Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 4, 1875, Page 2

THE CITICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY Al UST 4, 1875, hat eountry complaining of the loss of interest an that bolfion reearye, sinco it is known that 1ho Directors will fmperceptibly, and withont any mhrinksgo_of valnes, moon rosch a. molid specie-baria. Now, wa caunot_do bettor than tollow rnch an iilnstrions oxample, sinco preciso- ty tho same monotary lawa apply hore as in JTranco. Inatend of recawviug coupons for ens- tow-durs, 10t ua slop aellg goid,—do awag with tho anctivn-hioek roforred to by ** Borg," snd toard all the gold wa'ean, It us increasa onr enstoma-duticn to axmint reanmption, and; if w3 caunot roconntruct our tarifl in tho plan recently #o ably skotehed in a loader in Tie Trunuse. it s reimpose tha datfea on tes, colfeo. and sugar. By increasing tho purchasing yower of tho teenback from K5 conts to tho valus of n tull llat In gold, the workingman ssilf bo moro than tenefold reimbumsed for tho small extra cost of hoso articlea consumed by i, Wo have frequently noar £100,000,000 coin n o Transury. Lot the Sccretary coass giving <certifieates for dojw=ita of gold, bt ot him pre- Parn Treasurs go.d-nofes, rodoomablo on dermnnd at the Troasuty,—such notos to bo not loas than §20. Let tho Socrotary {3sue theso gold-notes Tiasod on gold in the Trearury,—reserving coin, £ay $30,000,000, for the gold-tfoeds of the Gov- crment.—and w0 goldawotes agninet tha wholo balanca of gold in tho Treasury.,. Legal- tondorn auonld then bo_rotirad of tha precias fuce-valuo of the new Troasury gold-natem fis- ancd. When coupons matura for coin-interost, snd are presented for paymont, ask tho holders what proportion in gold and gold Treasury notes thoy derire. A large amount of such cuuponn would bo redesmod in the nnw Tread- ury gold-notes, and the gold would still renin 1n the Tressury. Buy allthe gold presentedat the mints, aud pay for tho sime, as far as desired; in tho new goll- notes. Let such gold so purchased bo coined at once into £3.60 and 85 colus, which are uuk xo oligible for exportation as the larger coins, aud would bo more likely to by left at homo. it ‘would not be long ora $100.000,000 of loual-ton~ der_notes wonld bo redeemed, and ‘I'reasury gold-nolen issuod, hased on gold intha Treasury, and specio-resumption Wunh‘l‘ au far be attained. Thoro is nothing nos in thin echemo ; it in wim- ty applylng tho daly practiea of tho Bauk of sngland to tha United States Trepenry. Tho publte would soon nbeorb a large nmount af those_gold-notes, and the gold on whiéh they would be based would remain in the Irensurvy. Ty registonng the uumbors of such notes to and from {bo toldors by name at banks, from the e curity thus givon, tho holders would prefer Thoanling thom to coin, Wo must not forgot the sinking fand. By tho extra custome-dutien being placed at the dizposal ©f tho Bacretary by the new dutics on tea, cof- 1ee, and sugar, he conlddo as * Bere " kugigonts, ¥iz.: Teceive one-fourth of thoenstoma in precn- ‘backs, and, by giving thom somo of tho work to do now done by gotd, woull enhauce tho valuo nf tho wholo yolume, which, coupled with the rotirement of thom by the irsno of tho pold- ootos, would evon bring greenbacks to par. Every mouth tho Becretary shonld retirn tho greenbackn recvived by him for custowne-dutiox, and iseno in liou thereut one-year 3-per-cont qolil certijicates of tho samo face valuo,—snch cortili- eates to bo availablo for bank-reserves, und #hould be eold, the traceeds thersof to ho ap- plicd to the purcha«o or redemption of bonds for the sinking fund. When tho monthly fnntatlments. of Lo 3-per-cent certificates matured, and wero prosented for payment, givo thn holders the option of having so much gold aud so muel of the gold Troasury notos, in sach proportious B devired. Under this of honiding gold and apnlylng it in thia way, whoic powaer 4 used to aaist in rosumption, It ‘18 ulso plainly seen that tho retirewent of groon- ‘backs would "o both ramd and safe, and tust there woutd be no contraction, sinco the gold- notes, tho S-par-cent gnld Treaeury certifleates, and coin, would succesd the groeubacks, in the snmo_faco-valuo. Tho sggregation of gold in tho Tronsury would certainly be squal to tho ro- demption of the cortificates as matured, assistod by the gold Treasmry notes. Discretion should bo given to tha Hecrctary na to tho receipt of ‘gold ond gold-nctes for enetoms, in sccordanco with the coin-needs of the Treasury. By thus utilizing tha gold ju tho Treasury, and makiug it sssist in tho resumption uf specio- paymonts, tho writor feels ausurod that thero would bo 10 more complaicts of gold lymg 1dlo in tho Troasury: and tho disconnt on greeu- backs, a8 woll a4 that standing disgrace—the Qold-Room—wonld woon disappoar. When the greentacke are well rot:red, and resumption with tha (Iovegnment had 8o far progressad, the Na- tioual Banks could rosmmo with propor re tions te protect them from corners iu gold. The Goverument could, st 1ts discrotion, retire the Gold ‘I'tensnry notes, aud fall back on the well- established ralo, viz.: that tho only ciroulating medium irsued by any nation, por so, shoull ba woiu, Yours very respectfully, CAnoLUs, OUR MOXETARY HYATEM. Totha Fditor of he Chicugo Trivune: Cutcago, Aug. 2—In my previous articlo, prblished in your issuo of tho 20th ult., under thoriguoture of ** & Bubsoribor,” in apoaking of our uot reslizing that we aro usiog o depreciated currency, you make mo say, * for resson that our ciirrency i6 notf at par, and that we do not receive faco-valuo forit,” whon the not shonld bavo boon Ieft oul, ns wo certainly do ueo ¢ ot par, snd do receive fuce-valno far it. While, in one view, it s not at par if measured by tho gold-standard, or. rathor, is consldered worth what it can be #old for in gold, 88 you now haved adopted the “plan of quoting its valuo, it in at par under our linaneinl system, as it is recoived, and 18 good at it faco, for all obligntionw, unloss otherwise stipulated at tho time of enteriug into thom, Weo havo uo gold-standard of values under onr present systom, and our measurement of tho vulue of our curroncy tn gold is foreign and not legitimate under the workings of our syetom. ‘I directien bolng given to public sontiment, 1o valuo our currency in gold, &8 your quotations do, s an oxcollont move, and will load to an in- veatipation of the character of our systonm, which, aa I Lold, is the first grand roquisite in solvivg this question. Moretoforo we have theorized in all ports of ways to got back to the #pecio-basis, without radically chauging tue character of our aystom, Wo hinve sccopted It 5 oompatible i fts miain features and workings with systems Lased diroctly on the gold- saudard of valuew; and It s claimed that it will harmonize with them iu re- :rluhll-l‘xlng}h-uw-i»nundurd. as “tho courso of yold,” s it in o genorally believed, iudi- sates. It I right hero that T take issue with public sontiment, and claim that the *course of gold” does not ludicate, or rather fix, tho value of our curzency a4 & whalo sud a4 a eircu- lating medivm. Iu ostablishiug our prosunt systom of_fiuauce. the logal-tendor way mado to Sake and fitl the place of gold. and Lias dono it, in ull the transactions of businzus, excepting pav- mout of intercet on the public debt, nud for cus- soms. While wo did not attempt to dsmonatizo old by law, wo did by enactmont mako paper A promiiee to pay) tako the place uf gold, roud for our uso a4 gold,—thereby opcening a food-gate for the supply of money, ~ Under the force of the Legal-Tendor act, wa hiave no umo for gold, or scarcely auvy in pruportion to tho aggrugste transactions of busluess, aud con- wequently can buy tho littls wo do mneed very cheap, Buch aro the lsws of trado that, dumand being small for any given srifely, it nolly thoap ou its cost, und afwavs 6o if out of ity wnrket, as gold §s with us, sod a8 now nsed. We buy gold for the speclal purposes it iv uooded under our aystem,—tho legal-tender baving nsurped 1ts placo ns money to ud for gonoral use, and wholly as tho standard of vahtts.” Wo dolude ourscives iu regarding tho whole voline of our turroncy as worth what we cau convert & small portionof it into guld, or, properly wposking, san buy the gold at,—for it is 1ot a conversion of Jur owrrency into gold under the workings of our wysiem, but s purchaso we _make of gold, Ba we of & cowmodity, Uundor onr aystom, %k would ba juet “ma proper to bay we sjonvert our currency 1uto coffee s to 1y wo convert it int gold. DBoth coffee nud goid frow o part of our ystem, and conversion, asod s wo use it, carries =itk it the klea of an uterchange of difforent kinds of mouwy,—nll seig used and recognized as formng our uoney, and their value adjusting itselt iu an apens rolution with each othier, Qur system is striotly arlutrary o its charactor; for, in makivg the logal-teuder take the pluce of jold, our Governmeut éxercined the yaiue war- powsr that it did In orderg onlietiont of soldiors, aud that extraordinary powur retatus Jo-duy in as full and active forée as it did duriug o War, twning 10 onr eystem of fuances, Then, or during the War, when our national existouco wes in jeopardy k bave rofused taking B giecubsik was dwloyalty, and to refuse now is uniawful, anless B contract is made for a gold-conmden- low, 1t is tiuw powes af the Government which sustaiun pud gives value Iargely to our currauey, sud not the relation which our currency bolds lowards gold ; for there iw no open relation be- fwoeu thom, &8 wmouey to mouey, uuder the workings of our myutoul, Neither iu it the abil- Ity aud gocd faith of the Government swmch no oue doubts) to pay its obligatious sb fts ploas- are, which maluly gives yalus to our purzoucy, but tho featura of its availability as money to us, s opibin bund. In ilustsation of this point . partalls, cunation tm«ueuu{ 18810 COUDLYWAT- wuta wakivg thow roceivable for tsxes, and, o We poason of thels bewg guod fur taxca thoir- value is tatgoly incroased, molling fre- quently at sbont their faco. Now, ne bave .tha pledgo of the Government—e ory greonback-holder—thst it shall ho good at 1t faco to pav all indobtednesn. ublic and private, except interest on_ the pablic debt aud for custorase il this guarantco cantrib- titen largely to th valua of our curreney. In fixing tho valus of currency by tho courso of polit, wo reom to bavo fallen into the grave orrorof regarding our condition financially an noalugotis to our condition when in a niate of suspension nudor onr old Lauking aystem. Thon, a8 Anon a4 the bankn i snapension. had worke | themeelves inta good shapo by rodacing theic cirenlation. and thoreby checling nnduo eredirs and gpeculation, resumption of specie-pivnients followed naturally and logitimatele, It must b borno in mind that the specte-standard of rale 1ras never abolighed during thesu banl-sus, #iona ; tho notas of the |mngl io ruspeusion wese bought and sold upon that stanard,—~theit yalio incrensing, or dirconnt on them lossening, ny thoro wero indieations of their resumption. But, in dolug awav with tho old bankiug avas tomy, and oatablishimg in piaco of 1t our presant ono, wo not only wont into susponaon, bul abso- litely aholished the speeic-standard, ortablistung in lien thereof the legnl-tonder staudard or basia, Without infringing further on your colurpns at prerent. 1 wonld ko 1o have tha privitege of tham ngitin, s cur financial question is, beyon | compatisat, tho mest impertant ane ; and, while Ido not tlatter mygolf that I comprehend it fuils. T may bo the means of helping to ditect public attention to it in un earnest manner. GoLD-STANDARD, Letter from 1575, To the o York: Tritmonm Tho Rev. Dr. Bacon's vioews of tho witnation i ro Beechor Scandal, amd esvecinlly what ho wav of Mr. Bowen's position in relation thercto indus lotter Lo tho Tritmne of July 24, mig- gedta b statement of somo facts which have not, wo far as 1 hava observed, Leen re- forred to in & counccted way, as illise trativa of Mr. Dowen's real position, b, Bacon, to whom [ refer with gress respoct, speaks of *othor eharees,” and_says, in altveer, *If that member of Plymouth Church il ine sists, even by uod aud wink, or by ‘expreseive ailonco, that his allowations relioaraed and with- drawn in the Triparute Azrorment nto nevertho- loss truo, then it iy for lim Lo provo what he cannot deny that e has said, or else stand he- foro his chinirch and tho worid ns presumptively the ongiustor of tho gieat scandalof which Tiltou was tho promulzator.” 1t hias beew watd that_ouo of the seandals re- ferred to in the aliegod lotter of Mr. Bowen to Mr, Tiiton, aad which becamo tho subject of tha tripartite arrangement, was tho samo which was wade tho basin of a libel suit in the United Seates Court, 1n Brooklyn, in tho case of Proctor againit Moulton, and disposed of to the ontire honor of the plalntill, befare Judgo Woodrutl, 1t will bo romombered that, whea that caso was broueht to a hearing, in Decermber Iast, it wns abandonod Ly the defendant a8 utterly uutenable oud uuder peuaity of hoavy costs. 1t is reasons able to ““quw that, if the dafondaut or his condjutors had any groand for belioving it anything derogatory to 3Mr, Iloecher could bo proved by Mr. Buwen npon tho issue in that cnwo, the oxperiment would have beon tried, Mr. Bowen was within the jurisdiction of the Court, and could ensily buve boeu callod a8 & withess. 1n connect®@n with this, it {s proper to state that, when it becamo my official duty. us District- Attornoy 1n Brookiyu, to examine this hbel npon & crinunal complaint preferred by the imjured party. I took mome pains to fearn tho aiti- tudo of Mr. Bowen o the matter, Awong othicr things, [t was ascortsiued from tho eomplaining witiens that, when sho first heard hor name montioned In counnaction with scandalons roe ports, and of Mr. Bowen aa tho author of them, sbe immediately went to Mr, Bowon and de- mandad to know whether ho was respousiblo for tho wrong done her by such reports, © Mr, Bowon replied that he wasnot, and that he bad nover doue or kaid auything whatever to justify such astory. Bo muck for Mr. Bowou's psition in referouco to this particnlar scandal, roferred to, pothaps, by Dr. Bacon uuder the boad of *other chargen.” Auotlier of tho senndate ence in vigorous cir- culution, affecting Ar. Beoclier, was to tho effect that tho lato Mrs. Bowen mado a confession oa Bier death-bod, implicating horself wih Mr. Beceher, This seandal had su attontive nurs- 1ug for & loug time, and foally appeared ia_the Brooklyn Arqus in'Soptember last. Ita pulica- tion lod to the Indictmont of the proprictor of tho Aryus for likel upon the complaiut of Mr. Bowon'and his sons. It Locauto 1y afticial duty tn prosecuto tho indictinont, whiclh was tried inn November last in Brooklyn. It soon bocame evi- dent that tho propriotor of the Argus couldnat and ouglit 110k be held crimnaily responwiblo for tho libel, for tho reason that its publication was not suthorized or intended by hiw, and that, when ho learned it wasiu tvpo, ho immediately ordered ita wsupprossion. This fact roheved the pro- pristor of crimiual or malicious intont or design, under well-settled rules of law, In tho courso of the trial, Mr, Bowon and hia two sonn wore fully examined on tho part of tlio pros- ocution. 1 havoastenographio copy of their tes- timony, and find that they une and all deniod, in tho most emphatic manuer, the alleged death-bed coutossion of the late Mrs. Doweu, and denicd thiat thero was ovor any fact or circnmstance in tho relations of Mr. Beecher with the lady ro- ferred to which justified or could suggest such a monstrous etory, Mr. Bowen, whou asked if he hed ever sald or lnsinuated, at any time, any- thing derogatory to Mr, leecher in referonce to Ly late wifo, roplied thut ho had not. 'Tho ma- tlcious falsity of the lbal was olearly estab- lisbod sud concoded, but the dofenduut was not held, for tie reuson abovo stated, Bo wmuch for Mr. Bowen's position in refercaca to thie scaudal relatiug to Lis Iate wifo and Mr, Beechor. What the **other charges ™ sre, if any, ro- forred to by Dr. Bacon, tho publio is ot inform- ed, If thero ever were any ** othor chargon ™ or iuinuations mado by Mr, Bowon, the question Arisos how far thoy aro disposed of Ly dir. Bow- on maself in his words of diravowal aud recon- cilintion with Mr, Boecbur ? Ka tho ** tripartito " document Mr, Bowen, roforribg to * tales and innuendgos ™ afeciing onry Ward Beoclier, aayH : 1 disavow all {hio chargua aud froputations that bave Dbeen attributed 1030 ws baving Leon mado agatust Menry Ward Beocher, aud Idvelaro fully sud seithout reserve that 1 kinow nothing which should provent me from extending to i tie must cordlal filenduty, confidence, and Chiluiias fellowship, Aud I exprossly withdeaw all tho charges, imputstiony, aud funtendoes jmputed a8 baving been ioado and utterd Ly me, and wet furll fu a letter written by ma to Theodure Tilton on tho 1st uf Junuury, 1571 (w copy of which b huruto unnexed), and 1 sincerely regret Daviug suade uny i- putatioun, charges, of nnuendoss unfavorablu (o the Chirlstiau character uf Mr, Doocher, ‘Ilicko are plain words, aud hardly justify, upan sny theory of common bonesty, Dr. Ma- con's intimation that they may not wean a di ayowal of the truth of tho chargos, When Bowen decluron, * fully and wilhout rescrze, that he knows nothing that should proveut him from extonding to Mr. Beecher Lis ** mout cor- dial friendship, confidcuce, and Christiun tel- lowship,” wo have s clear riglit to eay that Lo horo uvows his Loltef In tlo lntegnly of Mr, Deechor. Toway that when ho uged theso woris, be know or belisvad Mr. Loecher to bo & gullty man, is but eaying by indirection that lgtm\uu was thou and thoro an disboucst & man as this wholo scandal Liag yot brought to pubtle viow. 8o fur ws the two scandals to which I have ro- forred are concarned, aud with which Mr, Bowen hiay buen Identitlod as utatod, it would svem thiat hiis pouition i that of absolata denial of both ur them, aud farther that he nover believed either, and nevor vnid he did, As £o any otlor fmputas tious which may b fncluded iu ** otlior charyes,” ho doclaros his rogruts, otc., aw astated in Tripartito™ pager, "As to these two rean- Lo, it 18 uot apparent what moro Alr, Bowen can do to dincunnect hly nawe from thons, unloss It bs to repent Luw deliberato sud solumu disavowals, some of which have already buen miade undor onth. Buch a ropetition might olear the way and be renrsariug (v public estimation, If ko, let Mr. Bowon reiterate and fuclude noxt tiro each and every mutter and thing tuat may bo supposed to be included In what Dr, Bacdu uimn ;; ‘I‘zlhl" &;l‘mrgc-.“ 5 t will be further remembored that, in Novem. Ver, 1473, whon Ar, Howe was ikier Mooy connected with tho scandal gonerally, prefursed by Plymouth Utuich, the sccused stoutly denied tiiat Lo biad violated in uny way whatovor, whothor by word cr lungendo, the lettoer to the *“ Iriparate Agreoment.” Whilo those charges were wnder cousidoration, Mr. Bowen was very emphatio in Lis scatewents, a8 sppears by tho report of tno Corumittes to Plymouth Churchy to the effect that e knew nothing sgalust the Uhristiau char- acter of Mr, Deeccher, and it iw snid he thon offered to bo oue of ten to build for hLisusoa uew church in Brooklya. 11 it be true, as Dz, Bacon intimatas it msy bo, that Mr. Boweu now eucoursges sho bolief by **unod aud wink," or otherwise, that he kuows of factas projudicial to the moral iutegnity of Mr, Boechior, thiou, all will agree, whothor of Plym- outh Olureh or uot, that the timo is near at baud when Plymouth Churok musé doal with **$liat mowben," to the eud tlat tho * uod sud wiuk " polivy, it such there bs, mav be under- stood. In b au iuquiry Dr. Bacon woald doabtless say **Let the truth provail,” and wo tay all of us. Reupsotfally, Jomx Worow. ~THE FARM AND GARDEN. Tho Length of Roots, and SBome Facts Connected with Them. Harnessing o Squash for Speculatione.- Sontimontal Scientists---Tho Hay Crop East and West: Its Value. The Colorndo Deetle Enst—Ifow to Fx- terminate It...ls It a Dlesslug in Disgnige? The Banson and the Orops—Soil Onrrents va, Air and Water Carronts, Prerared for The Chiemao Tridune, TUE LENGTIT OV NO0TS. Onoof tho most interesting wtudles to tho student in Agriculturo, and an eapocially-im- portant on to tho practical farmer, is tho roots of plants, thelr growth, and their various func- tlany in connection with tho growth of plants, 1t is n eubiect about which, until & comparatively Iate period, but littlo was understood, and of which oven now but litslo is truly known. The length to which roots oxtond, and why, is ono of thosn wnbjocts the ordinary farmar cares but tittle ahout ; and yot it ia & subject of paramonnt importance, and ono that ought to bo especially stutied by every farmor who oxpects to koop paco with tho timow in the caltivation of crops. Tho roote a10 tho months of tho plant, anid thay must extend Lo whers they flnd propor food for tho plant. Prof. ;W. J. Deal, Profexsor of Botany and Hortientturo at tho Michigan Agricultural Col- lego, Rends us somo facts rolating to the lenmtl of roots. In light, poor soil, ho found tho roots of June-grass 4 feot below tho surfaco ; roots af & wheat-plant, 4 10 6 fack. Tha roots of 2-year-old peach-troo wore found 7feat 4 inchies long. Mr. TFelkor, one of tho collago- graduates, found the roots of the famous bulatv-grass—deacribed in' the reports of tho Department of Agiieniinre at Washinglon, as ' hiaving very short roots"—to be anything but short or sapertleial. Noar whero 5 woll was bo- ing dng, ho traced the roots dowa 7 foot. Prof. Beal vory truly says that roots do not igoarch” for fond, se vegetabie phyelologists now undorstand it. Many of tho smallor roots of trees dio every sutumn when tho leaves die, and othors grow in spring. Ho instances tho fuct of n rustic basket, withont bottom, filled with rieh soil. On removing the basket and earth, which liad been thero several yoars, cher. ry-roots were fonnd in largo numbers in this rich sorl, Nootw in such sofl will grow up just a8 woll ns down. v, Thomas J. Darrill, Professor of Botany anl Horticulture at the linols Tndustrinl Uni- wvernity, o clovo student and euthuslastic invosti- gator, i an address before tho Patrons of Hus- bandry, at Freoport, Iil., lu May Inst, gives tho following testimony in relation to the length of routs. Of whoat and rye hos Tho wheat wat_kown Aprih 0, 1475, and cxamived May 13, 1435, forty days after kowing, Tho depth reviehed 1a dnidead rurprising, being 91 fnchios, far de Jow thia plowed pofl. A% the el st have beer roro days germinating, the growih per day muat be counliler. abiy over half nu inch. Botanlats will be {uterested i ubeerving that tho flest root from the aned o radiclo 18 tho only uno growlag ditectly duwuvard. Tt is us trug & tap-raot an that of tho hickury treo, ‘Tha other roots atart from tho stent, not thie seed. Ryo was sown last autunn, und examined tho same day wn the wheot, Tho decpest toat fonud wan 3 feat, or 42 Inchos from the surface, Ono-fourth of ihie 'wholo mwe of roots wus estimated to rearh o depth of omne fost—four nches bolow tho plow, Cotn had heon grawn wpou tie ground two yoary hefuru, anvd thero wezo willoft, many fartlally decayol roota i tho einyay wnisoll, whilyto tho ereatost depils th bluck thrwad-liko marky {ndicated thio former prosenco of n multitudo of roots. Often tho liviug roots fol- e duwen thew old tracke, 3ud wiro somet ot ud ‘encasod by the rensainn of an old oot, having gown through &, The laund wus low, and tile- drained, the rve Just resching the standing water In tha sofl.” ‘Che blackeoil was 21 inchs deop; tho sube wotl wan s stlil yollow clay. In snather connection, ho notices the roots of a Lombardy poplar in bis garden, the roots of which extoided 71 (eot, and citos a caso whoro a tilo-drain in Naw Hnmphiro was obscructod by the roots of an slm 430 fect away. Prof Btock- bridge, of the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- logo, washed out & clover root ouo year old, 8 feot doep. Mr. lixon, of Bugland, dug a pars- nip 18 feot 6inches, and broke i¥ off st that depth. Taccrne has boon known to reach in England 20 foot in depth. A Dritish officer in India reports hnving seen a troe-root followed 64 foet deap withont coming toan cnd. Loots aleo spread horizontally over oqually surprising aread, At Amhorst, Mass., an clm seut its roots 75 foot from tho truni. A BQUANI IN HARNESS, In tho cnse of tha syuash which Presidont Cinrk, of tho Maesachusotis Agricultural Col- fexe, causod to be harnessed and boar a pack liko o mulo,]flm ag:'\uh (not tho mule) com- meneed by lifting 60 pounds on Aug. 21, nud endod? by supporting @ weight on Oct. 81 of 5,000 pounds and for ten doya thereafter, On Oct, 243t lifted 4,120 pounds, A 3Mr, ' Lenhallow f4 suid Lo have watched with it sovor- al days and niglita, making hourly obsoervations ; Trof. il. W, Parker was moved to write a poom about it; and Prof. J. Il Bovloy declured that ho poultivaly stood in awe of it. After wll (his troublo aud toil, watchiug and walting, exponso and enorgy spout, what did it all amount to, either in o scicututio or praotical 8ange ? Ho much, and no more, thou to know biow far a tloa will' jump, or bow big & boy an ordinary Dowu-Esst suapplog-turtio will aup- port and walk awny with, Oua thing in connection with this squash is of valuo, 8s sho4iuy the gurprising oxtonsion of tho roots. Like fomo Luman squashos, it was an aristooratio squash, and had lla.luue to live iu aud servants to attend it. The secds > were plunted on the 1at of July in ono of tho propa- rating pits of tho Durfee Plant louse, whore 0 temporature and molsture could be easly controlled. A riol bed of compost from & spont hot-Led was propared, which was 4 foet wide, 50 feot long, snd aboot G inalies in depth. Here, uder the fosterivg care of Prof, Maynard, the seeds gerwinuted, tho vine grew vigorously, aud the squash lifted in n most satisfactory manuer." 1t 18 well koown to overy gardener that our wintervaquasties will, mudor favorable circum- stances, produce rools st every uode, or juint, Presideut Clark statos that ono of those nodal roots was washed vut, and found to bo 4 feet long and to have 480 'branches, avoraging, with their branchlets, 8 longth of 30 inches, makiog a total of more than 1,200 feot., As thers wera 70 nodal roots, thero must have boen moro than 15 mites m lengsth ou the outive vine. ‘“Lhore wara qurtaioly more thau 50,000 fect, sud of thesa 8,000 feat must have boon produced at tho rate ot' 1,400 fest or more por day, THE HAY-CLOP, ‘The dry weathor during the early part of the Heason gave V"M grounds to feur that the hay- crop of the West would Lo unusually light ; and, taken 11 counectiou with the fact that tho laut years crop would bo eutiraly extansted by tho time of harvest, well-grounded foars were entor- tained that thoro might bo a hay-famine fu the West. 'The gravity of this will bo apvrociat- ed when 1t is remombered that tho Llay- orop of the North 4 worth more thau auy other oue crop producod. ‘Iimely shoswers luve, however, brought this important ataple out all right, slthough showery weathar and stortoy have ivjured it vo that the quality, sea whole, will not be nearly su averago. Last year, Now York Htate had an extremoly- boavy growth of bay,—this year it will bo light ; and, 1 some portions of the New Eu- wisud' Btatos, thu lusies oo bay will be wovero indeed. Tho fartford Times estimates tho crop in Connectiout at only two-thirds un averago, As thia Is the most important crop of that Htato, the loss will bo & sorious ono, #s tho value of an aversgo crop s £14,100,000 to &16,« 000,000, 'This will 1rvolve a loss of from %4,000,- 000 to #5,06,000 in that Stato alono, Iu the Houth, hay haa been injured severely ; but, lu the Bouth, bay is nct much raised,—not nearly as mucl as it should bo for the bast fu- terosts of tho agrieulturul clusses, In relation 10 the crop Esst, the New York Bulletin wsyas ** From roports b band it would ‘[:hnr that wmeadow or low-lands will yiold abont au averago cron throughout tha soctious visited by the drought, whily the sloping snd tutly lands will vaty from ono-ust toa little more, sccording to tho uoture of the woil and dugreo of tho drought. Grazing Iands are siso oqually atfectod. The intluenca of drought will, no doubt, bo yuite exteusively folt in tfia dai districts, and may bavo anoffect ou tho warket,” DEATH TO TUE POTATO-UEETLE. Just now Lastern farmors are much exerclsed about tho ravaged of tho Colorado bootlo. Tl Journata there are azaln bringing to light all tha oxploded meohautnal contrivances heretofo-o w=od in tho West. Uhe lateton «, again hrought o light, is & machine with revolvinz fans, going betwean the rows amd Lrashing thy brelles into o recoptacle, whones thoy aio tien and thrown anto hot water, "This, liko manv othiorr, was triod yoar ago in tho Weut, nud nbandoned. A4 Inat,’ tho various nxporiments witl Paris-greon resulted in the ap- p'ieation of this enbatance, mited with various 1amiances to mechanically divide iy, sl offect- ivo, and fnmocncus to tho vines; until now, ho'ding the polson mechantemily mixed with wab £ in proper appliances, tho o‘mmlar " enabjod to distribute it oveuly, first, andina saftably-dividod stato, go thatono pound to the acta 1A suficiont, and two apnlications offectual- 1y naves o cron. 'Tha Colorado patato-boetlo no Tougzer hing any torrors for tho wide-nwako farin- ors of tho Weaet who read tho papers. Novortheloss, wo again ndviso onr Enstern triends, as we hiave herotoforosdyised our West- ortt ones, that D'aris groon fa & deadly potson, and munt ot bo applicd to plants bearlng their fruit aboso tha surfaco of tho gronud ; 1ot be- causo {hora fn dabier that oithor tuo fo- lings or’ fiuit can toke up thls sub- stanco in its form as “areenito of copper, or in its changed form na oxido of cop- per,—amentato ; nelther can tho roots of plants ~—cven whon presont tn the ground in oxcessive and dangerons quantitice—develop the poiron 1n tho frut, a8 some of thowa who bave patent applinnces to rubatitute for it have asserted ; but some serisl fruits niay hold 8 sulliclont quan~ tity 18 thetr cavities aud on thoir surfaco to ron- <tor Its anplication nnwarrantable, i notabsolute. 1y injurious, Wo do not bellevo, with an Eastern fournal, that tho adveut of the Colorado pest (s *“a bless- ing in disgulee,” to make farmeis put (n thelr crops and cultivato bettor, or to mako them nminure more thoroughly., Improved systoma io farming have been brought about through a more general education of tho agricultural clarges, from the teachings of the preas dovoted to their intorests, and the study of writings of practical mon, Tho non-roading farmors stlll havo thelr crops destrayed by inscct-posts, blight, rust, ete., just as thoy havo always dono and nhwags will d0. The think-nzg man tkon his intetligeaco to provide meany for tholr destrue- tion, A GOOD BTARON FOR CIOPS GENERALLY, this has been, and especially 8o for garden prod- uce. Asa consequones it I"n plenty and cheap, The season opeuocd Inte, aud the ‘weathor has Leen umformly cool, with tho oxception of s fow days, Thoro lins baon pleuty of rain, and, i1 the vicinity of Chieago at loast, not too mich. Wo Lisvo nover seen a heavior or moro Lealthy growth, Including geass, grain, and even cotn, than this year has broaght forth, Tho renson I plain enouxl. Tha last threo—{n fact, four—vears havo boou yery dry,—so0 dry that tho casth Telt its influonce to grent 'doj ths, ns whawn in tho falling wells and tho dryiug ub of springs in various purtions of the Wont, The drought, it 18 true, hns not beon #o great na ta morlouwly injure crops as & whole, oxeapt in particular locatities; but, in all this time, tho carth hias uot been fully aturated \with water,—i8 not ko hore at this writing; con- soquently, plant-food bas boon brought uoar snd to the rurface. A BEAUTIFOL AND BIMPLE TAW OF NATUDE nets hero oy evorysliore olwe, Thore ia o con- stant current, so to speal, within the earth, ny iu the air, rivers, and ocea. How 2 Tho nir Is the great atorohouse of organic ma- terml, Into this acrial ocoan cvcu’tblufi onea baving ind Iife, and deeaying, fa_carried Lo bo distributed far and wide, gud again 18 given up to tho earth, by dow and rain, whouover the roil inin a te condition to ycecive it, ‘T'his condition ia due to porosity and tilth. Oard solla carcy off tho water of raing, containing solublosubstunces, futo tho rivers and son, thera to bo couscrved, perhaps, for foturo gonerations, just sy was onco tha case in this now fertilo \Vgit. Ongo in tho aoi, it 18 carned down until it finds that for which 1t has a groater afinity than water ; unless, indeed, it bo hold mechanically, wheu it is given up through filtration, ‘Tho carth boing thoroughly saturated with water, this soluble niatter may be carried to great dopths: but, bocoming again dry, tho moist- ure nscends toward the eurface, and is taken up by tho roots of plans; or, reachiug ::w mlw ace, i8 ovaporeted, aud agaln passcs nto tho nir. But komo opo may rsk; What haa all this to do with tha present prolitic woason ? It hias overythibg fo do with 11, TILE CURRENT OF MOISTURE hian, for tho last four yoara, heen nlmost contin- ually parsing upwards, 1t has not yet coasod to do do in mauy Jocaliticy, for tho reason that the subsiratum, at o cousiderablo dopth, has not yot bocome saper-saturated with ~water from above, aud, conscquontly, s sl employed in carrying moisturo to tho surface, and with it itw weulth of orgauic and luoigavic matorial for tho sustonaneo of plants. S0 tho manurcs that havo been applied to the woil bava not, for tho [ast thrco veurs, for tho want of snflicient moisture, acted promptly, This scason, plauts havoe been able to avail thomsalvos of this artiloial noason, once the strong growtl and perfoct henlth of crops, Why, sgain 2 Thero han not been excessivo heat, sccom- ponted by undue moisture, to disorgauize plant- structures. 'Lhiero has boen sufiiciont rain to keep the pores of tue soil filled with the vapor of water without saturation,—just what plants want. 1lenco, vegatation of every kind, when it bas not been caten bv jnaccts, drownod by (oode, or tora by toruadoes, 1a VINOROUS, DAUK, AND UEALTHY. Again: All plant-food must bo Lold fn water in a solublo etate, or, at lcast, so divided me- chnnically as to bo able to euter tho poresof plants, along with the molsturc takou up by tho roots, Tho flrmor tho tilth, the more va- por of water will the soil constautly contalu. The richer tho soll, cither naturally or artificlally, the moro perfectly can this vapor bocuma ratu- rated \with plant-food. The roots flud snsto- nance overywhere fu the earth ; the labor of the tillor of the woil [s lossoned ; plants grow strong and healihy, and produco abundant. crops to ro- ward tho intellizont labor of tho cultlvator, * Drought scares tho farmer. M'oo much water deatroys his Lopos,” ‘Fhoro ls a wholo sermon contaivued in this maxim ¢o the intelligent, think- g farmor. A twin maxim, containing anothor sermon, way be found 1y this other and oqually importaut ono: ‘It costs uo more to cultivate arich aoro thsn a poor one.” Tho product of one is {wo or threo foll greator than the other. _Indoed, It, as o rule, costs lors; for, if the weoeds are destroved waile the crop s young, it growa sizong and hoavy, and quickly shades the sotl, and theroaltar wooda will mako but lit- tlo icadway, Horein comen in anotlor maxium for tho farmer: Al plants must have sunlight on their foliago, aud plouty of it, to reach tho bost rosults, . LABOR. THE FALL RIVER OPERATIVES' VACATION. TaLn Rivew, Mass., Aug. 8.—About 15,000 oporatives aro idle and probably will be for thirty days, although rumory prevail that work will be resumed in a weok. A groat deal of disuatiafac- tlon prevails, and many are willing to go to work, including & good part of th nners, who here- toforo have acted almost as s unit. How long tho milla will romain olosed, it 1« impousible to say, ‘The manufacturers say that they do not know thotngolven; but vue thing which will lu- tfluence thowm very muchis thab tney think it hard that operatives who are opposed to a strike, and willing to worlk at a reduction of wages, should be locked out. Tho storo-keopers hava given notico that if the operativos can afford to tako a vacstlon of thiity days, they can afford to pay cash for their goods, and no credit will be Hivon until they 1eturn to work, Every mill is atopped with the excoption of Siafford, which will soon oloxe, PENNSYLVANIA MINERS. New Youxk, Aug. 3.—A dispatch from Wilkes- barro, I'a., tates that the cual wminers propose auother striko. VESSELS PASSED FORT HURON, Suacial Diapateh to Tha Chioaca Tribune, Tost Hunox, Mich.,, Aug. 8,~~Passen Down— Propellers Philadolphis, Mailno City ; sobiooners Olydo, Samuel J. Mather, Ricbard Winulow, Bweethoart, Emou, Bagiuaw, Clara Parker, Por- ter, Harvest Quoou. Ue—Fropellors Staruces, James Fisk, Jr., D. R. Vau Allen, Jouness and barges, Ohio and barges; wchoonors Coampion, James D, Bawyer, Wiuona, Butchor Boy, Cheney, Ames, Oty of ‘Qroon Uay, E. Judd, Novada, Winp—Northnast, froah. Wearuxa—Rainy, Porr [lusoxn, Mich., Anug. 4, 12108 &. m,— Dowx—Trops Mezy Prisigle il barges. Uwr—L'rops Mauitobs, Suovk, sud consort § schra Grauads, Ilomor, Magellsu, Harou, Fhomas Sims, Pathiiuder, Montaus, Anoie Cral, Wonuio Mathews, Madoris, Bi. Lawrenso, 1. Morntt, Northwest, Gotden Floe co. Wixp—North, light, Wearnzu—-Uioudy, 5 ‘1130 acow U, (. Meisel ia waterlogged sud In a artly suuken cooditivn st bho Charty Selandy, Y.uku Hurou. Sho is lumber-taden, and the Jum- Ver koops Lioe frow lnkiug eatiroly, Asuistaugs | witt bo sont hot feom hores * IRA BROWN. Itis Contributions to the Welfare of tho Indusirinl Classes, Congratulations from the Medical Pro- feasion, How It Tas Become Cheaper to Buy a Homostend thau fo Fay Rent. A Brief Interview with the Groat Buburban Village Builder, ‘Thore is porhaps no ond of tho groat oities of tho globe whose middle clanses aud great indus- trial population enjoy n larger bloesing [n tho boauty, loeation, and moral, educational, and so- cial aliractions of s great suburban residenco territory than the poople of Chioago s and cer- tainly no community hns manifested n readier perception of thoss advautages or & moro lutet- ligont diaposition to roudor thom avatablo tow- ard rolioving the mechanie, the clerk, tho labor- or, and all olassos of® tenants, from the mivory, injusatico, and approaston of high rents fa town, and making him an indopandent landlord,—the owner of bin own hearth and homa and garden, a 1ew minutes’ ridda beyond the gates of tho city, 1t is computed that within tho past flve years and aloce tho timo that Ira lirown, who is now recognizod as oue of tho groatest bonofactors that have yet appeared among us for the amelior- ation of tho condition of THR INDESTRIAL AXD MINDLE OLAHSEH, firat snanguratod s mammotl schioniea for the mprovoment and rapid population of soloct lo- cattons ju_the immodinte outskirts of tho city, not Juas than 95,000 of our hard-presed, rent- paying city tonants have been emancipated from this pragtical sorfdom and transferred from the Tient, sud dust, nud dict, of our narrow streots tutho oconpatioy of froo homeateada of choir own in the suburbs, ‘Lho benoficent offocts and inoalenlable benofit thus eonforiod upon tho gonoral communtty are illustrated in the fm- ‘meuso chango ond improvament of the eauitary aanditions of life,—the substitutlou of pure alr, cloau babitations, the froodom and peacofulnoss of tha country, with all the natural clements of nealth, for the beavy ntmosphero and unwhalo- somo wurroundings of & city tenement. Asan Indication that tho vast system of beneficent subtnbau entorprises, condiictod in tho highess interest of tho commuuity by the matchless geunius of thny dauntless and tireloss oporator whose namo is now a household word, PAMILIAR UPON EVERY MEARTI OF THE CITY, has met tho recognition aud Lonest indorsement of tuo planthropists and publio-spirited mon of Chicago who fool an intelligent nnd generous futerest fo all trua schomes and thooriow of pub- he welfaro, it desoryes to_be montioucd that, the Inbora of Ira Brown toward tho emancipation of the industrial classcs from thoe hardship and sorvitude of tho city tonsuoy ayatem liave mot tho warmoet and highest approval from the medical profossion, in viow of the aclect location aud unoyualod healthrulness of overy suburban town and village to whowo fortuncs ho hns lont the strangth and prestige of lns usute,—a spirlt and sentiment of hearty co-operation and in- dersoment, which but o fow days sgo found gignal and emphotic exprossion in a UNITED LETTER OF CONGIATULATION, ncknowledging the direct and lmportant boaring of hin onterprisos on the healih, comfort, aud prosperity of increasing multitudes of people, sud tendoning b o hin efforts utitod sypport and co-operution. Tho lettor, whicl: benrs tho siguatures of sevoral of tho most ominent mom- bers of the medieal profes<ion, gives special prominenco to the uanitary consideration of tha matter, the rolative freedom of tha suburba from the perils of trayeling cpidomive, aud tho diseasey nod 1mmoralities that perpetually in- fest tho overcrowded districts of the city,” and applauds tho growing tendeucy of our popula- tion to reak a common refugo from the gloomy oueotion of tenewuont lifo iu tho city m thochoap bat permnnent and indevendentsuburbau homes wineh tho Ira Brown plan of puichase by easy and slwost insiguificant invlalinenis bas now vinced within reach of the umblest mochanic and faboror. ‘'l letter hau beon withhold from publication, but in viow of the (GESERAL AWAKENING OF PULLIO INTRREST In tho mutter of snburban homes, and oapoclally in the popular purchase plan referred to, & rup- rosontative uof I'us Tnisuye was yostorday de- tailod to interview Mr. Brown rolativa to the maeacus workings of lus fminous syatem at sov- eral moro convpicuous poluis in our suburbs,— Evanston, Fark Ridge, (loucoo, Lukeeldo, Hydo Park, Toornton, Ussplaiucs, and lumowaod, ‘I'ho roportor found no dijllsulty in roacbing the presonce of that warlost, most successful, and most far-seeing 0f our real estate financiors, at Lix office in the Otia Block, tho iirst lfimnrlucn of the grim philosophar improasing his visitor with the chatucteristics that bave givou lus nawme measuro of LOCAL BENOWN #oldom achioved by & private citizen in any nimilar departmont of flunnco or of commercs,— the imnienan aggressivenoss and constitutional will-power that eater so largoly into the record aud biograpby of tho tnan’ being tstanily rocognized In tho biold forchead, military mouth, nnd plevated fuce,—~tho quiot intollect and siu~ glunows of purpose that have oxuibited their supromacy 1b carrying out an origival idos to bumanitarian cods snd logitimato suceoss with out the faintont symptom of weakness or dig- *vouragoment in the faco of enormous odds and opposttion, bolng oqually legibla in tho tranaull ‘(Azu of - & ‘clear gray eyo accustomed and 1ubieustad to tho contomplation of fature avd distaut ends, whilst a cortain dispateh nnd oolenity of movomont in conversation, or in superintondonce of clorieal work, roveals the habituul L’Almllnrlll‘y with dataila of a miud por- petunlly hstucssed to the largest burdens aud taska of Judgment, wisdom, and inyoention. | THE INTEBVIRY, which was a maotfest intorruption to business oud necossarlly Lurriod, wia about as follows ¢ Roporter—3r, Browi, you aro reputed to bave contributod vory largoly dmig soveral years past to the tapid popuistion of our .principal suburbe, What have been your observations toucling thi general nmelioration of the condi tion of thoeo clavacs who havo obauygod & tene- ment oxistouce in town for tho cscupanoy of in- do{undnut suburban hoes ? ir, Browi—3ly obsorvations in this partionlar hava noturaily beon thoughtful aud cluse, 0X- teuding ovor long petiods, with direct applica- tlon tu taany thousauds of familtes, and the faoty hava pointod tuvariably and unlvorsally to in- cronsed wolfara, the cliango bolug in many in- sisuces un organio reformution In modes of lifo, womotimea amounting to a sort of practical baptism regonsration. tap,—\What upocial boaring hae tha chango on goneral modes and couditions of life ? Mr. Brown—Ita boariog upon &l the moral, soaial, and physical relations aud habita of ox- wstouco, the Lonolicont effoct belny radical aud universal. Pooplo talk & great deat about tho foul atmosphore of closely populated stroots and tonements: Tho true samtary aspoct is a broader viow, Divost awanor b fatmly of the matuial impuritios of crowdod stroets and alloys, and you omancipate it also fiom social perils aud con- taminatious, from tho atill more impurs atmos- plieres of intemporanca and vice. ‘Tho smoil of # green garden subetitutod for tho smoll of rum- shops ls an agency of moral reform, A man is upt to bo lesa of a slnner out In the suburba than ho 1a in town. Rop.—An improved physical condition woald goem to be the great eud attained, My, Brown—1 toll you the change ls liable to work s unlversal regeueration, and, white I have neon docrepld, dyspeptio, and weak-hmbod fami- lioa take & vort of sccoud sprout and grow lko cory, puny children nkmF on great strong army and legs iu 8 fow montbs’ timo, I have aleo ween inebriste busbande uudergo so complate a con- voruion to totsl sbativence after inhaling the tewperate air of oue of wy villages or subdivig- tous & little whilo, that be wonld ot be ablo to tell » rum puuch from a gin cooktsil, * Rep.—What Lnva bpan your geucral moasures for porfocting tho sanitary conditivn of your subdivisions ¢ 2r. Browu—No goueral mesnuren whateves, I would not perjuie & misconceplion of this char- scter 10 wo before the publio, The 1eason I bave roccivod the ocoasiousl cougratulations of the malical profession 18 esplained b{ tho fact thay whou I Liave undertskon to establish unow neighborboods and to dovelop uew centres of settiement and population iu the outskirts, I have nsed an excessive degros of caution iu the selection of points Laviug the Liglest eloyation and vtberwise the wost favorable tu health, al- ways making thosanilary cousideation absolute- Iy rupreme. Park Huge, for exmmplas, where L sold howestead sitew 1o nossly 1,000 families the Jast peayon, id kuawy to have au altituae of 180 foct above the lake, the highest elevation to which the land risew st any point between Chicago aud the Missivsippi, acd only 9 miles from 0 mi{. The goueral surroundings and natural defenses against dis- case st alio just as good st Ulenwos, 84 Den- plainey, Lakemds, Thoruton, my sdditious to lyde Park aud Evauston, aud s my pow Viilage of Hlomowood, lu the southaru eavirous of tha cH{. whore T intond to devolon & populous and 01 onlorprising town iu two yoam' timo. Nep,—What noconnta for e astonishirg rapidity with which ail yonr vilisges and snodi- vintons havo beeomo poputatod 7 Mr. Brown --Thia is probably nceonntad for in tho unequaled focation of my proporty and the popilanty of my origiusl netallmont-nlan of purchaso, 1 eatab'ished my bumnoss onginally in what Iconcoivad to be n universal public in- torost, manlpulating mv subdivislons in such o wav an to plaes very eligihlo homestends 8 tho disposal of moghavicy and Iatorers and the commnnity in genoral upon the payment of tlie nominal auni of 816, the balanco Iminlz paid in &5 monthly inatallmenta, This wilh mv nrosent oniform scalo of prices, gonorally £101) por lot,—n s¥stem to which I have adhorod por- mietentiy and nfloxibly,—aceounts probably for tho enrly niid rapid popnlation of sll my sub. divisions, and not all tho eforts and devices that have ever besn mada or ever will bo made by ronl eatato combinations and monetary Institu. tious, to buy me ont and aholish the systom of low pricas and {uatallment Anlaes to tha poor, will over induce me to abandon my pian, aud tho public who Liava stood by mo. RN AT WASHINGTON. Bullien in the Trensury—=Tho Frao= tionnl Curroncy—New fiinks=Noto raper=Operntion of the New ‘I'nrifg Luwse Spectal Diapateh to The Chicnao Tridune, ‘Wasnmaroy, D. C,, Aug. 3.—The dobt state- ment of Inst month shows that tho Treasury is still carrying the largo smount of silvar bullion rocently purchased as gold coin. Thore is no indieation in this statemont that any such ball- iou Lias boen purchased. TIZ GREAT RATN-5TORM continned at intervals during tho day, and tho thermomoter foll to & poins unprecedonted for the acagon. FRACTIONAL CURRPNCT. Another reason for the diminution In the vol- umo of fractional enrrency is that, on account of the change of ‘Lreasarer, tho smount of this cur- rency waa not incroased, It lu not tho intention of tho Treasury to reduce fho nmount of this currenoy Lelow 40,000,000, while tho Dopart- ment will be able at any time to supply tho full legal maximum of €60,000,000. NKW HANK KOTES. "o first insuio of Natlonsl Bank notos printed on distinetive papor will bo [vsncd thia weok, Tho paper uwod in legal-tondor, bank-note, and fractionnl ourrency will horeaftor be uviform and distinctive, "Thera still romains cn hand $60,000,000 of bank-note curréncy printod on tha old paper. THE NEW TARIPF LAWS. The returns of the receipts of tho last fiacal yenr aro not vot sulliciont to dotermine tha nctual resuita of the oporation of tho now Tarifl laws, Ho tar aa thoy aro known, it would scom that the vperation of ‘tha lawa for tho firat four montls yielded $8,250,000 of revonue. Tho estimntes at ihe timo the ‘I'ax aud I'; i bill was pending in the Honso was that it would yield from $25,000,- 007 to 830,000,000 It scems probablo that tho . oatimate will provo to baye been nearly exact. HORNIBLE CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN A MILITARY PENITENTIARY, Cinzinaty G izelle, Wasntsatox, Aug, 2.—Tho horrible condition of affairs in the Texas Ponitentiary at untavilla bas just been brought to hight. An investigation in progress thora has ealled out a roport of a thorouzh examination, made under tha direction of Gen, Augur, by Assistant Judee-Advo- cate Kmery Iast yoar, and the samoe con- dition s repotted by citizeus {o exist at present. Upon rocelving tho report oll military prisoners wero at onco ro- moved on recommendation of Gens. Augur, Bheridan, aud Bhormau, Thero wora 1,300 prisoners, 633 ll\'ms‘ in the Pouitontiary, and tho rest working oo tho plantations and railrond. ‘The number in the Penitentiary alopt nod lived in 205 colls, less than 8 feot by 5, with no von- tilation excopt a grate in thedaor, Food was vory poor, and only twenty minutos allowad for two meals ; all tho rost of the time—[rom 5:30 in the mornlug till nizht—at work and no _Bupper, oxcopt #omo corn bread handed into tho cells. Punishmouts wero horrible. Those on the plantations wero floggod woverely on tho least provocation, and in the Penitentiary and ou the railroad thoy uned frequently what was known as the horeo, annalating of & small iron drivon into & post. L Tho prisauor was then soatod astrido this with Dhis bagk to the post and his handw aud fost $iod behind i, Tho stook was commonly uscd, with the placo for tho head and arms so arranged that the prisonor hnd to stand on his tous or risk breakiog his neck if ho let himeself dowa oa hig tlat foos. Thono things aro ouly indications of tho wholo managewmont. e SUBURBAN NEWS LAKE VIEW, Tho Town Board held its regulsr mesting Mooday night, alt the members boing present. Commiesioner Bcbafor moved to reconsider tho sction of the last meoting by which Mr. R. A. Cole was appointed Town Engincor. The motion waa oarrled, Mr. Cliaso 8aid that Mr. Cole was alrealy 8 work, engaged in tho location of a lino for the maing, and that this action wonld dolay matters for no adequato resson. Mr. Kerfoat snpgostod that the Doard having alrondy fustructod tho Water Cummllktm! to select an engluger, and that solection being 3Ir. Cole, any rovocation of tho sppolutment at thin lata hour, whon tho gontloman was at work, would bo discourteous, and below tho dignity of tho Board. It would also boa bresgh of con- traot, Mr. Bchicawobl said thero had beon some ex- pression of dissstisfsction by citizens, aud bo wikhad to give them a chauco to bo heard. After n good deal of simloss discussion, the appomtmont wan contirmed by the unanimous vola vt the Board, A saloon licenso was grantod at the cornor of Green Bay road snd Sohool strest. Petitions for the grading of Bhefleld avenuo throngh the B. 4 of Seo. 8, and for the grading aod cmdering of Wellington aveous from the Ciraon Bay road to Liucoln avenue wore granted, and roforrod to the Town Attoruoy for the draft- ing of the necessary ordinauces. “Tho police report for July showed eixteen ar- rontd mado aud 801 In finod collected. Tunrnhm bills for tho namo mouth, amounting to $101.83, wworo ordered pald. A petition for tha repeal of the boer-lino ordiusnce, signed by 120 names, mostly residing weat of tho line, wns laid over to the nost rogular meoting, As the Issue on whioh the Iast town election turtied was thia liua quostion, and tho inen clected wero tha candidatos on the Probibition ticket, it is not likely that the Board will do_suythiog 10 opposition to the wislies of the tasjority. ‘I'he question will come up Mon- dav, Ang, 18, ‘The Hoard adjourned to Friday, at7:30 o’alock, when they will oxamina and award tha bids for the water-bonds. ‘The town ordiuancos will nleo be revieed at the sacio moeting. The thres Buuday-schools connvcted with tho Fullorton Avonue Churol will hoid & picuio to- morrow la Wright's Grovo. ol ol NATIONAL SUNDAY-SCHOOL ASSEMBLY. Burraw, N, Y., Aug, 3.—Tho #econd anaual maating of the Natioual Hundsy-Hohool Ausom- by at Fairpoint, Obatauqua Lake, commenced this evening. 'f'he attendance is I:EG 83 large as n oxpacted whon tha weather becomos \fi‘uml. ‘i’ham will be a conforoncs of the. Board of Instruction to-morrow. —_————— BEECHER DESIRES TO LECTURE, Hpecial Dispale ta The Chicano Iribune, Br. Pauvr, Aug. 8.—Overtures lave been re- colyed hera from the Lyceum Bureau of Boston, dated the 80tk ult., for lociures horo and at Mine neapolis by Henry Ward Beecher, —_— e EXCURBIONISTS, Mrnvrarorss, Aug, 8.—Tho excurslon party which left Omaha via Marshalitown sud Clear Laxe in chargo of Mr, George Cration, arnved here 6afe, and are Lighly pleased with the trip and the routo. o= S S Leouard Hacon from a Boeecherite Yolut of View, Jos HNowara's New York Star, Thess Clristian Lrothren who go through the world making troubls, causing uuliappiness, aud sowing the ssed of controversy, ought to dis and go to mect their Makar, Dacou soows Lo be » fair specimen of tho Counectioul gossiv, **1 told you 80, * You tpld bim so,” and ** Ile told moso.” Talk aud talk, jsbber sud gab, bappy iv au andience, and pleasud with a pon. ~ Bacon Brat blasted to tue world Liw *““viows™ during tho ohurch wuddle; theu hoe ransscked Drother Boweu's bu«:fi-\ ; and now ho appoars ius lon and fnvolved documeut, the wain purpose of which seoms to be to dare Plymouth Churoh to knook & obip from Bowwu's sboesider, Wo wau~ der If Bacou hay any buxiness of Lis own? RAILROAD NEWS. Mesting in Chicago of the Frolgn Agonts of Roads Leading to Kansas City. Tho Baltimoro & Ohin Trying to Got Rid of Ticket-Bcalpera, Suit of 8. P. Dinsmoro Against tha Allanlio § Paciric. 4 SUIT AGAINST THE ATLANTIC & PACIFIg, The euit of H. P. Dinamoro against tho Atlay. tie & Pacific Rallroad Company and othera ly boen rovived in tho New Yok Courts, Mr. Dins. more wna an original subseriber, to tho oxtont of 100 shiares, to tho atock of the main defondant— tho Company which was igcorporated by ap act of Congresa to ran from Epringfiel, Mo,, to the Pacific Ocean, and was givey by that sot a lond-grant of 65,000,000 acres. Tho capilal stock was to bo 810,000,000, A provision of the eharter yoquired the Com. L\nny withiu two years to begin work, and {4 uild thercaftor at least G0 mulos a year, Thy r_rrwl. howaver, has only been puilt to Vinita, ig ‘exne, - The Pacifio Railroad of Missourd ran directly west from 8t. Louis, through Franklin, to Kan. #as City, 283 milea, dlvarrln at Frankhin from the road ‘of tho Atlantio il‘lclflu Company, which had no direot conneation with 8t, Loujs. Tho Pacifio Railroad kiad alno loaeod other roads, —the Missouri River Railroad, tho Leavon. worth, Atchiron & Northwestern Iailrond, the Tooneville oxtonalon of tho Osaga Valloy 4 Bouthern Kaosas Raitroad, tho Lexlnglon & 8, Louis Ratlroad, and the 8t. Louis, Lawronce & Donver Rallrond,—makiug, with ita own road, about 485 milen, In Juno, 1872, the Atlantiy & DPacifio Railrond took & lesso of the wholo ’ncific Railrond of BMissourl, ang ita lensod ronds, agreoing to pay the intorest on it bonded debt, amounting to about 18,000,000, and tho rental on its lonsos and Interest 8t § per cont ou the $7,201,000 of capital stook of th Company, smounting together to a charge of about €1,400,000 per apnum. Mr. Dinsmors charges that tho capital waa donblod in anticips. tion of this leaso, The plaintiff declares thap this leaso was unauthorized ; that tho loased ronds wero almost veluless to the Company, and that no revenuo could be derived from thom. He claims that tho lease waa beyond the powers of bis Company, ss no part of tho leased road excapt the fow milos betwoen Franklin and Bt. Touia could atd In tho purpose for which hig road was organizod. CONSIDERING RATES. Ever sinco tho close of tho war betwoen ths Ponusylvania and Daltimore & Obfo Railronds, tho roads leading from Bt, Louis to tho Enst! havo beon hard at work to divert from Chieago all tho Southwestorn and Western trafic they could. To accomplish thfs thoy have reduced fares to ruinoasly-low rates. Excursion ond round-trip tickots to Now York and Philadclphis aro solling nt lcss thaw half prico. Though thae Chicago roads have suffered severely from thig shorp compotition, still thoy have thuw farad. lorod to the regular ratos (which, by tho way, aro vory low, boiug the same as those prevail. ing during the war), Yestorday afternoon, the Qoneral 'Fickat and DI'nssonger Ageuts of tho various ronds leading to tho West Leld a consnitntion nt the ofica of the Chieago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, and diwcussod tho question whether it wounld nnt bo advi=ablo, in view of the competition of ths 81, Louis roads, to soll excursion nud round-trip tickots at reduced rates from Quiuoy, Peoris, and cosher Westora points, ‘I'he meoting ad- journed without coming to any defiufto conclu #iot, THE FREIGHT AGENTS. The Genorpl Froight Agouts of the roads lead. ing to Kansns City hold o mecting at tho Graud Pacific Hotel yesterday for tho purpose of mak- ing tho stock rates botween Kansas City aud Chicago nearor thoso provailing botweeu Kausas City and 8t. Louls, ‘The following roads wers reprosented st the meoting: Chlcago & Altun, Chicago, Durlington & Quiney, Missouri Pacillo, 8t, Lounis, Kansas City & Northorn, St. Joreph & Council Biufs, annibsl & Bt. Josoph, avd Cli- cago & Itock Island. Afier n lengthy debate and aconsiderablo upposition by the St. Louls roads, whicn Lad prospered unusually well undor the discrimination: tnads in favor of their wity, {t wau dacided to reduce tho ratos on llve-stock from Knnsas City, 8t. Joseph, and Leavonworth ta Chicago from 8756 to $(2,60 per car. Tl Chlcago roads boliave that with these ratea thoy can command their usual share of the Westera live-atock traflie, THE SCALPERS. Bpeclal Dispateh to T'he Chicans Tribuna, ‘Wasiivato, D, 0., Aug. 8.—I'be Baltimore & Ohio Rmiroad CQompany in now prosocuting & st in Marsland sgatnst ticket scalpors, similar to that which hass recontly beou deckled in Illinois, The lower courts have rebdered docis- ions which will have tho effcct to destroy the business of the soalpors, if sustainad. Tho lat- ter maintain that the roads will bo obliged to honar its tlokats. Ofticos havo been opanod hLors for the eala of tho epoculative low-rato tickets to Ouncinuati & Chicago, purchasod duing the raile rond war. Thoy are offored at smail reducifons over present rates, THE FREIGHT QUESTION AT BLOOMINGTON. Suecial Disvatch to Tha Chirage Tribune. BrooxinatoN, Ill, Aug. 3,—This aeveniog the socond mooting of tho Merchants' and Manufac- turora’ Associatlon was hold. The action doter mined om was to compute definitely tho totsl smount of businoes controlled by the Aseocis. tion, which {8 now nearly the ontire business of tho city, and to offer the trabsportation of froiglit to whatever lino will carry it at tho bes fguro. LAND SALES Tho sales of the Iowa Railroad Land Company during the month of July last wore as follows: 14,692.02 sotea to 164 parolianers, for (inoluding 105 town lots) $119,072.08. Cash collcctions for the month, $80,839.90. Tho lands of tho foma Raliroad Liand " Company are wholly situsted upon the lines of the Illivols Cantral and Chica- g0 & Northwestern Rallways in Wostern Iows, a region rapidly becoming settled, and largely by oid fargiers from Ihingls, Indians, and Olio, socking now Holds of sgricultural enterpriso. U.8.VS,B &0, - Special Disrateh o The Chicaro Tridune, Wasuixazox, D. 0., Aug. 8.—President Gar rott has filed with tho Attorney-Goneral tls answer of the Baltimore & Obie Company in the suit of tho Government sgalust that rosd for tho Harper's Fon'{ nr(z]wrly. Garrott admits art of the olaim of tho Guvernment, but fnslats Lint the works of the Company are situated on 1ands made by the road in the Potomac River, THE COLUMBUS & TOLEDO, Corounvs, O., Aug. 8.—About 200 bids bave been filed for coustructing the Columbus & T'olodo Tosad, the whole work to bo complsted one year from the coming fall, and to Manon 45 miles from Columbus, during the comiog winter, Tho bidders represontod all tho largef citios, Tast and West, The bids will bo opened Lo-ImOrrow, CUTTING UNDER. Svecial Disvateh to TAs Chicage Tyfbuns, Prons, I, Aug, 3.—The ‘Tolodo, Peoris & Warsaw and 'Toledo, Wabssh & Western Roads aro cutting each other on round-trlp exoursion tickets to Now York Cily. loth aro now selling at $20 the round trip, sud there is & slight prov poct of shill further roduction, THE MEMPHIS & PADUOAH, Meurns, Aug. 8.—Judgo Emnwons, of the United Btates Circult Conrt, has appointed C. I Atleu Receiver of tho Psducab & Bfemplis Ttadk- Toad, with W, H. Bmithers co-Receivar, who &i¥ roqulred o givo & boud of €50,000, APPOINTMENT. F. M. Webster, Esq., late of Ottaws, Il bas boen appointed Passenger and Froight Agont for (he Chicsgo, Rock Inland & Pacitie Hailroad at Bouth Chiosgo, and will sssuae di- tics there imnodiate THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. Naw Yorx, Aug. 8.—The sale of the Nortbern Paciflc Katlway Las beon poatponed to the 12th inst, e A large number of promingnt Odd Fellons from the United Btates were as London, Out., 84 the dedication of the new 0dd Fellowa' 1lsll 03 Monday, ¥our buudred from Olovolaud secelr: od au cuthusigstio welooms. A ball sud SUPP wound up the celebration. T e " S e e o B e 2 el A i