Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 31, 1880, Page 6

6 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 31; 1880—TWELVE’Y.AGES. THE CANAL. \ Address -Propared bythe Special : me Committee. Why-It Should Bo Dooponed'and the Tili- nols River. Improved. ‘ Importance of the Work: in War and in Ponce. How It will Cheapen the Cost of Transporting Grain Abroad, . And Thus Give: an Immense tmpelus to the Prosperity of tho Country. In pursuance toa call, a convention of lend- 10g oftizens of the Btate of Llinols wes held on the 18th day of March at Ottawa, for tho purpose of conslderiug and adopting the necessary mens~ ures to sccure the enlarzement of tho Illinois & Michigan Canal to # ship-caual and the Im- provement of tho Ilinuls River. The Conven- tlon called togethor ao very Inrze nuinber of rep- resentative men of the Stute, and, before ad- journment, it ndopted a series of resolutions ‘urging somo action on the General Government to carry out tho project. At thecontinuedmeet- ing an ‘Executive Committee, consisting of Messrs, J, Young Scammon, Lyman Trambull, and Murry Nelson of Chicago, 3, 8, Prottymarn of Pekin, John 8, Leo of Peoria, Willlam Hed+ dick of Ottawa, A. J, O'Connor of LaSalle, Ed- win Porter of Jollet, F. 8. Potter of Heury, T. D. Brewater of Peru, Jobn L. Thompson of Lacon, John Norton of Lockport, Mayor W, , Canp- bell of Havann, H. M,Sluger of Lemunt,C. He Goutd of Morris, and Carter H, Harrison of Chl- ciyo, waa appointed. ‘This Committca mot nt Poorla on April 8 inst, and, aftor consultation, adopted tho fullowing: ‘i Kesolved, That.a committeo of threo be ap- polnted by this Committee topropare un adircss to the pedplo af tho State of [iols and te Con- gress Upon the question of the canal and river » improvement, and also a billon the saine, an hut his Honor Stayor Harrison, Chulrmun of this Committee, bo tho Chairman of sald Gum mittee, : in conformity with the above, Messrs. Barere aud Prettyman wero seleoted as tho other two imembers, and, after the appointment of a Fi- minoy Committee and the adoption of.a resolu- dun requesting the llinols Representatives in Congress to exercise tholr utmost julluence for tho contemplated Improvement, the Committee adjourned subjcot to the call of the Chairman, .Tho Sub-Committee have now tho honor of pregenting to the peuple of tho great Common: weulth of Ilingls and to tho memboN of Con- gress Se ‘ ‘THE ADDRESS CONTEMPLATED ADOVES : and, in thus “dlughurging thelr duty, have not been unmindful uf.the benvy responsibility im- posed upon therm in properly presenting the vast Impurtauce of ‘the enterprise, not only from a eotmmerciul, but a military standpoint. Tho question of cheap transportation has en- gaged tho must earnest and serious attention of our statesmen and ceonouists from tho carliest days of our Rupubla down to the presont day, and will ever clalm consideration. Whatever touckea tho pocket of our people and ofds in the promotion of tha prosperity, commerce, and wealth of the Nation has du gerved and will ever deserve the decpest sollcl- tude, The development of the resuurces of z our vast térritory bas been very largely duo to ' the facilities afforded for chenp nnd easy trans portation, The cnrliestand fullest dovelopmont to fucilitate cummerco between tho different sections of the country was in tho fine of water navigation. Naturo hud profugoly scattered: watercourses all over tho broad expanse of the Amerlean Contmhent, unrivaled in either magnitude, oxtont, or mujesty, but tha {ngonuity, skill, and toll of wan bad-to bo culled Into requisition to se- ‘ Mreat points moro direct and Jurger connee- Nona and comtauutcationy between tho various ieetlons, These'wore undertaken-on o8 irge A seule as menns permitted; and uo one ever questiongd thelr expediency and utility, With tho wonderful growth und epread of rallrouds, short-sighted and narrow-minded persons bayo core to entertain an opinion that cuonls aod water routes for tuternal commerce have Jowt thelr value; but the fact still re- mains, ag attested by the views of wise and able economlsts, that those chutinels are the uly recognized means for tho regulation and *‘mforsement of cheap transportation, Many pane ago Enginnd gave an tminense impel er commerce by wa cularged system of ci and her high prosperity 16 Ww u great extent tite triputable to then, Her expenditures in this fue ure sutd to have exceeded §200,0W,000, Her vast rallway inouopoly, Knowing how-tho canals regulated thoir own tarlifs, huve obtutned cons trol of neurly every or fi the Kingdom, and are us u soulless, fmperishublo estate, nore ap- . pressive to the people of Engloud than bor sereditury nobility ee France ‘bas not been fdlo in making water im-, provements, und pousceses & very coMprehen- Bivo system, : GEnstANY . has of lato you been vury active in cheapening transportation by the lmprovemont of hor waters coursed. Her present elforta tro towards muk- . dog her rivers navigate, Muny streams which Q few yeurs Bluce wore navigable only for very Nght-draught pasxouger ateamers, and wera used more for pleasure excursions than for ab travel, ure nuw bearing the bull of the heavy frelghtage from point to pulnt, and points vontiuous to thelr lines. This ls done by tracting the cuunnels between strong stone dykes, “To pyvercumy tho Increased current thus: cused, endless chulng are stretched from far-, atutant pulnts alony the bed of tho rivers; lyht- draught’ tow-bouts © catch thle ebuln by ua drum, aod aro often seen drawing lives of tows over @ quarter of 4 milo tu length, This system te belug curried out in Btreums horetofure used only’ for transportation . of raft in extreme high water, ‘This ts but; dong on rivers ulong Whose whole length of shoro rallroads aro lugnted, When we remonn- ber that Government Is w Heavy stoekbolder 1 all rallroud companies of Gerinuny, und that by thug making water compete with the rallrond > Jn tho interest of tho people it redives It own proflt, wo must conclude that 2 monmreby gets an example whieh should be fullowed by a gov . ernment of the peoplo and for tho people. “Et Calted States bus nut been wholly Idle in de- veloping her internal water facilities, but his uever sntercd upon a comprehensive system, Her movements hive been more tho elfect of polltical log-rolling than an Intelligent plan for the youd of the people, Individual Stated have, however, dong very much within tholrrespectlyo quarters. , New York completed tho Erie Canal tn 185 at avery grout cost. But the outlsy bas long alice: been repaid many hundred fold, and eaubled hor tu assume the title of Entpirostate, Cuntis at great coat have been finished in sevs eral other Blutes, and hive culletad thy care and cnérgles of thy ablest of their stutesinan, but, uaturtunately their projectors in many tne stances filled to foresee the direouon which ine erensed population would give to the movements: of trude, Conacyuent!y. inuny af these eanuly + have not beer prulitable lavestmonta, and rail: é ronda being subseqrently built and running $1 « the direction of trade movenenta buve appenred wo much more beneticil that thoughtless peopla havo fallen into the ides Uhat cams are not suitable for trafic, We have stated that the Erle Canal made New York tho Empire State of the Union; her statesmen have never lost sight of this faut and are to-dity deeply anxious avout * the effect upon their Bitte of thy enlurgement belog made In the ship-ennul nyatem of Cann, An able article in the Now Yor Herald of lust April sounded the alarm, and culled ite reudora’ 4’ Sttention to THE DANGERS TU NEW YORK'S COMMEQCIAL PROSPERITY likely to result from these Canadian tmprove- Ineuts, Speakinw of tho Welland nud St. Laws sency Canals now bole deepened to twelve toot aod upwacls, the Heruld vpncluded us follows; ‘ After their compienon, uo fow yours hone, " alrect vor ume cau by mide between our like % porta and Europe, aud the wnbition of Cilcaya to beavis reat finporting elty tor distribue ee on in the West will supply return cargoes 0 vesucly which yo out frolyited with grain, ‘Lhe great Allugheny barrier, whlel is jnterruptod it y our favor for tho parsityo uf the Hudsot, duos % But oxlst fur Causa. The range termites tm before reaching the Bt, Lawrence, and tho Falls ‘ of Nlaguru ure the only considerable interrinp: tion to continuous nuvigniion betweun tho Up- © Lakes aud the Athiatic Ocurn, Tho Niagant uirricr is casily Hunked, A. suljeoanal only twenty-suven iniles in length will practically cuayert tho five great lakes into one, with the Bt Lawrency Biver as thelr common autict, Eustern statesmen bave not permitted tho vt water-courses of their seotlon to by nugleoted. But the great West, with its tearmbuy popula- ‘Won wad {te vast und rapid expansion of trida, bardly entered upon the duvelupe Ment of ber ‘watoF navigation, An yout, from ‘tho earliest duyd, the subject of internat navigae on and knproveaunt pf Fiver chugnels thritigh- ’ ot tho Western territory bua elubned aud re dulved the study of Our wisest men and fe Aylators, Ine 787%, duriog the vonfoderuos’ rau ardinunce tur the quvermtmcat of the terri Tory of the United States worthwest of the Only River,” deelurcd ua uy fundumental article of Guinpact, to be forever bludluy on the ©! ‘ Bintea and the proposed Stutes in aald territory, Es *that the ouvigatly wuters ‘Iouding into the ‘Misdleyvippt aud the Br. Luwrence, and the casry= 1g Dlucea butreen tha autue, whull be cumaon ighways und forever free us well to the Inhub- stunts of sald territory and the citizwus of dio riginal ‘United States, and without any tax, impost, or duty.’ ‘Tho act thus denied to the Btate any jurisdiction and right elther to Improve, req: ate, or Interfere with these cummon highways. In April, 1263, the Seerctary of the ‘Treasury pre- rented ‘plans for tm governt ryatem of Natlonal improvement ta Congress, nid catinitted tint tho sum | of 820, 000,tK0) wold “be siifielent to effect the works necessary to confer on the peuple of every sen. tion ull the advantages of reads and cxnnts of whicn the country fs susceptibie.” The annunt application of $2,000.00 was Ngurod aa ainplo to carey out the project within ton years, Tho lm-- provements ware urged as of primary: Uonal fmportance, conducive to the’ gentral walfare, enhancing the yulue of lands, promot- ing useful comimercy, binding tho Union to- gethor by @ community of interest, and const{~ futing an important Dranch of publie defense. The works would have been commenced at thnt time but for the war shortly afterwards waged with England, In hin messago of 1814, President Madison urged upon Congress the necessity of u sb Ip- canal connecting : THE WATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI WITH THOSE OF TAKE MICHIGAN. ‘Tho naval battles upon Lakes Champlain and Untarto showed him that {nn war with the Mo! pr Country its thoutre would be upon our great inland sens. ‘Tho Military Comuittes af the Houso of Representatives made a favorable re~ port upon tho President's recommendation, but, ho warcloaing, the Republic forgot in pence tho feasons of war, In iis megan; to Cong tons on tho Sth of Decembor, 1815, Madison again called attention to the matter, and sald: crs § the means of advancing the public {nterests the occnaion ts a praper one for recutl+ {ng the attontion of Congress tu the yrent im= portanceof establishing throughout our country: the ronda and catala, watch can be bestexcouted under tho National ; unthority. oe + No objects within tho clrele of political economy ao richly repay tha expenso bestowed on thom there sre nono tho vitulty of which is more universally axcertained and nektnowledyeds none that da more honor to the Governaiont, whose wiso and ohlarged patriotism duly appree Gates thom, nor Is there nny country whore Naturo invites morg tho art of mun to complete her own works for hls nccommudation and ben- elit, Tho considerations are strougthened, moreover, by tho potitical action of these fucll- ities for inter-communieation in bringing and Diiding more closely togcthor tho various parts: of our oxtended confederacy, Whilst the Stites: Individually, with nv tnuduble enterprise and emulstion, avall themselves of their local nde yanturs by new roads, by navigable cannts, und by {mproving the streams suaceptable of navi- gation, the General Government is tho more urged to slintlar undortakings, requiring Na- tonal jurisdiction and Nattonal means, by tho prespcet of thus systematically completing 80 testimable a work.” ‘On the 80 of Decymber, 1810, Congress mean- while having taken no action on, the mutter, Prealdent Madison once more referred to the subject, and suid in his messugo: “And 1 particularly Invite ugain tholr attens tion ta tho expediency of exercising tholr c: {sting powers. and, when necessary, of restoring to tho preseribed inode of onlin them 1 onler to effectuate a comprehonslve system of tonds and cans, sueh as will bave tho vifect of drawing more closcly together every part of our conntry, by promottay Iitercourse aod Im- provenients and by {nereasing thy slave of covery bore {on the common stock of Nutional FOS} 5 Pon tho evidont, strongth of this nnd prior reco mmendutions, the Committoe on Roads nud Canals, of which Thomas Wilson was Chain, aubinitted a roport to the House of Repri sentatives an the 8th of February, 1817, rev invnding that tho President * ba’ requested to take mengures for neportalniing us’ far 24 pemctietes and ort to this House at ho next and cvery subsequent session of Congress, such rods, canuls, and improve- monta, in water colraca 18 aro required Ino Rehernl system of Inlund ‘navigation und Inter= course throughout the oxtent of the United Statea anil territories tharcof, best adapted to facilitate the intercourse neceasnry for personnl, commercial, and military purposes.” Bubse- ently In the sumo yenr a ervey was mudo In 4 tho West, and Col. Long, an eminent englucer, reported strongly in favor of tho improvement: of the tne between the Chicage River and Des plaines Hiver, and among otbor things stated that “a canal uniting the waters of thu Tlinols River with those of Luke Michigan muy be con- sidered first In importance of any (n this section of the country, and the construction would bo attended with vory little ex tho manitude of tho objee healtated. and, In 18, the Stato o! pressed her repreagntutives nt Washington for sume decialve and favorable mensures, ybxcqtontly, however, Congress awoke to tho ortance of the Jraprovninsiyt and passed an hes conferiug nyon the State the right to luy out and survey through tha public Innds n route fur the cant, This waa a well-merited con- cosston, and was followed up in 1877 by nnother net, which gave to tho State, to help forward the cotistrudtion of tho, enterprise, ulternite sec- tlons of Jund on ‘eithor side for five miles of tts entire length, embracing 200,915 acres, With thoge two ucts |THE STATE BEGAN OPERATIONS,” and succeeded in finishing tho work In 18{ using thorefor tho proceeds of tho Innds nni tho credit of the Btate, Unfortunutely, filluols had become financially embarrassed, fu conse quence whereof tho orlginal plan of muking the Minos & Michizan Canal deep onough to toat Juke craft and dnep-draught river steamers was ubandoued, and a shallow canil was cut, Mited only to tout burges drawn by Uore-power, This smull ditch, so disproportional to tho yast territory tt wus destined. to drain, yet immense impetis guve on to Northern Iilinofs, and, indeed, to the whole Northwest. Tho Stato hus long alnce been ti. rectly repaid for ts outlay, and tho Ge: Goverment realized rapidly vo the ali seetions of hind reserved, and tho full value o! thoge donated to the State, but the indiroot and yet Immediate benollts accruing to the Com. monwealth und to tha Federal Government waro Incaleninble, running up to muny scores of tnill~ Jons of dol Tniloed it may be safely ueseried that the bullding of this cunal, was a new birth to the Northwest, It culled the attention of tho poople of this und of foreign countries to cho vast and oxhaustless proiries, apronding over 1 healthy tubie- land, whlob waa destined te become the grinury of tho world, and propared the way’ for tho vast network of railways which now cuts in every direction .tho richost portion of the gloho;' a, putt of which In tho life of a living man has deemed trom tho hand of the savage, an yh beon turned into an empire Jarger thin France und Germany together, and with a capueity of production equal to the whole of Europé combined, with Russin, excepted, ‘Tho Minols & Michigan Canal has been ever Bluce Its Inception under tho immediate eyo of the Government, and severnl reporta thereon, embodying surveys made, and urging tho fousl+ Aility of making [to abip canal, pave been Bub- initted to Congross, but without any tunsibie results. Eyery one woo has onrefully examined tho matter hus become convincod of the ime portance of tho Improvement, and satiated that twwottd boot fnouteilable benent not gal to tho grent Northwest, but to the entire Nnilon. Jt would afford, when convert Into a ship cunal, wtnple facilities for cou ine tho heavy morchundise of the Enst to the South and Weat, and tho prouuations of tho vast Southwestorn atid Northwestern States, where you hay “only to Ucklo nature with u hoo to nuke ber smile with rich hurveats" to the Raut, It would atford: cheap rites of trinsportution and gaye tnillions of dollurs aunuully ullke to the produces and tho Sonaumor: pat would afford relor from the grinding exuatlons of carrylog corporations bo~ tween diferent poluts. Jt would tford rollet from tho system af pools for the carrying of the houvy wares and productions of Lustera markets, ‘Tue novessity Cor this improvement is bovomlng more and more uront. Tho rand West is bo cong rapidly Aied up, and ber produstions in rin, HtOUk, ininurals, ete, are ANNUITY ARAL nig lantis. proportions. ‘Thy, inerenge in her populution ts fully aluwn by ruference to ALutls= fex, by which iti found thar the States of Tl nul, Towa, Wiiconsin, Miunosota, [Cunsas, Mls- sour), Nebraska, Colorade, nud the 'Perrivork whieh would pour in iarge portion of thelr eon nyadities through this oamil, dddod to thole ine Babitants over 3,500.00) from tho year 1) to 1870.und during tho Inst deoade Wo ‘nro ware ranted to believe from tho best information ob- twinuble nenr.y 4,000,000 more, THY INCREABE IN PODUCTIONS OF ORATX fn thaso Stutes hun been even more marked than tn populudion, ‘faking the panluetions of 128) And those of 1878 wo til the Inerunsuy to hive beon of wheat nbout 124,010o0 bushals, and of corn over 435,000,003 bushels, 18 will be atiown by the aubjolned tablos, and tt'cortatnly shows tho Lofritory referred uw woctby of imore curucst wt- tention thin uver bofore, > vRODUCT OF WiteAT 4x ConN YOR 1800 AND WHEAT, OURN, we al, Ania. SES) SL Athy UIST, 777 Pr Lada 435} Ect TAL A) GLAU MO) SS) Suef bay) f° MUD Nad TE RISTO PTC Bt i seh, MIL, HW rm Gatomao aid] 4 a Horritorlon. L070,G2) Madar saRehai] 24.00 EU ERSeM ree) Tatas. .eo| SOBA | on Tho wheat crop of Uilnols for. 179 was abot bushela, and Gf carn about 505,000,000) bushel ‘Tho total ylold of whet for 3870 bas tho United tutes wai 413,155,000 bushols, and of corn 101680,00) bashohi, tho above mined goven States whieh will be Uy Lenestted by: our aanil produced, neurl wb 3870+ tenth of tus att Irtyeolyht States and ‘Turritories, These Stutes producod in the sume. 74 about 45 per. cont of all tha outa. and over W per cont of all tho rye grown fu all the Rated, ‘the West fe rapidly growing In Importance in tho jlue of wheat aud corn production, und the Bust relatively deulluiog. ‘Tho following tabic vhowlng the percentage of wheat grown ii the all tho whuut yrown tu Atlantic belt of Stutes, in the Conteul belt, and i ibe. trets-Alaaiaatppt Btutes will exomplity ‘uc j 1819, 1859. 1809, 1877, Atlantic.. O14 LT 178 Contrul belt. 423 G18 480 * 40.5 64° 17 UL Aho 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 i veurs tho differende could be shown yet more mark but we have pot at our commend accurate data, aa ‘Iwouty yuurs ugo the contro of wheat pro- diction tn tho Ualted States wns near the enst- ern Hino of tho State of Ohio, ‘To-tay It is 9 Uttle enstward of a line running north and south (hronaeh the centre of Ttnoia. ‘Tirenty: Zo the centre of corn production, was tnt nian, Voeny it ia rather Kt wheat. corn, and gata erp tho United sti and of Eurupegrown in 1872 was ns fottows: Whent, + T,712, 003) Corn. 53,672,000 Oat 818,000,000 ‘Tho United Statos produced of the wheat prod= ‘uct moro tht one fourth; of the corn- more than five-siztha of tho wholo, and of, on more than one-fifth of the whoio, ‘ht wo see that seven States, Llnofa, Wiaconsln, Minnesota, own, Missouri, Novrueka and Kansas, produced one-gixhth of. all the. wheat, nenrly onte-lnlf of all tho corn and wbout, ones twelfth of all the ots grown ii tho United, Btatexand Europe combined, Tho export of whent fn 1873 was 75,054,000 bushels, and . tho to- Ant yaluoof exports of broudstuits’ In. 167) .was $310,555,100. Thus we sco how Important a factor these soven States inake fi tha problem of fecd~ ing tho worl and in adding to tho woulth of our common country, To onnble the people of tha West to realizo the full benefits of hor vast pro- duations, 2 CHBAP TRANSPORTATION TOWARD THA EAST find to tho ecuboard [a absolutely Indispensable ‘Whilo this 14 2 necesaity to na, it will be newrl, ns benoticinl to the people of the Euat; for it wilt enable them to duvotg thole energics more full: to thuntifactorics; will relense thelr poor lands from the onerous Jabor of producing cverenls, and will give it up to the dairy, to pasturage, and to the production of garden and vegetable crops. ly being Ku employed,. the worn and tired soils of our Bastern brothern will be ro~ stored tosomothing of their viryin productive: ness, Tho West fs dependent upon tho Ine of our xrentlakes und upon raflronds forthe mean of transporting her vast crops enstwand. In 180U_ thore Wore. about 24,00) mites of rile roud in the United States; In 1880 thoro ure over 85,000 miles. ‘This Increase ts marvelous, and would sccm to olfer to the producor all tho fncllities necessary for roasonnble trausporti~ tion, These roads employ 45013 freizht cars, with a’ capnelty for carrying ten to fourteen tons cnoh,_ They ugyregnte a curry ing enpacity of from 4,0%,u00 to 6,00",182 tong, Hut tho jron horse hns uy insatiable muw. le catsof thofat- ness of the fickd, and his hot breath blasts tho greca pastures, Can tho people of tho West undot tha Lust become less dopendent upon him? Wo bellove they can, and we bellevo that u proper enlargement of tho Ilmois Michiyan Cann , and a propor Improvement of tho [nols River ‘will got only be a step int the right direction, but Will _be a Yast onward: strido. Tho following ahows tho tounge of vessels built for the years ven, and dJndicates that tha inerenea has not eon as marked a8 in the construction of rail- ro 1877. | 1878. On tho Misstsstppl.| 23,701] 25636) B1.003| 09,028 Gr the Hiasesstpel.| Sa ortl aetanl “wal Ie ‘Taking toanngo bullt alnce 1865 Inciusive, the total Up to 1878 was, on tho Mississippl Itlvor nnd its tributaries, 005,851, ang on tho [nkes 995,000, The Whole number of Amoricun vessels upon tho Nurthorn Inkes 1s 4,087, with a remistered tonulge of bi; gd tons, and with n carrying oa puelty of 900,730 tons, “In addition thereto tho tonnige of Ontario Is 219,059 tous, aitd upon the Westorn rivers ure 2,670 vessels, which ia more than Gne-fifth of the total number, ond tha tonnnge given is mare thin one-fourth of the Potal tonnage of tho shipping of tho United tutes, - THE COMMERCE ON THE GREAT FRESH-WATER | : . | SAS along our northern borders 16 already vast, and Ia steadily growing. ‘Theso Inkus have a shoro Hino of 6,000 miles. “With the exception. of a portion of Lake Suporfor thoy wash one of tha jnogt produutive lands on earth. Thoy strotch through an empire. The cloarnnces from tho port ot Chicago wore i 1879, 30257 barrels of our, 17,622,704 Lustiels of wheat, 41,601,000 bust= ols of corn, 1,589,400 bushels of onts, 1,210,165 bushols of ryu, 165,707 bushels of tarley, and 472,145 pounds of’ xrass seed, togatber ' with other niscelinnevous articles, Durlug the fecal yeur ending Juno 9, 1870, a stream of 1.705 steamners, (Ml schooners, 4.10% Dares, 1,108 ecowa, Bz barked, und i beige, being edi) Vessels, passed through the river at Do- troit. The number of tons conveyed on Ameri-. ane Buttons in the nbove number amounted to 2.1000, 000, . ‘The urrivals and departures of steamers and barges for 1878 were 2.22 artivals and 2.48 de- partures, ‘Tho enlargement vf tho Hilnola & Lich Cungl would at ono permit tho onsy transit of all theso crafts from any pant on tho river and on the Inkes and proyeor grentsorvico in not only relloying the producera of cotabina- tlon rates by rail, but save expanses now. Incl. dont to frequent tranahipments, ‘Tho value. of aabip canal for the shipment of tho vast stores of gratn und other commodaties cennot in: fant be fully estimated, When tho queation of tho ruposell lmproveimentenmeborore the Nutional Ponta of Trado nt its session in Patinderphta. tn dung, 18:0, n prominunt merchant of lows yory forcibly gu! “It Is a fact, and Twant tho business-men hero Tuer; us un argument in favor of to vote thut some expenditures on short water Maes, that It has cost ulimostas much tor five years past to got a bushel of grain across tho Bato of Litnola, in avernye distance uf 2u0 miles, from poulnts of ahipment on the Mississlppl, uinost na much 1s tho 1.000 miles to New York City from Chicagu, Thore ure a number of rallroads runulag ucross the State of {linola und thers 4s a ennul of 100 miles from Chicayo weatward reaching within sixty-five mites of the Mississippi iver. These alxty-tive wiles of new wark will give a water Ino nerosa tho Btato of Tlluols from tho Miysis- sippl River. Now, alr, whut bas becn tho elfvot ot that canal, a anal canal ut that? The Rock Taland Hallrond rnos parittel 100 urlles with that canuls an that 100 milos the price ig only once half what it ts every 100 miles from Chicago west- ward, Inothor words, It hscost from 8 tu 10 cents: n bushel on overy bushel uf gruln to pot itneross: to Chiengu in addition to whut it would be if that cunnl was extended to the Misslasipp! iver, ‘Pho surptus corn and whent of fowa and iuno- gota lone In 1b72 was ovor 60,000,000 of bushels, and the wanton upon that, if this ony short canal, this ou little fink of water communication, was nado, would Lo more thin $5,000,000 a yeur, oF more thin enowgh to build # canal annually, «e+ Minols bas not near so much Interest in tho construction of that short water Uno te tho States west of tho Mississippi River, the grent graln-growing States of tho West, hey DAVE @ greater interest than the State of L nolg, Aud uot thoy alone,—wll the vastern cou try [e Inturested in sqving 8 or 10 conta a bustel on the grain counting across the State of Ttinois, “Tho City of: New York, tho City of Philudole phia, the City of Baltlinore, every Oevnn polut in the East baving uny connections with Chlongo, Is interested, because thoy all will havo # aburo Inthe eaving.” . ae ‘The sume difference in rail .and water chiurges for transportation still hold ood, tts the records willshow, Theetfeot of ee a enna as id des aitud by tho people of tho Wost, aud by iil inter- ested 1a chunp transportation aver the whole country, will be very conspionous nt a grout minny points west of Chlaygo und the MI tpt Rivor. Witness tho result -by the Erie Cunul, ‘Tho last report of tho ‘freusury Department ou internet coumnurco for 1879 bas this to way on tho questions ape a8 * Although with respect to through, trafilc tho Erle Cann! sucvceafully competes with tho New York Contrnl tallrout: only for the trangporta- tion of grain, minerals, Jumber,. and other conese frofehts, yet that waterway operates ty a very Importunt regutation of tho nitea which ean bo chutged on that rond tor all the hiyher and better-payiog: clusses of freight. the rates by the ‘roud an any of these bieber elugses of freight are yery much advanced, a large deticetion uf -trittia wt once takes place to the slower but chouper mode of: transporte ton hy the canul.’ Hull rates aro with rofercive to this continggnoy.” 2 Another illustraiion may alsnbo found In the computition butweon thy northorn raliconds and tho water line from Duluth, Shou, to New York City via. the tnkes und the Erlo Canal and tho Tivdsou River, toner to ineet tho conipetl- ton of the Duluth route nn abatemunt le made y the Chicayro rules In favor of the tram. portation of ull such produeta of Minnesota 4 woul bu likely to roach thy avabonrd by way of Dutath and tho lakes, * But jt ly unnocessury to dwell npon this part of tho yucation, Suillce it to way thut, WEIN THE SUL CANAL 1X EXINTENOE, - the West would save millions of doltarg (n ablp. munt froights to the Atlantie coast, Pho. vast storchoures of gran, vor. ete, woull finda cheap and way autlet over the canuk ‘Thy bun druds of Veasula Honting upon tho waters of the Misslsaippl und Miasourt Wvers would come to, ourduors and the doors af Kastern ancrebasts Tontod with Freight, sand in repurn the: goods, Taploments aud luxuries of 10 gpalent — Enat nt bo wurtied to all ‘polits on these inagniticont sheets of water and thu Taredivtribuuing tributirles. Instead of being rected elsewhere, te shipusents fron st. Louls and Kanes City wold be: inde through huproved water channels of Lilnols to Chlenjsea and Ubence by lake te the Kast, some flea oF the extont of thy trado (hut could be su. cured and would cone through te Garden City Without any etfurt muy be gulned tron tlignios, dat the whole nounitude of Uhe busitiess thyt would did wn outlet to the Kustera tutes vin, Chivago cunnot be Cully roulized, usu very lures] And tneuleulable porcon of the fimenae pros * dustions stiown by tha tibuluted stutoment ven ubove now Mids it Way get theauna bolats Fitortucdinte betweon St Laie and St, Paul by ral and, water outside of Chleayu, but In tho event af te opening of tho ship-cunnt would seek tha nenreat river puluts und: ewe wo by heap water mMtos to -thulsslestiqution. +L) rowt wud present trude of Bte-Louis can Judged by tho following: % ® Necelvod by rall,.vhSORW Och AABN vecl ver by ra! a ei i Muculved Uy evokes Gs 00 ."T7Uy J -OUyAss Total tons... Buipped by rath. TT Blipnod by rivor.e.. aT Total tong, .+-+r0. 2,002, 80 pommel 1,80),650 =))083,KR0 ‘OIL BIT 9,403,234 * 2,200 LS USSTES “BOLO Tooulvod by ‘rail Tecelved uy riyer, ‘adtat tons. ‘ob HTH 8K205 Shipped by rull. Tow,0s0 1001400 Shipped by rly GUUS = 69,005. ‘Total tons... 22 ATE 1 HSA Iu LS tho wid oF thy oily whe 14,225,431 bushels, and in 1879 17,093,003 bushols, of which the shipments were 71u2070._ ‘Tho re- celpts of corn wero §,200,720 bushels int 1878 and T3R,GH6 Dutshols in 187i, OF whieh latter 8eI11,005 were slipped Bast and Bout, more, than one Rall pOtNg to Barope retulpts from colton awere 2d bates bn EtRd and ahS au tuthos 111 1870 oF white 2, 121 way ahipied Ti the furmer year tothe Heat nnd az {i the Intter year, “Tho movomente of ariln and flour to and from Kane aus City wore a8 follows: Heovlved from tho North. Heeclved from tho Bout, Mecvived from tho Baw Tteucived from tho Wes Shipped Shipped to tho Enat. Shipped to the West, see According ton rechnt report of n reliable sta tlattcinn of Washington, It appears that about 75 PReoene BE the wruln shippod muat from Kansas Jity moved direct to the senbonrd, abouts por ecnt to Chicago, and from 1 tod per vent tose Touls. Tho competitive feures ly ‘by tho Wabash Rallroud Company trom polnts {n Mis. sourl to Tulodo, nt tho tino Inst your when jt played, in sporting parlance, ‘a ‘lone hand" aginst other rods, and aubsequent poolliy arrangements by which trafic was npportioned among the cumpanies to tho compact, hve dono much to direct the line of shipments from Kan- ans City; but convort the Michigan Canal into o ship canal and you nt ance eecure nt Ferg lane portion of {ts Ditsincss nnd break up tho combl- mition by whieh railroad companies Keep up tho freights, and farce persons ving away from tho Uenutlts of water eonipotition to pay doublo oF troble tho charges for transportntion in the Grent West. In the States named ubove, tho whole numbor of cattle estiinated for Jun- unry, 187, Jn tho Jast report of the Agri- cultural Departmunt, wat 7,000,000, sheep 8,300,000, hogs 11,604,000, GF this Stock Chiongu recelved Inst yent 448.300 live hows sind 01,044 dressed, and shipped 1,002,601 Hive nnd 40,(2¢ dresscd. But, aside from it come mercial stundpoint, the oitlargomont of tho onal 18 e A MITITARY NECESSITY. It fs demanded alike “by builtins, pedenors the nevessitiva of commerce, and politic! wiadom.” In the event of a war with Great Lrltaln, it would bo a very ensy matter on her pret to send into the lakes, On the complotion of her two new canals, x Novt of war vessels and eupture tho dufenseless alties and towns slong tho way, und command the entire eltuation in the Interior, Our country Js practiently defenseless, and could make bnt feeble resistaiice to an attack frou England's mon-of-war, Tho tmportunce of bee fog wblo. to commnind the situntion on our lakes has beon fully appreciated by that country, She Bas constantly aimed to Improve and enlarge hor Canndiag canals so that benvy vessels eguld cuslly find entrance to the lakes; and the Welland and St. Lawrenco Canals is the Inst pret stroko of work projected to facilitate her. movemonts In times of, peaco on a nilssion of comunerce, and In tines of waroninronds of doy~ station and dostruction, Our statesmen of enrly days comprehended! the dangers. from this ‘source, ind called full nttention to the matter, ‘On the 6th of July, 1847, a vonvention waa held in Chicago, nnd the necessity for Improving tho canal was duly set forth by such monas Gov, Hbb of Ohio, Senator Corwin, Erastus Corning, John C. Spencer of Now York, Thomns J. Binge ham of Pennsylvanian, ‘Thomas Allen of Mise gourl, and othor noted individuals at tho timo, ‘on the ground of military ug well os commerctitl requirements, ‘fhomas H, Denton, who was un- nble to nttend, sent totter tu tho convention end culled its attention to tho fact that inore than thirty yetrs provious he — hnd writton nud published: urticles ino St Tanis paper in favor of tho project. a Ho bolleved in bringing tho navigation of tha IM nols River within the cirole of interual {me provement by the Government; and never doubted tho expediency or couutttutiountity of such 2 course, In June, 1803, whan tho Tte- Delllon was at its bight, snothar Convention was held in Chfcago, and uno the gentiunion Ine strumental in bringing if abot were H. Le Dawes of Maxsnchusetts, J. 8. Morrill of Vere mont, 1. Fenton of Naw York, Owen Lovo- ey, of lilinols, C. 8, Fessenden of Maine, F, P. MMalrof Missourl, E, 1. Wishburne of Ilnole 1.G. Phelps of Calitornis, Willtam Windom of aol, Aniusa. Walker of Sassachusctts, J, Doolittle. of Wisconsin, % Chandler of Bichigan, L, M. Morritl of Maine, Churles Sam- ner of Mhssachunetta, Lynn ‘Trumbull of Lilt nol nd Henry Wilson of Massachusetts. ‘This Convention discussed tho situntion exhinustive- ly, aud‘in one resolution declared “That we regard tho enlargement of canals betweon tho Missisvipp! River and tho Atlantle, with canalé duly connecting tho lnkes, as of yrent Importance, We delleve such enlargement, with dimensions suiliclont to piss gunboatefrom. the Mississippi to Lake Michigan, and from the Altantle to and from tho greitt lakes, will Lure nish the cheapest and most ellicient means of protecting tho Northorn frontier, and ut the Bum tine will promote the rupld developmont and portnunent upton of our whole country, A momorlul was prepared aud sent toCongress urging the Improvement for war ts Well us coins mercial purposes, Consreas, althonyh Its ntten- don had boun called the Ned yrevious to the sine question, paid no beed to it. in the pre+ vious your Frank P. Blulr introduced a vill Hine iting tho appropriation for tha cami! to $10,000, WO, Any.excess of expenditures beyond this dum was to be paid by tho State of IMnola, which amount way to be oxpended only os fret wi the tolls suoulll pay- tho’ intorest upon the 0. WE PRESSED 17S PASSAGE, * belloving it a twin mensure With that which had passed for tho construction of tho Paciile Rall- roud. “Stis," he suid, “for the dofonse of 5 portion of our coungy which is in Steelf as inportant, if not zroi@ly moro important, thin that which wo propose to defend by the con struction of the Fucitlo Railroad. A amull tect of fight draught,” he continued, “heavily armed {ronclad yunbouty could inv short month pass up the &t. Lawronce Into the Inkea, aud shell every oity. from Ogdenabury to Chiongo, — It could at one blow awoep Our commerce from tho entlro chain of waters. Such fleet would bayo Hein its power to tnfllot 8 loss to -bo reckoned conly -by hundreds of iniilions of dollars, so vast ig tho wealth this oxpoged to the depredations of u muritine enemy,” In March, 162, the Constitutional Coavention, of tha Stato of illinofs was in sosslon, composed of the lending minds of the State, nnd during ita doliberationa tho folowing resolution was adopted; that ° “Phe ‘improvement contemplated would not only be of great utility to the Stata of Iitinols, butoft puramoune importance iu thine of war, olthor Corcign or domestie, to the defense and ¥ f the Union: and that this state iporate with tho General Guverument in nn for its speedy construction.” in round numbors, | anny pI ‘That the fears of danger from the frontler are not Io and lnuginury is bhown by the ox pressed opliatons of; tho Engtlah Government and othora in that country. “Hla Mujesty hus buco pleased," says the * ‘ablo of anactof the Canadian Purllauye so direct measures fo ho immediately tw&... under tho superine . tondence uf the proper military depurtment, for constrnoting a eannl connceting the wators of Luke Ontario with tho Ottuwa iver, aud afford~ ing o convenient navigation tor the trunsporta- tion of navil and aatlitary stor During the Daron det excitement the Tandon Fumes cry hg worst part of tho atrugitle, how- over, wil not bo on tho Atiantia senbourd, bat on tha grout lakes of Upper canada and North Ameri We nro glad, thorefore, to be able to tell our readers that thls danger hus been fore seen and amply provided auuinat.” With the Ifinola & Michigan Cann! a ship canal, n Ueot of gunboats, in time of wir, could) come through tho Misalssippland be prepared for any threatened attuek or any, omorguncy. Had tho work heen undertaken and fintebed bo foro the Kebelilon, It would have sayed tho Gove erumnns mitiions of doflird inthe transporta: tlon and movemont of troops wid munitions uf wir, Where its: benefits are ko xrent, there ought to beno healtation on the part of the Government to undertake the improvement, Congress hig expended somewhere Inthe vieine ty of 300,000,000 for scucoust defenses, but only a incro bugatelle, an infuitesimal amount: not Worth mentloniay, on tho Cunativa froutior, No figures ura ut hand showing what Ureat Britain bus expended American frontier, but it Is enfo to nse sume “that it rune into very ny millions of dollars. Jf our Govurnniont desis w perpuriate tho Hopablic nnd tho Union by an indissoluble community of hutereste, habits, and utinchmorts, aud give celerity of movement to he military, it should lose no'tinie in construct= ny the canal; for, ad Wagbington bas snd, in tine of peace preparo for wat.” Tn ylew of tho Vast {mportunce of the project, the Stute of Ill- nole would no doubt: \ WILLINGLY SURRENDED 178 MGUT AND TITLE : TO THE CANAL totho Govornniout, und repose its control and manngemont with it, where It belong, accunt> Ing to tho orlginal compuot of 112v. . Thu Gonere ab Thinent could then earry out the origt+ nal dealgng, and enlarge the canal w led feut in width, with locks seventy-tve feet wide by uw feet. In teogth, making it capable uf carrying steaptond and vessels of 1,200 tona burden, ‘two With duns, in ddditian to the two now thon be constructed so 18 to er nuvigublo for the largest steamers tho Alisdlvalppt Tho Milnols River froin the Mouth to Li Salle, 215 polled; und tor this pure pose, and the furtbor payeers ot ¢excuvations, jweponilug, ete, of the hed of tho river, it is eathe imutod by the chydnver of the Wuter Departineut that only $1,000,000 will be required at tho outser, Tho canal, whieh ts ninuty-ax und oue-halt wiles lung to Ladaile, wixty feet in surfuce width, ax feet in depth, and bua eeventeen locks, and which li opan, on af uyeraze, elght months of tho year, could noxt claim attention, aiid be enlurged og rapidly as tolls pald luterustam tho Aingunt invested. $1807 Gen, Wilken mado cureful survey ot tho Utlnots fiver and the Hite nos & Abehiran Cunt), and reported to thi Secretary of Wir, Ber, Stunt, that to deepen || the canal to soyen feet, with a width of J feot, with locks: 60 feot lung aud seventy> five. tet wide. wis un cually peiteticable Undortaking, and that Luke Michigan would aiford un exhauy}iess supply of water, ta feod it, The lake would feed w much deeper ‘canal, but be thought it not wise to give it nclopip greater than euvon feat, beequav fram the month of tha (Unola River ta dt. Louis’ the ebannel of tho SMisataslppi at low water was only wis and a bull feet Hou. Wibtian's plan’ Was ty deupen: tho guuul ently to Jotler,. aad ies, thones ta the AMississippl to haprove che Uiinula River by locks for. her and dang. To esthuated the entire cost ut wbout $18,000,000, but euch uetiuinte was mado when o vommodhy and labor was far bighor than one nt or thin We con agai expect, Uiiuots hud 85.410 squury nilless Wiscousin, Be 3 fowa, 05.Ut5; Alissourt, Rez Minnesota, 84,551 Cabot Keusus’ BRIN; and “Navraake, 76-000: ‘Theso soven States are dircotly and grea tly in~ torcsted Ina full and a freo conneetion bo tween tho waters of tho Mississippi and thone of Like Michiran. | Thelr total aren ts 47018 #q nee niles, nearly four thines ng large as all of CF rent Britalny Intger than Frango afd Qormar yor Franco and Atatrit, or Auatrin and Gerin tS. rly aa lunge na either vf THoso and Bp \ int and italy cambined, ‘They have probably ty.8- thirds as tuueh tiiable Ind as all of Burut wy Jenving out Russia, Tt ie those States whic tt compete with Rusgia in feeding tho world: fo. world no rapidly in hor own favor within tho past twoyonre, A fow centa A bushel of the ransportation of grain from the Western fetd to the nenbuard dotcrmines whoethor England shall got tho bread supply . FROM THE MUBCOVITE OR PROM FREM AMEMIOA pei the four yours onding Deo, iil, 1864, Englund recvtyod from Rugsla 47,070,000 bushols: of wheat, itil from tho United States 127,057.00 Duebols; while duriug tho four years ending Dec, th 187 she had from the former country 117,000,000 bushels, and from this country 116,400,- 000 bushels.” Why was this vast increase from Russin and relative deorcass from us? Lecausa Hussia had extended her faollities for transpor tation from her grain-producing lands to Odess: her seaport. The cost of carrying a bushel o! whent from Chicago to Now York was up to 1873 over 20 cents per bushel, but from that your freights dropped down until In 1873 0 bushel uf wheat was carried to New York from Chi- engo for 10 cents o bushol. Mark the result: Our exportation to Hngland jumped from 83,000,000 bushels to 50,000,000 per annum, and Russia fell off from 23,000,000 bushels to 15,000,- 00, “White bigh mites rulod from tho Weat, to the East the taemers of Iowa burned corn for fuel ind their innds wore dovoured by mort- parr®. Low frolghts onabled those farmers to fond n mighty haud toward paying tho debt of tho Nagiow, and loosened tho grip of the mort- gages frum tholr homosteads, But our people should not shut thelr eyes to tho fact that ius sin hos been striving manfully to inerense bor transportation facilities. Wars and Nihitlatio troubles have checked her in ber undertakings. ut for theso our, farmors would have already felt her a8 a suceeasful competitor,—so success ful, perhaps, that our flelds would bave proven unproiltatie investments, Five yours of peace in! Hussin may again enable her t drive us onto tho Engitsh corn market, Wo should bo watch ful, and do all wo can to Incrensa our own fnctl- ity for euubling tho farm to be alongsido tho slip, Acent n bushel reduction of freight from tho Pilsaiesippe to Lake Michigan would imnke at least cents ndditional profit to the farmer from his nere of wheat or corn; five cents reduce Yon would mnke a dollar profit, and that, tuo, at wt production of twenty Dusliols per acre; but the avernge crop throughout tho prairie Btatos of corn, Whaat, and onta I not fur from forty bushels por ncre, thus doubling the profit above stated, Now todecpon and enlarge tho linols & Michignn Canal so as to enablo steamers to take on froights from river ports and to steam all tho way toChicnage would cheapon freixhts from all these ports from one to five cents per bushel, Isfttoo much, thon, to any that said canal would increaso the yalte of land in all of tho seven States we hnve named? | Suppose such incroase of value should become $1 per acre, : BEY THR VAST RESULT. Thero are in thoso soven States 360,860,720 acres, One dollarin nore would be oye .000, 000. Ton conts an were would bo $30,086,000, | This fm: provement would cost from $15,000,000 to £20,- 00,000, or ubout flys conta por aera on the lunds in those seyen Stutes. Nsoussing this canul question, tho Hon, Horntio Seymour, probably the best ‘Informed ian Jn America upon tho agrioulturul resources of tho Unitod Staten, aud, n fow weeks since to ono of this Committer, that the Imprayoment to tha Innds wost of tho Missiasippi which tho canal would bring about woukl pay the National debt, He savo reasons for his opinion, which are too long to be herein incorporated, but to tho hearor they scumned most cogent, Tho beneiltsof this improvemont, whilo direct to the States above nnmed, would ‘be of advantage to all the States of the Union, and directly benoflolal to all of those watered by tho Inkos und by tho AMlsslselppl und ita tributa- ries. Pooplo of Mlinols, shall the eannl be burlt? Shull tho 12,000 miles of navigablo waters of tho impel Aa and its tributaries bo married to tho 6,000 mijos of ahore lino on our great Inkes? look ut the prosperity of the olties and ‘country along these inkes, Tho preseut ceusus shows that thoy bave grown and thriven in the past ten yeurd 18 no othors in the Union have donc. Enlarge this cannl, and the Inkes will have thelr Hine extended through nilles of this State north and south. Tho prosperity of Stato will receive a new impotus, I{inols is to- day the third State in the Union In population, Sho hus the soll ta support % population of 1U,- 0u0,000, and yet bo not crowded. She is more thin one-fourth ns large ag France or Germany, aud nearly « fourth of Austria. Sho. has Ho waste linda; eha can support twica as muny people to tho square mile _ ad olthur of those powerful Empires, Sha paysono-ffth of the entire internal revenna of the Federal Goyerninont; and certainly onc- twolfth of all custom dues are patd by her peo- ple, She has rocofyed but little from tho ed- erulTrunsury; sho glyvea much to it, Shoe hag on ber northeastern corner one of tho most prosperous cities on the continent. Tho man now lives who suw it when It hud not 4 white juan’s dwelling; to-day ho wulks Ita streets on whloh pags over 600,000 of Its cluizens, When this enunl sunll becomo enlarged, stuamers of from 3,000 to 4,000 tons burden shall le ut her douks and unload cotton and sugar direct from New Orleans, The ocean-bound ship, laden to pass. through tho Canudiun canals, will be alougslde of the arent steamers of tho Dissisalppl. ‘Tho Missouri, tho Ohio, and the Arkansas [ivers will through this cane! bo united to Lake Superior d Lake Erle, ‘Cho waters of tho Inkes and tha Misstasippl and {ts tributaries wash tho soil of twenty-one States. This canal will uulte all of these; a bridle will bo put upon tho fron .horsa, and tho farmer will bold the rein. Soulless core }orations will put on the mild manors of Chris- Jun men; One more tink will be forged to WIND TOGETHKIE THR NONTH AND THE SOUTH, tho Foat and the West, In indissulublo bonds of brotherly love, We ask ngutin, do you wish this greut National tmprovemeut to be commenced uud completed? If youdo, you huve but to ex- preesin bold and manly terms yaur demand, wid tho thing will bu done, Suny to your, repro- sontatlyes in tho two Houses of Cangross that tho Ilnols & Michigan Canal must bo en- lurged, and the work will ba coutmonced before anothur Congressional cleotion shall return, Scnutors and Congreasmen love tho dear people, and del’ght to obuy thylr commands, capecially when an election isin the nenr future, inola now bas twenty-one representatiqns in the two Houses of Congress, Bho will probably soon have at leust twenty-six. ‘Twenty-six mon fram one State, and all uf ono tind, will be ablo to convince the two Houses of Congress that tho great etticu of tho lukes sbutl no lougur be lott to the tonder woreius of England shonld a war brouk out. “It Unie of peace prppare for war,” ‘Thus spake, J repeat, the niin whon a world culled bis countey’a futher. Md your representatives no Tongor toturna deat cir to his advice. Do this, and «to ft in terms not to be anlaundorstood, and the mun of 60 will ilyo to be able to anil one mngallicunt steamor from the clear blue waters of Luke Suntan into tho turbulvut Hoods of the Fathorof Waters, = Caurne Hi. Haugan, - 8, Pusrryan,, QUANVILLE BARNEB, a ‘Tho Morse Guard» Ball in London. Landon World, ‘Tho great Sulatustiidey ‘ball {8 over, leavis Pleusant reminiseonees for those who enjoyed ho hospitality of tho officers of the Horio Guards, und burying the porished hopes of tno unasked, Who, “up to tha jast moment, ox- tod yore inirioulots intorposition iu tholr ‘uvor, Lhiave alnee heurd of one young lady ree marking, with concentrated bittorness, * Woll, wonre giving # bull next week, und will take Picciaus euro that wo don’t fnvite any of the hues!" Although the carda wera tasued [In tho name of Col, Owen Wiliums and bie brothor officers, ho was ubly asajated In the somewhat arduous tusk of recelving Petnce of Wales, the us bonorary Colonel of the rey iment, aud by Fleld-Marsbil Lord Strathnulrn, ‘The lutter was sulected to opon the ball with tho Prtnoces af Wales, The Princess of Wales wore tho colors of tho Household Hrigudo (a comptiment: that 1 au sure wis Warmly appreaiuted), und looked cburni- ing né usunl., Most of the ladiws wore dressed In wulte; und tho atray of hostesses drawn’ up to reculye the Prince und Princess of Wales, tho Duke and Duchess of Connmght, andthe King of Grevco wis very bymeneul, several people Tos marking mt they looked liked a bridal group about tu be photographed, ‘Thoy carried yleantia bouqu cordini to the runk of hole way lows; ‘The How drs, Ceofl Ives, Mrs. Fred Burnaby, tho Hon, Merv. Stirling, Lady Kilmar- nock, Ludy Dalrymple, and Sirs. Hrooklohurst, As thoy wero waltiug some time forthe arrival of the King of Greueo and tho Princess of Wales THE TEMPLARS. Some Abou Interesting Information t the Decorations. The Sixteen Arches under Which the 1A Detailed \ Entortt having will bo app those of the Ing-hous beds to sleep In, tion Commnitteo 4, Braman Sec! description of a of heraldry and tho efficlency of display of Lemp! world. toned below, the ‘suporstruct ine are in of a funeral covered with ‘bees, which ground, will be puinted a uross and crown, Pus- glon crosavs, and Tau crossey—the emblem of the enrly Chriatiuns—bearing 81 * Lum tho resurrection and morini,” eta. tho names of all alneo tho Cleveland Concluve of G00 and 00. au Bn turo of tho wreatha and Uno busu, at tho white buckground. will be-whito plumes, with u bluck In tho centre of De lat the pelican feed tng the wh ror of tho obelisks will bo in t bont-ridos, since \they ara alroady bere, bayo not be invited to gotten up for the A\nighta and their wives, But Une of march will attory ‘And thoy will that will surprise cvory\! ‘was one of tha firat of tty Sub-Commilttecs or- gantzod, Hoty H. Pond ta Chairman ond Charles iron rods, pressure und tension. to be 80 constructed ahould there be one, not ott of tho line or demolish thom.” Nor can tho rain uffeot the ornamefitations, On tho shafts will be inscribed: tleeroda will gurlands, and dlony tho cornice of and clnborate * Chi-riug, wrenths of immortelles; above, tho omblem of ole, 2 crown of glory, wit! Intdela,"—a bluek-and-whito benu- sunt. From tho tio- Procession Will Pass. Description of thelr Location \ and Ornamontation. A. 8chome Dovised for Patting Up Bea for Spectators, * phe tyork necomplished by the Transportation, \nment, Hotel, and othor Committocs ‘charge of tho arrangements for tho Knights ‘emplar Conclave has already been montionce\ in 1m Trimone,. but thorois an~ othor impe\rtant committce,—ono whose labors golated as muck, if not moro, than thors, since they will afford gratl- ficntion not olnly to strangers but to the 601,000 people who It\vo in Chicago, The Iattor havo little Interest \\in ratlroad farca, or In lodg- @ thentrical pertormances, or mud, with fow oxcoptions, will irttcipato In tha diversions ‘THn\ PROCESSION {sa public affair, ANI can yiow it who wish ta doo, Henco what fs\to be dono by the Decora- In they way of benutifying tho the masses plengure. Denu\tify it fa o manner ‘body. Tho Comuittce rotary, To \it was roferred all matters portaining to the an\bellishment of tho Expoaltion Bullding, the Asy\um of tle Grand Enoampment, Central Music, Cormick Hulls, and the Asylun congo, and St, Bernard Comman\ Committee on Arches was appointed, with G, M, Holmes, Chairman, and of tta particular work on idea will ba given,—only an iden, sinco a Farwell, nnd Bio- thing obtained by \lookiug at a rough draft must necessarily bo cru\le and un- satisfactory, This Sub-Committeo, sanction of the Genoral Committee an! the ap- proval of the Triennial -omuiittea, lo\eated nll the arches to be oreoted. Thoy empldyyed Mr, ‘Willlam I. Wilcox, tho architect, to got \up tho designs and superintend tho manufacture\of tho emplome, garlands, ote.; and to bia knowXedge with tho bis onthusinsm, no Icss that) to tho Committee, 1s duo the erddlt foe what wilt unquescdonably be tho grauddst lar decorations ever seon in thio THERE WILL DB SIXTEEN ANOMES, . all but ono located on Wabash avonuo, between Adains and Twonty-tiret streots, tho other being: ut tho corner of Michigan: avonuo and Van Buren atreet, They will ocoupy the entire Inter~ sectionsof streets, and bo of sho samo dimon- slons—sixty-six feot long, forty fect wido, and forty-tlve fect high—with tho exceptions mon- Thelp frames will be of siinilar material--gas-pipe, Jolned together in the usuat way, the foundutious anchored to the curts, and tires braved by three-quarter thus providing for hitorul ‘And the arches oro thut a wind-storm, cannot throw thom the syinbols and tho articles to be used waterproof, ‘The naked arch will consist of fuur obelisks ut the augles. 4x25 When finished, thesu will be ontircly hidden. Around tho base of ench column will be over roun trae 2,000 being necessary for the sixteen aro! ue FIngT ONE, going south, {a to bo st tho corncrof Adams Btroot and ‘Wabneh avonue, fireh. feot, connected by tle rads, and will be The obellsks_ will bo whito ‘muslin. oxtond Hx foot tho life tho. Templars, woo buve dled 1si7—botwoen ircling the shafts ut tho junc. bo bluck and white angles, black plumes, with a ‘along tho tles, ull srouud, background: the north and south faces will ”oncirclod in ing her youn: fod sunmpuate iS ore tho. bay of tho FC draped black and white cur- toing, while tho roof will bo draped with black and white gartands. ‘The enst an a correspond with Wweat onds will tho others, f THE NEXT ONE, : to be placed at the comer of Van Buren strect, will bo the Ill/nois arch of welcume, 'Tho’object jn wicipping, Jackson strectis tu xive the for ‘the column to cbt fuueral arch In very slow time—the bands Ing a dirgu—out of respevt for tht, Tho provailluy coldr bo tho wantre, will of Apotlo Cu dyy shield of the Grand Communder; Buapended fron of-arins of the different subordinate Comtuand- orlus of the State which will participate in tho Conclave. Theae ablulis will be crowned with un be surmounted by Donusvanta will crogs,. made o! high, and the nplovs of cross weven feot in bi crowned with a soml-clrcular emblom, contain- ing tho word “Welcome” In white letters on a In the contre of this emblem will rud ground, ‘be #8 Innaiiificont Chi-rho, Dentisoants will thik fent palnt, At prominent pluces lar red Malteso crosace, edyed with “Nays on every a1 put, festoons of thom. Tho roof Jands, to bo orected at tl tho wo root thee,” und undernenth “Welcome,” the letters of both jn white ou ared ground, The Rarlanda will bo arranged in reticulated form, Attho tntursection. of cuch curve will be the banners of Chicayo and 8t, Bernard Command- orius, set In banks of beausennts, while tho bun- nerof the Grand Commenders tho centro, in which will be tho armorial bour- ange step, it passing snide te: y= dou, In ACO, wih the red. whola. “Pilgrims aoross words, will rise from pnninaudery, surmounted by tho of Ilinols, the tle-rods wilt be the conte. flags. Euch angle-post bi a white wtonblo gariands, five fuet the arch 8 ot olf by a red bight. ‘ha onda will be ten feot high, wnd tor iin the breeze at blivk, wilt be gréen being looped ‘buck to will be voverod with rod yur THE THIND, ho corner of Congres: 3 stroo: fe calted tho New England arch. its meovelliie colors will be green. The arch will be triple in “spring” uy und evergreens will radiata from the to tho tho -rods, connecting with festouns, which will run all wound, Cathe mids div of the uorth face, oncircled in a wreath of evergreens, will be a largo crown aud crods, sur- , moutited by a Mutteso cross it black. On ‘gach angle-post will be banks of beausvants 8x00 foot, ¢ruwned with pendunt buugers of tho Grand Aneampment. thy New Enyland States will jo sovorut Ucyemusooered at ju represunted by thole armorial bouriugs, uttuched to the thes, ‘Tho rvof will bo of overureons, ratiyo one, : thelr pury praviow Imore, erul foaturet entirely cuverod with garlands anion xo. 4, to he put up a ouan street, {am commomo- re-ure four of this kind, und 0 1s to LONINOMOFALO thy holding of. Lonely’ 'e8 In Bt, Louls, Cincinnati, Bile ad Cleveland. Atl Wil be ullke in goo. barring color.and a dosoriptian of one wil be suilivient to yiveun Iden of thelr charactor, Tho provailing colura of No, 4 will ack and red un burlups. Ja the cantre will be ombinzaned tho grand vauner of tha Grund Commandery two face wi crossed, tivo fect. urch will bo dl luryo red Malte: from Urssvenur House, there waa opportunity | oucircled by bine for observing Uuit they wero a very ornamental | ends will have Int mont, During this inter- }lstiue, rud on a, Aeguisition to thy re Wit tho bund of tho floras Guards played their Dest, beginulig, howuvor, with . Schubort's © Adieu," which was scarcely appropriate to the ‘oceusion. ‘Tho eifect of the white dressca beside the dark uniforms of the bovis and the scarlet of thefout wMurds wis moat successtul; but there wero womo who kept to thelr bubltual colors, among, them Lidy Musgrave in bor favorit red, With the curious littoscalp covertug that, Ike Cupid's Wrouth, she uppers to" wenr night and day; and which, J wtrppose, woulu by best described as @ geranlum-pericranium, Birk, Langtry wore Eustern einbroldgrica upon white; and thery wus a lady fa crimwon cordelet emblizoned in welds which bad quirow toursamontal eifoct, The professional beauticd, Who were radiant, wero thoruin great strenuth, and seemed to we to bo ¢ven more thin usuully te the tore, Hapectally would | express my ndimiration of one tall ddek beauty. Whose nama Tf could not discuver, She wore tho tluhteg: und tnost cluse- Mtting dreas Lover saw, Tho wkirt wus of white tulle with long train. the or tight cules was leaping with white J tu her hand sho carried 8 toviathan bouquct of exotic Jusmluo; aud lurge bunches of tho sume iitural und fragrant Jowers were tho solu urnnment uf hur flowing #kirta, 5 “Tuo hall wis kept up with spirit lonig after down had streamed inte tho rou; Indeod, the Just dauves'were perforined and the haat suppers eaten by broud diylight. The Princo und Princoss did not quit the festive sceng till 6:30 a, mi, aud with their usuul ouurgy were olf to Woe burn Abbey u few boura later, 10 huve luncheon with the Duke and Duchowsor Budford, = wreath of black, and of Missouri, drapud on cithor side with bonuscanteBx2u fuot, Over it wi "In bluck letter, suspended by wires, und in red jeter on a white ground. ‘Tho Ve WIL be’ Mla= be fripwod with Passion Jong, tu gurlands, * The vided into threo purta by a0 eroases ON B White ground and ik gurlunds, ‘Iho oust wid west the miditly & cross of Constin white ground, enolrelud by 6 raped with beausune onnuntes while riding from tho centres wil:be the grand beauseant uf the Qrand Commandery, ¥Flige nud bonusesuts will iil. the nogle and around tho Btate Commun AT will be an arch for New t derives, andor} ‘will oy th businors OF ts Tr) HumBAND CouRT ‘Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, and tho District of Columbia, sftullue to will be white. hau follow, nt Wssissippl, and Epa —bluuk and Alubains, thirdone, though the provulllug color Peok court, ono for Georgia, oon burlaps; ono ut Bldrid, Routuowy, ‘Topnessed, and Indianuarcens aud a conupomorative ureh ut Marylund,—red oF ridge court for jurmon court for mn burlaps. At Tweltth streat HY GRAND ARCH will be .o sod. 0 gua he wos the ollicors Its provailiug color will bo roc} rplu, and ity diwonalons sixty-six foot square fifty fuet bigh, shinilur to the others, with the excoutlon. wilt bave w Laluony on the oust and wor the twa capable of huldiug p iy wi one Grund-Muster “Hulbert “and of the Grund Encampment will review tho .pugeant, Ju contruction it will be chat it oat sides, 460 puoplu. Froni Yn tho centry on cach trout will be hung the yrund banner of the Grand Encumptuvat, tanked by the Doauveants of the emblums of tho Grand Eneainpuwat will bo rani rho,’ tho cross he nd Grand Encaupment, Kit itr ut appropriate points,—the grand " Obl. of Constunting, aud tho cross and crown being consploucus. .'The roof wil be festooued - wit purple yarlands, Lanks of beauecants will riso from salient other emblematto fings ‘The balconics will be carpeted, adorned with the banners of tho Grand iment, gnrianed and featonned If fthinked by tho eoats-of-nring of tho mundury of Miinots, and of the thy Commuanderiva, shichis of tho ‘United Btaton, at Thirteonth atreot, is for decorated with with bs Canadiun Com ‘At Fourteenth sfrect will bo n arch of evergreens on bu! oF an ‘Thon will come an are Michigan, Wisconsin, Towe black and, in white, Kaunas, Nebraska, Colorado, abd Wyorn the cen! Now » Enelreting: Grand © ANCK NO. nondories. whites another nt Kighteon 1, for and Fonusyivent’ other at Lwontleth street, io green, for Cali ( York 76 will be hung tho banner of t Commandery of Callfornia,—a ner ot ea Ge in oil, twelve feot square, ‘Tho Inet onv, at Twenty-first strect, will bo a commotorative arch of red) black, erected in front of tho Asy: will be ommanderics Canada. 1 Whito musiin aud whit g™ and redemblema, Inthe centro of ego ft @ the arin of Canada and Great Wists? and In appropriate positions Inte; and thelr fi reo, tho ttrett wilt be a of 10, ra and Mi! vo webtte, ee “mite aIXTRENTH, called the Grand Bheampment arch, wi will be iifty-one fect long, thirty-tive forty fot bal bands, ‘which will alfa dozen Beoted that the Jeracy who wil Btato of New mandery from The fol Mr. Joseph. V G. Felton, GG i James M. Austin, G. G. i. P.; Mr. Mr, Itobert. GT; and afternoons and evenings. in tho contre uf it, the fol fitting ollinax for the treatinent,—ovor; reons, will ho adorned with tho shiclda of the gic Commandery of Minojs and of the tow IaRENGH Oy and othor Templur emblems, York, on it Bt of Now Jeragye ae . C. Ge Sir Prov. ' Syracuse, uitilo, Dunkirk, will’ pla Duinters, as snon, and from thirty to ‘atty ite, Lave Ployod for ve months in making tho decor. ons, an avo by no means fh work Inid out for thom. moonatri ey the Irat arch was begun i ihole ornumontagion will not bee rhamentation will not be comme fore Monday week. Whon tt is, nauilctent fs ‘will be engaged ‘to finish th following Saturday night. ere wi Hage of whi Hah. ‘To this nrob. will ‘bo ace conics for the Recommhodation of t rie Keb Will bes | concert. ML bo en 19 decorations by thy NEW YORK, i Congiton, W. Koni ir, Charles H, Stiga ote ca, aur, and = New York will attend in large numbers. Bir Kulgbts comin, rae ae York City ore Mr,” 4¢ Mr, Geo ran Vi Wiiliain 1. Woournt) G.I $ Muacoy, G, R.; Mr. John Mr. Charles Roomo, P. G. Mus and Capt, Bit Mr, Horace Brockwny, of tho Palesting Cowmandery. It is fully oxpect urge Eastern delegation of No exact ‘information ne to the ni Rnlguts ‘Tompiar from, Now York Ha ittend the Cone! inined.” Ar. Hobart Macny, tho G tho abtoide si places, pert rontg purple, nf Unind Come Chtears am i rm apa for Loulsianee t Bixteonth stroet tor i mnriactt ‘ Atnesota fe te 3 Ae ors, in an an for Oy, wel im in Eee Pee, ot It iat ente cent ‘ho. conatriy eatordaye and ies within a week, ree ot Ive cun ee ho Grund Hecorder, ily Knows of one Stato which will Orwanizad body. ‘This Commandery 18 rou No. 12, of Rochcater, 400 strong, Heved ato that the Damascus Jersey City, will be presont as oflicers reprosunting Mr, Thomas C. Chittenden, Watgrove, D. G. ©, G.3 and ir. Job: ony Commandery an organiza Now York State Gy Br. Geongo't, .¢ Mr. Shnon 0 8.-Dartlott, GG. G. Mr. J. Layton Regiat g ¥. MoDowe forsi Ts G. Cy Mr. Geo from Atnong GQ. i. We imo THE PRIVILKGE OF ERECTING BRATS stay, und found these’ to 3 Wabash avenuchad bi Uouninittes for $1,000. Prosent. \ ‘It was reported yoaterday thut i eM Tris bes an te of on, 4G, cy i ns Cay ed thut i ‘swords will te Th Triennial Committee suggested Br,\ Cregier, Chairman of tuo. Hate tainnyent Committes, that ho sco if be coull!\uot get sumo one to ercct 2,000 seats ig vacant lots on Wabash and Michi; uyunuads for the necommodation of the fam front Bir Kn tice i izhts, tho one doing tha work to hares A reasonable feo for the occupying of them, De sirable pia\eos on such occnsions are generally sought for,\ prstie iu auked him tf hs tho matter in that Ught,—that is, he bado ‘pay anything, lat posibly 28 peated to ir. Crogrior ’ ‘tl Creuier vaterda: itad the ebanee for making munoy is One enterprising men. One of there And talked r. Cregier, it Is sald, ‘The man worth, ) sum on Diane thine tue pelvil ry uk the privilege was worth sumeothit'x, Ki eh hadn't thought pt banded over named ter but when told whatit te by bine $1,000, ‘The ngreenient, of course, covers only tho seats to bo occtkpled by tho £ and thoir wives td ebildron, The Tri Committeo do not awn tho streets, and baye oo authority to lot contracts for thalr uso. Kyea the man who pnid.they 81,000 will havo to got tho Pernilssion Of tho owsers of the yacant lots oa which ho purposes sotryoy up hia himber, If the “stands” aro contined to vneant lots there can ‘bu no campluint, but shold an attempt be made to erect them In front of\ stores or dwellings, colitrary to tho Wishes of \tio occupants, thers Will bo a how! of tudignation which cannot tall to bo heard and heeded by tho Muyor ond the Cgmmnissiauer of Public Works. ———— Lanior - Bo engroastog 14 tho Cat for its honie—so vuhomont ‘Postal Cath, Tele partially ts yearnin ‘lot the domestio to return thither when clroumstances over which it hos no control have reeulted in 118 transferto ‘unfamitlur localltica—that corta! uratlate have con ne to the ange con: int Dutch nate lusion thas Grimalkin may bo used o8 a letterscurrier with considerable “advantage to public, tuterest ‘These worthtes propose to orgunize a service ‘post-cats, and are ‘at Files of ingomous oxperiinents, in costings capacities for deliveriug the muils. Tutk for tholr headquurters, tho} patch a number of woolen bags, tu t] thoy. aro freed Jovge, with neat pnekots of jo pod to tholr buck, “At Atinets come into full play, and they awittly homeward with unswerving directness, Of thin weet! presont ongaged, by ase pussy's . thoney dir a Gath bootiraly, ted np In ja nelghboring villages, where from, contin et ent and turued ra firmly stn onca:thalr oingatio fe leo ty-sevon cats, thus constralned to serve thelr, country, not ono hus hithorta failed to fulfill its ostal function With excellent punctuniity. It “In fearod, howevor,; that when a doubly service shail be arranged, dillicutties and delays tna) arise from the meetings of post-cats on the bi road. If the feline postmen can be inspired with ao high sunse of Rule, all will bo end ICO. wel? Falling that irregularities in del overriding personal im- this, we npore- ivery will take OCEAN NAVIGATI Botweon Now York und tiavrv, Plar 42, N. It, footot Morion-wt, Fravolors by this lingavold bath tranalt by Engileh railway and pio discomfort of crosaliy 6 matunll wane DLABILADUL, Sangilo! Wednonday, Aug.44pm' PUCK. OF ARS sf Uoludtug incor LO LA Via $2, tne! ripe i a m 19 Chaunol Stuurays eqiiigges drawn of Crodlt Lyunats ur Patten wm MUDITERANBAN, BEIVICH, Btcamors will leave No cy five wine, bedding, and uronslt ywunt York diruct for Gibraltes Fasvon, Uibrultur, und Barsoillos ovory imunth us for Rrra BERDINAND DBL 11H DE ALALS OA IRA, ‘Throvgu bills Algor! \Wirat Cabin, #193, L ic 33 Pid Us PABSAGIEY osdny, Aug. Hriduy, dept i Bundy, Uch U peed ‘ Bteorgze, St t LOUIS DE RENLAN, Aout, 6 Bowling Urdu, fot Hroudwuy, N.Y oR evi Cubin Acunt Wal WINTHIY Bloutuss Agent, yt Ulark-st, NORTH ‘CERMAN LLOYD. New York... ‘Sean i" ov ora uni} ry Saturda the und foutbamstey end Ueno 1 Jon ampton, London, wodonit at reduc agg epndel lowest rate: Havro, and Bromo, tirst cablo, ‘eloornyo, SLL Mteturn, tickvid epedueed rules, SOLEAIEHS' 4S cde Puowie ‘ho sivornge rates by tha Chteaues Parte vor ter! na Ne} “ angers booked fF MATES OF PASBAGK—Eruim Now York to Sout the “eb, NORTH GERMAN LLOYO from IMEMEN to CHICAGO is B41, and 4! ouly Agents authorised te sell these tick Ue: J. W. EXC! NERA is 1) ote TY CLAUSSENIUS & CO.. 2 South Clask-aty bd Lb AGENTS, HISNDU iG, 14 Wigthi-ay, Ks LUCAL AGENT, “TNMAN LINE Ocean Steamships, Cnr Vor tho Uritish avd and Livory loiter vol, viw, Tlokuts to end frow the prine) {rluly, Brench, Gorman, Jtallen, tes Male, hun agitat. weotet, Engliat, Bo vind Beandiouvisd ‘yhess steamers carry no live stock of i. SSIANCIS UO. BICUWN, Gon, Was juuth Clark-st Hog (7- DRAETS on Great Britain, Irian cOnanuue tor sates 2 AMERICAN LINE, Phil Iphin aud Lives wi natowe srcinne ant artic eer dona zareyin Sdlnvar uid stavtaya pasatagors ahd tha Ue. Male ‘RED STAR LINE,” Carrying the United States tid tuyal Bolyinn 3 “the only Direct Ros tents day Ww York. jor on Uront Ii 1 Pet ine lo Antwory, in Iulgium, flomulely feuts Patiadelylila toor from LT & BUN tho Continent au ft a ri parte Pras Draie ural Agents VW. E, LAWENCK, Munuger, Wig tenet ttaadolpticatet Chiesa. Gio ’ Now York and Glasgow, DEVONIA, July's Ep tay aoe, Ata. 2 Hast DanUQ TA Auge ite in| GLOABELA, Auge tai | Mase stemware ds NA HALL STEAMERS lu put carey cattly, up, OF ples Naw. ork 10 bandon divert LSAT TO iu | ViGLOMLAS Aug. 3 12 6 AERA 2 Bi ekcanion Tiakots af paduced ales Ei i, HENDERSON arth, $8 Washingtou-s, STATE LINE ‘ToGlascuw, Liverpoal, Dublin, Loitas roi Ne Fy ater: nd [ee ‘63 Broadway. Suu aneG ES. prberrity MIN, BAL Searceniecrt Maud! Woatara y Toureday. ‘vooopinududua, rst Cal ‘second DWIN & CO. * Lin, Wu phi-a by Chicas ue and Londons Cabal eon sold by tho Triennial * y A reporter ran down te be tho. facts" eeble Teinplary nna \ \