Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 24, 1875, Page 1

The Chicage Dailn Teibw e S VOLUME 28, CHICAGO, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1875. i OROCKERY, &o. THE SOUTH. m"i:(m were sent from the Northweat to the | whitos hers to be & conquered peopla; it wanta THE GRASSHOPPERS. fos. Raln is what is most me_ cw deatroy At C (U0 ENTIRE RETAIL STOCK COMPOSED OF Decorated and Plain Ohina, Dinner and Tea Bets, Ohsmber Sets, Vhases, Glassware, Silver-Flated Ware, Table Cutlery, and Fanoy @Goods, S , OLOSED OUT, ta- PO R A T stew oad Tabion BOWEN & KENT, 262 & 264 Wabash-av,, Just around the cornsr from Houssksepers' Row, WR MEAN BUSINESS| WILL CONTINUE OUR WHOLESALE BUSI- NESS AS USUAL. Garggiés. Carpets. Carpets. GRFAT SALH OF OARPETA for the next 30 doys, 100 pos BRUSSELS ot $1.10. 200 pos CHAMBER AND DINING- ROOM OARPETS, at 750, Cost! SHIRTS! To order, of tho best fabrics in uso, Full lines in stock of our own manufacture. ‘Wo are propared to make Shirts to order in oight hours, when nocessary. NLSON BROS, MEN'S FURNISHERS, i 67 & 69 Washington-st., Chicago. Pike's Opera ouse, Cincirnati, TO RENT. OFFICHS TO RENT IN THE TRIBUNE BUTLDING. WILLIAM C. DOW, ROOM 10. (5810 DERS MEETINGS: . (hicago & Northwestorn Railway Ooglgg_r;y, Aprll The ‘sunual meeting of the stockhotders and babdhold- 4nol the Chicago & Northwestern Hallway Uomipany for 130 oloctiow of Direators, pursuant te 1aw, and for tho . ing bond: "’l‘)‘:‘ st the . ow York, for ALBERT R, Preatdont. , Prestdent M. 1. SYKRS, Jn., Bocratary, 0ee Chicago, Rock Jsland & Pacife B, R. Co,, ArRiL 21, 1875 The Annual Meeting of tho Stackholdars of the Cliica- . Kock laland & Facille Kallraad Con I i othr e B b Beld at :%'nudnea ext, st 1o'clook p. rescating thels 3 D g o Bompany, Telatsation, on of belafe the i of HEATING APPARATUS. HOoT WATHE LOW PRESSURE STEAM, for heatin, Purealr, Fortectly safe and A WATE! L3 P"“l”"fl,‘l“‘cg ORANE, ~ BUSINESS CARDS, LUDWIG'S, 100 DMarket-at., e 0 SV JOHN G. ASHELMAN, JTEWELBR, LAUNDRY. MUNGER'S OFFIORS—1% Desrborn-st.; 13 Michiganat.i 19 052715 Wher Elkhiheato Clactuna, 0. DESK e car Madison, 136 BTATE.ST., BECOND FLOOR. AUNDRY. Waat Madison-at. FINANCIAL. MONEY TO LOA At8per cant aa Ohlcago tmprored real ostats, Time, § LA WRIGHT & TYRRELL, ¥ Tribune Bullding. WANTED, Rlzgr Atles Wautgd in oash for a complete set if olfwred sisted tho interrogator. Jottings by the Way in Mis. sissippi. Talks with White-Liners, Carpet-Baggers, and Other Varieties of South- ern Numanity. A Political Economist's Views on the Sleeping-Car and Colton Questions. Intelligent and Cheerful Appearance of tho Black School-Children. A Young African Who Knew Iis Rights and Endeavored to Maintaln Them. Advontures on an Accommodating Accommodation-Train, From Our Oun Corrupendemt, Mrstsarers, May 10.—It was at Jack- son. I had beou in Alimsisaippi nearly two weoks, and, though I had confined my ine quiries to the progress and political rostoration, as to which [had inter- viewod a vast numbor of people from ail parts of theState, of all shades of upinion, sad of every occupation, I was still in pursuit of infor- mation. $ mation in chunks aa to the low taxes, the prom- ining industrial situation, and the atrocions whito-line spirit. whon a gentleman from Jack- ‘son joined fo with: towards industrial He was from tho northern portion of tate,—Gronads,—and was imparting infor- “How many white moen are thers in your Board of Supervisors in Grenada?™ (whlich, under the Mississlppi Conatitation, has unlim- ited powers of taxation). *They are black, the whola flye of them," “ How many of them can read and write thelr ownuames? I'm told thero is but one,” contin- uod thia interlopar 1n the convarsation. “Thero aro four of thom who can,” was the rosponse. *ell, do you think they are qualified to run that county ?" ““They do it vory well,” repliedhe of Gronada. * Withons advice from any white man?" per- *Oh! they have an aitorney, 8 repliod. »Dat what I want to know,” peraiated this peraistent quostionor, *is who runs them? Of courns somebody doos. couldu't, if told that a cortain smount must bo raised for & speclfic purposo, and furnished with The HBoard combined the tatal valuation, figure out what the lery should e, could thoy ?* Tho questioned evaded $he query sa to the mathematical knowlodgo of the combined mom- bers of the Board sforessid. The questionor, persisting: * Of courne, some- body runs them; who s is?" * 4 fell," waas tho responss, *'I think I IAVE MODE INFLUENCE WITK THEX than snybody eles.” *But I am told Btate SBonator — runa them." “Bomator —— doosn’t do anything of the sort,” was tho apswer in emphatic tones,—im- plying, as plainly as could be, “I'd like to seo Honator —— or snybody olss run that Board while I'm around.” “ Then you are the Board of Suporvisors of Gronada County. As a matter of fact, five ne- Rroos conntituto the Doard, but you run it, and are the Board, aren't you?™ Baid he of Grenads, * If you insist on putting it In that way, Isupposs that's pratty nearit.” *Theo, whon Henator —— wants anything dons, I suppose he ssis you to have the Board doit The individual foterrogatsd couldn't say Sen- ator — liad over spoke $0 him to got anything put throngh, Ol 1" rotorted the persecuting questioner, * ho zends his friends to you, I suppose Thoe 1man thus cross-cxaminod mads some ro- sponse thiat wasn't quito to the point, but add- od: ' Now, I don't sy it in solf-prains a all; but I do say thoir taxes aro losa in Grenada Coun- ty than before mince the War.” (I had been told, some davs before, that they were about G per cent on tho vnlllllnm{w “Yes, but that's bocsuss you are an honent mao. Don't you supposo, tnough. 1t soms other man wors to take your placo aud ruo the Board, and dide’t happen to be honest, he could get them 10 do whatever o wanted thom to do 7' “*1¢ ho could get their coniidenco be might." I thought so; bnt I was only asking for in- formation. Now, lat's all take s drink"; and the party adjourned to tho bar. e=Both questionor and questionod ara Republic- ans;: but the former is anti-Ameu and snti- black-lino; and both knew, though one evident Iy forgot, that I waa hero in quest of informa- tion, and was lisble to send oif, to be pricted, the interenting disclosures being made a8 to how tho carpot-bagger ** ruus " things in this Biate,— Wwhich, between white-liners, and nogro Know- xt:‘r)tl.u.nzl.lm. and carpot-baggors, and firo-eate! 1IN A DAD WAY INDEED, At Iackson aluo I encountered the gentleman who cama bLere to hold an oflice, which: he Lvids, who said: **'I'he pooplo here are bardly to bo blamod for their exasperation. But it's their own fault, When the negtoos were about to nomiuate some man who came down hiere from the North, the white-liners would say to the ne- gro: * Horo, youdo_thoe voting; why don't you take tho oftices? 'What do you make by clecting carpet-baggera?’ That's how we come {0 have & negro Logislature, thot tan be bought up for about 85 to $10a bhead; aud such thieves in offico ; and such an ignorant, corrups set of nogro umchiu sa thoy had at Vioksburg. Now the mogroes ars begioning to sse the consequonces of thew folly, Tuey've found they can't get along withous the carpet-baggers. They have to have ts for their loadors ;" and he seemed no leas satisfled with the sicuation than do the white-liners when thoy proclaim that the Vicksburg masescre convinced the negroes that, If they dared attempt to tight, they'd bo extor- mioated, sa doubtless they wonld be. This, also, wan » sampla of the carpet-bag lot, “Would you slesp on those D—D PULLMAN-PALACE CARS, with niggers allowed in thers, and maybe in the next berth?"" quoried the gentleman from Yazoo City who occupied the same soat, and bad offered we a cigar, on the railroad between Grenadaand Jackson, “D—d if Iwouldu't sit up all night first. I guess you are of the same opinion, see tng 's you haveun't gone in there.” “Ob 1" Ireplied, “Iam in tho bablt of going to bad late, sud I can's nleep well on the aicep- {og-cars. But Pullman ocouldn’t afford to stand out sgsioat tha Civil Highta bill, you know. Tho negroes, I notice, tao, are poor people, aud, I wuppows, hardly ever take the slooper.” **Don't care —n whether they take "em or not 1 I tell you the folks down hero wou's patrou- ize the higger slecplog-cars, and we'll break 'om up yet. 1 observed that the Pullman Company wasa talerably solvent concorn fluancially, not easy to bo bankrupted, and that their patronsge was mainly frow through passengers. +* Well, d—n thein, anyhow,™ waa the reaponse. *That's what's tho iatter with our pooplo any- lmlblv. Why don't they refuse to sell their cotton, au HTARYE OUT TUEM YXLLOWS UP WOATH THERE? ‘That would fetch 'em to, with their Civile Righis bill. Why, what would you peeple do to sotile” tho Bnnlun balxoce of trade sgalust this counury it wo held our cotton; worth more than all s olber axporia of tie counlsy put to- got! sted that the Custom-House f] .hlu' ffin last year the exposts of bn‘dfx;;: SR B, e s Tilions of dollars® warth of *' You munt he mintaken,” eald be, *In fact, 1 know {t. You'd starve to desth without our cotton,"—the coming crop of which, the factors evorymhere toll mo, is already owned in Now York, to cover credits advanced. ‘This politi- cal etonomist, of the class yet fo be met bere, 18, of couran, a violent “whito-liner, aod bored mo for 40 miles, telling how the whits line would foren avery whita man to oppons tha nig- ger, and how tho latter wouldn't thon have tho courags to vote against it, but would siav away from the polls. And tbat, in any avent, the ne- gmen would never stand nnother rumpuns in this tato ; if thoy do, thiey'd be KO AWFULLY CLEANLD OUT they'd never try it agein. Liut the fight was all out'of thom now, ond ** Wa're going to run this Siate from this time out.” A fow daya Iator I enconntared this white-linor again, Ho thon ex- plainod that a flesh-cut an bis hand had beon re- coived In a dircussion with a brother Iawyer, who attomptod to carve him (the white-lioor) with o :)lg Lnife. And of such are tho up-country white- iners, A loading espitnlist of Vickeburg,—for whose courtesios, dui i oy way in that city, I am un- der many obligations,—a caol, clonr-headed, eldorly gentloman, with talont for mnua{ making of much the type found in bouk-pariors or railroad-offices jo tho North,—after ho had explained tho utter incapacity of tho negro in all things (excopt capecity for work in thie cotton-fields), bo sad, es I was about to leave: *“*I wish you would go up to Chorry Htroet rchool before you go, sud wes how the picksninnioa can leain. Tha Principal is a colored woman, and go are all tho toachera and pupils. It would do you good to seo how wall tley loarn to write and to apell, and particularly what 1ino singers they are. Dow't tell tho I'inci- pal you are s correspondent, but just suy you aro traveling and took tho liberty of looking in atthe nchoof. Then you cauuot be afraid they are showing off, and will aeo tust what I tell you is true, Thoy LEALN A FAST A8 ANYDODY." Unfortuustoly, I bad to leave tho city in a fer bours, and couid nat fud #1ua0 to climb the bill t0 tho Chorry Btroet schiool. Aud as tho gentle- man, who, after descantiug on niggerincapacity, gavo this tostimony aa to negio capacity, la a member of tho Vicksburg School Board, and froquently vimts that atticular schiool t 1nspect ita condition, perbaps thers was no occasion to climb tho hill, under tho broiling glare of tho midday aun, toses for myself. Ba- sides, one of tho first things that improssod me on entering tho South was tho bright, inquinltive manner of tho littlo darkeys. Their lustrous black oyca shine with intellizonce, and boys and girla alike noto all with xeen_quicknees. 1t was 8o throughout Touncssco and Arkausas, and so I tound it overywhers in Missismippi. In_ the towns, too, in my aftor-broakfast walks, I on- countered squads of thein—Iair repicsoutatives, 1 suppose, of tho domorslized rising gencration who ace gotting notions above flold-work, aud who ars encouraged theroin by their ignorant patenta—on their way to school. Their ebony facos wero scourad till” thoy fairly shone., They oo a cloan, tidy lot, and as hippy-looking as any school-children to bo scou aven in Chicago. They were, of coursa, not ao woll clad ; but the girla' choap stul-frocks wero ovidently fresh 1rom tho wash; snd the boys, too, cither by the depraved parents who oncourage them to go Lo sclioo), or because tliey have imbibed notioan of neatnees in dross for themsolves, bad in every cane dressod their best. And, in sbort, ONE OF TUE MOST CHEGRING INDICATIONS T'yo scon of o hopeful outcomo for this South, where overything seoms eo much out of gear, aud whero (except in Arkansas) every white cit< izon grumblos at all things by the day, was to sece, a6 I 4o many times hiave, these dusky Inds has- teuing to echool, each with slato aud - books,— barefoot for the most part, and, though maui- feutly about a1 _poor a3 poverty could bo and survive, as contentod, happy, and ,Lopeful, a4 only childhood canbo. Til almost wager a year's pay thot dozens of those urchiua chorish dreams of getling o oollega cducation, sud of golng {o the Legislaturo or Congrous, maybe; and thot, nudor tho bright bandana that hides her woolly kinks, cocli of those ‘;illl bas hor dond-sot rosolution that, whon sho's grow'd up" and married, sbo'll keop house, aure. If they baven't, they will get_ thelr hoads full of fust such notions out of thelr books, and won't stay away from school to hoe and pick cotton, if thoy can hLolp it. Dossibly, after years of hack-work on the daily press, I'm rowing abaurdly sentimental: but, a often as f hear of sho hopeless mcapacity of the nlggers, it somekiow occurs to ma ihat thens Littlo dar- koys aro, on the wholo, A DECIDEDLY TIOPEFUL LOT 5 nod theargument about that Liopolcsn incapacity, Luhall shod as o duck docs water, #0 loug as I #0e the sauads of small nogroes on their way to school. While Sambo and Dinah continuo possessnd of the notlon that the pickaninnies 1oust go to achool instead of the cottan-fleld, 1 gomelow arguo it out, to my own matiafaction, too, that both Sambo nnd Dinah will work a little hiardor, aud bo a triflo leas profligate 1 tho nz of ul)qndlng monoy for gim-cracks, in order tobe ablo to keep tho pickaniunics out of tao cotton-fleld and at school. Probably it was tho idesa he picked np at achool that animated that little negro that Judgo Morris, of Vicksburg, told ma of. I givo it n the Judse's language aa nearly usl can, as ho told it In tha train: Thoy still boast of their chivalry down here. Hero's an illustrotion of iL: Juet siter nows of the Vicksburg masaacro reaclicd Jack+om, a ne- gro boy about 14 years of age wroto out with bis own hand, in bold characters, a pronunciawento to the effect that, if the white murderars thoughs there was nobody who had the courage to avenge the slaughtor of his poaple, they were mistakon ; and Lo gave notico toull white boys that Lo was tho boy who wan ready to MEET THEM AND PIGHT TIEM to tho death; and nome more boyish rhotorie of the sathe sort, threateuing vengeanco on the slayers of his poople. Aund the hidle fellow bim- self took that challengo and tacked it ona bul- lotin-board near the centro of tho town, and ‘was waiting for it to bo accepted, when he was arroated, sentoneed o Jail for & number of days, and fined €35, 1 Loliove. Anywhero also the boy'a spirft wonld have boen admired, and all that tho suthorities would have done would liave beeu to take down I proclamation, ad- monish him that that wasn't the right way to do, and send him home. Hlere it waa the subjoct of tromendous excitoment, and, if ho hadn't been sent to jmil, probably ho would Eave beon killed. 1iis frisuds let bim stay thora till the oxcitoment subsided sotaowbat, wiien the nogroos started n contribution to pay his fine, toward which I gave somothing, and ho waa reieased, and kopt out of the way for a tine.” Sald a Northiern journslist of moderato views, whorm I mot in the course of 1ay travels: *‘Tho trouble with the uogroos is, that they are atraid to shoot back ; f thoy would only learn to pull trigger firat, TUEY'D DE WONDERTTLLY 800N BEAPECTED," How that way be 1 don't know, but, if this boy picked up at achool 1ha notion that it was beroio to stand up for Lis rights and those of his [ecple 1a auch fasbion, probably other negro ada are taking in the same notion; and, if my friond were right, it may be that, in course of timo, the nigger will thus earn, 1n some sort, the respect of tho superior futelligenco and tax-pay- ng intercai, * You are too eevero on the Southern people,” d one of the wost Lntelligent ladies 1 have met suywhore, who, with ber busbaud snd therr fawnily, has lived hero soveral years and moans to alay. ‘* They are mout hospitable and genot- ous, and have iuch to bear up under that you cau't undosetand. John [her busband] in o Re- E:hllcm, and always speaks out bia sentiments fore them boldly, and they rathor hike him for it, I think, though they don's ilke his palitics.” kAfimmm Joho, who was iuthe srmy, and isa ighting mav, 1n response to something I said the othier day, to the _effect that decont farmers from Obio, Iilinols, Tows, or elsewhiors Nortl, woulds't caro to imuaigrato to » State where every mau at all times carried a pintol, said, “Well, I®alwsys carry ouo, for ifa a mighly handy ihing to"have down here"} “You must remember," continued Mry, —, *that thoy lost their slaves, and about everything olsv, by tho War. ~ You may say it was their own fault; but thov don't think they wero fa fault, ‘Lhey foel bittor over it. Their defost raukles in their minds, aud they NEVER WILL OZT OVEAR IT, qustomed to the old atyle of affairs, They were aud they can't adapt thomselves to tho uow orey| dor. ‘The North forgets that thoy slill rogar! themaclves as a conquercd people, aud aro all the time working to Ent full'coutrol of affairs, ‘That's what wakes them so blitor againat the ot-baggers, who arucnntaml:uhlulot. mout of thom., I kuow plenty of them hero who make DO con: ent of the fact that thoy won's atay sny longer than lhl{.kmln ofice; sud, of courss, they mean to fake away with them all they can get, In the North you'd despise them, too huml oouldn's be respectable there.” “Bat," sald J, ‘‘she North daa's waod the them to have exactly tho rights xny whito man han in 1llinols or New York. And don't yon think the negroes, ns a genaral rle, wonid vote with thom if thoy (the whites) didn't make their politice forover dopend on the nigger juestion 7™ ** I oxpect so,” aho replied; * {or vobudy Is so prond of a littla natice from someh;dy whese mition {s higher, than are the old slaven of & ind word from tho men who uscd to own them, Jnt, sou soe, the whites can't come down to electioncering with tho nogroos, lika your pioli- ticlans North do for everybody's vofes. Yon can't otpoat tham to; thay never will; and il they mean by the white line iu to get the raie Dere, which . TIEY TISINK THEIR RONT; and [ think so tso." I couldn't discuss politica with alady to the oxtent of telling her that the whites here now had as many rights as American citizens nny- whore; that so had the nogroca; snd that all eitbier had to do was to work ous Lheir tomporai salyation by work, as tha rest of us Lad to do. Lut I added Iwas sometimesafraid, if tho whites could never sdapt themsalves to thoe new order, that thoy would find thero waa Lo room left for themn under tho * new ordor.” And with that ondod the conversation on that topic with this woman, who, with woman's cloveruess, it oc- ourrotl to me, had atrick the situation stly. 1t wan an accomuodation tram, said ** Mack,” tho Conducto; nd about THE 3MOST ACCOMMODATIXG TRAIX Tever travolod on, I found it. We stoppad at & way-stetion (1t way between dackeon aod Viclks- Lutg) without any occasion for stopping over 30 neconds, pinco uothing Lad’ Lrowen down, and the froight to bo takon on aud put off was only sbont a good whoalbatrow-load, **Do vou stop hers more thau an hour, Mack " saked a passenpor, '+ Nv, hir-eq,"” responded the Conductor. ! Wao won't stop here over 30 minute: learning which I got off the car, and walkod into Lhe **saloon " which the place boasicd, cud which eenciued, with the dopot, 1o constitule about ail thers was of tho town. Could Lget alunch? No: but ansthing I wantod to drink. I didu't want auything to drink, sud walked about 50 yards ts the doput. Lhors I fonud tue Canducior in thio midst of a crowd of darkeys, who were cu- {'aymz tho porformance Lugaly, twangiog a anjo, accomirauied on a fiddie by one of the brakosmon, They played * Old Zip Coon,” and ® lot of plantation songs and **breskdowns,” And, the mors they plaved, tho moro tho eyes of their dutkey audience A[;arklcd. aud the grester was tho display of ivorica. And, the whilo, racruits wers coming in from oll quertors, —bure-logged pickaninnios, old Hold-hands with woolly heads, wilto as fliccce, and brawny young blacks, who couldn't keep away, whils the women-folk stood fu 8 group = few feet distant, And tho preatest triumph of prima-donna was vover recoived with more genuino eathusiast, Atapausoin the performance, I asued if thors was any place about thero I could got lunoh. 1 bad missed my dinner in haste for this train, and it would uot arrive at Vickabusrg 1l 8 iu the evening. +Olb, vea!" sald the Conductor, as be tuned bis banjo preparatory to another ** breskdown " 'UYOU CAX OZF DINNER AT DICEY'S." Would thcrs ba time 2" Time!: Ob, yes!" was the reply of the accommodating Conductor of that accommodi- tion train. *We won't pull out without you; and, if you aren’t aronad, we'll whistle and give you timo cuough to walk back ;" and he powted to Dicoy's.—a log cabin about 130 yards dis- tant, When I ruached it, I entored passing un- der tho sign-bonrd boating tho lozend, * Dicey Bpicer. Dinoer for 80 cis." Dicey—an old negress, black as tho ace of spades—herself re- ceived mo, was Borry that tho bands off that freight-train bad oaton‘up about all the dinner; but, if I'd wait, she'd cook moa bite. I waited for lack of Lelter occupation, noting the while that tho rongh tloor had beon scrubbed tifl it was spotlessly clean sod bright, and that overything about the cabin was remarkably tidy., Presontly she brought in an excellent omeletto,—from the #izo of it, probably a half-dozen egs wont to make it up,—a glass of frosh buttermilk, and a cup of good coffeo, with a cloan towel ont of the burcau for a nopkin, I remembered it all for two rea- pons : firat, becansa 1t was the bLest dinacr, all in al}, I got in tho Stato ; and, next, becauso sife l{wlnglzvd for tho dinner and for tho prico charged, Nobody in Miswissippt knows Low to keop s hotel, but every ono of ihein in the Lusi- ness knows as woll how to make out a bill as the most exquisite _clork in tlo tiout fashionable caravagesry, The Dill was 2 bits,—25 conts. ‘When I returned to tho train, th Qonduotor aud brakesman were continulog the musical enter- tainment ; at the closo of which tho accommoda- tion train puiled out for Vicksburg, much to the disappointment of tha audience'at tho depot, who wantod mora music. Manorri. SPRINGFIGLD, ‘The Census Talk Stopped~Docora- tion Day, Special Diepatch to The Chieago Tribune, 8ratxaricLo, 111, May 23.—It seemn that those partien who wers congratulating themaelves ovor tho fact tbat we wore to havo a consus of the Stato notwithstanding the failure of the Logis- Iaturo to paes a law last winter anthorizing it, are to be disappoioted. The Becretary of Btate has called the attention of the Attorney-Gon- eral to the law of 1845, which was mupposed to be still in force, and ho bas given the Hcecetary & vorbal opinion to tho effect thal the law was undoubtedly ropealod by tho re- pesling act of 1871 e says that the statutes of 1845, os rovised wore onacted into lawa a8 one act, aud that this act £ euscting them in expresaly ropealed, and that theroby all the Iaws of 1845, except tho act relating to trospnss, which was prased independ- ently of the rovision. wore ronoaled It fn trae, ho eays, that thia law rolating {o the censan is nowhere specifically ropealed. 'Lhis will proba- bly end the matter, ‘At a moeting called for the purpose, it was de- cided, laat ovenine, that the ceromony of deco- ratig the soldiors’ graves shouid lake placo on Monday, the 81et dsy of May. Tho arrange- menta were placed iu tho hands of an Executive Committes, who are to have everythiog roady by EB“ ‘l'uesday. Thore will be a great scarcity of owers. LABDOR AND CAPITAL. FALL RIVER OPERATIVES, Fawy River, Mauss,, May 92.—Tne Mill Opera- tivos' Convantion resuuicd its seadion this morn- ing, when a paper was road ou tho bost means of establishing the ten-hour systom throughout Now England. It advises the formation of unjoas, and urged all forsign-born operatives to become citizens for the parpose of eupporting candidates who will pledga thamssives to pro~ mote the too-hour system, Reuolutions were adojited domanding the ten-hour law thronghout New Englaad, & uniform scale of prices for the same class of work, and the sppoiotment, by the Btato, of Inspectors, and the sbolition of ths truck eystom of paviug operatives with or- ders on stores {nstead of cash. It waa aluo re- solved to socure the return of- workingmen to u;ellgub of Tlepredontatives to plead tho cause of labor, CROPS. Correapondancs of The Chicage Tribune, Dopur Covxtr, Wia,, Slay 22.—The past week has beon one of great growth for all Linds of crops in this State, But, as soon a4 the farmers’ discouragonients from the late spring disappear, s new avil, of uncertain magnitude, appoars, Tho firet warm wook Las dovelopod countless numbers of chinch-bugs. ‘The roports como 1n from ovory hiand, #o that thero can bo no doubt bus that s dangor of tho groatest magnitude 1n threatoomg us. It is tho testimony of all that the culuch-bugs aro iu suflicient numbors to de- stroy our entire orop, if tho remaining part of tho uoason s favorable for shisir doprodations, With 7uunonpnr- in the I'ar West aud chunch- buge in tho Contral States, and with considerable damage to winter wheat, {t would soem that tho outlock for wheat is not such aa to warrant suy great hasto In farmers' disposing of their wheat thiat thoy bave in gravar: M. — -~ MILWAUKEE MATTERS. Svecial Dispateh to The Chicaan Tribune, Minwaukes, May 33, — Maté Carpentor is gone to Chicago, in respovss to s tolegram from distillors thers, to consult as to commencing & snit to tess tho constitu- tioualty of the roveuus sef: in coujunction with suits ln which he has n retained bhere. N. 8. Murphy, bis law pariner, is also retained. Bishop Krautbsuer, of Green Bay, will bo sonsacrated blabiop Henny, on the 28th s Appearance of the Pest in Madison County, 11, The People of Kansas Much Alarmed, but Not Badly Hurt as Yets Beliet that the State Will Escape a Serious Visitation This Year. in Portions Hardin’s An Unfavorable Outlook of Missourles-Gov. Prayer-Test. The Insect in Minnesota, Nebraska, and Colorado, ILLINOIS, MADISON COUNTT. Alten (1) Telegraph, Hay 21, DBy & roliabte gentlomsn of this city, who has Juat returned from a trip into the couutry s fow milea from Alton, near Edwardsvillo Junction, wo learn that myriads of & new kind of gross- hopper were obsorved by 4le roadeids moving en masne, but as yot without wings. Thoy were about nalf an inch in length, and, after a care- ful examination, our informant pronounces thom & new specics.—probably the samo as Lave afflicted othior portions of the VWest the past yoar or two. We do not thiuk the farmiog community need to take any alarm at this announcement, as there is no cortainty that the vlague will bo wido- pread or likely to devastato the growing grain, yet it ia imposaible not to feol some solicitudo to know what the readit will be, —— KANSAS. AN ESTIMATE OF TILE GRA-SHOFTER BAYAGES. Spectal Correapondewce of The Chicago Tribune, Leaveswontit, Kan,, May 20.—In view of rocont reports from twenty-eight or thirty coun- tles in tho Northern, Central, aud Eastorn sec- tions of Koosas, I feel warranted in making tho prediction that this Stato will escape o seriona vinitation of the grasshoppers this year. 'Thoro are myrinds upon myriads of theso insceta here, visible to tho naked eya; but they eeom to ba leaving for the sicher fields of Miseouri, Iowa, and Iliinols, At this time, eversthing is in euspense., Farmers are not certsin whetbor tho bulk of the ravaging pests will stay or go; but, forming judgment fromdihe kuown babita of s past generatiowof 'lioppers, tho impreasion is obtained that they will po early in Juno, Now they aro concentrated in the counties bordering on the Miesouri River, asif waiting for the development of winged streagth for the flight acroey the sticam, Singulacly enough, they ars not dovouring the gralu-felds to the extent at firat throatened. "They refuss tho wheat, nolecting pasturcs of clover, and cven wild grass, in preforeuca. In some placs, they manifest a vo- rsclous appotits for tender blados of young com, and occasioually destroy a field of onta, Our pooplo—@nd I mean tradesmeu o8 woll'as fsrmors—are nos discour- aged; but they are uncertain. Morchinnts com- plain'that they cannat sell gaods whilo tho eitu~ ation is in doubt. Should the ‘hopper stay, their dopredations will bo conflued chietly, I think, to the Eastern counties of Kaueas and Western Missourt. The region #o com: letua;unu;;ed laut summor and fall is not troubled yoir to anyoxtent worthestimating, Insomeplaces wheze oats have boen destroyed, farmors have planted com,” oxpecting to_secura something of valdo, Wo havo beon vitited Ly copious showors of rain during the past wook; and it is & fact worthy of notico, that the dead graeshoppers ap- EP‘““ drifts along the banks of the strosws, "Lis is accounted for on the theory that millions dio fiom nstural causor, aud the ‘flow of water through the ravines aud sloughs floats them to tho cieeks, Hal-storms invariably leave tho ground atrown with the dead insecta. A VISIT TO CIICAGO. It would not surprieo snybody hereaways if & largo delegation of grasshoppors should visit Chicsgo beforo lonvlug the country. ‘Inis is a custom honorod allkke i ithe breach and the observance, and tha festivo littlo innects may not dopart from it. Im- agine the Madison and Doarborn frouts of Tue ‘Tuiseyz Building covered with theso iusects, from the basement to the uppermost story ; and thiok of the curbing black with them,—a bushel to the square yard,—where they take refuge from sidewalk pedestrians and streot veliclos,— sod an 1dva may bo obtaiued of & grasshopper- visitation in cities. Tho foliage and rare surub- bory of the fasliouallo rosidence-grounds of Michigan aud Wabash ovennes may furnish choice morsols for the hungry visitors. But the rasshoppor_ is not fasiidious in regard to fiiu diet. When ho stnps trees and bushes as bare sa a Northern forest in mid-winter, hio goes ta work on the rough * fuzz " of a fonce-board, with the cheerful rosignation of a Christian mnrtyr. How ant.oying ths mischicvous ‘hop- per is to the ladies! lde haa vo 1deas of pro- prioty,—uo regard for wealth or social posit:on. uriug his presonce, he constantly suggests to the.Iadios the utiiity aud conveuience of the Dr.~ Mary-Walker styloof costumo. Tho graashop- er 18 an impertinont neighbor. He makos rouble, and canses grief, disiress, and sunoy- ance, whorover he goes, DELAWARE. ALARMED, BUT NOT NULT. To the Editor of The Chicago Tridune, Nonri Torexa, Kan., May 20.—I was aston- ished to rend, in Tuz Tninuse of the 18th in au editorial boaded **Tue Qraeshopper Plague," that, fcr overshooting, beats snytling I have yet resd upon tha aubject. Now, the long aud sliort “of the mattor is, that, white thore aro in- numerablo young grasshoppers in differont local. itios of this State, and bavo been for tho last mix weeks, rellablo reports of any extensive dam- ago anymhere have ot been made. Tlhere are instances of damaga; but tosay thas the damago is goneral, is eimply unfounded. ‘Therearo mauy theories abont the probabla conduct of these in- mocts; but, amovg the old scttlers, tho atate- menta are unanimous thut thoy aro not, by any 1neans, 80 numerous a8 they were in tho sprning of 1368, when they did no damage of any ma- ment, 'About aix weoks aga, thu grasshoppors tirss began to * hatch out '; and those now al- most covering tho earth (only n epote) are but little, 1f auy, larger thau tliose seon ab tirst, Whilo your grasabopper-oditor fills the alr with millions and biltiona of thoss insects, the unvar- misbed truth is, that nouo of thom cau fly at all, snd the opinlon prevails smong tho old and in- telligent portions of the people, that thoy never will bo ablo to, 1t the grasshoppers do no more dsmange in this Stato thau they hiave su tho past six weeks, and po other or greator misfortunos overtake our farmors, the poople of Kansas will bave groatarroason to thank fleaven (or somothing or Hotaebody) than s’ auy previous period in the history of the stato. Now, theu, Mr, Editor, for the Lord's sake (if you don't renpect us), be careful what you may about Kausas, Vo haye had an awfui time to got through to grass. Lest summer’s drought, hoppers, aud, worse & thousand-fold, last winter's cold, aud, worss than all too-thousand- fold, the thieves who spread thomselves over the country, begging **aid” for ocur people, nearly ** got away with us 1l tho truth about us: probnbly we can atand tha The agilonltural prosposts of thie Btate are maguifleent § and, while wo nio torrivly alarmed, 80 far, thank tho Lord, we are not hurt, Give your grasshopper-man our compliments, and ask him, if be pleasos, 0 bold up. Very wuly, J. ¥, Avanne, MOVING EASTWARD, Leavenwcorth (Kan.) Commercal, Mey 20, ‘The grasshopssrs sppesr ta be muviog easte ward {o numerous bodios. It is sald, too, tbat vast mumbers of ithom are dy::g‘ thees repoits are ;'ffl'"?&.hm eyl weatern mu al o they bus Uitls , Web wealhier (s groateat tnem or drive them off. T NOUTHWEST RANEAS'S The Commercial has receiv-™~ ect and ro~ liable advices from nclrli esary iyin North- wont Kansan, north of the Knansas Pecific Rosd and woet of Waterville and Clny Centre. Tho crops in Clay, Cloud, Republic, Waebington, and Ottawn counties look fine: aud in Jewell, Mitchell, Phillips, Osborn, Iooks, Grabam, and other Countien, the crops look splendid, Fariners #ay they never looked bettor. The bulk of the coru {s planted, and muck of it iy up and look- tug fine. The farther west, the better the rmall grain looks, Thoe screago sown and planled in unusually fargs. During the past two weoks copious rains have fallen in all tha oorthwestorn counties, A fow grasshoppars aro to bo found an far west aa Cloud County, but nono to speak of weat of that: and in no portion of tho country spoken of will the dsmage amount to ek, 8o far a5 can now be judged. Tha ** gramshopper region " certainly looks prosperous At this time. INALEY VR, GRASSTIOTPERS, The following is the Iateat from I. N. Inaley, the plucky Joerson Conuty man, who proposes to mako a fight ou the grasshopper: Osratoons, Kan., May 20.—7To the Editor af thr Commonuealth: ince my ‘articla last Batnrday I have been buny calching the young ‘hoppers Just batching out, or thore coming {rom same othor quarier. A wavo of thetn atruck me to-day that uearly overwhiclmed me, but, by ard wotk and a close appli- cation of agale ahd bivorn, 1 wa able Lo save my farm from them, having culy lust_sbout Lulf an acra of mil- Istyet, Iouly dig Lules ome epada deep and G or 8 inchen rqucre, tnvtesd cf 18 fnches as befote, 1use higher wingn now than at first, as the'hnppers can Jump bigher, All that in reqynired 10 save the crors s 10 unite by melghborhnoda und deatroy the paets, Hut ona man ‘cannot destroy his oD ani those latching onton adjoning lands, In unlon thers Ir atrenyth, ‘The grassiiopper demoustrates this thuroughlr, LN, Ixueer, u T iy MISSOURL. A DEATROYING ANGEL. Special Correspondence of the Clirato Tribune, Br. Joszrw, Mo, May 21.—Tue grasshopper skips about livolier than ever,—a destroying angel among tho farmers and their early coru- crops. Milliona upon millions of theso orthop- terous fnsects can be seen in this section, and the outlook is anything but favorable. Thore are some portions of Lhe country, howavor, that bave as yet not beon visited by tue ecourge, acd may escape tho gone cral devastation, One farmor Las already had tiwo corn-crops desiroyed this assson, and now eays that hois going to wait unsil the *hoppors leava before he oseaysto plant snothor crop, If Mirsouri snould bs so unfortanate ae to have a failure incrops this year, it witl cause great destruction sud enfleriug ‘smong the poorar clusyos of farmers, and causo a peneral etagna- tion and deproseion in businews generally; while, on the other hand, if the crops turn out sy way balf-decently, wo may expect pood timos and plenty all aronud, Whiat & licro would the man bo who conld dosiss the means of ridding tho Jand of these pests, THE GOVERNOR'S PLAN. Gov. Hardin has offerod a ncw pian of demol- isluog the ‘hopper. That i+ to 83, Lie has issued # prociamation designating the 34 of Juno as & day for people to pray for tho oblilern~ tion of the innccts. He eays that Irovi- denca is the ouly thing that can save us from the grasshoppers, and urges upon tho peo- ple to raive thoir eupplicationa to the Almighty for rolief from their terrivlo ravages, This is all very well in its way, but it does uot savor of anytbing practical; and, besides, as peoplo say hero, why put tho timo of prarer o far in ad- vane the Ud of June? DBy that time, the graschoppers will havo cieated such havoe that saltpetre, lot alone prayers, will not save us, Noswan. OVERRUX AND DRATOYED, Lacrence (Kun.) Journal, My, Tho approliension of disaster to otr 1! of Minsutiri from thin sconrge acems to hie u- 117 well founded. Many of tho western counties of the Btato are now cotopletely overrnn and ae- vastated by them, and they have commenced their enstward pilgritage, destioying aa thoy go, and bninging desolatton and fainito in regions hitherto untouched. Tho Lemocral vaya that, in Lafayette Couuty, the destruction is already ter- rible; reports from Cass, Bates, Vernon, and other counticaon the westorn border, indicate that the destraction thero will not bo less gen- eral. No human power, apparently, can avert the calamity. To tho pooplo of many countics 1t moans nothing leas thian starvation. —— MINNESOTA, GUEAT ANXIETY. St. Peter Tribune, From converaations with farmers from differ- ent parts of this county, we learn that the eggs are latching out i considerable numbors, though not enough have yet appesred lo causo aoy great destruction of erops. Whetber tho number will bo greatly increased does not scem to bs fully eottled in the minds of thoso with whom we have conversed, alibough great anziety is felt, They appoar to be tho thickest slong tha side of tha New Ulm road, about 6 or 7 miles woat of hore, and we nnderstand the farmers in that locality have held a meeting and mado ar- rangements Lo scattor straw over tho ground and burn it, About 2 miles west of licro tha grass- hoppera are out in immeose numbers. 1t is bardly possible to dostroy them by burning stran over them, from the fact that they do not all hatch at one time. ‘Lhose which hatched ten days 6go havo already invaded tields of oats at o distance of 2or U rods, and are cating the leavos, Cousiderable numbers are hatehing at Balgrade. The hopvers are plenty along the roads iu Latayette, but scarca any olsewhere ox- copt along the bottoms on the Miunesota Itiver, THE WOLK OF DESTRUCTION, A corrospoudent of tho eame paper, from Courtland, save: * The grasshoppers Lave beon hatching in this vicioity for the last teu days, aud havo commerced their work of destruction in good earvest, which yon cau caaily 808 by ex- amining & faw spomia of wheat horewith in- claved, which iu a fair samplo of tho damage al- ready dono to whole tields of grain, but is at precont prineipally conilued to last year's break- 10g, waero their oggs wera deponited laat fall iu large numbere. In such places it will bo folly to oxpect a bushel of gran this year. ‘Thore ure some locaities, howevor, that may cscape with a Ligbt crop, uulcss, when tho peas begin to tly, they should drop dowa on the now favored local- it1es and destroy them aléo. On the eaud prai- rie from Courtland Station west as far as tho township extends, tha nrospect for a crop is very poor, although people are doing everything 1 their power Lo suva the moat favored portions of their crop oy butning the prairie grase." ALL OVER TILZ PRAIKIE, And still another, from Graaby, writea have them on the brain, and on the grai they are alt over this beautiful green prairie— tho grasshoppers—aud cut and slash sherever it cowmes hondy," THE LATIAT RUMMING-UP. The editor of the Tribune adde: **Tho lates summing-up of tho graeshopper prospect ¥eems 0 bo that wo shall suffer somo damnago—Lo whas oxtent caunot now be safely prodicted. The hopoful features of tha casw aro, lirst, that being mostly along the rondldes, they cau, by united and porsistent effort, be to a great extent de- siroyed ; and, second, us their courso is southe oasterly, whenaver they got ready to tly, we shall uoon after seo tho laat of them. Fiually, as they vever havo flourishied for a series of years eaat of the Missisvippi, no part of the country likely to be atthicted by them suotber year,” BEPONTS YNOM VALIOUS FOINTS, 8t, Pt puper, _ Grasshoppers, wyriadd of them, have ap- joared iu Weut Nowton, Lafayotte, aud Cajt- and, Nicollet Couuty. Brown County is com- gunival_v freo from the pests, Roports from oLeod, fibley, snd LoSucur Couaties ate very discoursgiug. —— NEBRASKA, - TUE PIUTE PLAX. Nebraaka City Presa, From our exchauges we learn that tho destrue- tion of granshoppors by fire proves very success- ful, but that snother mods of destruction sesws proferable to that ot ** rounding up ™ and bura- iug. From the Little Globe wa learn that in Iorado Precinct, Richardson County, thoy have adopted the plau of the huto Indianv. The mothod is, to take tivo bosrds about 15 feot long and from 12 to 20 inchea broad sud place them where the grasshoppers are thick, placiog the boards {u the shapo of 8 ¥, leaviog a amail openiug at the end of tho V. Thon dig & hole &t this opening aud put a halg-bushel messurein it. You can then drive sho grasshoppers into the Vand into the bole. It is said that they will not jump over tho boarda, snd when secured iu the moasure they NUMBER 23 ¢ho be burned. A farmor down at Oscalo: Kan.. bythe namo of Ingloy, writes to ?k:; Atchisun Champion, and says ho has Lrio. thin plan with great auccens, and recommends sl the farmors down thero to try it. < hggwn o mluhm’l‘lm ICo;mly 8 number of ora have cleated thele farms of the graage Lioppors by this plan. he geass .+ TISIOT CLARKAON'S FORM OF PRAYPR, Rinkop Cinrksan, Eplacopal Bishop of Nobras. kn and Daliota, hias sent out tho following vrayer to th clergy of Lis Diocere, to bo rand at bath, tha movaiug and evening servicos until the gathe ermg-in of tho barvest: Most gracions God, to whoay ba indeited far tho retmein of herserts st 1 srne oy tlie grannd, wo besoech Thiea to hlom the Itbora of the linabandnian, and to grant us such ecasonable weather. ind mich_deliverance from, deatructive fchects that; ny {0 dito tim 0 4nd enofit, Have Tmarey Upon varwe ooten mercy upon us, we boseech’ Thiee, movt ouerctrul Fathior: avert. the. daogers, ot tlireaten thie harvest from the terrible nconrgn of the: Iocusta: Good Lord, deliver nns fhercesa thie frails of e wAEt by T4 el bensdictlon, il gn ! rco to trceive Thy clemency with thanks sad praiso, through Senus Clriet ur Lotd, Aniun, T —— COLORADO. L DEATROTING EVERTTIING GREEN, Topeka (Kan.) Commonwealth, Say 20, Judze Devoroux, Land Comriesioner of tha Kanaas Pacific Eailway, who L junt returned. from Denver and tho mountains, roports that! grasehoppors aro destroying evorsthing greon in ' Uolorado, which ia croating a goneral feeling of dopression among sgriculturists. Tho wheat in Wontorn Kaneas fs looking nplendidly aud ia hoading out. Tho farmera of Colorado liave in- yented and ara using & rotary heating machino for destroyiog grasehioppers, which works suce ceastully, RAILROAD NEWS, BIG LAWSUIT, ; Sracinl Disvateh ta The Chicago Tribune, MoixEs, Ia., May 22.—Au action Las bson commeuced horo apafnst the Chicago, Rock Iniand & Pacific Railrond Company to recover damages for allcged violation of contract, in tho sum of §40,000, with interest from 1869, The basis of the sction is this: Whon tho railroad wan built to this city, the question of locating the depot-grounds of 'the road was loft with the peapio, a8 1n alleged by tln prosscutors, ‘hers 18 Lioto, 88 in oll citics dividod by a river, a rival- rs between bath sidos of it. 'Tho Eaat formed & committee, raised o subreription, and secured a tract of land, which was civen ta tho usa of the ratlroad, on which the Compauy ercetod froight houso, round-house, track sard, and a ginall pas- dengor house, I'wo-thirdd of the population of tho city in on tho Wost Side, and alvo tha busie ness, “Tho Company subsequently located o pas- senger house on tho West Bide, and theroin made its hexdquartens. . 1t is alleged that the Company agreed with the East Sido that their only passongar depot should Lo on that sido, and tharo maintaloed. When the project of *a new and maguificent depot waa started by tho Coms pany, tho Company asked of tho City Couueil cevtnin privileges. The East Side moibers op- pured every wmove tntil it was learned tho Come pauy had boon offered new grounds furthor weat on tho West Side suficient tor all their businous cit, and It was probable the ors would lose what thoy now had, they erited in the city, and ec soon as work began on the new depot, they bogan this action, It is one thing to allege o contract and auother to provo it Itis uot among the improbabilities that the Company will relievs tho Paut Siders of further trouble by vacating tno grounds alto- gotlier and moving over to the westorn limiis of the city, 2 TAILROAD DAMAGRS, Yesterdav af+racon tho jury in the United tatus Cireme ¢ 1n tho case of Peter Voglo The Chicura i Northweatern Iiaiitoad Come Y. soturned s vordict for plaiotiff fox 5,0 pluntitl wus a fireman on_ au ouging o Chicago, Clinton & Dubuquo Road, In 1873, ~ bis engino collided with na engwo of dofendant which was standing on tho crosniug of the two ronds, L'hie fire:nan, uecing n collision mevitable, leapod from Lis engina and broko his ankle, in_couscquence of which ho bocame a cripple, He sued for $10.000. Neglect of the dofondant in allowing thoir eugino to stand on the croseing, was et up by plaintiff, and cop. tributory negligence of the Chicapo. Clinton & Dabuque Company was set up by defendaut, in that thoy habitually run their traius into tho yarda at Clinton, and on this crossing ol bigh Tato of specd, Jinstaud of halting befora re: meit, Judge Love, before mastracting the jury, reserved 10 tho defondant the right to hava tha caso raviewod boforo tho full Bench, on the queation of coutributory negligence on' tho part of thie Chicago, Clinton' & Dubuque Company. CHICAGO, SAGINAW/A CANADA. Speeiat Inspateh to The Chicago Tribune, East Saoinaw, Say 23.—Tho now locomotiva for the Chicago, Baginaw & Canads Railroad ar- rived yesterduy, and an oxcursion was given by Cpt, Craw to St. Louis, to-day, 200 peaplo of Sacibaw participating, The traim was drawn by the ew engine. Track-layig on the now road west of St, Lo will cominence next woek, Forty miles of tho road is ready for tho irou. THE C. & L. HJR. R, Laxsina, Mici, May 22.—Tho progress of completiug the Chicago & Lake lfuron Mailroad from Flint to this city, on tho cast ond of the line, coutinuos, with fair prospocts of reaching YVornon Centre, the junction of the D, & M. . 1., by tho 18t of August; but from Veinon to this city bat little activity prevaila, 'I'he follow- inir points bave bren dedignatod aa stations bee tween Vernon and Lansing : At N. (7. Phullip's, at A[Orica's, at Joln I, Shafto's, and Pino Lake. TOOK PGSSESSION. Svecial Disvateh to The Chicaor Tridune. Pronu, 1L, May 23,—Lato luat night tha Peoria & Spriugtiold Road took posscssion through SheriffHitcheock of their road and ita equipmants, and bava boon in full possession all day. It isthought the I B. & W, will make no further romstencu. OBITUARY, GEN. WILLIAM LARIMER, OF KANBAS, ‘Leatentearth (Ran.) Tues, May 20, It becomes our duty thia morning to chronicle the domise of one of the oldost and most respecte od citizeus of the State, Gen, Willlam Larimer, at his residence, n few wilea from this city, on Hunday morong, May 10, Gen, Lanmer was well known, not only fa all parts of Kausas, but throughoat the Weat, hav- ing been promineatly jdentited with the publio intoresty cf Kaneas, Nebraska, aud Colorado, for the pust twenty years. Ilo was born in Weste moreland Couuty, Pa., Oct. 24, 150), and was, at the timo of his duath, nearly GU yesrs old. He remamncd at the home-place tifl tha spriug of 1831, when he wmairied scd moved to Pirtabi Thete be ilontitted himsoll with the Auti-Slavery movemeut, became prominent ns an sctive Abolitionist, ussisted in the organe ization of the old Liberal party, aud supportod Durney for President ju 1341, From this time up to thu dofeat of tien. Scutt in 1552 he acto] with tho Whig party, aud took quite a promivent part in the politica of Pevusylvama. During this time ne was Tressurer of the Obia & Penusylys- ma, aud Prosident of the line now known as tho Pitisburg & Baltimore Road, He was made Major-Gieneral of Stato wmilitin in 1853, In 1855 he romuved to Nebraska, snd was shortly afier olected to the Legualaturo of that Territory, Ho thero took an activa patt in behalt of Republican principlos, aud the meeting which organizod the ]u..uplicuu party in the Territory was held at his honse ju Omaba. Ia camo to this Stato in 1433, remained a fow mountbs, sud, dur- ing tho Like's V'eak oxcitemont of that yoar, went to Colorado, He buile the tlist honsu fu Denver, atd was the first Mayor of the city, Ho entored the army whon tha War broke- out, raiged the Third Rogimont of Colorada Voluas toors, and was its tirst Colonel, Mo verved in thiy capacity o short time, Whou ho rosigned returned 1o Kansay, but soon sfter entorod the wervice again as Captain of the Fourteouth Cave alry. At thecloso of the War ho returnod to Leavenworth, and bas since lived on bhis farm near this city. o waaa mombor of the State Bouato from '68 to '70, and has froquently been favoiably spoken of by tuo preds of the Blite in connection withtho Guboruatorial chair and United Btates Bonatorship., Gen. Larimer took o _promiunent part in the Greeloy campalgn of 1872, and was woll kuows as tho flrst wan (o suggpat the name of Mr. Grecley {u conuection with the Presidenoy, la was a man of moje than ordinary abilitv, was gouial and companion. able, had hosta of friends and no enenues. religion ho was a man of broad and liberal vl though nominally » Preabyterian. Ho was oue of our best citizens, and his desth witl bela- euted by the entire community,