Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 26, 1875, Page 7

THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: FRIDAY, NOYVI: ““HENRY WILSON. Honored Dust Yesterday Gazed upon by a Continuous Throng. me Acconnt of the Docoratlon of the Interlor and Exterlor of the Capltol. Praparations in Now York and Philadolphin for Becolving the Body and Qortoge, tateresting Account of the]Vico-Presi- dont's Last Hours. WASHINGTON, TUE AVGURT DEAD. Wasarnaton, 1D, 0., Noy, 25.—From 10 o'clock s morning until sunsot analmost unbroken \broog Of men, women and children pnssed \rough the rotunda of tho Capitol to view the wmins of the Vice-President. The body was elosed in » glass-covored caskot, and lsy in juts in 8 lov catafalquo directly undor tho * yglro of the dome, watched over by a guard of woor detailed from: the Marino Corps. The gufslquo 18 the same which twas used at tho wequies of Presidont Lincolu, Chiof-Justice #us, and Sonator Bumuer. I'ho rotunds is wcfuvely draped with the natlonal colors, en- viged with mourning. The Honate Chamber w been prepared by tho Borgeant-at-Arms nt 1 to-mOrcow's funeral ¢ coromonies, and yeseots an oxtremely impressive mppenranco. [be entire basa of tho gallory, and all the Justers, aro coverod with crapo in broad bands # 4 festoons, the wood-work over the Prosis Jot'acheir aod the chair itself being draped rith especial richnoss of offect. The approsches ihe Benate Clinmber nnd tho mardle columns Wibe portico have nlso beon fittiogly draped st mourning, The caskot la rich and maasive, Toe usun! florsl docoratione rost on it, and It yars a plate inscribed eimply : TIENIY WILBON, i Bom Feb, 16, 1412, i Dled Nov. 22,1875, TITE LAST OIS, Dispateh to the New York Herald. WusamaToN, D, C., Nov. 22.—For several i tho Vico-Presidant nesmed to be gmwlui hiter. On Friday evoving ho had a long tal vt Mr. J. B, Maun, his fellow townsman and Mographer, and_at prosont the Fifth Audlitor of ito Treasury. o had mush to aay of old times, 12d many tncidents of his boyhood wera recalled. Opcs, when epcaking with Mr. Msnn, he was mm‘nlnmd on his improved appoarance. “You will soon be well," romarked thoe friond. + [ don't kmow,” replied the Vice-President, »]am & good deal shatterod.” Oo Saturdsy be was so much betler that his fezds bad strong hopes of his entire recovery. Euconversed cheerfully with tue few callers a0 wero sdmitted, and whon tho weathor dared ho expocted to take a carringe rido woatd the city. e read tho papers, and par- tnlaly tho New York dailies. o and Lis frisuds Irtqunnll{ romarked that tho recent edi- * ksl fn the Zerald on bis sorvices to the couu~ bsd » moat hlpl)y effect an his mind. b{)nlhzg Bundey the weather was gloomy all fuy, and_the prospect outside most dopressing, 4 the Vico-Presidont was cheerful and Lis con- nmation apirited, TIE LABT NIGHT ON EARTI, v -He talkod 8 groat deal during Bunday nigbt, U 8 o'¢lock he said if the doctor were puint ho wonld have & blinter applied o the back of his peck. Up to this time s tsd mnot slept. During tho evening Cipt. Wood asked if he wanted some wino, a booemade cordial called Ospe of Good Hopo wios, Ho sald *Yes,” and gave the number of imbouso whore it could bo bad. Sooo aftor 48, Capt. Boyden, the other attendant, opened thadéor carefully and looked in. ‘The Vice- - Inusident Lifted his eyos at this early hour and Hids “The idea of your comivg in sosilently at this wrly bour, thinklag to find mo aslenp.” Bopden camo forward and said, * How is the Ginena) 7 & title frequently used by Mr. Wil- wo's [risnds in the rick ohamber, and conferred 0 scoount of his Ohairmanship of Military Af- fin. The inyalid convoised in o aprightlytone, bdsttimes was fovial. He said tuat it waa poch botter for him to talk familiarly abous . #uaonplaco matters, rnani:iz little tho\ltzht. {hinto lio atill in conatant maditation and allow Husetive bralo to run away wilh iselt. He was {Minlza upio bed at thistime. Soon afterward enaid #Now I guess I'll bo rabbed.” Hisarms, haods, fect, and spine were gently tunipulated for an hour and s half, whilo hs duected tho altondsnts in & cheertul, hnuterlnpi wy. At 10 o'olook ho foil futo doze, and sle) 1ot twenty minutes, when he awoke snd said he L quits & nap, and feit muoh botter. Conver- nthon with Capt, Wood was again_ renawed, Tt Vice-Pesidant spoke fealingly of Mr, Croas- 2in, bls Private Secretary, who had- come that zeting from Huntington, L. L., in responss to still sent during the week, 1Ile said that a few &in before he bad forwarded bim important +laters, recelved from ominent goutlemon eince Eysickneen, to be nsed in PRRPARING HI8 BIOGRArHY 13cars of hus death. lio wanin private convor- tion with Mr, Crossman all Bundav. Mr, Wil- W0 apoke particulasly of bhis lave far the youn, Bid, aud said that he was vory piad that he ha m4 80 ses him. After dlr. Cronsman 'left he ::‘npm midnight, when he aroso from his bed wiiked tothe table, where he looked over tecards that had been sent in during the day, sirwhich be glanced at some lettors, Then 12 opeced a drawer and fook out & hymn book atich had been prosented to him by s dear Lflt‘i His wife's photograph was pasted to ihedydeat of tho title-page. After roading the th brmn, a8 given below, he taok out & '“P g tho recent Herald editorisl on s jil- M, and laud t in the book to mark the page he bid bean reading. +Wheu hebad fnished readiog the hymn he kokedat some pictures Iying on the table, aud over a cabinat size photograph of Mr, mann, which seemod to give him peculiar r\“lflxl. Btepping to the fireplace, be atood wilag at tho dylng embors for & fow moments, 40d then ho RETUBNED TO IS DED {ot4bo lant time, At B o'clock this moralog he ncke, and, putting bis Lands on histhreast, ask- Hioba rabbed, which Oapt. Boydendid for thirty *Rinttes, Tie then said he folt better and weut touleapagatn, Capt. Wood went into tha ad- roum to take s nap and loft Capt. e lo wateh. About 7 o'clock the Vico- ¢ 4 awoko, which wau an hour earlior {42 bis uaual tume of waking, 1o nmiled. and, lmlnfi bis oyes to Boyden, sald; *“‘Aln'tls Tight-looking boy 7 I feel better (han I Liave fttaoy ime sinco [ waa taken sick.” At this %t Capt. Wood camo fnto the voom and was “h"fll’y greotwd by the Vioo-Prosident with s tetfal * Low are you this moming 7" The \aaouacement of BRNATOD FERDY'S DEATH wnuh-d the Capitol the night before, but " WilMchors bad withbeld tho nowa fiom Mr. by As the mornlog papsra would econ be tht iu with tho acconnt of his death, it was duciy edto break tho intelligence as goutly se fjuble. Capt, Wood then eaid 5 e residant, the papara of this morning c;tggl the death of Benator Forry, of Conuechis Toe sutorer exhibited deep emotion, but bis '8co remained porfectly calm, Aftor a fow :"flfllnlh silence, hejralated what Mr. Byington, " Abe Norwalk Gazetts, bad said to bim the day o, 0re, to the effect that tho Benator was much n-‘mq by the mgmn of his (Wiluon's) sickners. dring man brosthed & doop wign, and cxe i vPoor Ferry | Poor Ferry! He waa a good 0 and » Chilstian, i‘bn;r,ho was & .aud?mn A’l [an of great talent.” 'ud‘" auotlier nause Afr, Wilapn poluted fo- bl !:u Beuate Cuambaer, and remarksd siguil- 84 lo that Bonate with elghty-thres Bea who haye passad away. What a rnc!ml for T do ot think there is s man livin; aY the samo. X ama not poeltive ; ol Heoator Hamijn can. 1f 1live my prea- l“W\ out, ll‘hlll be tho eixty in the history Duang o oubry.” Hora s voloa full, What be w083y Weg loak, A few muwules lstar Lo .;;:(},uul I will take some more of that bitter CiPisla Wood poured ont s glaus of ¥ rledon- bty ottié, aud-the fn- Q& glaoy from the v moten! © touche: 128 bed o turnad 0a bia loft vida snd began to Mo bogvily, Caphai th Sz wide o (i bad pad Tand s fuly b pulge, Ho g ‘:oek‘!:h bagd aud hl‘t a7 but they found ) Gresihing. Ha'wes wers fized o :u“b::n‘;‘mouwfi With eight or ten convulsive respirations the Vica-Prosidont of tho Unitod Hintes DRZATIED 118 LANT. A fow daya bofora lua donth ho said : - A2 Wlhun the Liour cumes ny lito will go out like n candle,” From the timo that ho lay down on the bed, after ho had taken this water, not more than two minute bad olapsod, and it was not more than Qifteon minuton aftar hio loard of Bouatur Lerry's deatn that ho went to join him. PREMONITIONS OF THE ATTACK. On tho day whon Mr. Wilsou was flist slricken he satd ba kuew that ho was goiug to have sn attack, [ls thonght the hot bath woula averl the dangor, but ho found it hastened it half an hour, 1o talked calmly about death, and vaid that ho had no fear. 1o folt that he wonld nnt pass ont of tho universo, nor beyond the pros- euce and the lova of God, CAUHE OF THE RELAPHE, ‘Thoe death of Mr, Wilson was_caused by a ro- sumptlon of meutal activity. Poatmaster Bart, of lloaton, apent tho greater part of yesterday with tho Vica-Proaident, who taikod cliserfully thronghout, and he says ho nover saw him look- ng battor. e talked about golng to Florida, bat said ho must first go to New York to be treat- od with oleatricity for norvousnens, a8 ho had loarned from a convorsation with Judgo Fiald of tha groat bonefit derived Ly liia wifo fromsimilar silmont. After that ho wonld go to Ilorids. “But no"--he maid, checking himselt—'T cannot go until I' finish my book: that Is the rreat work before mo for my fufuro, and that will bring mo in somothing it toy old days. [ mest finish that, and thon i will bo at liberty to Ro somowhare for my health. I havebeen aske o go to Eumru by somo of my friouds, bus I think that witl bardly do.” Ho wan to have ridden ont to-day with Poat- master Burt, who artived at the Capital at8 p. m, LAST MEETING WITIL TIIE PRESIDENT. The last mesting betwoon Prosideut Grant and Vico-Prealdont Wilson was on the day atter tho Vico-Preaident was originslly attacked—'Thurs- day, the 11th inst, The President, much to the surprias of many who had supposed that Mr. Wilson's outapoken utterances on tho third-torm ucation, and ki critlcism of some of the Cresidont's oflicial acte, had proviously impaired tha friendly rolstious which had proviousl existod botiveon them, visited tho Vice-P'reni- dent at his room at tho Capitol, Il was mot by \‘;‘il DBaxter, who, procediog him, ssid to Mr. Bon 1, *¢ Mr, Vice-Presidont, tho President has coms to soo you." Mr, Wileon, with groat offort, partiseralsed himaelf oo his olbowa In the bed, when the Tronldent advsucing, hat in band, oxtended his hand, which Mr, Wilson grasped, the Presidont saylog 2 Woell, bow is the Vico-President ? [ amvery sorry to find you ilL." Tho Vico-President roplied : * How do yoa do, Mr. Prosident? 1sm glad to goo you. I'am feoling somewhat oasior to-day." The President, who had meanwbile taken s seat by the bed, thon eald: + Yow did this come about ? When _wore you altacked? I just arrived from Now York this mornfog." The Vice-Prenidont thon procesded to narrate with considerabls particularity, but m a low, feoblo voled, tho mannor in which ho was selzed In tho Benato barber-shop aftor taking a warm bath, and told Low, when in Now York, beunder- went A sovera mmflcnl operatlon, the searing of the flesh over his epinal column batwsen tho abouldors with a whito-hoated iron, and added, “Iimagine tho operstion bad somathing to do with my prasont prostration. Don't you, doctor 2™ “0, no," roplied Dr. Baxter; *‘it will un- doubtodly have a very beneficlal effect. Tha immodiate causo waa the warm bath, which it wag very imprudent in you to tako, I fear.” He od, pleasantly tursing to tho Iresident, ‘tho Vico-President ato o0 many good dincers in New York." Tho Presldent hero remarked to Mr. Wilson, *'You onght to take a littlo wino with your dine nora to help digostion. What do you think, Doctor: don't you think that a little wine with a hoavy dinnor aids digastion " * Undoubtedly it does, replind the dootor, takon In moderato quantities, That is & fact undisputed by tho medlcal faculty, I believe." “*Woll, 1 have alwaga thought "s0,” said the President. I have cnten hearty dioners and drank no wino, nothing but water,—not that I abstsin from wino,—and bave alwaya noticed that I novor folt ro wall aftorwards as In cages whero I drank a littlo wine. Conversation then turned on the President's visit to New York. Ie stated shat hewont thora with Mre, Graut, who wantad to do gome Bhope plog, and_that s viclt was one of business meroly. Ho referzad to tha weather {n New York 86 very fine, A pause onsuing in tho con- voreation. fho Vico-Presidont asked, * Do yon hear {rom Nellic" (moantng Mre. Sartoris) *toften ¢ “Oh, yes," roplied tha President. ' Hor smother gets n lotter almost evory week—by overy steamer. She writes long and vory inter- esting lotters, Bho writes with great facility.” ‘Tho Praosident remained about fiftoen minutes, whon, taking up his hat and rising, he said : “T hope_you will bo better soou, Mr. Vieo- Prenidont, I'will come up again this evening or send up to seo how you sre gotting along." ** Thank yon, Mr, Presidont,” sald Mr. Wilson, agnin partislly naiog on his clbows, *'I'm obliged to you for your call.” e PHILADELPHIA. PREPARATIONS. Pmitapeienia, Nov, 25.—Noarly all the arrangemsnts for tho Wilson obsequles at this city bavo boen made. The remains will lls in stato In Indopendence Hall until 11 o'clock Satur- day morning, when they will be removed to the dopot. The following is tho order of tho march 3 Ma)..0en. Danks and Staff, First Division Natlonal Gudrd of Pennsylvants, Hoarso and Guard of Honor, Committes in Clisxge of the Kemains, Qoveruor of Penusylvania and 8tafl, Mayor and Mombers of Congrcts from Philadelphis and Tall-Bearers, i Carriagos, Aarahal and Committes of Arrungements of the Olty of Thiladelphio, ot and Oommon Council, Chiefs of Departments and Assiatants, s Members of Seuate and House of epresentatives of Pennsylvania, Union League aud otlier Organizations, The pall-bearera ara ex-Cabinet ofiicers A. E, Borie aud Judge Campbell, Gons. Patterson and Cadwallador, sod Mesara. Burnstt aud Honzey, thla Tresidonta of the Solect and Common Coun- cil. ——— NEW YORK. PREPARATIONS TO DO SOME HONOB. New Yonr, Nov, 25.—The Committee of the Doard of Aldermen having chatge of tho ar- rangements for the reception of the funeral cartegro of Vice-Prosident Houry Wilson mot to- dsy, when a dispatch waa read from Col. E, Wy- mon, of Washington, setting forth that the remains would arrive about 8 o'clock Baturdsy afternoon, and would bs takon to Boston the same night, and that the plaos could not well bo chaoged. in consequencs of this, the propbui. tion to have the remalvs lle In stats in the City-Hall was abandoned. The romsins will be met at Jersoy Clty by the committes and escarted to tuis ity, whore, undor the escort of the Twenty-second, Bixty-niuth, Fifth, Eleventh, Heventh, and Ninth” Regiments, they will be taken to tho Grand Central Depot, A troop of cavalry, a troop of Waahington -Grays, snd Battery B, Artillory, will also form part of the escort. —— FOREIGN. ROLNOW EXPRESSED, Loxpox, Nov. 26—0 a. m.—A special from Borlin states that ac the conclusion of she Thauksgiviug sarvices by Awmcricans {n that oity yostorday, the cougregation adopted rosolutions expreasing sorrow st the desth of Vica-Preaidont Wilson, and directing that & tolegram of con- doleucs bo sent to Amoerioa. ‘The' Penalty for Smilling. ‘The Tndlanapolis Journal says that & young man not quite 21 yoard of ‘age, who pload- ed gulty in the Orimipal Cours of that eity to an indictant far grand larceny, rece cd an extra year for amiling while sentence was being pronounced on a fellow prisoner, going u| for throe years inatead of two. About & mont| Binco, two othier youug woen, on & plea of grand larcouy, wero each glven an extia yoar for swillog at the remaris of & woman, whu was brought loto court with other prisoners from the sl to plead to the various charges sgainat heta. = A Brakrupt Buronet's Asssts, 8ir Himoon Stuart, Baronct, the creation of whose title dates back more than 200 yeus, is passiug througli tho bankruptoy court, ilis debia are Isrge, and owing chiefy to.tun-kespers , sud other tradegmen, a gre: P °:‘lenu. st ba admitted, for * presents to fomales not mowmbers of hisown family,” Ag to huy sssets, tha ‘Lrusteo by just iled an (nve: tory of everything that cau bo found, snd (hls x.';l. list: A rallway rug muck worn, a set of ouyx studs, a poucil-caso, au opera-gisés ous of order and unoless, & palr of gaiters worn out, & Run-cleguor aud cariridge-osiractor, & fishing- rod, & allver watch, threa pairs of worsted sockings, and a lanters ; - altogether worth about L4 L RAILROAD LEGISLATION, A Dispute Concerning the Wis. cansin Potter Law. A Correspondent Shows Its Bad Effects upon the Credit of the Btate. Wisconsin Rates Compared with Those In Other States and Other Countrles, The Argument Supported by Bome Interest- ing Btatistics, To the Editor of The Chicaqgo Tribuns Miwavkee, Nov. 20.—1 obmorve that a do- fondor of tho Winconsin raflroad logisiation of 1874, kuown 68 tho Lotter law, bas beon found who {8 bold enongh to come to the frant and aritteine my communication that wea printed in Tne 4rtnuxe on the 15th of November, in which I commented upon the logal aspects of a cave an il was prosentod to the Uniled Hiatos Hupremo Conrt. That tho reader may know oxeetly ta what T am 1eplying, I ask you to REPRINT 1A LETTAR of tast Saturday ontiro, iu ordur lo avoid repeti- tion, Thisisit: WESTERN NAILROADS AND EASTERN OAPITALINTY, To the Editir of TA¢ Chica: il ine s NEw Yonk, Nov, ‘abseryo 8 comtatinicatlon in your edition of Hnunhg last, In which your corre- Fpondent fudn considerablo fatlt with tha' Potter law, and takes on_himelf to write in behalf of Essters capitaliate. 1 beg leave toinform him that hin compli. ments, {0 a great extent, aro uncalled for; and a e Jorily' of Fantern capitaliata are anzloun'to nca (he Graugers anceesatil with all lawa tint will put a stop to rchemers who huild raflenads on honde, and pocket, with Little or 110 expente ta therasetres, a fot of sto or anotlior class, who hiave watered niock and bondk o auch an cxtent that it I imposaible, with Justice to those who have occasion to 1so the roadn, o carn lue tereat and dividends on the smount of capital repro sonted, I heg leavo fo nforn yonr correapondent thiat Exntern capital fa atill ready o build raiirosds whera they are wanted, and Easiern capitalista do not wish the industry of tlis West to pay on fictitioun cap- tal, Lut pay such rates #n will give a fair roturn for {lio'sctual capital fnvested ; and 1 bellevo tho_rates en- tablished under tho PotterIow ate quita nfficient for 8 handromo nterest on all actual cash inveated on all the roada cither wewt or east of Chirsgo, 80d, at pres ant oot of building, suflicient for any Shslock, Yonrm, Carmay, Macaulay aaynof Pitt, that ** He chose his side like & fanatic, and defended ft like & philoso- plor;" and I suspect that ** Capltal™ resemblos Pitt only in tho first act,—thas of selecting bis side in the controversv LIRE A FANATIC, 88 there Is no ovidenco of bis being able ta de- fend It like a philosophor, or even like a well- informed newspaper-corrcspondent. Iaving hoon born and bred in tho West, I have no ocor- sion to **writo in favor of Eastern caplialists," and pothing that I eald in the communication to which Le alludes can properly bo construed into & compliment to that class of peraons. I said that the suit just argued {n the Supreme Court was brooght by tho non-residont stockholders of the Chicago & Northwestern Ratlway Company, principally Hollanders, to ro- atrain our Rallroad Commissioners &nd the Attorney General from cnforcing tho Potter Iaw. These atockholders have iu- veated £28,000,000 fn the linos of that corpors- tion that Mo in Wisconsin; and, if * Capital” was in tho samo boat with them, he wounld write in quite another strain sbout the legislation ro- forred 10; and, it he bas money toinvest in railroads, as ho intimates, theso Ilollacders will be glad to sell him all the stock mod bonds he wishen to obtain, at s hoavy discount, in order that b may enjoy oll the blessings that are to be dorived from the Grangor logielation with which he scems to be in love. Now, if your cor- respondent {s really & Now York capitaliat, as he protends to bo (and not a fraud. as I suspect he 18), ho is olther groasly ignorant of tho practical workings of the Potter law, and its Intluence up- op the credit of all existing railroad corporations in this 8tate, or else he is writiug for & purposes, aganat 8 knowledge of the true condltion of af- fairs, But I assumo that ke is a capitalist, who is honestly in search of information upon this subject, and I am, thorefore, bound to enlighten bim to the extentof my ability, n the small spacoe allotted by Tue Tniouse for this discus- sion, ‘Tho Potter law wes NOT DEMANDED DY THE PEOPLE. It was not advocated by the newspapers of either party, bafore its paseage; nor doos the journal of olther branéh of the Legialature, of he sea- slon at which it was passed, show tho recoipt of potitions from tho people praying for its cuact- mont. Gav. Washburn had recommended, in his annual meseago, that a Commiesion be appointed 1o collect nknlullcn n regard to railroad con- struction and oporating inall its branches, as the foundation for soma reasonablotegislation fu the future; but no oue ever petitioned for the pas- sage of such a Procrustean act as the Potter law has proved to be. That was tho act of extreme artisans and demagoguos {o un evenly-Lalanced enate, a8 regards political xnxuns, in_tho race for a now leaso of power and place. Now look at the counts in the indictment that Is brought against the Iaw na [t now stands ; It has checked railrosd-bullding fn the Stste of Wisconsin sinco the day of ite Fuunan; and Gov, Taylor's sigoature 16 it was tho slgnal for every plok and shiovel to drop from the "hands of tho laborars, and thay have been rusting in idlences to this day. Hear what the Portage City fegister enid upon thia subject last summor: It fa n disagreoable fact to coutomplato that to-da there i not baing a spade struck in Wisconsin in build- ing railroads, snd a scry little protpect of unv tho present year,' Whith & Jarge proportion of the Btato undeveloped, ynd much of it absolutely sufferiog for want of raliroad facilitics; with wagnificeot fsnd- grants lying idle, paweiicas 'to aid the building of the foads for :éwch ‘té? saate meremado; with ploaty of n the land—it seemy jmpossibi {int stch & condilion of affatre should exist, Yot tho fact stares us in the face, 5 ‘Tho Janeavills Datly Gazelle, printed fn Rock County, whare the Grange influicnce s an strong a3 io any portion of tho Stato, makes TIH CANDID BTATEMENT in regard to tho oporations of the law In quos. on 3 ‘There {8 no doubt that the morsl effect of such leg- {slatfon om capitslists in the nld countrics, where wo have, been accustomed 1o borrow money 10 carry for ward our rallroad enterpriscs, ia ‘9:’” reat, They are alarmed, sud refuse to fuvest a dollar in s Blate whare, a8 it e been erronously represented to thiem by rallrosd autliorities, the people evince a dispoai- tion to conflscate their property, And this condition of publio sentiment abrosd makea it impossiLle for tbe central and northiern portions of tho Aate, where jiny scitlers have long been walting for raiiroad conuections, o obtain m ol lar wherewith to Legin = new enterprisea contemplated, or to Gnish thuse lkuu‘y in provesa of coustruction, Notably tho Wisconnin Central s suffer- ing aoverely. Commencipg at Milwaukoe and running northward vis Menasha towards Yake Superior, i miles, and at Bayfeld and running uesrly south, the road is comploted, axcapt 8 gap of about 85 miles, It runs through one'of the richieat portions of tha Etate 1u 1ron ore, lumber, sud wealth of sold, Boston cepi- talists have put §1,500,W0 into it, Untll it is compleiea the road cannot pay sunning expenses, The tock- lolders rolied upou obtaining the money wherewith to build this connecting link in Europe; but now that nw source is cut off, he roml has s magnificent land- grant, and milliona of capital have been slready wapended onit; but, Rotwithatsnding all thelr ro- souroes, and the fact that the avallabliity and the value of the land-grant depend largely upon the comple- tion of the road, the Diroctors aro utterly unable to orrow the meaiis to complete the 53 milén yet to bo buflt, And the Boston mien sy, “If we had our ‘mousy out of that antorprise, wa' would naver agein riak money 1o Wisconsin,” A competent authority ay0 that §1,000,000 would ‘not pay thie datiagos that the enactment of the Potter law Liua dune the Wiscon- ain Central in the depreciition of Its property, Otlier enterpriscs In (hat ssalion of the State tro paralyed, people whoare holding un 1o their lan lllxdl au have for years bosn living in hope that some projected railroad woulg ba buil and place them in communica- tion with & soarket, are Raturally snxious tbat such palicy stull bo adojted with referepca to valiroads xs will reassure capitalists and sgain Lroathe the breath of llfe into dead ratirosd projects. All this is doubt- luse trus, TUE FEELING IN HOLLAND, Tu his_resort to tho State Department, the United Biates Coumul "at Hotterdam (Nother- lands) sayss Uoucorning tho tranractions in United Htates rail- rosd sbares, which, Lefore tl'e catustrophe in the United Buates, have been vo Smportant an elment in the Dulch muuvy-warhets, L bave but t repeat tho stateuent of wiy broceding auuusl report, Par ’igm bowlug auy algn of returniug coutidence fu Uultud Htates ratledsd whares, $bo Dutch publle ratber mant- feats fucroasing averwlon, Tbe salo of United Staten raliroad securities, aven al the loweas ratos, {8 limilcd i The leve nhc:nm‘nuud in Wieousin concerning roa ve just af- fectod those secusilive In which Dutch oapl- bad luvested = €uOTIIGUS SULIS, DIRio- Cblcago & Nurthwesters, snd the Milwsu- = I & Bt Pavl Katlroads, Ax yet tho holders of these bonds still believe thal the hopes crested and onter tained by the Disectors of theeo railrosds will be real- 120d, an that those Lws will Le sunulled by the B e Cowd, Bhuuld Wids uot bo tho casy, 8 Bew do- -yanis, 8105,761; in Oblo, " to tack] MPER 26, 1875, preciation of thess secnrities, an well e of rll other American raflrovd bonda, may be rxected, For yesrr to vome na Iuvestment'of Dutel cudtal In Chited Ainten ralitoad enteeprises will bn rande, Finaneirra whio, in this ennntry, have Lo rullfoad arcurities, agres i comfidence (n Americay r- euteririven cau caiy br expactad when A radicn chang of tin rensnt o §Matiou on railrosd coTTALISA takis [Lwcs 1 (ha Aif- ferent btated. And yet “Capital™ tolln zour readors {hat * Eantérn enpital i atill ready to build raleonds whore they nie neeaed,” If what ho roya is trae, let bun como Weat, and ho can bave his choice from among a dozen neaded roads 1n Winconain ; aud somo of thern, tike the \iscoorin Cential, has magniBicent granta of fand to tall Lack upon, beridna tho ordivary fuducoment of & finn Jocal teaflic in freizht and paesengers, that muad grow botter and bglier an the connlry i settled and developed. 'rhinrprivilo;(u he can bave, sud en- Jov tha benefit of ihe Potter law rates, which. ho fays, are sufficicut for any $hyvlock, and * witl ray A Liandroma intorest on all cssli ac~ tually iuvesicd in ruads enst or west of Chicago." Hora it 1s that _ THE 1GYORANGE of my friend asin taamfostn itvelf. Manifestly, ho don't know differenco batwaen tho Fotter Iaw rates and thors chargod on other roads in othar Histea for & similar service. Let mo enlighten hitn with a fow facts mon ths branch of tho subject. Thus, for bauliog s 1oad of 1imber a distance of 200 miles, the cona'n Inw allows £25: while the Pennaylvania Central charges 2613 the Bonton & Alhany, @4! Vormoat Centeal, $46 ; Erie, 373 Great, W orn, Mickigan Centeal, and Illinois Ceatral, oaclh £98; aud some of the roads in Indrana aud Min- fonrl from 856 1o 965 por car. On wheat, the Polter law allows Lhe roads to chargs 2214 cents rer 100 pounds for a hsul of 226 miless whilo tue Vormout Contral charges 31 cents; Boston & Albany, 30 centa ; Erie, 27 centa; Ponusyiva- nis, 30 contn; Pittsburg & Fort \Wayno, 32 centa; and the Chieago. Burlington & Qaincy, that pon- etrates ono of thoe finent grain-producing sections of the Union, charge 86 conts. On tlaur, the Potter Iaw allows 44 conta per barrel for 200 miles; but, ou moat other roads iu the country, the charge 18 from G0 to 60 conts, Oa livo stock. the Wisconsin rate {s €25 per car-load for 100 milea, whilo it ja €46 on the Louisvilla & Naah- villo Rload, and €47 on the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Road for tho same distance. The com- parative rates on agricultural implements, fur. niture, and wagons, aro greater, aud, in soma In- slaucon, show an increaso of doubls the amount above that allowod by the Wieconsin act ; indond, it seema a8 if the Wisconsin loginlators intended to confliscate the property of the railroads by making them do business at a loss, or elso they la’mnlned in regard to the manapement of a kind of property concerniog which they were bliudly ignorant, 1¥ WE TURN TO FONEION COUXTBIER thiat are constantiy held up to ua as models for cheap living aud cheap trausportation, wo will 800 that the Polter-law rates do not satisfy the foreign Shylock, although my friend thinks they ought to satisfy any shviock. Thus, the Mid- laad Railrond charges 30 conta for carrying & barrol of flour 100 miles ; the Northeaatern, 3¢ conts ; the Glasgow & Honthwostern, 4() conts ; and the Wisconsiu law allows 28 couta. On grain, the Wisconnin law allows 18 cents per 100 pounds for 150 miles haul: while tho Midland Railway charges 27 centa; the Brighton & Bouth Coant Raflway, 23 cents; ana the Glangow & Houths western, 30 conts, The rates for pasuengers aro Also much lower hers than on most of the Eu- glish railways, first-ciass fare on moat of them excecding beents por milo, and on two of them excoediug € conts per mile; while the mecond. clasa fare nversges 4 cents por mile. Firat-cl faro in Prussia is 415 cents per mile, and n Aus- tria it {n 5 cents. COMPARATIVE COST OF ROAD-BUILDING. ! Watered stock," *' paying on ficlitious capl- tal,” “actoal cash invesied,” -‘a fair return for actual capital invested," ars terms that read- ily fall from tho glib Een of my eritic. But has ho cver compared the cost of building a Wis- consin ralroad with roada olsewhere? If he thinks & Wiscousin, road that costs 830,000 per milo shows signs of a waterad stock, let him study tho statistics of othor roads, when it will bo found that in New York the average coat of eight ronda was 876,493 por mile; in Ponnsyl- o §70.9%0; in_ New Lwugland, £71,763; in Belgium, 535 miles of road cos* 106,968 per mile; m Germany, 3,776 nules of Stato railway cost 892446 per mile; in France, 6,000 miles cost 8194,860 per milo; and in Great Dritain, where Inod for right of way ocosts immensely, 15,818 miles of ratlway cost an avorage of #180,000 in gold per milo. OPERATING KXPENSES. Whila it is true that mos. Western roads are built much more cheaply than ronds in the East, owing to the lavel nalure of the country, and to the cheapnoes of laud for right-of-wav, and for depot-purposes, they are not oporated st so small an aXpeuse, 10 consequence of shs high prico of fuel. Thus, tho cost per mile oo the t. Paul Railway last year wan €1,29; whiloouthe Cloveland & Iittaburg Rosd it was 54 conta; on twenty olght Maesachusetts roads it avernged 5512& aud upon all the ronds {n Great Britain 04871 it averaged only 66 conts per tratn-milo. Tho Pennsylvania and Ohlo roads procure their conl-supply at £1.50 per ton, while the Wissonsin roads pay at least turee times thas ; 5o that some of the roads carry thelr tonnage cheaper than Westorn roads transport theirs over the level prairica. § 1 havo beon at some pains, Mr. Editor, to pro- uce A FEY FAOIS AND YIGURES that bave a boaring upon,, this subject, because it is one that greatly intorests the poople of Wis- consin, a4 well larga number of Eastern and foreign capltaliats, who have moncy investod In theso railroads. I believe I fairly ropreaoat the fooling of & mejority of \he peoplo of the State in regard to thus sort of legislution ; and another important fact that has just_traospired to con- firm me io thia belief ia the dofeat of Tndylur for Governor, whon he wes pominated and run as the epeolal champlon of the Grange intercat. But, it “*Capital” can_convince the peaplo of Wisconsin that tho Potter law is a wiseand bensficont mesauro, by the suforcement of which the credit of hor citizens can bo maintained, bor roilrcad eystom comploted, her groat nat- nral rosonrces speadly davaiapcd. sod all Ler kindred intorosts harmonized and promoted, he will find us all roady to unite with him in ita support. Itis an oxperiment in railroad legie- Iation that tho citizona of other Btatos ara watal iog with » groat deal of interest ; for, if 1t bo good thing, they will naturally wish to copy it; but, if it bo an unwholesome Iaw, they do not t to experiouce it bad effects. If *Capi- tal™ can fiod timo to elucidate Lis side of the subjcct, and thua help to educats the people upon an important question of public policy, I liave uo doubt but that Tur Trisuxs will acoord bim #pace and patient hearlog. X DETSEY OUT BY HERSELF, Barnum’s Biggoet Neast on & Bender at Bridgepori='Tackiing o Locomo- tive. New York Sun, Brinaxront, Conuo., Nov, 20,—T.ast night Dot~ sy, tho big elopbavt now wintering here, e dissatistied with rrow quarters in tho barn whare the snimal e contived, snd made up her mind to sslly forth into ‘s wider sropa, Bhie accordingly sunpped the ropes amd chaing that bound her, walked out of her atall, sud, after promevading up and down for & few min- utes, marched to the cage of a young Boogal tiger, upsat it, and turued tho occupant looso. The tiger was takeu by surprise, and sb much disgusted at tho practical joke playod upon him, that Lo rotreated $o & quist oornor and uursod his wrath, Datuy ssemed to be apoiling fora tight. Sha startod agaiu for the tiger, Lut before eho could strike him he had jumped clear over hor snd taken refuge on ons of tuo orossbeams, Batsy mado another atterapt toresch tha tiger bot failed. Sho then burst open tbe barn door and marched for the railroad depot, where ale sncountersd a0 ongine on the track. Bue made aclose study of tho hissing and snorting iron borse, and having satisfied herself thatsha could easily overcome it in a fair igbt, she proceeded o {t, Bhe triad it on il sides, but could nat budge it, sod after having scorcued her pro- buscis by bringing it in closs contaot with the furnace door, ste became despondont, and moved away. Meanwhiie Noro and Tuck, tbe two doga that are kept with the elephant, bad trotted around and arouscd the keepers, who started out to cap- ture the eccentric runaway. Wilson F, Greon snd Charles Colton came un with her as sho was entering tho sown. They both tried by tnoral siasion to induce Ho! to return to camp, but she indignantly re: Further peraussion irritated her, and at lengtb, failing by quial obstiuacy to rid harself of her torment- o1, #he lifted her trunk aud brought it dowa with a ldslong eweap that sent Mr. Green more thao ten yards through space. Bhe tLen upset Mr. Uolton, and woul t: aps havacrushod him with her feot Liad not ontlon besn divert- ed in time by Tommy Murpby, oue of the circus Loys, who 1an up in front of her, Beizing ‘Lom- my around the muddle sho Leld Lim aleft, and varryiu him gently for s few rods dropped him touderly on the ground and coutiuued oun her Jourvey. 1y thin tima the whole airous foros was out, Dozeus of men surrounded the huge beast, aud aftor bestiuy ber badly with:clube snd prodding nier with pitchforks, they suocerded in gottu HBotay ju barness. As soon as bhe was tethere ake ‘turned quietly about and returned to the barn without a_protest. Had the gscapa been made iu the day-time, sorlous damage mighy Lave resultod from Letoy's freak, KANSAS. ’ ITow the Close of the Reason Finds Her, Reascns for a Joyful Celebration of the National Thanksgiving. ‘The Next Senatorial Electlon-: Tacific Railrond. Krecin Carrernndence of The Chieagn Tribune, Lawnexce, Kan., Nov, 20.~A cold wavo from your region, whish, fur throo daya paat, has sent the mereury down below freezing, reminds os that there i a North, sud that yon, up by tho chill- iny; Inke-stda, are just cromsing tho threshold of the long and dreary winter, Not ao with ns, howaver: we expect, in a day or two, 1o hava s reanmption of warm, sunny days, with ecriap nights, and that mellow baze which wakng the Kaneaa antumn so dslightful. and out-door ex- perictices g0 ondurable. well along to the holi- days, Next week in Thankegiving, and our paopln thronghout the Ftate ara preparing o celebrato it with more than ordinary gusto, And it seemn that, if anybody has reasdn to be thankful, 1t s WE OF THE JAYHAWKEL COMMONWEALTH, Toant year, this time. our prospocts were any- thing but encoursging. Locusta mod drought had destroyed onr crops; and onur retreating population wore crossing our frontiors for moro favored localitien, at every quarler, Kanmas agenty, rocking roliof for the tarving and freez- ivg ones at home, were rwarming through the East, reciting their tales of distress,—often- timen, doubtleen, greatly exaggerated, but, novertholess, recciviog tho same sympathy for starting Kaneas which bad saved bloeding Kansan twenty years before. And, as the witter proved exceptionaily long and sovers, it waa the liberality with which the East responded to our calls for aid, that alono provented terrible dis- tresn and bunger among our people of the fron- tier districts. In tho epring. tho older portions of the Btate, which had measurably cscaped tho sconrge of the previons autumn, wera devas- tated by the locusts; and on the 1st of June, tho time at which thay mainly took their dapart- ure, it secomad an if there wore no hopen laft for either town or country. But, with & faith that knaw no faltering, onr farmers replanted their fleldr for even the third time, and, as if to re- ward that falth, Providence went them a sesron that, in 100 dsys, filled their garners to over- ‘That Other flowing. Kan«s Las never realized much s harvest bofore. In the wheat-growing districts of the Hlate, the crop was above an avorage ono, and mostly saved In pood order, vielding an estimated surplus of over 7,000,000 of bushels. The smal) grain of spring- planting did not (cspecially in tho grasshapper ietricts) make a8 watisfsctory returns, Dut tho CONN CROP 18 BIMFLY IMMENKE, Tis only question Is, Wnat xhall bo done with 1t? Tho bigh treight-rates insisted npon by the rallroadn make it impossible to ship it ta the East; and our peopla, haviug been compotled to soll their stock-bogs 8 }ur ago. bave no way ot turning it fnto pork. Thero are very considera- ble numbers of cattle being fed, but nothing like the number theres wonld be if a sufticient supnly of hogs, to foed in tho samo yards with them, could only be hLed. We hops a year heoce will ®co us moro favorably eitnated in that regard, A large average of wheat hsa boon sown the present fall, which was got in in good somson, aud is looking verv finely. All kinds of vogotsbles have been rawed ju great nantities,—potatoes especially, which are sold rom tho farmers' wagons at L0 centa per bushel. So you sca that wo shall have abuudant resson for thankfulness, and **wino and wassafl " will doubtless enliven Kanaas at the coming foatival, IN POLITICAL MATTZES, overgthing 13 flat in this State,—a new condi- tion” of {hings In Kaneas, which from its earliost blstory bas been distinguished for it partisan feuds. DBut, ever sinco Lane * souffed out his own canale.” and the people snuffed out that of his priucipal henchman, Sidnoy Clark, things have boen petting detter it politics ; and, when **0ld Pom " sbandonod the sbrewd coun- aelslof Torton and Parson Kalloch. and fell into the *'gins" set for lum by that crafly manager, Ben Bimpson, it reatly began to eecm an if thero might still be “balm in Gilesd,” so far as tho political futuro of Kansas was concerned. The oloction of Granger Harry to the United Btatcs Scoato was ulmo a surprise to the hitherto **roigning famify,” a8 it indicatod that possibly **their occupation might be gono." The pros- poct now is, howaver, that tho fight for the suc- cossion, next year, will bo MORH TIAX ORDINARILY DITTER, Tom Osborn, the present Goveruor, bLis olection to the Executive Chair the term solely with reforen ‘o to the Loxt Scuatorial contest. Tom ia shirend nud wily, and not & bad Governor withal; but bo hLas & large Job on his hands bofore ho can strip * the Farmer of Riley ™ of his Beuatorial robes. Harvey wears No. 12', and affacts bay-secd moro than oficial 8irs, which 5ivna him great strouglh with the *‘hard-fisted yeowanrs.” Moroover, Oshorn, notwithatanding somo very neat pantomimo of his in connectlon with the Osago land bueiness last fall, is suapectod of being noi entirely in sympathy. with the olamor for the people for this, that, and the other from the railroad com- panics, and which tho Iatter show o disposition to concedo. 'This alons witl mako tho canvass a more trying one for Thomas just now, as the railroad question is smpbatically TUE RED RAG that bringa blood to the e{u of a Kanaas Grang- or. Nearly all of tho oldor countles of tho Btate have bondoed themsolves heavily in a1d of raiiroads, and, now that pay-day has ocomo, “they take no pleasure in them,” Hut with s return of prosperity, the talk of repudiation, which has been so rifo since Lhe grasshopper has beon a burden," will doubtlesa die away, and tho peopls will make the hest terma possible with the holders of thoir indebtedness. Of ons thing, however, you may ba cestein : The South- ern Paciflo Railroad subgidy echemo MZETS WITH LITTLE OR NO PAVOR IN RANSAS, ta delogations in Congress may be set down #s & unit sgainet it, Were another road to the Pacific deemed neceseary in tho near futuro, the Atolusou, Topeks & Bauta Fo, just now com. pleting ita lioe jnto Pueblo, 1o Southern Color- ado, would scom to be thie moat available for tha ncoompllshment of such a purpoee, ad the work in slready far on the way, sod its extension woald reach through a country vastly more available for sgriculiural and pastoral pur poses than thar traversed by the proposed lino of Scott & Co., across the Htaked Plains of Toxas and Now Alexico, The Bouthera Paciflo of Califoruia iz also being pushied rapidly eastward, and in another sum- mer, it is belioved, will react the Rio Colorado, on the wostorn botndary of Arizona,—thas loav- ing comparatively a short distauce belwosu its termivus and that of tho Banta Fo line, which will undoubtedly be speedily completed to Banta Fo. That privats capital will complate tlo re- maining portion of the live, s soon as the busi- ness of lEn couutry will warrant, can soarcoly be doubted, At any rate, she country can woll afford to wait and sco. CaD, , et Dend=lent Ronanaists, Virania (Nev,) Enterprise, . A woman yosterdsy applisd to thio Reliet Com- mittee for assistance, who, it was discovered, lLins a cousiderablo sum of money in bauk. Another woman complained that porsous wero getting alt sorta of ttuugs, when sho kuow that shoy hardly pald auy taxes st all, whorcas she, who bad lmeu » large tax-payer, waa being very shabbil troated. A man whose house was burned rai mS the prico of his lot on a would-bo purchi to #3000, sud said ho would not tal that prica unloss the customer camo to terms at once, as ho waa about to get lumber of the Ite~ lief Committes with which to erect s houso, ‘These are a { mens of tho kind of persous that the Rellef mittes wre obliged to look out for. bome persons who are wtlil rich io xoal extato apd othor proporty appear to think that the business of the Jielief Commiitee is to wako good to them their losses, the same as su weurauce company, They do wot or will not undorstand that their’ work 1w to find out uud roliove the wants of thosa who ere destituta aud wufferiug. A wau who Is at work for wages, and who sald he did not waut pro- yislons or anything elee, yesterdsy came to the Committea rooms for s sult of clothes for him- well, Io said, in suswer to au inquiry by a mewber of tho Committee, thas nalthior Lis wife nor clnldrou wanted anv clothing, but o did; be wald bedid not comne a-boggivg, but demsnded the clotlisng s bl rigl Ho mado this demund bocause lie hiad lost 81l of Lis clothes but the suil he biad on. Thiy is the kind of nation sowme peraonn sosm Lo haye of tho busiuess of tho Re- 10f Comuitie prersed present = ——— Excursion in the 'Tropite. The City of Mexico offers for toutists, and capacially for iuvalids, & most desirwblo clunate, the temperature seldom varying from 60 deg. to 66deg. The excursion steamers from Naw Yark for Vesa Cruz stop at Havaos about two dsy:‘ 1 Lrogreso about & day, sud Campeachy peyer: houta; or, faaying from New Orieans, thesteam- erv arrive jo Vora Criz in ahout four and onos hall dave, baving stopied raveral hours at Tuxe P aod Tawmieo, Lxcursion ticiatn at rednoed tater, furthier particuiars apply to F. Alox- sudre & Sous, Broadway.—N. ¥ Tribune. SRt THE WAR CANARD, Allegations that ‘Fronblo is Exprcted With Great Qirtinin on Account of the Canndlan Fisliery Question. Diapateh to Neww York lfera'd, Tloezax, Nov. 23, ~The fulloming esclting dfs- Smch was formarded from \ashinglon to tho Bostan Lerald at a Ints hour last night : “The rapldly arriving telograwms from th various Navy Yards, and evpeciaily thesignlficatt nawe from New Orleans that the Government iy prepariug Lo concentrats n tleet of war vessels there, justify the dispatchon to the Jerald an- nonncing that the (iovernment fm anpar- ently getung ready for a foreign contlict of Boma sort an fast a8 {t can, Thin matter bag now become & subect of the very firat impor- tance. Threa facts are fully accepted by careful observers hers an Invlmmmgln: Firet, the Goy- ernment s filting out ail {ts firetclaen vessals and s largse number of jron-cials with the ut- moat dispatelr; second, the object of theso mavementa ta an absolute eacret,--the beat-kapt Slate socret which Grant's Administration has ever beld from the people; third, the ubject ia not Cuba nor any of the pending questiona with Epaln, Mr. Fisli undoubtedly states the abso- lute truth when ho savs that thero I8 no psnding ueeolved question between this country and Buain which can warrant the fitting out of war. versols at this time, ** ‘Fhe momentous preparations going forward comuel o little apoculation a8 to tue object, It wo aie seeretly Involved with some other Gov- erument, euriceity nsks what Gosorotent it is agninst whoeo navy wo are likely to necd so much dofeuse? We are apparontly at_absolute peace with all the world, ~ We hiavo a littie bouo of contention with Venezuels, but Veuezuels ia a weak country, can do nothing agalnst ns, snd muat oay the claim that is overdus whonever our Governmont has amind to enforceit, Is tho Goverument going to take possemsion of thn Istbmus of Darisv and Luilia canal? That Beeme absurd, Congre-s alono could authorize any aggreasiva movement in that direction, Wo bave a difficulty witli Sloxtco relative to tho hor- dor; but Mexico s ehown an spparent desire to do justice there. Our troulle is not at all with the Mexican Govornment, but with the Moxican bandits, whom Lerdo caunot cootrol. Curlosity is whoily baflled by the problem: but there 15 one nation with which we lavea great unweltled question, and that is England, **Perrous well informed in diplomatic matters £ay that the question is the fiehierios, which wan left uareitled by the Treaty of Washington, and which our Government soems to be makiog no progress in eithng, Itis o far more considor- able quostion than lfnn Leco ju the hands of any modoiu American Administration. 1t is allegod that the Canadian Giovernment, with the consent of the Evglish Goverumeot, hisa presonted an suormous claun for damages, arining out of tho fishing righta accordod Amoricana uncer tho ‘Ireaty of Washinglon. Becauso of theso claims the Commission which wa< to have sssembled to seitlo the whole matter ban romaiued nnorgan- ized. It will be romembered that ex-Gov, Clif- ford wea at ons time selocted t0 be & member of this Commission, but of late nothiog Las Loen beard of the matler. I Lave heard it siatod that the claims preseuted by the Canadiana for thess fisheries are in the naturo of *indirect claima, ** The object of presenting them 1 sald to bo to onable the Enghsh to recover the moneya which they loat by the arbitration at Geuevs. The claime nre o’ such a nature that it is nocessary that the very first stop taken by our Govoru- ment shall bo to repudiato then, as England re- ‘;udmed our indirect claims under the Treaty of Washington for damagea dano by the Coufeder- ate cruisers, In order to take this determined stand, it 18 necessary that our naval defenses should be in tirst rate condition. Whether tlus counection exist betwosn tho immenso naval preparalions making, and the negotiations now goipg ou with England, time alone can te!l, Buot it a conflict with that country were to bo pro- vided agmwuat, it ia very plaiu’ that our Govern- went would take exactly tlo same courso which it is takiog pow. 1t was provided in the Troaty of Washivgton that n Commis- sion ~ ehouid be asppointed « within ten years to dotermine lLow much mnbey wai duo to Capada on aceount of tho tights grauted to United States flehermen to fish on tlie aoast of the provinces in excess of tho rights granted to Cabadian tishermen to fish on tho coast of the United States, Four and & balf years bave clapsed, and yet this Comminsion {8 Dot organ- ized. Queon Victoria's Government appointed o Commissioner, but our Government bas refused to sliow tho Commisalon to urganize on account of the exorbitant demands of the English and Canadian Governments. Duriog the session of tho Jowt High Commission, it was offered an tho part of our Goverwmont to pay $1,000,000 for these fishing rights, but the matter was left unsettled, and pow the Cavsdian Goversment sska for & sum vaatly greator than this. **Our Government s resolved not to concedo theso demands. 1t is very evideut that if oor Goveromeut contemplates ooy trouble nith Eu- gland tho negotiatious with Bpain stford a very cunvenicnt skield for tho rou! purposo of the Government," TATER. The forogoing is aupplemented by tha follow- ing dispatch from Washington this ovening : ** Wheu the Joiut High Comwmisston, 1o Mary, 1871, pigned the Ireaty of Washington, loaving the question of the rolstive value of tho tishing right granted the oitizens of tho rospective countries undeterminod, and relogating 1t 10 Commission for seitlement, it saved for England the right ebo wanted to lay claim for an indetl- nite amount of damages for the Usuadian fish- ones, and left the way open to a confliot botwoon tue two countrics over the daterminatian of this smount. What our (Government thought the fishing rights graoted iu the Eightoonth Articlo of tho Troaty of Washington wortt is indicated by tho offer mado on our part by Attorney- General Williams of 81,000,000, The Engiish refused to consider tuis offer, sod 8 Commussion was propoaed, une member to o appointed by the Premident of the United Htates, one member by Her Britannio Majesty, and m third by the represantativa of Austria and Huoogary at the Court of London, 'This was what England really wantod—a tnibunal bofore whioch she could pre- sont an enormous claim by way of offset to tho award to bo made at Gonevs, and which was aftorward made. It will bo scen that, in tho ap- pointment of the Commission, England maui- festly had the advantage, as the Austriau Minis- ter at London, it may be assumed, would bo likely to be more favorsbls to Eogland than this country. DBy the langusge of thia troaty our Governmont 18 bound to pay to England any sum which tucse threo men, two of them almost sure to ba in favor of Eugland, might assoes upon us, 1f tho Commission was onco 10 opera- tion thero would be no way out for our Govern- meat, This oxplains why our Goverument has not allowed the Commission to arganize. Tive years will have elapned next May dnco tho adop- tion of the trenty. The Queen Arpoiutsd bher metber of the Commission long sz0, and thu respousibility for dolay ia wholly witl residont Grant aod Mr. Fish. “No wouder the Cruadiaus ara impatlent and todignast. The Englih Gov- ernntent Liaw presented on thelr buhalf anlaim vastly greater than the aum originaily offerod by our Government, and is now waltiog for the e portunity to presa the claima before the Con. miseton, There is reason to behove that the Euglish Oovernment, fluding our Government whooly ludisposed toproceed to the adjudication of tho award, bas sdopted a firmor tono and in. dicated s intention ot pressing its demand. 1t is plain that they bave obiatued s very great ad. vantago overus, and they du not propons to Jose this advantsge by the dilatorineses of our Goverament. In fact, the English have com. pletely turued the tables upou our Govern. menty and whereas we completoly dufeated them at Geneys, ti 6 now obtained an ad. vantage iu diplomacy quite ss groat as we had aver them at Gooeva, 1o presonting tlus enor. tmois claim for the flskuries, they onl, fallu\v our exsmple I presonting tho tudirect claima at (leneva. England s now firmly supporting the Canadian Goverument in the demand for the determinstion of the smount duo bor under the treaty, aud but oue Lonorable coursa seewms to remaln to our ‘uumu‘mll‘u::&. Itisto n{'\uu abe molutely aud at auy risk to recognize tho cnore mous c{um- which Canada has pressuted. Ilthe erto Mr. Fuh has succeeded lu dolsyiug the question by a diptomatic corzespondence; butthe Govarnment st London and Ottawa Lavo becowe vory dissatistlod with thla delay, 'The question must ote lung come up squarely, Eugland boin, the pruponent, whetber the United States will or will not proceed Lo orgenizo tho Cowmission, aud allow the nniount of the fishery damuye to be doterminod., **There [s reason to bellsve thiat thia [xuue hag alzeady arisen, aud that our Uovernment is pre- psring to reply, once for al, that it will not orgsuize tha commission while tho Csuudisu d mandy are so exorbitant, aud that it will novel undor -ng circumstanoes pay the awouut od, . Nothivg can be plaser than that our Gov- ernmeunt, in makivg this reply, must 0 it tirmly ana forcibly, and must bo propated to sustaiu the refusal with its army aud avy, if noed be. Horein thero is every reason to be. Lave will be found tho ultimate explasation of the extraordinary naval preparatious vow mak. ing in this country. A survoy of what ia doluy at the differont yards any ports show that it i not an oflensive war agaiost some other power, but a atroug defensive position which our Goy- ornment is assuming, In this connoction the dispatchos from Newport conesrning tha ordors to the torpedo fleot are of great importance. In the sama conpso- ton the preparations making to protect the month of the Mississippi from the approach of a bLontile fleet are of grest significance, Itis vrobable that by midwintor every port on onr wholo connt will he effectually guarded by tor- podoes and iron-clada. 'The appsrent concentrae tion of naval forcea uouth of Now York may be only & clever ruse to throw susplcion off the roal {ntention of the Government, but in coo- centrating a Iargs tloet of fron-clads at Norfolk and Fortress Monroo the Governmont is oniy taking tho most proper courds to dofend the Chesapeske Bay aod the Gn;ltol, which, in the Jaat war with Eogland, proved to be onr most vulunrable point. It is uonocessary to say that I our Qovernmant were going to chooss $he time to wnako a firm dofense agalnst foreign naval assaults, it wonld choose the season of miidwinter, whon atr flahing-vensals havo ro- tnrned from their atations along the Cauadian coast, when onr whols northern bordsr fa abso. lutely sealod to foreign fleets by ths ire, and when the storma of the ocean renders it excesd: :m:tc.hflh:ulx. lfor irou-olad vessels to cross the At. antic, " When Gen. Shorman had a four bours' talk by tolograph with the Pro<ident the other day it wan ofticially denied that the subject under consideration waa our relations with Bpain, but It may not ba denied that the matters talkcd abont wera the avallability of the army for snd- den defenne agatnat 8 forefgn war, ts tole. graphic inierviow was extraardinary, and is one of tho moat significant clrcnmatancen that has been mentioned i connection with the rumors of war. Another notablo {act {a that the English preea at thia time betrays a remarkable futercet in our naval preparations and our foreign rels- tions generally, and seems to be far more ox- cited upon tho subject than our own nawspa- pers. Considering the pravity of our relationa with England, ic is troly remarkable that the Amenican public has remained in auch complots bliceful ignoranes of tho facts In tha camo.” .. AMUSEMENTS, " ADELPHI THEATRE, Coruer Monroe and Dearborn-sts. 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