Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, October 23, 1880, Page 3

ike speaking after getting the enthusiasm ut of hit. Bagels alhior haa been aplonatd but tho cating wis A fatlure, The small. crowd as Tiddiressedl by, the Hon. Dayld 8, Gooding, Findtand, and but Wttte enthusiasm wns i anitested, owlng to the Inte returns from Wistaver the border” and Ghia. 1 hava nover seen a party so utterly demoralized ns ro the Democrats in this elty and gouty. The resultof the Inte elections did the work for them completely, and) they are tow ite terly hopeless of earrying a Northern State, The Republicans of this county are making athorougl cnovass, Edgar County bs frou $0 to 250 Democratic, but the Democrats are now much Alarined over thelr county tieket, The Republicans will reduce this Hiajorlhy considerably, if not elect someof thelr eandl- dates. ois great satiafaction manifested hero onacvoun of the Mattoon and EMngham meetings making no Republican nombontion for Congressinan. ‘The bulk of the party, Ie not the full strength, will be cast for Fore aythe, who will be rediceted OF an Increused majority over lis first vote. 1 fhe two Denne erate candidates, Eden and Filler, are stint fo the field, and will probably stick through the election, In the event that one of them should withdraw in the Interiin betwee how aid the election, tha Democratic situation would not be improved to any great degree, owing to the very bitter feellng between the two Factions. ‘The Republicans of this Con- + greystonal district have no risk to rin voting: for Mr. Forsyth, ng he ls thoroughly Repub- {leant save In his views pon the finance ques- ion. Upon all other questions Mr. Forsyth {thoroughly identified with the interests of tho Republican party. ‘This county will glve iw a tnuch larger vote than It did befure. ELQIN. Speeiat Dirnatch to The Chicago Tribune, Enats, Lil, Oct. 2.—The Hon, Iris Coy, of Ciieagu, addressed the Republicans of Elain atthe Opera-Hail to-night, a large audience being nesemibled. A large processian of Jocal Republicans, headed by the Elein band, escorted Mr. Coy from tho Waverly Mouse to the ball. ANNA Bpteial Dispatch to The Chiengo Tribune, ASNA, IID, Oct, 22.—Go' ner addressed anaudienes of rbout 400 people here to-day, He jy at Cobdel to-night: * WISCONSIN. Fox). DU LAC. Spectat Dtepateh ta The Clteago Tritune, Fox pu Lac, Wis, Oct, 22.—The Repub- Heans of this thriving city in the Sixth Con- essional District turned ont en ninsse to~ night, and with torehifght procession and masyineeting showed that thelr hearts were indeed In the cause. ‘Che procession which preceded the meeting was noticenble chiciy for tio things: the fact that at leust 200 of these in the ranks were young men who will vote for the first time du the 8d of November next, and the fact that an equal umber were made upof the solid business element of Fond du Lac, each of whom, instead of carrying the conventional torch, tora in his Iinnds an ordinary house Intern, thus presenting ag they marched tlrough the principal streets an Interesting and decldedly novel appearance, A yast amount of red fire was burned, and tho demonstrative rocket was exploded with lit- fleregard for expense, while the evolutions of the marching mon were simply perfect, calling out Volleys of cheers from the entlit- slastic multitude along the Nne, TUE MEETING IN THE OPERA-TIOUSE eclipsed anything Fond du Lac has known forycara, The speaker of the evening was that graceful and even brillinnt orator, the Hon, J, C, Burrows, of Kalamazoo, ona of Michigaw’s blest members fn the Lower Houso of Congress, Ilis audience was with hin bya large majority, and sat for two hours interested, Instructed, and amused at ils taking presentation of the toples just now uppermost in the average yoter’s mind. “At the risk of disturbing a funeral,” ns he cleverly put It, he proceeded toshow why It was that the Democratte party was always defeated, remarking, first, that it was always wrong in every great question in which this country was Interested. After tracing Its unsuvory record from 1880 down,. he pithily.-observed that, with 1880, tho Democrutic party onca more eame to the front, afd with it, as n motter of course, came defeat. It was necessary, in Mew of the result in Indiana and Ohio, to soesk of Its defeat this year as o thing that was past, WHAT AN AWFUL THING IT WAS, he remarked, setting his audience In a roar, fobe a Democrat and vote at President for twenty years and yetnevergetone, Tho Re publicang, on the contrary, never made any mistake, but Mt one covery tine. From thls he proceeded to show tho causes of the Democratic party's already asaured defeat in the year of graco 1880, altnbuting its evil luck this trip tothe fact that Hancock was supported by the Solid South, that the source of thnt sup- port must Inevitably be the source of power incase of Its success, and that Demoeratlo ‘ageeridency -must mean, and could mean, nothing but the control of this Govarnment by tho men who’ once sought to disrupt it, Itsharp, striking contrast with all this be fetforth all tho glorlons record of tho Re- publican party, and its proud position on all the questions to-day affecting the public wel- fare.e Tho speech. was Mstened to with tho deepest Interest, and frequent outbursts of the hearticst laughter, THE GINTED SPEAKER lndulged fn muny hard raps at the party of fatal error, and culogized that whteh saved aud proposes to maintain this Nation, Con- Leia a Bpenks to-morrow to lat promises to bo a large gathering at Oshkosh, and will probably Cutertaln and In- Struct a Chicago audience before the cam- ign ié over, Tho Republicans of Fond du were tolerably well warmed up before bacane here, but hia speech to-ulght drove the nal Home and ellched It . WATERTOWN, . Watertown, Wis, Oct. 23.—-The nomina- ons for members of the Assembly from this (First) Assombly district of Jeiferson Coun- Y ara now complete, ag follows: Deino- Sralle—H, EK, Uumphroy, Ixonla; Peoplo’s— fesse Stone, Watertown; Greenback, D. Thompson, Exontn. TUR MOUCK-GUENTHER CONTEST IN THE EINTH DIsTHIcT, Speclat Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune. yAttieron, Whig Oct. 2.—The Intelligent fepubileans of this Congressional district Me not inscusibie to the importance ot the funtest for Represoutative now golng on be- Ween Bouck and Guenther, ‘They know tit is for tho best Interest of the whole pantry, that the Deme-Confederate majority 2 the House of Representatives shull, be ereomeand the popular branch of Con- 88 be plneed In the linnds of the friends of wa equality, and fraternity, ‘They know tte gulns the Republicans have wlready Gaus in inembers in the States of Vermont, nt, ont Indiana hisplres a reasonably hope it tthe next Speaker of the House will be a pibubliean, and that a majority of the mem- TS wilt bo of the sane progressiyo ond loyal Tite: They know that all appropriation tee tigluate lu the Mouse of Jtoprescuta- tur Sy the mandate of the’ Constl- (ton, “and they perfectly under- ‘uid =ohuw un Snefilelent, Ignorant, fad Wrong-hended majority may hinder the Worresatve tendencies of a wholo people, Jig? Ue not underestiinate tho mld that the cutee, of Representatives cun render the oct Mugistraty of the Nation In the ger yeusuee of hig srduous duties, and they bined bow gnxions Air. Garfield must be that eae Ority of the House should be jn ac- Be, with lls Administration. ‘They remen- pe how the Confederute Brigadtors In Con- hie alded and abetted by thelr Northern eesifaced ullles, like Gabe Bouck, have mmlpered Mr. Hayes ‘and thwarted hig good. batitlons, Knowlnyg all these Pits, they Hue taken hold of the work to elect the 52; Richard Guenther to Congress from the h Congressional District with # deter ation that means success In November, BOUCK's LITTLE SCHEMES, pilnco the Democratic fiasco In Indiana, tight and his backers haye become badly Shtened and demoralized, and are resort- {hy to all wurts of sulenes to prevent the teat that now secs Inevitable. Bouck’s cagtlon two puns ugo was assured by the saldidaey, of Prof, Bteole, the Greenbuck ftldate, and Bouck, although a fiat luatle bacgl Nas been erazy to get the Gruen fy{tTS to put v cuidate in the fleld this with the Tnthia ieee hopa of belay aided thereby. me he has sucereded, but not dite iu the way hu desired, ‘Two years Geo Vola stuod as follows: Hock, Jomocrst THE CHICAGO TRIBUN SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES 14,640; Jones, Republics 11,748; Bteele, Greenbacker, 5,145, Mr, Steele's | lareu yota was not fale test of the a Cy Greenback strength of the district, but was secured nore upon the personal popularity ‘of the candidate than upos the prevalence of inflation ideas among tho electors, Prof. Steele had been Presitont of Lawrence Uni- versity, & Methodist Institution loented tn this city, und isn mint as inuch superior to Gabe Houck, viewed from any standpoint, as the stars are above the earth. OF course, many of his personal friends In the Metho- dist Church and outot it gave the learned ex-Treakent thelr yotes, and tn this way tle. feated Jones and elceled Bouck, Steele's Peet popttarity is shown by the Green. ck vyolu enst for Col, May, tle candidate for Governor, the next year, when the fiat vote Coll front 6,145 tn 1878 to 2626 in 18Ty, Rouck's vote In 1878, when he was last elect- ed, Was 2,51 less than the comblned vote of Jones and Steele, and his anxiety to sea a Greenback candidate in the field this fall is easily accounted for, THE GREENHACK CONVENTION, The®@Greenback party In Wisconsin, and eapeeially in this Congressional district, was ag dead ag ¢dour-nnlt ntl after the Mulne election. ‘Then it began to arouse from its torpor like 8 binek-snako under the rays of ow April sun, and showed soine shins of Hie, bulng warmett and encouraged by Bouck and his Democratic backers, ‘The fusion lind worked disaster and Hlaappotatinent to the Repudticans in Maing; but It was not fuston that Bouck wanted so much as the nontlit- tiun of n separate tieket to draw off tho Re- pusultcan Greenback voto that wns certain to he cast for Guenther in ease the Intlationssts had no, candidate in the race. Bouck stie- eceded in eating n,Couvention of Fiatists to- ether, and his friends undertook to run its but itdld not pan out as the supporters at Bouck expected, Stewart, the tan nomi. muted for Congress, Is a thiekheaded old iv mineh tke Bouck hlinself, aud the outcome wil probably be that Stewart's enididacy wil hurt Bouck more than It will helphla. Certaln it Is that but precious fuw former Republicans will throw away thelr votes on Stewart, who does not stand & ghost of a chance of an elue- ton, any more: than they would bestow them on Bouck himself, Just here another Important factor enters Into the case, to the detriment of our Gabriel, Mr. Stewart iso Ditter personal enemy of Bouck, and will not be caught playing second fiddle to pro- mote his election. He will draw heavily the more heavily the better—on the fossilized. Bourbon vote of his section of the distriet, and Gabe Is likely’ to fall into the Greenback pit Huthe helped to dig for Rehard Gren ther, und thus will the Seripture be fulditied, % NEADY Fost A TRADE, Since Bouck has heard from the Ohio and Indians elvctlons he his been very much enst down, and treats the eaudidney of Mr. Guen- ther with more respeet and seriousness, aud speaks of his own defeat ay. an. tiprobable event, but still possitle, ‘The Clty ot Osh kosh usually, sends s Democrat to the Assembly, but that pure party, so much opposed to fraud. now proposes to trade. of the Assemblyman and take yotes for Bouek tf they cit fet them in exchange They are offering other pirongdiiducauciits to the Republicans to geil out, but the Intter fre not reduced to the extremity of aceept- ing nny of their corrupt propositions. ‘They: will stand by thefe guns, and the eins are all pointed at Gabe Bouck, aid fonded to the very muzzle. . They have a. most worthy and ne able candidate in| Mr. Guenther, and they will not endanger his bright prospects of an election to the Forty-seventh Congress for the poor return of galuing an Assembly- nan, + BOUCK AS A DEMAGOG. That Gabe Bouck Is a first-class demagor and not entitled to be called a statesman in any true sense Is erally, proved by nn appeal tohis public record. Te is a scheiny, tricky polite an of small cullbre, and nothing else, lis activity Sn disgracing the State by the Granger legislation — of 87, when Speaker of the Assombly, proves it; his Bouulseauce in the idjecy of the Bragg Mn- ution platform of 1877 proves It; his bostltt- ty to having his party return to the sulld Money ground of the old Democracy proves ity his making greenback specehes in one pict of his district, and hard money specehes fn other sections, proves its his complielty In the attempt to trade tor votes proves it; tho part he and his friends played jn getting a Greenback candidate nominated proves it. BOUCK IN CONGKESS, There Is a Ittle newspaper printed at the Government printing oflles th Washington called the Congressional Record. 1b takes tho place of the old Congressional Globe, and contains the proceedings of bath branches, of Congress every day,—every bill or resolu- tion introduced, every motion made, every speech delivered, every word: spoken oflt- elally by any member of Congress is therein “accurately reported and ree- orded, In it can be found the work, bills motions, speeehes, and resolutions of il the rest of the Wisconsin delegation. Williaws, Caswell, Hazelton, Deuster, Bragg, [uim- plirey. and Pound have ull taken tip canst erable space Jn its pages from tine to thie, but next to nothing from Bouck. He has notbeen able ta get the attention af the Spenker and the House for ten minutes dur- Ing the tivo terms he has been Jn. Washing- ton. Any friend of Bouck ts hereby chal- longed to prove the contrary from the pages of tha Cangreastonal Record. It contalns no speech of tho Mon. Gabriel Bouck, of Wisconaln, on any important question of public “polley that divides parties and titer ests tho people of those States, What he knows about free trade, tarilf, finance, re~ summptlon, taxation, commerce, banklug, State-rights, or other Interesting subjects Is alls mere matter of wild conjecture, As t palrist Bouck hos been eminently suc: cessful, and his merits in this respect hasbeen fully recognized i his asso clates In the House, As he has so little interest In public affairs that he nelther cares to yote nur spenk himself upon hinportant bills, he is always in demand for a palr by gentlemen who wish to bo absent, and under such clretustances Bouck can go off und en- joy himself also. BoUcK Must “ Go." As Donnis Kearnoy, whom Bouck so much regembles in his political and Sociabistic opinions (though Dennis is the better look- ing), would say, Bouck must “go.” He hag been welghed In the balance and found wanting, and the people of the Sixth Con- gressional District intend to dispense with his services after his present term expires, A worthier man will be chosen In his place, who will be In hearty sympathy with the noxt Republican Administration, CIUKF JUSTICE OF WISCONSIN. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribunee Mamsoy, Oct, 23—The death of Chief Tuatice ivan places npon Goy, Smith tho responsibility of appolntlug lls successor. Jydge Ryan's term, of serviea would have expited one year from the Istof January next, and his suecesyor would -linye been elagen at the spring election, Now tha Governor wi} appolut ‘some one to fil out tho unexpired term, and alrendy there is considerable disctstan tn legal elreles throughout the State In. reference to tillng the high postion, Many Jogitttys lawyers aro of the apition that Gov. Saith will tender the appointment to the dion, Orsainus Cole, aneat the Agdoelate Justices of the Supreme Court, who hus already been tpor the Bench for elaiteen years, “He ts 0 xen tleman of conceded ability, of great aud ex: tensive legal learning, of high personal character, and his promotion to the ollice of Cilet Justica wank he well recelved and w roved by. the Bar of the State, Soma of the tlonds of ex-Senatar ‘1, O. Mowe will uu- douptedly press his great elnins aud (itnens upoff the attention of Goy, Smith; bue he has been so jong out of the praetice of the law that tt Is doubtful i€ his appoiutinent would meet with as ready & response us the appolnt- ment of Judge Cole, It is suid thot Judge Cole Js quite Indlf- forent to the action which the Governor may tike in tha matter, as the salary of the Asso- elate Justice {s the sane ay that of the Chicf dustlea: but, ag he fs the aentor member of the Court, it would not be treating him well to appoint a new man over his head, i Tn cage, Judge Cole is appoluted Chief Justice, there will then be a vaeaney In the Ofice of Aasoelate Justice, ta be {illed by apr Intment also, anc It is understood the ion. |. B, Cussoduy, of Janesville, will be candl- date for that appolntinent, INDIANA, SOUTIT BEND. Bysciat Dispatch to Ths Chicaga Tritune, Souru Benn, Ind., Oct, 2—The Ion. John ¥. Farwell, of Chicago, addressed a crowded: audience at the Opera-House this evening on the political questions of the day, INDIANA GREENBACKERS. Spectal IXspatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasuinotes, D.C. Oct. 2.—Cal, Lee Crandall, editer of the Natlonat View, the Greenbuck organ hos reeelyed the following dispatch in regard to the reported alliance between, the Demoorats and Greenbackers in neta ‘ INDIANAPOLIS, Iod., Oct. 22.—To Lee Crundall, Wasninyton, D."C.: “Contuston among Demo- crate No fusion by Nutionals. Spitou your hans, and stick to the fact that there wan tbe. . THE RAILROADS. ab Peace Proclaimed and the Pas= senger-War Ended. ————nnitfe Old Rates Restored and Out- standing Tickets Inter- changeable. History of the Rise and Growth of the Routhern Paoiflc. Progress of tho Work and Connections to Be Formed at El Paso. PEACE PROCLAIMED, The great conflict between the Wabash and the other Western rilronds from this elty which In the spnee of one week forced pas- senger rates to and frow all Western points down to the lowest figures ever experienced hi the history of railroads jn this country, and which threatened to spread to the frelght trafic and cnuse havoc with this branch of business also, has come to n sudden end, and (hus the danger of a general disruption of than the low rates announced the day ore. A private dispatch from Kansas City tha follaging account of ment created there by this action: “Intense excliement was created here to- day aver the cut in rates by the Chicago & Alton. The rate froin Kansas City to Toledo is not only $1.85, with correspont Ing reduc. tlona ta New York and all other Eastern cities, ‘The Toledo rate has not been met iM any other line, but the Missourl ae! ‘s mevting the new cut to Indianipolis, Cine chinath, Pittsburg, Baltimore, New York, vote, All of the prinelpal Hines east of St Louls are parulelpating. ‘Travel to St. Lou via Chicago & Alton was so heavy that tl sule of tickets was discontinued at 4% g'elock pin. All tines here think that the Alton’seause 1s Just, and all nnita in the hope that It will come out on top? Had the trouble not cersed Inst. evenin, several of the lines east from this city would have jofned the fracas. The request of the General Passenger Agents of the trunk (Ines published yesterday, asking the roads center. ng here to keep outofl the fight, contained the following advice to the Mes leading east fram here nat yet publiste “And we now ask that you agree to ma’ tatn the Canvention rates Ta your awn o and that you conlirm our mnessage to your ¥ nConventions, and take measures to their codperation It carrying aur re- t Into effect.” fhe Enstern General Passenger Agents (In necordance with the above advice, met here yesterday morning, but were unable to gered upon eoncerted action, Several of rallrond business has been averted. The Presidents of the various ronds Interested Iu this fight, who have been holding a meeting for several days trying to tid a way by which the diflenities could be stoppett and the danger of a general war averted, at the eleventh hour, just before adjourning sine dic, hit upon a plan of — settlement whieh met the approval of all con cerned and which was adopted. Yesterday morning the nianagers of the various rounds had given upall hope of an early settement of the troubles, dispatches having beet re eelved from New York that the prospect of A agreement was very silin, but that another effort would be nade during the day. ‘hls Jast effort was crowned with success, a8 will be seen by the following dispatch received Inte in the afternoon by General-Manuger MeMullin, of the Alton, from Mr. 'T. B. Blackstone, President of his road: 'Com- promise made, Rates to be restored at once, ‘Tickets now out to be received In exchange for tickets on any Hne the holder muy select in the Southwest, and suttlements to be nada as you will hereatter be'advised,” Later In the evening the General Managers of the various roads fferested In the fight recelved the following oMelal order: New Yonk, Oct. fou are hereby ordered them deelted to Joti the Alton, and sent an muswer to the trunk-IIne agents to the effect that they would be gind to accede ta thelr re quest, if it wag not for the fact that the Enst- ert trunk Hnes were doing nathing to stop the demorstization west-bound from Enstern seabourds, nud as Jong as that condition pre yully they find Le tutpossible to comply... Mr. James Chariton, of the Alten, also sent o stlnging dispatch to the trank-ine aments, informing then that the war was not preejpltated by the Alton, and hig road would continue to defend itself and protect its Interest by all means at ity command, These dispatches, showing that nothing could prevent a renewed canillct this mecu- ing except prompt action by the Presidents, no doubt catised the Intter to agree at once Upon t compromise, AMICABLY SETTLED, Bpectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, New Your, Oct. 2%.—Tho representatives of the warrlng Western ratlroads have con- eluded a satisfactory settlement of thelr dif- fleultivs, This is substantinily as heretofore reported, ‘The extension of the Missouri, Towa & Nebraska Rallroud to Council Biuits, Is to be built, that portion between Shenan- doah and Uumeston or Prairieville to be pald for and owned Jt common by the Wa- bash and Burlington Companies. Both com- panies pledge themselves not to bulld into to restore all paseenger rites immediately fron receipt of thts messu Soon Huspuneys, President Wabash, St. Louts & Fueltic, ivan frpp! _ President Ghieaiids Hecke Ita “Hy Bua! . President Chicago & Alton, Jay Gout, lent Missouirl Pactfe, . E PEUKING, Viee-Pres't Chicnyo, 1 ‘W, DowD, Preslilent Hnnibal & St. Joe. ‘The action of the Presidents, while not ex- nelly sitisfuetory to all the randg, is never> theless looked: upoti as about the best thing that could be done under the efreumstances, and wil breathed freer that the agony and trouble was over. The settlement will ne doubt be least satisfactory te the Wabash, ‘This rond commenced the war for the ex- press purpose of forelng the Chitnage lines te give It « special concesston of a rate of St Jess than any other road until it has secured. adequate and convenlent depot faetlities. It now ngrees to a restoration of rates without lhaving gained that point, and it wlll have te charge the same as the other routes, although itmay tnke months yet before it enn occupy its permanent depot in the heart of the city, ‘he cinim of. tho Wa- Dash to be awarded a concession -of $l on ench ticket on xgecount of the out-of-the-way location of Its temporary depot at the corner of Stewart and Archer avVenttes was prevosterous, and there are but few who do not upprove of the action of the Alton In meeting the Wabish cut, If there was any diMeulty in reaching the present Wabush depot the action of the Wabash might be justified, but its no more incon venlently Jocnted now than the depots of any of the other roads centering In this elty, In faet, It Is easier and more convenient to gut to the Wabash depot than It fs to reach the Ihnofs Central, Burlington, and North- western (Kinzlo street) Depots. No,street- cara run within three or four blocks of these depots, while the Archer avenue cars run dl- rect to the very duors of the Wabush's tem porary depot, and ull street-car_tnes charge but five cents to any point, The onntbus lines also charge the same rate,—60 cents to any depot, no matter how near or far {t Is loented, ‘Phils shows that the principal ob- fect of the war was to force the Alto to Withdraw Its opposition to the Wabash coming into the new West Side Union Depot, {nto which the latter wanted to be ndinitted, having become tired of walting for the cor pletion of the Western Indiana, Then the Wabash expected to derlva great benefit from the large amount of untluited tickets thrown upon the market during the contlnuapes of this war, as they were calcu Inted to give the road a fale proportion of tha business fron thts, city until it was properly: Joented and settled, But this scheme fs also spotled by tha comproylse, vides Mint the tiekets now bo recelved in, exchange for tiekets on any tine thy holier may select In the Southwest. ‘Thus, any: one holding Wabash tickets for St. Lows can exchange them for Alton or Mngis Central Nekets, ond the latter boing the old established routes, muny holders will not be stow to make the exchange. Stil there are many who will notlearnof the fact that the tiekets cun thus be exchanged, and to this extent the Wabash will be benelted. ‘The dispatch does not state how the sutticmunts for these tickets are to be made, ‘his matter seems tobe yet unter consideration, Should tt be decided that the setticment, ts to bo made on the basis of the ritont which tho tickets were Bes wileh — pro- out shall sold, the Wabush will lose but little; but, should It be resolved | that the Uitference between the “ent? ant the regular rate shall be assumed Jointly by the two rents muking the exchange, then the Wabash's loss will be yery grent, it betn, elufined that It has several hundred thousand of thes tekets out. ‘Thy Chicago & Alton sold no unllinited tlekets from this elty, though It Is under- stood ta have put on the market a large mm ber from St. Luuls. But it has not by any means ag many out from that polut ne the Wabash tins from this, and, as the Alton Is wlready well established ag a Kansas City route from, St, Lauds, not many of those tickets will bu exchanged for tickets of tho other St. Louis Hines, and consequently ity losses arising, from the saly of unlinftied tlekets at St’ Louly will amount. to little when comupnred with the great benelita it will derive fram the exchange of Wabash tekets at this point, "She Rock Island Is alsa reported as haying sold a uumber of militited thekets to Kansng City; but few of thom will be exchanged, ns the route Is a popular one, and consequently fe will dorive benelit rather than loss froins the new agreement, < The roads that willbe mostly benefited by the now arrangement will be the Hurlligton, Tnols Central, and Missourt Pacttic, | ‘Pheso rouds have sold no unlimited tickets, and therefore all the tiekets of other roads ex- changed for theirs will be so much elearazain, Que great point, however, the Wabush has gatnea in this tight, which mg PENSUTD rymunerales It_for tho losses otherwisy sul fered, . It has Sugsevded in advertising Is roud from this city In the short sprce of one week os it could not have dona In years, and by expending thousands of dollars, had it not kicked up Unis miss, whieh acquainted all people who read the papers with the fact that the Wabash now his direct lines from Chicago to St. Louls and Missourl River poluts, ‘The prinelpil cause that Induced the Presi- dents to effect the ubove compromise was the certuluty thata general wap on passenger and frelxht rates could no longer be averted. Every effort had, been mady by the Wabash mid the Eastern trunk-lines to prevent the war from spreading beyond tts original sim- its,—between Chleaga and St, Lous and Kite gas City,—but it was no usezas the determl: nition of the Alton to mnke the war general, fn order to bring the matter fo o focus, was too much for them. Early yesterday morn: ing the Alton opened the fray with renewed vixor, and made the rates from Kansas City and St. Loula to aij Kastzpn points pill $1 the other's territory. ‘The Southwestern Rate Association slso ended their troubles to-day by remodeling the percentages on passenger bus)ness su that the Wabash Company will hereafter receive 25 per cent of the gross tratie, and the Chi- cago & Alton 3334 per cent of the St. Louis business and 25° per cent of the remainder, Rates are to be restored Linmedintely, and each company is to redeem Its own unlimited tlekets, ‘This agreement fs fo last six months: forthe presentand until the Wabash Company sttceveds in completing its Hine fitod Ilene, ‘The Southwestern freieht business ts ta be conducted Independently, A freight pool will then be formed, and the percentage will ‘be milutied by arbitration, ‘The Association adjourned to meet again in thirty days. To ihe Western Associated Press, New Yon, Oct. 2.—Tho managers of the ratlronds in tha West and South that have buen cutting rates so extensively met to-day: and agreed on a settlement of rhe passenger war rates, ‘Chis settlement saddles on the other railroads 75 per cent of the Inss to be sustained trom the recent large sale of use Itited tlekets at Jess than one-third of the usual rates, 8. LOUIS. St. Louts, Oct, 22.—The Chicago & Alton gave Its throttlevalye another pull to-day, and st further reduced all previously re- ported rates $1, and ndded several interlor ia polnts .to its Mst, but the war was brought town abrupt close Inte this after noon by the reception of the followlig ‘tele grams aie: New Yor, Oct. 2—To J, Manager Wabash, ‘St. Laneti St Louies You are hereby or passenger rates jminediately’ this messuyo, I Gault, General Pacific Retiree, d to restore all rom receipt of ULON HUMPS, Huan Tupure, T. B, BLACKSTONE, day Gout, CLE. Perkina, Witrram Doup, These, alenatures are those of the Prosi dents of the Wabash, Rock Isiand & Pacific, Chicnzo & Alton, Missouri Pacific, Chicago, Burlington & Quiney, and Hannibal & St. Joseph Roads. Allagents of the Wabash Road were not! fled this eventny to restore rates. Although it Is not known here, the presumption fs the General Managers of all the named roads have received this order, aud thut to-morrow will dnd harmony and good feeling fully re- are and regular rates prevalilng every- where, EASTERN EXTENSION SCHEMES, Spectal Disputes to The Chicago Tribune, Burravo, N. Y,, Oct. 2.—A large party of Pennsylvania Railway, olliciats and capltal- ists were In the elty to-day In regard to the provosed extetslon of the Pittsburg, ‘Titus- vile & Bufulo Raltway from Brocton to this elty,'n distanee of forty-nine miles. In cone versation with J, W. Jones, President of the rond, who ls also Inraely interested In the Philadelphia & Reading Road, Muy Tamuxe: correspondent was ofichally informed that the extension wasthobeghining of coalition between that Ine dnd the Bultinors & Ohlo Company, Negotiations lind been pending between the two compantes in regard to this matter, ‘and meetings of Inte rested parties had been held in which the subject hod been discussed. A Dusiuess agreement had been entered inta between the two roads, offensive aud de- fensive, by which the Baltimore & Ohio Coutpany were toally with the other organiza- tions, ‘The Baltimore & Ohio proper were auxions to obtainn trunk Mne from Chicago enat, ho sald, and proposed to continue the 200 miley of rond they now controlled out of Chicaga to Beaver, Penn. Another branch would bo bullt from the latter pluce to Pitts- burg, Pa, to couneet with the Pittsburg, Titnaville & Butfalo Road. They would cons struct a Une from. Heaver to O City, und then they would‘have a straight route to this city. Stockholders of tho latter rond had” expressed thelr — desire asaiat by all that was In thoi, power to ar: range these connections, aud Mr, Fones felt contident this allionce would be suecvsstul, ‘The oxtension of the Pittsburg, Titnayilie & Dullalo to this elty Is on settled faety-and survefs have been made for It, and work Wild bo begun on it ln sisty days, Preyiour, ly, tho Iatter Company had been using Fi ake Shore frat fitoctan to this city. t ‘The visltors were to have met Now Yo: capitalists in this ey to discuss the Eastarn route for a new trunk Hne, but the intended meeting did not take place, Str, Jones fur- thor sald that surveys were now belng made for the Balthnore & Olio oad’s now branches. zs THE GUAND TRUNK. Special Dispatch ta The Chicago Tribune, Orrawa, Can., Oct. 232.—Natice fs glyan in tho Oyiclut Gazelte that the ordinary‘ half. Y yearly general qnevting of the Grand Rallway Company will be held at London, Eng, Thuraday, tho 28th day of October, for tho purpose of recelving a report from the Directors, and for tha transaction of other business of tho Company. Immediately after the transaction of the ordinary busi ness, the meevting. will be made spectal, Lr |, Franclse ‘The t order that tho following agreements may, ‘under tho provisions of U 5 ada in that behalf, ba subinitted to'tho pro- prictors for ‘thelr cunskleration nud a proval: 1, An agreement bearing gal on. or about | thy . sth uy of March, s between the Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, of the first port, oe Company Ve “Hehigun), of the second part, 2 A mempramum of agreentent made and- entered into on of abont the Th of April, 1650, between tha Chicago & Grand ‘Trunk Railway Company, of the first part, and. thy Grand rank itutwny of Canady, of the see, | ond nh ougrevmient, duade on of.) yrs. 3. Al about the 7th day of April) J 80) by, tween the Chicugo & Grund Trunk Rallway,: of tho first part, and tho Grand ‘Trunk Rall-- way of Canada, of the second part, 4. Also, "t an agreement between the Port Doyer & Lake Huron Railway Company, of the first part, the Stratford & Huron Rullway Company, of thes seeond purt and He Grand ‘Lrudk Rall: rae ce the excite- ‘B mel Trunk } aunt he statutes of Cane | 274,883 nerus, at an average price oF! Wray. Company, of the third part, Also, an ‘hgreement between the Montreal & Chatn- jain Junetion Rullway Company and tho rand ‘Trunk Rallway Company of Cannda, In like manner, and for the like purpos following resolution will be submitted: "A resolution npproving of the acquisition by the Grant ‘Trunk Raliway Company of Canada of certain bonds and stock In the Chicagu & Grand ‘Trunk Railway Company.” CANADA PACIFIC. Bpeciat Mepateh to The Chicago Tribune. Orrawa, Ont, Oct. 2—A gentleman who has just returned from British Columpla stated that the, work on the Canada Paelfie Rallway there Is Inn complete condition of chitos; that Onderdonk & Co, do not know where to bein first, and that a great deal of computation is being, done by engineers be- fore work tn reality can be done, Spectal Mapates to The Chieago Tribune. UTTAWA, Unt, Oct. 22—It fs understood that the Paciic Railway contract las heett slened, Mr. Greenfell, who fs the aceredited agent of the London firms Interested, signed on thelr behalf, ‘The details of the agree iment cannot be obtained until it has been ratitied by Parllament, but it is sald scourity has been aiven for the completion of the road fn ten years from Like Nipissing to the Pa- eifie Qeean. ‘The Cabinet were discusalty to- day whether a special session of Parliament woul! be held ty ratify the contract, but the result hus not yet transpired. Some of the syndicate have left for home. Mr. Greenfell Jeaves on ‘Tuesday 1 |. THE SOUTITERN PACIFIC, . Bpectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, San Fuancisco, Oct. f—The extrnor- dinary growth of the European aud Amer: fean rallway systems during the fast decade ins been one of the greatest wonders of the Ancustrial and sclentifie world. tts scarce- ly more than a half century ago when'o member uf the English Parllament, while discussing the project of Robert Stephenson to construct a railway for general transporta- tion purposes, ridtctled the idea of carrlages being drawn by machinery at all, and was warmly congratulated by his colleagues the conclusion of his speech. as follows: “Why, those Innutles claim that they can Rallop at the rite of twelve miles an hour, with the ald of a devil in the fora of a locomotive, sitting as postillen on the fore horse, and an honorable member sittlng behind him te stir up the fire and keep it at full speed. 1 have shown that they cannot go six miles an hour, and that we can keep up with them with the canal.” In spite of such declarations that travellng by balloons and rockets would be much more feasible, and attended with Jess danger than traveling by callways, that trains would be swept from the track by storms of wind and rain, and that such men as Gray and Stephenson were fanatics without sense or bralns, an engine was finally driven by the latter gentleman, behind which was a train of thirty-elght vehicles, at the rate of twelve miles an hour, over the Stockton & Darlington Road, This wonderful fent, accomplished amid dis- couragements and drawbreks of the severest. kind. soon was heralded as one of the vrourest conquests of inind over mat- ter, and henceforth ratlway construction be- came the key to nations! prosperity and i dividual wealth, Although there were train- ronds In use in the conl regions of this country as early as the beginning of the eighteenth century, yet the first use of the locomotive was i 1820, on the raftrond built by the Delnware & Hudson Canal Company, and extending from Jomesdale a considera- ble distance to the mines. ‘fhe era of rall- way building then begun lias since progressed with such rapid pace that at present the Western Continent is spanned by a network of Ines, and the total read {0 operation In the United States alone on Jn, 1, 1830, ag- Bregated 80,497 miles. Nor js this era of gigantic operations Ikely soon to end. The Ralkeay aise, of a recent date Isto new elves oo 237 enterprises nnd extensions, agregating, 20,000 miles In length, now ii progress of constructlon in this country alone, and these when eome- pleted will render stl! suore the vast terrl- tory a centre of rent agricultural and indus- tral wealth. Of these extensions probably that oue which Is backed by the greatest amountof capital, and which fs destined to have the greatest Influence upon the general carrying trade of the continent, Is the South- ern Pacile, now building. eastward through ew Mesico at the rate of two miles per day, and already nearly 1,200 mites distant froin San Franeiseo, its starting point. It ts the vurpose of this article to give u brief history of the riseand srowtliof this wealthy. cor- poration, the work aw tn progress, dud 9 stummary of the results likely to follow the completion of a second overland route to the South and East, The Southern Paelfle Rallrond may be said to be the offspriug of the Central Pacltic. ‘The greater pura the former read is pers ated und controfled by the management of the fatter, und the sane Directors, sharehold- Grs, Aud ehormots cap! are mostly at tho hend of both, ‘Tho question of overhunit transportation by rail was agitated as early nas 181 by Jolin Plumb, ten yenrs later by Asa Whitney, and still more recently by Ben- ton, Fremott, Sargent, Jel Davis, and oth- ers, but It was not until long after thedlscov- ory of gold [n Californian and near the Une of the commencement of the Civil War that decisive steps towards the construction of ne Central ond Union Pacilic Roads were taken. it was hot until May | 10, that tho Inst spike was driven which connected California with the East, and shortly after the organization of the pres- ent Southern Paeltie corporation was elected, ‘This was done by the consolidation of the Southern Paeiile, organized several years be- fore, tha Saw Francisco & San José, Sante Clara & Pajato Valley, and California Southern Into one company in, October, 1870, and afterwards the Southern Paelile Branch, Los Angeles & San Pedro, and other Jines were consolldated tite Qe sane company, By the Congressional act of Mare 3, 1871, tie Southern Paclite was authorized to, con- neet with the ‘Texas & Pacitic at Fort Yuma, and, this purt of the read having been com- pleted on the Sth of May, 1877, work was con- Anned through Arizona hy authority of the ‘ferritorial Legisinture, The funds neces- sury for construction are obtulned from private capltal and Governtnent sources, ‘The eupltal stock as authorized by the original articles of facorparation was $33,000,000; while that authorized by the votes of the Company was three thes that sum. ‘Tho tatulautount of capital patd in as per books of the Company Is $:36,703,900, and the average snount per share still due thereon ix $82.55, ‘Phe wtal number at stockholders 1s thlpty three, of whom twenty-eight reside In Call- fornia, and the (otal atiount at stock held tn California {3 $3t.200,100, ‘The total amount of tho gross debt linhilitles, Including funded snd unfunded lobt, ts SoUMOL TI, and the total net debt Habilittes $30,572,051, ‘The total cost of construction to Jun, 1, 187, in Callfornin was SU46i5,H7, and ‘the tatal equlpent to same date 31,780,080, making the entire aineunt of promerty: MW the Sts S00,715,277, ‘Tha total income derived cure Ing the vear ending with the above date, tor (gether Witt $3,313,200 from rent for use of rand hud equipment leased, was $4 ville, the total expenses were itt The Southern Pactile Rallroad of Arizona ts the extensign of the same rallroud under different unine, and, (a cansequance of tl enonuous outlay oceasioned by tho rapid advatiea towards E! Paso, the income from every soured fa fn great demand, The fatal Intad anbsily to the Southern Pagltio corporation In Caflfornin. was 12,800 acrls per mile for u distanes of O83 illes, minking a total of 12,057,000 acres, OF this 1,618,833 aeres Were reserved by the Government, making a not total of 10,559,607 gute bial at the overnite, vane at i. per were, ugetugules $0, lo sian lon there Yeasdonuted by ihe City of Los Angeles itteen aeres, with an fesessed yalus of $lU400, and by the State af Cajiforula one-hajle Interest alxty derey of fand ats, Miiston Hay, San With on assegsed value Gf S250, jotal lands sold to’ Jan, t, 1870, was ¢ S354 per acre, the value of all bel ys $073,093, After the Southern Pode Nie had been author: zed to connect, Ault the Texas o& Pacitic at Yuna, on the Colorado River, a bill to allow the farmer Cogipany ta ga taagpalut 100 illes west of El Puso was formed, By this 15, ' the Nottiwesteru Grand ‘Trunk | billeach company would acquire the Jand and franchises of so much of the Ine as each constrieted, aid there was also proposed a gttaranteo by the United States of tha Inter- est on the & per cent bonds for fifty years at the rate of $35,000 per inile. ‘The land-grants fy Callfornia cover some of the best sections of the coast and valley counties, and Include Liosta, San Joagula, ‘Matare, Kern River, aud her vallvys which will bo hereafter named, pe sol, celluute, ant conditlons of both ail be. ‘the farfamed wheat lunds of the Contra ha raltrogds pnd adjoining tyndy are diversi+ dod; the kemnl-tropleal productions of tha lower Valleys corresponding with those of laaly and the shores of the Mediterrancan: tho yine, orc foot-hills corresponding with those of Ger- many, Austria, and France; and the timber- Jonds of the mountains corresponding with those of Malne and the European -vcountries on the north. ‘The same alternation of Dies desolation and luxuriant vegetation jg true of the land-grants tn New Mexico ant Arl- zona. Accoriling to a recent communication hr one of the elly papers, the capabilities of the soll upon the southern border was before -summed up by the writer as follows: | Auriculture is eatried on (In the ‘Territories’ named with more sean+ ty success than) In Californian, Owe fing to senrefty of water for Irrigation, want of transpurtation, and Insecurity of Hfe on account of Indian outrages, Arizona and New Mexico are yer in the fufancy of their growth, but with the completion of an- other through ine to the Enst more aystemne atic improvements and permanent develop iments Will be made. From Yuma as the Colorado Is ascended, on both sides of the river are areas at Intervals well sulted for the ralsing of grain and frult, whe along the Gila and Its brane the main stream hav- ing a course of se! hundred niles in Ari zonn,—there Is estlinnted to be water sulll- cient tn the channel for the Irrigation of nearly a millon eres. In the Valley of the Santa Cruz, of the Colorato-Chtuyulta, in Yavapia and Moyave Counties, and dn other localltics, excellent agricultural, thaber, nut grazing tands are found,and these will be at{I1 more valuable asthe railroad makes them more accessible. Irrigated Jands in various sections of Arizona have been known to produce two crops of grain and several of alfalfa each year, and sections such 4 that belonging to the Pina Indlans, and flelds in the Satta Cruz and San Pedro Valleys and about Tucson, are known to have been cul- tivated from 200 to 300 yenrs.. The water from the streams fertilizes and restores the soll, The Valley of the Gila, under male six, shows more phosphates and other fertil- vers than the Valley of the Nile. It fs esti: mated that there are about 2,800,000 ucres of Ind in Arizona of the best quality, with water suflicient for Irrigation, while there are are probably not inore than ove-fiftleth of that anount under cultivation, Dy means ofurtestart-wells, probably from ten to twen- ty mitlion seres more cok be reclaimed, and much of this reclamation will be etfected when railroad transpation Is more cumplete- jy afforded, ‘Nhe Southern Pactile system {fs but Hitle {nferlor to that of the ‘Central Vacitle In length and fn Is multitude of connections. Of the 713 miles of the furmer road between San Francisco and Yung, not fess than 52 nilles Is operated by the Central Pacitie, leaving the northern division from San Bran elsco 10 Tres Phios and Sotedad under the control of the Southern Pacitic itself. So largely has the Southern Pacitic contributed to the Central Pacific system that the mi agers of the latter road, ineludime the miles from Caza Grande to the scene of their present operations, control to Jess thin 3,582 nilles of rund, to which, If 650 tile stenmboat route be added on the Sacra San Joaquin, Colorado, and other rivers, the total 1y 4,532 miles of transportation und one general nanagement, as there sre We inally several companies. While the real ithern San Fran- cisco. Via Tres Pacific runs froin, San José to Pinos, yet to reach the southern purt, of California the Central Pacific is taken to Goshen, where the mal Ine of the Southern Pacific ts Intercepted, The line ruins hence te Yura in three divisions, and the same passes through w great variety of geenery and chinste, “The efevattius vary from the tups of mountains several thou sand feet high to the Colorado Degert, sev- eral hundred feet below the level uf the sea, Everywhere there isa strange, blending of xerlenltural luxurlance and wild desolation, The vend isthe great outlet for Southern California, ‘This section of the Site em- braces nearly one-third of the entire area, and three-fourths of this 50,000 square miles of tand is sulted for agriculture or graziue. Across the great Sau Sony Valiey the oye rests upon a succession of suburban villages and linmense areas of orehard and grain Jands, and the beautiful crops send joy to the heart of the husbandiman ani farmer, Nowhere else in the world fs farining carried on on stich an extensive clentific scale. A certain writer once Nuture or Nature’s Gud has dove nine yt parts towards making this valley one ot the richest agricultural districts fn the world; can man aupply’ the small remaining fraction?” This fy beling raplilly done by the ald of Irrigating diteles and other fmprove- ments rendered possivle by the construction of the railroad, and In return a bountiful frelght und passenger tratic is niforded, About 200 silles in ‘length by thirty miles in width, comprising near 6,000,000 aeres of the best agricultural Jands In the State, be- sides nearn milion veres of tules and salt- amursh lands, Which when rerlaimed prove to be the most fertile lands [nthe world, the entire extent of thls famous valley embraces portions of nine counties, and the whole, Is fur richer: and iarger thin certain Kiusdoms of the Ulu World, The extent to which Irrization Is carried inny ve learned from the fact that one canal, the Sun Jonquin & King’s River, is six feet deep, sixty-eight feet wide, and 100 miles Jong; and the production may be inferred froin the amount of grain carried by the rail- roa during 1878 which was no less than 98,726,859 pounds, From the San Joaquin to the Colorado the hen Division of the Southern Pa- cific Railroad 1g completed forty mittes, und ts designed to comect with the” Southern Pay eae proper, now completed to ‘Tres Pinos, lov miles southward from San Francisco. This division runs through what is known tig the Musael Slough country, where at pres- ent a splrited contest Iy raglig between the settlers and the railroad for the possession of the odd numbered seetlons of — land, Stories are told of land in this section ylelding §250 per acre: of five crops of nitmia being ralsi in one year; of frults and yexetables of enormous size antl welght, At Goshen the Tulure Division pe- glug and extends 141 miles to Mojave. ‘Chis division rans through ‘Tulare, within seven iniles of the largest Inke Jn the State, aint also through Kern Valley, where farm- ing operations are on a gcale only second to that of the San Juaqaln. ‘This may be fn ferred from a single ranch situated nine iniles from Bakersfield whieh contains only 7,000 acres, yet lina two artesian wells flowing 80,000 gulloia per day tn addition ta 150 mites of vaunls and vigil ng ditches, ‘Phe owner of this sume ranch ts sitld to have the lurgest plow in the world, weighing something over anton, hauled by eighty oxen, cutting @ fur row five fect wide nnd threo feet deep, and moving elght miles per day, In this division of the road of some of the grandest engineering triumphs of. the world. The Town of Caliente Is 1,200 feet above thy level of the sea, but within a distance of twenty-live miles te Hne rises to the sunnolt of Tehacaps Pass at an altitude of 3it feet, an, average ascent of aver 108 fret to the mille. Within this twenty-five miles are seventecn tunnels. with an aggregate length of 7,034 feet; also the famous ae where the fine crosses itself, the latter being 3,705 feet In length, with ‘on elevation at the lower track of2,00U feut, and at the upper 1,08) feet, naking the hightof the tipper track seven- ty-clght feet greater tun of the track | Just hetaw, After passing these polnts the welrd- Ike and desolate Mojave plats ure crossed, aud the Los Angeles Diviston entered, ‘This division extends 100 miles from Mojave to ‘Los Angeles, and a short distance from the tutter elty fy the | most remarkable tunnel oF the road, ‘The sume is through. tho San | Fernando ange, ly reached from, the north up oa 07 feet rade of 116 feet to the mile, and is fi length, ‘The gride in the tunnel fs thir. ty-seven fevt to the ille, and the dimensions are fourteen feet In the clear st the bottom and sixteen aud one-linlf feet In exenyation. Tn twenty-two hours after leaving San Fran- elseo the traveler finds ibuwelf in Los Angeles, and the fertility of the surronnding country fs everywhere apparent, Mena to the Colurado the Hine extends fn the Yun Division 0 distance of 250 miles, and tn this division the Santa Ana Valley, San (i Tass, and Colorado Desert are erogscd, Trees Tess and arid ns this lutter section 1s, thie sib is rich and with suMelent moisture would he us frultful as the most favored parts of Crll- fornia. ‘Sho delta between the Gila and Colo~ ‘rade, which iy the very heart of the section, have been the bed of the rivers that now inelose It, and wherever the eye can reach 1s nothing save rock and drifting sand, except the mes- nite shrub, the cactus, and yale uear 100 feet in tial, Nosr Fink's apres a de weet of feet below the level of the sea fs attained, and not again until the Cotornilo 13 reavhed do signs of agriculture and elviliza~ tlon renppear, Fort Yuina, where the Colo rado River fy crossed, and where the South- ern Paciile Railroad of Arizona beginy, cone tulns wiulxed population of about 1,600, and ig probably the hottest and dryest plive on the American Continent, The woreury often inarks 125 degrees In the shade durlug the sunaner, and the averige, ralnfall iy only three Inches per annum. ‘The Colorgdy at this point is about $000 yurds In width, and flowing frown the north here forms a Junetton with the Gila fowlng from the east, ‘The streams sre navigable a considerable uly? tance from thelr mouth, and the steamers are owned by the rallrone corporation, ‘Tbe Southern Pucitic Linu ju Arizona ty seems once to more regular than line {n Callfornia. To Adonde the Gila River Is followed, the river bottom from two to five miles in width, and. with very little cultivated Jand, {and beyond Js the Gila Desert, a vast section of land with ° Tittle vegetation save greasewood, Ironwood, snge-brush, mesquite, and inlinbitedxolely by owls, Iizzards, tarantilas, ratteannkes, and tonds, Twenty-six miles from Adonte Mo- Hawk Sinnmit ts reached, and to the east tho entire surface of the country fs underiaid with Java, whieh, when exposed to the alr, {s soft and can readily be bruken into pieces in the hands, Hence to Maricopa, a tilstance of 1) miles from Ytuna, the same aller. nations of desert with fertile spots cone tinte, and from this point the rik way managers have in contemplation, the construction of a branch roail a distance of 160 miles to Prescott. At present the fin mense freizhting business between the mines ot Northern Arizona and tho railroad ts carried on by means of teains, and many de wys and dificulties are necessarily encoun tured, To Tucson from Maricopa 325 niles, thence to El Paso 441 miles, the country Is peeullarly adapted for the construction of 0 rallroud,” Here the Cordilleras, the Sterras, and the Rocky Mountains combine, and fall off cast and West Into n plain more or Teas level, ‘This fact was early noticed by Whit- ney, Parke, Humphrey, Browne, and other well-icnown Government Suryeyirs and ex- plorers, and the conclusion reached by all Is that the Southern Pacific route neross Ari- zona, both as rexards climate and topogra- phy. Is at once practicuble and easy of ac: jon, and fs likely to open tip © section of great nuricultural and mineral wealth The nineral resources are not less {mpor- tant than the agricuitural, While fron, cop- per, lead, coal, ofl, nud othar mineral prod- ucts are found at various points between Southern California and Texas, yet the gold and silver uiduln interests of the southern border will in the near future form the great revenue of the railrond, and will contribute. wnost Jargely to individual and National wealth, Prof. RW. Raymond reports that, Jyingenst of the Callfornia zone alone the east base of the Slerrus, and stretching sou ward Into Mexico, is a chatn of silver mines contalning comparatively little base metal, aud frequently Inchuded) in voleanic rocks. Through, Middle Mexico, Arizona, and Ne= yadals another Yne of silver mines; through New Mesleo and Utati ty still another zone of argentiferous galena loies, ‘To the enst again the New Mexico and Colorado belt Is extremely well defined. and there fy found a continuous chain of deposits, It has been proven that silver mines of great value exist In the Orzun Mountains, nthe valleys of the Rio Grande, Mimbres, San Pedro, and a Rivers, In the mountains south of ‘Tucson, and, judging, from geolog- Jen! formations, itis sirmised that rieh des posits willbe found ia the branehes of the Colorado of the West and the Gila, which take thelr rise In the mountalns of the north, It was a favorit theory of Humboldt that the Rrovertion of silver In the ore deposits of Northern Mexico would be found to increase towards thay mnetallurets' north, and the: distinguished pwe, gaye as the distinguish: er antning In Arizona the ‘ss of the ores over those of o, as Well ag their geological position. y product of the Arizonn mines: for the y endin Jat. 1, 1850, wis 662,873 tong of ores and base bullion, with a value of $1,042,403, while that of New Mexico was avout one-third asimuch, The northent States of Mexico, whieh are also adjoining to the rallrond, are especially rich in gold and silver, and with the introduction of Improved inachinery the future production will be lureely Increased. p a\t present the Southern Pacific scene of operations Is aba polut less: than 200° miles from El Paso, and near the boundary-line of New Mexieo and Arlzona. On the 24th of August allthe dificnities met in the Dragoon Mountaluy had been surmounted, and ft was: estiniated that the Jine would: reach El Paso, 200 miles distant, In 100 workine-«lays, The country being as level ag an Tllnols prairie, any nttnber of mien can be utllized tn track ed and grading, and the work progresses with clock-tike precision, On the 4th of August there were 12, feet of steelralls laid; on the 25th, 11,600; an the 26th, 12,809; and on the @7th 12.000 feer On the Ith of September the first regular Dussenger-train ranghrovch to San Slineon, & station 100 infles dant by rail from Tucson, iss miles from Sun Francisco, and 4,814 nilles froin the City of Hullfax, in the Prove Inceof Nova Scotia, the enstern terminus of the North Amerlein. system of railways, Since Jan. 20, 1880, the Company, have con structed and put in first-cluss worsIng order about 200 miles of stevl-rails, & feat seldone egituled In the history of rallransl-buliding Where the Ine will go ufter reaching E Paso has not yet been determined. Whethe, it will be continued to the Gulf, or depene entirely upon a connection to the south, is not now known, stijl the country eastward: is none the less “Inviting than that which the rond has already traversed, ‘The general eharactertstles of Texas are its rolling pralrtes, where vast herds of torses and enttle graze through the years Its desert platenu in the west and ts Towlands in the south, The present objective point, hows ever, is El Maso, aud all further schemes ure fn nbeyanee until that polut be reached, The sleepy old Mexican puebla, whieh hing hith- erto depended for support upon the fruitful valley of the Upper Rio Grande, Is putting ona new appearance in anticipation of its future glory, and the town prowises ere long tu he a seeond Indhusapolis or Denver, After the completion of the rond to the Rio Grande Intiinite connections will be formed with roads feuding to the South and East, and o new era of brosperlty on the southern border will be inaugurated, At the Callfor- nin end will be close connections with the great Central Paelile system, and thence with the Unton | Paeihe and Towa spteua ta the East. The tne rounin through California parallel to the ocean will antke contieetions easy by steamer with Asia, Australia, New Zenhind, Central and. South America, and with the northwestern section of this country _by way of the Oregon lines and Northern Paeiile. Connections will be had with the Intertor of Mexico and Gulf of Ualifornia by means of-the Sonvra, Railway through Chfhnahun and Sonora to Guyamus, and probably In the near future bya ling from El Paso to tho Clty of Mexico itsett, The Southern Paciile will connect with the Texas & Pacific and Galveston & San An- tonlu Roads, wow belug constructed from the Gulf, tins forming a short and ensy route to Galveston, New Orlean: Stablle, ant other eltles of the Gul and Atlantic seaboard in the Southern States, ‘There will also be connection ‘with the Atenison, ‘Topeka & Santa Fé early in the spring of [eyi, and thenes with the rallways centering dn Kansas and Missonri, tust, Louls, Chicaro, and New York. Fi-- nally, the Southern Paelie will conneet with the Kansas, Colorado, and Jay Gould system enerally by tte tne trom Denver now bulld- ng soutiward to the point of intersection, ‘Tins will be formed no Jess than four dia tinet and Independent routes tu the Enst, and the problem of overland transportation will be thereby haterioty: chunged. ‘The ad- yuntages which are Ikely to tow from the completion ofa second through route from the Pacific Const, provided the samo be mune aged upon a just and economic scale, may be atimmarized as follows: tt will bo a powerful ald in wresting the Mextcun traditrom the European nations whlch now vontrfl it, and thereby offer an additionnl market for American manufact- ures ined sup plies, Z (3) Tt will wiaterinlly shorten the distance between the two vcenns, and will give the Southern States a share of tho transcontl- nental commuree between Agia and Euro a Jt will compete with the Central Pa- clfic system in through freights and fares, and this aiford Jower ratca for tho transpore tation of goods between California and the East, (4) It will bring Into market millions of geres of land now cumparatively. worthless, ad erihieg the settlement of n region nuw Uns ' explored, Lure ¢ superior. ric: Centrat aes a) 1t will open up a mineral sectlon hith- + erlo undeveloped, owlng to the want of na. chinery: and capital, on Increasing the product of-uilnes already fa: vorbly known, ¥ (Uy ft- will niaterially enhance the postal and telegraplite service of the Goverment, and ald In the adindulstration of the courts in the Southern ‘Territories, : @ We owill bea vowerrul factor Ii the so- Intion of the Indlan question, and elect a great saving to the Government in the trans * portationof troops and suppiles, (3) dt will from the protective Interests of the country,” and be w general fncentive to Industria growth on the Southern border, * (9) It will have a tendeney to reconcile tho tnterests and harmonize tho sentiments of the various sections of the East and West, and this gdvanee towards 9 future of Nue tional prosperity aud wealth. A. 1. Warren, $$ : The Demucratle Cherry-Tree, Columbus (0.) Jura, Woile Chariea Francis Adams was walking on the Boston Common on Wedtouday bu caught Ben Butler with « batebot in hia band, partlal concealed behind bis back, whllo tho Democratic chorry-tree lay prone upon the grouud. Mr. Ahuis was too full for uttorance, but Bex ‘Sadurstood ta mee ne that awey u frown. aud loureeatingl loaue, wea allt fe wu Mit Boy! pias ae wijl-ald largely In, utllize capital now. withdrawn |.