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4 TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE. xxnMS or scnscniprioH (rxTArr.r nr advanco Pfttla ol n year at tho same rale. 2 o prevent delay and mistakes, lio sure nml giro Foil Ottco address Its full, Including Stale and County. Romittancea may bo made olllior by draft, express, Foil Onico order, or In registered lotlom, at ourrlslc. TF.llMfl TO OITT fIUDBOmDEIIfI. Bally, delivered, Sunday excepted, 35 cent* por week. Bally, delivered, Sunday Included, 80 oonta per week. Addrosa THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Comer Madison and Dcarbom-sti., Übloago, 111. TO DAY’S AMUSEMENTS. MopORMIOIC HALL—North Clark street, eornor BLlnxlo. Theodore Thomas Orchestra. Alternoon and ITODIOg. ACADEMY OF MUSlC—llalstodstroot,between Mad* Ison and Monroe. Engagement of Oliver Doud Byron. Across tbo Continent." Afternoon and evening. IIOOLRY'S THEATRE—Randolph street, between Clark anil LaSalle. Engagement of Lucille Western. The Child Stealer." Afternoon and evening. M’VIOKKR'S THEATRE—Madison street, between Dearborn and State. Engagement of tho Btoddart Combination Company. "Tbo Secret Marriage" and ' ‘ Americana In Furls." MYERS* OPERA-IIOUSK-Mqnroo street, between Dearborn and Slate. Arlington, Cotton, and Kemble’s Minstrels. Burlesque of "Matoppa." Minstrelsy and comicalities. ADBLPHI THEATRE—Corner of Wabash avenue and Congress street. Variety entertainment. Afternoon and evening. GLOBE THEATRE—Doaplainesslroet, between Mad* f«nn and Washington. Engagement of Uldwoll A McDon ough's Troupe. “The Black Crook." Afternoon and •Toning* EXPOSITION BUILDING—Lake Shore, foot ol Adams street. Dubufo's Painting of tbo ''Prodigal non." Afternoon and evening. BUSINESS NOTICES. A UNIVERSAL REMEDY.-" BROWN'S DRON ahlal Troches" for Coughs, Colds, and Bronchial Affec tions, stand first In public favor and confidence; this re suit has been acquired by a tost of many years. OHie C&ilmtit Wednesday Morning, February 18, 1874. Tho Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners havo notified the railroads doing business in this State that they must comply with tho law re quiring them to provide scales to weigh grain which they take for shipment. Tho Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce has passed the resolutions submitted by tbo Board of Directors, protostiug against tho passage of tho bill now before tho Wisconsin Legislature to reduce elevator charges one-half. Tho Senate of this State has passed tho me morial to Congress, previously passed by tho House, asking for tho extension of tho Illinois & Michigan Canal from Hennepin to Book Island. Tho advocates ot this measure claim that it would do for tho country west of tho Mississippi very much, what tho Erie Canal did for the country west of tho Lakes. Chang and Eng nro shown by tho autopsy which was concluded yesterday in Philadelphia to havo boon so vitally united ’that death would havo followed any attempt to sdparato them during life. Tho membrane which lines tho ab domen was ono in both, extending through tho mysterious ligament that bound them together. This ligament was also connected with tho liver and tho heart of each. Philadelphia decided yesterday, by about 10,000 majority, so far as known, that her “Centennial Mayor” should bo‘ William S. Stokloy, aud not Aleck McClure. Mr. Stokley Is tho present Mayor, and had tho support of tho City Departments, tho regular Republicans, and some of tho best citizens. McClure was sup ported by himself, J. W. Forney, and tho Demo crats, who made no regular nomination. Senator Thurman struck off tbo iuconsiaton clob and crudities of some of his colleagues rather happily on the currency debate yesterday. The currency, according to those gentlemen, is to bo stable and elastic. “To bo stable,” ho said, “it was to bo fixed; audio bo elastic it was not to be fixed.” Ho condemned tho Sou* ato as an . impracticable body for its course in loading down tho Redistribution bill with gen eral amendments. Tho motion to recommit was debated all day, but not decided. Tho insane in Illinois are reported by tho Board of Public Charities to number 3,000, of whom* 2,400 aro considered incurables. Tho State ;has asylum-room for only 1,500 of those unfortunates, and, when tho Northern and Southern Insane Asylums are completed, 1,800 will ho loft unprovided for. They recommend tho State to furnish additional facilities for thoir care. Other suggestions aro that tho cura ble and incurable insane be not separated in tho asylums, and.that tho practice of requiring pay ment from any of tho patients bo discontinued. King Lunalilo, of tho Sandwich Islands, bet tor known by his oarlior title of Prince Bill, died on the Sdiust. Lunalilo mado himself King, of tor tho death of lung Kamohamoha, in 1872, who named no successor, byissuingapte&iscifum invit ing tho Sandwich Islanders to veto for him, which they did with such unanimity that there woro but 19 disaontlontlvotos out of 12,000. A mooting of tbo Legislature was called upon Lunalilo's death to moot on tho 12tb Inst. A mass matting at Eawahias has nominated David Kalakua as tho next King. Affairs in tho House of Representatives camo to a hitch yesterday over tho contested election case in tho Third Congressional District of Ar kansas. W. W. Wilshiro |was declared entitled to tho scat by a party majority of tho House, which did not include somo of tho best Repub lican members. A motion to clinch tho voto by reconsideration was mot by dilatory tactics on the part of tho Democrats. Thoro was a pros pect at ono time of an all-night session, which was dually dissipated by adjournment by a vote of 87 to 81. The Senate yesterday agreed to a resolution of Senator Bogy's calling for tho opinion of tho Fiuauco Committee about giving tho States partial control of tho banking-business of tho country hereafter,—tho number of banks, tbo amount of tbeir capital, tbo guarantees to de positors, and tbo granting of charters, all to bo decided by tbo Stato Governments. Federal regulation is provided for In tbo clause requiring tbo circulation to bo secured by bonds as at present, and requiring tbo bonds to bo deposited with tho Federal Government, which shall issue tho notes used by tho banks, and bo responsible for tholr redemption. Tho Obicago produce markets wore generally easier yesterday. Hess pork was moderately active, and 10@16o per brl lower, closing at «14. 12K@14.X8 dash, and $U.37#@lUO seller April. Lard was active, and 10@20o per 100 lbs lower, closing at cosh, and $0.02K £>9.05 sollor April. Most* wore iu better de- maud, and atoady, sts>£o for ahouldora, $7,00 for abort riba, 7Jfo for abort oloar, and OX@Ho for awoot-ploklod bama. Broaaod hogs woro dull and 6@loo por 100 Iba lower, closing at $0.20@0.25, HigUwinos woro quiot and easier, oloaing at par gallon, Flour was dull and weak. Wboat waa aotlvo, and Armor, oloaing at sl.lO caah, and sl,lOJ£ Bailor April. Com waa aotlvo, and oaalor, oloaing at aollor klaroh. Oata woro quiot, and }£o lowor, oloaing at 41%0 cash; and il)ia aollor Matob. Ilyo waa In good demand, and Ann, at 820 for regular. Harley waa dull and oaalor, at 51.78®1.80 for No, 2, and SI.GS@I,O4 for No, 8. On Saturday evening last tboro waa In atom In tills city 8,123,- 218 bu wboat, 2,880,051 bu oom, 803,500 bn oalo, 05,700 bu ryo, and 820,802 bu barley. Live bogo woro Arm and unobangod, closing at $1,60@5,80 for inferior to obolco. Tlio qattio and aboop markets rulod fairly aotlvo, tbo latter at a alight advanco. Grain-Inspector Harper’s Into clerk, Mr. E. W. Smith, has written a letter to tho Stato Jour nal at Springfield, in which that gentle* nan is charged with grave offenses. Mr. Smith says that tho Inspector certified officially every znoqth to tho existence of balances which were not- in his possession, tho money having boon drawn out for other pur poses than to pay tho expanses of tho office. Those purposes, it is intimated, woro speculations in grain or something similar. Last November, tho Inspector directed Mr. Smith to mako out a now sot of books to hldo those transactions, and in those tho cash bal ance, for which tho Inspector was responsible, was reduced from its correct figure of $28,000 to $6,000. . Senator Carpenter thinks tho election of Pres ident, Yico-Prceidont, and Oongrossroon ought to bo surrounded with greater safeguards against fraud. Ho has prepared a bill directing the Secre tary of tho Interior topurohaso tho Patent Safety Ballot-Boxes for general uso in elections at nil tho polling-places in tho country, provided they do not cost more thou sls aploco. Whether tho sl6 Patent Safety Ballot-Box would “execute a free man’s will, as lightning does tho will of God, I 'so much bettor than tho ordinary hind as to ho worth tho enormous outlay contemplated, is doubtful, but it is not doubtful that tho worst fraud in these elections is tho way tho olect conduct themselves thereafter. Souator Car penter would do bettor if ho could get up a ballot-box, like tho famous scarecrow, that would frighten Congressmen into bringing back into tho national corn-field all that they had stolon from it. Through tho stupidity, or something worse, of ono of its officers, tho Now York Stock Ex change was thrown into a very foolish scaro yes terday. Two letters, purporting to bo signed by President Orton, of tho Western Union Tele graph Company, and President Cox, of tho To ledo, Wabash & Western Railroad, addressed to Yico-Proaidont Wheolook, woro road by him to tho Board, each announcing a considera ble increase of capital stock. Tho additional issue by tho Western Union was staled at $8,020,- 500; that of tho Toledo, Wabash & Western at $10,000,000, In tho flurry that followed those announcements about $8,000,000 of tho stocks of tho two roads woro sold at a falling price by tho panicky members. It required but a few moments* investigation by tho cool-headed ones to discover that tho signatures wero forged and tho statements false. Vice-President Whoo lock’s conduct in startling tho Board with state ments which ho might so easily havo tested is so strange that it is hinted that ho may not havo beon a more dupe. THE WORKINGMEN ORGANIZING. Tho information which wo print elsewhere in this morning's paper loaves no doubt that tho workingmen are organizing after tho manner of tho farmers. It seems to bo predetermined that, in a few months more, the laboring classes will have their Councils to correspond with tho Granges of tho agricultural classes. Though tho nows which wo present is moro com prehensive than anything horotoforo printed on tho subject, tho movement is not ono of sudden growth, nor is it con fined to any ono locality. It has boon gradually developing for some months in differ ent parts of tho country, and it now seems prob able that tho various organizations will converge eventually in a central and powerful body. Tho Grange will servo as a model, and very likely as a support. As much as a year ago, when tho orusado against railroad extortion began ear nestly In tho West, tho Workingmen's Associa tions in Now York City discussed tho feasibility of co-operating with tho form ers in such a way as to buy their breadstuffs from them direct, and the greatest sympathy which tho Farmers’ Movement has found In tho East has been apiong tho industrial classes. Though this scheme of co-oporation was not carried out at tho timo, tho idea now serves as tho basis for organizing tho laboring classes. An article in The Tbtduke, a couple of weeks since, setting forth tho general design of the Order of “ Sovereigns of Industry,” started in Massachusetts, called forth an un usual number of inquiries from differ ent sections concerning it; and indications of similar organizations, or tho purpose to or ganize, throughout tho West and South. Mr. Earle, tho Master of this Order, has boon travel ing in tho West and Southwest, and is now in Chicago. An interview with him yestorday developed additional information in regard to tho organization. At the samo timo, a move ment to form a similar association in Chicago, j to bo called tho “ Advocates of Justice,” reached tho point of organization, and it will either progress independently or coalesce with tho New England Order. From Now Orleans wo havo an account of tho "Mechanics 1 and Working men’s Co-oporativo Association,” which advo cates tho same general principles, adding there to a practical attempt at co-operation in manu facture, and in buying and selling. Tho Amal gamated Carpenters of Chicago have taken out articles of incorporation, and tho evidences of a moro central organization than has over before existed among tho workingmen of America are increasing on all sides. Like tho Patrons of Husbandry, tho Sover eigns of Industry and Advocates of Justice claim to bo non-political organizations. Tho declared purpose is to organize against tho ille gitimate uso of capital in speculation, to out down prices by eliminating tho middle-men, and to promote a direct interchange between tho ag ricultural and industrial classes. Tho soopo of tho movement, it will bo soon, is very different from that of thp trades-unions, or that of tho political coalition Jcuqwi) os tho mon’s Party which, from time tlmo, has taken an active, though hithortp Inoflloieut, part In elections. But tho ulti mate design of (be movement Is confessedly to niE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1874, ao abapo tbo aontbnont of tbo .worklng-oiaaaoa that they may concentrate tbolriuAuonco on log lalatfon favorablo to tlioir Intoroaia. Votoa will bo individual and independent, and partioa will bo loft out in tbo cold; but tbo formation of poltioal oontlmont in tbo true algniAoanoo of tbo term will bo tbo real goal of tbla move ment, aa It la that of tbo Grange's prog ress. Tbo Bucooaa of co-operative' buying and aolllng must necessarily depend, wbotbor with Patrons of Husbandry or Sovoroigna of Industry, upon tbo management of subordinate Granges or Councils in every oaao, but tbo Patrons and Sovoroigna everywhere will bo guided to the same political convictions. In bow far tbo gen eral aoopo of tbo contemplated co-oporatlon be tween farmers and workingmen is practicable, remains to bo aeon. Tbo lutoroata of tbo work ingmen are more diverse than those of tbo farm ers | end, to a greater or loss extent, they are sectional, depending npon the character of their employment and tbo apodal Industries of different localities. It will bo a much moro dif- Aonlt matter to form a central, harmonious, and powerful Order among tbo workingmen than it baa boon to ooouro for tbo Grange ita pioaont promlnonco and InAuonoo. It will bo oonatantly menaced by tbo spirit of Communism, though tbia spirit la heartily and, wo boliovo honestly disclaimed to begin with. It will encounter moro olumbling-blooka, and will bavo moro aorioua dissensions to con tend with, than tbo Grange baa bad. But, for all that, tbo effort is undoubtedly to bo made for woal or for woo, and it will in time bo another thorn in the aides of tbo old political parties that are now struggling so desperately for oziatonco. THE LABOR-MARKET. Wo published yesterday tho results of in quiries by tho employment branch of tho Re lief and Aid Society, Tho number of establish ments reported was 112, not including tho lum ber-yards. Wo have counted the numbers thus given of hands usually employed in those estab lishments, and tho number employed at tho time those reports wore collected in January and February. Tho number given as usually em ployed was 12,000, and tho number at work, say, on tho Ist of February, was 8,388, leaving 8,012 out of usual employment. This does not include those laborers whoso employment al ways stops when tho winter sots in. This re port of tho Labor Bureau is, however, to a date several weeks past. It represents a fraction over two-thirds of tho men then at work. This is subject to tho modification that in* some instances they woro at work on one-half or throe-fourths tlmo only, and that throe fourths of them were ot work on wages reduced from Bto 20 per cout. While the report is sub ject to this qualification on tho ono hand, it should bo added that ou Monday, Fob. 16, sev eral huudrod additional hands wero to bo taken baok, and that on the Ist of March nearly all would bo rc-omployod.. Ou tho opening of navi gation, which this year promises to bo much earlier than usual, tho lumber-yards will givo employment to tho thousand or more men who nro engaged in them during tho season of navi gation. Those employed in building will also resume work this year much sooner than usual. Assuming that tho condition of tho other em ployers of skilled labor is about tho same as those whoso names woro reported yesterday, wo find that tho combined effect of tho panio and tho winter closed but very few establishments, and that, of those which did suspend, tho groat majority resumed in a few weeks, with a dimin ished number of bauds, but havo steadily in creased their business, and by tbo Ist of March will generally have tho full number of men at work, Tho reduction of wages was a necessity, as well as tho reduction of tho number of per sons employed; tho main thing sought was to find employment at all, and tho supply of laborers being greater than the demand, and tho profits of employers being greatly reduced, a reduction of wages was inevitable. Tho em ployers havo boon assiduous in giving all tho work they could and to as many of their old hands as possible. As soon as they can find employment for all, and sales for their pro ducts, thoro will, of course, bo a slow but cer tain restoration of wages. It will bo gratifying to know that in many cases tho manufacturers report tho prospect of a larger trade during tho coming season than in tho past, and, as tho money market is growing easier daily, wo havo no doubt that this ex pectation is well founded. |Tho business of 1874, especially that giving remunerative wages to labor, will ho largely in excess of that of past years, except, perhaps, in tho building trade, but oven iu this lino tho cheapness of building ma terial will offset to some extent tho dullness iu that branch of industry. THE WAREHOUSE MONOPOLY IN MINNE- OOTA, Throo mon, Delano, Davidson, and Kyle, own all tbo warehouses on tho line of tho St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. Tho Railroad Company has agreed to build no grain houses along tho lino itsolf, to allow nobody olao to do so, and to re ceive no grain west of Minneapolis from any warehouses not owned by those three men. Thoy got 2 cents per bushel for handling tho grain, and half a cent more for every fifteen days’ storage after the first ten days. All tho grain is rehandled in tho elevators at St. Paul or Minneapolis, and these charges are again levied. Tho Company collects them and remits to tho warehousemen. Such a rigid monopoly has, of course, been a burden. Tho warehouses aro fow and small; tho charges aro many and largo. During the investigation in to this matter by a Senate Com mittee, a Minneapolis miller sworo that ho would, if permitted, build at onco a private warehouse which, by saving him tho charges of tho monopoly, would clear its cost in two years. Tho Committee suggests tho enact ment of a suitable Warehouse law, an action to vacate tho Railroad Company’s charter, and tho taxation of tho present elevators as tho personal property of Dolano, Davidson, and Kylo, The warehouses have escaped taxation hitherto, be cause thoir ownership has boon uncertain, Mr. Dolano, on this investigation, testified that tho Railroad Company ownoa them, and tho Presi dent of tho Company testified that tho ware housemen owned them. As tho latter paid for them, tho Committee has probably assigned tho ownership correctly, Tho report ends with tho submission of tho following joint resolution ; Jle it waived by the Senate ((ho House oflteprcßouta- Uvca concurring), That tho Attorney-aonural he and ho Is hereby instructed to Immediately commence Judicial proceedings Iu tho proper court for the pur pose of vacating (ho charter of tbs said First Division of tho St. Foul L I’aciflo Railroad Company, DlO Lewis, tbo flfly-dollar reformer, njado a Speech at Lebanon, 0., on tho 12th iust., in which he predated that tho injunction against the Hillsboro female crusaders would ho dis- Bolvod, bocßuao " law must give way before this great moral passion.” If Lewis’ logic Is tmojn ouo case, it must bo truo in nil. Suppose aomo ono, therefore, should suddenly bo seized with a groat moral passion to tho effect that Dio Lowis was a humbug and ought to bo restrained of his personal liberty, would tho law have to givo way ? Suppose tho members of any ono church of Hillsboro, for instance, should allow their great moral passion to go so far as to aotualo them to burn down all other churches, would tho Jaw have to give way ? f A FINANCIAL FABLE. There was once a man who lived by a little brook. By his house tho brook was shallow, but at somo distance below it formed a deep pool, by which another man lived. Tho first man thought it was not right that tho second should havoso much water when ho had so llttlo, so ho dipped a pallful out of tho pond and poured it Into tho brook In front of his honso. But to his groat surprise it at once ran down into tho pond again, and loft tho uppor part of tho brook as shallow as over. This foolish man showed tho proclso amount of wisdom oxhlbitod by certain Senators who aro so anxious to pass tho bill taking $25,000,000 of National Bank cur rency from tho Bast and distributing it through tho West. If this Is done, it will bo pouring tho pailful into tho brook, and will bo prooisoly as permanent in its effects. Water runs whoro tho ground Is lowest, and just as surely money runs where lutorost is really highest. Wo say really highest, for tho nominal rates of Kausas, for instance, aro much higher than thoso of Now York, but tho greater risk more than counterbalances tho difference. Money can bo used in tho city hotter than In tho country; honco it collects in cities. It can bo used in Now York bettor than in most cities; honco it collects in Now York. A dollar-noto gains no mysterious property, by bolng paid ovor a California conn tor, that prevents its going East or keeps it clr cnlating in tho West. When a National Bank is wound up, Us notes are sent in for redemption from tho whole country. Senator Bogy seems to imagine that stamping “ Missouri " on a pioco of paper will make it an impossibility for tho Now York banks to got that paper outside of Mis souri, charm thoy novor so wisely. Ho apparent ly thinks bank-notes aro like postage-stamps and will stick wboro thoy aro put down. In both be liefs ho is on a par with tho man who thought tho water would stay whoro ho put it in tho brook. ■ THE “ASSUMPTIONS” OF SCIENCE. In a recent number of tho “Metropolitan paper of tho Protestant Episcopal Church in tho United States” is an article on “Scientific As ' sumptions,” in which tho writer takes to task Prof. Proctor, tho English astronomer now lec turing in this country, forsomo “assumptions” regarding the antiquity of man. Ho further more lays about him generally with respect to tho scientific theories of Geology, Development, Evolution, 010., now prevalent; and tho frequent use of tho words “credulity,” “guess-work,” “fanciful speculation,” and tho insinuation that scientific theories aro based upon “hearsay,” on “tho work of ignorant workmen,” or “that of a California minor fond of practical jokes,” and also that none of tho facts “depend upon such testimony as would convict a common thief of petit larceny,” will bo sufficient to indicate tho animus of tho article in question. Sinco men emerged from a state of barbarism, thinkors have had an uncomfortable way of “assuming” certain theories for tho explana- tion of certain phenomena. By those who had a out-and-driod explanation of tho appearances of Nature, those “assumptions” wore as a con tinual thorn in the side, and with all tho weapons of priestly Interference, ridicule, and power, they have sought to prevent their spread and acceptance among men. When Copernicus offered his “assumption” of tho heliocentric Tory of the earth’s motion, in opposition to tho geocentric “assumption” adopted by tho Church, ho was greeted with this: “To main tain that tho sun is placed immovable in tho centre of tho world, is an opinion absurd in itself, false in philosophy, and formally hereti cal, because it is expressly contrary to the Scripture; to maintain that tho earth is not placed in tho centre of tho world, that it is not immovable, and that it has oven a daily motion of rotation, is also an absurd proposition, false in philosophy, and at least erroneous in point of faith.” And tho groat Bacon, so confidently quoted by tho writer, who laid out a “really scientific method of deduction,” rejected it, and said, “ I am convinced that it is most false.” It is hardly nocossory to tlofoud such men as Sir Charles Lycll, Prof. Tyndall, and Prof. Proc tor from tho charge of loose thinking, careless examination,or hasty and unqualified acceptance of each and every “fact ” brought to their no tice. It is not necessary to refer to tho actual position of Sir Charles Lyoll upon tho points re ferred to in tho article, or to stato that hia poai- tion upon tho “Natchez man” is ouo of extreme caution, in place of the unqualified “ assump- tion ” inferred. No class of men are more critical of facts than scientific men. Open iuquiry, says Huxley r is their bosom friend, and a sup position not capable of rigid proof is at onco dismissed. But they claim the right of exami nation, and, ponding tho decision, all theories have a standing at their bar of reason.' At this bar tbe theory of Evolution is now undergoing its examination, and wo may safely await the judgment to bo passed upon it, not by bigoted opponents, but by men qualified' to pronounco upon its truth or falsity. “Prof. Proctor,” says our writer, “has for himself, wo venture to say, never verified a sin gle one of tho facts on which ho founds his the ory. He does not oven 'know* tho facts. Ho takes them on faith from tho reports of others.” The theory of Oopornioua was ouco an “assump tion” of science, as Evolution, Development, tho Antiquity of Man, are now. It is now uni versally accepted, while tho others are in pro cess of proof. Has our writer over “verified" tho facts of geometry, physics, and mathematics, which furnish tho proofs which have rendered this “assumption” a fixed and accepted fact 7 Has ho over “verified" a single ono of them? Docs ho oven “t/iow” tho foots? JJoea he not take them on faith from tho report of others i In tho face of a negative answer to these ques- tions, dare ho acknowledge his belief in tho the ory 7 If ho accept it, how reconcile his opposi tion to tho modem theories. Wo accept tho fact, in Chemistry, that water is a compound sub stance formed by tbo union of two Invisible gases. How many of us “know" tbo fact by verification 7 and yet, in receiving it on faith from the roporb of others, are we not “ thor oughly unscientific, uncritical,* and credulous 7" f'ho primp ffictof at tho bottom of all sploptiflo reasoning, the only thing which brings order out of chaos, which saves us from the wildest con fusion of ohanco and uncertainty, is tho “ as sumption."—if so wp choose (o term It,—of ox- act, unchanging, continuous law, which gov erns tho succession of phenomena. Of tho pow er beyond, and sustaining this law, wo speak not. It la sufficient that tho rotations of oauso and offoot aro dotormlnod so certainly that tho operation of those laws (at present in jjhysloal, soon, it Is believed, capable of extension to men tal and social phenomena) con bo foretold. Tho science of Astronomy Is rendered possi ble from tho fact that tho same law which gov erns a falling stone from a oliff holds tho plan ets in their courses and guides aoomotin Its passage around the sun. The science of Geology is assured from tho fact that tho causes that rogulato tho deposits of mud in tho ostuarics of our rivers, uudormlno rooky shores, upheave continents, and submerge islands, woro opera tive la tho childhood of tho world. Tho sclonoo of Chemistry would bo a delusion and a snare save from tho fact that each molecule of mat ter, throughout tho universe, boars impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as dis tinctly as docs tho metro of tho Archives at Paris, or the doablo royal cubit of tho Temple of Karnoo. Tho operations of inanimate matter and of organic lifo aro dependent upon tho equiva lence of forces andjtho imporlshabaUty of matter, and upon tho axiom that the sum of all forces is constant, and can neither bo added to nor sub tracted from. -• Tho contest between tho “assumptions" of theology and tho discoveries of soionco is as old as tho world. Only In our time has tho relative position of tho contestants so changed that tho preponderance of strength and credibility is bn tho side of soionco. Tho history of soionco is tho history of Ul9 contest, and it is almost with a suspicion of unfairness and pity that soiontiflo men do battle in our day,—not with an antago nist worthy of tboir blows, not fortho more right to reason upon tho wondrous exhibition of tho power, bonuty, ond regularity in Nature, not for tho laws which in a simple and ordoriy way account for thoso seemingly myste rious phenomena which awo tho savago and per plex and astonish tho uneducated man,—but to dofond tbomsolvos from tho sneers and bigot ries, tho misrepresentations and arrogant “ as sumptions " of moa who, in their ignorance and blindness, foolishly block tho way to a grander revelation of tbo univoreo which surrounds us, and a port of which wo aro. THE SMOKE NUISANCE, In tho rebuilding of Chicago, the capacities and convonioucioa for tho smoko nuisance have boon greatly increased,-and the city la gradually becoming a second Pittsburgh. Tho number of manufactories has increased, and, with barely two or throo exceptions, thoy are omitting dense volumes of soft-coal smoko from morning to night. Tho hotols aro getting to bo as bad as the manufactories. In addition to this, nearly all tho now buildings are now furnished with elevators, operated by steam, and this adds greatly to tho volume of smoko, which bangs ovor and settles down upon the city. Already our new and elegant buildings begin to look old and dingy from tho effects of tho smoko and soot which blackens thorn, and, notwithstanding tho immediate proximity of Lnko Michigan, person . al cleanliness is a good ways off from godliness in Chicago. So dense is this volume of smoko that, unless there Is a brisk, stirring breeze, tho whole of it settles down in tho central part of tho city and loaves its dirty imprint. Every man who has a chimney belching forth smoko is committing a nuisance which should ho peremptorily abated by law. There is no necessity for it, and no excuse for it. Science has demonstrated that smoko can ho consumed, and already there aro two or three methods of doing it which operate with perfect success. Thoy work no inconvenience to qmohinory, aro simplo in operation, and comparatively inexpen sive. In view of those facts, and especially con sidering that tho smoko nuisance is growing worse almost every day, every owner of a steam engine in tho city should hp compelled to use one of these appliances. In London, their use is compelled by law, and there is no reason why it should not bo in Chicago also. If it Is not douo, tho city will shortly bo blackened in appearance, new as it is, and grow more un healthy. What is to bo dono should ho done quickly, if tho beauty and cleanliness of tho oity aro worth preserving. The Common Council cannot pass an ordinance which would bo more acceptable than ono to secure us a healthy at mosphere, pure air, clean streets, clean build ings, and clean people. When tho moans for se curing this result ore so'choap and simple, it is tho height of folly to go dirty any longer. Parson Brownlow, who has boon silent so long, has turned up ouco more, and in a most unexpected quarter. Tho colored people of Ten nessee having grown somewhat rampant on tho social rights question, tho Parson has written a lottor from Washington to tho Knoxville Chron icle, in which ho says: lb should be remembered that the colored race* though largo in numbers, constitute a very small minority of the whole people of tho United States. However strongly united, they have no power to comvel concessions from the whites. Whatever they get must come as tho free gift from the whites. It is, therefore, tho part of wisdom on tho pact of the colored people of Tennessee to bo careful upon insist ing upon that which can do no practical good to cither raco, but Is sure to briug disaster nnd ruin to the most useful institution of modern times—free schools. Lot tho colored people of Tennessee ask Congress to desist from any legislation which enforces mixed schools, and they will have established s now claim to respect and confidence. Lot tbe colored people have their own schools and churches and the white people have theirs. Lot the colored people have a fair divide of the school fund and they will find their own teachers and preachers. This is very sensible but somewhat surprising language from tho old-time friend of tho colored people, and is all tho more significant as a Con vention of tho colored citizens of Tennessee is called to meet at Nashville in April to consider social questions. Whether that Convention will accept tho old Parson’s advice remains to be soon. Tho proprietor of the Now-York Herald , having contributed a handsome sum for the establish ment of a soup-house for tho relief of tbo poor, has been assailed by the managers of some of tho charitable institutions of New York City, upon tho ground that public soup-houses de moralize and pauperize tho poor. Tho Herald, however, retorts with somo very damaging facts concerning theso charitable institutions, show ing that tho actual expenditure of thoPivoPoints Uouso of Industry on tho poor for tho year end ing March, 1872, was $14,000, and tho cost of ex pending this sum was 620,000 ; that tho Chil dren’s Aid Society paid in tho lust year 676,000 for salaries and other expenses ; that it receives from tho city and county 670,000 for educating 0,000 children, and shows itself that it has only 8,000, for tho education of which it is appealing to public charity; and that this Society, which charges newsboys 0 cents for a night’s lodging, has 6104,000 invested in tho shares of a Western railroad, Tho well-paid philanthropists of New York have evidently stumbled Into a hornets’ neat. Somebody in Milwaukee has discovered at last tho moans by which Chicago can be. destroyed and her commerce transferred to othor and more eligible points. It Is to build a railroad from Milwaukee to St. fouls. Tho idea is, that, if this bo dono, St. Louis merchants will make their purchases in Milwaukee instead of iu Now York and Chicago, and that Milwaukee cau also fuvulsb St. Louis with pine boards. GRAIN-INSPECTOR HARPER. His Official Career Reviewed by Ex* Chief-Clerk Smith* The Public Money Said io Have Been Employed for Private Uses. A Now Set of Books Written Up to Hide the Transaction, False Returns Made to tho Railroad Commissioners. Special Dispatch to The CMcaao Tribune. Springfield, HI., Fob. 17.—Tho Stale Journal will . publish tho following lottor to-morrow morning j • _ CniOAoo, 111., Fob. 10. To the Rihtor of the Illinois suite Journal; Bin: Fot several days pant thoro have been article* appearing In tho daily press of this city (Chicago) con cerolnß tho condition of tbo affairs of tho office of tho Chief Grain Inspector of this city, W. H. llarpor. As thoso articles appear under tho hooding of Springfield correspondence. I desire to say something In regard to them; and 1 ask for space In the columns of tho journal. The origin of the articles I refer to was no doubt caused by a statement published In a Pekin paper,— the Poklu Timet, I think,—dated tho 13lh Inst., de tailing tho connection of W. H. Harper, the Chief In spector, with (be defalcation of his brother, John T, Harper. As I knew nothlug obout tbo article at the lime, nor of any of tho charges mado except tho ouo concerning the $19,000 transaction, I paid no attention to them. But, In view of tho fact that the Chief Jta spector Permuted himself to bo Interviewed by tho Post and Mall, on the ICtb Inst., and the further foct S.*,‘“s. l 5, rU . c l?,“? I,c f r '.. in , 1110 Chicago Bvtnlng Jour nal. of the 101U Inst., that docs mo great Injustice, I desire to put myself right with tbo public, and alee to show whether the statements made by the Chief Inspec tor in those articles wore correct. 1 In the first place, tho substance of tbo articles sent from your city did not originate from mo, nor did I know anything about them until they apparod In SWJtki ' °y v cou^ d hRVO boon known to many in this city (Chicago), who aro now and always have been hostile to Harper’s administration, and they could bavo been known to them without coming from mo. As to any Interview the Chief Inspector may have bad with the Pekin distillers at Springfield, or whut they wanted Ip have him do. I know nothing; nor do I know any of tho Pekin distillers. B . A tho charges mado against him of dealing in grain, they aro true, or else ho has mado false statements to me. Up to tho tlmo of tho flight of his brother, J, T. Harper, ho tola mo substantially all kn°n U vL l ? M 0 «? ÜBO f Jo V?l Sluco lbot I have known something obouUbom. Let usisoo If tbcro'ls not somo evidence that ho was nf™ ?? or & something else that caused him him to use largo sums of money. From tbo 22d of September, 1873, to-tbo lltb of December, 1873,—obout Smi C «n y rt?? S T.Vr h0 m Cj l 0 f kc . d 0, . ,t of h,s ofl,cllll account, lows 1 * h 8 over $17,000, as fol- Sept. 22,1873. Order of self; scoo. Sopl. 23, 1873. Order of self; $3,800. Sept. 21,1873. Order of seif; si|Bso. Oct. l. 1873. Order of J. O. Mycra & Co.; $2,000. [ln S* ,nl f,7 lOW * n and Matt, the Chief Inspector places this sum at $5,000, and says that ho borrowed that amount at tho Oily National Bank.] Sonrtorf ilioo.' ° rdl!r ° f “■ S> Illomrßon ’ Buts Samo order as above; $2,C00. HOct. 23, 1873, Order of A. B. Coudlt; SSOB [ln tho interview In tho Post and Mail, Mr, Harper says ho chocked this amount out of tho Block-Yards 1 9 Oct, 24,1873. Order of self: $114,06, • Nov. 4,1873. Order of self; $l5O. Nov, 6,1873. Order of self: SIOO. Nor. 30,1873, Order of seif; SSOO. * Nov, 18, 1873. Order of seif: S2CO. Nov. 10,1873. Order of self: $035.81. Nov. 28, 1873. Order of self; $908.17. Nov, 20,1873. Order of Dr. Emmons, $250. [This was In connection with a grain speculation, of which I.kuow all about.] * Dec. 1, 1873. Order of self • SIOO. Doc. 0, 1873, Order of seif; SSOO. Doc. 11, 1873, Order of self; SSOO. None of these checks were drawn to pay the ex penses of the office, Tho chocks drawn for that pur pose aro not given. During all these dales, tho office was earning over double tho amount of the expenses from the fact that tho rate for Inspection had been raised at tbo request of the Chief Inspector, and, consequently, there was no reason why any of these amounts should have been for borrowed money for official use. Tbo condition of tho office financially, during this tlmo may bo known from tbo following : The official cash account of tbo Chief Grain Inspector shows that there should have been, but was not, a >alauco of public money on hand Sapt. 30, 1873 of $9,398.21: balance for Oct. 31,1873, $13,618.09: balance for Nov. 30,1873. $20,012.79; balance for Doc. 31, 1873, $21,650.21. At the dates above given these amounts were not on baud or In bank, and yet Mr. Harper, over bis official signature, certifies tbot tbe accounts are true and cor rect. Whether they wore true and correct 1 leave to those whose duty It is to Judge. Lot ua proceed to see whether Mr. Harper considered all these transac tions official. The $16,000 transaction, which he says in bis Interview was for his brother, John T. Harpor/and all the others above referred to were carried Into the official records of his office. But,-becoming alarmed, for what reason I don’t know, ho procured in Novem ber. at his own expense, an entire now sot of records and for weeks and weeks I was at work, before and after business hours, rewriting the old records Into the now ones, leaving out of tbe now ones all the transactions above referred to. The cash account In tho old sot of books aggregates, as I now remember it, about $28,000, yet in tho now sot it aggregates only about $5,000. Mr. Harper says, In closing hts Interview In tho Post and Mail, that tho $6,000 draft referred to as deposit ed at tho Union National Bank, was not a draft Is sued by tho Pekin Bank for tax on whisky, but that it was Issued by tho First National Bank of Springfield. This Is not true. I saw tho draft at the time, and it was Issued by tho First National Bank of Pekin, HI. Now, about my resignation. At the tlmo of the flight of his brother, John T. Harper,! toldtho Chief Inspector that I would relieve him of any embarrassment and re sign. Ho told mo there was no reason why I should resign, and I continued along in tho office. After I had about half completed tho rewriting of tho books, an unpleasant occurrence took placo between myself and Sir. Beau, a clerk In the office. At this time Mr. Harper was out of the city. As soon as ho returned I resigned, hut ho again declined to accept It— not for tho reason that ho gives In his Interview, that wo were In the midst of a monthly report, out because I was In the midst of rewriting the records. On Saturday, tho 14th lust., I learned, not from the Chief Inspector, from whom It should have come, that on tho Monday following I was to bo removed without any notice. I resigned at once, and thus severed ar connection with the office, AU the statements heroin made are true, and will bo borne out to any one who taay investigate them. They are not made public with any malicious intent, but simply in self-defense. Very respectfully, E. W. Sumr, FIRES. At Prescott* Wis. St. Paul, Fob. 17. —A firo broke out on Satur day night at Proacolt, Wis., in a building owned by T. Field, and occupied by J. A. Smith as a grocery and feed store. It spread rapidly, and the store of F. F. Wilson and D. J. Dill, and tho saloon of O. Yierling, were all burned to the ground. Smith loses 6400, O. Wilson 86.000. Dill 82,000, Yierling 84,000, O. F. Wilson 8500 and Field 81,000. One or two other buildings wore slightly damaged. The lire is supposed to bo the work of an incendiary. At Sing Sliur, IV. V. Poughkeepsie, N. 1., Pob. 17.—A largo flro is raging at Sing Sing. Two. blocks, including Olivo Hall, aro burned, and another block is now in flumes. Engines havo boon sent for to tho neighboring villages. Sing Sinq, N. Y., Pob.' 17.—Tho Are hero this morning broke out in Olivo Ityll, and boforo it was got undor control destroyed twenty-six places of business, principally on Main, Spring, and Leonard streets and Control avouuo. Most of tho buildings wore of wood. Olivo Hall was a now bride structure four stories high. Two newspaper offleos, those of tho Register and tho Republican, and a number of stores and dwellings wore burned. Tho flro originated from tbo boater in Olivo Hal). Loss, $115,000; insurance, $97,000. ’ On tlioltlflo ISlvor. Special Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, East Saginaw, Mich., b’eb. 17.—A Are at 6 o’clock this morning, in ono of tho camps of Amnsa Rust, on the Rifle River, destroyed a barn together with six flno horses, hay, grain, food, and harness. Tho flro had gained swell headway, when discovered, that but little was saved. Pivo horses wore taken from tho burning structure. Tho horses burned wore valuable ones, worth from $l6O to $250 each. Tho barn was a tempo rary structure, for camp purposes. Tho loss is not stated, but is probably iu tho’neighborhood of $2,000. At JLnarniigo, Ind. Special Ditpalch to The Chicago Tribune. Laouanqk, Ind., Fob. 17.—Tho American House, tho largest hotel hero, was completely destroyed last night by fire, caused by a dofoo-, tivofluo, Tho loss is $0,000; insurance on tho house and furniture, $4,209. Moat of tho fur niture was saved. 'JTUo Xlurnod l*iiufoeli»ilcont at lon* don. * From the Few York Sun, Feb, 10, The Royal Pantechnicon Company was organ ized in 1808, and was similar to our Security and Trust Companies. Tho building itsoif was an imposing block, eight stories high, fronting lltdo Park, and In tho immediate neighborhood of tho palatial residences of Raron Rothschild, tho Huko of Wellington, Sir Robert Pool, and others, Tlio front walls wore nf nrnniin A i. BCulpturoii. Tho bnUOtog' coal il’ 000. Xlio Lftflomont, which wmXoS wllh 'iron TFftH carefully guarded by watchmen; while oacll eafp had an iron grating before It. Hero wore looked tip the valuable silver ware nf Hia familioa of England, who ™rok mod it «c°il on state occasions. Those priceless collections wore carefully numbered, tto OompanT glvlia bonds for their safe keening, and -cWg ng m® cording to tho value of tho property. b ' B The first floor was a magnificent art-gallery n which wore deposited tho rarest pictures?! the Tumor, lloynolds, and other galleries. Per sons going out of town also loft their private .collections of pictures hero for safo-koopIS? Besides those there wore gloss cases filled with costly lowolry and valuable collections of coins il. fcf l ° tllori,ltocll nlco n could boobtalnod ■ only from a depositor or a Director. In tbo rear of the first floor wore collections of equipa ges, mostly of foreign make, which wore cm' °? tly tb "‘ 1110 feared to t™t them on their own promises. On tho floors above, besides several art galleries and marble? wore endless collections of costly furniture ro quiring constant caroand altonllon lo keen In order. The Pantechnicon was also need for tlio safo-kooping of landed titles, mortgages, and other yaluablo papers, tho Company sometimes .advancing money on the collaterals deposited. Eyoty day during tho London season rows of imrnnE? C i°ll d . Jo 80tm Blaudln ß in front of tho building while their oooupants'Woro viewing tho Snc 0 ” 8 ll ? Bld0 ,- ,/ u ,' vao said that tho young " i , a ‘ oo ™y who visited the Pantechnicon worn often shocked to And that more shopkeepers possessed more wealth than themselves; P n i-ompßiiy owned a largo number of vans oat T?’ oo’P'ojod nearly a thousand per sons. It also owned its own railroad oars, which could ho ran on to a largo six-horse truck, thus doing away with thonocoaslty of unpacking. 1 in- . 8 Com P“;iy was generally employed by fam ilies to move their household goods in all parts ®f c l ° u , , ?, tr!r - . 5 >rad branch offlces ir all the tinU-S 8 , 1 ! 0 Great Britain. Tho destruc tion of tho building will involve heavy losses of rare family pictures and plate. ** 1 8008 °* THE FARMERS. nicotine ol tl.c Ohio Stnto Orang-e-600 liranjoi in Ohio. Xenia, 0., Fob. 17.—Tho State Grange of Ohio mot boro to-day, with 565 dolegatoaT-all Maotora of Grangoa. Worthy Maator S. H. Ellia prooided. Ono hundred and flfty viaiting mom thTsffiflndia tho flrat annual mooting of tho Ohio Stali Grange S ° “ a Worthy A motion to aalt tho railroada for HALF-FABE ABBANOEMENTB waa made and mdignantly tabled. Amotion to make an organ of oortaia nowo. papora mot tho aamo fate. Tho Secretary reported that 655 of THE 000 OBANOEB IN OHIO had boon organized aiuco laat April A commiltoo waa appointed to report on tho mutual dro mauranco for farm property. down?° iion 4 ° mak ° th ° mocting °l lon woo voted 1h doyoted to conferring i' l " degree on 500 Haatora, only about SO in tho Stale having received that degree. Thomon h«moS 1 y“ 8 8 “ d "'° rk witl * r »PMity and with Farmers’ meeting at JEnrlylllc. EABt.vn.LE, Feb. 14.1874 To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bin: A largo farmers’ meeting was bold hera G.«»WW* of DoKalb County, waa ' ,ro “ ld °. a V d ' Goor P° B. Kiohirdaon elected Secretary. A committee of live wa a clioaen to prepare roßolutlouß : A, J. Greyer V B. Wick, William It. Mann, Norman H. Powim and Thomas Eager. E. R. Widen, of Moridan, made a abort address on the importance of perfecting the farmors* organizations. Ho said that'* tlio Granges nro posed to ignore politics and religion. Forhia part, bo know of but little outside of politics opd religion, in tbo broad sense of those great words, that was worth anything to the world Daniel Mosher said that the only way to keen the Granges together is to ignore politics and A gentleman replied the Bloomington Conven tion resolved against politics, but resolved oq nearly all of the political issues of the dav nevertheless; and they might disclaim never so earnestly, yet politics ato inevitable. Nothing can bo dono in a Republic without politics, " APTEIINOON SESSION. A. J. Grover, Chairman of the Committee on Resolutions, reported the following: P at i tla H“> plain duty of the Executive °Jtho Stale to enforce the laws against tho railroads s and that, In case of conllmicd and concerted dlsol bodlence on their part, Ihoy are to bo treated predsofr as oU other organized combinations to resist tho laws. Jiesolved, That there exists in this Btato an orcan laed, concerted body of railroad-ownera and mana gers, whoso object la to disregard tho laws regulating ton Slut riber°of“r;'“ talI ‘ “ UCh Tiol “' Bona to Immediately conform to the laws!oflhe“tSfT and, in case of refusal *on tholr part, to use Son m a d , la °* bar cases of organized opposl- U °jw!w rdcr in h aa Bulta aad tho like, »Hn?» 0 i«?i T n fc « o, * hQfanaerß of County, will stand by the Governor In such measures os mlv bo necessary to secure such observance of law on tho part of the railroads, and wo believe that sovS-tonthS of tho voters of this Slate will do tho same 8 iteM/Md, That money consists, not in the material o f,^ h i c . h 11 1 8 . *? a< | 0 » bl i t in tb ® Bfam P of the sovereign authority which alone has constitutional power to is. sue it ; that gold and silver aro not money, but com modities like other commodities, without Urn Govern ment stamp making them money; that tills slamn on paper Is as essentially money as on gold and silver Jiesolved. That wo are In favor of a papcr-cummcv Issued by the sovereign authority, which shall bo os freo to ono as to another, and in such quantities ns may bo necessary for tho wants of thopooplo; which shall be convertible Into low-interest bonds, and vice versa, at the option of the holder. JUftolved, That tho National Banking system Is so constructed os to place a monopoly of tho currency la tho hands of a few large capitalists ; that It taxes the people for the currency issued to these capitalists ; and that, in many other features, It Is most unjust and Iniquitous, and should be abolished. , Uesolveii, That the Agricultural Fair-Ground Asso ciation at Ottawa, in taking the (3,000 from the County Treasury, did so without tho shadow of law or con stitution ; and (hat It was a shameless act of robbery of the taxpayers of tho county; and that wo call upon said society to pay tho money back Into the Treasury without delay; and that, until tho money is returned, we will not patronize said Association, and will uss every proper effort to Induce others to glvo It “ a ter rible lotting alono. Resolved, That wo aro favorably Impressed with Dr. Adair’s plan of a Homo Legislature, and believe that there must ho some plan adopted to destroy tho lobby and secure honest legislation, or Republican Govern ment, like other systems of government, will prove 8 failure. Jietolved, That wo have little faith In either of the old parlies, and are determined to know no party but opposition to Monopoly; and that wo will work and vote hereafter heartily and earnestly with all persona and any party which will earnestly oppose and sorely crush Monopoly, railroad, hank, tariff, und other com* bhiatious of capitalists which oppress labor, William Woreoly, of Triumph, made an elo quent speech in favor of a greenback currency, aud against specie-resumption. 1 E. It. Wicks also spoko in favor of a green back currency. ’ • Prof. Taylor sustained tho resolutions, and spoko in favor of tho Parraors’ Movement. A. J. Grover reviewed tho bankiugsystom, and showed that it was a monopoly from beginning to end, in favor of tho capitalist and against the people. ~ H A good deal of discussion was he ’‘ he reso lution Indorsing Adair's plan for Legis lature, and tho resolution was Anally adopted unanimously. This mooting was a very successful and en thusiastic one, and must havo an important in fluence on public soutimont hereabouts, Tho Ottawa Republican and other partisan shoots in this county arc vory unhappy over tho present condition of politics. • It. < LEGAL INTELLIGENCE. Tllie County of Wayne* Special Dispatch to 27m Chicago Tribune, Spuinqfield. HI., Feb. 17.— Tho case of Kon nicott vs. tho County of Wayno came up again for bearing in the United States Court to-day. Tho general features of tho caso aro as follows: In 1855 tho Legislature chartered tho Mt. Ver non Railroad Company to run from Mt. Vernon westerly to tho Illinois Central Railroad. In 1859 tho County of Wayno gave a mortgage on 100,090 aoros of swamp-lands to secure SBOO,OOO of Ibo-bonds issued by tho Mt. Vernon Railroad Company. This suit is brought by owners of tbo bonds to foreclose tho mortgage. On tho former trial in this Court,‘tho bill was dismissed, on tho ground that tho County of Wayno had no power to make tho mortgage. Tho coao was appealed and tho Supreme Court of tho . United States reversed and remanded it. Now testimony was adduced lu tho hearing* lo*day by both sides but the court saw 'no reason to change its former decision, but referred tho caso to the Master to tako ; further testimony boforo a -Anal decree. Iu tho meantime, parties holding any of tho bonds aro notified to appear and provo tho samo. Tho road was abandoned in 1801, and little or nothing was ever realized ou tho bonds, Tho court will no doubt adhere to its formot decision, 3