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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-21

Tickets 70 all principal points In the East and
In MLure House, and At tho station At Bridge.
port. FIR, NYRR9.
dec:s General Passenger and Ticket Agent
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co.
MEMNm4
ON AND AFTER MONDAY, NO
~ VEMBRR 9, lsTa, Trains will leave Wheel.
Ing a. fOllowS-Wheollng time:
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-21

CONCERNING THR sTEAME r
L'AMRRlQuE.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-21

Mr.. EIdndge, from the Judiciary Com.
mittee, moved for the discharge from the
custody OF the sergantat.Arms Of Gen.
d. Pat1ick, Of Alabama, he having given
q satisfactory excuse for his non.attend-
ance as q witness. Agreed to, and the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-21

$40 NSAANS 1NSA
HOUSE.
CALL OF TIE sTATRs-BILL TO REDUCE
THE PREsIDRNTs sA1ARY-ANoTHRR
ONE INCREASING THE TAX ON NATIONAL
BANKS.
Under call Of the States, various bills
were introduced and referred, including
the following; d.. .
By Mr.. Southerd, TO FIX The compensa-
tion Of the President at $25 900 per an
mum; by Mr.. Starkweather, Ievying tax
OF 1:20 OF l per cent on the sales Of
stocks, bonds, gold, and silver bullion,
promissory notes and other securities; by
MIR. Beck, increasing the tax on the cir
culation OF National Banks from 1-12 to
t per cent per month. He moved 10 have
The bill referred 10 tho Committee on
Ways and means.
Mr.. Maynard moved It's reference to
the Committee on Banking and Chrrancy,
remarking that the effect, II not the OBJ
lect OF the bill, was to tax National
Banks out Of existence.
MIR. Beck said 1t was nothing Of the
sort, -s--t.-,--. ..,.--,,,-'H
After brief discussion the bill was re.
ierred to the Committee on Banking and
Currency. Yeas, 10; days 102.
Mr: Beck, Of Kentucky, desired to
withdraw the bill, remarkipg that he
did not want Il to be smothered.
The Speaker decided that the bill
could not be Withdrawn, and IL was there.
lore referred TO the Banking and Our.
rencY Committee.
RECOGNITION or .CUDLs
Mr., Poland offered resolution fnr the
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-21

recognition Of Cuban Independence, be.
Ing the same as was recently Introduced
~ mine lne Senate BY Mr.. Carpenter. Re
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30
CONFLICT OF JURISDICTION.

| II Is always dangerous TO sow dragons
teeth. The farmers Of Illinois, as a general
thing, were so loyal" a few years ago that
they were almost ready TO mob democratic
editors tor denouncing as both wicked and
unconstitutional the socalled civil rights
law ofcongress, by which almost any kind of
q law suit could be taken out of our state
courts and transferred to the federal courts.
They will begin TO realize the inconvenience
of plentiful crop of dragons teeth before
they see the enc Of that law. Instead of being
intended merely 10 protect poor negroes from
being robbed Of their rights in the southern
states, they will find the law was in reality
designed, and its ineyitable effect must be, as
the democratic papers faithfully warned the
people, to abolish our cheaper and more con
venient system Of local state courts and
transfer all important litigation to tire dis.
tant and ruinously expensive federal courts.
In other words, the bill was the most deadly
blow that had ever been aimed at the rights
of the states since the sdopton Of the federal
Constitution.
After a great deal of patient effort, the pro-
ducing classes OF this state succeeded in get.
ting the Legislature TO pass law TO protect
them IN some degree against the wholesale
robbery of the railroad niOnopoles and trans
portauon companies. As they are doing now
in Wisconsin, 50 in this state, the monopo.
lists at first simply set the law at defiance.
This led TO sundry lawsuits in our local
courts, IN which the moh0polists were finally
beaten. But men bent on wron. doing are
seldom without abundant resources Find
ing no pliability in our state courts the mo
nopolists now avail themselves of the law of
referred to- and are taking their
cases TO the federal courts. This is not done
wholly with the idea that the federal courts
are less disposed to do justice than the state
courts; but justice in them infinitely more
tardy rs well as ruiEously expensive The
design is 10 make lawsuits against railroad
companies so wcarisome and expensive that
no one, however just his claim, will dare TO
prosecute them.
This is exactly the game the Chicago and
Alton read is now playing ia regard To The
suits commenced against that road by the
state railroad commissioners in the Sanga.
mon circuit court When the cases were
called The railroad company refused TO plead,
Out instead presented wri, of csrtioraytirom
the L. :. circuit court at Chicago ordering
the sangamon court to send up the record,
and papers in the case to the L. 5. Court and
forbidling the state court from further pro
cecding In the matter.
Judge Zane of the Sangamon court, had
the nerve TO disregard the mandate and p.o
coed Ia hear the case, regarding the assump
tion of jurisdiction by the L. 5. Court as
sheer usurpa,on and palpably unconsutu
tionai but the "cIvil rights bill' referred tu
clearly sustaiDS the monstrous assumption
and until n decision of the L. :. Supreme
Court is obtained declaring that enactment
unconstitutional, a very far off and lmproba
bic contingency, the state courts and the pcn
pie that rely or them for justice, are clearly
/ helpless.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30
THE ILLINOIS PRESS.

The Illinois Press Association are 4avlng
!hcir annual jamborce this week, They met
al the Sherman House, in Chicago, on Tues
day, President Z. B. Buck in the chair.
After the usual routine business J. b. Brad
well, OF the Chicago committee of arrange
ments, presented a report, in which the cen
vention were advised OF the recreations that
had been provided for them in the "bcautiful,r
magnificent" &c, city of Chicago ,-recrea-
tions consisting OF rides about the citv in
carriages, a boat ride on the lake, and an in
vitation to McVicker's in the evening, About
1870 editors We're present an unusually large
number-and they neglected none of the op.
portuniues the liberality Of Chicgo had pro
vided. The FREE TRADER was represented
on Tuesday by "Col. Hapemanny," on Wed
nesday morning by Col. "IIasserman," and
and Wednesday evening by "Col. Hopeman,"
according 70 the uncommonly accurate Chi
cago dailes. Sich is fame The Jyochen
tIdtt, Of this city, was represented by Prof.
Bernhard
On Wednesday evening the association
heard very excellent annual address," de-
livered by J. W. Sheahan, of the Chicago
Tribune.
The Chicago press is quite fattering and
endeaIing in its notices of the rural editors.
The Times calls them the Editorial Dead
Weights" the Post, the Editorial Dead
heads" the Tribune speaks Of them as "the
granger scrbes of suckerdom," and as the
"inkslinGing grangers;' y while the Inter-Ocean
sneers at them as tho controlling influence
of the state" The whole tribe left Chicago
on Thursday morning for Baltimore and
Washington, over the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, and are manitestly having a jolly
time. A despatch from Lafayette says, every
time somebody got on or off the train the roll
was called, and at Lafayette it was called the
25th time. People are begiHning to sort
up and get comfortable Judge Bradwell and
Mrs. De Geer have entered into an alliance
offensive and defensive. Geo. II. Harlow has
introduced everybody. Hoyt, of the Journal,
has made frantic endeavors at each station to
get of bis comic lecture on "Punkin Pize,"
but has been checked off by O motion by Havi-
land ~
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

The great problem, how to supply jackson.
vile with water, had puzzled the people of
that city for many years, and yet was finally
solved in a way SO simple as to astonlsh ev.
erybody that the plan had not been adopted
years ago. 1t was simply to select low spot
of ground, surrounded by a circle mile or
more in diameter of higher ground, and
there construct a monster reservoir, into
which all the water supplied by mcltingsno
or falling rains was gathered from the sur
rounding hills. $4,000 will construct such
reservoir large enough to hold 10C 100000
gallons pt water, and as every shower re-
plenishrs he stock, one such reservoir will
abundant.y supply city of $4,000 people
with water year in and year out, The plan
is so simple, as to demonstrate that by the cX-
penditure of a few hundred dollars every
prairie neighborhood could have its reservoir
to supply abundant water for stock during
the dricst season. Ii is Il mistaken idea that
rain water thus collected from the surround
ing surface is unwholesomc. Air and sun.
shine soon purify ii, and make il more whole|
some amt palatable than most well water.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30
IynrprypENT STATE CONVENTION

IN compliance with the cal! issued at rs
recent meeting at Bloomington, by the AuVis, !
orv Board OF the Illinois State Farmer
Association, published in our last the 20,
cutiye Committee of the La Sale Count rsr
mers, Association have called CO.. .sr-,;o,
of the "Independent Party or Fa' o,yrs, Par
ty, of this county, to meet at I ,,,s.,o ON the
s,b Of June, to appoint two ~. So,ora,ns ,o
represent La Sale county =, ,,o osta.o conven
ton OF the same party r,oot at Sprinrfield
June 10th Each TO ~, l. osl,od 70 send two
deIega'es - NV county convention except
Ottawa vi"' Ii Sale and Mendoza, which
II WA ee seen by this call that the invita-,
non 10 participate in this convention is not
con med to farmers only, but is extended to
,.boring men and all other citizens who are
ish sympathy with the opinions expressed in
this calln Of the State Advisory Board, and
embodied in the call TOR county convention
which we publish today. This Is broad
enough TO include all who are inclined to ar
ray themselves politically in opposition to
that moribund concern, the radical or rePub-
lican party, as well as the old democratic
party.
Occupying the Independent position which
We have asserted tor the FREE TRADER for
the last half dozen OF years, TO support which
ever party may nominate good men and base
itself upon a platform that most nearly meets
our approval, we stand ready TO cast whatever
influence we may have in the scale for the
party, so long, at least as 1t
stands upon as sound platform as that adopt
ed last fall at Decatur, and 90 long, too as its
organization shall present reasonable pros
pect of success, against that gigantic cOmbi
nation Of political eTorism and knavcry
known as the modern republican party. No
other merit which any opposition party toI
that combination can present just now Isl
to the merit Of reasonable pro
bability Of success. Byits system of massing
the south; Of manipulating election returns, |
as in Pennsylvania and other strong republi-
cans states; and of compelling republican
victories" by force and fraud in spite of the
voters, as in South Carolina, Louisiana, Ar
kansas &c, Repubicanism has SO firmly en-
trenched itself in power that it will take at
least a two-thirds vote Of the honest masses of
this nation to root Il out. The first political
necessity Of the day is to do this. There can
be no permanent, radical reform of any sort
until this is done, With radlcalism or mod
ern republicanism in power monopoly and
political corruption and all un
cleanness have been made TO permeate every
minute ramifcation Of the public service, and
here can be no riddancc of this universal
,utrefacton until every trace of the poison
,us ism is removed. We go for the party
hat promises first to DO this, be it the party
# the independents" the "workingmcn,"
he "grangers," the "Reformers," or the old
Democratic party. Our party is the party Of
success agains. rcpublicanism.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

II Is 10 be regretted that the Morris H'n''d,
from which the following iS copied, IS well
as the republican press generally, did not
wake up TO the iniquity of our registry law
a few months before the adjournment ot the
late legislature Then probably the radicals
would not have made il in their caucus 4
party measure and forced It's passage, not
because indeed, anybody believed the system
had merits, but because the republican organ
at Springfield needed the S2o,ooo grab which
the law gives it ON the stale treasury. Thus
the Morris H,rdld:
Every general election held in Illinois adds
$4,000 to the state tax levy on account of Il
law which is of no more use 10 the state than
would be the fifth wheel 10 "a coach, or Sc
cond tail 20 a dog. The registry law iSnot of
the slightest value in preserving the purity of
the ballotboX. either in city or country; on
the contrary, there are excellent reasons for
saying that il j. in many instances a conve-
uicnt cover under which electoral frauds of
the most lsgrant kIad are pcrpctra'si. Fal,"I
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

ness exchanges o( the country goes quickly
into imitation of prices, and the first commo-
tlity to feel the initiation is the currency itself,
in the form Of interest These are simple
propositions in financial science which we
commend 20 the further cogitation of the cdi-
tor of the iGc. He may then be able 10 ar
rive at the common sense conclusion, that
the only way to make our money cheaper is
to make it bcttcr-tO make il worth gold, In
England and Germany, where gold is 50 abun-
daut as to be plcthoric, interest is lower than
anywhere else in the world. Right on their
border, in Austria and Russia, where they
have been dabbling in au irredeemable paper
currency, interest is as high as here The
only thing that can be done, then, to make
money cheap here is to make II AS good as it
is in England and Germany. That done,
there Is no limit TO the supply. 1t will come
from all nations under the temptation OF
good interest on good securities. Interest is
higher to-day in New York than in Frankfort
Amsterdam and London, for the 0hiy reason
that European capitalists don't understand
or dare not trust our financial anomaly of u
legal tender law that make deprecated
paper currcHcy as good as gold in paying
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

Hon. W. B. Plato died al his residence in
Geneva, on the 18Th inst, at the age Of 64 yrs
Judge Plato was an able lawyer, who, some
years ago, frequently practiced in our courts,
and who had also attained some prominence
IN The state, having served term or two in
the state senate, where he was regarded a.
one Of the ablest men in that body Former
ly democrat, he went off in 1854 with the
Nebraska excitement, but for some reason
probably because he was too honest a man
never cut much figure as politician in his
new party association, though the party in
ms congressional district never had an ADLER
or better man.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

At the last spring election the Democrats
carried the State OF Connecticut, and have
now indicated as their choice for United
States Senator. Wm. Eaton, the Nallandigham
of New England, and what is true here IS
equally true IN all oi the States when they
have the supremacy. In one breath ;hcy i'm
plorc Republicans 10 stop fighting over the
dead issues of the past, and in very next eXtol
and honor almost universally the most unmit-
isated copperheads in their ranks.-Di5oa
HcrGld
But nobody denies that Eaton is an honest
man and high-toned, honorable gentleman.
Can the same be said Of Mosby, Davis, Perry,
Orr and other rebel traitors whom radical
ism has pe,led and promoted since the war +:
II is very foolish FOR people living in GLASS
houses ip cas-. stones.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

HENRY RoCHEFoRT, the great French com.
munist, who was banished by the French
Government to the penal colony Of New Cal
edonia, and from thence made his escape,
arrived at San Francisco a week ago and is
now on his way TO New York. He was in
tcrvewed on Thursday at Omaha by several
Chicago reporters, whom he made happy by
promising TO take Chicago in his route to
the Atlantic Cites, instead of going by the
way of detested st. Louis. He reached Chi
cago yesterday, but stopped only few hours
After remaining week or two in New York
remain there, tomenting revolution in his
own country, until another turn of the wheel
shall make ii safe for him to return to F;..uce.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

If It is true that there is no i'll 50 great as
to be without some compensating good, then
the good likely to be the result of the fright
ful mlsrulc at the South will be the substitu.
ton of some intelligence qualification for the
present universal or lgnorent suffrage that
prevails Even the Notiea, one of the most
devoted administration organs and hitherto
industrious apologists of carpet bag misrule,
is constrained 10 say:
Ignorant suffrage has received from the
recent history of the South the dcadliest blow
Icycr inflicted on it, and SO have all the elab
'oratc plans on which so much ingenuity has
'bcen expanded and by which mankind has
been so much vcXcd during the last eighty
years, for the application Of the principle Of
perpetual motion to the work of government,
or, in other words, for the construction of
machinery out of which more energy, wis
dom and purity can be got at one end than
is pun in al the other
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

BaA'u being victorious over the Brooks
party IN Arkansas as well as In Washington.
for the whole OF the Arkansas delegation in
Washington was in favor Of Brooks, contin.
ues the war by calling upon Clayton and Dor
sey the l. ). Senators from ,ha, state. 20 re-
sign. The Legislature Of Arkansas ON Sa,ur
day not only asks them by resolution To
resign, but demands that the [. $ Senate
impeacn them If they refuse.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

In the next edition of the Republican cal.
endar a conspicuous place is to be given to
the following model thieves in the category
Of the radical saints: Coliax, Patterson,
Murphy, Leet, Stocking. Jayne, sanborn,
ChIitsnden, Bullock, Holden Delahay, Du.
Warmoih, Drake, Tankersley, WLi,iemore
Kellogg. Scott, Moses, Casey, Pomeroy, Dor.
sey and Brooks.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

Thorough investigation Of the cause Jf the
great Mil Creek disaster in Massachusetts,
last week reveals the fact that it was solely :he
result of dam penuriousnesS, or, in other
words, criminal penVriousness in the con
struction of the dam. There are several
villages in the state trembling in expectation
Of like calamity from the same rep-eheusi-
L'e cause.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

Since the Mendoza artesian well has passed
tie depth OF about 1900 feet the water has
been steadily rising, at the rate Of abou, a
foot TO every two feet the drill goes deeper.
Al 1906 feet depth the wafer stood at 80 be.
low the surface, the steady depth of the water
up to about l7oj having been 63 feet. At this
rate flowing stream should be got at depth
Of 200O feet.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

\ liquor seller in Morris was fined SO the
other day and sent to jail l0days for selling H.
GuoF TO minor The dealer in liquid lightning
didn't mind the fine and imprisonment, if
Judge Reading had omitted the lecture with
which he accompanied the delivery Of the
sentence !, even made him feel ashamed of
iimgc.g
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

Ihe honTishing young town Of lndcpcn-
dence, on the road from Dubuquc to Sioux
'i'y, was on Monday last almost entirely de.
stFoyed by fire. The loss was over half Il
million Of which half is covered by insur.
ance. Iee fire seems to have been started by
an Inocndiery.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30
SWING,

We do not pretend TO have read oNcra col
umn or two of the 291 that have appeared in
the Chicago papers within the last SIX weeks
in reference to Professor Swing; and in this
respect we are by no means singular. On
inquiry among about twenty diligent readers
of the Chicago dallies we have been able to
find but two that confessed to having read any
more of the Swing trial. Yet we claim TO know
all tha; is necessary to an understanding OF the
case Swing is pastor Of the 4th Presbyterian
church IN Chicago, wealthy and numerous
congregation. Ordinarily faithful minister
has all he can reasonably be asked to do in
attending to the legitimate duties that dcvolve
upon the pastor of such flock. But Swing
was ambitious wanted TO get him name,
and be talked about in the newspapers. So,
in addition to ministcring 10 his own congrc-
CATION, he got upa sort Of side show at Nc
Vicker's theatre every Sunday afternoon. But
to make that succeed he must do or say some
thing to draw" SO he began to speak light
" of creeds and confessions, and especially
OF the Westminster and Auburn confessions
of his own denomination. He did not exactly
deny the "inspiration of the holy scriptures" "
or the trinity" or the "divinity Of Christ
or original SIM" or "prcdcstinatiOn," or other
doctrines deemed essential among Presbyte-
rians but he spoke of them in a way to give
the "mob" that usually gathered at McNick-
er'sto understand that he was not "hiaebound"
in regard to such triiling matters. Professor
Patton. on the other side is one Of those Sc
cerely tightlaced Calvinstic souls that are
born
ITO sever and divide
A hair 'twiXt north and northwest side,'
And would die if he had an opportunity to
do so and failed to seizs it, That he should
present Swing for heresy, therefore, was in
evitable The trial. which filed the Chicago
papers with Swing for six weeks, must have
made him the happiest man in existence;
while Patton must have been scarcely less so
in the opportunity it gave him to ventilate his
theological refnements. As everybody knew
from the start, the trial ended in nothing,
Swing alone appears to have been disappOint-
ed IN the result Instead of an acquttal, he
evidently wanted to be made martyr of
wanted, like Cheney, to be read out OF the
church. AS the presbytery that tried him
did no such thing, but triumphly acquitted
him, Swing Indignantly puts on his hat and
walks out of his own accord and announces
himself henceforth a congregationallst'
1t is second edition of the Cheney
and Cummins farce all Over-halrsplit-
ing and squabbling over words about
the meaning of which there is no real differ
ence, and a great deal OF wind and noise to
bring into notice non.entitIes that otherwise
would have remained in that obscurity for
which by nature they are best fitted.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

registry lists are the best Of all guards against
the detection of false voting by "repeatcrs,
as well as against the detection Of balIoiboN
Stuiiiur.
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

John Wentworth and Judge NJ, r. N. Wal
lace are likely TO be opposing candidates for
Congress in one of the Cook county districts
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30
Our Climbing.

We are prepared to club the FREE TRADE"
with the following publications, furnishing
both at the prices named. The offer Is open
to old subscribers or new at any post once
Fgrr TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times 's$oo 90
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

The House, by vote of lG0 to "a, passed
bill on Tuesday to admit New Mexico mo
the Union as state. The object OF admit
ting New Mexico, Is to get two more Ta"'
Gals into the senate
The Ottawa free trader., 1874-05-30

kltHAlslINb-N = 4N' Ns-77'i'-
Richardson's resignation IS said ,c be il
the hands OF the President, and il is claimed
that his successor Will be named ncXt Mon