under painful circumstances two yoars after hia smarrisye, and in 1828 his widow married the Mar- quees of Carmarthen, who finally became Duke of Leeds, Mrs. Mobors Patterson bad became » widow a fow years after her brill- fant adventures in Paris, and, returmng to England, married in 1812 the Duke of Welling- ton's older brother, John Quinoy Adama’ friend and clavsical correspondont, tho Marquees Wellesley, Lord Wollesloy was a utatoxman aod e scholor of no mean morit. Ho filled maay of- jices in Lngland, was twice Lord Lieutenant of Irejaud, and, as Earl of Moruingtou, wae for weven years Vicoroy of Indis; from 1793 to 1805, during which time bia brother Arthur laid tho foundatjous of bis grest fame as a woldier, and =! Far away, Agalnat the cayrisds of Assaye, Cladued with Bia Qery few and woo 1” Dut Lord Wellestey bad rather yaguo notions of domestic life, ko mauy others of bis rauk and ustion, He lived for 9 number of years with a French Jady, Mila. Roland,—who, how- ovor, Wad not ‘8 ballot-dancer" prociuely,~aud by her bad two daughters, Jio afterwarda mar- nied Mie, Roland, Both of bis daughters mar- ried we}), one becoming Lady Atherton ang the othor Lady Abdy, Lauy Abdy, however, pro- forced Lord Charlea Montinck to bor spouse, Bie William; rau away with him, waa divorced, and married the man af her chulco, by whom she bdecawa tho mothor of the present boir of tho Dukedom of Portlaud. The Marqueys died ju 1843, losviog Lug agcond and American wifo fn auch pare row clronmetances thet eho becamo a Hoyal pen- sioner. Jn 189d the third Miva Caton, Elizabeth, by that time s decidely matnra young lady, if uot fat, yet fair and not far from 40, married a soxagovarian widower, Jorolngham, Lord Staf- ord. And thus it was that there came to beat ane time on the rolls ot the Uritivy Peorage three Awerican sisters, all of thom Peoreuues of Great Britain. Whetber tho game waa worth the candle, who whall way? But how does it huppen that a Haltimore newspapor tells us the Bayarde of Delaware inhernt muok of their talent from tho younger daughter of Charles Oarroll, of Carroiltou, who married Robext Goodtoa Harper?” If they do it must ba ju seme mervelous manner that would mako Garter Kiug-at-Arma scratch his wig, ‘Tho Ds: sre—-We mean thove whose tsleuts have Jong brightancd tho tigh ephero in which they move—have no Jaora to da wyth the Carrollg of Baltimore than Shey have with the Capulets aud. Moutague. Huguonots_by origin, Poiladelpuians by settlo- went, and Delawarians by tranzlatiun, their tal- Shld and patriotivm come from other springs. Tho blunder arivea doybslows from the Tusrriago of Mr, Richard H. Bayard, au elder brother of the Delawerian Hetator, with Mive Carroll of Vhiladelphia, not Battunere, ———__—— Enamelod Cetlinge. . A refseahiment waloon in Loudon haw been fin- {shed invido in such a msuner ax to bo readily waded ‘Out with s bose. ‘Ihe foor ia paved, the Walla aro of majolica, and tho ceiling 13 covered with ovameled vueot rou. When it ie dewired to cleau the room, the furniture ia removed, the howd fe laid on, andthe place is als; ly dreached aud Hooded tll clean, The oriling is the novel TURDAY, NOVEMBER r * k feature of ho Foon, To prepare it, Jarno Piveos of shavt-srou were cuatod with white onamol m the usual manner, and were then handsomely palated in eolore. After baking to acoure the volory, tha eheata wero affixed to the beans of tho floor overheat. Tho joints are mado to fit tight, and, ouca in place. the enam- eled plates will last ae loug aw the landing stands, ‘Thin atyla of ceiling ia partially tiro- vos all the oxponse, repaire, and and plaator, Thero ia no patont on this eystom of ceilings, and any enameling firm may make the abocta In plain colors, clear while, or in pattors to Mt any refreshmient-room, bath-room, laundry, dalry, or other room hero uable coiling {a deafrod, uses ake WINTER SPORTS, Btrikingly Original Tdeas on bubsect. M, Quad en Neto York Grarhte, Now that the rigor of winter {s beginning to ‘be folt, and Iawne, arbors, and Jakes and walks mnat be degorted, and tho young folks collectod around the family stoy6, (heir thonghte will tarn to toys, games, and #0 forth, to while away the Jong ovenings and dull days. 1 wae talking with my young frlend, Jobnny Pril, tho newedoy, the otherday, Ho agreed with mo that inyentora had not done their duty by the young, and that thero waa no excitomont or fun in boxes of blocks, dancing-jacky, picture- Looks, or toy-billiarde. “Wo wants novelty,” eal Johnny, as ho atow- ly picked a cigar-atump to pieces ; “young folke gitans tired of old thinga as old folks do. goon in for something now every day. To-day T hollors about the murdor; to-morrow about tho floods; nextday alont tho railroad sjanghter; and it's euthin' new every day. Io sot aup- poss, Miator Quad, if I was to holler ono bullor all the time that f could mako a fivin’ in this ton after tho fust week?” My young friend haa not the ekill to mann- factnro a now novelty. but he han a ltveiy imagi- nation; and, flahing up. B piece of red chalk from hia coat-tail pocket, he sat down on the fings, spit on the chalk, and remarked > “Now, Mister Quad, suppose this is a feller in achaiy, and that ia another follor, and that'as pirl, aud that'sa baby, and that’s the hired girl, aud here's the old fellor, There thoy ct, lookin’ ateach otber, big fre burnin’ up, and all aa diumb as poste, ‘cause they haven't got any now gamer, Tho wind is a-howiin’ out-doors, snow blowin’, and that family might be happy if they went in for new things,” Hoepiton the chalk again, moyod around» fittts and continued “Well, anpposes this ‘ere boy goea ort and fete a whip; those ‘ero boys get the broomstick ; the old gent hore drops on hin hands and knees Yor a hors, ani the foller with the whip makea him jump over tho broomstick, Just as the spot- ted hosace doin the circus. Tho piri Infs, the baby kicks up his beols, and al} is joy and peace n that fam'ly, where all was gloom afore." Lencouraged the rdoa, and, after wining out tho chalk-marks with bis coat-tail, ho wont on: “Or, suppose this *ero boy gits the clother- Iino. harnesecs tho old gentto the wood-box, all the children pile in, and the boss walks away. Wouldn't that ‘oro isetleinnercent baby just put fat on to bis ribs though! Snpposes tho hoss draws ’am around tohere aliQ. K., and then balke and kicks. Crowd comes around, tho driver puts on the whip, harness gota broke, and finally fe runs owasy and falls into s sewor, Thoro'd bo o hull hour of fun for them innercont childron, and thay'd go to bed fealin’ like ploy- ful lambs and foxes and rabbita.” “ But would tho old man doit?” anked, an Johnny's coat-tail sgain swopt tho cha{k-marks out of oxietence, “Ho'd bo bound to. They aro his children, and he's gotto porwide for'om. I goss tho law would fix him mighty quick 1f he ist them innercont children ect “up there on thom atuttad chairs, with nothin’ todo but look at the stoyo and the rug.” Having a clean spot again be put the chalk to tho (lage and continued ; “+ Suppogos the old man gets a tolograph to go to Chicago, and ho hain't Lome. ‘I'am children cant’ sat there on thom stuffed chaira just ‘causa the old man fa ont of town. Well, what does tho mother do bat gite down like this aud purtends toboadog, and growls, and ba:ke, and showa berteath, Thog gita tho Laby on the sofa, and this ’ere boy takes s pillar, thet ona a rug, and this one the broom, and they goes in to give that dog such filgas will Isasn bimto nevor take another hunk out'n a boy's hind jeg. I can reine fee that innercaut laetle baby hollerin’ for joy!” : “Tt might work,” I gaid in 5 doubtful voice. “She'd have to work, Mister Quad. 1 don't know much 'bout law, but I know tho childrou fas got to be cared for if it takes tho hotise. down, It's agin the law for the women to paint and powder and git on fagh'usblo clothes and things till the children bas beon brung up.” as {mado uo roply, bo oraged the marke and enid: Or, suppose the hirod girl haa freckles on her nose and Joves obildron, Hore's the stairs, here, and here's the hired girl goin’ up. ‘Tha childrou all yit together here by the bal! door, and tho bired girt rojla down etaira head over heola, and that innorcont lestla baby Iafe titl they have to vat him on the back? Wouldn't that be bully, Mister Quad, and couldn't that facts afford to raiso the wages of that hired piel? Bie ‘The hired girl might refuso," 1 suggested. “She dasa't—you betebe Wasn't! Hired gilts {shired to holp bring up tho children, cook ‘tae ters, mop off the steps, and let their beaus in at the side gato. Abe’ purty hired girl If she wouldn’t roll down to mako mo for all them nice ctuldron, sud she'd be discharged quicker'n spit!” ‘The boy's idexs may bes little crode, but he speaks for the whole rising gonoration. and I de- mand that fathora, and mothers, aud hired girla give his idoss thoir attention, isciay eb caia Canadian Ponsloners, The Canadian Government, 1a imitation of that of the United States, and, ander tho like {ufluonce of claim-agents, has paasod a bill puttlog on the pension-roita the surviving militiamon who fought the Yenkees in the War of 1812-15, Whereas the authorities estimated, under the advice of the claini-agonte, at the pasaage of the Appropriation bill, that but 400 of them auryiv- ed, actual enunteration shows their number to do between 2,000 and 2,500. Aniong them wore two or three alleged centeuarisns,—oue of whom, at least, apparently supported by conclusive evi- dence his pratevsione to flve-acoro yeara. Thoy wero alls halu and hearty lot of old colonists, who could read the usual columns of small print without glasses, bad walked tho customary unm- bor of milew without fatigue, and were able to eplit tho orthodox stint of cord-wood before breakfast on dao provocation. At London, Bam- uel Cole, a marry old soul of 85, dancod a horn- pipo and threw a handspring amid the ap- plause of hiv octogonarian comrades, t Woodstock, there was present John Clark, the aged 82, who moro then sixty CBr neo earried dispatches from Col. famed, Thirtleath Regimens, then at Burlington, to Col. Hamilton, st Long Point, a diatance of 60 miles, betweon sunrise and auueot, having to pass around tho enumy's position, A medal was ranted him for thin foat, though it waa lost oro it reached him, At Woodatock also a funny in> cident occurred. A votoran named John Smith, nearly 00 years af age, prosonted bimeclf and told aatraght story; but, as hiename did not appear on tho scrip or pay-roll, (t was nocessa: for some other voteran to identify him. Col, MacPhorson avked if any ono present recollect- ed Joho Smith. “Yes,” usid Sim Papp, “I was ouca on guard with bio.” Ja this Fie man?” queried the Colonol, * No," responded Sim, "I can't recollect any of tho features.” Papp stud- ted a moment, and then sald, *Hfold on, Col- onel; if hormJohn Smith I can idontify him by aukidg ope question." “Proceod,"" sald the Colonel. ' Woll, now,” said Papp, addressing Smith, ' who stole the sheop at Chrysler's farm when the mon wero starving?” “Hin Papp,” respunded Ymith, swid a roar of Jaughte: Smith ways paid. Tho evidence was conclusive. ——-——_——_- Proposed Income-Tax in Wrances Lonion Svectatcr, Tho Franch Ministry of Finance appoare in- clined to introduce ay incomp-tax ypon tuo vory rich, A tax of 4 por ceat upon tho pro6te inado by banking and finauco companios Lsx axiuted for wore time, aud it is now propowed to extend. it to private banking firms, Ax, howover, tha latter do not declaro dividenda, {¢ is proposed to a.sume that thoy always make 5 per cout upon their capital, and (ax that ausumed anuual, If thia passes tho Aevembly, it vill be casy ive year or two to extend tho tax to all persons aud. companies niaking or receding Bn income Above a certaiu amount, and to calculate it for atl upon the capital, Wo do not know that tha tax, if equalized and levied on all aliko, great Isudlorda juclyded, would bo unjust; but at may furpieh a termbla machinery for the next “ Hed" govern ment, which would only havo to Increaso the numbor of peuca in the pound to possess the long- feared tax upon the vory rich, A belt has boon vast in Germany for the third time, It is catiod the **Emperor'a bell.” It in mado out of twenty-two cangon taken from the Freuvl, The trut thao tha mold broke, the wecoud tine it was defective, aud had a felvo sound. apd the third and last time the defects ‘Ware wuppowed to he remediod, 13, 1S) UE WILVEG RAILROAD NEWS. Effect of the Potter Liw on Wis- consin Roads, Report of the Committes of the Cheap Transportation Association, Afler the Fast Freight Lines---The Bale tiwore & Ohio Depot, THE POTTER LAW. ANOUMENT BRFORE THR UNITED ATATES SUPREME COURT. Srecial Correspondence af The Chteaco Tribune, Minwarker, Wis, Novy. 11.—Lavt woek tho Wiaconein railroad logialation of 3873, known as tho Pottor law, vas baforo the United States Supremo Court, and its constiiutionality ‘dia- cussed. Eminent counsel appearad in tho caso, and i¢ was argued at groat length and with un- gaual ability on both sided. Ex-Chtef-dustico Lawrence, of Mlinois, KE, W. Stoughton and ‘illiam M. Evarte, of New York, aud Joho W, Caroy, of Milwaukeo, represented tho Obica- go & Northwestern Hailway Company, and ex-Chief-Justice Diron and the Hon, 1, C. Bloan, of Wisconsin, appoared {n be- half of tho tate, Tho caso waa originally brought in the Circuit Court of tho United Ktates for the Western District of Wis- consin, before Judges Hopkins and Davis, by an application for an Injunction to restrain George H. Paul, J. 1. Osbourne, John W. Hoyt, Rail- way Commissioners, and A, Scott Sloan, Attor- noy-Genoral, from enforcing the Potter law. Tho Court refusod to fasue the injunction, and tho case was carried {o the Supremo Court of tho United Statos. Subsoquently, a similar caso wag argued before the Supromo Court of the Btate of Wisconsin, and tho coustitutionallty of the law was maintained by a very ablo and yory oxtraoidinary opinion by Chiof-Justice Ryan, and concurred in by tho Associate Juatices Cola and Lyon, It {ean action of TUE UTMOST IMPORTANCE, not only to the people of Wisconsin, whore rep- utatton for honesty and integrity is Involved in it, as well ax their ability to finish their system of rotlroada that hag been so woll commonced,— but itis also of tho moet serious consaquenco to a largo number of non-resident capitaliuts who haya innocontly invested large aums of monoy to aid In the construction of Wisconsin rallroade. Jf tho Buproma Court of the United States affirme the decisious alroady rendered by the courte below,—a thing that is not likely to happen, from my viow of tho caso.—then tho Northwestern Hailroad Company might a3 well remove tho iron from its track, soll its right of way to tho Grangora to raiao turnipa upon, and take its ro)ling atock togome other State whore it can be teed tn more prolit than in Wisconsin. For then the ability of the Wiscousin Logists- tura to coutiscato the property of tho stackhald- era in railway proporty will bo complote. Tho Potter law id now oniarced upon the assumption that the Lagislatura haa tho power to fix tho tarif for freight ond pnesovgora ae it Boos fit; it haa so fixed tt, and the act is declared to bo ennstitutions! by tho Supromo Court of the Ntate, A more otbitrary and unjuet Jaw bos nev- er beon pasacd alnce tha onuctment of tho old Alion and Sedition laws. THE STOCRNOLDERS that bring this euit nnd ave for the protection of the Court are noarly all residonts of foreign coun- tries, About $28,000,000 of tueir money hag gona into the difforent lincy of the Chicago & Northwostorn Railroad Company in tho Stato of Wixcouain, where this agrarian tow is in operas tion, nud tha stake is sltogethor too great to bo abandoned without an effort to gave tt. ‘Tventy- cight millions of dollars could not bo expanded in the Stato of Wieconuin, or in any othor Stato, in any other way so advantageously to tho pao- ple, to nugment the yaluo of their’ proparty, da- Yolop the resources of their State, and add to the comfart aud convenionce of her citizens, as in tha construction aud operation of railroads, ‘Tho emplovmont of capital in no other way so nearly resombley a public bonefaction. The banker doos business in ao way that rogults in private pes. to himeclt, and, if it {8 a sonvonipnce to tis neighbors, it la morely incidental, for which thoy pay 10 per cent, spd often logo heavily in cavo of failuro. Tho manufacturer Invevts bis capital in a manner that increases bia own woalth, but adds very little to the woalth of his neighbors, excopt what they pag for; but not eo With those who build thera great modern high- waya called railroads.» Their ontorvrise aud their capital enhances the value of every acra of land that they pasa, or that log in the vicinity of their ling, without coat to the owner; the increase the price of overy marketable commod{- ity; thoy dastroy isolation, and bring into cloao neighborhood sectlous of country othorwise far apart, and they carry the advantages of civiliza- tion and refinoment toremote districts, But the bankor is allowad ta mako 10 par cent on tho money ho loans, and the manufacturor is pot restriciod by jaw to any percentsza on hie in- voutmont, but may divide 50 per cunt aunualiy among the a! holdare of his tucky corporation, and thoro ia nd one to question tha legiticaacy of \uelr gains, —and it ie hard to give a plaustble reason for this unjust discrimination against rallroad proparty that ia aa private as # cotton- mill or a Dowepaper establishment, aud is yot of such & peculiar naturo as to confer great public bonofits. Ibave just aatd that the Potter law was ARUITRARY AND UNIUBT, and, in ordor to prove our assertion, it Is neces- sary to go back a little to the timo when the lew was ouacted. Tho ceed is xo well atated by Mr. Stoughton in bis proiiminary argumont before the United Bates Cireuit Coart of Wiseousin, that I copy a portion of it below; ‘Tho total cost of railways constricted and operated by the Chicago & Northweatern Railroad [9 Wisconsin to March, 1874, wae $28,074,U17, ‘Tho debt contracted and owing vy the Company, on account of construct- ing and equipping roade’ therein, was 617,241,770, ‘Thole tatal oarninus for the year ending Dec, 81, Iss, Was $9,100,523, and the operating expenses for the same period $4,009,930, anil the wet earnings, there- fore, $1,001.07. Now, if we atsume that tho’ atock- holders who invest thelr money in constructing rail- ways areentitied to only such return for the use thereof as the puojle of Wisconsin have fixed aa suitn- ble compensation forthe banker who lends withaut » there should be recelved by them annually upon Mtal, actually Iuvestud fn rallwaye within that Y Of ($2,807,419; where: 1a total net earnings amount to le: if aaruen y 3 jan halt t vod, than interest at the 4 tf % per cent of 10, allowed to tho money-lender, Interest, st 10 par cent, Upon the debt now actually ‘owing by the Coupany, for moneys Lorrowed to cour atruct roads in Wisoouslu, amounte to $1,724,717,—oF fit9.100 more than the entire not recelnte from oporat- ing the roade,—and it was only by burrowing fram the unauspectiuglendor living abroad, st lesa than the inter. ext allowed by the laws of Wisconsin, and by operating other roads 4 otlier States at greater advantage to tho Company than Jt could operate those aolely wiibin, the State, that tt bas been euabled ta pay even this moder- Ato {ntorest to the forsign lendor, atid some very aiuall dividends to ntockholders, It ought slau to be here stated, to tiluateate tho lib. eral miauner 1a which tho managers of this corpora- tlon have lcalt with the people of that Stute, that from 3567 (0 187g rates for the carriage of pavsengers wera reduced 20 per cent, and thesy forthe traneportation Of freight 89 per cult, notwithstanding that, hy wo dos ing, they bave ulterly falied to pay dividends upon the Gouiuion stock of the Company since Decomber, 1812, and but 34 per cent upon {tu preferred utack. ‘Buch was the condition of hia Company, its alocks bolders and bondholders, when the act of March 11, 1at4, was pau! d, preacriting rates of fare about 23 per hose which the Gompauy was then ro. selving, and declaring that, under heavy penalties o- nounced ayuinat {t and ite agents, nothing beyoud teae shotld bo demanded of roceived, What wav tho offer of this Compony? It was operating {tt roads 1a tory to the traveling public by Hfanice calculated to make rellway comfortable, No charges wero pte- ft. No leglilative mandate or notice was iagued requiring tt or {ts offices ta appear before Huat body for any purposo. It was struggllug to vay fintereat upon ite delta, and some emal) dividend ta les preferred atockbalders. ‘To do this it evconntered many diMcultiey, bnt ite manayers looked to the fu- turo’ for fucreabiug returns, and wero able to in- suite lu Dove WuO ned Luvested largely hope aud eou- fdence, 4 Tt was under auch efronmatances that the Pot- torlew wou passed, aud Sr. Stoughton might bavo mado the act look spilt juesner, and ita supportore atill more diehonext, if bo had added to bia citation of the facts thattbe Company wae spending Jargo wume of money in budding ex- penuive linos of road in Wisconsin without prea ont adequate return, and that it wae gradually reducing sha ratew On pagsengora and freight; thatthe law was the work of political dema- gogues, aud uot the regult of the people's wiah, as expreauod by potitious to the Legialatura. ‘tbat the Constitution of Wiscousin gives tho Leglalajure HOME VOWED OVER CORPORATIONS OF ITs OWN SRESTION weems to be clear onough, but that it ia the most iwportant proviaion in itu orgavio law, subordi~ naling and overthrowing all olhars, ia expressly devied; and these foreign stockholders appesr to think that the average Wisconsin legislator needa restralolug alte Cite ae the: xalirgade, Tt ie alvg contended that this the Constitution of Wisconsin, to alter aud re- fest Jews creatiug corporations 6 et Tinks limit, Jt must bo exercized in mit, It of the {the the = proviaiony Coyatitution o PAGES, nitod Atates, and in harmony with the other provisions of tho Coustitntion of the State of Wisconsin. ‘That instrument ox- preety doctarcs that © the property of no par- fon shall be taken for public use without Tint componsation therefor, ‘aud the Pottor law duos preciaely that hy fixing tho rates so low as to make a * jugt compensation ” Iniposaiblo under ith provisions. It also provides that no Jawa shall bo passad by the Legislature whoreby any ‘person shall ho deprived of fo, liberty, or Property, without due procces of Jaw, or bis Privileges or immunition abridged.” But the Company claims that the Pcltor lass compols tho owners of railroads to perform all servicos that Tey bo reqnired of then in tho transportation of freight and passongers for inadequate aud in- muflicicnt compensation, against their will; that it enforces the performance of thono duties by fines and ponaltics against the Company and by criminal prosecution and imprisonment againas itn employes ; aud that it actually deprives tho owners of all bonelicisl ues of tholr property, and takes from them $1,000,000 per snnum, which, dnt for this ‘Inw, thoy wonld havo’ rightfully and properly reoolved for tho uso “of thoir property and tho transaction of their busines. once ft fe alaimed that tho law is unconstitutional, because it doprives the stockholders of their privilegos and immunities aa cittzous of the United Btates, and of their property and liberty even without duo [zocees of law, Othor very important points wera bronght to the attention of the Court, boaring ditectly up- onthe case, and among tham was disxonagod, with great elaboration and particularity, the question of the extont to ‘whlelt the reserved power in tho Constitution can interfere with VESTED ntanta, and to what oxtent tho Wincousin law can be al- lowed to proceed in impairing the contract that was entered into betweon tha State and the ratl- road corporation when ita chartor waa taaued aud accepted. All the dociaions of all the courts since the famous Dartmouth Collogo caso, in ro- gard to contracts, wero cited to boar against tho operation of tuo Wisconsin Jar, and ia what Bone a railroad {5 a public highway alao ontored largo- ly into the debate. On thia branch of tho sub- foot, it will bo rocollected that Matt Carpentor yoluntoerod a shoddy opinion in tho newspapora, intendad to catch all tho bucalio votes for United States Senator, taking the ground that all rnil- roads aro public highwaya, and, being puch, aro prover subjecta of legislative control. The upramo Court has seid that they aro public highways in tha sense thet ' thoy aro facilities for Pastage and transportation afforded to tho public, of which the public haa tha right toavall itsclf.” Dy thisitta elmpty meant that * tho railroada ora public highwa: because the entire public baaa right to be oa: ried upon thom, and to havo its property carried Upon such terms ay ahall not bo in violation of sho charter.” Tut apart from this view of the matter they are ag much tho private property af tie, atockholters ag @ cotton millor a steam- oat, " avpor away, of tho Supremo Court of Onlo, who isa jarist tustead of a demagoguo, has rocently eivon ag opinion upon tho rights of stockboldors to thoir property, that knocka Mr, Carpenter's fantastic neorica bigher than anybody's kite, Tho seuti- Mgnts arofo juatand eo ably presonicd that thoy witl jong be quoted, because thay cannot bo improved, Hore a1¢ fow sentencos that go to the very marrow of tho subjoct: Ibis fundamental principle that nelthor the Goy- ernmontal sovereignty, nor tho law making power of a Biats, uor lawicea mobs, can, with impunity and with- out compensation, violate rights of property when once vested, Itnoeda no judicial decision to sustein ft; nor could any judictal decision overthrow it, Thore are ti ee modes petty can eeessliea or abrogated: By anarchy, by despotism, or by 6 return tobatbarina, “it was wlopted ‘before’ tho auihentie history of man began, when mauses of savages first formed an imperfect gels compact, At ia to civilize. Hon what the breath of man is to Ufe, and both must live and perish together. Intelligent courta and god eltizons dare not aesail it or palter with it. It isthe sola protection of every man's property from pillege, frand, and cupidity, Works of whatover kind, constructed by private cap- ital for private eraolumonf uudor an act incorporating tho company, aro private property, although tho omiot- tment of tle ownera te derived oxclustvely from tho patrouage of the public, It seems hardly necessary to say that the incorporation of a company by the Biate, where the property of the corporation fs acquirad au fiuld for by the individual corporators,doga not rost in ‘ho Htate any ownerahlp, Utle, or estate, for tha Btalo has neither acquired nof paid for any property, Tho Blate lias merely given to the corporators the petvlioge of holding the property which thoy purchased in an artidcial namo instead of bolting it, as they would have bad a right to do, in thelr own individnal names, ‘The great objoct of du incorporation {s to bestow tho character and propertlea and sudividuality on & collec vo and changing body of men, i ‘When the State condemns private property for the uso of tho State, sho must psy for it full volue, When ® private corporation, such gs a raflroad company, wanta private: pronesty for ita raflway, tho corporators ntust pay for it, and ita full value, Ia tho one csea tho title vests in the State: in the other jt vests in tho corporators, and {a private pro represented by thelr pald-tip shares of stock or debt, from whance the purcuaaa-money Was tulged, 4 railroad {9 no more 3 public use, or » public prop- erty, (uans hotel, or a nowspapor house, or a stoam- bostora stage company, ‘They ure no further publlo than as they nave to do with grest numbers of peoplo, How many persona will it tave to turn either into 6 publia wae, sad confer on the General Ausembly the right to confiscate them, ar any eatate in them, by dl- fect or indirect legtsjation for the publio usa or wel- fare, Tmbmit tothe good senegaf thoes who have roperty enough to be interestel in its protection, Phoy aro alt nocded by the public: are onterprises in which private citizens embark thelr private for funca for omolumont, andthe emolument Je derived by each from public ise, Tho only sisference betwoen, ahotal and a owspapar house and a railroad in this, that the sitos for hotele and newapaper houses aro roadily obtained anywhere, whereas, jf any man owns a strip of Iand s foot wide between the two torminl of 8 projected rallrosd, be can stop the enterprise, and sek what he pleases for tho faterposing barrlers T have preaonted above a few of the promiuent Togal eepects of the capo, and it ia with theso alouo that the Court will have ta dea}; but tho moral offecta of thia loglalstion concern tho people of Wisconsin vastly more than any ab- etract discussion to fis constitutsonality. ‘Yhoir ayrarian Jawa have rendered almost vaiue- less an jnyestment into which some unaus- pecting capitalista, relylug upon tholr honor and integrity, placed $28,000,000, For the aake of tho futuro good name of Wisconsin I hopa the decimion of her Supreme Court willbe reversed in this instance, and the power of her Legisia- ture to confiscate this sort of property, upon an: retonse whatover, will be emp! stlcally. deniei y the highoat judictal authority io the end. —+—— AN IOWA ENTERPRISE, ‘THM AMERICAN CONTRACTING COMPANY, Speciat Disvatch to The Chicava ribune, Davenront, Ia,, Nov. 12.—Articlos of incor- poration of the American Contracting Company of Iowa have boon fled hore, The purpose of the Company is to build 250 miles of railroad In Moxico, between the City of Mexico aud Pusbla. ‘The incorporatora number twenty-cight gentle- men of this city and Rock Island, Tho hoad- quarters of .tha Company ara to be at Dayen- port, with tho right of establishing oficos in Chicago, Naw York, Mexico, aud London, and tho capital atock is to be 2,000,000, with 1 por cont paid up, Tho Hon. John E. Henry, of this city, was ‘lected Presi- dont, ‘The Company, at ite meoting to-day, oxeeuted contracta with the reprogenta- tiveu of the Mexicaus prosent for two purposes,— tirat, ‘ cousteuction cuutract for tha building of 60 milog of rativay withio the Pueblo Vi of. from tho City of Pueblo southward to tho City of Matamoras, In tho second contract this Company becomes « three-fifths owner it 250,000 acces of choice coal lands on which thera is now apen three velusnio mineu of bitumipoug and authracite coal, and # three-fifths owner in & concession from {tho Government to buik miles of railroad from the City of Mexico southward, aad east to the said coal mines, which join the tirst-named line at Matamorsa. In this contract the Company paye $1,200,000 purchase money for thelr inter- ext, the concexsion carrying with it an actual cash coin eubeldy of @800,000,” ‘The acheme 1am grand ono, sud all the iucorporators expoct ta got rich. —_—-——- GHEAP TRANSPORTATION, COMMITTER QN CLAIM AND UNIRVANCES, Attho last meeting of the Directors of the Cheap Transportation Association, held in Naw York Wednesday afternoon, the Commifiea on Claims and Griovances submitted the following important reports Ma, Cusinuan t Since she last mooting of this Pogrd the Committes on Claims aud Grlovaiices hap received au unusual number of communications from memburs Of the Association, a majority of them oomplaluing of tacriminationa in frelybt raise on the part of our trunk lnew agelost shipments out of ihe city, The complatuts tn several {ustauices sro aupported by ® do- lailed recital of actual transactions, aud altogethor the question has been pressnied to us ia auch & manuor a6 to domaud careful luvsatigation, One mombar, writing froin his place of Dustuess, and inclosing documentary avideuce, makes the following exhibit of retest Wow York to Chicago, fourth class marchendis Boston to Chicayo, fourth claes merchandise... New York to 8¢, Louis, fourth class abt Roston to Bt, Louis, fourth class merchandise. oth Svother mpuiber writes under date of Oct. 2), aud referring to 8 specific auiprnuut to Hau Brancisoo, opye + We aro obliged'to boy #2 ber 10 on cat-load lots, while Blank & Co, of Bouton, are ebipplug the ame thing at $1.40 por ‘tw pouuda dyer the same route west of Albany,® Wu cite ‘these two Instances as illustrative of the oat omraltine a yee Ter Sopetent suty-reourring Aactiniuations, adverse 69 slew York, are bus the 1 Datural reault of ratiroad combination, « ‘Wo are dopeniont upon our progent rate? long. sou Committee ito not ree how they ean tie £8 It 49 not the in Hurpove of the Coinmittes Pliled f and mavagement of tuo rallwayaitce® to, oF ta dwell wpon tho snextimablo benenta wii’ ‘tls opinion, wonid accrue t0 tha commerce and pot OF the whole country fram Lo equitable operation’, lent_ana houeatly ca : Teen Ber ne y couatructed ealiway 16, roail of thin character, anch aa line bean on by te Committee on Railway Transportation, week {a our opinion, prove a permanent att sovereign bait for al the ills tompiained of awit aluced to in ihe se rt We would, however, mggait tunt a comiatites he appoltited to coufer with the propor representatty of tho trunk Ines, with a ctow af abtainiag, if joe ble, some temporary rel by nid Mexara, John 1, Kem Walk, Weg, George. Tie fs nH, Wiley, Georgo Brown, Ben: TAchtes ah Theailore F, en were Bppointod a. commie aublect. ag confer with the rafiroad ofictala on tha anntiel Javitation to vend delogaten to tho third vention of the American Hoard of Transportatt UYommerce, which beging in Chicaga an Nec, wi 4, end op motion the Chalrman was anucrret at this Teiaure, sovon delegstos, imscit tere ‘This quentiin gave ri no ton Uacuralon, " Ate, Laker, in « waEm abeechs ure ees the delegates impress upon the Convention th alate: nerenaity “of a four-track, fant-fecight rate from the Weat,'to be built and controlled by the met chante, accoriing to the auggeatioua of 8 {ho provious meeting. een oe Fever Daag Mr, fharron natd thal lant. mnmmer he. weeks In Cliengas iad found inerchante there phat For the proponei! faat-freight linn. On all aides hee colved wordn of cheor andl encouragement,” ‘The mee chants "of Chicago wera, willl foward bullliog the coed, SUMN® ‘© a9 thelr abate — NOTES, FAST-FEIGUT LANE. Bince the railroads loading from Chicago to tho Kast havo poolod tholr oarninga mauy of tho outsido frolght and passenger ngonciog of thes. roads Lave bocoma superijuons, and orderg Wore givon yontorday to discontinno alurge number of thom, -Thore will bo retrenchment in all the dopartmonts, and a large number of Failroad mon wilt bo out of etaploymont this winter, 1) fa aleo atatod thet s moversont fa on foot to dig. continuo tho fast-froight lines, and horoatier havo tho business transacted by tho Gonerat Prelght Agents of tho ysrlons roads. If the roport is true, the ronds deuorvo credit for taking such action, Tho faat-froight lines hays ‘boen » great axponse to the roads, Owing.to tho sharp conipotition between tho various Mines, a B inols many trick ond sharp practicns wero {adulged fn to secure the businoss, and whonover tho rates wore broken it could always bo traced to those ines. ‘Thoro wore several fast-freight companioa running pyer tho various nos,—tho Eno, for ozaimplo, boviog no ies than flve,—and these were compating amon; thomeelvos, though tho businoss went over the sams road. If the roads will ouly give tho Pao plo the bonolit of the amounts they asya by do- ing away with the foat-freight Nuex, thoro will ba no quarrel on thle ecare, and aversbouy will be pleased to transact his businoss diroctly with the Génoral Freight Agents. 3 ae Bauraone £ ostto peter, it, W. 0. Quinoy, Genorsl Manayor of ihe Baltimore & Obio Railroad, bad another con sultation with tho mombora of the Common Council and the Board of Public Works in ropard to the temporary tivo of the mechanical depart. mont of the Exposition Bultding as ticket of icag, waiting-rooms, etc., for tho Baltimore & Ohio and tho Erle & Chicago Jinos. A majority of the Aldarmon hava thus far objected to the ree leasing of tho building to tho Railroad Compa. nied, Volfaving that thoroby thoy could force the roada to como to torms regarding tho palo of tha lako-front, Mr. Quincy has, however, aucrecded in convincing a majority of them that if the building was not Jensod to tho roada for temporary sholter thoy would bo compplled to mako arraugeimnents for s dopot somowhore olae, in which cave thoy would not want the Inke-front any longer. If, on the contrary, tho toads could got temporary eholtor at the Expoat> tion Building they would have tims to build a depot on the city’s ground bofore the noxt Ex- position. Bosides, being onco ostablished at that point, it would be their interost to romain thora and puild a dopok if the ground could ba possibly obtained, It is undoratood that the building will now be loaged to the roads. GEN. M'CLELLAN'S PLANS. It is ramored that tho visit of Gen. McClellan to Baltimore has some connection with an im- portant railway echeme, which, if go, will bring about an ontira reyo)utionin tha Woatora froight traffic. Tho rumor ia, that Gen. MeClellan's conferonco with Mr. Garrett a fow days ago was with a viow of completing plans for a Baltimore and New York road, to connoct with the Baltimore & Obio, It ja proposed to make this an ontlet for Weatern freight via the Baltimore & Ohio, sod to opon up tho Weat Virginia cosl-minoa to the Now York market. Tula scheme, if carried into affect, would bre: up the monopply now eufoyed by the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Bal- timore Rallrond between Baitimore and Phils. delphis, At the present time little or no Wost- orn freight for (he Enst passes through Balti more, the superior advantages of Erio all-rail route from Shelby Junction to New York turolag tho freight that way. The Shlaage and Balfi- moro trade qa roported fo bo much 1 ightor by the Baltimore & Obfo Railroad during the month of October than for the coiresponding month lsat yoar. MICHIGAN PREIONT-NATEA, The Dotroit Tritune states that the Chicago, Michigan & Lake Shore. tho Grand Rapids & In- diana, the Dotroit & Mitwaukeo, and tho Pare Marquette Railroads have all signified toeir a proval of the'rovised schodule of froight tariffs adopted by the Michigan Central, and their ex- amplo will undountedly bo followed by sil the atber nes in the State of Michigan, By this gobedule the rates from Detroit to Chicago for firat, second, third, and fourth clase frofght ro- main as before at 50, 40, 30, aud 20 cents por 100 pounds, whilo pther rates, including thos to compoting pointa with the Canada South- @rn, are not materially changed. Bhippera will not, therefore, as formorly, be able to obtaiu reduced figures by representing to one rosd that ite rival ia cutting its rates, ‘fhe managemout of the Michigan Contral Railroad do not intend to allow any of thoir ratos to militate against the business antorests of Dotroit, and rated to foledo, Clavoland, Buffalo, sud other Lest. arn points, wil probably bo raised at the clove of nevigation, aa hog formerly beon tho custom, BEYOND Tit MIGSOURI, ‘Tha General Freight Agents of tho roads lead- ing from this city and St. Louis to pointa be- yond the Missouri River held sn adjourned meoting at tho office af the Chicago & North: woatern Ratlroad., Thego meotings are hold for the purpose of making tariffe for tho win- ter. ‘Cho busineas waa not comploted, avd av- other meoting will bo bald at tho oMlco of the Chicago, Burlington & Quiccy Bailroad toad It ia almost yuoless to atato that the ratea Ww be considerably higher than thoy havo bec Uorotofore. PORT HURON VESSEL NEWS. Spectat Diaratch to 7he Chteago Tribune, Pont Hvgox, Mich. Nov. 12.—Dowx—Prope Rt. Paul, Van Raalto, Hackett and barges ; sobra San Diogo, Goorgo W. Adams, Quoen City. Michi gap, Mongaugon, Swooshoart, Pulsskt, Bt, Law rence, Wauconia, 0, H. Burtou, City of Toleda, Hingfaber. Us—Props Maine, Wayorly, Schnoor, Hupertoe and bargow; achra Sunrlac, Thomas H. Wows land, J. W. Dosue, Florida, Jaue McLeod. Winp—South, frosh; woather, fins. The schr Queen Cue wBlel was aghore al Waugoschanco,-passed down thls moruiog in tow of the tugs Eduall and Leviathan, The Queon City had four eteam-pumpy, tio of which wore working. Sho will be docked at Dotrolt. The schr Kaifago, which wad auhore at Mich+ i Ray, as besa, ‘scuttled. A wtoam-pump bas ean gene to raise har. ‘Thy tug Prinalville, warking at thoachr Coorg® Worthington, ashore in tho Strate, broke ust steam-pump, and bas dicontinued poration until the meee oF acolling OB an ‘pecwat Dis 0 the Chicags ‘. Pont Houox, Sich, Nov. 1212 Siudulght.-» Dawn--lrops 8t. Josech, Idaho, Puil ert. dau, Angolia, Jarvis Lord and consore, Mary Jarecki sud consort, Raleigh oud consort, Ge Bravia aud berges, Bradbury sud besgeus son ‘Tureo Brothers, Mary E. Perow, Ivipounlyg, be a ufforin, Clay! , Tod. Guntords Onscsta, 'P, Hhoridau, James Taly- hogh. 'v—Props Enterprise, Samans, wot thd consort, 1. B, Hall aud consort, ts Suganoer, 8. J. Tilden, Flying Mist, and Lo olla, @l Wi Northoast, feash ; weather cloar, The prop ‘iteabuty paused down this avoring with the steam barge Trader in tow, the Tra id haying become disabled in hor machinery W on Lako Huron. ——— OUR RAILADAD COMMIBEIONERS. ‘Spestat Pisnatea to TAs Chicege Pribune, Agaivauiei, HL, Nov. 12.—J¢ is uaderetood that the Railroad Commissioners, nobwithelsne ing tho recut ariticiums of thoi course by A preay, will continue to drew thelr ealarios wil ; commendable fartitude ane Eauleniys Pept their facvlbas an i wy rear ete yoarb, remains to be secu. nudes ‘hey promise tearfatly to go to see goed save if the Guvarcor willnot de capitate Wem, Youomlte,