Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 22, 1874, Page 4

TERMS OF THE TRIBUNE . TENAIA OF BUDACRIPTION (PAYADLE IN ADVANOE). - D 0 2.00 | Bonday. 82.01 T1i-Woel "“.(}3‘ Weokly 2.0 Parts arat tha same rate. Ta proveat delay aud mistakos, ho sure sod aire Post Oftce address in full, Including Stata and Oounty. Remittances may be made eitlier by dratt, oxpress, Post Office ordor, or in rogistered lotisrs, at our Fiaks TEUMA TO CITY SUBSCRINENS, gl“y. deliverod, Hundsy oltfl‘:‘: : tanfi l)“::::::. alls, dolivered, Bunday included, 30 cou! Ad’fluu i THE TRIBUNE COMPANY, Cornor Madison aud Dearborn.sta., Ubloago, jii s _ TODAY'S AMUSE oteon Mad: o ACUADEMY OF MUSIO—ITalstod straet, be k o hin DIl 4 Panl o e, e e et Aioruoum An TS, ,DING--Lakeshora, foot of Adams L omal. " Aitarhoon and SYooluE. - T, BASK RALL GROUNDS— cfl’.}x‘%’.‘n’ufl’.‘.fi‘:‘ L Ruon tho Atisatice and Oblusgos, DEXTRR PARK—Trotting and running racos. e BUSINESS NOTICES. 70 1,c00 INVESTED IN STOCKS AND GOLD . 0. Hend for partioiars. TUM- BB EE C., ankors, Wallat.. Now York. | The Chicage Tiibune, Wodnosdsy Morntng, July 23, 1874, Two million acres of corn have beon planted this yoar in oxcoss of last year's noroago. Tho inoreaso is 0 per cont of the wholo crop, Itis Jargost in tho South in percentago, and in tho West fn acres. Tho condition of tho ocrop is good in the West, and clsewhore variablo, Theso {fnots are furnishod by the Deparémont of Agri- culturo at Washingto A convention of Railway Commissioners in the " Northwostorn Btatos is to bo eallod by tho Illi- nols Boord in a meoting to-day. Tho end de- signod to bo ronched by this actionis tho settlo- ment of tariffs on froights passivg botween tho States. 'Tho United Btates Circuit Court at Madison intimated vory cloarly that the rogula- tion of Buch commerco was ono of the duties ap- portaining exolusivoly to Congress, ey Gon, Butlor snys that ho nover cheated tho colored troops in the Army of the James, a8 charged by Gen. Hooker. Itisa small mattor whothor the public bolleves Gen, Batlor or Gon. Hooker, There aro worso acts than choating dead nogro soldiors; and Butlor knows what thoy aro. To debauch tho mind of & nation, to corrupt the administration of public affairs, and to make political lifa odlous to bonest men, aro offonses in comparison with which mera peou- niary frauds are insignificant. Don Carlos bias jssued another manifesto. It is full of sound and fury, and of nothing beside. It guarantecs religlous liborly, snd insures political liborty so far as it is consistent with ordor, Tho wholo porformanco closes witha bit of bombastic eloquenco worthy of & sehool-boy on graduation day. All this while, Don Carlos hugs his delusivo hopes in the ox- treme northern provinces, surrounded by & mob of out-throats and outlaws, and dospised by tho civilized world. Spinner and Bristow are atill far apart in tholr viowa coucorning the best maunor of appoiut- ing clorks to the new Redemption Bureau, Tbo question is ono of respousibility. Whoover will ‘o held responsible for tho delinquoncies of tho now clerks should have the choosivg of them. .This faot is recognized by Bpinner very cleatly, and by Bristow in a lower degroe, Tho public servico will not probably suffor, whatover may bo the ultimate decislon, if rospousibility in clearly ixed upon one of the parties contestant. Attornoy-Goueral Clarke, of Manitoba, bas ar- rived in thig city. Ho gave to a reporter of I'ne ‘Tninune yostordsy o statomont of the ciroum- stances attonding the recont assault upon lum by official rufiians fn 8t. Paul. The person princi- pally responsible for the outrage appears to be one Michaol Hoy, formerly Chief of Police in Minneapolis, who was concerned in the Gordon Lidnappiog affoir, The Chiof of Police in St. Paul is friendly to oy, aud mado no attempt to prevont his cowardly aund brutsl attack. With theso facts beforo us, it is too much to expect an adoquate punishment of tho offendors, Mfarehal Jowoll has rochod Berlin, whore Lo has stopped over for the purpose of inspecting the Geuneral Postal Borvico, Ho finds somo fen- . tures that may protitsbly be introduced in tho Unitod States. This rominds us that Halo'sdeli- cato Liealth Lioa not prevented him from nccopting o renomination to Congress ; that Zach Chandler's addross to the peoplo on belalf of the Republi- can Congressmon hag no word of approval for Grant ; and, that Jewoll is a long timo coming home, considering that tho oxigencles of the Dopartment wonld not allow AMr. Halo to becomo Postmaster-General with s vacation for two months, Tho Secrotary of War has acceded to the ro- quest of Gen, Bheridan, and diracted that Tu- dians guilty of raiding upon the settlera shall bo purgued and pumshed whorever found. No serions objection will bo urged to this courso. Tho word “‘punished” in this connoction, how= over, has & wide meaniug. Tho troops have been fn tho habit lately of taking a small band of Bhoshonea along with them to do their sealp- Ing. Porhaps tho ends of justico would be mot without the taking of any scslps. When tho Becrotary of War eays that the guilty Indiavs aro to be * punished" wherever found, ho ia not to be underatood as meaning that they may bo slaughtored on aight. Lisut,-Gov. Davis, of Missssippi, soting as Goveraor, has notified Prosident Grant that party foollug, in view of the eleotion tobe held ‘Aug. 4, is running vory high in Vicksburg, Ho fears that it will bo impossible for Lim to pro- merve tho poace, and malkes application to tho Presldent for two companios. of troops. Miesissippi was supposed to bo ono of. tho thor- oughly reconstructed States; but, sinco tho fasue of negro rulo snd robbory against white rule and tolerably honest government has beon thrust upon the peoplo, thore hus beow much jurmol! and clasbing of arms. Tho supromo hour of the conflict ia closo at hand. Wo shall soon know whether Mississlppl is to bo bauded over 10 the robbers, 83 Bouth Carolina was, In tho nalmtim‘n,‘ 1t moy be woll to prevent tho ehed- blog of blood. The Ohlc:\g-n praduce marko s_ \;(‘nrc jrregnlar vestorday. Mosa pork was very activo, and ad- raaced BOo por brl, but closed enslor ab §21.00, wah or seller August. Lard was quiet and o thade firmor, at $11.40@11.46 por 100 lba, smah or gellor August. Moats wera aotive and steady, at 7)go for shoulders, 93{@04{o for short b, 100 for short cloar, and 113§@120 for vwack Hokled hams, Highwinea were activo and firm, o4 85 per gallon, Lake Zroights were dull and " THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY; JULY 92, 1874 weale, at B@8%(0 for corn to Duffalo, Flour was dull and unchanged, Whoat wae dull and 3{@lo lowor, closing at 91,105 cash, $1,07% sellor August, and €1,143{ for No. 2 Minnosota, Corn was notivo and & shade firmer, closiug at 63)¢c cash, and 013¢o rollor August, Oats woro quict and 1@20 bigher, closing at &do ensh, 403{o sollor the month, and 355{0 seller Auguat, Ryo waa quiet and 2 lower, nt 76c, Barley way quiot. and stondy, ot $1.00 cash, and $1.02 sellor Boptombor. On Balurdey evening last thoro was in storo in this oily : 1,800,078 bu whont ; 1,444,844 bu corn ; 75,081 bu oatsy 8,702 buryo ; and 5,707 bu barloy. Hogs woro activo, and prices averaged 100 highor, with sales at $6,00@6.75 for poor to oxtra. Cattle wero dull and lower, shipping grades declining Shoep wore dull and ensior. RWo. tending thofire-limits to tho outor boundaries of tho city, Now comes thio pressuro; shall the law bo ovadod ? Boar inmind that the oroc- tion of any woodan bullding of any kind within the ofty is unlawful, nor can the Bonrd of Pubhe Works graut any permit for that purpose. Novw, any citizen who may sco any building, barn, shed, or other atructure of, waod, in course of coustruction within tho city-limits, may know that it is unlawful ; and it is his business to note tho location of tho bullding and to sond word thereof to tho Mayor, whoso buslness it is to enforco tho law.' Aflor tho ordinance of 1872, thoro woro many buildings orected in violation of Inw, owing to the fact that the police refosed to tako notice of them, and neighbors did not like to inform upon each other. Now tho pro- hibition is abuolute, and any policomap who may Vo awara of such violation of the law, or who, whon his attention is called to it, refusos to ro- port it, should bo dlgmiseed from the servico. The main struggle to enforco this law will bo during the noxt sixty days, Any trifling or dal- Iying in its enforcomont now will defoat it alto- gothor. For rensons which they belioved to bo suffi- clent, tho propriotors of & nowspaper in Cincin- nati recontly discharged the Union printers in their employ, and hired a nowaot of men. They woro justified in discharging the men, if thoy bolioved that by so doing they would seoure tmore officicnt service at loss wages. The printors wero also justified in abiding by tho Union. 'They wore not forced to depar} from it by their employers, nor could they bo. 8o far tho matter arranged itsolf well. Now, the roport comes that the men cmployed to tako the placos of tho Union priuters have been poisoned. Tho outrage, if tho report may be trusted, was wonton and uunprovoked. If it should Do traced to the dischargod workmon, 1t ought to put an ond to the Union in Cincionati, which, wo ara bogloning to suspoct, hus lost the two bost offices in the olty by standing out against renson, Cincinnati printors hnve yot to loarn that a conciliatory policy is, in tho end, the most effoctive. A short study of the mauly and son- sible course pursued by tho Ohicago Uunion for many years past, by which the refations betweecn the proprictors aud the priuters have been pro- sorvod on & friendly basis, would furnish the best cure for the illa from which the Cincinnat men are now suffering. THE BEECHER EXPLOSION, Theodoro Tilton’s statomont of the rolations heretoforo existing botweon his wifo and tho Tov. Honry Ward Boechior is at last given to the world, and is 50 muchi worse than snybody had apticipated that it can best bo obaractorized in the words of Hamlot : Bnch on act That blurs the grace and blush of modesty Culla virtue hypocrite ; takes off the roso ¥rom the fair forchead of au inuocent love And sota o bilster thero ; makesmarriago vowa As falno us dicors’ cath, O, such a deed As from the body of contraction plucks The vory soul ; and swoot roligion makes A rhiapsody of words : Heavon's face doths glow ; Yea this solidity and compound masa With tristful vision 2a against the doom, Is thought-sick at the act, Teduced to the cold form of prose, Mr. Tilton charges, aud supports his charge with & most formidable array of documontary and other vroof, that Mr. Beecher, in the yoar 1868, de- liberately seduced his_wife, Elizabeth R, Titton, and maiutained criminal rolations with her for the period of gomo two years, until the act was discovered by Tilton and confegscd by Mra. Tilton and sfterwards by Doccher himeelf; that Mr, Tilton, to shield his own fanuly, condoned the offenso, and sbsonted himeelf from Plymouth Cburch; that Mr, Beocher wroto a lettor to be shown to Tilton oxprossing the utmost appre- hension that ho (Tilton) would not keep the secrot, and revealing a stato of utter despair on Lis own part, saying that tho effort to malntain an outward appoarznco of serenity while accusations wero multiplying agaivet him, was dostroying his life, and that death would bo tbe most wolcomo of frienda to bim ; that novertheless Toochor allowed Til- ton to suffer under the imputation of a slander- or, o liar, and o dog, causing him to be londed with public opprobrinm and soclal ostraciam; that furthor, ho couspired with Mrs, Elizaboth R. Tiltop, his wife, to comploto his ruin by porjury, and subornation of perjury; that finslly Bra, Tilton broke down under the stings of & guilty concclencs, and confossod that the testimony sha gave tho other dny bofore tho Iuvestigating Committoo was. falge, und that it was given at tho instanco of Mr. Boecher's Iawyer, in order to save the causo of raligion (!), and fually that sothing could have provailed upen lim (Tilton) to mako this statement oxcopt Mr, Booclior's pablic challenga of tho truth of his lottor o Dr, Bacon, by call- ing for an investigation, ¢ Buch js tho substunce of Mr. Tilton's sworn statomont, It bears tho impross of truth, and is fortified by a chain of circumstances which tally with cach other and with what has gone beforo. Of courso it is only onoside of the atory. Tho other remains to be told, and it will be only baro Justico to wait till tho otyor sido is honrd, Mr, Beechor has boen a long time in coming to the point, but ke can walt no longer. If ho cone fossos tho substantial truth of Tilton's chargos, bo thoreby ‘acknowledgea that bo lled whon he publishiod his gonoral doulal last Juno, and that ho hns beon & hypocrito and & scoundrel these many yenars, for Mr, Tilton’sstatoment requiresus !nbullovnuutumfllr.Beuuhorlulllulnuugunnlcd momont, but thst ho studlously planned and ac- complished the seduction of Mrs, Tilton In tho garb of her roligious advigor, aud that he con- tinued bis foul intercourse until discovery medo it no longer possible, ‘Thiu statomont, whether true or falso, will carry dismay not mercly into religlous circlos, but into family cirolos throughout the United Blates, if, not Ioto overy ocountry whero tho English language ia spoken. Mr, Boeocher 19 the foremost prosvher in the world, Wo are inclinod to asalgn Lim ths most eloquont tonguo that the present contury haa produced, o bolongs o a family of gltted moen sud womon, smong whom ho la facile princeps. Tust ko should now bo shown a soducor, & lior, and & hypoorite, is not omo of thoso things that can overcomo wus liko & summor-cloud without our special wondor, It inn face (It it bo s fact) of most grave import, and yoi it should not esuso any right-minded Dporaon to lose his rospoct for roligion, atill loss to doubt tho exlstonco of virtue. Thero is nothing In it all to take anybody off hie feot. 'Tho same divine laws exist now that oxistod before, aven as tho samo sun gilds tho lieavons, and tho speotaclo of Boecher's fall from the dizzy holght ho ocoupled should on- forca with tonfold strangth the lesson that orimo ovor carrios with it a punishment commenrurato with tho offonse, It Ar. Becchor is really a guilty man end Mra. Tilton o guilty woman, what man or woman, bigh or low, would oxchange places with thom? Whot man would accept Bocchor's genius and position if coupled with tho torments which must now assail and goaw him? What womsn would exchange ber posco of mind, her honorable homo, howover humble, and her chilaren's reveronco, for the go-called *‘roligious love” in which Mre. Tilton o long participated? Surely, no mure poworful and polnted injunction was over convesed to mankind, torching them that tho paths of purity, and they only, are tho patus of Ppoace, DEFAULTING RAILWAYS, Thore is & busy timo just now among lawyors, courts, and juries in the way of foreclosing rail- way mortgages. Bomothing over throe hundrod millions of Amorican raiiway bonds have gone to Pprotest on tholr inteross coupons, and the bolders, ot firgt shivering with alarm st not recolving their expected ingomo, and~then wrathful at what they doomed the dishonosty of the borrow- ers, have begun now, for the firat time, to ex- amine their logal romodies, and to inquirs into the nature and value of the assots which consti- tuto thelr security. In some cases thoy find ourioun provisions in tho mortgages, proventing them from takiug any steps to realizo until the oxpiration of omo, two, or threo Yyears after defsult—nlso providing that mo foreclosnre shall teke placo excopt on potition of a majority of all the bond- holdora—and other cunning devices which roally put the lendors in worse ' plight than thoy would bo atcommon Isw. Iu still other cases thoy find that the Trustoes under the mortgoges aro loth to porform their duty, thus raising the prosumption that thoy aro acting in tho interest of the mortgagors Tathor than of the mort- gngeos. Itis found in a fow instances that the ‘money borrowed to prosecute or complote a cor- tain road wes divorted to somo othor rond with tho counivance of tho Trustecs, and jthat bonds snid to bo payable ingold aro really payable only in currenoy. Varlous other forms of swindling liave boen dovaloped, but for the most part the non-intorcst-paying railroads have resorted to 10 tricks, either before or after tho dofault. Mot of them, it is truo, wore built on the Credit Mobilier plan, but that was woll known to the lendors, or might bave beon known to them. Bence they hiove nobody to blamo but thom- selves on that ecore. Tho bolders of these threo hundred and odd millions of dofaulted bouds are mainly inhab- itants of tho United States, Gormany, snd En- gland, and the ratio of thoir several holdings is probably in tho order in which thoy are hero sot down, It is commonly supposed that Germany is tho groatest sufferer, buc a fow facts will sorve to show that this is not the case. All the North- orn Pacifio bonds wore taken in this country, ex- copt o mere handful which wero taken fu Canada aud England, Noarlyall the now railways in Michigan wero built by Now England capital. Boston and its suburbs are carrying from thirty to fifty millions of protested bonds, . Savoral Eastorn broken-down railways, like tho Now Haven, Middlotown & Willimantio, the Oswego Midland, tho Causda Southern, and the Chesa- peako & Obio, were mainly constructed with money obtained in this country, and & great shoal of sucond-mortgage bonds were sold at home after the first mortgages had been taken in Gormany or Engiand. Tho offect upon American oredit of thia enor- mous failuro to meet’ obligations s "disustrous, The good mod tho bad euffer alike in foreign markots. Evon thoso securities which bavo rog~ ularly mot thoir interest have suffored a hoavy deelive. Gormeny is full of American rnilway bonds baught at 85 to 95 conta (gold) which can be bought back st 25 to 40, with tho hearty thonks of the prorent holders to anybody who will take thom at thoss pricca. As for nogotiat- ing now lonns there, you might as well attompt to soll lava on the summit of Vesuvius, Not only is the market for rallway securities do- stroyed, but the ordinary roal estate mortgago, tho higheat formof security uoxt to Government bondy, finds no takors. The bottom has tum- bled out of everything excopt Governments, Can anything be done to re-cstablish our credit ? 01 course, the upbuilding, fu any case, must be slow. The first thing to bo done is to giva the bondholdera promptly all the rights stipulated forin the contracts undor which their money wan borrowed. This is the work of the courts, and there Is overy probability that it will bo hon- eatly porformed. Whero foreolosuves sro do- manded, thoy should be grauted without up- necessary delay ; and where fraud is shown, it should be oxposed and punished to tho fullest oxtont, If tho administration of law in this country is shown to bo prompt and certain, and 1f tho proporties mortgaged are handed over to tho mortgagoes a8 fast as lawtully domanded, wo sholl not only ecbieve eolf-respoct and the reapect of other peoples, but we shall also bogin to rebulld our credit abroad, for these dofaulting railways are for tho most part worth what tho bonda call for, and will pay o fairrate of interest in the courso of flvo years, togothor with intorost for thoe time they havo been in de- fault. Bomo of them are ulterly hopoless, not svorth operatiug oxpousos, but thore are only a fow in this category. Tho great majority aro meraly aliead of time, and time will bring them out. Meanwhilo tho bondholdera can talko what {hoy bargained for—that is, tho property which their moucy liag callod into boiug, The Drnpna:d——nu\v Conatitution of Ohlo i to be ratificd orrojoctod by voto of the people of thut Btate at a special election on Tucaday, Aug. 18, olght weeks before the rogular snuual olec~ tlon in Octobor, Tho Olio Stale Journal (Re- publican) shows by an inquiry and classification of tho Ollo nawspapor pross that Ropublican, Domooratio, Liboral, and Independent papers, end papers that favor or opposo the licenso of Hquor solling, are for or against the adoption of tho Conatitucion in ** most admired dluorder " of party lnosy aud that tho papors favoring ox- ceed the numbor that oppose. Lhe Ropublican and Domooratio Btato Conventlons Layo been vurpotoly delayed until after Aug 18, in ordor to avold any party exprossion of opluion on the now Coustitution, and nol, 4 some ont- slders have supposed, bocause tho mako- up of tickets would Le contingent on tho result in August. Tho leadors of both partion aro as widely ¢ variance on tho quostion of the new Constitution as are thelr party prossos. It fs, theroforo, o great miatako to say that elthior party will triumph in the vote of August, howovor that voto may rosult, It la a 8till moro palpable and wholly moxoussblo er- ror to sny (a8 tho Now York ZTimes and World have dono) that tho adoption of the new Consti- tution postpones tho Ohio oloction, this year, from Octohor to Novembor. Ohio olocts s Hoc- rotary of Blate, otc,, on Oct. 18, this year, for full torms, fust ns If nothing hnd happoned, aud rogardless of what may bave lapponed, in August. Tho postponement of election day takes offoot, if at all, next yoar, whon a Govern- or, Loglslaturo, oto., will bo olocted for one year, introducing ovennces In official torms and bien-~ nial elootions for all, in 1876, THIRD-TERM POLITICS SOUTHWARD, There aro daily additions to tho list of white politicians in the South who have beon induced by some moans to declara in favor of the third clection of Gon, Grant to the Prosidency. Tho firat of thoso was Gov. Kempor, of Virginia, who scoms to have half committed himself to thoe Third Term. Now, ex-Gov. Hobert, of Lounisinun, who is » reproscntative of the matwve-born white population of thoSouth, oxpresses the opiuion that the Bouth stands groatly in nood of defouso sgainst tho logis- Iation and Governmonts forced upon her of late yoars, aud Lo looks to Gen. Grant moro than to any other man for that rolief. Ho ox- pressestho opinion that if the Prosidential olec~ tion wero to tako ‘place the presont yoar, and Uen, Grant was running s an indepondent can- didato. ho would beat the candidatos of both tho great partios in the South. The Washington Republican publishes & lottor from another Conservative leador in Yirginia, in which the objections to a Third Torm are come bated. Ho donles that Washington mnde o socoud torm the limit of tho offico, Lecauss in his farowoll addross Washington distinctly stated that, if the condition of public affairs demanded it, ho would not hesitato to accopt a third eleo- tion, This writer statos that it was Thomas Jofforson who originated the two-term limita- tion, The writor adda: ‘ Lot us turn from the falso and pornicious philosophy of Joftorson and adopt tho older aud wiser school of Wash- ington and tho Constitution, that.the people may and ought to oloct Prosidout Grant fora Third Torm if the public interest demands it." Ho thinks tho publio intereata do demand it. Judge O. A. Lochrane, ex-Chief-Justica of Goorgin, though discleiming any party afilia- tions, has written a lottor accopting momborahip in the Grant Club of Atlants, Gs., on the under- standing that the Club has for its object the olootion of President Grant for a Third Tarm, Ho declsros that the election of Thurman or Hondricks would bo no aftirmance of tho princi- plos of Southern Democracy. Ho belisves the Prosident is opposod to the Civil-Rights bill now Dbeforo Congress, and, * feeling assured of his strongth and statosmanship, and agreeing with Lim on tho financial situation, and on the dispo- sition which bns marked his courso in tho recog- uition of Btato rights,” he warmly cspousen ths Prosidont's ro-olection as ossential to the future prospority of tho South. . It apponrs, thoreforo, that Mr. Honry Wattor- 60n was not 80 wild 88 a cannibal whon ho asid that the South would support the Third-Term nonsense, When thore is so0 much amoke it s rohsonablo to nssumo that thore is somo fire, aud this frequont declaration by public men of tho roconstructed States (mainly Democratsf by the way) in favor of tho Third Term can hardly be & put-up job. 5 — THE EATY GURRAN MURDER. The boy Pomeroy, just arrosted, who mur~ dered Katy Curran in South Boston, Mass,, somo time ago, and then cut hor body into pioces with o knife, {8, apparently, an excoptional criminal, T'wo yoars since ho was oxamined on obarges of Laving mutilated little boys in Chelsea and East Boston. Iuwas proven that ho bnd wmutilated them, and when asked why, his answer was, that ho didn't know; that he couldn't helpit; that Lebadtodoit. s own account of how ha murdered Katy Qurran is very circumstantial ; but affords no ovidence of any motive tocommit the crlme, excopt tho puro desira to mur- der. That ho could distinguish “hotween right ond wrong may bo, porhaps, ques- tioned; but thore is no doubt that tho sot loft o vory vivid improssion on him, and that ho kuew it wag desorving of punishment, It is four months sinco tho juvenile criminal took the lifo of the littlo girl, but when arrestod he romombered tho day and even the hour dis- tinctly, as woll a8 tho attondant oircumstancos, He could tell where she stood when be put bis lott arm around her neck and his loft hand ovor her mouth, while, with his right, ho cut hor throat, He romembored also the directlon in which hor face was turued st the time. And when tho act was douwe ho kuew ns woll ne tho sancst of men that ke bad committed @ crime, Whother he folt ony sting of consclenco or not, wo have no means of ascortaining; but the faot that he endeavored to conceal tho body under stones and ashes proves that ho bad the foar of the law beforo bis oyos. Tow to deal with orlminals of this olass is & question of no small moment. Physiclana who lave familiarized thomsolves with the varied oature of mental disoase will soe in Pomeroy'a caso omo of homleldal insanity. It seoms to ba vory woll oatzblished that thero is what Pinol ealled the manie sansdelfre,—litorally, ‘mania or monts! disoasc unaccompaniod by do- lirlum or delusion, sud that homicldal mono- manis i ono form of it. This monomwania fu fouhd in patieuts or eriminals not subjoct to any other form of mental dorangement., Ac- cording to Maudsloy, the testlmony of those who hove made insanity a practl- cal study Is unanimouaagto tho oxistonco of {rrouistible homicidal impulse, Tho idea that auch a tondoncy doos exist in cortain miuds has been scouted by well-meaniog moralista; but that tho ground of thelr rejection of it is entire~ lya priori i sufliclent roason why their objec- tions should be passod ovor in silonce. Num- borloss instances might be brouglt forward to illustrate tho naturo of the homioi- dal monin, Among thom tho case of tho Alton murderer desorves speclal mon- tlon horo from the fact that iv is in many pointa slmilar to that of Pomeroy, Tho *' Alton ‘murderer" way a clerk in tho ofico of & solicitor at Alton, Hampshiro, England, Ho took & walk ono attornoon outsido the town, and mot some childron playing ou the road. IIa inducod one of the children, & littlo gisl sbout 8 yoars of ngo, to go with him into & hop-gorden near by, and gavo the others s faw ponco to mduco them to go home, A little atter this Lo was metl going quiotly into town, Asbowonthostaopedtowash hts banda in tho rivor, and When o ronched Alton resumod blaplaco and lls work in the offico, Tho hop-garden wansearahied, and tho fragments of tho body found, n limb horo and an arm thore, Tho sollcitor's clork wae suspeated of the dood, and arrested. In big dlary was found & momo- randum: “Killed o littlo girl; it was fino and hot.” Ho waa adjudged guilty, condomned to death, and oxocuted, 'I'ho quostion in this eano, a4 {n tho caso of Pomeroy, is, ns Mandsley says, whotlior tho Impulso was really irrosistiblo or only unroslsted. Doth aro possible, The impulse moy bo irresistible. It nay, too, bo resisted ; but oven horo there is, probably, some degreo of insanity, whero no motive for tho deed can bo dincovered. Our logislation has not yot taken account sufficiontly of this inesns homi- cldal impulso. Tho principlos of modical solonco work, thoir way but slowly into our jurigprudenco. Pomoroy's logal guilt will turn on the question of his ssnity or insanity. Modorn writers on the subjeot of mqntal de- rangemont ory out for meroy to such criminals o8 Pomieroy. It is not oasy to soo what moroy con bo extonded to them. Whether sano or in- sand, thoy aro equally dangorous to smo- cloty; and, it not impritoned for life in & Blate's Prigon, they must be in & lunatic asylum, We may not call them criminals, and yot to s very groat extent they must bo treated a8 criminals. Criminals like Pomeroy aro still hanged in England. It may woll be doubted whether this Is right, so long as it in not known whethor thoy are really criminals atall, Aosreful investigatiod Into Pomoroy's idiosyncraslon will b of groat advantage to tho scienco of medical jurisprudence. Should ho bo found sano—which is hardly possiblo— langing is too good for him. If insane, his place is & lunatio asslum for life or till cured, it cure be possible, Itis to be hoped that if ac- quittod on tho plea of ‘{usanity ho will not be, a8 othor murderers havo beon again, let loose upon gocloty, in duo time to find, Lill, and make mince-meat of auother Koty Curran. Bave or Insane, ho should bo isolated from his kind, —— THE NORTHWESTERN RATLROAD. Mr. I, V. Poor, author of tho * Rnilway JManusl,” has publishod, in the Now York Even- ing Post, & lottor nominally on the Wisconsin imbroglio aud really on tho Northwestorn Rail- road, which he sclects as & typo of ita closs. Wiy position 18 substantially ns follows: Tho complaiuts of both partios to the contro- vorsy aro based on fact. Tho charges on West- orn rallways aro vory high, The roads cannot, Lowover, cut thom down and pay inferest and dividonds, Tho Northwostern chargos, during tho last yoar, wero, for freight, 9.47 conts por ton por mile, and for passongors, 8,16 conts por mile. The corresponding figures on other roads wero a8 follows; Erle, 1.50, 2.20; Now York Contral, 1,67, 2; Ponnsylvania, 1.50, 248, Bo the Wostorn chargos aro high. They muat, however, bs high if intorest and dividonds are to bo paid, bocsuso so much of the capital invosted has besn gunk. The North- western oporatos abont 2,000 miles of road, *It 18 not probable that moro than one-half of this miloage pays anything over ranning oxpeuscs.” This half must, thorefore, ba made to yield suf- flolont net profit to pay tho intorost on tho capi- tal invested in it and the cnpital sunk in tho other balf. If the Northwestorn had only tho productive mileage to caro for, it would flx its rates ag low na thoso of tho Enstorn lines, *To carry the thousand wiles of dead weight, that s cost from 890,000,000 to 940,000,000, it hus to chargs fully one-third miore.) Uselesa branches have been lensed with apparent recldossness, The Winona & Bt Petor Railroad was leased when, it wsa 100 miles from the nesrest r1ml on the Northwestern. This branch has cost £10,- 604,878, Its not carnings for 1878 ware $142,407, or leas than 13¢ por cont on the cost! For euch folly, tho preforred stockholdors aro responsible. They control the eloction of tho Diractors, snd Lionoo can rightly bo called to account for the misdeeds of thoso agonts, 'The cage is different with tho bondholdors. The State, having al- lowed the corporation to issue bonds, *is bound to tako no stop which shall in any way imporil tho validity or valuo of tho bonds.” Tho rates it decreos by law must bo sufliciont to pay tho intorost on the bonds, * No possible injustico can bo done by lovying such rates; the people aro not compelled to use the road; they aro none tho worso off for it oonstruction, if they ao not uso it.” DBut the Btats can rightly fix tho rates so low that no wasted capital shall receive intorest. The stockholders will suffer, but it will be o lesson to thom not to appoint incompotent or corrupt agonts hereaftor. Tho conclusion of tho wholo matter is that tho Stato ja bound to allow tho Northwestern tomake, exclusivo of its running expenscs, $3,600,000, gold, per yenr, since this amount is noeded to pay the intoreat, * Beyond this, the equities that may arriso are the propar subjocts of log- ialntive action,” Mr. Poor is an anthority on rajtrond mattors. His opiuions will always bo heard with respect. In this cage, however, his viows of the account- ‘ability of stockholdors soom unduly severe. Panisbing & man because his sgont has lost some monoy for him is punishing him bsoause he and Lis agent wero not omnisciont, Tho artiole 1n I'ux TrInUNE of yesterday, en- titled ** The Origiu of the Fire,” and illustrated by a drawing, was writton by Mr. F. Baumann, the woll-kuown avohitect, whose signature was distorted by a provoking typographical error. CAPITAL AND LABOR. The Striking Iron Mincrs in Michis gan, Special Disvateh to T'he Chicago Tribune, Tscaxana, Mich,, July 2L.—Tho strike ro- ported yestordny is bourly assuming groater proportions, and about 1,500 minors aro now re- portod in it. ANl work hns consod in the Ishpon- ing diatriot, and the strikera will not allow thoso to work who wish to doso. Throats are mado of stopping the pumps, but as yob but littlo in- Jury hiza beon dono to property or porsons, The Shoriff of Marquotte County is orgamzing a posse, and the military company at Mlarquotto aro gottiog in roudiness, oxpeoting to bo called upon to uid the vivil authorittos in case tho mino men shonld decide this ovening to continue work, and to proteot thoso who wish to work, Thus far the following mines havo boon closed : New York, Barnum, Lake Superlor, Cloveland, and Lako Angelino, Suspected Poigsoning of Non«TUnion Lrintors fn Otneinnadi, O1NOINNATE, O,, July 21,~Yostordsy morning, whon the Gazetle compoltors went homo, it was doomed nm.-nuurf) thut thoy whould ba cscorted by policemen, During the day throats wero ninde by somo of the Uniou men against the now compositors, In oue instauce, & lotter wau sout to tho alstor of ono of thum, saying that, if hor brothor did not leave tho composing-room, thare would ba bloodshed, Last vight, after tho rog- ular midnight lunch, & pumber of compositors were seizod with sovoro purging and vomiting, accompanled with a burning seusation in the throat und stomaoh, and many of the man wora obligod to go to tholr homes, It ig supposed (h;& the ocofloo “"’1"““&’"""61\ flonfl [ 1(hl: coffes was prosorvod, and & chemioul analys will bo mads of §t Lo-day, ¥ G e e et e ———— e INDIAN HOSTILITIES. Raids on tho Line of the Union Pacific Railroad. s A Dash at Fort Fred Stesle. Correapondence of The Chieaao Iribune, Lanasug Crry, Wyo, Tor,, July 17.—It roally soomy a8 it o woro on tho TIORDENS OF AN INDIAN WA, 08 nows of Indian dopredations aro accumulating on ovory hand., Bearcoly s nowspapor can bo oponod but gives an account of wome atrocity committed by the savagos in somo portion of tho wido Wost,* It is ouly very latoly that they have mado tholr sppoarance on sud near the liuo of tho Union Yacific Railroad, and thoy now scom dotorminod to mako as much troublo as thoy ean. A fow days sgo, two wood-clhoppors woro flred upon, near Fort Foitorman, but suc- cooded in muking their’ cacape. On tho samo aftornoon, # man named Jesso Hunton was mor- tally wounded by thom, and died at the Tort a fow daye aftorward. R. W. Burkhardt, n surveyor in Albany Coun- ty, Wyo, Tor., aaw throe bauds of Indians nenr Laramio Peuk, whilo ho was out prospeoting. Ho was fired at by one _of thoso bands, and ro- turned the firo s well as he could, wounding one Indian, and then succoodod ib making his oscapa to Laramio City, and, on tbe dth of July, reported the facis to Col. Drackett, at Fort Bandors, Yosterday morning the Indions mado A DABIL AT FORT YRED BTEELE, sltuatod directly on tho linoof the Union Pacifio Ratiroad, and captured oight hend of stock bo- longing tosomo 1mmigrants who wore oncempad half n milo from tho Fort. On tho sumo day thoy, mado chaso after a hand-car betweon Fort Bteolo and Rawling,—n milo from the post,—uon which there were sovoral rairond hands. Tio Indians fired upon the railroad mon, which fire tho latter roturned with o' Winchoster riflo, and Mr. T\ J, Moore thinks one of the suvages wag Lilled, or at lenst mortally woundod. The Iu- dinn fell from his horse, when the othors stop- pod parsuing tho hand-car, and, gathering up their dend comrado, rode off ovor tlio hills to tho nortbward, It will bo seen from this that the Sloux, Arn- pahoes, and Cheyonnos aro in earncst, ana will not bo satisfled until they-have made a fiue haal of somo of tho herds of horsos that roam over tho Lnramio Plaing, Beveral ybars have olansed gince thoy havo raided much along tho conrgo of the great railroad across the Gontinont, but late- ly thoy scom dosirous of changing tho acono of activo boustilities from thelr own grounds to TUE TOWNS AND BRETTLEMENTS ocenpled by tho whites, Tho troubles early in tho spring “mado it necessary to move much of the cavalry to tho region of ‘tho Agenoics at Rod Cloud and Bpotted Tail, The savages aro well aware of this, oud are tsklnfi advautage of it to depredato near tho towns and posts, whoro they Lknow thero is no mountoed forco to follow thom, OQur rogulsr military foreo was cutdown by the Iast ongross, ond it will bo as much as thoso who aro loth can do to Topol tho attacks of the savages upon our infant sottlomonts hore in the Wost. At no timo for many yours past has thera beon puch apparent concert of action among the difforout tribes, and it will requiro tho utmost stoadiness of pur[:mm, and the most diroct and hoavy Ulows, ou tho pars of tho army, to drivo the suvagos back to thoir rescrvations, Alrondy thero i WIDE-BEREAD ALARM 4 in many looalitics, and tho cffect upon the pot- tloment of this country is, of course, most dis- cournging, An Indian war may purhnvs como 24 well at thia timo a8 any othar, though it is to bo rogrotted that our law-makors thought bost to cuf down tho strongth of tho military forco Jast winter, whon it 1s so much noeded on thig oxposed frontior at tho presont time. Tho own- ors of flocks and hords have beon notifted to keop thom well in hand, and tho nowspapers lhereabouts have callod upon tho citizons to form military compauios for solf-defense, Altogothor there i & most unpleagant, not to eay alarming, stato of affairs in tbe Far West. Raiding Savages to Be Punished. Wisnsaros, July 21.—In connection with the application of Gen. Shoridan for offogtive opera- tions against the Indisug—the Kiowas, Comnn- chies, and Chioyonnos,—tho Scoretary of War has fustructed tho Gonoral of the Army as follows : July 20—Rospoctfully roturnod to the Qouoral of the An ‘my ¢ lu’-u.‘onhnu with the suggestions and recommend- ations roceived to-dsy from the Acting-Secrotary of the Tatorlor and the Commisslonor of Indian AMalrs tho guilty Indlans will Lo pursuod and punished wherovor found 3 and tho reservation llues sbould Lo 1o barrler to such oporations. Care should be taken not {o strike iunocent nnd friendly Indians who aro near the agoncy, and who have taken no part in the ‘rocont forwys, - Meastires should be immediately takon to keep tho friendly Indians from thoe othare, and per- - mission bo otfered to tho others who are fricudly aud Tiave not had nn opportunity fo Join them, to como u, Then nil who porsist i hontilitics sliould’ be pursued and pupished. Tho Becrotary of tha Intarior will bo jmmediately informod of theso instructions, aud Copy of tho letier of the Socrotary of thio Intorlor, of July 18, inclosing tho communieation from the Com- missorior of Indian Affairs, of tho sasio date, Yo- cotvod to-day, will be dcut, os_soon 26 copiod, to you, for tranmiaion to Gon, Shoridan, (Bigued) WiLLIAX W, BELRNAT, Socretary of War. Recent Fighty in Texas. ‘New_Onieans, La., July 21.—A Galveston (Texas) News Austin special saya: ¢ Lato in- folligonca received at tho Adjutant-Gouoral's offico from tho Indian Torritory states that on Juno 28 the Comanches, Kiowas, and Choyennes sttacked tho sottlement at Doty Wells, aud woro vepulsed with a loss of fifteon kiiled and twenty- threo wounded. A Jargo number of horses wero Lilled. Throo surveyors employod by Hookbust & Armntmnfi wero killed by tho Indians near tho ‘Antolopo hills. The friendly Indisns aro collected around Wichita Agency. 'The warriors and young men are on the war-path, It is reported that & company of United States cavalry woro atincked st Otter Oreok and had four mon killed and ali their horses captured. A Fight in the Indian Territory, Ransas City, Mo, (July 17), Dispaich to the St, Lauis Tepublican. The Times recolved this ovoning tho following special from Uaddo, Indian Territory: By the stago just arrived from Fort 8ill, your corre- spondeut learns of o most atrocious oufrage by Indiuns, as woll as moagro particulars of asharp fight botwoon 8 company of the Bixth Cavalr aud & large body of Comanches. The fight tool placo at a poiut 80 milos wost of Fort Bill, the Jattor pinco boing noarly 200 miles from tho ata. tion. Col. Curpentor, tho Poat Commandant at Tort Sill, lod tho Unifod States troops in porson, and was badly wounded. Bix soldiors wero killed outright. Nothing loarned as to tho number wounded or lons ou the Iundian side. After the fight tho Indisns camo upon a stage-keepor aud hig wife, lilling, skinping, scalping, snd most shockingly mullxuting the body ot tho keeper boforo tho faco of his wifo, The wifo wau car- ried off to ba subjected to most hotrible tortures. ‘I'ho latost frown the Indians is that thoy have attacked & party of wood-olioppers, and it is fonrod that thoy have murdered every man of them, No hopeis ontortrined as to their fate. ‘Tho acts of tho red skins ara slmply indescriba- ble, Old Indiun tradors declars s bloody war is inovitablo, No fear, however, of their gotting this far Fast, s tho Indlansof this seotlon aro all peaceably inolined.” Spying Out the Land. Special_Dispatch to I'he Chicugo Tribund, Br, Paug, Minn,, July 20,—Johu Delauo, son of the Secretary of the Interior, §8 with Custer’s oxpedition, and has nlong with him snd in his omploy a competont land surveyor. THE BOOK TRADE. Third Convention of the Book-Trade Union at Put-du Buy==Namos of Doi= egates Presont==0bjoct of the fMlevi= ing. PumN Bay, 0., July 31.—The Third Conven- vontion of the Ameriean Book-Trade Union be- gan its scsalon at 30'clock to-day. Over 100 dologates, represonting the lnsgor puhflf;h- ing houses of Now York, Doston, Phils- doiphis, Cinownatl, aud Chicago, and the larg r jobbing-houses of thoese sud other clties, a8 woll as n Jargo number of retail dealers, aro in attondanco. All othera are oxpooced to ar- rive by tho ataamer this afternven and to-mor- row forenoon. 1he first mecting of the Unilon was hold on tho 10ih of’ Octobor, 1873, at Oivoinmtl, On‘tho socond ' mooting was hold the samo placo = on al Pob, 12, 1874, and subsoquontly 1t was doter- fi,‘ifim‘:’u Lold's more gmrxlurll ‘mooting 8¢ the Putlu-Bay Houso during tho presont month, ! abolel tho Dresout. myutom of dlaoounta \bolieh the prosout s} 3 I‘:&o‘; nguflu- dhu'zumtl w’inn trado alono, the only excoption to be on tho first introduction of nchool-books, and that only thtw%h ropular ugonts and doslors; to aboloh the wholesling of Jive books Lo the pross: for proe miumd, Tho platform of tho promotors DENOUNCES TRADE BALES a8 domoraliziug to the trado, snd oalls upon donlors to abstaln from buylug and pube lishors _from ~ contributing, 15 danouncos the publishors' rmctlnu of “sonding books b{ mail on racolpt of cataloguo prices, oxcopt wit! an addition of 10 por cont, and calls for o raduc- tion Iu the rotail price, 50 tunt tho Jargost dis- count undor any oircinstancos cannot excood one-third, To accomplish this objoct, the pros- ont mosting In liold, Tho Convention was enlled to order at 8 p. m. by Issao O, Aston, of Columbus, tho Yreais dant, who called upon the Rev, Mr, Gunn to open tho gossion with prayor. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESg, Mr, Aston theu gava the Convention rome ao= count of his offorts to induco Eastorn publishera to unite in the roforms proposod by tho Hosaion. At Philadelphia "o was not oncouragred; at Now York ho was gtill logs en- courngod, aud at Boston ho found the publishors propared to recolve bim kindly, and second his offorts in behnlf of tho reforin proposod. Tho loading Boston firms agreod In writing to visit Put-in Bay for the purpose of consultation, « With this encouragoment Mr, Aston roturnod to Now Yorl, whero ho_recelved similar asaurance from the fonding publishers of that olty. Mr. Aston's romarks wero bighly entortaiiing, and olicitod froquont applauso. TEUMANENT ORGANIZATION. Aftor tho clowo of Mr. Astou’s romarks, tho Prosident was dircctod to appoint . Commitiea on Permanont Organization, Tho Committea wag emrgmund of tho followiug gontlomen: Robort Clark, of Clucinuati; Wiflism II. Lao, of Tioaton; T, Nicholson, of Ricmond, Ind. Martin Taylor of Buffaio; James O. Sturgin, of Knoxville, Tenn,; A. F. Payno, of Daytons Qeorgo B, Btovons, of Cinclunat), aud Gon. Mcclurtt. of Chicago. Av this point the Chalrman announced ' that H had boen vm{‘muod to reorgnnizo, and the Com~ mitloo had boen appolntod for' that purposo, Mr, Robort Clark, Chairman of the Com~ mitteo, then eubmitted tho following roport for pormanont organization: Prosie dont, A, D. F. Randolph, of New York; Vico Prosidents. Geoigo A. Soarcy, Alabama ; Georgo H, Gibbs, Arkanmss ; A. Itoman, Calls ifornta ; Willinm H. Gross, Gonneotiont ; William B, Aughmon, Detuwaro ; J. W. Burke, Goorgia § Gou. McClurg, Tilinols ; Silaa Bowen, Indiaun Q. B. Groavonor, Towa ; William Parnell, H. W, Wright, Kausnd; Albort Eynsh, Loulsiana : William Leo, ~ Massachusotts; 8. Iunts ington, Vermont; Willam ~ H, Stricke land, Wisconsin; Goorge Loving, Maino; Charles Huthroy, Michigau; D. D. Morrill, Mionesota; I, C. Clark, Mississippl; W. D, Baker, Missouri; W. 8. Appleton, New York; I, Vfilbur, Nebraska ; 1, 0. 1lastman, New Hamp- sbire; J, O. Aston, Ohio; K. H. Gill, Oregon; A. J. Hartman, Ponnaylvania ; James 0. Btufgia, ‘Tounossco; J. R, Randolph, Virginia: W, W. Gnmblo, Toxns: J. D, Staton, West Virginia; Georgo T, Dudloy, Now Joraoy; Alr, Cushing, Maryland ; Mr. Ballontino, District of Oolumbia 3 Mr.” Willisme, North Carolina; R T. Bryan, South Caroliua 3 Mr. Tibbits, Rhode Island 5 J. W. Dyor, Utah ; Nichards, Colorado. Becrotn. rios—Johm H., Thomas, D. Lrthrop, Mr. Mo. nachies, I, Clallen, Jamos B, Weaver, George 0. Stevons, Treasurer—1'. Nicholson, OTSIER ADDRESSES. The roport was adopted, and Mr. Randolph conductod to the chalr. Upon taking the plate forn the Prosident delivorod an oloquont address, The Prosident then introduced George B, Brown, a well-known Teledo bookseller, who wag down for an address of welcomo. Tho addresa was well rocoivod and specially complimentod by Pregident Randolph. Bovoral resolutions of & minor charactor were introducod and adopted, ir, William Loo, of Boston, oftered » rosolu- tion, which was adopted, that o committoo of thirty bo appointod to considor upon tho affairs of tho trade, and roport to this Convention. After tho appointmont of this and a Committac on Finauce, the Couvention adjourned until 16 o'clock to-morrow. CROPS. Eeports from the Northwest, Special Lispatch to The Chicago T'ribune, TFonr Mapsox, Ia., July 21.—Tho proapect foy tho corn crop is greatly improved throughout Southorn Iowa by the heavy rain of eight hours' duration to-dny. Byectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, BrooMiNarox, IH., July 21, —Moderate rain hos fallen al) over McLean County, doing incals culable good to tho growing crops. Much more ralo i nooded. MABsALLTOWN, Ta., Jnly 20.—Wo are having very timely rain horo to-day, The late drought in Contral Jows did not do much damage to tha crops in this vicinity, The corn crop Is very good. Whost is o8 good as it has beon for fi7a oars, Whont-harvosting has just falrly com- monced, Hsrvest hands aro plonty; wages is from $2 Lo $3 por day. Svecial Dispateh to The Chicagn Tribune, Dunuoque, Ia., July 21,—The followiny is the crop roport from Jones County, ono of tho bant grain-raising counties in tho Stato of Iowe. Muuy fermers aro complaining of the offact of tho oxtromo hot weather upon the growing crops. Ho dry is tho grass that it is hurried fnto cover immodiately after it is cut, without wait- ings for the usual hocossary processof © drying.” In somo of tho flolds, espocially on the rid;es, tho wheat is badly injured, many heads showmg no kernols at all, and mapy more only withered oues which are not half filled. Osts are bat- tor, though they, too, have suffered fiom the drought. e need not expect moro than half a yiold of hay, and twa-thirds of a crop of whent aud oats, "Corn never looked better at this timo of year, and, if some unforseen cul un- ity docs not happen, it will bo tho heavieat yicld seon hereabouts for years. Special Dispateh to T'he Chicago Tribune, Drs Morss, In,, July 21,—There was a vory henvy rain-fall hore last night, the groupd being woskod to tho dopth of & foat, Correspondence of Tle Chicago Tribuna, Erory, IIL,, July 20.—Oh- for somo raiu! cries tho farmer, miller, and in fact everybody, uven the poor women, are in trouble, The dirty clothos are plentior, and nico, cloan linen n searco articlo. By faith thoy put off lust week's— perchanco last fortuight's—washing, bohoving tlat, just or unjust, the water-wagon wouald mako its call ‘“without money and witkout prico™; not 25 or 50 cents a load, for prsiy river-water, but cloan, swoet rain-water. Waoll, lotit come! It will bo ten-fold moro appro- ciated; it will bo ten times swootor and eloaror. But the poor brown and yellow grass haa paa scd boyond help, I foar, Evergroens sot out witlin the last yoar or two are mostly dying, excipt thoeo well mulched ; it waa littlo good to wator thom, unloss plonty of rotied straw or manuro is sproad around to koop the ground moist. Correanondence of The Chicago Tribune, Pyraskr Cousty, Ik, July 17.~In your woekly of July 8 I aeo’that tho cry from the farmory in tho northern portion of this Btate ig for rain, rain. In tlug county, on the 8th, tih, and 10th, wo had very good rains, which i3 bringing our crops out.” Wo will bave one of the bost corn-crops wo lave had for some tino. . heat is good and ‘flnucy. Oate aro not gocd; dry wouthor ruined them, Karly potatoes aro nearce, but lato ones are all plauted and growing nicely; I think we will hisve a good yiold, pro- vided the potato-bug does not eat the vines up, and a8 yob wo have scon nothing of them, Penches aro fioml, and thero are plnty of thom, Applm‘l aro abundont, and solling &t 6U cents por Duabel, Agricultural Dopartiment Report, ‘Wasisaton, D, 0., July 21,—Ib appeara from roturns to the Department of Agriculture thut an ineroaso {n the corn area of fully 2,000,000 ncres {8 appsrent, or G per cent above the broadth of Isat year, ‘Cho percontage of in- croase 8 thoe Iargost in the South, Tl incroags in acros ju the largost in the Wost. The condi- tion of coru is genoially good in the West, Lut olsowhero is variablo, Only Massachu- uolts, of tho Esstorn Statos, roporty s avorage coudition, Ounly Ponusylvanis, of tho Middlo Statos, and Marylind, South Caroling, ~ Goorgin, TFlorids, ~and Toxes of tho Bouthorn Btates, roport the samo, Miune- wota is an oxcoption in the Weatorn Htates, ro- porting 04, and California and Orogon fall to ivo a full averago, ‘T'ho porcontages of condi- tion abovo tho avorage aro as fullows: South Carolina, 101 ; Massachusotts, Florida, Miohi ?uu. and Kausns, 102; Mavyland and Towa, 104§ linols, 105 ; ‘Toxas, 100 ; Indiaus and Nobraska, 100, Tho States averaging 100 sve Pounsylvanis, Georgla, Wiscousin, aud Nlissourl, —_——————— UNCONSTITUTIONAL. New Yonr, July 21.—Tho theatrical loenso foe, or tax,of 500, ouforoed by tha Btate, Lny been virinally doclared unconatitutional, an the ground that tho Logislature cannat tax individs uals to support private corporatious such as the Socioty for tho Reformation of Juvonilo Daline quonta appears to bo. —————— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, . Loxpox, July 21,—The ateamalup Californis, from Now York, bas arrived out, Bovriaurron, July 41,.~Tho steamship Rusin, from New Yark, has arrived,