Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 4, 1874, Page 2

“A DANGEROUS GAME.”.. Edinund Yates' New ¢ Amer- ican” Novel. What Mrs: Louise Ci\andler‘Moul- ton Says of It Chienna Tridune, Dostox, Juna 27, 1814, To prafso 18 so much plonsantor than to blame that [ would rathor not sponlk of-Edmund Yatos' now novel, “A Dangorous Game," or, as it was “callod in its sorinl fssuo, *Tho Imponditg Bword," which Willlam T, Gill & Co. hnve jll?t But it is anothor Englishman's Awmorican story, and thera will, thoroforo, bo a: good doal of ourlosity to know about it. More- ovor, Yatos ia always suro of his audienco, be- cauo ho tolla'an oxciting talo. This one, though not oqual to “Dinck: Bhoop" .or ¢ Drokon to Harnosa " in litorary morit, will ylold to nond of- his former books in tho ecxolting nature of,its plot. A New York morchnnt, Alston Griswold, who Is aboilt oqually devotod to his household gods, bis businass, and tho Amorlean stago, is o lovos his wifo with all tho Liehrt ho has for any woman; and & good, strong, tender But ho lenves hor, in spite of hor pusslonnte entroatios, and goos over to England to attend to some mystorious businoss, by which ho hopen to mako his everlaating fortune, Ho tnkod a falso namo. 1 order to. the liottor ac- complishment of thin * ha doos nat conflde to Corresponience of The Oue night the hoaltl to tho river and thrown in. Thoy lookod tompt- ing, but woro slals, nnd dooth” Lad a place in onch one. Novorilicless, whtle on tho™ way, to That thoy do nol "scoounted for. ‘Lhen somo disoroot wiilte man waa interosted to tho -extont of some §500 to 81,500 1 tho preservation of tho.lifo of each. I'hoy wero looked after, watohod over, and oared for, just an the wiso_farmer looke aftor and cargs for hia stock. It was a mattor of dollura and'centa rathor than humnonity with tho moa- ter, but tho roault was the snme—tho negro had a protty fair Jonso of life, It is differont now. The negro, llko everybody else, must look out tor himsolf, and & rathor ‘dubious job be makes of i, It hoiaslck, the dootorsdo not intorest thomselyos toa great oxtont in hia caso, for negro patients aro_notoriously poor pay - If he This falac namo is wifo, but, instend, ho confides hor to tho caro of Ius intimato friond, Tronton _Warren, all hor_ lettors cover to whom to her husband are to in Boston, & place of unsullicd and unapproachable morality, as all tho world knows, do not go over to England undor falso names, oonflding protty wives to the tender care of fotimate friends; but Mr, Yates professod to tavo studled Now York, and from his point of vlow thero may have bosn nothing improbablo fn this porformance, which strikes tho average Poston mind ne 80’ oxtraordinary, Holan, gives' her husbaud » parting prosont n watoh,—a gold watch, na Mr. Yates takos care to 1nform us, in a hunting-caso. A soorotspring in it reveals Haln{\t‘sdmlnlnlluo. and of cowrso QGriswold is delighted, h;mn, tho next dn(’ ; but ho parts with Tronton ™ Warreu on tho stoamer, aud gives him o lotter whicl Lio I8 to convey to Helen. + ronton Warron, you will iava guosso itlain of tho piocg,—tho t-r-a-i-t-0-r! Noxt day. bio carrios hor limsband's lottor to Mrs. Griswold, ‘whom he himself has long lova hor, with a mad, unholy passion, opportunity Lo declara his parsion, which Lio calls lovo, to tho wifo, full of grief at parting with hor husband, find full of angor thal sho must communicato with him f““{fi 'i‘?f“f"' l!x;:lt;n'g . Hoscoms to think ‘he hna e and Helon's contomptu- 58 surprise to bi Boston: merchants Ho parts with hor st #poak in order to v:in ‘Ous scorn appears to :l‘x‘:lsmomox&?wuon he finda that sho is not ready ho matares o plan of von- ded as the storygocs on,' ‘Ho tells all the pooplo at his offic ¢l golng to Chicago; and ho sonda thore, to ropra- prosont _and porsonato him, a poor, wrotohad hnlt-brothor of bis, who, W ‘Brossed, looks marvelously liko him, and hns o uack for imitating his {0 drop Into his arm geanoo which {s un andwriting porfaotly, n turn,, goofi ovtor 0, land undor a false namo,—undor two or “Hhago folso matpos, ndood, for hoTs mM Calngs. b As Mr, Dolby, ho forms * rolations," whatovor that mey monn, with an English potress, Miss Clara Montrocsol e hiros haudsomo lodgin, 0 travols n tho train with Griswold (who is then oalling bimsolf ‘‘Fostor”), and, on protonso of showing him some of the suffering among tho poor in the lower parta of Liverpaol, deooys im into an empty warchougo and mur- You searcely s¢o any' objoct for tho sinco Lo knows wall that b 1t sooms to be committod from * pure cussedness,” and a hatred of Griswold, ‘as moro fortunate than himself. 80 ingoniously dono that you think ho must be 88 seouro a8 the Nathan murdorer from dotec- tion ; and the slowly-uncoiling chain of ovents whioh the crime is finall; 1y very ingonious. Indeod, at this Btago, ates hag offonde outraged your notions of probabilil Baro to read on until you know how With the unfolding of thia plot, Miss' Clara Mantrassor (whoso acquaintanco Griewold, pass- ing sa Foster, had mado) has n groat dend to do; a8 has also tho ‘‘mctor-autlior,” Mr. Byran Duval, Byran Duval is thought to mean Dion . BDW‘ :].hiah ln&,(nr( liko the portrait at the hands of Ipmll not venturo to prodict, Yatos makos him out vain, ghrowd, kind-hearted, and with a truly wondorfal power of tarning every- thing to Lis own advant ‘Boscont, and complaing, reooivod at tho tables of men no botter thanhime g0)f * pg a Buporior Jack Pudding, o broaker of that doad, out me, or 50Mo 0NO 6« roizn unrelioved throughout the w! banquet.” Lt wae hinrd work for got storted for his Amorican huntin, 80 many visitors beset him : 4 Ar. Moss Marke, fhe manager of the Gravi ticrg, nervously anxiousabout the forthcoming riclés Progrens,” and constantly en itemna of furnituro and naisted upon bolng provi Xiuson, 100, catac to impreea upon } ““Takoment " likoly to willing o lenve it to arbitration, and’ the decision arrived at by the arbitrators. Thi Mr, Bweot refusod, and eaid thut the Company ultimatum was tho 25 conts off the prica former-, traot-diatributor, Tho murdor is Lrought home to your tasto an Now, why 18 it (slong_with the otlior indiroct reductions) ia ot sufflcient toenable the Company to compotein the market with othor Companios, this Cowpany entleman will | rofngas to arbitrate the question, that could capital to either party? = W your reportor on tho pushing srrangements, 1 o boasts of Lia Baid it.was work for mules, aud not for men. tly booanse 1o 18 | worg o arranging it as to - tal ® tuble buffoon, aull silohce whicly, withe for? Isaid wo would dig and load it ton, provided the Company would do the push- ing and the brushing of the roads. DBut Mr, Buwoot very inganfously trice to make it RPpear that L told a lie, s0 au to have more blamo nte tachod to the Company than what they wero do- sorviug of, Thig is not o, as I hava no wish to would bo” alj Micly to muke a'sensation,~agy hitup tho British public,—ho should wire him’ at onco, ad sond it over by the next boat, wan tlhie great_{mproasatlo, Wadr, thnt canitio and corypliees Apelt Shakapeare, aud ho was enger {0 beg fow last worda of udvice from tho omuiscient Byran Duval bofore ho Who_began to fing nkruptcy s well as With what glory, moraover, did the great Duvpl sot forth ow s travols | You must read on acoouut of that, and see Low it is possible to improve oven ko commanplace au ocession 88 setting off on a burinecss-journay : Deopls travel in rough clothes snd drive to the statlon in a cab, Not 80 3fr, Bryan Duval, His Deliof in tho nocessity of advertlsing Limsclf rematnod with him to tho Lst, anil tho hoof cheatnuis, o8 thoir'mastor tool srchway, roused iho echoes of the No slgn of valgar lugeage appens ho only hint that ho en found in the nat or's pouch, slung over Lis s] wrino ho might havo Liron gobn Albszs, for Lo was drosacd f1 woro a crimson tie, surly-brimmed hut, Tho little crowd gathered rous fo tho sintion, but ho pretende thom, and to e alisorhed in When theao were con ly abant moviug ofr, and rald, with somof] *Take tho liberty of go, niud aufo Teturn,” Whenoyer any “plan shall contraction of 4 {4 of tho spanking ed them under the Eustaco court-yard, was about to travel might ty moracco-losthor courls oulder by o strap ; ofbor. 1 o anit of groy dittos, shiny tip Jean Loots, and i e nd him 08 ho draw fup d to take 1o notica, of glving diroctions to Lis ncluded, hio was apparent- whon the groon tonched his lat ling liko o quiver in ing you good-by, sir; Lappy ry much,"maid Arr, ko curo df o noru vy uro nlway roper x mo very kindiy Lo’ oms o in his clearcst tonce, thut Biack Iess snd Tanti ercled, und remembo And MF, Duval moved off amidst o pathiotic sdmiration from the crowd, “8harp follow, thut James [ selt, aa bio entorod tho clot-on taught bim douced well, I aiall prob maky somothing of bim on' tho stago I, wUrILr of syne ho ‘muttered to hime tho ruin of our Governinont. T must not for, Bauk notes there are doposited tho bonds of tho et to toll you that My, Yates, ratitude for ate | to matirizo the in our Engligh to the stenmor FIth tho charactoristio Dritish tentions received, does not f: American eagerness to entertal rolations. Crowds of peoploe go to meet Bryan Duval and his com dined and suppored 8¢ Dolmoni piivato houses ; and thoy aro constant. Jy cougratulaling thomselves on their luck in Linying fallon among theso good- Amorican geoto, lovo Klr. Yutoy, actrossch must b dialoot by itaclf, npany ; they aro ca'n,” and ontor. natured, lavish Ly tho way, if wo wore to bo- what n queer rot actora nud Thoy talk a sleug which ia a and swhich rominds you of thioves' lingo, a8 you havo lenrnad that oharm- ing vocabulary froin tho ‘Lhe intorost on these bon puged of other nglish **fust " book,~a play b our idonl ladies and duction of real peopla in which the actors aro no gontlomen ; lut its introc nnder thin disguises will atiract the attontion of the curions. Not only Bouoicauit 18 said to figure horo, but - Wallack wmuuy anothor roal man an goouiu to think that constant dining at Delmouigo’s is the one bliss of Amorican; and tho business-oducation of g Now York morchunt makes Lim so olover at tricks aud disguieos that it wants nothing but a mative to turn him out a8 & professor of murder a8 Van Buren), and ——— Excesvive Mortnilty Among theSouthe ern Negrooes, Chattanooaa Carrespondence Cincinnat Commerefal, I'rom whint I obsorve of the daily life of tho pogroes, nnd from caroful study of the mortali- ly reports of tho Bouthorn oitios, 1 am lod o tho veliof that the consusof 1880 will show a de- s10n80 of tho nogro population of tho Bouthorn Btates at onco wigniflcant and startling, In thig olty, fox the month of Alsy, thero wose tonty:thred: deaths, sixtoon of Whom wato - robn,; Ad thoy composo not above one-third of |, 1o population, (¢ followa 'that tho daesth rate among thom'was six {imes greator than among. the whites, Thato fa not a Inw of hoalth that tho negroos 0 not violnto, nud tho consaquance is thoy hinvo not the enduvanco agalnet disonso possossed by . {lio whites. “Tho bulk of tho victims of cholora aud soall-pox in the Bouth are nouroes, Of the deaths from oholura hiove st summor tywo-thirds we1o nogroos.--"Tho medieal men conld not pro- vent them from uating - walormolous, greon peachios, and all sorts of “vegotabio trash, They would oat and thon lis dowa and dio with choor- ful rosignation—ont polkon in the very faco of donth aud in splto of every protost, 'The madi- ealmon havo known this 1o be ‘truo, and It s from thom I gathor tho inforination,” An inai- dont llluatrates the oado protly woll. A donter in frults hore last summor had o lot of lnrgo watarmolond from the Bouth, which ho was not allowad to soll during tho provalonoe of cholora. E officora had thom earted tho river o nogro atolo ono of the largost and spud nrnung inton bock alley to eatit. 1le a nico timo all to himsolf “over it, and dia ten houra, . £ ; If tha donth ratq continues to * disoriminate Ao lorgoly agafnst tho nogroos in tha . future ag it hasin'tho pust threo yoars, tho gravoyard olauo of the Civil-Rights” bill' a tho only ono sbout which thoy noed givo thomsolves gonoern. {iuommo 88 in slavery s easily dies, tho dootora almost lnvxulngly ot nothing, and if ho lives, the prospeot of pay is soma bot~ tor, but not altogether froo from doubt, , ——— . THE BRAIDWOOD STRIKE, Lotter from Dnniol McLnughiin. Draibwoop, Ill, July 3, 1874, To the Editor of The Chicago Tyibune; Bin : My attontion was callod to a tetter which sppeared in your issuo of Tosday last, June 80, signod A. L. Bwoot, Buperintondent of the Oni- cogo, Wilmington & YVermillion conl-mines of this place, in which he (Mr. Bweot) libora hard to throw all the blamo of tho strike now oxisting ot thomines of this place ‘on the miners, snd theraby holds the Companios up aa the innocont viotima of uheorupulous workmon'; and, in doing 80, hio takes hold of & mistaka which appeared in tho notes takon by your roportor whilo at the mines, and published in' Twe TRIBUNE of Juno 22, whorein Iam mnde to eay that the, mincrs would dig the conl for $1 per ton, and the push- iug to stand on tho old. terms. Now, this was = mistako; and no man knows botter ihan Mr, Sweot' that 1t wns g0, rs he bnd informed a doputation of hig own workmou, on Juno 4, that tha Company would allow the pushing to stand on its old basia {f tho miners would allow 28 conts por ton off the digging prico, Thia thoy (the mon) re- fusod to accept, but intimated their willingnoss 1o go to work ot 16 conts por ton oft the digging price, and tho pushing to stand a8 it was for- merly ; and furthor, that, if the Company did not considor tho 15 conts .off tho ton suflicient to onablo thom to go into markot undor the pros- ont depression in trade, thoy (the mhmru? wera ablde ly paid for mining, -+ | yfio (M, Ewnug puts great stresa upon ‘the fact that tho miners of this place have suffored 1o reduction in tho past six yoars. ‘L'his is true s far as tho bosis of prices is concernod ; but, Mr, Bwaut knows that wo hava suffered & arge roduotion indirectly, in the shape of doflcient placea that wore paidas high s 10 or 16 cents per ton oxtra, wheroas now, and for the past your, nothing has beon paid' for those placea; and many othor thiugs that we wore formorly id for, the minors have now to do for nothiug. uring the prab-six years, wo know that wo have suffered no reduction on_tho actual ‘basis. - We' know also that we have had no raise in prices, eithor directly. or [ndirectly, whilo almost al] places over the douiitry have had advances and. reductions, fnllluf snd risiog with the markot, bt if tho 16 conts reduction havo been sotited without nn‘yhlnu‘o{hlnborio‘: on toiking wit Ho (the roporter) asked me, if tho Company ke tho pushing in their own hands, what could wo l‘gtho conl or €1 por mako tho Company or thelr Suporintendent ap- | bear any worse than what thoy really aro. Nor is.thera aman in thoso dlggiogs that bas dono mofe in !rylnvhto pring sbout a sottlement that ike liouorablo and _satisfactory to both parties than Daxier, MoLAvanLIy, —— T THE SPECIE HOBGOBLIN. . T the Edilor of The Chicago Tribuns ¢ Bmm: In an articlo on finnnces, in your fssue of tho 27th ult., spenking of National DBanking, you eay: But, whotlier it bo & profitable lusiness or nof Tl f6n in suy offord o uproot the whols i o devised for vestoring specio-payments, and providing for the oxpanston wo fio curroncy according o e matiead buslness wants of Lho country, No plan hus ovor yob boeu found for puttiug out nioro curroncy whon wante ed, or taking i surplus when Rot wautod, exaopt by discounting commorcial pper, This 18 the natural function of & bunk, aud in our opinfon it cannot o yorformed by a Goverument, sinc il diacounting of commercial papor {0 puraly busiucss transaction, do- peuding upon tho solvency o inoans of tho lendor, wiioreas the fuuctions of tho Governmont aro wholly political, tho borzower aud the I rofor to this for the purposo of asking some qudstions, to' obtain your viows, or those of others, upon the financial subjects now go im- rortaut to tlie country, Oan we have any hopo of maintaining spocio- payments pormanontly whon onco bogun? Hay not the specie-basis always failed when tosted Ly a pauio? 5 It this has always boon the onse, Is it not un- wisa to attempt to rostors such Lasig, and to conform the businoss of tho country to such a systom ? We all bolfove that tho {asus of papor-monsy, whether by banks or by tho Govornment, with- out & sufiiciont guaranteo that 1t iv, nud sl ba, oqual to coiu-monoy,. would bo ruinous to the business of the country, and Yorhnpu rosult In For thio Nationnle Qovernmont for thelr ultimato payment. I'or the United Statos notes thore is the gonoral con- fidenco that the Government is kble ana houost, and that tho country i rioh, How would it doto orystalizo this confidenco by the lusno of gold bouds, ot a tow ruto of In- terost, to tho full amount of tha Unlted Statos notes, and thesa to bo hetd in the Tronsury asn coustant pledgoe for the p;:lyment of tho notes ? s phould bo a sinking fund, to bo hold in gold coin, or in gold bouds drusing tho highout curront rato of intorost. To thin fuud showld bo udded any surpius. gold aris- iuy from revenue not roquired to pay iuterost on bouds isaued for lonny. “Lhieso gold honds, hold for the paymont of the notes, would pravide a permanent. seourity ; and, it mndo interohangeuble with thiom, tlio noter would always bo of oqual value with the bouds, Would not the intorost of tho siukiug fund, strengthoned by nurplus coin from tho ravonuo, 0 tho valug of the notow, nnd make thom oqual to spocic In » roasonable and not very distaut timo ? In this way tho bosls of the Umtod States noteg would L coin and gold Louds; ucither n apocio-basiy, nor a simple. CGovernment-confl- donco busls, but & mixed Lasls ; ono uuited to the oularged, consorvativa businoss of the age, Would not such a bosis ay this be a good foundntion in the time of & paniv? Might it not to somo extent prevent a punmio? H, Active Life, Fyom the Omaha Herald, The clerks at tho Union Daciflc headqunrtors .In this oity load sedontary lives thomselvos, but gazing through tholr windowa that ovorlook 0 paroli " they aro froquontly witnosses of nof ‘have ft, and mudo somo taint- out hor pride fn . kdeping nover anawors him baok, sho knows Low aross aud rough ho la. niteh hiore to tantalize and mako hor ro and thon his anger got the 1o lift mother in tho faco with his fiat, darad’to do it In my nod {t should bo tho Alckly woman wny and suggostod that be protect oing to glvo him s right good try to ‘protaos Limuolf, but 1 havo broken the law'I do punished, provided thatman lo to whip my 0 cnre of hor.” 8ald, ¢ Young man, T amproud love your motlier and arn anxionn ut your violonoo towards your boon of a_vory vigorous charnotor, your fathor; but, ’!, protect your mother from injury, adtlve life that is jknown aterday thoy raw ' wifo drl oor in tho moat uucoromonious , 8ton him as far aa who eould follow, Roing back, gathor rooks o tho Al might bo propared for his r him it the lano, lovo, loug ago, thioy saw this man and- 8 gun untll it wout off In thoir hands, . Tho nnd thoy gathored tho wifo dowwn with tho m thinking it timo to | M e to ' donmolousndsa and ndlnd namo, ¢ | 1y Jod ot i A ourious cironmatancohapponed: In -th Aftor tho. cofn had beon lowerod d, on attondanb callod dings, as tho lot was Klllmnrlhs should bo -he unoqual content, and tho gravo noarly flillo out to stop furthor procoud his, and hio was unwlilling & tio_slh buriod by tho'slds of hls wife, ~ After miuol tho corpss waa uncovorod; and liftod up, and a now plotaolactad, whoro the deceasod now (s in poace, Misanthropio. peoplo-ato ofton heard to grumblo at their hard lo could bo tound for ouring thoir misautiropy., thau to viait auch » porson. In justios to his friouds it shiould bo #aid that Ofiarlos Crowoll haa alwayd had tho best of oavo. now adopted for troal in vogue in those dayas,” —_——— THE GRASSHOPPERS. ‘Thelr Movomontd in Minnosots nnd sho would not, One day, not - woman sounflle 0 firat timo Lo ovor +prosonce, and I was detormi aut, - 1 told hin a poor, woak, pieces and knocked 110 mateh for lilm, nzzlo, The clerks, htorfare, wout ovor to stop "Fhoy found the woman bruiged sud wadon hor foot and wiping Blio gavo ‘hor protactors ted to know what business but no suror romedy thrashing, e diy without success, I| not object to bofny i8 put whoro ho wilt mothor until T come back to tak Judge Wandoll to soo thas you to protect hior, bloeding, but sha blood from lior face.: n doflant look and wanl thoy hiad nround thora, EDUCATIONAT, Onrloton Oolloge, Minn, To the Editor af Ths Chicago Tribunes Bin: This institution 18- located ot Northe flold. It was namod for friond in.Charleatown, -Mass,, who gavo 960,000 toward ita ondowmont fund, Its frst commencomont occitrrad ou tho 80th ut., whon ita first olass was graduated. Tlio Collego, in ite preparatory dopartment, has boon running sovoral yoars ; aud fts ontiro numver of scholars enrolled for tho "Thero woro two to graduato, and-those ropre- sonted tho principlo of co-oducation of tlis sslonary aplirit, as it is un- 0 booked for the foreign outlemnn, i & son of a who had labored in India. Tho Attainment ‘of a” Truo rown's ossay upon the of Woman," revooled n broadth of moutal oultivation very creditablo to tho training thoy had recoived in Carleton, thor classon partlcipated with Tho anuual ad- v. J.E, Roy, of Misslonnary Geog- 8 an objoct-losson This” Collogo fa. ¢ -"Annm? the abo ting tho insano wore not your hands off From the St, Paul Press, July 2, new or lutorosting wns re- 0 soctions now baln% dovaalatod by grasshoppors boyond tho fact thal tho groat majority of tliom aro enatorly divection. the blades of tho w] of doatruction by thraugh to the 8 Nothing spoclall HYDROPIIOBIA, colvoil yog{orday A Diugnosis of the Dinonse~Flow Xt s Duvotoped, and Iis Existence Muy Xio Divcovereds From the New York Herald, July 1, moaling of tho Board of Hanlth, aftoruoon, tho followin was roooived and ndoptod : OENEIAT 8YMPTOMS OF OANINE NYDNOPHODNIA IN T8 DIFFERENT PERIODS, AND THUE MEANS OF PREVENTING IT8 BPREADING, 8 {8 not always cheractorized by tho firat days of the attack; on It is u-disonss at first of mild char- the start the saliva is virulent; nooulablo gorm, hon more dangorous by his conx- ites, for thou Lo Lias not yot tha ydrophobia the dog's dispo- bocomes ead, d d_koeps himsolf not remaln long 8, ngitated, goos flylug in o north- Thoy do not appear to rolish hoat, but nccomplish tho work tho stem and eating loon which nourish the atalk, whilo tho loaves or blades are loft un- Many of them aro quitn largy appearanco from the g of tho Eastern pnat year haa hoon 171, on hydrophabin, #ioxo#, and nlso the mi doratood that both are work, Mr. Dow, tho roturned misslonar H1s address upon * Manhood," avd Miss B * Intellectnal Oulturo Btatow,—holng evident] lied to tho .locust tribe, Liay has not boen attaoked or injuroed Iu the ma- Evorything found growing with tho oxcoption of for thase tho grasshopper Bouator Rico mado an oxpori- nont somo timo ago to teat the ondurance of these peats, by “catohing ono tolerably woll tylng' o siring around his neck, and thon leaving hilm Auspendod in the opon awr, Senator for ono weok,—then 0 grosshoppor ority of lacalitios, n gardons fs doatroye the pumpkin viuos—nng haa no stomach. actor, but from that is, that it and the dog la t| ing than by hia dosiro of biting. At tho outset of I sitfon chiangos; ho likes to b nlone, an cornor of: tha room, a4 the samo placo, Hao 18 anxlou: and comes, lloa” down, gols u oround, geratchos with powe, His movomenta scom to indioato that at ghostly appearances, for he bites It rushos forward, and howls as if Hin looks are chiangod; ross & dull but foroolous snducss, Bat in % i8 not yet nggressive to the man; what ‘it'was beforo; ho romnius nt Lo tho voloo of his master. ' Inatcad of bt it is ofton tho contrary in the 0. Tho friondly and affootionate Llils mastor and tho friends of tho sed {n the mad dog, and ho shows the repeated motions of uxious to lick the hands and faco of This fooling, much de- 0 dog, causes him in nu- contains -the {n; Btudonts of tiio o orodit in the publs dreas.was dellvered by this oity, upon the subjoct of raphy, which was prosonted ai from a large map on oanvas. atudouts ' from all although it is under Qongregational suporvision. ly number of tho Congrogational clorgy wore present to take tho flrat matured aud thoy soemod . loft Lia viclim han, united tho atring, an: off in the bost of henlth and the most o -of apirits, Bonntor Rico is now convinoed that grow fat on torturo, and: that ohoking drying fall tojklll the grosshoppors of this writing from Oharlestown, Red- wood county, undor date of Juno 23, mays: “ Tho grasshioppors aro eating up everytl along tho Cottouwood Rivor, andjf foar that will havo hard times hero noxt winter. All my own orops aro doatroyed except corn, all those living on thebanks of tho Cottonwood will bave tholr cropa dostroyed." Tho Jaclaon Republio of Juno 27 contaio the following in rogard to thelr movoments: * Tho winga of the -grassh thoir own rasing eatisflod aud gratified, Brrong is the young and enthusinstio Prosident, For foursummor vacations ho has boon ocalled uipits {n this oity, which 8 standing as a preacher, ntendout of tho Chicago, Railroad- is & brotlior » motter of justifiable 0 thnt sho bas furnishod usband two Wostorn Alma —tho other being the Rav. Petor Mo~ Prosidont of Washburn + Carleton Colloge has a fine stoue struoture for ita first permanent buildin, yoar. A subsoriber, fighting roal enemion. to supply prominont s un lur.lls:llou of bi Asalataut Buper Burliogton & Quinc of the Presidout, prido in Boloit Collg two such Patora to to not leave soon, e neras whioh wora firat on Friday of laat waeelr, tho poata to take them out Evory day sindo, g to 8 in-tho aftor- Vickar, D. D., who Ia those Lo may ‘rench. volopod and strong i th meroun easos £ ‘respoot bis master ovon in the paroxysms of the discase, is not afraid of wator ; on tho § anxious for it, can drini he natisfios his thirst, #paems of his throat provent him from swallow- 1ng, ho dips his noso entiroly In the vase which ontaina the liquid, and, so o sponk, bites on It, Lhie mad dog rofuses no food in tho inonbative ho ents with more appotite the deairo of biting—which al characteristics of hydro- rlod of its manipulations— tho dog satiaflos 1t on fnort the wood of doors, of furni- ains ; chiows siraw, hay, manuro of animals, his The abundanco of the anliva is not a of rabies in the the mouth I8 moist ; somotimos fore the poriod. of ‘mcocsa tho secr 5 it Incroases somo durlng that nishen towards tho end of tho dis-, of the country on from 10 o'olock in tho .morais, noon the air bas been full of the winged omi- all travoling’ in & northeant .conrso. ‘Leir miado of navigating tho air is a little poou- round thoy turn their aro borna’ by it back. ‘Whoro thoy are going ] bosides & ladies' 0008 used a8 & hotel. Tho nsti- Rrowing, with its magnificont o ‘midst of the Lalf-million opportunity iu t! E«lmglo who already ocoupy this ‘Stato, . Buarting from tho hends toward tho wind an: wards like o crawfish, and how far they will fly bofore thoy ngain visit the earth is a-quostion of Hitlo imporianoe to our poopla 88 long aa the; wo can but hoave a gigl whoro they do cast anchor. but the miliions that loava d - THE ACHEEN. SE 'WAR, Probable Falsity of the Report of the Annihilation of the Dittch Army, DrrRorr, Mich,, July 3, 1674, To the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Bm: Under tho hoading, “ A Sovere Blow to tho Dutch Iavadors—Disastrous End of tho Bocond Duteh Expedition,” and' so forth, a dis- patch (from London ?) makes the round of al tho Amorioan papors; telling of tha defeat of the Dutoh army in Achoen—even of its ontiro anni: hilation—on Maroh 10, 1874, communionted by lottor of April 10 from off tho coast o and from Bingapors sourcos, I havo botoremo ofilcial copios of _the Dutch Congressfonal Glabe up to the th of June, 1874; &nd from it I know that tho Commander-in-Chiof of the Dutoh army In Achoon, thinking the war at an ond, thought proper to withdraw the largor art of the army, and hand over the command to y troublo whioh the Com- bimselt rondy to wad 80 complotoly thera was no hoad to conclude aro leaving hore, bub for the community MMany are atill horo, nily aro gladly parted their follows will follow ss soon na Tho damsge dopo Btago ; often even 18 one of the essonti “on'the Moquis, Al bobin at a certain 18t show Baolf thoy got thoir sails trimmod. during the woek hus boon Immenss, andin s Iarge moction little is loft prairie grass,” ture, toars carpots, bhair';-oats onrth, dirt, growing but the wild M. G. 1. Horrick, of 8t. James, hes forwardod to this ofiice a numbuor of stalks of whoat, Which afford corroboralive. ovidenco to the statomeut that the attention of tho grusshoppors is mainly confinod to the atalt and its juicos. I'ho sampla recoived is from the farmof J. G. Buttorfold, and {4’ the bost that could be found in his tract and this ia certainly n Horrick adds that, In of Watonwan County, and graiu and voge- sallva is normal period and dimi g often expresses the prinful son~ 5puam in his throat with hia fore pasws as if Lo had » bous i a variety of oanino rabies, Iyzed {utorior jaws roma ‘ono, and_the mouth is brownish red ‘appenranc mucous membrane, of 800 acres of iwhoat, discournging specimon. Dby far the largest portion not evon tho straw romains, tables have boen dovourcd. Some familics will require ald within sixty dnys, nud peoplo are - beginning to dldouss tho ropriety of calling an oxira sosaion of tho Logis- tira to ennble tho devastated countios to issue bonds to provide for thoso who must bo ho to avold sufforiag, aud porhaps, starvation. prefor this course to making nppoals for charity, or voluutary contributions from their more fortunato noighbors. The following letior w. called dumb, tho para- in apart from the upper then kopt' dry, with e of the lining of tho Iu mome’ cnscs the mad dog vomits blood, Thich most probably comes from tha wounds of produced by the sharp bodies ho Tho voico of the is differont from clouded, aud becomos jerked un dumb rabios this important sym; ‘Tho soneibility is much diminishod iu the mnad og. Whien 6wo- whipa -him, burns-or wodnds grumblo—no complaints, no are casos whera the mad dog solf deop wounds with his ge upon himeolt, 080 Wwith whom he is sacond. The onl, mander found, whon lenve tho country, was, that demoralized thal . mad dog changes. g from this synopsls of official commu- bis nllu%nl o o of tho Bocrotary of State for the' uso in tho Haguo, on June 9, ‘ay that thora has been no such disasters to tho Dutch army a8 rolated in the. sbove-montioned dispatols, have. alroady snid would mnot ‘bo QGoyernment . v little Bultan of Acheen to wronga he bas committed or been induced to commit. Thorefors X will not dwell now on the eauses of this war, or on its probable ond." Newspapors which havo pu! ara roquosted to 0; it 8 hoarso, Colomes to the Hos 1 think it Bafo to & a8 received last avoning from Tlou. tbe Down Yatos, of Aladolin. It was. written yestorday morning, and contaius the lat- ost partioulars from the rogion infostod : * Editor St, Paul Press: iptom is missing, bim, ho does_not ronnings. Thero flicts upon Lim thus satisfies his ra; & trying to injure thy ith Achoon, I ropent., what I' ona former occasion: It atriotio fnme. to oriticlse my or gouorous to the sum up now all the “Mavsru, July 1, 1672 ““'Tho ncconnts published in yesterday's Press of the ravages of grasshoppers, or locusts;in thin county are not overdrawn, and of tha reality, This ontiro county 18 cleaned out, ! Now and then & man can bo for aro not entiroly dostroyed up thoy are the excoption, deod come short The mad dog ia nlways much improssed nod Irritated by the sighit of an animalof hLis own Bpocios. . As goon as 1n the prosonce of one, and Lo Lioars Lis barklng, hia rago is uwakoned, If it wae latont it dovelops itself, andif it was present already Lo runs to him with his testh, ‘Fho prosouco of the dog animals of other spocics a i that o can eny that the und twhoss orops to this dato, but and uot tho rule, havo boon passing ovor, going north, 83 £ho alr is as thiok with n & wintor's storm. uding thelr. ravages enat' . aud no one knows whara Where thoy remain thoy are , peas, and everything, The their all upon this orop, and lished the dispatch ingort the foregoiug. Vax WoNpnicuexs Van Verer, the past fouar or five days them as flakos of suow i *Phoy aro now oxto and norih of this placo, this thing will oud. taking corn, potatoe: people hava staker produces upon wmad miler impression, Ao 8 dog i8 o kiud of roactive always, with o grent Borax s a substance largely used in manufac- obin which may romain tares, Alarge doposit of it hns. rocoutly boon discovered In Oalifornts,—thus adding another important element of prosperity to the Golden A boautiful speeimen of it lics upon our table, for which we are indobted to Mr, Arthur Robottom, the discoverer, l‘?_g mi Tegard to tho discove curiaihly; dotack hydrop 2 Tuns away from home, tho progress of tho discase, atincts aro develoy after on, two, ** Partles who weroe tho southarn part of por ted tho hoppers leaving them. aud buckwhont if it conld “* I hava no doubt but o car-load or more conld bo planted hera if tho farmora conld cnn bo own as Into as tho 10th or 13th of this and would farnisl food for mauy who orwise bo ontiroly destituto_next wintor, fa town from Antrim, in bia Juoolous this county, yoatorday, rc- ped and overcome him; and, or throo days of wanderings, dur- ing which ho s triod to satisfy his ra all thosa ho has mot, ho otten returns dio near his master. ‘When at its furions characterizod by tho ox| tha looka of the animal siro to bite, which he Baf uiring for and woul ‘We quote the follow- rery from the Ala Cal- period hydrophabia {s Pression of ferocity of affocted and by tho de- tisties whouaver he can, g8 soom to have the privilege of racoguiziug tho rabid stato of su animal of their 8peoios, and, inatoad of fighting him, tho Tun away and cscape from him. Tho m: attacks firat with vory groat beiugs ho nieota, g0 wo mentionod tho departuro of n & search for borax, in the “He has now roturned, and | g wid valuablo disootery, | Sovoral weeks o Mr. Arthur Tiobot soulliern part of the Kia brings uuws of an fntercstt Boyoud the Blerrs Novads, North Amorica, about 140 Tilles in & northwastward treotion from Bakersflold, lako flled over sn_area wido with ssline erystals feet, Tho sppoarance of the surrounding country that water onca atood 60 foct deop Liero over a larqn ares, tho anclent beach Lol tinetly tracosble, The' most romarkable fact this saline deposit I that in ia middle thoro iy a tract & miles long and 2 wide of common palt, while on thie outside thero i » doposit of borate of and under thix & lowor slatum compo of soda and tincal mixd togethor from 1 foot to § feot thick, Tnéso minerals are alt in o of sods and tincal forming a soll stoue {n its Larduess, hue, bub the salt, 1} The fal|g\vlng spacial digpatohed wore recsived at tho Press olllca last ovoning from various points aloug the lino of tho 8t. Vaul & Sioux City ond, and coutain tho latost roliable nows : ‘8neroox, ' In, July 1—6 p. m.—Plenty of rasslhioppersin the air.” Nouo coming down yet. 'hey soom to be moving gouth, ' Biorey, In., July 1—5 p. have boen flying thick all da; Looks as if wo muat. *Wonrm~aton, Minn,, July 1—5 p. Grasshoppera have boou ' fl No reports from tho country. “ Hensey, Minn., July 1—5 p, m.—The grass- hoppora are dropping” hore in olouds. e ground fe Olled with thom. Thoy have beeu oving. south this morning, but uow sesm to be at & stand-still and dropping around hero.: Poo- plo aro getting dlscouraged, lun,, July 1—8 p. m.—The grass- pers commounced flying south about 10 ck this morniog by the million. ‘' MounrAN - LagE, Minn,, 8inco 11 a, m. to-day tho flylng south, ‘Th soem to doorenso an ohauged, it Is fonred t ** Lesans, In,, & of grasshoppors, thore §s the bed of & dry of 15 milos long by 6 to a depth of 6 or 8 | whon at liborty, orgy all Living Preforenco, the dog. 'I'hen, Lig rablos and fights, lating gait. Hao is o bhis bend near tho mouth opon, with {ts. blulsh and running out, In this state Lo Ling to bite, but yet will attack B Way, man or beasz, 6ls or maphyxin. Iost-mor- veals his stomaoh containing ancos—lenther, pioces 8, grass, stones, but ‘always, by whon worn out by he walks away with a vacil- astly rocognized by his tail ground, his i~ cleatly indicatea . m.—Grasshoppers , but do not settle atals, the sulphute yiog south all day. ‘mass, almost like Tha borato of woda 18 of a dirty Which Liew above tho lovel of thn posdt, {n zomo placos 10 dopth of 7 foot, 18 ‘The report of natural deposits thus altustod will np~ oar very improbablo fo sclontis niothiing 1o account for the separation of 'tho ealt from the Lorates, or for the acoumulation of #alt abovo tho loval of other cryatalllne do) bottom for sul Ha dios, by paral, tem nxnmhmyn'n’n ro'y & mixture of varion oakum, leaves o )y thelx presena uo of the oxistonce mal in which thoy are fouud, L way of provouting - the offoots of mmodiate Snlllul‘izll{lou ty, guonpowder, or othor Tho Booner” this is dono the It oauterizntion cannot Lo bite, we must, o mon, for thore in Wo Lave Mr, Lo 18 the nctual eaute) nunoral cauatiey, roator is thio efile o appliod immodiately whilo waiting for it, wash th 1y, to squoozo the bl pa, and, spitting ol ply & circular ligature t The principal, I ma; of rabics, bufim’ e have beon bitten, doing, either by I oight months, ot by inmao the concluaion of the rogular routine bug- 0 Board adjowrned to maot on ‘Luosdey —_— A Terrible Case of Lunncy, From the L'renton (N, ‘The deathof Charlos Crows Morris County, in light oue of the mos! Urawell diod at the for tho last forty-fi July 1—5 p. m.— rasshoppers have boen or in the air doos not a8 thoir cowrso is light down again. P: ., July L.—Tho air s fall The placo can ous knowa a3 the Dorax ¥lolds and will be examinod carofully by tent mon, sinoe the tincrl—n crude borate of sodu—is ind can ba separated, at ittlo az- onio, from’ the Aulphute of soda, * M; brouglt samplos -of the minorals slong,‘ond hog #hiipod soma of tha tiucal to Eugland, -bolleving that 1t can bo obtatuednt loas price than from Thi 1004 out, snckc 1t with o atop the ourreat of yold' of T around here. . We | driven off “sovoral milos to the northward to o 8 aftornoon, and overy ono wog Ia, 5. m,, July 1,—~Grasshoppera i noue on the ground, T hoarit ro- that thoro is & kind of : killing thom off fast, say'the oxoluslve, oauso | cauglt tevoral t] ransmission by bites from or those suspectod o must bo placed out of harm- uestration of at loust found on our cout, profarablo for shipment fo any of borates obtaincd in Nevada, where the doposits are maloly borates of lNme' and soda, foruian tncal can probably be used, withiout refining, 20d; if 50, it may drive the llog whioh are’ ther shi) Onaxog, Ia., 6 p. m., July 1,~Grasg- aid to have boen rising n 1o wind, aud they are sottling down horo, Roports from the westorn 8r0 ganio. ay horo, otliory, Ouly time can of it huve also been mads by a, Nevada, Thibat, Tus~ detormine which of Californ} cany, Peru, aud Chile—the priucipal praducers of bor- ax—can undorvoll tho other, Tincal hus not yot hoen found in Nevada, but it probably exiats {n moveral of the dry Inke-beds In tho agutlicastorn part of this Stute, ‘The dopoeits of Lorata of lime aud borate of sods are —_— A Cautlon to Wife-Bentors—~A Son De= fondu His Mother and Ks Compit. monted by the Judge, KFrom the New York llerald, Juns 80, John Horan wontto the bar of tho Tombs yes- momning to make a chargo of felonfous t and battory sgainst his son William, Mr. Horan’s hend but thore Las bee partof tho count, quantities in tho o *Honvens, In., & p.m, Juoly 1.—~The. grags- hoppors have boen_moving northivest to- Thoy do not soem ping avywhoro in this Vicinity to-ds; 4 - Nino Fivhe¥looks, ' From the Little Rock (Ark,) Republican, A Camden oorrospondout sonds us the follow- iug fish story: ¥ On Monda; Grabam, the forryman at tl t u blue cat-fish weil nding his flsbabi the following somewhnt strang ruylsh color, and shiny, alion In_connoction wi biza, at once proclaimed him one of *‘oldout inbubitanta Ouo corner of his mounth of Groou Village, hea brought to b tarrible rocords of luunoy, fforing wo ovor heard of, advanced age of 71 yoars, and t yoars he hag_boon a hopo- Ho bocama doranged when about 0, Hoon after a roli mod to hinve oxpi fhe onuso of lna beon attributed by som Inrge quantitiea. ious revival, in onged a change 3 derangomont 0 to a Hovore and by othors to ost from the firat, nt that he had to , tho 22d inst., Mr, 0 Lone Pine fo ghing about 125 poun ), an oxamination revonled e phonomenn: youth aged 20 years, Proof that ho Liad boon rom of his oyos woro black and He told the Judge with much deliboration that Lug son, ot whom ho looked now and thon witha beaton him most un- roligious oxoltement. Al his conduot was o viola be kopt ohainod to tho floor, and for a potiod of ovar forty yoars he has beon sa nuked w8 whon ho first came into the world, Intq shrods overy piooaof olothing or bed-quile tha! was mnde for him, besides Lo would destroy overything ho could lay lus bands on. Forforty yoaw he wag kept inn small apartmont ceiled Wit boards, furnishod with a door, and a placa for s window, which was olosod fu cold woathor by » shuter. roon wos atraw, on which he ulopt. tho last faw yoars his logs, from constant it ting on thom, hod becomo o crooked that ho ould not tand, aud consoquontly moved ou al. fours, During the Inst two or throe yoars his cialus bave Loou removed, as lio was, by rongon of his infirmity, 1o e boon attonded durlug all this poriod first by a mothor, then by a alator, both of whom wore worn out and flnally died in taking care of Intterly & nloco—Mre, Burt—hus had bo oliargo of Liw, Ho hiad to bo washod, #od fed liko on-fnfant, Qvor & hundrad ullts whioh the Lauda of affaction havo made or him have boon torn up, Tt fa o remarkable fack that fuab hoforo ho diod bie oomed to rotusn i forehond way cut, nort of sardonic 1o would rend 80 quiot and Judgo called him hind to say, Willlam moq dosk and was at first inollnod suddonly o thought struck {UIf L 1ot mysolf bo bronght to jall, * Who will not be safo Judge. *' My mather," flony klngdom to toll what ho y stoppod up to the tosny nothing, but hintand ho uaid, boad adverused many a hard-fought battlo with but {t was only a caroful sorutiny of his capacious mouth that ‘discovered 4 imbodded in the tissuo and musolo thersin, 8o dirmly imbodded wero the hooks that thay had to bo aut out, Ifia long warfara with ligoks had ovidently mado tho old fellow fight shy of theso barbod ouomios; as tho hook that eaught hiw at It ho resolutely rofusod to mix up with those in his mouty, and had jmpoled him- the night glll well 8 moment of g from tootheckoe), but y found himeelf .in this suprome his strugglos for Hborty wore absolutos 0, 1o would suddouly dash undor the the " frail alrycture ; nine flsh-hooks firmly aaid Willlawm, in a vory 23 ho lookod towards his father, 7 whioh ran ag follows ; * Ifo or now and thon whon Tam nof around, “and sbo nover tells mo, booause sho kuows thoro would be a row in tho house. I hear it from othors, but sho always donles tho case to court long ago, though aho ju poor, 14 & Indy, and woul couo hero.- Bhe profo fortunos to horsolf, hor ook, quiet way, askod this #omo money for sosp to to on:-l "; ‘:"m'"g In prepa grouud botwoon two stonos to u fine srater being subsoquontly added until n[‘zuwdnr, turo is brought to o thin Pasto, This paste is sproad out with the hand pver a hot stone, and In & fow minutos is rogdy for autlng,” Abthes varloty of thelr faod is Pmpnro;( from corn that i and then tax hor with it, I would have brought but my mother, al. yaly barmloss, (8 bolly (probably in frouzy when snfferin) s t0 kaup her little mise Lout and noarly capsize ngaip hio woyld start off at niver, towing tho * qug-out water i but _tho poait] husbaud, for wash tho olot] bongehold purno y through the' 0B of tho Lok, ungfl tha fir'm temalon of tho ling in tout of tho wot.'" el TEME MOQUIS INDIANS, The Strange Tribe of Aborigines in Avizonu—-Lccufinr Customs nnd Modo of faving. ' . & i, Oncar I.mvl:‘ 1 Popular Setence Monthiy, inthat of. the Mol white man, ' Whilo the Nterature of American othnology “tooma with interosting accounts of raco of this country, and {s raploto with the hls- , tory of tho various other tribes, butlittio fn sald singular and romautio branoh of tho Pucblos who call themsolvos * Moquis," Yonr ftor your military oxpoditions hava trav- ortod tho far Wost, yot fow have boon lod to the Liddon rooosscs of this tribe; morcovor, thelrs {8 & rogion seldom visited by oivilians, and of theso tho fow comling thither aro principally Now rogarding Moxioans, 1t wos tho sixth day sftor loaving Fort Dofl- anco that our llt{, undor Liout, Russell (of the | !* Expodition for Explorations and Burveys Wost of tho One Hundrodth Meridian,” in_chargo of Liout. Goorgo M, Wheolor, United Btatos En- ginoers), bogan to noar the Moquis villagos, concornlng the inhabitants of which wo hud | 8 listoned to 80 many thrilling and marvolous stories, - Immodintoly befora us iwas spread &' wido, sandy basin, whoso loose, dusty surface offered no vordurs to dolight the oye, -or- roltove -the woarlsomo monotony of the barron landscapo. Ton miles away over this trackless dewort loomed up, on tho ‘westorn horizon, wido and procipitous clilfa whoso hofghta {t would seem impossiblo to climb, *On thoso olifls,” sald our Navajo guldo, “1ivo the Moquia,” A fow hours Iater and wa bad orossod tho sterile wasto, and wera at tho bas of tho sandstone mases whose outling wo had previously traced in the far dlmmnu‘ Gihom alions of tho singular people e had came so far to aco. As we approrchod, human bolugs began to throng the rim of the precipitous lufts, -thoir dusky featurcs betraying ouriosity ovor an ovent #0 novel and unoxpoctod as the prosonceof white mon at the vory threshold of thoir oitadel. We 10w bogan tho asoont to the villlage. A narrow ‘Entn led, by a sorpentine routo, up the dixzy oights, aud, in_aingle fils, wo soon gainod tha summit 3 not,- however, until wo had- passod soveral Moquls posted, ' sentinel-like, along tho bo sloops, wo wore soun rurcounded by Indiaus, when, nolens volens, s hoarty biond-shaking ensuod, and friendly juter- to llnd porchod on lofty summits the habif approach,. Onco up t! ooures forthwith bogau, ‘Tho homo of the Moquis is on & rocky island, aoparated from tua rest of the world by an ocean of gnnd, and s ona of tho ntrougest natura| for- tifloationn ; indeed, as & stronghold sguiust fnva- olon, it may ba justly termed the Gibraltar of the {Vont, -Noilkior thio Navajoes nor Apnclion “whose tribos havoe evor numbored soms of the most. celobratod. Indian :warrlors, Lave s yob mat with even temfomry succorn in thelrattacks though for several yoars (E“‘ ero yecinl liking the ouo for " tho othor, andaver and ‘anon bitter recollections of by-gono atrifes are openly manifested, and tho thego tribes bave baen on pencoabls Lormas, i, noyortholess, no spe .younger bucks strip for the war-path. .~ Tho Moquis l’l&llmblll about Ziqufl souls, tnlld oacoupy seven villages, or, spoaking accuratoly, o itod by . branch of th Tchuas. Thoso villages are built on the top of which avo soparate from pix, one belng inbabi four sandatone mesn, X ys kopt him pfnr- ally on his sido, and thun rotardod his lodomo< -ton, unti) at Iaat, throngh sheor. oxhaustion ab ho -surrandered to his oaps tor, and allowed himsol?, aa it woro, to bo taken ipinal tribes In_tho Bouthwost ls, an isolntod remunnt of n former wide-spread nation. Thowo Indinns aro of poculier interost, sspecially as & study for tho othinologlat, on account of tholr peculinr mane -nor of living, atrauga ousloms, otc., r8 woll ag in being little" known snd soldom visited by tho tho aborigiual: 'thom by the “groat fathor," and which fs n$ Lundml’ by childron from 4 to § yonrs old, Ong boing examined, tioso littlo onos countod o= reotly to 100, Thoy aro quite profiolont in‘apelle ing, wiilo thelr rnndy recltal, without tho book, of numerous Englia vernot, showed thel nn;fl:d an lvury| rnumlv{m momorles, G ovivusly montloned, the Tohuns ocou; onoof tho Maquln villagas, 'Tho langungos oF the two tribos, howovor, aro quito difforont, tht of tho Intler bolug uninlolligiblo to the former, Ou gollaoting A voeahulary of tho lan. guage of the Tohuas, 1t was found to bo idonti- cal with that of tho Tudisun of Iidefanso, wha inhabit somo twonty-llva milos west of Snga Ko and from 800 to 400 milos distant from tho Bre! quistowns, Inquiry as to the date of sottloment of tho Tohuas with the Moquis proved fraitloss of tha dosired rosult ; tho Indiaus eithor did not Inow or wore unwilling to tell, One intolligont Moquis, named Mosayamtiba, who ausworod many fiuonllonn rondily and vory intelligibly, o+ timated tho perlod of intermingling of tho 'twa tribos at upward of 100 yoars, - A a rofutation of the rathor provalont riotion that Indlan luugnnfin aro Aubjeot to rapid chiango, it may bo sald that, although the Tohuna and lidefonsos have boon' soparated at lonat o century, and. that, too, ot a dlstanco from each other of Aeveral hundred miles, the langungo of the branoh-tribe is etill idontical with that of tuo aront-stem. Furthormore, although tho Tos uas and Moquis live but 50 miles apart, thowr dialacts are outirely difforont, that of tho formex not embracing a slbglo word used by the Intter, By this, howoyer, it ig not to bo undoratood thot soma of tho Moquis do not undorstand tho Toe huag' language, and vico voras. Besidos thoir nw:: llni:g\lugn, & fow of both tribos spenk broken ipaninh, ¢ With rogard to the religion of tho Moquis allt- ont investigation falled to devalop anything oflnito. 'T'o tho inquiry whother thoy worship Montozums, tho raply was, in brokon Bpanis| “No sabe” (%1 don't. know"). By Mosay- smtiba wo ara informod that he bolloved tho 4! sun to bo the true God," but that tho so-called “happy lmnfiug-fi:uund " was, in his opinion, but a croation of tho Imagination—tho basoless fabrio of & drosm.” Thoy havo nolthor ohurely nor othor place of worship to bo found, which ja evidonco that tho'Spanish Josuite Lavo bosn tn. ablo to gain a foothold among thom, although thoso pricats havo succoodod fn oatablishing thomselves with almost all the othor Puobla tribos, an ia plainly shown by the rulns of Josulf ahurahion in *Acom: Gomoz, and otlicy towns, Tho Moquis sometimes hold raligious mootings in caves In tho vicinity of thols dottlomonta, On boing asked to lfl)dphm an bloroglyphical inseription somo fiftaon miley southoast from thoir villagos, a’ copy of whick wan shown thom, '.ho{ #ppoared unablo to do so, xeplylmfi “No sabo." Wi boliof is woll ontor- tainod, howaver, that thoy woro ac nainted with tho inscription, ana know fts hidden monuing, sinco thiore wers found .in tho house of 'ono of the chicfs figures aarved in wood whioh oorre- lflnudsd exzotly to somo of thoso employed in the fuscription, " If thoso wera dosignod ag ob- Jects of worship, no profound ‘venoration waa manifested for them, slnce tho; wora ronadil; purtod witn for s trillug quantity of opnsen” ‘The exaot date st which thig slngular peoplo sottlod in Northeastorn Arlzona, aud bullt tholr hubitations on massive racks, whoso foundations are far beneath the level of tho sandy plain which surrounds thom, is a question atill en. volopod in mystory. ''aking futo considoration tha fact that thespace betwaon the Bovoral vil. 1ngoA on ono of the mesas s aolid rock, and that mcross tho apace a path has boen worn by humean foot to & depth of soveral inches, and remember« ing that the Bhioos of tho paoplo who have trod out thin stony pathway have been of tho softos( lonthor, it is ot unreasonablo to asauma thnt af loast 1,000 yonrs havo elrpacd sinco this tribe first mudo its appearanco in this bleak aud unin. viting scction of tho Wostern World, Wil our visit to the Moquis rosulted in much onoh othier nbout eight milos. On the firat aro | Yalunble information concerning bhis romuant of threo of tho villages, fitty yards apart. They aro named respoctivoly, Tehua, ‘Tei-tsumo-vi, aud Obiki, thelnst conmonly, but orroncouely, callod Hualpy. Tha vilfages on the second mosn. are Mush-ongono-vicud Shebaula-vi. On mesa No.. 2. 18 Shongobaevi, snd on No. 4 Oral-vi. -- Thomo villages ocoupy tho entire ‘width of the mesas, and, standing immodistely beforo the houses, one may look vortically down < frichtfal dopth of 900 feot. In meny places tho eides of the meaus ara terracad, tha iorraces being usod as shoop-corraly, On tho rims of theso high aud rocky walls childven muy b seon’ at play, unconscious of dangor, whilo the mothor " porforma the duties of the hol thoughtloss of the gulf that yawns within stapping-distanco of lier innogont brood, Bo- low, on_the shoop-torraces, other children aro doligtitfally ongaged in suoking gost's milk from ita natura] fountaln. * As stated, thess villagos oconpy tho entire width of tho mosas, _Lho houses aro built in & row, side by side, and are principally of two (nltfiaumx not a fownro four) atorios. They are construoted ina terraco” style, tha upper e from the The mods of entry is by means of lnddors or~staps out_in tho “sidowalks. ~Thcse; Labitations are not built of adobo, of which ma- torial tho Iargor number of Iudian and Mexicnn hutsare formad, but of stouos . firmly Lold - in plage by & comont of clay aud sand,, The ey~ oral atorion aro, respootivaly, about 7 foot high, and are divided into s number of rooms, each of which i3 Hmvidad with an open fire-place. 0 walls avo piorced in many the holes bolug out square, and about o fook elthior way. In sovera wintors the inhabi~ tauts of these houss shelter themsolvos in cel- atores bolug romovod & fow foot baol lower ones. For windows ¢ placos, lars or cavea in tho roclks near by, * In apponrance, the Moquis rosemblos the Cru- casian ruther tlan the Mongolian race, The {ucial features are a oioss botwoen pleasant and sovere, and in mouy iustances tho exprossion is that of unugual intellgonco. The complexion i3 light rod brown, tho tooth suow-white, aud tho hatr * jot bluck," cosrao, and long. Every- whovo throughout the tribe the pitted -nkin'is avidanco that, ut no remote perjod of the past, tho fimnll?mx bas hold its perniclous sway, These Indians are well clad, especiaily the fomuléh, somo of whom are noatly attivod, par- tioulorly tho daughters of the Chiof, who by-tho- by, aro exceediugly interosting young Indies, Tholr dress purtakos much of that gommon in the Bastern citios, whilo tho hairis worn in tho gtyle known as * Pompadour.” Oane advantago theso nymphs of the desert possess over thoso of tho Last i, that of Leiug ablo to carry their Licad-gear with thom when they ratire to-.rost, the wholo beini‘thu work of naturo.in thom- wolvos, and nothing of art. By remson of the extensiva ravagoes of the small-pox, many of tho licuses are just now empty, their ocoupanta hav. ing fallon victims to a discase whose morciloss wayoh thoy had'not the sciontific knowledge to BERY. ; -A’muim the Moquis settloments are found dogs, donkoys slicep, goats, snd chiokous, bt not o singlo specluien of the foline tribe, nor a liog, & cow, nor 8 horee. The donkey is almost indivpeiaable, in that it ls their. princlpal moans of trausporting wood, which hns to b brought great distauces., In the sbsonco of \\'amh dried shoop exoremont is oxtonsively used as fuol. Vory llitle grass is to bo mut with in- the vicinity of the mesas, the ontire nn\mtr{ round about” boing & vast sund-hoap de- vegotation, For pasture the sheep are fow patclios of poor grass. : Thechiof artiole of subsistance of thess natives 16 Iudian corn; thoy hiave no mout, excopting ocoastonally mutton. * Tho'sheep are raisod for their waol, aud not for- tablo purposes.. ¥rom' tho, wool lhe{ manufaoture an.extraordinarily ®ood and serv] - ceabloe blanket, - -~ The atmonphero being very dr{, and no raing i oocurting sometinies for sovers] months, and . with 10 streama noar by for irrigating pur- voses, it mny . well be inquired "how thcss ‘untutored . aborlgines, on whom tho . hight .of. our civilization- has not - yot dnwned, manage {0 produce the article’ whioh fur- nighes thom with the staff of lifo; Tho method :employed ia as follows: The need is lautod at 1from one to tvo feot Lonoath the man wido apart, At this depth thoy have fouud . and, volry oxporionce that thero 1a snficlont moisture to devolop and sustain the plant,” On analyzin, Bpeoimens of tha soll, the oliowmist of um’ ux!f pedition hay found that the axporionce of those ‘untaught Indisng is iv fll sacord with sho ro- sults of his investigations, Was eluoidatod llme oue foot contains 2 2-10 por cout of molaturo, to 1 per cent ut tho gurfavs, from which 1t ay bo inferrod withiroason that at no grot dopth thioro wuat be astratum of water, Tl water, ascond- ing by capillary attrastion, is rapidly eviporates 038 soou s it ronchos tue surfaco, on account of the loosoucss of tho soil aud the arid atmos- luhurn. Graes 8ood acattarad ovor the ground ju im intoresting fuct the subsoll at thadistanco of Ao Loglun would fail tn #arminato, aud only bo wasted, Tha ouly wator iy this lounlity is that supplied by soveral swmal ‘hgxmflu'y #wall eprings at the basos of Tho broad made by tha]\!nq’nh Ling a similarity viug 1t the corn iy 0 1ix- 08 beon gorminatod, w erobyy, as In woll known, » snccharine mnttor iy davolopad and a spoois 1 malt produced; this f Lt Ul hird ind 1 dorivoq o sty ol ook, ldqr'ly‘::llt ::ut in n powdered 8tate ; this thoy oall vod by nyxing flonr and Fho Moquls hava ang #chool, whioh is wrovided ) x usebiold npparonaly. a raco fast disappoaring from tho face of the ourth, wa woro otherwiss woll ropeid for - the Dinrdabips wo had - oncountored o Tanching thia inolatod spot, and shall not soon for, ot tho pleas- ant houru spent in tho. company of theso half;ciy- lizod beings. As evening drow nont, siiting on tho tops of the lofty mosns, our fovered brows woro gontly fanned by aooling broozos, wlilch doon cansod ua to forgat the tropical heat of tho day, while our oyes wore foasted by & suntet sols -dom equaled in’ grandeur and aublimity, The alnldufi sun produced a golden huo around tha Sunnnits of the far-distant Sierra do San- Krane oisao, whilo its light, reflactod along the horizon, transformed the sky into an ocoan of blood, was long after nightfall ero wonrind natura sought mpounL but at lost wo retirad to rost, witli naught but rock for our pillow, and with no raof above us eave the bluo canopy of nature, which scomod moro than over frotted with twinkling stars., —_— WE MAY ESCAPE THE COMET, . Further Computations as to tho Dea vclopment and FPosition of the Co | without an inataut's hiesitati land clothing upon .lus porsob, and his’ hands ©t’s Cail—A Question of Two Days at Furthost, > To the Editor of tle New York Tribune H . Sir: Your publication of my prodictions with rogard to tho npproachiug comot has awakened 80 much public intorost on tho subjeot that I )| will at once stato the rcoults of anothor day's computations, Tho thoory of Prof, Loirco ia - that ' oach particlo of matter which composes tho tail is supposed to movoins hyporbolio or. bit, with the sun in the focus of tho opposits branch, under. tue influonce of a repulsive forco omanating from thoe sun, and dacronsing by tho Inw of the invarse aquaro of the distanco,” Tho only opportunity whioh there hag been to tesy thid theory waa tho case of Donati's comot, which appeated o conflrmit. I havo assumed that the ropulsive force is thesame in the cnge of Coggin'a comat, and find that upon Peirce’s thoory, with this nsaumption, a particlo of mattor leaving the hond of tho comot on Juuo. 9, when tho tail wag alroady 2 degroes In length, would on July 20 bo nourly 40,000,000 milos” ontaide of the partl's orbit, 1t is evidont, thorefors, . that tho first rqfiuwllu of a maguificont display, longth of Lail, willnot bo wantivg, I also find thatn partiola Jeaving the Lond of the comet Juuo 28 will also Do, on July 29, outsido of the orbit of the oarth ; but that from tha curvature of the tall, that pore tiou of it will apponr in or near .he coustollation Horenlos. Biuco, therofore, tha portion of tho tnil nonrest toua will be moro than two days bolindhand fn orossing tho aoliptio, it ia na vot somowhut doubtful whether wo sunll bo involved withiu it, » Hensy M. Panyitonst, New Yorx, Juno 80, 1874, i —_— A Man with Manuacled Nands SDived the Life of a Ohild. . From the Fargo (Minn) Ezpress, Wa wish to notice the horois conduct of Gaorge, Bellhymor, who, while the steamor Dakotn was' passing throughi Gooso Rapids, on hor lnse tripy porformod ono of the most horoio and dmring fenta it hns evor boen our fortuno to witness, Mr, Bellbymer was at tho timo under guard sud soourely handouffod, for tho alloged offeuso of: larcony, Among tho nasongers on board was, Mra, White and six chilldren, from Port Prairi; Out,, on_hor way to joln her husband i Manie toba. Sabbath aftornoon, while her cluldres, with othors, wore playing sbout tho deck, little ' . Emma foll from tho boat to tho river bolow, and at onca sunk, coming to thosurface near tho storn of the baat. ' At ongo all was econfusion; »tho . women ‘shricked and tlie men shoutod; all but Mr. ' Bellhymor, who {umpq:lh{hu hlublootb on, with hoavy boots closoly Lold togother, sprang from the hurricano -deck and swam to the rescue of the utrufillug child. o caught up tho child and raised it to !tho surfaco, but tho rapid ourron swopt him Junder and caried the child from bis'shackled . hauds ; again ho came fo the surtacs, aad again Lo caught tho.'ohild, and again ho logan tg struggle to koop above water, whilo scoros of men, nud good swimmors, stood by and waited fur the small boat to roach the struggling mau ‘aud little child, ‘Whoy woré savod' and recurnod 1o the boat; whore tho passengers did sll thoy could to show Mr, Bullh{mur their approciation of big condugt, A bostimonial was prosanted Lim boforo reacning Pembina by thosuw who wit- nanaed 18 daring laap and strugglo in tho water, —— A Mad Oa . Tho Lanenstor (P'a,) Express says that o Ilady residing in that city hnd o starlling ndventurs with a mad oat on iouday, Tho Iady had boon ontortaining a noighbor, and she, in koiuy homo by the back door, saw o large cnt lying in the yard, frothing ot the mouth, aud apparoutly in hie not-of springlug at her, The visicor jumpod back and entored tho kitolion-door, whila the Indy of the house ran to thacollar for tho purs pose of closing an iron grata, Juat o8 sho was closing tho grate the cat flow at hor, and so firmly did he plnco himself m]'nlnut the grate that tho Indy could ouly partially closs it, laving nothing about her witis which to push it but a1 old nine brolla; Thoro, for ton minutos, afraid to run sway and unabla to yolleve hersolf, tho lady hold the grato, whila tho eat frothod and blod ap tho mouth, aud its eyos slmost protrnded from their sockets, At tho ond of tou minutos tha et bacame violently aonyulsod, rolled upon ita buok, aud diod, i lady iu quostion will novor forgob that advonturo, — ~—Tho owner of Apology, the winnor of the Onks ataken at tho Jipsom this yoar, i s clergy« nian of the Churol of Lngland, who rosides in tho North of Iaxlsud, and racos under tho namng ot " 2r, Laundo,” [ i oper s e D