The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-10-02

have all aloog claimed the speakership
aud 20 that end put forward Horace
| Maynard, whom they have considered
their strongest man, will make no fight.
The Bureau ef Education is Just in
receipt Of a second package ofreports and
catalogues Of veterinary books sent them
from France by General Eaton, the Com
missioner of that Bureau The infor-
nation obtained from these, it is antici
pated, will be used to good advantage in
making up his next annual report, which
must afford interest to every horse-owner
in our country.
The Long Investigating Committee Of
the District legislature has nearly com
pleted its labors in investigating the
conduct of our magistrates and consider
ables. 1t has developed the fact that
exhorbitant illegal fees have been charged
unfortunate poor people of Washington
In nearly every instance where they have
become defendant in suits. Illegal seiz-
ures of the household goods of poor men
unable to pay their rents, and their fami-
lies turned out into the streets. Several
of these prosecutors will have their cases
presented before The Grand Jury for
action
The necessity of cheaper transportation
of lower freights from the banks of the
Upper Mississippi ard Missouri river
from the Western and Northwestern
States and Territories to tidevateT and
markets is ar undisputaEle le fact The
seventeen States and three Territories
interested in this great matter specially
contain, according to the censure of 1870,
population of l9,03T, 464, have i'm
proved 112, 2,l03, 800 acres of land, farms
valued at 81, 743, ,76l, ,76o. farm implem-
ents and machiensy valued at Sl74,T44,
37S, and produced 7 .437, ,223, 152 bushels
OF cereals the same year. Aud under the
head of all farm productions, including
betterments to stock the enormous
value of 81 81 ,202, 904. or more than
one-half Of the total of the whole United
States, which is put down by the same
census report at 50 447. .53S, Gas. We find
also that the four States of Florida, South
Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama require
for the actual consumption of those.
States 107, 900, 600. bushels of grain
that they produce short of 67 ZOO, 900.
bushels in 1870, consequently imported
from Tennessee, Kentucky, Sothern Ohio
Indiana, Illinois. and St. Louis, by rail,
80. 200, 600 bushels to make up their
deficiency. This deficit cost to transport
it on the average, about $l4 40 per ton
by railroad, whereas by canal and slack
water navigation, connecting Tennessee,
Coost and Oemulgee rivers, the tonnage
would not cost to exceed 81 90 per ton,
which would make a saying to be DIVIDED
between producer and the consumer in
these four States of sum OF not less
than Sl3. 200, 900 in one year. And this
is but one item of vital Importance
Others equally important may be easily
estimated when we take into consideration
the fact that nearly all the pork and ba-
con consumed in these States comes from
the North and West, and that the am
cunt annually is thousands of tons and of
millions of dollars in value. Every inter-
est of the South and West loudly calls
for the speeaiest possible opening Of
this great line of INSTRUMENTATION and
no public work, we think, can be named
of more importance to the whole con-
try. LIFE