The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1868-01-02
Chicago Correspond nce
CHICAGO. Dec. 23d, 1867.

| Ed. DEM0CRAT.-tt has been remark 4
that " corporations have nothing to kick
and no souls to be damned" which &C.
counts for the intense rascality and mean.
ness of which they are sometimes guilty
acts which the individual members of the
said bodies corporate would never have
been guilty of separately. This iniatory
sentence is suggested by the recent treach-
cry Of the Merchants Union Express
Co.," in their arrangement with the
old companies, subject upon which our
Chicago merchants are just now in white
heat. They took stock in that company,
bolstered it up, paid cheerfully all the
numerous calls upon them, patronized and
pulled it, stood by it in every way, with a
noble perseverance, worthy of better
cause, all the time believing religiously in
the numerous promises of the directors,
that they would never consolidate with the
old companies, but would keep up the
fight until they were victorious in estab-
fishing system of cheap freights all over
the country. This was all the merchants
wanted, They did not expect any large
dividends on their stock, and they were
not disappointed. When call after call
was made upon them they cheerfully paid
up until some thirty-fve or thirty-eight
per cent had been called in. The stock
never rose above the actual amount paid
in, except once when it got up to Al on a
speculative movement originating in ru-
NOR Of consolidation Now the president
Of the company takes pains to assure the
public that there is no consolidation
there is only ian arrangement" As this
arrangement" does away with rival Off
ces and duplicate lines, coDsolidates the
receipts Of all the companies, and portions
them out on stipulated percentage 10
each, fixes uniform tariff for all and
makes it as high as the old companies were
charging before the VI. U. Elk. Co. was or
ganized, it looks very much like huge
monopoly and it is extremely hard to see
what has been gained by the long and
hard struggle which has been gone through
with to obtain reform. No wonder that
our Chicago merchants, who held several
hundreds of thousands Of dollars of the
stock, are intensely disguised with the
of the enterprise.
The divorce sensation of the day, the
Ticknor case, is still on in our courts, and |
gets warmer and warmer and warmer as it |
progresses. Having first produced a great
number of witnesses to prove that both
plaintiff and defendant had the most gen.
eral amatory tendencies, and the most pro-
miscuous mode of gratifying them, they
have now taken up the characters of the
female witnesses, and what with the hest
fancy of the men sworn upon the subject,
their general fear of eliminating them
selves, and the things which are drawn out
showing what frailties love has caused the
committal of. the trial is quite an interest
ing one. In the words Of the poet:
'Ch love- you've been villain, since the days Of Troy
and Helen.
When you caused the fall of Paris, and of very many
more"
Within a few weeks past there have
been quite a number of mysterious disap-
here, and there is no little ex-
element on the subject. Men who have
10 creditors to dodge and who have CON-
nitted no heinous crimes, even men who
ire not married and who have no apparent
reason why they should be, suddenly
turn up missing" and the strictest
earch and the most liberal advertising
all to elicit any knowledge Of their
As all who have thus dis
Ippearcd are known to have had consider
bile sums Of money with them when last
een, thsre is a very general fear that the
lark crimes of robbery and murder have
been perpetrated in each case
Ole Bull, the great violinist, is here,
md is to give here, next week, his first
,oncert in the United States, on this visit
lie was over at Turn Halle, yesterday,
mong the music-loving butchers, at Vaas'
ocular Sunday concert, and his appear
nee created positive furore. The old
nan is now quite gray and has slight
toop, but his eye is as bright, his smile
S genial aud his fingers ere as nimble as
q days of yore.
In connection with this musical item, |
Wish to call attention to one of the hume
Gus evidences of the rapid growth Of mu-
ical taste among the people OF the north
vest, the great demand for the finer class
4 musical instruments, especially for the
Mason & Hamin cabinet organ, the call
or which is SO great that it is quite i'm