Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 14, 1874, Page 9

— '—-——————‘. ROME. . Disagreeable Character of the Winter-Climate. “The Dearcst Placo in fho World fo Die in. The Anclent City-«-Its Mighty Men and Mighty Deeds. Communisir One of the Most Potent Causes of the Fall of the Empiro. Tho Paradiso of DeadYents---Free- Lunching Reduced to & Scionce. Special Correspondence of The Chicano 7'ribune, Toae, Feb. 17, 1874, Rome posscssos one of tho most DISAGREEABLE WINTER-CLIMAT'ES in Europe. The causo of this is the sudden and porpotunl changes of tho weather. One day, tho atmosphero will be bright and warm, with & soft, balmy wind blowing iuland from the soa. « Tho mext day, ono will be chilled to the bone by a nharp, biting bjpst from tho snow-cavered Ap- uvnnines, These precipitato varintions of tom- ploraturoproduce colds, fovers, pnoumonts, diph- t.borin, and other complaints, Tho numerous mtonumeonts in the Protestant burial-ground at- test too surely tho bad charaoter of the climato. It+ could |lhardly bo otherwiwo, when onv is subject to thoe constant. alternations of a eoft, warm, relaxing Sirocco wind from tho South, and the bittor, freczing Traanontana gale trem tho North, which some- times provaila for weoks, but rarely for less than three days at a time. There are othor thingt 1 which aggravato tho evils of the climato. Ono it ), that tho churches and gallerics of art which travelers visit aro DEADLY COLD in win tor. Tho thick walls aro of stone; the floors aro of marblo ; the interior is filled with great granitc or marblo'pillara and columns. Tho shone of which those publio edificos are constri toted abgorbs all the warmth in the at- mosphs 2re, and, no matter how warm and plosenn t it moy ba out of doors, iuside the. temporiurc wil be at or mear the freezingt point. Walking about on those cold i wble floors is like walking on ico, and chilla tlie feot fully as much. Thoso public buildingy 1 aro nover artificially hoated. Oue never sct )8 Btoves, hot-nir furnaces, reglators, or steam-co! I, in a public building in Romo, or any other Itahtan city. Fuelis DEAR AND BOARCE, and they a: ‘0 afraid of risk from fire. One rare- Iy hoars of & church belug, burnt in Italy, unless it bo set onr firo by lightuing, But really there isnot much combustible material in them, as ane aces livtlo that coudd burn,—oxcopt stone pillars, brick walls, and Kboir covering of stucco, This stucco, by the way, is universsl in Italy. Every building, large or small, public or private, ia covered with stucco, 'peiuted in any color to sult the facy. I am lweartily tirod of stucco, nnd exolaim, A plague cin your stucco housos | Whon one roturns. shivering from a visit to the chilly churchos aond bonumbing gallories to his apartments, thoro ia nothing botlor in the caloric way than o sfickiy, puny fire of two or three littlo sticks of waod, iv a fire-place a fout or eighteen inches square ; and what little heat Is goneratod from tl1é contomptible littlo fire mostly goosuptho smoly littlo chimney, The almost inovitablo consequionce of exposure to much a climate, and tlie aold, damp air of the public buildings, is BICKNESS AND {NIUR ¥ TO HEALTH. TRome is a fine place, Lo wever, for druggists wnd doctors, who flotrish ‘here and ammnss for- tunes, The undertalkers ao'd embalmers aluo do % prosperous and active bus iness, It is a ourious fact, that the defunct English 'who dio hore are mostly doposited iu tho Protest- ant Cemetory, while the «deceased Awloricans are, with fow oxcoptions, * exprossed” to their native land for intorment. Tne Americans, in this respect, aro as superstitious satho China- man, and insist that their boues shall crumble in sho froo goil of tho Great Ropublic, Rome is the ' ' DEAKEST PLACE IN THE WOLD for a foreigner to dis in, Jirom the moment the breath s ont of the body until the flual disposi- siou of the remsins, asystem of extortion pro- eails. The landlord will most likely Iny ina cloim for hoavy damazes. He will ingist on being poid the cost of & new mot of farniture, carpets, veall-paper, hed and bed-clothes, otc., nud for the rent of the anartments ‘for sevoral weeks, dur- ing which they are undiergroiug_fumigation, dis- Inteotion, and refurnishing, ‘Cho municipal lawy gives them ench indemuitios in case of death sceurring from infectious disensos, soch as small-pox, scariatisa, and typbus fever; but Ehey call protty much all kinde of sickness which produces daath * irafectious,” aud insist on their sxorvitant demunds being paid,—onforemg them by vaxatiors litigation, soizures of the of- feots of tho deccased, and abuse of tho relatives, After the landiords are mettled with, the rapa. cious bills of the undertakers ara next in order. The embtilmer requires about 1,300 to 1,600 trancs fex his foe. Tho corporation ' of the city presints a bill: the clergvman who dronets over some printed prayera expocts o gratuity of seyeral guineas; nud sundry and tivers other people oxpect focs for doing what it Is difiienlt to comprohend.’ Thoe beat advice that can be givon to the traveler is, not to diein Rome if he or she can ayoid it, but to solect some other town, and the one nearest your Aoricau horno is to Lo the moat preforred. But, witla all its drawbacks, its bad winter- climate, its d:sagrecabilities inlifo, andits expon- eivenees in clenth, there is somothing WOSDER FOLLY ASD INRESITIBLY ATTRACTIVE and fascir mting in this Capital of tho auciont world, O ne is drawn hero by influences that cannotbo remsted, and kopt hero for months, in despite o { climale and sicknors. One s bowil-' dered by the vastness of interest before him; by en ondlo.es Inbyrinth of objucts of absorbing in- terest. Hero Is tho city that ruled tho politicnl world flor a thonsand yoars; aud, when that rule perishad, it was to commence another, and dominpor the spiritual world for another thon- sand_yorirs os nbsolutoly as it hod tho political, The scho lar, tho philosopher, the etatesman, tho jurist, thio Gonoral, tho pietist, tho mtist, the autiquari an, the—ovorybody, fluds horo an en- grossing flold of contomplation, A largo part of the achudalboy ,ducation of evory youth relates :10 the higory of Anclont Rome, sid a study of or JMIGNTY DEEDS AND MIGHTY MEN, Ono begine with the maivelous story of Romuluis, Romus, snd the fomale woll who nurtured ~ and protocted them; und passiea for a porlod of mora than 700 yoars through o hietory of tho most asconisbhing and captivar ing charactor. At ovory page he meots 1 NOW BUIrprise, & new sotor porforming an ex- traordin ary part, & new scono of most dramntic and thni lling interest, until the whole culninatos in tho bloody murder of the mighty Julins Cugar, ywho snthered his mantle about him and Jay dowr in death, covered with. wounds, at the foot of pgreat Pompey's sintue, which *‘ran bload " 11t witnessing the shockine event. With this trag fio toymination of tho Republic tho play opens with E THE ENPIRE, aud for anothor 700 years the stndent s con- ductod through the most terriblo events, the most tb rilling scones, the mout wondesful trans- Tormations ; and, whon the ourtain at last drops and tha drama s ended, all around is darkness, aniny, und dosolation, The mighty polity is ox- tinet, ‘That organization with iTiba of stool aud fact of brass in dissolved. The Rome of the Beipiori and the Ciosars la dead, and hencoforth only a sopulchro, And yet how mtich of it lives! Iow much is deathlons while man oxistal The memory of her doods survives: her worle live witor hor, Ker mythology, hor phitoaophy, har vode of law, hor pian of government, Ror poli- tics, hior litorature, lir langunge, hef arts and azionces, aro not lost to subsaquont genoratlonn and nations; they have not erumbled intoshapo- Ines dobris, liko hor marble and granito palaces, tamples, and forums : but are ¥RESI AND VIVID, snd are incorporated futo the education of every man and womun in tho oivilized world, We Lurdly realize how much of ou¢ education and thouphta is dorivod from the ncta nud idons of old Rome, ~ Wo feod on thom inour youth, digost thom in maturity, and solnco our old ago in thoir contomphatlon, The Rotnan code of Iaw is the bnals and foundution of all alvil and orimi= nnl furisprudones {n tho civilized world, Tho TRomau forms of govorn monts Anring the Repubs 1o and Xmpire aro folluwed nnd coplod, muf‘bllt 1ittlo improved on, by the nations of Europe and Amorica of tho presont timos, And that which moat distinguiatios tho Modorn from the Darl Agon i6 tho randoption of the old Ttoman farms and syatoms of Inw and political orpanization, When the great light of tho Boven-Hilled Clty wont out, it left mnukind to OROTE IN DAUKNESS 7 for & thousand yenrs, Mon endured tho tymnny off Foudalism and tho gloom of Supaatition, 1nd lived in tho darkness of Tgnoranco, among bats, and owls, and craw! ing vermin, for long, 1oug agos, It 15 only sinco tho sixtoonth con- p $nry that they aro beginniiig to smorge Inta the liight of day, and enjoy 1iborty of consclonco, nalitieal rights, and such gocial position as tho morita of ench warrant; 1nd these very privis logés old Rome mot only: onjoved, but oranted and trught, enforced and vrotocted, and at hor doath tranemitted to ponta rity, Iow Romo, having onxmmi’ #0 long the bloss- ings of frecdom, and mtatido government, and o highly-doveloned clvilization, contd at Inst do- :icoml RO }aw lh\m nnl;rfily and mlnnr;r;f&. aud ien_oxpire, 18 _ono of ths marvels o Lory. But Ohildo Harold saya: i Thero {0 moral of all human talen; Firet oo, and then oy - shen that £ Firs dom, and then glory : when that fails, Wenllh, Vico, Corruption -bacioarinm at g, " Bomotimes I foar that onr Ameriean Rapublie a8 prssed tho firat two stages of * Freodom and {3lory," and entored wpon thnse of “Woalth, Vice, and Corruption,” "If that bo so, tho endis inovitablo, and tho timo not far off whan the Tnat stago of the Repu'bllo will bo renchnd, Ono of tho most potent causes that lod to the declino and fall of Rome woa COWIMUNIAN, 5 This fact has not sufficiontly arrested thio atton- tion of writora and publicists, Rome, nsa city or mnnlu!{ml part of the Empiro, oxarcisnd an undue and monopolizing . iufluonce. as Paris has -done in Franco, hut in far greator dogneo and ox- tont. The ambitions demagogues o the Roman ‘Empiro sought to curry favor with the populaca of the city by catoring to tholr cemricos at the public oxpense, The populnee of Romo and {ho Prrotorian Gusrds mado and nnmado Emporors, overnwarl the Senato, and diotated to the Gove ernment. TheEmverors, us farbacknas Augustus, commenced recognizing the demunds for special privilogea and favars, and suecaimbing to the climors, of tha rabble. And what was it thoy domnnded ? TFroe admiseion to the circuren, theatror and amphithoatres ; rmd noxt subsist once. This nbuse grow year by yenr, until it hardened into an Imperative caatom, THE GIGANTIO OOTASEDM, hogun by Vorpasian and comnleted by Titus, to- wards tho end of tho first centnry, was ercoted for the purpore of fuinishing tha Roman Com- munists bloody, exciting, tragio amnsemont, It wna Iarge enough to seat and stand 100,000 apec- tho scones _an free tickehs, The Government ** cdleadhended ” them nt the oxponse of the fax- onyers of the Empire, I this arenn, tons of thoneands of eladintora aad wild bonats fought and destroyed ench other, for the base gratifiention of tho turbulent and; bloodthirsty Communista of Rome. IMalf-n-Cozon other amphithoatros wen constructed ir, different parts of the city, nt pablic expenso, for Lhe gratnitous gratificn- tion of thosamacliss of people. Eunrmous tntors, nino-tenths of whorn entored and enjoyed | and increasod by dograos, 1\nd grew on what it fod, The rulers gavo wny stop by atop. The concossions of ono Emperor furnished preco- dont for the noxt not to bo galunid or reslsled, oxoopt b Lis paiil, Aftor a timo, tho aupport 6.¢ tho Roman Com- munists boenmo AN INTOLERARLE 11 URDEN, too hoavy to ho borno by the ‘poanle of the prov- inces s nnd, ono after tha cthor, they ravolted and throw off tho griovons voko, or rafuged to rostet tho Invslons of the Grolls and fauns,— belioviug that a changn of 1 instors would bo for the bost,and that no ohangescoull bo for the worso, Thus tho possossl'ana of Rome wora torn from hor by re'sollion and inva- alon, Tho Communists had becomo too Inzy and onorvated ovon to floht for thao retontion of the pr ovinces on which the #nbaisted, It caured hon'slor burdans to be lm‘: porod on thoro still rom aining under the con- trol ot tho Governmont. Thia thing wont or, from bad to woran, until _tho Roman Empiie ox. pired amidat its maing, Thio wvading Gotha ut Tast besieged and oapturad tha city itsolf, sackod it, burnod i, and left tho Communiats tho nitor- native to work for thoir "broad in the futuro or starve, Moat of tho wrotc hes, aftor having onton out the vitals of the Em piro, proferred tho lnt- tor, and PERISIED FIOM THY: PAOE OF THE EAUTH, Tha population tpidly 1:an down from n milllon and a hialf to half & i) ifon, and thon to & quar- torof amillion, and fintilly to half the latter num- bor ¢ from which trifite.y handful it never rocov- ored duringtho fifteon: conturies it lins beon nhdor tho control of the Gl rch, But, during tho threo Foara that Romo hna: beor tho Capital of Ro- unitad Italy, moro n ot ¢ housos have been ercoted than during the roceding 800 yosrs, and n greator accenslon o the population hns been mada than since thm days of the Crusaden, Tho onlv work 1ecformed {n Rome for kwo or thrao contnries be foro its final fall was by slaves. Uhe Communists arrived ab thatsiato of por- faction thnt thoy D! ZMANDED STAVES to wait on thenrand ndministor to thelr Insts; ond their demand wrs complied with. Tor n time tho Romun 1u§,{m\fl wore omployed in mnking war on tho border countles to eap- tnro prsoners to bo carried to Romo. Tho mnre powerful malea wero conanmed {n tho amphitbeatres In gladintorinl combmts ; tho olhera woro diatrilmted among the Communists a8 servants and mi stresos, to provido for their profit and pleasure. Aftor tho dentruction of Jorusalom, tens of thousands of the surviving Jows waro enrried off prironora of war to Romo, and disposod of a8 hero described, with tho ox- ception that tho (lovernment retained a multi- tudo of ablo-bod.ied men ae sluve-laborers in building now Thormm, clrcuses, colisenms, thontres, and ottior publie worlia of similar do- serintion, for the amusemont of. tho Communtats. When one conltemnlntes the sotual stato of so- cloty in Rome dt ring the Empiire, and reflects on the monstrous a1uees that wero at work for its destruction, und ermining it aud gnawing at its fl‘llnln.tfl.w woud er ig, not that it foll, but that it nol B(I0N ER TUNDLE TO PIEOFA, The Reputdic had reared vip a polilical systom of marvelow strength,and endurauce ;. the Em- pira bnilt hathe andamphitheatres, and invented amea and divorsions, The Ropublic dovieed laws and rnhuinu basod on tho 1dens of justice and politlcal equnlity, Honeaty and patriotism wera the virtmes most osteemed in administra- tion. The.invincible sword of the Ropubliean Ingions comquered sl surrounding countrios. Tho privilegea of Ttoman citizenship to which circusea—race-cuurses in fact—wore conatructed by the Emperora to afford emusement to the prolatorian cines, *PIE CIROUB OF MAXIMUS, on ‘the graand celobrated 8 the scono of the Baliine rape, was 2,187 foet long by 960 faot in brogdth., The cironit of the soats was one mile in longth. 1t would ecat 230,000 poreons, Somotimen & hundrod chariots wonld enter for t'no raco at once; and the Emperor himsolf * sould drive ono, and competo for the prize, and the applatso of tho Communiat dendhends who watehod the racos and roared their approbation. ‘o Circus of Maxentiua was 1,580 foot long by 960 broad, and would seat 100,000 spectators. Nero builta circus on the ground \vfinm now stands 8t. Pator's Church, which would accom- modato 75,000 spectators. There wore Boveral other smaller ones. Dt the fastidious tastes of tha Communists requirod & higher ordor of kmusement, called THEATRES ; and & large number of thewn waro constricted and oporafe for their edificntion and delight. The best Thespian talent of the Empire was pro- onred at the expense of the Public Troasury. Trogedv, comeds, farce, melodrama, and the wpoctacular ballot woro all brought ouf and pro- sonted to the critical dlscormmnant of tho hvpor- eritical doadhends, who applanded or hissod tho nexn‘;;, 1|l|£¢k||m l‘mx; s0e8 nowadnys,! our nd of amusement provided by th Btate was called the Brths. or = e THERIE, which wore really club-louses, got up on a styla of maguificouce unknown and unappronchable in modern times, The rums of thoso Baths ex- cito littlo loss wondor now than tho stunondons remaing of the Coliseum itsolf, The ruins of the Bath of Caracalla embrace n space four or fivo times an great au the Conrt-Howse aquarc of Chieago. Those of Constantine, Nero, Titus, Trejan, and .%frlppu. wera not greatly inferior to Caracalla’s, None of them could be built now for Jess than many millions of dollara. In ono of those club-houses, tha chief bathing pond or ‘ake would ‘accommodate 1,600 persons at ono time. There woro & dozen emallor and more private bathing apartmonts in this build- ing. Streams of hot water ponred into the ponds to temper the coolness of the water. In oach of theae groat Thormm was a. GRASD TURLIO LIBARY TALL, built after the stvle of o templo, supported by lofty marble or granito columns, Thao walls and |i ceilinga wore frescood with marble, in the most exquisite tasto; and the vervy floor was fresco- work, The library-room of tho Bath of Dioclo- slan ia now the Church of 8t. Bernardo, aud is ono of the Jargest and most boautiful in Rome. Tho enormous granito and marble pillars of the old library-room still support the mnssive brick-arched roof, a hundred feot above the floor, which has rested gsecurely on theso supporta for sixteon centurios, Tho gront bath at thie establishment accommodated 3,200 swimmers at one time; and the circumforonce of the whole building was more than throe- quarters of amilo! The quantity of its ruins atill viribla is prodigions, Inthese club-honres the naws of the day was discusged, In the library and ronding-rooms the Intest nows_wns displayed on bulletin-boards, and read and speculated upon, jnst as one see nowadavs at & bulletin-board containing tels graphic dispatches. These club or bath-housos weie also freo to the community. They “rero built and supporred at tho public exponse of the TEmpire, and used for the pleasure and banefit of the 1indigent_gentlomon of elegant leinare who abonnded in Rome in thosa days. But, when tho massoa of the poprlace wore provided so many time-killing smuremonts, tho enjoyment thereof necesanrily abridged the time that " ehould be dovoted to labor. To overcomo this difficulty was ensv eoough, It was simply _ NOT TO WORK but live at public exponse, Thnov sald thay wera ontitled to leisure aixd amurement as well as the rich who lived on their income ; and why should thoy spend “their valuable Jives In toil for the Leuofit of capitlisis whon they could live at the oxpense of the National Troasnry ? They wont to tho Emperora rnd the Senate with the cry of **Brond or Blood.,” Thore was no sight-or-six ‘hour-work-for-ton-hours'-pay nonsense abont their demnnd. T'hey oponed their minds_frenly and spoko thalv thoughts boldly, ' Gentlo- men,” #aid they, “give un food and clothing, and Alaves to wait on us, fuel an farniture, and house-rent free, or down come your thrones and diguities ! Publio mon could o excesding- Iy tree and generous in voting and giving awav other people's property in thoro days as in these, _Tlia Govarnment, to satisfy the domands of the Roman rabble, INCREAHED THE TAXES and tithos of tho provinces and colonions, and enforcad tho colloction by the aword, Millions of cnttlaand sheop wers thus collestod and driven into Romo to be slaughtered and dis- tributed- to the Communists gratuitonsly, Millions of tons of breadstufls wero takor from tho farmera of tho provinces, and given to the samo class, Tho factories and work-sliops of tho colonfes paid tributo in their handicratt, to ba dis- Ynuu of 1 the kame way a8 the eattle and flour, Jut the, Roman Communists also domanded money,~hard cash; and thedomagoguos exacted millions of pounds of coin from tho masges of tho peoplo of the Em]rlm to donate to the vora-. clon spongos of the Cunital. Dendheading and treo-luching wore roduced to n soiance, Lvory- thing was without monoy or price ; nothing wns carved by labor. Thoro Was a “froo blow" all round tho board among these ‘* tolling, horny= handed (7) sona of labor,” ‘Tho Empiro was the orango that was BQUEEZED AND BUORED,’ Tt was convorted into & Universul Rollof and Ald Baciety for the support and emolumont of the sturdy lazzaroni of the Capital, who had in- orersod the houra of lelsuro hnd reducad thoso of lubor to the polut whero thoe latter vanished nnd tho former embracod the twenty-four hours or dp; p’l‘h(nystnlool things_was not the work of a vear or a generation, 1t commenoed with amall demands, made on the firat Emneror, whioh wero nob eadlly distiugulshablo fiom olacity, - of tho papers here, nmutions a visit paid by him thevworo admitted, the justice and equity of the laws, the mildnesa of administration, the F’nmclim: against tumult or tyranny, reconciled ho conq1erod nations to Roman rule, and madoe them lcyal subjects and stout dofondorn of the " “dignity and majesty of tho mighty Ttepublic, Had it not beon for the can- cor of Qamrtaunism, which ate the heart out of the Rmpire and destroved it, who can_tell how long tinf;_vwondorful Government might have Insted ? V¥ ho knows but it would have kurvived until the piesent day, and Rome satill boe the mis- tross of they world, and all its nations and tribes moroly pre.vinces or States of the UNIVERSAT, DOMINION ? Cortainly it would easily bave survived all the other dent ;ructive l{,'oncius *for many long cen- turies sul )soquont to its fall. A )ittle oxpori- mant of Clommunism in Paxig in 1648, and again in 1870, I 1sting only & fow months, throw tho areat Fre uch nation into spasms and convulsions, The PTaris Communists uudertook in n smell way to ir nitnto tho old Roman criginals under the Empire, and, liko them, to knock off work and mnlko th.o rural districts and provincas support thom in clogant idleness. Thoy, too, demanded freo amr usemonts, monoy, smeat, and clothes, ond no ront. Milllons of national bonds were sold by the domagogmes at_their hand, from tho proceo 1s of which thev svbsiatad, Those bonds wero 1,dded to tho national debt. Times wora **gaocl " while tho ** apree * Jaated. But tho ru- ral die:tricts, not caring to bo mado bensts of* burdma to the Paris Bocielists, rovolted, marched on thoy oity, and drowned the Comratnists in thoir ‘awn blood, WIll tho Cummuaist expesi- ment, WHEN 'TRUED IN ANERION, ho more succesrful than it was iv Ivance 2 Will 1t bu received with more (avor, or endured with more patience by the classes who, work with both Liew and hands for the accumu'mtion of o com- petency, and who save thoir ensnings _instoad of #qwandering thom in dram-sbops and on silly amusoments ? Tho American farmers and manufacturers, shop-keepers and professional man, aro eminantly practical, and entiroly capa- blo of protecting their rights of proporty. Thoso wivo wish to try Paris experimonts on them wonld do wall to pause sud reflect before com-! milting thoengolves too far. The Communism of Rome undor thevevela of the Empire will, nover be tolirated by any modern nation, That awful example will vatisty curiosity to the end of timo. J. M. e e ma HINITS ON GRAPE-CULTURE. Bury yoiar dog In the garden— It will ko your grapevino grow; ‘Tendorly 1raft on the summer air A reaale 1 goft and low; And le yor ve waddest dirge be sung Fora gri ef that passoth show | A dirgo, & :tequiem, soid T,— ‘Sing T .1 song of the vine! distinet platfornr, and foln armica ngainst Ropublicans, « Ihis they may do; but tlo *“1uecting ” will bo about tho last of tho grat crmaolldation, o thera will cortainly e onoufh «isantinfled politioal napirants to upsot {10 sehomo, arul the resuit will bo nnother Repulll- can viotory in the Btato clection—providing, ot coureo, it tho party holst tho nanie of n Han oqually as nopular a8 Gov. Brown; and that fioy can oruily do, a8 there aro somo balf-n dden nreatterod nbout tho Btate who could make o {big figh's " againet {hie numes menticnod abovo, ox- cont, porhinps, Col. Korr, who, while not dd in politics, hins many friends on hoth sidos,aud, prorhaps, stands o botter chiauco than any ¢ his compaetitors. [% —_——— [} THE FARM AND GARDEN, / Osnpgo Plunts nm ilo and Drain cedueAbout Draine- =Sood=Cornmitors 'roesy and o I2ems A List of Valuablo Deciluouws 'rees==Fhe Study o Entomols otry==Tho Battlc of the Bugs and the Weedn=aSpr) From Our Agrienltural Correrpondert. Citamratan, 11l Marchal, 1674, OBAGE PLANTS AND BREDA, PrLANPIELD, TiL, March 2, 1874, M, “TwnAr"—8m: T om told that thers ts & cor- ner 1t Osafe-aeed, and tlst worthiless secd § being pit on tho murket, Bholl T purchuso now, & wait and fako my chanco for & fall fn the murkt 3 L8, . Whon in Toxas Iast July, I was told, and In tagt could soo, that tho Osago-sced crop was noarly a failuro, Thoro was a grost supply of old seed on hend, as tho orop of 1878 was largo ; and ad tho wator was low iu the sironwms In the foll of {hot yoar, the sced waa pilad up to alvalt the spring-rains in ordor to wash-ont the pulp ; and, In Bomo gasen, this soed wns put in such largo pilos that 4 becamo beated, and all such geod fa ruined. Good-saed bas a natural color, and 15 not diacolored in any mannor ; and n por- sou in tho Labit of handling soeds would doteot it at once. There 18 no doubt o falr aupply of old sced of good quality ; but, of tho new crop, vory littlo, if any, could be obtained. Ono Inrgo dealor in Osage sead, at Donison, tolil me ho did not think bushol of now rood would bo got out, as thoro would not bo sufliclont to make [t aun objoct to atart up tho wills, Tho stock of plants on hand is Inrge, and it in not probablo that asmuch sced a8 usual will bo sown this spring ; nod, though sced must rulo high, and old sood at that, thoro is no reason to wmako the prico speoulative, ns, in that oveut, lesa will be planted, and thus leave the old seed to go over, whon it will bo of littlo value. In ordinary scasons, Osago seed, at Donison, Tex., is worth from ®4 to 35 por bushel; amd, as there i8 now all-rail to tho North, tho seed should not bo very doear. Whon it bad fio bo wagonad 500 to 600 miles, there was good reason to soll it at a good round prico. A lotter of inquiry might bo nddressed to & dealer in Osago sscd, Denison or Dallas, Tox. Tho Postmastor no doubt would handl it over to the proner person. In this way sead Paight bo had dirock at n 1argo anving of cosk, tie Yers tho whole stocl has beon shipped out of tha conntry. : In tho snwing of old seed, it will be fonnd that » longer time is roquired in the sonking. Had it not been for the cutting down of the old hodgos, & large quantity of soed would bn pro- duced at home, ns theso hodges had begnn to roduce quite freoly. It is probable that many argo lots of plants will ba ellowed to go over, mg next spring o part of our supply of plants ‘may be 2 years old. DRAIN-TILE. ‘We hava bad throe dry soasons, and pooplo have given up tbe idea of using draiv-tilo for the farm ; but just now the land i pretty well anturated with moistnre, und the low plnces noed & tile-drainitg, and the inaniry is: Who has drain- tile for kala? Parties who have it should advor- tiso, 80 that peoplo mny know whare it is to bo hnd, and thoe price. Mr. Waring, im the Country Gentleman, enys that I-inch tile will dvain tho water for 1,000 foot, andl 2-inch 4,000 feot ; and that 1,000 foet, with draine 40 fect spart, will drain an acra, I have tho Joliet liat, which gives 2-inch as thoir smallesd tile, If tho inch-tile will arswer for 1,000 feof;, 13¢ for 2,000, and 11¢ for 3,000, it would be woll to know it, ns it” would matorially reduce tho coat of draining. Transportation is alarge item in tho cost of “tile, and itis nn objoct to have it mado noar whera it is to bo nsed, The domand for tilo to draln cellars and bamso-gronnds is sunually incronsing, anl roquires o large smount to supply; amd it ounght to be made at all of our Ingo villages. This could be dono in connee- ti with {he briek-yardw, snil tuns 8ave largoly in trolght, In 1858° I putin 1,000 feot to cirain off npmall pond that had its ontlet through. my gardan ; and that part of the garden is rendv to plant a6 early a8 any part of it. The following year I wut in goveral thousnnd feet of inch- dram, Thot put througl o slough having: stiff clay botton hns remnined sound, but in the upland low depressions it has failed. ‘Wa can do & large amount of drainage with the plow, and tho Inying off the landu in the (lirec- lng'flxg planting to June 1, wo can out na late rd Qot 10, Wo havo froat from Hopt. 20 to Oct. 10, for tho firat, a8 & gonoral rulo. 'This porlod of front is somewlint dopondent on the tinie of full moun thio Innt of Boplomber, In caso tho moon in full Hoforo tho 20th at this point, thore i littlo dnu- r of froat, and wo may utiontly walt until the ull moou i1 Ootober, ‘Lhin yonr tho full meon ocours Sopt, 25, when wo shall Lo vory linhle to have o frost, It may appenr atraigo that wo should conmult the timo of full moon in oxder to seloot our sood-oorn, and yet it is oo, Ir wo kuow tho timo of tlia autumn-frost, end tho day of planting, wo shinll bo eusblod to seloct seed-q| corn that will mature within thoso days, Wa hinve corn that will maturo bora (n 100 daye, and gomo that requires 140; and that from farther Elmlth will noed 20 woro days .addod in ordoer to ripou. l’1‘wa dogreos further North wo must have aoced that will ripon in about 100 days; and we thon bogin to appronch the line of "tho glazed corn, and whora the dent corn wilt not ripen, loro tho l,vlnzml corn {8 of no valuo, such ns tho King Pbilip, Dutton, nud other variotios, s0 valuable in the Now Bugland Biates, Evory farmor should seloot his own geod-corn from year to yonr. In tho avont that ho must purchaso his first supply, lat him not bo docolv- od in regard to tho msizo of tho ear, but look to tuo yield per moro. It s bottor to malko tho seloction at tho time of husking the crop, rathor thau to solect tho tirst mipo -cars, unless the genaral crop ripens too lato in tha sonson, or, bolter stated, I8 too many doys in maturing. . TORERE IN MAPLE-TREES, LoaansronT, Ind., March 6, 1874, Mr, RunAL"—Sin: We not augar-mapls around our chureh—hut they wero all destroyed by tho borons, I obsorved that |Ilu{ did not attack tho soft-maples in other lucalities, und thurefora sot out the moft-maples to roplac the olliora ; but lust year thoso waro do- stroged in liko munnor, Can you tell us what to do in tho promulses 7 E, 3% Af tho sugar-maples woro takon from tho for- ast, and tho tops cut off in tho usual manner, it 1s no matior of surprise thnt tho borors attacked the treos. ‘The maple-troo-boror ln]yu its oggs in troos of wenkouad vitality, sud in plncos oxposed to the sun, 1ather than in Lhe shade. For this “ronson, troos from the nurserios, in o vigorous stago of growth, and with au abundance of fibrous rootg, are much to bo preforred to those from tho foresy, whoso long, rambling rooty have boon cut off with the u{m o in taking up, 'The silvor-loaf-mnple (not silver-poplar), a va- risty of soft-maplo, ia & moro rapid grower than the sugar-maplo, and is thus botter adapted to transplanting, a8 1t suffors loey by the shock in romoving, But all this family suffer from the boror if they loso thoir vigor from too much cut- ting oif of tho top, sotting In sward-laud, or other bad management ; and yob the borors can be kopt out of tho trees :3' tho uso of soap. 'T'his may bo eithor hard or soft soap, but the former i8 the most convonient of npplication, by rubbing the poftened bar up sud down the trunk of tho troo. 'T'his isno great task with treos of proper size for sotting, which should not exceed 2 inchos in dismoter, and should bo young sud vigorous. "I'so ogga are lald on tho trunk of the traes, in Juno aud July, in this latitude; and, at polnts North, into August. Tho oggs hateh, and the young worms eat 'thrnufih tho barlc into the wood. Tlioy muat thon bo_cut out with & knite, or destroyed with a bont wiro that may reach tham, The soap will provont tho layiug and batehing of the oggs, though moro thau oue ap- plieation should bo hud. I bavo moro than 16 acres of maples that have been transplanted, some of which are more than o foot in diamouer, but never loso suy that have had the propor care, The sugar-maple is of slow growth when Foung, and the nurerymen have not tound. it Protituble to grow. It Mr. P. will resot tho ynd with tracs of Trom 134 to 2 inchos, smooth aud thrifty, and leave the tops on, give them s good mulch of loaves or rotten munure, aud apply tho goap, ho muy Luve a ressonablo prospect of soe- iug tho chureh besutified with that grandest of ano\u‘ sbade-Lrees, the sugar-maplo, . The maplo-tree-boror is called the Beautiful Clytus (Clytus Huyl Tho worm cata into tho wolid wood. in all directions; but, a8 it makes a liolo to outor the troo, it can always be detocied. “Fho thrifty troca in the shudo of the forest aro eeldom attacked, au tho motlt profers to lay its ozgd on the sunny side of the trunk of the tree. ‘The goap will add to tho appoarauce of the treo, 84 its trunk will have o smoother appoarance. ‘We Liave muny fine trees for nhade and orva- ment: theblaci-sugur-maple (4 cor Nigrum), tho silvor-denf-muplo (Acer Dasyearpum), white ehn, liom, sycaworo, — nsheleaf-maple (box-older), wite sud golden willow, whils sl black and white walout. The sugar-maplo neods long years to grow to give it a commanding ap- pearance, but this would be Lnstoued if tho nur- Berymen would plant it in tho uurseries, but thoy daslike to wait a dozen yoars to get o tros roudy 4 COLORADO. Continuanes of tho War Betweon tho Catle and tho Sheep Mon. The Political Squabble--~Squelching of the State Project. Abolition of the Board of Immigraiion--= Progress of tho Grangoe . Movement, Farming in Colorado & Very Uncertein Pieco of Business, Spectal Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, ©CANON Crry, Col,, March 1, 1874, The Indian scare hns subsided,—sbequatulat- od, o to speak,—potered out entirely, and our Wyoming cousing breatho frecly again but tho "SUEEP AND OATTLE WAR in Bouthorn Colorado still maintaing an ugly front, and furnishes abundance of trouble, It was hopod that our Legislative Solons would turn the blazo of thelr powerful intellects upon the subject, and enact some lawa oaleulated to curb tho ferocity of tho cow-boys, and give tho goutle bucks and owos protection ; but thoy wore too muoh ocoupled with dondhend plenies and irrigation-momorlnls, Jand-grabs, and o thousand othor schomen, to pay any particular attenticn to tho wants of theso important indus- trios, and nothing was done, To be suro, ono ‘honorable member did submit the draft of a bill doclaring, in substance, that it was bordly right for human boings to slaughter stook nud pop away at each other with revolvers, and author- izing the Legislature to impose fines or im- prisonmont upon ail offenders duly convieted by the laws of the land; but the bill was voted down ; tho nuthor was alluded to in contomptuous torms ; aud, abashed, disheart- oned, and disgustod, ho sank down in bis soat, and remainod shrouded in obseurity tho romaine dor of tho session. As a natural consequenco, tho cattie-men aroe encournged to commit groator deods of lawlossnoss, and now the lifo 88 woll a8 the property of a slicop-man stands upon a pre- carions footing., Tho other night o party of twelvo men, all disguised, visited o sheop-ranch ovor on tho Bt, Chiavles, & fow milos south of Puoblo, and, whilo part of the erew coverod tho ownor with thoir rovolvers, the rest procceded to the yard, aud doliboratoly cut the throats of wll tho cholcost sheop in tho drove. Mauy othor outrages of s similar naturo aro relatod. It is an uncqual contest; the cattle-men, owing to numerieal ruporiority and tho naturo of their oc- cupntion, havo far tho beat of it; aud, unloss s compromlze can Le effected, their focs must lonve ho country, Yand one of the most important industrigs in this region will bo ox- tingnished. The entiro procceding is a fair illugtintion of the power o fow lawless epirits can oxort in Colorndo; and yet, strange as it may appear, their conduct soems to bo upheld Ty & fow papora in the Torritory. It is proper t0 ndd, however, that th editors of thoso organs are engaged in the eattle-businous, and are more compofent to give an opinion on beef, or tho wm(l1 pointa of a T'oxnr stear, than they are to wiito lenders, or cull tho items required for o live newspaper. T GREAT POLITICAL QUABNLE continuos to_grow_ in_magnitudo and wax hot with interost, McCouk's confirmation still hougs firo; but wo are assured by his most re- linblo organs and supporters that it in only * & queston of timo, aud that ho 8 suwre to como back to Colorado with flying colors. The squabblo line nt Jonst produced ono good result: it hns effectually squelched the State movomout for gomo tinio tocome, A fow months ago, Elbert and his Ring wore ovarllowing with argumonts und appoals to Congross in favor of tho mova, Colorrdo was roprosented a8 toeming with un- counted thousands ; hor hords, hor mines, and Tor rich agricultural lands wero squoozod dry for snlo, when the poplar.cau Lo grown from caltngs in three years, and most of tha otheis Lrom small plants in two or threo more. Tho. study of noxious fusccts is bocoming vili6 % fuititte auuig tho studonta of the In- Siistrint Uuivetsity, und it i o bo hioned that the Tinds will soon warrant the employmont of snch o tewcher us Prof. liloy, or soino other xeiontitio und practical cutomologist. ~Ilowevor, it iu grat- ifying to kuow thuy the institution_is Wowly yet emrely drifting in this divection. Leurning and Labor are slow to clasp lunds, and we need odu- «ated labor rather thun learnoed labor, Wo must soon begin tio BATTLE OF TUE BUGS AND THE WEEDS, tion of tho natural drainnge ; but, after all, wo must have tile-drains and opon drains in \order to talie off tho surplus water. We can do snome- thing of fhis work bofore it ia possible to do any plowing, by entting furrows through tha low grounds to drain off sl atanding water. FEED-CORN. ‘Thers is an inquiry for good seed-corn, .And the sunply i8 not over-sbundant. In this pert of tho Stato tho sood-corn is always taken fram the crib, while, at tho North, it is carefull y e¢- Teoted ab tho timo of Luking, and pnt up w hiero it will cure ont without danger of injuring the £or thoy nover fml to como to tho front when- over thero is an inch of earth or a plant for a lodgment, Tho time of planting is ot hand; wosks ago tho spring wendod from ovee tho “Gulf,” and is making & stoady march North- ward. It has givon green peas to Fiorida, and on the * Gramd Chain” the: gardens aro busy with cold frames and fire-heated hot- beds for tomuto and aweot-potato plants; aud bers tho farwers are sowing —grasu- seod nund clover, and clearing up the fleld of corn-stalis, ready for the plow and tho plantor. Panics, monopofics, Granges, Furm- vitality of the reed. Ao expert can solect g.ond seed without difficulty. The chit, or germ,. s white when the grain 18 broken open. Who 1o other parts of the State, or to other Btat( 1. 1lere we want an ear of coru that has deep grai 118 and o small cob—that is, for all planted up Of thoripe Calawba's decp'ning bloom, And thio 1 irplo Muendine ! In thelr metlow light thou liv'st again, O torrier 0 mive! And when T a cont the perfumed leaves 1n the dneky” BuDkEL glow, Methinke Jhey yleld thelr volcoless praise To the'saerithco below | Bury your dog 11 tho gardon— Tt will muke ye ur grape-vine grow | And what Is cartiri'y rat-and-tan, : Tho’ sya my cha rished prize, To tho driuk that 2nolstons Beauty's lips, And brightens Beauty's eyes ? Wit botter boon vould'st thou, O Jip— What uwoeter Payudiso? —Springfield (Maze.) Hept:blicun, — TENNESSEE POLITICS. Correspondence of The Chicago Tribune, Maxreins, Tenn,, March 6, 1874 A Washington correspondent, writing to oue to our predent Governor, Jokn 0. Brown:; and, aftor stating that bo will not bo u candidate for re-clection, says: %It is & satwfaction nowadays toliear of ono prominent citizen who ir not a. candidate for Governor.” Now, soe how wel ' that writer knew tho situation: We have horo, in West Tennossoe, three announced candidates, namely : Cod. John 8. Xerr, of thiscity; A, W, Compbell, of Jackson; aud J. W. Porter, of Paris, Thon Middle Tonncssce has five, name- ly : Georgo "W, Joncs ; Gen. William B. Bato, of Nashville; J. W, Burton, of Murfreesboro, ' Gen.' Willinm A. Quarles, of Olarkevllle ; and Jobn F. Howa. While' East Tonuosscs, in hor modesty, omly wants two—John Netherland and: Gon. Jobn Baxter—to suffer the cares and anx- ioties of tbmt much-wought-for position. All of them are prominent men, &nd the majority of thom huvo beon in the political arena for yoars, and will, with porhaps - dozon or 8o moro, fub- it their claims to the nominating conventlon of Cousorvativas, whinh i to be held in Nashville durlng the n1iddle of April,—the object of the early meding boing to form o State ticket ps formidable® au possible for the fall olection, In order that tho Congressional elootion may bo worked in o eatisfaotory man- nor, ¥ am told--and upon geod suthority—thut Andy Johnson will not bo a . andidate for Gu- Lernatorial bowmors, proforri.ug, perhaps, to “gbide by tho Coustitution,” wnd put his trast in tho “dear pouple,” und gat ti Yom to eleet him a4 one of tho tou Congrossmen who uro to be selectod. Andy hins yot quite o nm uber of frlends iunand sbout Gngpnvillo, and wou 1 huve mudo nany moro, potfiaps, ind Lo not hived the tom- perance ariny v ow invading his s ction of the Btate, whiol forv sver biasts hisLiopos for the sup- Bun of thomuss es, which he, no_dou, b, thought 0 would get. | Io is working quietly,, however, and undoubted ly has nbnmfillng todb with the call for the Na shville Oonyeution, ‘whi. th comes apparently frota Col, - A, 8, Colyar, wh 0 wants the Conservati vos and Domuorufs, as Ynll 0y tho* Liliesals, to meol on ‘s browd to the last half of DBlay; that time, & more shallow grain with a smal lor oAr, Bay of 10 to 12 Towa of corn to tho ear, wk dlo the largor kinds have 12 to 24, with the grea ior part 12 to 16 rowa to the car. k During tho past dozen years 1 have plantei { s | great varioty, with more or less satisfactory ro- snlts, Tho large hackborry, or grain witl 1 o rough ond, lias been. planted for tho past tb wee venrd, but will hereaftor be disnensad with, and only one kind herenfter planted, and that o yel- low dent of 12 to 18 rowa of corn to the ear, * - ning moro rt 14 to 16 rows. This always ri* pens well, and may be planted fiom Anril 25 to . June car-loads aro rolected in this way, and sont to | our ond, af e | steady purpose. org' Clubs, smging-schools, and the dwstant lyceum must yield for the time being; for the old, tho orchard, and the garden will command best offorts, 'If spriug fails to lay agood Loundution for tho crops, the Bummer caunot muko amonds; for this roason we must lay our plans with cantion, and pursue flwlllll with & JURAL, MANUFACTURERS, MIDDLEMEN, FARMERS. Osuxos, Wis,, March 0, 1674, To the Editor of The Clicugo 4'rus Sm: Middlemen in tho sgrioultural-imple- -mont trade, a6 o class, have little or no capital. YI'he credit thoy claiwm to furnish the farmer is rob their own, They soll for the rwanufacturer, mund give any credit nsked by their cuslowers. Wiith heavy machinery, euch a8 thresbing-ma- 1. The seed ured this spring will bo taken from | ¢h.ines, &ec., it i8 customary to receive » cash the crop of 1872, ag the corn has been kept from exnoaure to the weathor, Froozing nover injures fuolly-ripe and cured corn ; but, i* a trifle immature, and wo ka vo an enrly frost, as was the caro last fall, the poed- cnrn from the aribs muat he relacted with 3 . groat den! of care. Tor this reagon I shinll pref er the old corn, which we kuow fs good; wh ilo, in planting of tho now crop, each ear should b ex- amined, Whole car-londs of corn are < shipped that wauld make good sned, but thosa sl jould be selected by an oxpert in corn-prowing. It has boon the practice with tho Chler igosced- houees to have their séed-corn solacter 17in this mannor, and, a8 & gouoral thing, they ] ave hnd o good articlo of ead-corn, the only rromplaint being tho prico that they charge. Boe d-corn is sold liero among farmens for about 81 a bushol, to which is addod the cost of sacks 1 shon ship- ped. Mr. J, B. Phinney, onoof onr laryiest corn~ growors, was somo vears ougazed in obtainin, and testing tho whole family of dent corn, bu ho found it diflienlt to koop them wie) anrate, and has given it up ns unprofitable. A :vear ago he turned over to the Industriul Univesrs ity enmplos of his_ variotion, whicly tho institutlem planted, but with about the eania reeulta, In solecting my seed, of tha sarne quality year ftar yenr, the variety Irecomes some what fixed ; but o Blight chango will nifect theorc ip. I soleot o red cob, with n emooth, oven murface, with deep graing, and of fair size, run ning twelve to sixteen rowa to tho onr, This 12 akon a good averugo corn for the whole season 's planting, and producos a good ¢rop. Mauy farmers go a'long distanco aftor seod- corn, whon they have ({uul 08 good as thev got in thoir own c11bs ; and s groatdeal of time and money {8 wasted in tho ofi'ort at s supposed improvoment, {Thero {4 a pgreat demnnd for lnigro ears, but tho lar go oars are tho rosult of thin planting, and that ls no praof of n laryo viold, as it fu tho closo-pls :nted, modi- nm-sized oara that give the greate st yiold, In ‘Tennenuce, whero 2%hushols fothe a orcis s large crop, the ears aro vary lavge, for the s reason that thera is only ona stiJik parmitted i o & hill, and that ono atalk has but ono enr. ‘I'here is anather airor s the sela sting of the frstrine ears, This'londn to & s wllor grain, and witl m time serioisly nffeotthe yield, \Wha wo want is a gond-sizad oar, that v Ipons at the proper keason for th latitude, If we plant here {he 20th of Mey, wo hava an uvorag :0 of 140 duys for the corn to matury ; -buf our Ia rga dent corn ml( uires only abont 120 dnvs, and - somo of thoso W, plant the st day of May, wo may bogln fo out aud | up and ubook qur cosu Sopd, 1§ wad, by contiuu- | plonty, pay ‘mont (if they can got it), and soveral wotes, rum ng one, two, sud throo years, with 10 per cont intorout for tho balance. “Out ‘of the cath tho .froight and cowmission are retained, an the notes nre turmed over to tho mauu- fuctur,or, unless the agent ia a confidence- man, and solls thom out, aud leaves for parts unkwow ., The expendo,’ doluy, nnd vesation in collea ting this olnss of notes aro only kuown to thoss Who have triod it. One of tho clects of this ms snuer of doiug businoss is to shipwreck all tha s asllor manufucturers, and concontrate tho trado L u tho hunds of thoso who cun raise tho million 4 necessary to enrey it on. Banks witl not furnish maney on this class of paper. If tho farmor h s not tho casly, and Las to borrow, let him born W in bhis own neighborhood, and snvo whatovei * o can by buying for cush, When the notes aro « e, it {8 no cusier to pav, becanse tho party of wk om the money was borrowed isa mnnufacturer, s \nd lives n thousand “miles nwny. ‘Tho majority of mannfacturers of agrienltural implamonty will . bail with_joy the day when the m|51|1e“,,m will bo forced to eithor buy their stock, or quit the teld, D, S e *The Roe'man Carnival. The Carmval st Rome was celebrated this yoar with a splondor that must have gladdoned the hemrts of the Romuns, Agrcenbly to the edict of F'asqumo, King of the Curnival, the oponing ot was a grand mythological spoctaclo —tho recssption by asquino of the visit of is Majeaty tho myporor Saturn and his doaughtor Coros, *I'he daitios merived at midday fv o tri- remo, fol'lowed by a birente supposed to be {illed with troe1 slaves, Tho wonather was splendid, and thourands of Nomans \vere congrogated on the banks of the Tiber to witness tho leuding. T'rom thon ca the processfon mywed in Lriumphal Curnival }1( mip atong the Flamin ian Way, cutor- ing tho oity "t the Porta dol Popolo, D'nequino at tho Plazy i dol Popolo glving hig Welcouo to Baturnus acald tho acclamations of the crowd. Tiocedad by horalds in armor the con'axo slowly travarsed th o Corso to the Piazza Vone tian, gold and silver ca ins bejug seattored among tho poo- ple, Haturm w was mounted on o trinmpi'wl ear, aud unauuHm siod by o Nublun band ; while Cores won peated oz the summit of an LEgyptisn tem- plo, and surra unded by tho prioatessen of i, There wore ali 1o Olymplan templos. Tho froved- men wore ropn osented ns gnavding four coloswal hions. Pasquit 0 himself "bostrode n hugo o) Ehulnt; thoreat of tho show boing mado up o'f nndy and mash ore in all variotien of device aud' begin to ripon at Y00 duys, 11! wo bLegin to | character in ki eping with the Old World iden, and tho raturn ¢/f tho age of gold and timos of for matorinl 3 but, now that n now deal of Tor- up ihe Arkanmas River from Fort Lyon to Puchlo, the oo, until' he of dogorted runchics; and It {8 tho same way up tho Platte. 'Tho oxporkmont was mndo corn at 95 conts o pound, awcd whea nnd from Prinided, and down will find tho lattor notosn into New MNoxi- only o euceesslon It with At &6 o bushel, they could nut mako it pay. If Colo- rado {8 auch a splondid agrioultural conntry & 1¢ tho soll i 5o prolific it tho market, [swo tinex- oeptional,—why oro theso ranches dosorted { and why is it that overy now-comar who has Loon so- daced Iuto tho idon of tilling tho soil throws it up at tho ond of six montls, and angages in mining or stock-raising ? Tho ronson i1 evie dont j aud, with tho practical resultauo piainly writton out bofore us, It is nlmoat criminal for any pupor to contond thnt Colorado posscston nupetfor attractions for tho furmor, Home duy in tho far-distant future, whon tho rich prairics of tho Northwest aro all under cultivation, and whon tho inhabitants begin to crowd ench other for want of room, tho land of Colorado may bo needed, and mny bo mnde available; but it {8 not wauted now. Then, long homilios on irrigation will como pluy; then, perhaps, the President may with proprioty recommend o doop and wido canal from tho base of tho Rocky Mountaina to tho Missourl River; but, with the thousands of aores of virgin sofl Imukonlu‘; to tho faamer from overy Western Stato, it is hardly to bo sup- posed thn ho wilt mako such an asp of himeolf uy to pass all by, and plant his homestend or pro- emptlon flings on o Colorado arnd-bank. During the last week of Fobruary, tho wonther waa QUITE QOLD, and in somo localities etock suffered soveroly. At Denvor_the mercury stood at 16 deg. below zoro ; at Colorndo Springs, 10 deg, ; ou top of old Piko, 32 deg.; nt Puablo, 12dog. ; and ak Canon City, 8 dog. In this locality wo linve no 8now, oxeept what can bo scen on tho mountaing 10 milea nway ; but from tho Middio and South Parks comes the digmal intolligonco that tho 8now i1 8 foot deop on a level. This rather re- jolcos the mincrs, though, ne it insures plonty of wator for operations tho comiug season. NEBRASKA. Stato of the Country=-=Indinan Affalrg ==What a EFrontieraman Thinks of the Qunicer Pollicy. Correapondence of The Chieago Tribune, GENOA, Nob, (1 milo from Pawneo Village), } March 7, 1874, ‘Wo bavo hiad nnico winter. 'The pauic afecte cdugin the foro part of the winter; but wao havo plonty to eat, though monay i¢' kenrce, and in loaned at 2 per cent por month on good sccu- rity. Wo have good loud, fine praiics, nud plenty of water, 'Pimber is scarco, but wo do do not have to do any foncing, Lvory one has to tako caro of his own stock, ‘Thero is not uy much gram destroyed a8 whoro the country ia fonced. Our averago yield of wheat to tho acre this yoar was 20 bushols, oats 40 bushels, corn 80 bushels. Potatoes wero nlmost & failuro. Tho Indians are causing quito an excitemont, The Pawnoes aro peacoubla a8 yet, but they aro vory much dissatisfied ns to tho way they nre doanlt with. Tho Agent received $16,000 for tho Bioux Indian aunuities and is buyiung provisionn for them ; but thoy want tho money divided among them, The Agont will not do this, for this renson : The Indinus would not buy their flour or beef from the Quakers. Fivo hundred of the Pawnces joined the Comanchies last fall, after gotling their annuitics, Tho leading Chiel's namo is Spotted Horse. Thuie were no moans taken to keop them on their roservation. "Thoso Indlans puid thoywould go or fight. It i dispusting to Wostern men to seg how Easstern Quakers msugo tho noble red man. Our presont Agent alivays ran o boarding-schiool be fore ho cumo hiere, e hies been ono year here, aud all Lo knows of the Indiang is his oxparicuco of one yoar. Mr. and Mrs. Platte huve Leen forty years with the Pawnees, and thoy do not understand wll of thoir pecubarities yot; bub these Enstorn mon, that manage the Indians, think they are superior to Westorn mon. Wodo not see it _in that light, howoever, "The Indiany ought to be mnuagod by military mon. We be- lioyo that they cnn and would do justico to tha Iudians in evory respcct. 'Eho provent systom i all schools ; but it ought to be worl, sud _tonching thom law to make n lving. We hnvoe all contidonco in our worthy President, but ho b mado s mistako with tho Indins, 1t ho was compotent to do justice to the Rebels, why then could not those who fight Indiaus da justico lo them ? I have always boon a Ropubs Yican, sud am yot ; but, if it i8 to bo the systom of the Repuolican party to let the minority rule, away with the party, Isny. 1t ig' but right that ritorial ofticials s threatened, ~we are | gvery State shouldmnnage its own affaits. Wa tronted to no moro of this bigh-flown | have an good men au the East can produce, and nonsense. In view of his jmpeuding | mon who kuow as much about Indisns, Yours suporaedure, Elbart s not so anxions about the | {ruly, P. Durris, Stato busmoss ; for how could ho, under the cir- - cumstances, como boforo the peoplo os & candi- date for Souator? This same feeliug troubles all the othier patriots, Thosquirming and twist- ing, the bitting back and forth, the allegations of perjury and the counter-nllegations, only show to the world tho real stuff of which tho averago Cotorndo politician is formod; and Uncle Bam, with his shrewd native seose, will doubtless wait somo time hoforo he commits the deatinics of Statehood to such bands. That sectional expeneive, and we might sny uacloss, {ustitution, kuown oy the TOARD OF IMMIGRATION, hus beon abolished. It hes been found that misropresentation doss not pay ; that tho seduc~ tive-looking pamphlots and circulars, filled wit] oxaggerated reports of Colorado, do not invite pormanont settloment ; and that the only relia- ble method is to adhere to the good old” stylo, and toll the truth., TFalso impressions nover produce confidence ; and, whea the immigrant arrives in Qolorado, and finds that the country is not whatit wnsropresented to boe; when he loarns for the first time that agriculture can only be pursued in a fow favored Jocalitios ; that storms rago and diseases provail hore as well aa in othier rogions ; and that, instoad of » Paradiso dotted bere and there wilh snowy mountaing and green valleys, it is in renlity o’ vast sandy plain, dotted willi bunches of sage-brush and enctus,—he is apt to grow discournged, and turns hia face to tho Enst with an opinion ten- fold worso of the country than it dosorves. At 1ant the more sausible huve made the discovery. that tho plan of fooling our immigrants docs not pay ; and, ‘as tho Board of Immigration wag ouly organized for that purpose, it bhas boen sbolished. Tho class of people most mnoeded hero in producers,—men who_ are not sfraid of a little hard work, and who do not come out expecting to jump iuto fortuncs or easy ponitions at tho start, Denver, and, in fact, overy other town in tha “erritory, s fairlv overrun with morchants, clerks, professional men, and non- producers ; but the'man who brings his famil and is xeady to settlo down and begin work whe ever he can find a favorablo location, s of more sorvice and real bonefit to the Tertitory thau the whole crew of fortuna-seckors and placo-huntors, Torhaps there may bo somotbing in the climate or eurroundings, but about every othor man who comes out to Colorndo seems to be impressad with the idea that ho was not Lo n for vulgar toil ; and, onco st the baso of the Rocky Moun- taing, be looks out for some geutoal occupation, THE GRANGE-MOVEMENT 5 now fairly organized and under full headway, Lost weok a number of farmoers, representing the northern part of the Torritory, met ot the anfet ittlo monntan-town of Boiwder, and ro- solved that they wonld cut loose from tho mo- nopoliats Lo oxtortionists, and in future mako thoir own nouninations, A Btato Granpo was put in operation, 1vodl Dlr, ‘enncy installed ay Mas- tor. The movermont i# sproading rapidly, and nenrly ovory agricuitural district and town in Colorado hiag, or is ~bout to luve, its Grangze, ‘The main griovance {8 transportation. ‘Cho farmors complain that oy aro uot ouly unjustly taxed for all the nocossarie,Yof 1ife shippod from tho East, but also on ngricaltnral implomonts and ather muchinory essontial to U8 devolapmont of this country. Amony othor tings, Mr. fleury Leo, one of tho delogates, called astontion to the 'fact that 3400,000 had been sont oub of Colorado in 1873 for onts, barley, corn, chopped foed, ota,—all of which, he claimed, conld have Toen, and should havo beon, produced iu Colo- rado, The News grapplos this toxt, and rends the farmers of Colorado a long sormon, declur- fng it to bo the ‘helght of absurdity to sond Eaut for food whon the same articlos can just s woll bo rajsod biore,” Tt s woll onougli for o papor to tund up for the country i reprosents ; lmt wo ‘submit thnt the farmers who Liave prac- tienlly tostod the quostion lmow fully us muali about the productiveucss and agrioul- turnl capacitios n} Colorado ns anybedy olso, Taots us they actually oxist to-duy, and the ol{- oryalion and oxperionce of overy old sottler, will hoar mo ont iu tho statement that farniug in Colorado is a VEIY UNOERTAIN TIECE OF DUSINESS, and cannct bo dopended upon ns & meuns of livoliliood, Wheat, onts, or eorn cunnob bo ralued without o vast amotnt of trouble aud ox- pengo; and, by tho thno Lhoe farmor s his irvi- gating-ditohies bulltiand. tho ground roady for A GRANGE BURIAL. Alow the Order Put Away Their Deads From the Leaventworth 1imen, Mareh 8, The first buriul of member of the Patrons of Hunbandry with the lionors of the Order that liag camo to our wotice, took placo dey befora yosterday in Kickapoo, when the remaing of Homy Bolin were consigned to thoir last resting place with all the pomp and funeral pagesnt of the Grangor burisl sorvice, Mr. Bolin was a Frnmnmm momber, and tho attendanco was vory arge, somo 400 persons boing prosont. Whe’ programmno of the butisl wat about s follows : On loaying the rosidence ot the ducensed, tha hoarso which contnined the remning wiw flanked on cither sido by throo pall-boarers, who walked with uncovered heads and roguling draped in monrning, Iollowing tho hearse camo tho relatives of tho decoased, and next marched the sistors of tho Order, elad in fall rogalia, The brothors came noxt, and follow- ing them the vast concourso of people, who had come from far and near to witness the cor- omonios. The remning wore firat taken to the chiurch, whero o priest went through n service poculiar to the Cetholic Church, of which the deconsed was & membor. When the oxercisea hore had been concluded, the ll“m““i“" took up its march for tho cemotory, . where the Granger funeral rites weve porforined, ‘Tho cofiin wag placed on supports directly over tho open grave, and remained thero til the improssive and inter- osting service wus concluded. - G. B, Coflin, Mas~ tor of tho Frankiin Graugo, conducted the core~ monies, ‘When the brothors nnd sisters of the Grango of which tho deconsed was & momber bad ns- sombled abunt the grave, the Master rond a go= lection from tho burigl ritual, followed by a second soloction by the Chaplain, and theo the members ropeatod slowly and solomoly the Lord's prayer, closing witha beautiful and ap- proprinte hymn, Tho brothors of the Order thon stepped to the grave and threw into tho opening several bouquots of flowers and ever- greens. A short but nowerful address was noxt dolivered by tho Chaplain, Whila the coflin wog being lowered & beautiful and soul-inspiring hymn was sung, and during the singing tho sistors showered bonquots of flowera upon the dosconding coftin until it reached tho woodon Lox at tho bottom of the grave, 'he Mastor thon sprinkled a portion of dirt thrown from tha strava ovor the coflin, and tho servieo closed with tho solsmn Lonediotion of the Chaplain. Taken thronghout, the coromonies wero vory beautiful and impressive. This is tho first burial of a Granger in the county, and, if we are corréetly informed, in tho Stato—thiat i, with tho ceremonies of tho Order. —_— SPRING COMETH. Spring ! Spring cometh, my durling 1 Tt thy brown eves, and geeet her with me, Down from tho hill-sittes the brooklets are flowlng ¢ 80 lows my lovo witly freah Impulso to theo, N Spring? Spring cometl, my deareat | o1 (0t woo, whd Arcet har with me, Fust, 'neatls thelr thlck loives, tie May flowers are growiug: Ho grows niy passtonate love, Bweot, for thoo, ur1 Spring comath, beloved | e magnin greot hor with mo irds to thoti mated in the trco-tops aro calling ¢ o calla my longing beart, ever, for thea, Spring ! Bpring cometh, my durling | In &o cool evening greet hor with e, On tho coy violuts dew-drops ave falling ‘Ho 1oy God' biensings full swootly on thee, —Margaret famford i the Gatwzy, Chesta S L A Louisiana Plo: tors Lrom the St, Louis Demacrat, A youug man living on Chontean avenue, known in fashionable circlos oa the * Henutify! Blonde,” went to Now Orlonus to participuto in tho carnival, While thoro he visitod tho Lo lative Assombly to soo tho colorod lnw-makern, 1Mo saw a stalwart negro ride to make o spoech, Tolding o Inrgo pieco of pio in hia loft hand, Aw the nvutor proceeded, ho wonld tuko au oceasion- al Dbito from tho pie, and thon continuo his ro- warks. ‘Tho spectacle of the logielative pio- bitor ko amusiod tho Beartiful Blondo that ho Iaughed loud and finmodorately, so g to attrack the nttontlon of the Assombly, 'Tha pla-entinge soed, ho will find thiat itk js fat ohenper for him %o ship his broudstuffy from the States, evon nt tho presont oxorbitank Ireight-chiarges, then to attempt to_reolnim vhe ikalt-suils and desert- pauds of Colorado, Whe kravoler sy jourusy statesann was highly offeuded, and domnnded that tho Blondo should bo ejectod, ‘I'ha roquont was about to bo complied with, whon a Mr, Thompson, an _acquaintance of tho Blondo, ine torfored aud eaved him from being tusued out.