Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 25, 1874, Page 3

‘COLORADO. ‘ ‘An “Bxciting 'War Between! ' Territorial 'Officials. “Rival Faotions (laiming the .Same .10 cos, A Spllt Gexdain fn ithe ‘Republican “Party Pegiibility of ‘tho. LiltloRack Bow: Being - Imtatod at Denver. Statements: on Both Sidos of the K - Cmse. RS-, “Summer-Travel Throughout 'tho Territory, “Yhreatened Litigation: Over -the Irriga- tion Question, aiipecial Carvespondence of The Chicage Tribuind. © DENvKE, Col., July 14, 1874, *The people of 'Colorado Liave boan greatly per- tarbod, during-the past six months, by _AN. UNRELENTING ¥101T \batween. the. two .factions of the Republican party, tho one being led by Qen. McCook, .tho present Governory and the othor by Sam Elbort, the ox-Governor. ‘During the rocont -sossion of *tho Torritorlal Leglslature, the'lattor mado soma : vory unpopulaz nominations, or at.losst such nominations aa displossod tho-powers that bo at * 8¢ Wadhington ; aud, on the 87th day of Jauuary, - information wan recoived hore that thePresident hud aent tothe Bouato tho nemoes of Mosars. 2McCool, Joukons, and Boaright, . to .supersode . Monsrs. Elbert, -all, snd Lossig, who hold re- --apectivoly the uifices of Governor, Secretary, nod Burveyor-Goneril. Close upon thesey'other nom- nations wore made, .that displaced pmmmmx} .oficiala:at many points throughout’ the Terri \ tory, and notably among : theuo -were -tho - Rog- Astars ..and..Rocotvars. of ithe: woversl Land- Offices. Those who had been displaced “from position naturally folt very sore at the troatmont theyhad seceived,. and they ifmuaedistely cow- . moncod a warfare upon their sucerssors, In thiy + eontent, in which thore wers numerous- orimina- tions and recriminations, much was-devoloped o astonish and astound'the peoplo. It was con- cluslvely shown that, for many yoars. past, thero had beon an EXTENDED'SYSTEM OF LAND-STEALING, by reason of falso-entries and-perjury ; and that botl the Gavornment and private fdtviduala had aullorod groatly. thoroby, Mon. who - proviouuly - hud boen:above reproach-had brought : howe :to *-thom theallogal appropriation of . wholo - town. sites; also, that ‘thoy, by. n ‘systematic merics . of frauds, lad caused actual settlors. $0 Do . disposscesed . of -their. home- sfoads .and other real .property. It is but-quite recontly that .ns many -08-150 indict- ments havo boon found in tho Third Judicial Dys- trict of Colorado.against - partics for ‘‘Jend- grabbing, " and theso will:all be triod-at tho next torm of Court;: whichis’ shortly to-bo liold at TPuoblo. - Among thoso indicted are some men who - until recontly held important oficos of trust, Among-others who.were. quits prominent. in exposing the great corruption -connected ‘with this Iand-business was den. McCook, and those whom ho exposcd sought . to Lill bis nomination #n the Honate by preforting.charges pgainst him, to tlie.offect $hat Iv» had swindlod tho Govern- ment through cortain Indian contracta which hiad ‘beon made by somo of . his ‘fricuds soveral yoars « ago; when he wag Governor. Bevoral.delegations .of doposed _office-holders . and thoir friandspro- oeodoed to Washiugton to-boar teotitnony ngainst . him. Among the number was -Gov. Llbert, who .yomained ;at the.: Nationnl- Gapital .sbout. five - monthe, During this time . ALIVELY CONTEST ENSURD. McOook's nomination wea roferred lack to the QOommitteo on Territories, and thorough .and eearching iuvau'xnnuns wore mado . ks to ‘his .conuection with «the Tndiun contructs, . Ihg advorsariea . failed to prove suything against him ; and, but + & fow duys before the adjournment-of Uangress, +'the Benate oonfirmed. hir, though by a very close voto. The nows (of .the coutirmation was reccivod at every point thronghout the Lerritory - with great mupifoycations of joy. . Tho most inveterate.foo that Gov, McCook .+hed to encpunter. during tho poudancy of Lis nopination way Delegate Chalfee. . his gontle- man. lett no stono uuturued which tended to \ bring:about a defeat. Mr, Chaffeo avon wont o +4ar a8 to saythay, it MeCook was confirmod, he wonld immediately rosign his soat as Delogato .in Congrevs ; but, thus far, bo bas neglected to do g0, and has lust nich caste in coussquenco thoraof, mouy of his frionds asserting that hio has been guilty of . doplicity. However, it 18 charitablo’ to prosume that ho mude tho asser- tion amid tho heat of palitical excitement ;. but, ‘o this as it may, he still wiolds considerable in- fluonco, and will contributo townrd making thoe coming campaign, which is just 'sbout to opon, quito Waita, L THE REPUBLICAN TRESS of the Territory ia nbout evauly divided betweon tho McCook aud Chaffeo factions, as the twa divisions of the Rapublican party are pow callad, “The Republican Torritorial Couvention, to nom- inato & dologato for Congress, mosts in this city on tho 8th of Angust next, and ench factivn will struggle most vohomently for its control, Thut thore will bs a bolt and “two Rapublican candi- dates in the ficld, “thoro can be but littls ques- tion. The Chaffoo faction intond to introduce reosalutions denouncing President Graut, for the xup{r‘mmmom of Gen. McCook ay Governor,and for ke sonding of others hero whom thoir ar. gaus now universally stigmatizo as ** carpot- baggers ” -and “ political. advesturers.,” 'T'he McCook men, accordipg to the toue of their ournals, will praiso the Adminfstration for lig- ning Lo the voica of the -people of tho Torri- tory, snd,, in responss thercto, remaving the corrupt men who 80 long have disgracad tho Re- ublioan party.and injurod the best iutesests of .Colorado through' their rapaoity, ‘TUE DEMOORATS .ara quietly enjoying thiu bitter, fight, and each dny soomns to add to lts inteualty. Tliore Js not tho romotest probability of & compromise be- tween the two factions, {f their lezders ave to bo bolieved. Tho Convention of the Demacracy will bo held ab Colorado Bpriugs on_ the 214 of tho prosent month, aud it iy highly probabla that thoir candidute will bo electod by a large majority, Tho clottion takes qlncn early in Beptember, and the esmpaign will be the warm- .est over known in the history of Colorado. Duripg the past’ fow days, quite & conflict of suthority hise arison a4 to who slall exorciso} THE.OFFICK OF OOVERNOR, While ex-Gov.” Llbert was making a five- miouths’ sojourn 1n Wushington on a loavo of absouco from the Becrotary of “the Interlor, sud whila Gen, McCook was confirmod and qualified ns_libs suocossor, Colurudo was'virtuslly without a Governor,—Socretury Jenkeus, one of tho new appolutoss, dischargod tho ditics of ihe of- fico ~during _the grealer portion .of the tima. -Mr, Elbort had beon back fully a wook, -and ‘observed - that My, Jonkens was Jischargiug tho dutles of tho offico, aud using tho groat soal of-tho ‘Lorritory, Bubsoquootly, Mr, Elbert thought it devolvod upon him to-re- entor upon -the disohargs of Gubornatorial du- tics- until - the -return of Gov. MeCouk from tho East., A'sharp correspondonue ensued, iu which moither recognizod Lhe right of the vtlier to uct aa Governor, - My, Elbert sesertod that be.lad no ofticial informatson of his removal, or theupe. ointment or confirnition of his uuccossor; thit | &., owers' did not conso;. and that hie should - forthwith entor upon .the dutios of his oflice, ‘Alr; Jonkons replied:that ho had the onfolal Jn- + formation, which was hix pullicient warrant for discharging tho Gubornatorial duties, aud this - he would continue to do until the arrival of Gov, MoCook. As both claim the prorogativo, it is diflicult for the publie to detornmine who is to bo secoguizod sy tho Lxeculive of tho Worritory, + ¥hig couflict cf ‘:]uthu:ity msy yetb lead to somo b serjous resultd, ‘»‘z.lozhur unploussnt -foataro of this faotional . fight is » difloulty which Lue arlien betwaon tho OULUUING AND INCOMING VUSTMABTERY, .t fucner had plucod . weveral hundred -look- hexss in tle ollios, aud, not 'being abla to agree FVYLUY QRN THE CHICA: EEE PR e W (W ¥ b PN ‘0 DAILY "TRIBUNE IBATURDAY, GJULY: 874, 25, with" the-latter. ‘ad to tho pries,bogawto loonsn ‘them, sud gave indications that bo was)about to comueneo thelr. immediata removal, - The now man _ordored now boxes, and pntont locks from “thio Tiant, Tho reduld is, thit tho rotiring Post- imnator hian nlargd lot of - useless proporly on'his ‘handa, .o codnvlen himsdifiby stowlng it awny, [ anying: that: o way.have usofor it at some -fu-' utro time, Both ha and his succesaor are out cards ‘siking tho Indulgenca'of tho public, ahd oxplniniug thotr evoral pouitions, Intho mosn- timie, tha peuplo “aro-growling that thoy-are In- convontonced-vy a contoat In whith thoy'haveno ‘Intereat. i Tt mny: ‘bo-added, iti this connection, thint - neac- Iy all tho’ doposed -officors -have held thelr ro.l #poctive oflices from threo “to “ton - poars -each, and-many of, them have *grown ‘quito ‘rich off thoir emoluments, Nenrly all of them, bowover, mnka it a point toarrny-thomsolvos against!tho Adminiatration on neeount of thoir decapitation, mid it In-rénlly astoulsbing as Lo how nearly the Ropublican pross of tho Territory - has'divided itself on this question, whiob, In reality, ‘is -ano morely involviug the spolls of-vflico. Tnclrauccorsive year*Colorado 1d ‘growing in -polutof-popularity as A BUNMER RESORT. Now Elnnn-ol ‘Intorest aro constautly being oponed up, and the ecommodations for vinitors enlarged, Alinost overy incuming train, during tho ‘Presont month, haw brought trom B0'to 100 ‘lourtsts,—#omo of whom tarry but a fow days, and others will romain 2 month or two amid our -boautiful ,mountain-sconery. The facilitios for travollng - have grontly incroased within our bor- dors during the past yeer,'and many-points of “Interest'aro'now sceessiblo by ratt which former- 1y could only bo reached through a (édious jour- ney by wagon or slago, Tha humorous mineral springs at'soveral difforont points-ure sttracting ‘many porsona by-rensan of ' their supposed cura- tive propertios. “Auiong somo of thomore popu- Jar -wprings nro tho-Manitou, locatod most pic. turesquely at the bauo of Pike's Ponk, and but & short” distanco from Colorndo Bpringy, which in now noted for ita-broad and woll-shadad - streots and benatiful, homelike oottages ; - tha'Hot'Sul- phur ¢ Springs, in'Miadls Parks ; Tdaho 8prings, near Georgotown ; and the Arkansas Bprings ‘at Canon Clty, in tho douthern portion of tha er- ritory. TUERK 18 MUCK TO ENOAGE TIE ATTENTION of all'who journoy through horo, whothor it ha in quest of 'henltlvormorely for pleasure, As to extont and varioty, no socction of the United Statos can claim’ precedouco -of Colorado, * Tho monntatng, Wwith' thoir numerous snow-capped peaks, tho bonutiful foot.liills, the ‘majestic canons, the rug[;nd gorges; the clear, murmur- ing stropms—sil contribhute to cngross the attou- tion of tho tourist. “Tlie exponse ‘of ‘travoling from potnt to poiut is much lees than many may suppaso, Numorous points of interost radisto from this city, and can ba resclied in a faw vonrs, Morrlson, Boulder, Uentral, Georgotown, aud' Colorado Springs, ean all -bo “teachiod for a dollar or two, and botwoon - broak(ast+and “din- ner-timo. T'hin Is a point worth notin -h{ thosa who visit Denver, and whose timo lfu imiled while in the Territory.” Ono reason why tho ex- penso of travel ia yomowhat less thia yonr than ‘formetly -is owing to'the -fact-thut.numerous rfl'hm{ and -stago-compunics bavo establishied spocial excursion-rates, - which ialmost any ouo can readily take advantage of, and thus view an oxtonded rango of country 'at u cowparatively-smnll outlay “of - monoy,” “The Liotol-raton, as & gonoral thing,'nro-vory-rendonn- Dble, being from 59 to -§4.por day, -and with: ac- commadations fully. equal.to thosa. tn . the Bast clarging n corresponding figure. ‘The era of high prices hag passed in Colorado, and to thoso with whom ecunomy is # degidoratnn uo- obsta- cla nead now-ariso. In Tarny of the citios, tovms, - and rural-rosorts, good board -may be. obtained At from 5 to 514 por woelt. Ous of thio protticst .and clionpest trips, ducluding s gront varioty of weonery, 1 fromi Donver to Goldon;-thence up Cloar Orack Uanon to Qentral, - taking a+ poep-at the tnines ; - thouco ‘ovor to CGoorgetown,-:and acrosa to Idaho Springs, -and :backr. + A satisfac- tory:view of onoh of tiese ‘placea can readily bo | pany malntain- that the wator “which -bnd in two'days. ‘In!this. scotion. there is an abundanco of .game and’flsh, respecially moun- tain-trout. A GREAT DRAL.OF LITIGATION is both threatonod and.going-on -ab . the qpresont time ‘wrhin the bordors of ¢he Torritory.. .Bome of it Las grown out of contlicts botwaen parties an ta the right of ownarship Jo- mineral lands, but tho mosat oxtensive litigation, aud. that which in- _volves some new points of . Jaw, is "Hkely soon to -occnr sud engrge tho attontlon-of tho-conrts of the sevoral Judioial Distriots for soms time'to «come. :Itwprows ront -of what may.ba - tormed prior:vested - rights in tho use of watoer for irri- ‘gating purposes. Dot privato iudividuals. and vorporations are likely to bo involved to s con- siderable oxtent in o series of porplexing suitos. Tho Union' Colony, whose hondquartets aro a4 Qreeley, is sbout gotting out fujunctions agaiuat cortain partios , in Larimor County to restrain thom from the e of certain water {or irrigating purposos. This fu 3.cano_wlicre a corporation iy arrayed against the people, *vhile, on‘tho other - hnd the paopla.of I Paso Uounty have caused .an. injunation ‘tobe..served.on the Colorado Spriugy Compauy for iencroaching . upou tha prior vestod righis of certain privito individasls, Iho wator with which the ‘town is irrigaled s taken; from tho Fouussin, a pmail but novor-fail- ing stream. Much facling oxiste ovor the snub- joct, ag it i -virtuslly & conllict botween ‘tha naricnltatists aod the '-town-lob -epccnlators. Tho formor clim {iab by tho improgor use of ihe water, through tho ‘misnuner in which it iy divorbed by tholatter, erops.valuod st humdrads .of thousand of dollura will most likely die dur- ing ' tho :prosont sesson, Whe Springs c?lm- the; tuka is absolutely necesmary to: keep !h{a whado-trces ‘of ‘the town alive. ~ Tha Grangors have takon the. matlor in. hand, and = .thenr sympathica are:mll with the people. -ln . somno-localities Lo condlict is assuming A VERY.SERIOUS ASPECT, by rezson of the fact that partics are boginning to divort, maliciously, tha course :of stroatas and ditches, maraly t6 annoy and embarrass par- tics boyoud them, Personal .violence has re- sulted, :and, in one instanco, & terriblo -homicido was-perpetrated. : Now.precedonts. must be os- tablished regarding riparinn nghts ore: tho difi- -calt Euxblnm can bo solved oud conflicting iuter- osta harmonized. 1In this city, tho water-question grently agitates the peoplo. During the presont stunmer, the supply for the shade-trees oxnamenting the side- walke'and for the garduns has been inadequato, Baveralmothods hiave beon brouglt before theOrty Coungil for its consideration, and extonsivo sur- voys hnvo boeu mado. It is estimated .that the work will cost from §30,000 to. $100,000, .and. al- rozdy the City Futhers are uccused sof .favoring certain. schenies more thun others . in ordor that thoy ‘may bo pecuniarily benofited by theie action. In the merntime the city iy HUFFERING FOL WATER, and the small amount that is now furnishsd here ‘16 botl extromely - costly .apd vory inadequate, At almoat every poine throughout the Tersnitory, vogotation has suffered groatly this season by reason of tho Lieat, drynoss, and a lack of water, Strenuous offorts are boing made to .so0 utilize tho water of the various strorms that horoalter it may be bo more oquitably dhmbut{‘d. From Anothor Correspondent, Aueciul Correapondanse of ‘Lhe Chicago Tribune. Denvsn, Col., July 11, 1874, It Colorado is governed bottor than South Caroling, it is the rosalt of sccidont,—uot the intontion of . the Administration, The curpol-bag power ‘ hes :gaued & firm hold on the Territory, sand nothlug loss than & political revolution cau looson it. It may bs that Gov. Edwin McCook i not particularly offensiye o tho peaple, but it is cortain that tho Toderal ofticials surronnding him, who. were: ro- contly appointed toserve his oauso, are OLNOXIOUS IX TUE EXTREME {o those who gave the bout yenrs of their lifo to tho mission of dovalaping and upbuilding this region. It isurgod by many who do.not indorse MeQook's-appointment—aud that claes soums to comprifo a majority of both partiss—tlint he has no-abidjng Intorent in Colorado, nothlug In com- mon it the peopls, and is 80 fudiiferont withal o the responsibilitios partaloing to. his.position that, during bis provious tenure of oftico, am- bracing a pariod of four yesars, ho was mnot in tho Torritory more than ten moanoths, "It +is eyident that MeCook's appolntmont. was an oftense agalnst ?nvd govornwunt, . jusumuch ‘ag tha potition suking for Lis removal waw almost unlyorsally sigued by the residonts of tho Terrl- tory, 11 - the Adnilnintration commitiod an offenuse by rolnstating MoUook, 1t by sppolutiug. RouFilt, Of Leusvivasis, & appointing: souright, "onusylvanin, to rzlpm‘nihll finnllmn in the Fodoral service of +the Larritory; for-Bearight carrios a Gamoronian curpot-bag, aud comen frosh from a~Oommiitos of the Ponnwylvanla Loglulature, appointed to iuquire futo “the _meaus uswd to roturn: Mr, Cameron tothe Unitod Bistow Seumto, It iy pousible, pertinps;-for & Ponnsylvanis Domocrit tolinld offivo by the graco of Osmeron, aud still be pura end unsublied ; but it 14 vo - highly imn- probable that the aversgo Coloradoan dismissey thothoupbe fustantly, The MeCook tigght; aa 1 16 called, hag HPLIT THE REPUBLIOAN PANTY IN-TWAIN, onunuisfi the way for the-success of- indapendent -political astion ‘in-Colorado, - The -Auti-MoUook ~fattion, Jod-by the . Netaiof tlils oityylias alrendy doolarad kta absolute fndopendonco of party-dic-, -tatlon—caonsenting“to ovver « nolthériithe 'Uto ‘contraotn; nor tho Las"Animus land.ateal witly tha -ritorial Couvoniion will mest in Donver;: Aug. b, for thouptirposo of ‘nominating a-candidato’ for' Delogate iLo ‘' Congress, 'alid .on *tho « nction ‘ot this - Convention ' hanj tho *‘fate - of ‘the “party in Colorado, The -Fedatal pmomyn conaoutrated ‘'In the hande tof Gov. MoQaok and his frionds, diecrostly dis- stributed .and judiclously promised, may-induco ' somoaiof tha “watidering shoop-.to. roturn ‘to tho cortaliof tho Adminigtrdtion ; but thoro-will -bo no excapo from party rupture if an iattompt is ‘opanly mado to {udorse Prosident -Grant. The Presldent in i UNPOPULAR TERE, - It soemn lio:mado a pladgo. to tho people of Col- orado that Fodoral ofiieos nhmlkyv Do fllled by :residanta of tho Toiritory; but, instead of kasp- ing alth in this rogard, ho has ‘sent-hithor.s - full orow of carpet-baggors, roorulted from tho tanke ‘ol playod-out - politicians in Virglula, Arkanens, and Ponnsylvanin. ' Naturally nnoufill -tho pnaPlo foel ludimant and rosontful aver it - botrayal of confldanco. The Domoorats will oall s Convention, ‘and make a nomiuntion-for Delogate, ‘aftor thoy: aeo what turn tho. Republican dissenslon tnkon— huplug thoreby {o gnlu atrougth :aud.vantago- ground, . -Blnco Colorado i asking for. ndmission to the Unionh of Siates, with so many changes.in favor of gotting in, tlicro is mora'than erdiunry -political interest:attaching to the coutest now'in progross-here. “It uced ocoasion no-surprise it the'tolegraph noon corries tho nows sbroad of & acone in Donver somowhat similar to thet RECENTLY ENACTEDIN LITTLE ROGK,:ATUE. Mho Territorinl -ofiicors—Including 'Mr. Dayid Moffatt, ‘Frensurer, aud Mr, W. R, Thomas, Ad- jutaut-Gonoral—do 1ot proposs to be removed withont .canse. They ‘wore .appointsd by 'tho +Governor, conflrmed by the Territorial Council, and malnfain that thoy havo tho_cloarly-dofined right'to bold thoir respectivo offices until tho time:for whioh thoy were appointed expires,.pro- vidad only that charges.of ‘missonduct ars -not _proforrod and susteinod. _-Adjutant-Genoral homas hias alrondy. rdceived a communication from Acting-Governor Jenkens, announcing his romoval, and commnuding.himn to :surrandor’ the arms-and ‘munitions tin ~his posscssion, (ten. omas treats tho ordor of Joukons with lofty “disdaln, and averstbat ho wounld oot surrendor ifs oftico sven if Gor. MoQook «should sttempt to romove.him, ‘but, 'in: that event; would rost -his cago-with:tho courts, -Mr..Moffat intends lo «adopt the saine courso; henco a lively. content jmay ensuo .boforo tho earpot-bag irogime goty posscauion of the Territorial ofilces, . B. THE FARM AND GARDEN. Normnt’s Pet Biacikberry—The Snyder, Kittatinny, and Lawton Coasidered as Regoards Tholr Vitlne for Market ='T'he IRond that All Now & taMust Travel=flore. About Draining—iHow “to.Deatroy ‘the Silver-Lonf Poplar— ‘Moonshine of No Lffoct in the LiHl- ‘ing:of Obnoxfous: Truon=The Lurch ‘and Ity ¥nsectsBnemics—"'ho Exrly Planting of' Lurch-nnd @sage’ Rec- ed=Poreuts Do "Not Affcct nl Bafn-Fnll” So ‘AMuch as They Regulate it Throuzhout . the Seusun, JFrom Our Agrienltural Corresponifent, OpaxraaN, Il July 23, 1874, NOTWAL'S PXT DLAOKRENRIY. ©Nomsan, Tl July 19,1874, Mn, “RunaL"—8m: Dy to-lny's-majl I 'end you isamplen of the Suyder and-the Kittatinuy blackberries, I nulected ‘the -bost samples of the.Kittatinny that 1 could find, I also. solocted dhrse clustors of ‘the Sy~ dor, as heur an_ avorago in-size'of berry, and number “of Derrios o tho spray,au I could find. "The number of -errlea to tho spray of thio Bnyder will run from fif- teon--to twenty-fivo, whily thoss of the Kitlatinny will go-from aix o twelve, We.rhave Lad 1o rain for the . pant five wreks, and fear tint we will lose. our orop of Lorries, I have cxamived tho Snyder and Kittatnny, and,.ne near ss T can . julite, thord sre four times s muny.quarls of beirics on the game number of canes of thioSityder &5 of the Kiitntiuy ;-wuil, for the three yooen ety Thave had four ties ad iy, X can show you caucs of Lhe Snydér with 1,200 barries on-them to-duy, I clajm-thers v aboul onc-eiglith difference in mize.» A you -tricd.to .auliglton” the people as 0 the marits of the Suydar in Tk TInUKE of Aprill, Tthought I would invile you to tome out and sco”tho Snyder, ‘and -campare it witli the K tinny, and thon make a statement fn The Furm and “@ardon " of tha raanlt of your ohrervation, - I can alsoshow you some. of {he cheap stockisald by thoso Indiana nurserymeon,. ong of -them Lrue, Wo. Have . laken. your advice and gono slow, snd +have proved the Buyder fo beall that we claim for ft, 1t is growing. inCamlrldgo, - Mass,, ‘and in Nebraska aud many other places, Just xs well nu at Normul, - Yory truly yours, J. R GastoN, ‘The-samples "eams In good ordar. Tho Kitta- tinny ara not only much mmaller, but apparontly .some .daya later, whila-hore the snmae day they . woro -a8 lnrge as tho Snyder, .and beginning to ripon. On thatdny (18th), & noighbor who'has a'plantation of both Kittatinoy sna Lawton Trad | picked. six quarts of tho lattor,. and the borries of - which aro mora than doublo tho sizo of . tho i Buydor. Thia yroes Lo:prova what was otatod in " “The Farm and Garden” of- April 1: -that the Snyder bad found a GENIAL NOME AT NORMAL, while the Kittatinny was-somowhat unfortanate in thatrespact. In ihis-location the Kitlatinny “may challonge tho 8nyder in rogard.-to size and yicid,~ while -tha great size ‘and good- shipping ‘propertics‘of tho Lawton willdistance “all con= petitora for market. Mr. G. cslia attontion to the ‘great mumber of borrlea - on a-spray-‘of the Synder; & though numbors carried the point, I-find thisto'ba-the ‘eane’ with the wild ‘berrios: along spray with s - grent mumbor-of- berries ; but then the fraitiie small, *On the Lawton-sud Kittatinny the fruit- .8purs arevery numerous, .and hold 5 'to 8 ber- ries, and, in this respect, thoy are very similar; but the larger sizo-of-the Lawton gives it the PHEFHRENCE AB A MARKE[-FRUIT, and then it is go firm that it earries woll to mar- ket 1 ‘in short, the Lawton among blackhorries is ‘what .the ‘Wilson is among strawberries, The Kittatinny Lhns beon classod- &8 more hardy, but {s emall size aud want of firmnoss will ever keap it out of tho . markot, and .it is now kept in position by tho.nurserymen who :advertise it as hardy sud productive, and suited to ‘the family garden; juat a8 though a good market-froit was nct &' good family-fruit also, Tho oxcoption to this rulaa in ‘the softer and more perishable fruils. that oannot Ls sent to ‘distant markots, suoh. a8 the I'urple-Cone rasp- borry, the Early Jo.and Fall Wine apples. ‘The dryness of the. #eason -at Normal will not allowof a fair trinlof the Su&dm‘. 28 I had hwped, -as it .is desirablo t0.s0ttlo tho status of all. now {ruite-st an-early day. A neighbor has a NIW, HARDY TLAGKDERRY ;that was sent him from tho North, and whioh has feuited the Ensz two years, whon the Kittatinny mearly failed and the Lawton refused fruit'alio- gother, On thoe 18ih, when ‘the Lawton was riponing for. warket,.this fruit was not half- grown,but full. as .Isrge as tha: Snyder, and, though Iato, will produce a largo crop ;-and so 1 . find in sll the. wild blaokberrioy, this: senson, a rost abundanco of fruit. If the Snydor is as ardy as claimed, it will do to plant ‘ab / points North for family use, but it ean never ' caimpete - in:the markot with the Liawton, as the railroads will:upply tho markets from more distaut and congenial ‘climates for this fralt., Tor the ssme . reason, the Kittatinny --will .never cut auy figure :in the market ; aud the.sume mey bo sald of Wilson's Early.aud all:othor gorts thus farscnt.out for the purposo, Thousnpds of new strawberrios havs heen sent forth with ' glowing cortiticatos, bus not ono of tliom hass bocomo & market-{ruit; even for alocal market, ‘Thoy Hlaeh on the public attontion, and thus diaappoar forever, . Aud, to.some extont, it +in the'spms with the bisokborry ;- new sarts are haralded as takiug tha plnco:of tho. Lowton, but, when. we.go into thonarkets of all our iarge towns, ! HOX® DUT THX LAWTON ARK FOUND, or, it found, they attrast.no attentivn, The ar]g(untorn and propagatara of new varlelies of our-small fruite must pear those .fuots ln mind, a8 thoy. may.save thom from dlsappoiutment. Peoplo begin to go slow on thoso now things, and take little on trust; and, though tho Bnydor muy bo tho bost blsokberry In the world, yot it will bo slow in wpreading over the conntry. That it was_twenty-flva years in flnding it way to' Normal ' fiom Laporte, Ind., :i4 . nothlug . ageinwt . it, .bot ! rather in Its favor. For, whilo on ita inodast. travels, it wont on its morita; but mow it ridos on printora’ ink, and hay good backivg from the plaut-paddlers, Aud yot it must " work ‘slow progreny, for it must pass tho thousaud wrooks ithat strow the path-to:foms, 'fho roots of .the morug-multicanis yot stiok in the grouud; then poma of tho utalke” of the Ohina-tree-corn .aro in tho way; aud- tho ‘stotich of -the Nohan otato-taints the alr, And in the brond track of “progress ara bits af strawborry-plants, dry roots of grapos, caues of tho. raspboerry,. and Ioauuat ouumerate. the thoussuds. of worthless. things that lie strown slony tho route on which the fow sugcosnful now “frnfte mnst puss, Shis must vipeds-thelr progrossy sad'tho' Moyder 'smay: die ‘mantlo:of Ropublivaninm, 'hv’Ropublican Tor-' |" by thonvay, or it'may have endutance ‘Lo ' comn +oub.at the ond .full of. honoraj and yot the line +of march, o impaded, muat Lo necosnarily slow,, and'withn eorrcnpmndlnuly low wtagzo of *profita, Printors" ink' mhy “pive 'it" a rapld ‘wtwrt, sbut, liko the ‘Moxisan ‘evorbonring sirawwhorr the-mammothiclustor: rasphiry,' <the : Rumsdell -oat, and wuch llke,” It-muy havo & wudden- fall. "Bonio of Llicas thiugs wero “good in theninelven, but thoy traveled -under fstitlons namos ; aud ‘50" of ' tho "Buydor: if it 14 n common wildl iatmply pattod by vulturo, it will domo to naught 3! but if, ou'the othor hand, it has . preator virtuen than tho common kind, tino will maka It alt tho “brighter.” Sueh’ things'cannot lis Written dowt, '{ar:hlrls vory good ronson that thelr: virtues™ pro- act tuermn, DRAINISO, tATNoor, Til,, July 19; 1674, Mn, #Runar "B : I ace that th bjeot of drafn< ing in baving its turn I Tural investigation, A nelghe bor claime that it will pay to druin afl of our prairfe. Iand, s, during & wet- scason, wator may stand on ail of our flolde.sud:damago the crops, What do you Jthink of this general draining eystom? r.a, | It will not pay to lay draius oxcept whero tho wator will atand and - stagnato for somo days aftor a rain, or, more propeily, whore tho water must bo evaporated from tho surface, Whon wa fuquira corefutly, wo will find only a -small proportion of our land that will be really heno- fitod by tilo-draining, In many cases a littlo managomont in plowing, by laying out the lands proporly, snd by dend-furrows, the surface-wa- tor can bo-dirohiarged, without mucl-renl extra labor; it boing moro “in . the plauning of the landn and the " doad-furrow than in the labor, Ileavy upland - olays. nood deep breaking up; wwhen tlioy will bo capbla of aborbing tho sur- faco-water that cannot readily pnss off, and that is what thoso soils noed,to hold the valuo of the subgoil, ; Soila that -aro -uaturally. porous need no-undordrainjug, unleas thoy ara so low shat thio water oanusol pass off, or. biave a tonnolous subsoll for a base, It is in subsoils that tile- draining-is of . groat advantago, s it proventa saturation. The. soil neoda bo moist for the frowth of plauts, aud- the soll muat bo reduced 0 . thot - condition that this can be maintained. On :rolling .Jand. that I8 tenactony we resort to deop culturo, while: en flat -landa tho undor- draing - take. .the place of ' this, and shnllow cul- ture answers our purpose,.as the soll is naturally mora opon, being Ailad: with humus, or vogotnbla mold, that' aoparatos tho partieles'of clay, aud thus makes it friablo. Wo necd tilos lnud in the low pluces to discharge .tho.surplus wator that gathors thoret.and this is about all that neods underdraining, Whoro a dow -plago erosscs n Aleld, it is.very desivablo:to have a drain, s tha doad-futrows lead tho rainfullto such o place to be discharged. “*BILYER-LEAY POPLAR. “Toscora, 1L, July 15, 1874, : BIR, ¥ RURAT =8z ‘Will -you ploasa inform e Tiove-to otterly.destroy, in e “quickest mouuer, roo nad branch, those . abuminable nulsances called the Abelo or suowy-lodf poplar 7 I planted a row of them Justnorth of niy liowse, $n the yard, ten yenrs sgo, and 1 nave rogretted it for {iis past fivo years, Thosprouta camo up all ovér the yard and In the garden; and “are -aw-ntolerablo nuisanco, * 1¢ 1 should ‘bore & two-inch sugur-hole fn 'the body 6f the tres, and filkit with somo actd, alkali, ar-caal-atl, woild tho roots, an_woll us the Dodyybe killed thereby 7 Whiat wonld be most™ effoc tive7 ~Would not'sonio wich application kil the rools moro effectually than girdling the tréo du the ‘old of thio moon i Atigust ? TIE LAROT AND TNSECTH. T-notieed-in-tho -New York yibune, some wookn . pince, asmall ftem to the :effoct that “the *lerch in ‘Enrope wns being killed by some fuseot or blight, aud thwt 1t would. follow -auchi” tracs fmporteds Ilad {n- femed Lo plait a grova of tion noxt apring; but, it thioy are not'a nafe tree, I wiil plaut the blsck-walunt, ' liyo yon any-knowledgo or* foars’ on ncconnt of tho atatemont slinded to? EDWARD 8, BAxeM, “1f Lhe Iarger poplars are cut at'tho ground, and 'tho sprout jost below the surfaco, betore ths niiddle’of-Augnst, they ‘Wil givo littlo further {ronble, A‘few uicmy sprouts may appoar, ‘but thoso' should have prompt attention, The ap- plication of a¢ids would be of no pra_tical valno, more than mmini down or givdling ; dnd, as to t{:n I‘t:ll moonckilling treds; or in anywise niding, that is, ALL MOONSIINE. Plants may mske moro growth during full moona.on nooount of the lipht; and we know that, .on. auch nights, the raliation is groater, aud. Lenen, they nre,more linble to frost, bl searly.and Iato in tho season. 1t may be doubted whether ;moouabine hus any sppreciabls. elfoct on plant-growth; while;. to.the good orbad atfect ofany oparation.otlierwise, wo may .safoly deny it,-and yet Bynon says thore. is miechiof in the .moon,-but it i not to be applied to the killing of {roes at its full in August. - While tho sprouting of. the silve: 'q{onlnr de- tracts from its value, I'should dislike to part with it. In the strect, or in the grasy-land, it iy lens troublosome, aud then it Lias such a wealth of snowy leaves, that mora- than repays for the cutting of s ‘few sprouts anmmually, I Diave tivo ‘trees- on my lawn now, more than a font in dianister and.90 foot Ligh, that Icould not be tompted to out down ; ‘and yot they'send up more or loss sprouts annuslly, but those go with the woeds when' mowing tha. lawn, snd ars no gréak trouble ; if too.largs for the scythe, tlio shwyp edgo of ‘s hatchat cleaus.them out, The Iarch,-in common With all irces, has its enemies that proy upon it, and at times do it werious damage ; Dhut, in-tho instancs alluded to, there ln - (TROBADLY NO OATSE OF ALARM more than usual. In’this country, north'of 39 deg,, and as far west as tho rainy roglon, tho Jarch appears todo romarkably well. In my grounds it is making vigorous growth; the older traes will now cut two lengths'of fenco-posts, 15 yenrs planted ; and the vounfi plantation, 3 years ‘old, s very -fine, though -the Mny-boetlo dostroyed bolf tho plonts the first vear -by onting the bark from the roots, * Biuco then they “bave done it no damage, ‘and tho' growth {s 3 to 4 foot & year. As far sonth as Tuicols, I should greatly prefer tho larch to the'black-walnut, Thore inno meed of importiug ‘plants from Turope, &8 millions ars annnally wa at Wan- kegan, {n- this State. ~On tho advice of Tobort 'Donglass, of Waukegan, I-planted 2,000 'European sproce iast spring, all of which are ‘makmg s good growth. The plants wera ‘small, costing abont $15 por m. Thus: far my red codars are-doing well; and will soon be of sizo for fence-posta ; and lsat epring I cut -sevoral hundred ‘of them for -vinoyard- ataices, *Farmers will find timbor-growing AS"PROFITADLE A9 COIN OR GUAMS-GLOWING, but the crop is longer in maturing. - It is asid that-practice makes porfeot, and this .is truo.to = large extout, In planting larch and Osage, we ars ‘liablo to o large loss if tho Lllnnunr, is followed by dry, windv weather. ‘{'o provout this, o mnst have the lond for tha larch-plantation and tho hodge- row preparad in the fall, aud then set the plants a8 soon a8 tho frost is out of-tve ground. In casa’of the larch, the plants start their growth early, ‘and we'murt havo themin the ground early; whils'tho low spring temperature may protect them, for they -begin -growthat & low tomporatura. Tho Osage is the reverss, Yot “tho ‘plants of the ‘Iatter stand botter if sot on land that has had somo tima to settle compactly, o that it may hold the'moisture ; but this is not the'case withland recently plowed, If followed by adry spell, the I({hma sot in' new-plowed land ara liable to die. Rolling aids it to some oxtent, but this romedyis only partial,- aud the only asfo courso to pursuo ja the antumn-prepara- tion. ' Boforo etting, if ‘the surface is dry, tha harrow ahould be freoly used ; but-set early if the -land is quite wet. The larch will start into growth ‘at onco, - while ‘tho sol wiil moro firmly ocloso about the roots of tho Osnge, and, by holding moisture, lnsure a o0d stand, By attonding to theso littlo matter 1 the sotling we may INSURK A (OOD STAXD evory scason. InScotland, tho larch-plants ara not in Fobruary snd March, when the skics have | every neighborkood an almost constnot dripping, or tho weather is foggy. Thatkind of weathorls favorablo to the haudling of all ‘kinds of conifors, &8 the roots ‘cannot bo roined by drylng winds aid Dot sun, as with us, Tor this roason, wo must prolect the roota from both wind and sun, ‘The present season hos many lossons of this kind fu tho sotting of the-Inrch and the Osnge, aud wa niay'as well mako a xiots of it, and see if it cannot-boovorcome. - We mitst summor-failow our hedgo-rows and the Iand: for our - lareh-plan- iations, Wo sbsll not prosume to instruot tho nurserymen on this point, -ivko lose 80 much Iate-planted ataok on newly-preparcd laid, a favorable rorson thay have good luck but, in oano of dry woather followiug the platiting, d.my arein tho bame unfortunate condition. of the laroh and Osago planters. LEFECT OF FOREATN ON. MAIN-FALL. -BuoxLe, Ill., July 13, 1874, Mi, V¥ RUBAL =815 -3Mr, Auohan contouds that tha forests inve no.appreniable effest in regard to the rain-fall, Ithink he nust be mlstakon: we can sos the summer-shiowers follow tho fringe of timber slong Spring Oreek, inatoad of faking o atralght line over the pralria, ~ Osn'you give us any light on the kubjeat? No ono residing on the prairie’ for & moment -belioven In'tho thoory of Alr: Meehan, for overy summer-shower showato them its fallaoy, The groves wnd tiver-belts attract thoso showars, and, whon thoy do oroes the prairio, 1t Is genor- ally from oue poiut of timber to anathor; and the tracke ‘of ‘thowo showers have s marked regularily. At this point wo oan 5o them pass from thetimber-bolt of Lo Hangamou River-to Big Grove, taking the eltids of Ommpaign and Urbans in thelr courso; then following'the tunbor-line of the Yermilion south- oantorly, making quite s oiroult in ‘their courss. Another point 18 from Bodurus Orove, which is atithe hoad of ‘tho-Keskmalls timber, eastorly, vis Linn -Grovo, to-the Yormilion. ~Iwshort, s polut-ouk-so-you the steaclt of the summor-showsrs, and tell -yor what farma got tho'most benofit trom them. - Bomoe of ' thaso slidwors nro vory “natrow, while othors are 8 or 4 miles wido, - T.aat: wook a- showor-camo & littlo out of.its wny, and within -a mile- poured vy |-down for half an hour o censoloss flood, roaring’ -like a'distent Niagara, All this timo -TIE AUN WAR RHINING DRIGHTLY, and onr‘mon and : boyn-were: stacking hinyy tmt tho noxt day onr-furicoma, and, bofore the liny- . maloru 601l get” from thie'flold, they wero wet through to tho skin, while’ the next farm to the north had a clear sky aud kopt on haying. When ovely homestead shall prosont its quota of- wood- lund, theto- sliowors will -aprond ' out ovor moro territory; and be less intenso~thannow. "Thirty yonra ajt0 ‘wd eldomind sitch nnrrow, tutonsified summar-showory as'uow ;' Uit then, avaporation : \waa slow, and e lind hieavy night-dows, which ara noy thio oxcoptions, nat Lo rule. Timber-growth and sulture Lizvo »frunl:nflocmn the ratn-fall, st “lonkt in-aqualiving lts_distribution, * Fortunately ‘thore are B0 muny other good | ronsons for the planting of irees thot wo meed not rely on this ‘slone, “The’ following 118 TO-THE TOINT, It 18 olippod from tho ‘Agrioultural Dopartmont of tho Now York Tribunc: The rosults of fiva yera' observations at the ‘meteorological sfationn of avariaare given fu a recent work by Dr, Erneat_Jbermayer, of the Forost School of AscliniTenburg, ~We muy aum thom up ss followss I'he temperatnro of tha moll from tho surface to 4 feet | helow it I8 tipon sn avorage 41 degroes lowor In the foreat than In the clearod “groutid, turing:apring and sammer, Inwintor thero fsno {raceablo diforonce, «Arwiiillse difforonco exita botween tho tomperaturo of tho air in'ond outsido of foreats, The tamporatura of - tita nir in foroats rires gradually np to tho Loight of 40 feet, Tho tandoncy of forests in to- moduruta the extromos of tomperature, and lewaen tho overitfes of hoth heataud tcold.’ Thero fs no differonce in the ‘absolute quantity of ‘molstura in ' thoalr pro- duced by forcats; but ovaporation from n -freo water aurfacods* 64' yer cont. less n tho foroat than clsewhora. Lvnporation is :increased by tho motion of tho atmosphoro, and thin motion in repressed by a belt of timber, henco tho importance of sholtor belts of tmber tofprovent drouglits. “Tho debris of the forest, leaves, -brihwood; etc., grently retard ovapora. ton from *the purface of -thaground, Openground -losea 100 onlric duchies of 'waler by evaporation in ths ratua thne tiat uncleated pround loses ouly 15 stchier, and foreat ground cleared of Jirusliwood fosan 58 inches, Houca, tho water.aupply of aprings® deponis froatly upou “tho protection ' afforded hy uncleared woads, [ Otio pound of “Umrley ‘requires 700 pounds of wataf doriog ita ‘ growtl ‘and for- its maturity, ‘A trga quires s wachlargor proportiousto quantily of fater, Land from which timber -bad_baen romoved becomes wwampy, and {s disined ayain when now plautations grow up, Forests do not increaso the rajufall to any oxtent, vxcopt wpon ‘mountains and in hot climates, Only three-fourths aa ‘much raln_reaches the grouni in o forosl - fn tho.open ‘country, :Tho s ‘intercepted -and - held - by (e lmives ; and Iurk uulil - ovapornted, . Pines intercopt ‘more witer Linn deciduoua treaa aud Scotehi firs rotain the most of all, This lurgs proportion of wator inberiepts . ol Aoriously diminfahea tlio Aupply of water in thia sofl t | covered by forests whon they aro cleared of brunhwood ‘and debris, -The rslifall upon a free water: surfaco Is “lesx than the svaporation from the came surfacs, The evaporation from ths ground ix lesa - than from a fros wator surface, and the ovaporation from a hard surf 1a groater than_from & loose, porous one, Theas fact 0 Lo show thint the equilibiriim of springe as well as that -of temperaturo s maintained benoath “forvats, but that thy amount of rainfall ia ‘not ' dependent upon tnelr existonco, ‘although it retention in the sofl'is 1o & Jarge.cxtont, A judicious seloction of forest-trees for plant- ‘ing will add’ value to'the ‘farm or crop, and, at tho'some time, improves:tho other farm-crops. THE ONE-HUNDRED-AND-TWENTY-NINTH ILLI~ *HOIS-VOLUNTEER INFANTRY. Thoto will bo'arennion of thoss who belonged to ‘tho Ono-Hundred-and-Twenty-innth Illinois Yoluntocr Intantry, and all ‘othors who went as soldiers to- the War from Livingston County, 1, ot Ponting, Tl,, on Tueaday, Sept. 8, 1874. 1t is to bo in no.geuse & moetiug to koop alive +any-politieal or sectionrl animositios, but solely a gathering of a social and Krinndl% character. The Committes to- make finnl Rrrangoments for -the ruunion meet next Monday, tho 27th inst., au Ponting, at 2 p, m. Papors fu Scott, Rock Inland, and Livingston Counties ave roquostod to copy, By order of the Comumitter of Arrangomenta. Winiiax B, ¥rr, Suosotary. THY’ NAME. T told the roso thy name—it binshed and stirred, 1ts petals trainblod as wp ectagy, I criel thy nama sloud—and lo! the Lird Burat'futo song within tho thiok-leaved troe, Tapmake it when {h morn was gray snd cold— “Aud airaight from out his cast upsliot {ko wun; T apako {t fu-tho night—the clouds that roiled Alov dispersed 5 the stars came one by one. ‘8honld any whisper it whon on my face “Flio hiack carth llwn, calin slorplag undergeound, T think my boart ngain would beat u space, ‘Aud that wy lips would tromblo st the sound, “And'if befora the gates of heaven T came, And could for mine own worth no entranoe win, I think that then, §f T chonld uame {hy nswe, 'Th? eternal-doors would stir and lot moe in. ~Gerald endall in the Spectutor. Natonnl Educationnl Association, Tho sosslon’of this Lody to bo-held in Detroit, ron the 4th, 5th, and Gth of noxt month, promises ‘ ta be one of more-than-ushal intorost, 'he subject of sex and Iiducation, concorning which more'has beon said ‘and -writton "dunin the yoarthen any:othor educationat topis, -wifi attrnct- considerable attention. Dr. Clurke, of Boston, - who has. glven & uowinterest' to tho question by examiving it from a physiclan’s standpoiut, in his elovor little volume on tho subjeet, will tnko-tho load in thé diecussion, It indxrnhnbla that the Doctor will fortify his po- sitiona pratty strongly againat the numerous at- tacks which have boon mado upon them. Prof, James Orton, of Vaysar Colloge, will give the re- Bults .of four years’ exporionco s a teachor:in that .institution. Looking st the -subjoct from the l-mculinr standpoint of that schaol for .Iounu ndies, it wonld not be strange if . the Profesdor’s views :should conflict with the Dactor's theoties. . Prof. J. K. Hosmer, ‘of Mis. souri University, sn institution where thie soxes are educated in common, will represent tha pop- ular idoa of co-oducation. All throeo of those men are strong in their positions, and, in their apors as woll a8 in tho discussion which will fol- jow, we expect Lo seo sharp work. I'ho Natioual Univorsity, and questions kin- dred to it, will-be bronght” up agsin. It will be remembered what a hot-bed of discussion by tus pross-of the country Dr, Eliot's paper ou this subjeot at the Elinira_wmoctiug last yoar proved to be. Prosidont A, D, White, of Cornell Uni- versity, who is known not to sympathize with the viows of 'tho Prosident of Hurvard, is_ex- -guulud to presont the flst papor, Prosidont Nonh Porter, of Yale, will replv to Prosideut White. . Tho subjact - will also bo disoussed by Huperintendonts John Hausook, of Cincinuati, aud W, T, Harris, of 8t. Louis, aud othors. The report of the Committeo on Upper Schools will-elioit much attention. In these days, when the tiumbor of colleges excecda that of the pro- zuumry toliools, it 18 a question of life ordenth 0 tho former, and thoy purposoe trying to devise a remody, In the several dopartments of the Assnoiation, tha quostions for discussion belong mora es- pecially to_their respoctive-fieldu of \abor. All of them will bo of lntorost, and will be prosent- ed by mou and women of known ability, 'The meetings of the Association are atlended by the losding cducators of all parts of the country, and are the oceasions of their kind for tha yoar. Yeachors cannot do bettor for them- solyes, or the cause for which they labor, than to attond the oue at Detroit. Mr. 8. H. White, of Psorin, iz Proaidont of the Ansociation,- aund will give any dosired informn- tion regarding the Convention. . A Now Alrican Expedition, From the New ¥ork Trivune, The London Daily Telegraph snnounces -that the proprietors of that pupor have united with Mr, James Gordon Beunett in organizing an ex- podition of Africau discovery, undor the com- mand of Mr. Houry M. Stanley. Tho purpose of the sntorprise 18 to complote the work loft un- finished by the lamented death of Dr, Living- atone; to wolve, it possible, tho remaining prol loms of ‘the geography of Contral Africa; and to invostigate and ropdrt upos tho haunts of the “wlnve-iraders. For this dificult and dangerous jourooy Alr. Stanloy has dingleyud fituoss of s poculinr ind, and we cannot but feel a pride iu the selention of one of our conntrymon, and & mowmber of our calllng, for no honorablo d task, o will rap- rasont, ‘says tho f'f’?yl‘fli)h, ‘“the two nations whose common intorvat in -the rogoneration of Alrico was po well illustratod whon tho lusb En- ili»h axploror was redincovérid by tho onergetic moriean correspoudent. In- that “memdizble Journey Mlr. Stunley displayed the best qualitios of. aw African travelor; -and with'no inconsidora- ble resonrces at hs disposal to reinfores hisown complete acquaintauce with tho conditions of .Afclean travol, it may bs Loped'lhat very impor- tant rastltn will accrid from this undertaking to tthm n:!vmuga of walunce, humanity; end civiliza- on,” .. Hr, Dennott has no doubt ontered upon this work with all that Iavish liborality in the promo. tion of dariug aud adventtros deode, wnd that koen desire for tho laurols of s profession, which hLave long:baen adwired in biwm, -Tho ex- coptional journalism which; vot content with re- oording history, must nooda make it, hss seldom Leon - more signally illustraiod than in this naw Afrioau sdvonture, aud Its Buccebs will bs ap- plaudod by nona mors wasialy than by Mr; Bon- nesk's ivals-sl bualnous. ‘LOUISIANA. | he Warfare Between:Repub- lican Factions. | "Pinohback ve. the-Federal and‘Btate 10Misials, i The Triumph of the *Former--26ov, Kellogg ‘Utterly Powerlesss A Negro Rabblo in:Absolute Con~ ‘trol'of the Stite, Correapondence of The Chicano T'ribune. New Onurans, July 19, 1874, This case of the Louisiana Fedoral and’Btate officlnls va. Pinohback Las boen, froin tlio ' firat, of no little intorest. It Lms involved iesuce soomingly: but littlo nndératood by the outsido world, Ithas cartled in ila trsin a world of ‘ projndicea that, seemingly all' pbtent, have bsen ‘sédulously hiddon from the publio gaze. That thoso, in thoir aggrogato, have had far -more to do with Mr. Pinchiback’s caso: than iho scoming quibble a8 to o' formal - recognition of the Kollogg Governmont; few Lowslann politiclans, at Jonst, but profoss to bolieve, Atr. Pinchback formod no ummportant part of ‘the ' Warmoth Admiuiatration, . In-all tho bitter partisan wars, ho had beon its ‘firm friond'and ‘lly. As auch, he had incurred tho' fvoll-knawn - DUADLY HOSTILITY OF THE YEDERAT OFFICIALS, Botweon thess Fedoral ' offilals -and *Ctov. ‘War- moth, {t-was ‘a’ lifo-and-death ‘sttugglo for-con- ‘trol of the State. Through their reckless and unwarranted intorferonce, it became virtually o war botween 'the Btate rand Faderal Govern- ‘ments, Asopposed to the Governor;niside from tho power and influonce of ihe Fedoral officials, thore was understood to bo s far woightier one in the rear. As:genorally’ concoded, the Gov- ornor was looked npon with no little ‘disfavor by ‘the ‘President’ himgolf, Whatever the “actual facts, the bolief was sciulously cullivated, at hnnda of the Foderal oftiolals, that the orushing e |'out of Gov. ‘Warmoth and ndherents,” by- fair ‘moans or-foul, was - necéssarily a ‘foregono con- ‘eiusion. Tho beliof had no little to do with the ultimato result. It was this wholesomo dread of the'msiled hand in tho rear that in reality over- threw ali of opposition to-tho ‘Government ‘of M. Kellogg. Of the numerous adhorents of flov. War- moth, ‘Mr. Pinchback, ‘most of all, had come underthe ban. He'was underatood to be PARTICULARLY ODNOXIUS TO THE IMESIDENT, Thore was a well-known desiro on the'part of the Federal officials that bo be ground betweon the nppor and the nether mill-stoncs. That ho tecoived oven' the 'nomination for Oongrose- ‘man et Jargo, was ‘because of a rocog- nized neccssily that might not bo ignored, - Even in this therois a somblance of -one of those pious frands in which the end {s maid to jnstify the mennn, It s -claimed ‘as part of the original programme, in fact, that Mr. Plnchback was o bo fually and effeclitally squelchod by one of thore slight tranapositions in numerals that liavo proved so effectual in sottlement of Lou- isinnn alections, The installrtion of Mr, Pinchback as Acting- Governor wns a matter of nocesisity, growing out of ths exigencios of tho hour. - It-was an exi- gency in which the Federal ofliciatn wore forcsd to stoop to conquor. They were fureed to troat with the man thoy had not only aftected to de- Mr.' Pinchback vory maturally appreciated’ the nituation, "Ax Letween himself ‘and the ‘Fodoral oflicials, it was a matter ‘of mufual duplicity. In this, Mr. Pinchback but proved the master- hand of tha twa. A WOREE-NEATEN PACK ate wonld bo hiatd ta imagine, Mr. Pinchiback hiad outflanked them all, and earried tho pasition. Thore was little attompt to hide- the goneral coufusion. To maks the matter worwo, thoy were forcad to soamingly be party to their own defeat. To have kicked in tho loast, would havo resulied in the complete and final avarthrow of the fabric they hnd reared, Mr.’ Pinchback.- as"-Aeting_Governor, had be- stowod mout of tho fac positions thronghout the Btats upon hin own chodon adherouts, These agnin, as well undoratood, wote held on o divide with the leading spirity of the Genoral Ansembly. The Ganeral Assombly, S & consequence, &as undor tho complete and abrolute control of Mr. Pinchback. Of this body, ils progonitors had just renson to be afraid. "Concoived in sin, »a it was born in imqnity, it came forth a bantling as INSATIABLY IX IT3 GREED S b aa it wan mougiel in all ita proclivities. With its very birth, it was taught & dangorous lease of e, In tho miserabls farce of the pretended im- peachmont of Gov, Warmoth, this legiulative rabble ware tanght how slights becerlor existed betwaen thomaglves and unbridled license. The Dantling of an hour hacamo & cormorautof some- what hage proportions. Tha croature became tha drond of its creators. With tho elooction of Mr. Pinchback to the United States Bonate, tha animal wag recognized as wholly hoyond control. Like tha bull in the china Blop, thore was mori- ous danger it would canse a general smash of the whola concern. It had alvaudy, in uttor dis- repard of tho propraties, 1ot fly its heels at its awn progeuiters. If a Toulsiana- politiclan gan be supposod ne endowod therowith, the blow hind struck home upon the verv sent of horior, Tho honor of the Faderal politiciang was at atake 1n belialf of Mr. Norton. To him, as wall uuder- staad, tha sont in tho United Btates Senale was irrayocably plodged. All of tnis, a8 notorious in political ciroles, far sorviosd in connection with tha decraes of the United Ktates District Court. The legiala- tive bautling lot fly: ita heels, and the prospoc- tivo milk-bucket was kicked into what mey be termed A CONTOUND MIXTURY at & singls blow, The relish with which the Fodaeral and Btate aflicinls accapted tha doso as administered is better imegined than doscribed. Tt wae as the double-distillad esronco of, tarfar- ometio aud asnfetids in compound solution. Mr. Pirichbnok, the most hated and despised of all 0ld partisan enemies, was tho chosen hoad and front of the Government am constituted, for n sont in the United States Rouate. As farcibly exprossed by a prominent Custom- Tonso~ ofticinl, *We ‘have fought ‘this party- fight for years, We have sxpended sll'of our onergios, and somo hundrods of thousands of dollara. What have we got? Pinchback,—an ula"hum ta crush us to tho dovil.” ‘o Qoy. Kellogg, in partioular, the cass was humilisting in the extrome. Whatevor of ap- noarancen, Kollogr, in his hontt, lina littia of love for the blacks. On tho contrary, liotigh seom- ingly dyed in the waol, Lis conversion, a5 well underatood, was effectad TIROUGH TOLIOY ALONE, 1lis eyidence, of record, as taken before the Con- gressional Commiltee, in the matter of tho New Orleans rigts, hows, ~conolusivaly, hiy convic- tiona at the time. ~ For their assumed arrogatice, the paople, it would seom from that oviderico, wora fuily Justified in nhanllnf tho nogroes at sight. Ans Collector of the Tort, Loo, hia appre- cintlon of colorod - yoliticians ‘can” scarcelyiba ‘ranked av of ‘the highont order. 'His present anpaititmout as Clorlk of the Firat Diatriot Court, the Hon, Jamos Ingratism, a promiuent State Benator” and politician, ‘of no mean preton- slons, thon = but boginding to _msert his ° olaims, applled to Mr. - Kellovg, as_ Collector, for a situation, Mr, Kellogs tondored him a_whitowash brish, ‘and condyoted him to ono of ‘the water-olosats in which to domoustrato hihabilities. Mr, Kelloys, too, had boon put upon tha carpot ag the' eno- cial cligice of tha Prosldant, =a of the Ouatom- Touse Ring, * An sudhy, through the dlotum of & United Statos District Judge, his'Qovernment was forcibly fnatallod at the point of the bayo- not. " As silch roproasritative Oovornment, there must bo o natural dosire to give it al loust an nppedrance of rospoctability, 'I'he elaction of Mr. Pinchback - kuooked all inito & cocked hat. * For tho first time, the party- organisation; an'well'as the Governtuent &8 or- ganized, sppeared to tha world IN PROPER COLORS: A mere haudfal of woulless adventurers, the groat majority of whom never even lived jn the panuhos thoy cluimod {0 iepresent. In: tholr load, and comprtsing fully woven-sightha of the party, an army of ignorant blacks, not omlnn"t( of whiom could oven roud thaa vola ho oust, General Asgembly comporivd in tho main of the 'worst, of this'worso than ' usnloss: matorial,—an orgunised masa of:Iguore nceand venlity, in load « Ministor at tho Scat of Government, apise, but had labored to crih and annihilate, than the Fedoral and State officinls on the clec-* tion of Mr, Pinchback to tho United StatesSBan- | 3 of a8 Yarltablo's gniig of thisvos as ovor cursoda Iuckldss ctahivunity.” Thé whole, ‘a1t Afrieshized Stato Governmont, has roared upon the nocks of a once froo poonle by Fodoral bayonets, And all this lu-the name of- the , gront Natlonal Republi- chti porty. AIr Kollogg: to usa tho bxprosuion of tho day, was the nlgger Governor of a nlgger Stato,” whilo Mr."Plitclibadk wan his ** MP or # 1 Mr, ’fi’wlr baok, at:tho timo,’ {00, was as maator ‘to the man. 110 had but'to stlr up his loginlativo pots, a4 the keopor” atirs up’ his ' atittawla with a long vole, o raire o portontous ‘growl. An occalonn Htirring was quite enougl- for Mr. Kollogy, ‘The prowls were consldored as quito too omin- ‘ols of . A TANEATENED' DiFEACINENT, The blnoks, boyond all‘question, wora masters of the situation. ~Thoy had olacted M. Pinchiback, to the United Btatde Bonato asn roprosentative of thelr raco. Thoy woll uuderatood the bill as naugoons in the "oxtromae to~tho Fedoral nnd Stato, -oftioinle. It waa s Dill thoy provosed ta " foroo’ thom fo dlgokt” ha bestthoy' might, " The lenst_appoaranco of opposition, and thoy pro- posed to overturn tho ‘wholo ‘machino, ~Thoy proposed, in auch enro, to Impeach and dopoae Gov. Kollogg, ss they'hind ‘done Gov, Warmoth, and to elovato, as bofore, inthe person of Liout.. Gov, Autoins,ono” of "thelr™own color to the Chair of State, Nor was the tl\?uonml vil\nmt Dby 'sny ménus s mattor’ for light conaldoration. It was considored.most ‘imminent at”tho timo, Bots were frecly offercd, in fact, that Kellogy would be thus du‘mnnd oro closo of tho aeaslon, Tho Foderal and Btato officials had sown tha “wind, “They wore in‘a falf way to roap the filrl- wiud in turn, 'Thors was no resourco, for tha tlina =t lenst, bub in abjoct snbwmission. 'Tho wituation was thus gouerally woll understood. A’XEGRO RADBLE wero {ncompletoand abaolutocontrol of the State, They Weto in the lead of s veritablaset of facknls in search of proy. Thoir. only caro was in gorg- ing thewselves, and guarding the interests, po- litically, of Mr, Pinchback, *'Fhey came down on the Govornor like n very avalancha of : durkness, “I'hey eamo backed by organizations’ in the' Lel inlature, .prepared " 40 “enforca ' their' ‘domands, Tholt Téndors, nafutally ononghy hnd siwplod out the fattést fiositions for “thomaclyos, "Tiio rent ' mnut lio partitioned among " their coldred follow-~ ‘ora, “Nor'srng_tho Goveraor in position to xo- monstrato, Ha could advance little, .at bost, s rogards the _proprlotios, Ta fact, s it would sdem, oven in this he was litor- ‘ally at tHo morey of tha rabblo. 'Tu tho’ organi- Antien of tho' Goyernmont; as' notorious, thore Lind beon certain irrepularition that dodgoed n- vaatllgnllou. As gouorally nnderstood, for sarv- icos in counection with tho-docrees of tia Uslted States District 'Conrt,"cdrtain ‘parties had dio- tated tlieir torms, A8 if by comon - consant awmong oven tho logislative -thioves themsolvos, certain of tho - e FATTESY TOSITIONS IN THE STATE, . a8 & consoquonce, woro’ tudeystood af parcelad out in ‘their 'intorest. “Ihe “offico of Tax:Cole loctor of *the First Distrlot of Now Orlerns, for instanco, was smd to thus yiold somo $12,010 01 216,000 of & yearly rovenuo to each of no lew | than fiva of & seloct bevy, of 'Conprosuional, Statg-llouse, ‘and 'outkide” manipulatora. '‘Aa ouo ‘of {hoeo, it ‘\as A’ mnitor of com- mon “talk 'thaf tho' Hon. Mr. Shaldon, M. G., cameo in for a full share of the divide, In this nico little family-arrangemont, too, Gov. Kellogg bimself, in fact, was boldly ‘aceusod "ot "modostly poekuting an dqual sharo as weil, Tha inattor Was so'notorious as to be admittad with ‘| shame ‘and humiliation by nll tho bottor clasy of TRepublicana, It was a subjoct of ribald fest by evon the thioves and attaclics of Btato them- solvea, "It doprived thd Goveruor, na soon, of any moral navantdgos b 'Might othorwise have “enjoyed. Itplaced him, on tho contrary,1n the snmo proportion, tho more complotoly in tho posor of tho rabble. Ho was'recogunized, in Inct, a8 ... . UTIERLY PoWERLESS " in the'préfmisos, Did'ho mifko tho ldnst atiompt :;: stom the tide,ho was literally kicked into tha ‘nces, s ", The immediate effect was ‘doplorablo onoigh, Tho grossost iguoranco, the most utfor deprayity, woighed ‘as “hothing in the ehlu. Tho variout positions thronghout the State woro ‘thug filled by o cluss of mou that could scarco be conceived of in a_well-rogulated community. They_wero stich, uufortunataly, hoyiovor, | roprefonted in tho main the ‘Govertimont ‘and _Party as organized. Tho Toderal ‘olicials hid istirred np the President’s'mutldle. Thecaldron lind become altogathior too hot for the comfors of ity -manogeis, Its seathing evolutions hud thrown its natural ivgredients upon the surfac: Tliére Wah no olliér ‘altornitive for'the’ time ‘Ll to allow the Tiktiiro to-6ool a5 st it x‘nl%vm. RES0. fle¢ Winds of As A corrospondont of the Alla’ Califo & gifaphic account of the ot Wink of, ‘It ninkes ono gasp' for breuth 'to ‘anyn: * Tho ‘colotists of Victori Bouth Walos boast of the groat ‘beauty of thore climato. A description of tho tiot winds, which ave 80 boisterously prevalent thora diving nhors horioda of {lic samiucr moiths,and Which are véry oxtraordinary in'thair charactor'and offects, will help to show how far the boast “is jistilied. A misty smolco durkons tho atmosphora, whicl feols 60 opprogsively but'sato rendor bréuthing ‘at ‘orice laborious and painful. The'mun shines with & lurid glave far hottor than when in’ opon brillinncy; and proventing to the eye'tho appoar- “ance of a full moowhehind & flodoy oloud. D eraivl along with their parchod tongues dungling drooping heads sod convulgive gasps. “All kindy of vegotation “firnt “hangy tlioir ‘tondvils, ‘thien shrivel up. and finally vield to premature doeay, And a8 the burning sirracco jucraasés apace, aud thiclc clouds of dust 'dossicate ‘tho alr, animal and vegetable )ifs would eem to bo threatoned with total destruction. Caltlo of ovory desorip- tlow offon succumb to ircalescent exhaustion and dio by the'road side ; fislds of grain, swhich in tho worning wero'fresh and greou, “bocomo, before ovunlmi', yolloswas "with * the 1iponais of matuity, but In'reality, stunted and ‘singed by the fiory influences prevaillng ; ‘trees yiolding their enpto the’ slakeloss ‘temperature, rapidly incinernte and enst ofT tholr but reeontly luscions frait, and flowers pass tutough all the gradations of growth and devblopment—form into bud, opeu into'bloom, and drop their leaves in thd cauldron avound, in less then & day, "Allnature, in fact, would appoar for the time to be trying exporiments in thormology, totally ‘indifforous about health and life. The igneous elementa, 80 wildly carooring, suggost nothing but sncirol- Iny volcanoos ‘pouring forth ‘and seattoring around thoir burntuglava, reduced to scintillaut powdor, “ Ty iy a sconrgo of ‘tho most dostructiva character. Out-tloor busingss 1fs is virtaslly siigpended, ‘and the few peuplo moving sbout are “ovory moent employad in wising off ‘the jro- fusa dusty perspiration that stieans down thoeir fncos, Calew'and 'liotels ' siwirm Jiko boohives with Janguid;'thifsty ‘men, and’ the numerdus iced beverages drank would' astonish the ‘most crodulous. 8o hour afterhour pusses, tho hent -increasing in_iutonsity, and -thirst’ becoming mors utiversal and maatiable. *In-door life is nlono- endarable, ‘and rooms o oarolully daprivod of air and light ss to give them in any othier westher a‘high fover tompor- ature, are now ‘comparatively cool, The oxtor~ nal aspoot of honses is sombre and funerenl, every bluttor and door being closod, and the oc- cupants lounge, gasp, and aigh wost pitcously, Reading Is out of the question, ‘music is for- #nlen, nd activo mnisomont blank, Gentleiaen smolke, awallow icos, and yawn. Bathing is-the ouly thing really enjoyable, 2ud smphibiousness becomes almont & human attribute. ~ While theso tarriblo hot winds preyail, entire cropa are some- timos nlmmo;wd, homesteads burnt, and many livoa lost, Fortunately thoy do not lst ' more thno two or three days at a time, otherwiso life ‘proparty would be 8o insecuro as to render living an investment in tho Colonies undosir- ablo iu tho extremo,” Forgerics on the Ilpise of Baring RBrothery. A Continental banker, hualottorto the Lon- don Zmes , gives-an'acconnut of u new confel- ceraoy of forgend who aro alfeady known' to have sucdoaded in obtnining soveral ‘thoieand poudy Irom bankors on the Continont. Tho operations of the forgors appoar to have been corducted by a-gang traveling soparatoly, unid ‘working by means of very perfoct- irhitatfons of "lottéra of credit ‘of Darivg Brothors ‘& ‘Co, of London, The forged documents wore presentod’ sltnvst simnitsnoonsly in ‘soveral citios and towns otithe Rhiue and in tho south of TFranco. Tho water- minrks havo been‘so woll imitated that many of ino most experionced cashifers Wwhio' casliéd “the forged doouments belibva that the p»gr_ur, at all ovents, on which the forgeries werd diiwn mueb ‘ave boen genuiuo, The Dismal mn Storys Private Letter {rom (¢ Rt. lou, John Kripkt, 2, P, Tho Pina, Mine biiglness 18 o dismal at but 1 think you must 606 that I can do nothi ‘fuit, 1 am aatounded that men 'shionld yven- turo in Buok undortakings, and espocially that thoy should be lud or misled by means of “public mon aud politiclaug, *Follow politiofans, if yon like, iu politley, but not fu inveatments™ of maney, loast of all'in miaing, I do uot wuppose auything will be rocovercd from tho rageals in tho Btatos, Wnuthor you can-got anything from Llelr allies or dupos i thik country i o quostion of facts and of law, about which ly can give no opinion, You mnst oxsko mo ffom oxpresiing any publle opinfon’ iton, the melatclioly- story 'about Livh yos l SIS 1L almost to the gronnd, and Lorsos move ‘ou” with - | i i [ t { !