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, 1874-04-18

Some weeks ago we published tho particulars
Of caso tried In tho Circuit Court ut Dubuque,
Iowa, in which the Elevator Company obtained
n verdict OF s204, 900 againat the Illinois Central
Railroad Company. Tho faots wore that the
Dubuque Sioux City Railroad Company en-
tered into q contract with tho Elevator Company.
providing that all grain brought to Dubuque
over that road should DO warohoueed In tho
elevator OF tho Company, and should pay cont
per bushol for receiving and discharging tho
same. Tho contract Is dated Jan. 2, 1861, and
was to continue fifteen years. Before the ole
vator was completed, TINT is to say, in 1867, tho
Dubuque Sioux City Railroad Company loased
it's property to the Illinois Central Railroad
Company, which Company assumed all the con-
tracts of tho former. When the elevator was
completed, it's owners informed the Railroad
Company OF their readiness to receive grim
according to contract. sinoo TINT time, tho
elevator has boon kept In readiness day
after day, fully prepared to receive and
discharge grain, but not bushel las ever been
handled BY It. In 1870, tho Elevator Company
brought suit and obtained d Judgment for
$4,000 for tic earnings to which it was entitled
up to May Of that year. The case was appealed
to the Supreme Court Of the United statea. In
January last, an additional Judgment for $780,
quo WAS obtained for earnings up to somo time in
1873, and that caso WAS also appealed. The frat
CAGE WIS decided by tile Supreme Court at Waal,-
ington few days ago, and decided in favor Of
the Elevator Company. This decision probably
decides tho second oaBo and those which NAV
follow. BY the tcrms Of tho original contract,
at tho end Of the Afteon years, which expire
Jun. 2, 1876, tho Railroad Company has tho op-
ton to ronow 1t Or to purchase tho building, ma
chincry, and other property Of the elevator.
The two judgments alrcady obtaincd aggregate
over s97o, 1000, not including interest and coats
and there will be two years and more additional
earnings before the contract expires.
, 1874-04-18

Timothy ". Davenport, nominated for Con-
gress by the independent State Convention Of
Oregon, June 16, is Willamette Valloy farmer
OF wide Acquaintance and great popularity in his
State. and there is q well-grounded prediction Of
his triumph at the polls. He is natiyo of
Columbia County, N. Y, raiHea in Ohio,
and @, graduate OF tho Starlyno Med
ical College ut Columbus, o. In 1850.
with his father "a noted physlcian), and in
tho company of Col. E. D. Baker, Of Illinois, he
onigratcd to Oregon, and has there followed tho
pursuits Of agriculture, what time he laB not
been employed, rs IN accomplished engineer and
mathematician, in supplying the deficiencies Of
incompetent contractors on tho Government
surveys. He has also been known somowaat in
politics, being twice elected to tho Legislature
(an old-fashioned Republican, in Ills own Domo-
cratic County; and, last yoar, lo was rendered
the Congressional nomination by tho Republl-
cans, but declined it because the Convention
indorsea Senator 1Iipple-A1itcholl. Tho Davou-
porte, both father and son, were members Of tho
Old Liberty Guard, OF Ohio, whom it required
norve to 10 m Abolitionist. That kind of stock
don't mako soryile-to- Grant Congrensmen; and
Mr.. Dayonport's election, in June, will SGT the
pattern Of elections to follow.
, 1874-04-18
pERFUNCT0RY PRAYING.

Tho paths Of clergymen in Office arc beaet with
pitfalls. The United States Senate has Chap-
lain in the peraon Of tho Rev. Byron Sunderland,
This gentleman has aignallzed his Ohaplaincy By
tho versatility Of his inyocations. He first made
tho newspapers special object OF appeal. He
asked tho Divine mercy in the shape OF palsy
and paralyaia for an newspaper correspondents
or editors who write or print that any person
connected with our good and pious Government,
or with any Of it's dopartmonts, or with Congress,
had ever boon guilty Of fraud or corruption or
any oillcial impropriety. He also specially in
voked the Divine interpretation to suppress all
forms OF slander, and thus prevent those very
troublesome institutions known as Investigating
Committees, which were disturbing tue tranquilli-
ty Of the officers Of tho District Government and
other pure and ostimablo gentleman. On the
occasion of Mr. sumner'a obsoqutos In Washing
ton, this Chaplain prayed for all the officers of
tho Government by their titles, but ut night 1t
occurred to him TINT ho had omitted the Vice.
President, and ho..fosthwith had the omission
supplied by telegraph! 4 st. Louis paper re-
latcs how this gentleman has at lust got into
trouble through his portunctory prayers that
the legislation Of Congress- may be enlightened.
He endeayored to. inform the Almighty on the
merits OF imitation and contraction Of the cur
rency md prayed the Divine mid In bringing tho
innationists to a senso Of the iniquity they wore
trying to accomplish. He did not pretend to
say who we're and who were not indattoniats. but
he prayed for tia " accused in1ationiats" " with
earnestness and ZEAL
It is represented that there Is disgust in wash-
ington, and that Morton, and Carpenter, and
Logan-all pious men themselves not relish
those prayers Oh the currency question. It Is
possible that, If thoy bolioye In tho efficacy OF
prayer. they may lay at tho door OF tho Chaplain
tho responsibility for having their imitation bill
turn out to ba measure OF contraction.
, 1874-04-18

The nAtion's intelligence, or the vhims and fam
cIes Of tho nnthinkine2
AS tho auflrago cannot DO takon away from
any who havo 1t, tho safety of tho Republic Do
ponds upon tho spread Of education, aud this
depends In large moasure upon its enforcement.
As ono nftor another restriction on tho franchise
hes boen swept away. aud as ono nfter another
ollco has boon made e1ootivo, tito defects Of o,,r
Aystom havo bocomo moro apparent. Tho mech
aniHm Which proVoH SO cumbroua In collecting
taxes works like oharm when used to carry
m election. The public funds arc voted away
in 6ubhtdtes to mammoth corporations. which
hoop congresamon, as they do attorneys,
in thoir pay. Lobbying has become q
hno art. Thoro ia a quasi state Of war
in at loast two States Of tho Union, Our eroat
cities hayo shown tholr incapacity to govern
themselves by failing, ono after another into t,o
1,anda Of plundering Rings. Bone OF our statea
arc iu tho aame plight. Our legislation is con-
Aiotlng and confused. Domagoguos flourish,
Culture and training aro Bnoored at. Tho mon-
atrous folly Of imitation Is sought to bo made a
law in doforence to ignorance, which Ia supposed
to bo In tho majority. II the ovlla Of today aro
tho results OF national character, Of climate, of
the lutte War rather than Of tho systom Of govorn-
mont under which they exist, NO can Bafoly
cling to our theory that ovory milo citizen over
2l years Of age has m inalienablo right to vote,
aud that tho State has no corresponding right to
compel him to know something. But If not, IL
tho conviction forcos itaof upon uB TINT the peo-
plo suffer whom tho people rule, thcn 1t behoovos
uB to enlarge our educational system and make
1t compulsory. OF this We may bo auro, that il
our present system falls to destroy the corrup-
tton now 80 prevalent, corruption will sooner or
lator destroy II. What then?
, 1874-04-18

The deadlock in the Massachusetts Legisla-
ture has been brought to an end by tho election
of Gov. William D. Washburn to the vacancy
created by Mr. Summers death, all Of Mr. Hoar's
supporters and majority Of Mr. Dawes Gust
ing their votes for him. Senator Washburn's
term Of Office will expire on the 4th Of March
next, aud tho real contest for tho senatorship
will como OF in tho approaching election for
membera Of tile Legislature.
, 1874-04-18
TIE FEDERAL COURTS IN IOWA

AAA1 : EA0EAhAA NNuA41 In 4u"A.
In tho Washington dispatches. In giving thu
testimony Of Atty.-Gon. Williams before .he
House Committee, lle waH represented "a say
Ing:
Atty.-dsn. Williams, before tho Houso Committee
gave testimony with reference 10 the Arkausas caso
lie slated that he SLOWED expenses beyond Tho
legal limits. lie Ind evidence Of extraordinary ex.
penaoa in Arkansas and other p!acsa lie had rlod to
correct thanl but tho courts would give him no 49,
stsancc. No thought 1t could bo demonstrated that
In tho courts Of tho United satcs In Town, Kansas.
Bouth Carolina, and Dakota there hhd boon yass ex-
pondltuEea unauthorized by 1aw.
This statement attracted the attention Of
Judge ]. III. Love, United States Dlstrict Judge
OF Iowa, who ut once addressed noto to tile
Attorney General, stating that ho had mover
heard OF any ''oxtraordinary expenditures" or
"any expenditures not authorized by law" IN
Iowa. He called tho attention Of tho Attorney
General to the fact that by law there were ten
termB OF court to DO hold In each year, at five
places III Iowa, and, considering the comparative
population, tho judicial expenditures in Iowa
were much less than elsewhere. Unable, how
ever, to deny allegations as to abuses Of Which
he had no specific information, he Expressed bis
deBito to cooperate with the Attorney Genesal
to bring court expenses within reasonable limits
and therefore he asked the Attorney General to
point out the abuses Of expenditures in Iowa,
TINT to tho extent OF Its power the District Court
| might aid in reforming them.
To this letter tho Attorney General, under
date OF April 4, replied that tile dispatch III
question was Misrepresentation Of what ho
Ind sud. His only reference to Iowa was,
"That tho expenses In Iowa and Kansas were
large, but he did not know that thoy waro not
warranted BY law" He had made no allupion to
tho court IN Iowa; nor had he said that tho
courts anywhere would not give him any as-
aiatance.,
To this Judge Love responded by saying tl1at
ho would not e1cuso unnecessary expenditures
in Iowa by reference to what was done In otlel
States; On the contrary, lie would at once con.
fer with the Marshal, with view Of finding
means Of reducing expenditures in that district.
Tho whole correspondence is croditablo to Judge
Love and the Federal judiciary in Iowa. No
complaint Of any kiud Inns ever been proferrsd
againBt the integrity OF tho ability Of tho Fed
eral Courts in that State.
, 1874-04-18

Not man In tho biiltard.room had tho courace
to faee tho bully and raiao lis victim. until, hay-
Ing tired OF Ills one'naod amusement, tho muir
derer atroEof out As vndication Of tho Kon.
t'loky boast OF personal courage, this affair mnv
DO regarded ae triumphant succoss Tho peo.
plo Of Lebanon m,lat DO worry proud Of their DIR.
ing inactivity at such timo..
, 1874-04-18
I(1p Gb1f9rgu G2lbn11e.
Saturday Morning, April IS, 1874.
Tho Baltimore l. Ohio and Pennsylvania Rail-
road Companies havo como to terms, and the
ruinous competition in which they haye recently
boon engaged will Immediately cease.

An application was made at the lust term OF
tho United States District Court, at Springfield,
for the appointment Of Receiver for the Cairo
l. VinconneB Railroad. The Court yesterday
granted the prayer of tho petitioners, and will
namo tho Receiver to-day. Gon. A. E. Burnside
is President Of tho rond.
, 1874-04-18

NsuHu 1otal+ .$23J, Jus
Upon the Same basis Of asscss1nent TIE TnrnuNz's
policy would exempt $22s, .oe3 from taxation IN
Cook County, leaving only 900 a4o-1pss than ouo-
afth Of tho who1e-to bear its proportion Of taxes
willie tho proportion Of property to real estate
III other paris Of tho State is neary one.third This
fs fact, Of the Significance Of which no leave our
readers to Judge for Themselves.
That is precisely one OF the abuses OF tho val
uation system. The personal property OF all
kinds in Chicago equals in value, II It docs not
exceed, that Of tho roal property, and yet 1t Ia
not assessed for one-fourth its value. Three
fourths OF It is not found by tho Assessor, md
escapes taxation. We have shown that tho land
of tho Btate pays over 50 per cont Of tho entire
taxoH Of tho State, and that tho personal prop
orty that is taxed at all is to bo mainly found On
tho farms. md is insoparably connected with tho
land. Tho trouble with these Springfield people
is. that to ropeal tho land tax would roduce tho
cost Of collecting the revenue from 20 to per
cont. At present, when tho Auditor wishes to
produce o million Of dollars Of revenue, he
makes levy for twelve hundred thousand dol
1ars, tho additional two hundred Thousand dol
lars being necessary to cover tho coat Of collec-
tion. All this plunder now taken to support
regiments Of county and town officers will be
saved, and thia ia regarded at Springfield aB m
invasion OF Tho sacred rights Of ofnce-holders.
, 1874-04-18

was quiet and irregular at e1.e0@1.o8 for No. 2,
aud S1.10@1.42 for No. o. IIoga wore active
aud firm at s5.25@8.10 for common to cllofco.
Cattle woro aotiyo and eaay. Bl1oep dull aud
tyank
, 1874-04-18

M,y1oKrRt9 r11EAT11fS-A -AinhlAon strcot. hotwcnn
eorhnn ana Stnfo arrangement 1T Miss 1nno Coo,nts.
1ftornoont Homoo and Juliet" Evening" 'Tho Wiio's
Seorot."
, 1874-04-18

MYERS nA-EOUsEn MGnsos street between s;a
Minstscls. Mnsresy and comlcailtios. Dusloians Of
The Hvrtlof Lily :" Afternoon and oE0nng,
, 1874-04-18

ACADEMY or MUSIC lIsstcd sf!eat. betwssn Man-
Aftornoon; '*Ujadator." Evoulng: :" Richard Ill.
, 1874-04-18

HOoIl;Y's TIiEATR1s-Randotph :stroet. bctwcon
Clark and IAShl1o. Enlargement Of haisa hAthoFlho
RoRors, :" Mimi" Afternoon md evening.
, 1874-04-18

ADELrH1 TIiEATRE-Cornor Of Wabash Avonuo
and Congress aroot Enlargement OF a7orya Mluatrols
Aftarupqu md evening.
, 1874-04-18

GLOBE vAn1KT1Es.Desplatno atsoot, betwoon 4 Mad.
Tfoupo Variety performance. Afternoon and svouin9
, 1874-04-18

A gentleman has suggested to us that tho ron.
Ron why the Rev. Dr.. r. ". Patterson did not ap.
poar to be inaugurated as Professor Of tho
Presbyterian Seminary was, that tho General
Assembly have veto on the appointment, and
he did not think it best to ombarrasa thoi1
action by being installed previous to thci1
vote upon his nomination. With ali Dr.. Patter.
aon's modesty, he cannot beliove,-no one can,-
that there will be dissentin. voice when tha
vote on hB confirmation is taken. His
position as ono OF tho ab1eBt and moBt
conservative Prcsbyterlans in tho Church
was conceded even before the Old md
New School branches wore unitod. Thcro
must DO something beyond and behind all
this. Can any QUO doubt that there is too much
heresy-hunting and pattonism.in the Seminary,
aud that, Warned by its late manifestations DR..
Patterson is likely to conclude to let the institu
tion severely alone? II tile iaaue must be made
aud a division III forced in roferonco tn which Of
the two P.'s shall retain his profossorship upon
tha Presbyterian CAurcl, Of the Northwest, there
can bo no doubt as to who would get notice ''to
quit"
, 1874-04-18
THE LANO.TAX.

Tho Springfield Journal continues to bo dis
trcaaed about tho proposed ropoal of tho tar for
State purposes on tho land and town lots Of H.
linola. It aeuks to oxcto local prejudice by such
statements as tho following:
According to the last cquaze assessment tho value
OF property III Cook County waa % fol1ows:
toWn ana Guy 1ots ........... .....$lo1. ,88l
Lands. 41,172,8o2
Total. .$22B, 800 COS
lorsona property. Observation-Disclosures. G5,070,340
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-29
~ Vote for <tHonest John
Owen" for Commissioner.
THEIR OLD STORIES.

Messrs. Gilman, Clarke, McC &
Co. have great deal to say about the
Interests of St. Cloud" about char
mony," about "the water power" etc.,
as though people did not thoroughly
understand their real object. There
has never been political campaign
when the same cries were not rung in
the ears of voters, and there has nev-
er been time when these cries did
not die out Immediately after election.
They are merely for political effect.
What has been done for St. Cloud has
been done by other parties than these.
This is not the first time that such
cheap political capital as the survey
Of line for q canal has been manu-
featured, but nothing more tangible
has ever come of it. In the present
case, every intelligent citizen knows
that if any canal is cut. around the
Sank Rapids, on the west side of the
river, it will be done by the United
States Government. 1t is hoped that
some favorable action may be secured
through the organization of a steam
boat company, and to the stock of
this company Mr.. Barnes was the first
subscriber in St. Cloud, and subscribed
just as much as did Mr.. Gilman, and
if any legislation is required Mr..
Barnes could secure it as readily as
could Mr.. Gilman. His success
in behalf Of the interests of St.
Cloud in the Legislature last winter
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-29
A WORD TO THE WISE,

A short time is left for active work.
Is it being improved by our friends
throughout the country? Success OF
failure depends on the answer. Or.
ganization and work will secure q
brilliant victory. To neglect either
is to invite defeat. We have an IN
scrupulous enemy to deal with. A
long series of defeats have made our
opponents desperate, and taught them
the necessity of a thorough union Of
all opposing elements. Anything to
defeat the Republican party" is their
motto. To meet these combinations
require vigilance, activity, and organ
ization on our part. Let every loyal
man be at his post Of duty on the day
Of election. A full vote for the Re-
publican ticket secures its triumph,
and this means, in plain English, the
triumph of law and order over the
common enemy of both.-RepubHc.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-29
THE FAMINE IN NEBRASKA.
From the Chicago Tribune, Of Friday.

From the Chicago Tribune, Of Friday.
Death from starvation,-for the
actual want of od,-within eighteen
hours travel of Chicago and in the
heart of the grain-growing region of
the country, is something that should
attract the attention of the public.
Gen. Ord, commanding the Depart
ment Of the Platte, and who is per-
sonally cognizantof the facts, address
ed the Board Of Trade yesterday,
telling in plain and direct terms the
sad story of the restitution in Western
Nebraska caused by the ravages of
the grasshoppers. From the reports
Of his officers on the ground and
among these people, he has reliable
information to the actual condition
Of affairs. He states that several
cases of actual death of children have
already taken place. Fathers have
been compelled to abandon their fam
lilies and seek work and food. In one
house the corpse of a child was found
that had persisted for want of food,
and near it the mother PROSTATE and
dying from the same cause. He
states that in Boone, Greeley, sher~
man, Howard, Buffalo, and all the
other counties 30 miles west of the
Missouri River; two-thirds of the
people are destitute of all pecessaries
of life. They have neither clothing
nor shoes; and food is impossible to
set.
These people want, in the first
place, -four, meal, pork or bacon for
food; they want shoes, shawls, blank
cts, coats, pantalo ons and stockings.
An appeal Of this kind coming from
seven thousand men, women, and
children, without food or clothing,
experiencing, through no fault of
their own, the horrors of famine, Ger
tainly will not be unheeded in this
vast city.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.

"A little step-daughter of Jacob
Kneusel, Of Salem, Olmsted county,
was thrown from a wagon last Thurs
day, falling on her head and break
ing her neck. -
The son of Julius Kemp, a boy
three years Of age, Of St. Charles, was
kicked on the head last Monday by a
horse, and died on Wednesday night
from the effects of the injury.
Charles Mcdonald, of Winona,
was shot in the back while duck hunt
ing on Friday, by the accidental dis
charge Of a gun in the hands of his
companion, Eugene Burr. It is fear
ed his injuries will prove fatal.
j. B. Blanchard, sheriff of Clay
county, succeeded Friday in cap
turing M. P. Martin, Jarvis Rogers
and James Williams. They were ar
rested at the residence of Edward
Andrews, two miles north of Pelican
Rapids. They had seven horses in
their possession, supposed to be stolen.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-29
THE GILMAN STYLE OF ELECTION
EERING.

No. THE supporters of Mr.. Gil
man are circulating the report thai
Mr.. Barnes while in the last Legisla
ture, supported 4 bill to tax church
property. No such bill wos intro
duccd.
No. 2That resolution was intro.
duced in the City Council to give the
German Catholic school 5000 of the
public school money, and that it was
opposed Mr.. Barnes. No such reso-
lltio'a acos ever introduced.
No. 3-That Mr.. Barnes, at the last
session of the Legislature, voted
against the Liberty of Conscience
bill. He was one of the strongest
supporters Of that bill, and the Jour-
nal of the House shows that he voted
for it.
Nos. 4, 5, 6, and up to SO are false.
hoods of the same silly stamp, and
show the desperate straits the Ring
is pushed to in its efforts to elect Gil.
man
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-29

MN. GILLIAN AND THE WATER POWER
Mr.. Gilman claims that he must be
elected to the Legislature in order
thrt the water power may be improv-
ed. He promises mills and factories
and foundries by the dozen if the peo-
pie will only send him to the Legisla-
ture. 1t strikes good many voters
that they have heard promises like
these from the Ring quarter just on
the eve of an election good many
times before this. The truth is, that
the Company in which Mr.. Gilman is
interested is bound by written con-
tract that no Improvements shall be
mode on the St. Cloud side Of the river
for foe yeors. Mr.. Gilman's interests
are mainly on the Sank Rapids side
of the river, where his father is very
largely interested.
ia canal is cut around the rapids
on the west side of the Mississippi
river it will be done by the Govern
ment, and because the Government,
from considerations Of the public
welfare, rises superior to the contracts
Of private corporations.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-29
GILMAN Il CO.'S BOASTS OF BUYING
VOTERS.

The Ring boast that they have all
the money they want, and that they
intend to buy Gilman's election to the
Legislature. They know that fully
one-half the Republicans will vote
for Mr.. Barnes, and that the Demo-
cratic majority in the District is over
25O, but they say they have $4,000
with which to overcome this majority.
1t would pay them to spend this
large amount Of money to elect Gil
man and gain their point. It is money
they got easily, and if Gilman is elect
ed they will get it all back and much
more out of the people.
Gilman, Mcclure & Clarke claim
to have bought leading Democrats in
the towns of St. Augusta and St.
Cloud, and that they can "buy the
farmers votes for 81 apiece" We
do not believe they can do this. The
farmers in this District, whether Ger
mans or Americans, are too honest to
be bought up by anybody, and too in
telligent not to understand that Gil
man is no friend of theirs but is the
head of the St. Cloud Ring working
for that Ring.
Two years ago, when Gilman was
candidate for the Senate, he and his
friends claimed, as they do now, that
they had bought up the voters, but
when the votes were counted it was
discovered that they had spent their
money to no purpose. They will dis
cover the same thing next Tuesday.
There are some men who are always
ready to be bought, and them the
Ring doubtless has or will get, but
their number is small and their influ-
ence smaller.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-10-29
LOOK OUT FOR LIESi

Clarke, Mcclure & Co. are filling
the air with lies to elect Gilman and
defeat Barnes. They find that money
alone won't do it, and they are trying
wholesale lying. We are informed
that they are preparing circulars OF
posters, full Of duplicity and false
hoods, to circulate on the eve of cleo.
tion-when it will be too Tote to con.
tradict them through the papers.
~ Look out for their posters!