Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 16, 1875, Page 2

2 signiflesnt nama, The placo called Calvary representad the corrunt of mankind. Wo should foel humilisted, i view of the fact that it was noL alane Jowe and Romans who erueili @ Christ, Lat it wae all men whose gnilt naited 1lim to tho tree. (lod's hatred of ain and 11is great love of ety sern exproasad on Calsary, the highest amd grandest eammit in time ot eternity, Ime 1aedately nfter the olows of the setmon Lhe Rev. Dir. Vineant stopped forward on tho platfoumn sul midregeed tho Prosident, saying that his visit hat cansed immense antisfa tion, Tho Doctor then embraced the opportanity so preseut to tho Trosidout in bohaf of tho Chautauqun_Ax-em- LIy a slight memorial a.d svmbol of Satibath- reliool work—twa copics of Iinxter's eition of the Holy iblo, oue printed in England and_ tha other iu Americn, Tivo Bibles wete presented, ro that nobio woman at tho Whito Liouso nho had Always hoon loyal to her buskand, her children, hier conntry and hor God, might have ono 1n her posmession’ for daily use, Tho Doctor closed, eaying: “May God bless yon and yoors to Lhio Jatast gencration.” Tho Presidont ‘Tore and received the HBiblos, bowed, nmited, and sat down. At half-past 2 this afternoon & very able formen was preached by Prosidont Fawier, of thie Northwestern Umveraty at Evanaton, near Chiengo, and singing wan lod by Prof, Fatirges, of Buston, Thin evening n yiatlorm meoting- was Linli and addrosacd by tho Rev, Mr. Ostroda, the T Dr. l'orsling, of Pitlsburg, sud others. ‘I ho reniddent ia much ploared with bis trip, and ho and his ]mrh enjoy it greatly, Thoy ato guerts uf Mr. Lewis Miiler and 1ir. Vincont, THH REY. . W, DEECHER. Twin-Mouxratx Hovee, N. H,, Aug, 15,—Fivo thouratul pooplo agsemblod to-day to hienr a dik- comao by the lov, Henrs Ward Dzocher, It is expeetod that thero will bo an improvement in accommodation for the nudiences that gather here in tho futnre, for Mr. Beecher intimated Ly some remacks with which Lo profnood h soon, that a tent capablo of sccomum datune 25,000 porsons wounld bo pracured from Doston between thin and noxt Sundav. Hlcaliing of Babbath sorsicon haro, ho waid ho receivod o lettor last snmmer from n neighlo iy olorgsman complaming that ho (Mr. licoc! or) by Ins yreaching bers ou Hunday mado Sab- Unth-treaking palatablo mnd conecientious, at in il villagos round-aboue thoro was 140 clasy of rostless peoplo who wonld not go to cburch at home, but who availed themeolves of this sorvies and of this day to mako n pleasurc-oxeursion to the mountajus, 1u few, caruest, aud forcible words Mr, Ducclior dofenderl Jumecl! and thuro who atiendod worship hero against the imputa- tions contuined in that complaint, Tho text of the sarmon waa the roveuteonth vurse, four- teonth chaptor of Romapy: * Tho kingdom of God 1n not meat and drink, but ricblsousnoss, and poace, and joy in tuo lloly Glost.” A THEATRICAL DISPUTE. Troudle Itctween the Fifth Avenne aud Union $ ing s IRowe ) Newo Yurk Lymen, Aug, W, Trom presens indications it in bolloved that tha gliepite betwoen Moesre, Augustin Daly and A. M. Dalmer selntive to the nropristarship of “Rose Alichel” will sventually end in a pro- tracted itigations A Zunes reporter yester- day called upon Mr. mer's coutisol to Jeurn what bteps had heen taken 1u tho matter by the managoment of the Uunion #.uare Theatro. The coubsel convgraed frecly upon the ubject, unyiog that bie chdut hal par- chared the ongiini wianuacripe of ** ltoso Michel,” both in Loglieh ava French, from Eruss Eluw, ity suchor, snd liad thersioro abtained tho proprictory right to the reame. which, bu ten, Nave Him the eaclave privilegs of its proluction In Amorien, Tho right thus con- ¥~flmd, waid tho counsel, was i overy reupoct wimilar to that of the ** Two Orphans,” which hind boeu {ully surtanod by the decisions of thu Bupremo Conrt & of New Yors, and sizo of the Court of Common Fleas in T'niladelplia. It was understood that TIIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, 'Al WORSE THAN FIRE. - Montion nf;c_y;;-,—l—n::wnnce that Does Not Insure, How Property-Owners Are Swindled by Bogus Companiez. A Sectlon of the City Which Mas No JFrotectlon from Loss, ATist of Some Pooplo Who Aro Carrylng Worthless Policios. Also Namos of Agonts Who Have Sold Rollon Insurance. Interosting Extracts from tho Late A, 0. Greenebaum's Books. At the timo the National Doard companies withdrow from this city s largo number of bogus insurance companies, or comnanon thiat had not thio requisite enpital to do bieinexn in this Stato under the provisions of the law, took advantago of the etate of aiaira then existing and come menced to umlornrito propoerty which tho con- FCrvativo insuranca companios woro reluctant to tako, Evertinco that time Tuz Trinusk has Qoue much to nequaint th peoplo of this eily with tho fraudulent character of thore coucerus, 1t hew repeatedly published tho nawes of tho cutapanica EXOWN T0 NE Bonus, or not ontitisal tu do busineea hore, and bag, tn wany inelances, ehown up tho unscrupulous solicitors ood mgeats acting for theso concorus In this city. Though thoro arlicles Lavo Lad tho efect to indico many peo- ple who held policies tn theso companles to have M. Daly cloited to have obtained o mwnuseript of tho play in question from Mossrs. Bunmons & 1all, thentnieal agents, Mr. Blum sumo timo binco udlrowsod a vablo meseago to Bir, P'alinor, stating that the former partics bad gained possossion of tho play, but without his consent or tho authority of any recognized agent of his, 'Thevo belug the facts of the cake, Mr. Palmer intended to bring an action against ALy, Daly in order to obtain an injuuction pre- vonting him from producing tho play, and in that action, said the counsel in couclusion, My, Y'ulmur would rely for authoritics to surtain hia Tglt, manly upon decisions obtusned by Mr, Luly himsclf, shonevor Lo bas had oceasion to lugally uphold his clsim +to tha possession of literary property. * = In order to learn the other side of tho case, thoe reporter next oslled upon Mr. Fiske. Ou Leing questioted as to what Mr. Daly proposed to do in the matter of the production of the disputed drama, Mr. Fiske lacanienlly roplied that dr, Laly propo<ed to produce * Hoso dizchel ™ on the Gtliof September. On beivg axked what courwe 3ir, Daly would pureue in ‘everit of & wuit being broucht agminst Lim by the proprietors of ths Union Square Thoatro, ho seain roplicd that Lo know of 1o logal grounds npan which such @ suit could bo baeed, as Alr, Duly tnd purchased tho Kh‘y' and, moreovor, iutendud to uae it, Mr. Flske ‘said that no logsl papors biad yot boen prescnted to ir, Dalv, and Luve it mn Liv opinion that the Union Bquare Jhoatre dul not woteud to purb the suit, but sddod thatif it did Mr. Daly would immediately Ly somly to meot . Dr, Dalyis at present i Bau Francisco. A Tho Consus of Wisconsioe Mibtcukes News, The following in tho full and complote official opulation of all tho couuties in the Biato oxcept lawano, which 13 unaccountsuiy behindhand : Counticy 3,100 1 . 0] ] 200y B9 —organi.ed In PG S b, pUATY By Marquetts, Milwatikeo Disease a Malp 1o the Iutellects In bLis * Eviguas of Life," Mr, Grox, the well known Buglish_cseayiat, takos (ho ground that bodily pain sud disckse are 1ot ouly cow- patible with, but way diicetly contribute to the luftioat efforts of tho tutelloct, sometitios pove that tho effeot of jorts of pain upon tls nerves iw to prody & oorebral ex« citation, and that the ‘siiwulus thus come wunicsted 1o the materisl organ of thought reu- ders it for tho time capablo of uuupusl offort. Mr. Greg ssworts that men under the stirring iu- tluenco of severe palu are capabla vt & dogros of unuginative sod ratiociustive Lrilliaucy which o tonishies thewmselves and all who Lkve known them only iu ordinary moods uf comfort ; torpnd - faculties becomivg — Yigurous and rpurkling, forgotten kuowledge Luing roe vored, sud arvelous glusws of e € #izLt beibg vouchusfed themm, 'ho wouderful eluquenco of soters Hmlk 18 bellevea to hLave besn greatly owing to the sttmulating Inllocuce of »termble spinsl walady. Dr. Couolly moue tious 8 gentleman whose mental faoultivs never ruached their full puwer cxceps uuder tho irjtue tlun of a bhater, Buch Insfances as iheso ax rexarded by Mr, Grog sa fully corrobozating Lu heaty, them canceled and insure with companies known to be reliablo, thora are, Lowever, numberiess othors who, tn Apite of Lhego exposures, persist in fnsuring theie property in theso bogns con- cerng, and thewa are not enly tho poor aml fgno- 10nt who believo the represantations of tho oily- tongied solicitors, but business-maen of experis encw, who mako protensions to futeligence and shrowdnees, S0 it camo to rase that only n short time ago, when tho sawmill of Mr. Charles Moare, nt Meats, Mich,, wan burned, that it was found that s policies wero all in Logns companios, and be WILL SEVED NEALIZE A CENT on them. Uf courss peoplo will say that Mr. Monrs ought to hase known better, and thae it werves L right, and they aro vartially correct inthiy, DBut when the insured is a 1an of snall genoral intoltigence, Las nothing but the Jittlo houae in which ho lives, and bokioves the repre- sencations of tho rancally solicitors or agents that ono insurance company is as good ng an- other, thon tho caso {8 entirely diferent. This poor man lives contentedly aud happy, bo'lovin i tuat hia bttle property, all ho has in the world, purchased with tho hard-carned eavings of Lalf o lifetime, to bave a homao for htmwelf end fowily from which no Jaudiord can ejoot Inm, is safely insured in case of fire. But when the fira-fiond comen and destroga his homo, and ho tries to collect tho monoy ou his policy, ho finda that the company 44 bogus, and that tho woliator or mgont with whom ho insured is & man witliout character or responsi- bility, who laugha at the man's dintross, saying that it is not Lis bnsviness i€ the Company ro- fuses to poy. Buch cases occur in this city noar- ly every week, and no one can say that it sorved thnee poor peoplo right, for they did not Lnow sny botter, otherwiso they would have undoubt- odly fusured their property fu & company that was able to pay thowm 1n cuge of accident. ‘Tho priucipal cauro for this state of things, od that #ueh sompanics aud solicitors are perutted todo business hero, is TUE LAXATY OF THY KTATE OFFICERS whose duty it ia to look afier theso things, The luw in stringent enough to squelch thoso bogus coucernm it ouly propeily enforcod, Suc, 21 of au act to govoru firo, turine, aud fuland nnvigation inwuranco companies domz businoss 1 tho Stato ol Ihnoin provides as follows : 1t sliall not Lo lawful for any fusuranca company, snsclation, ur partieralip fucorporated by or argan: Jzed under 'the fuws of any otber Btato of the United Btatew, or any forelgn wovernment, for any of the pur- poses spediicd I {lis act, diretiy or Indireetly, to iake riskn or traneact suy biieineas of lmutanco ln (i Btate, wnleas posaceacd of the amount of actual capital required of almilar compunies formed under o provisions of thils act; and uny wiich corpany doe wiring to trannact any micl niiness, an_oforenald, Ly any agout or agenta in this Btate, sbul first appolut ai attorniey fu he Blate on whom process of law cau be rerved aud fllo fn tho ollice of tho Auditor of Public Accountan wrilien instrument, duly sigued and sealed, cerlifylugauch appolntinent, which sl continto unil snotlier aitaruey bo mubatifuted, and any procers i e by uny court of record fu_ thin Btate, aud served upon any attocuey by the proper oflicer of the coubty i3 which such stivriiey iy reside or may Le found, nhall be deewed & nutticlent acrvico of process upon wuch company, Nor shall it be luwful for any sgent orngeutato det for auy compeny o cuupaties ro- fetred to in this section, dircetly or igaircetly, iu takiug riskn ot transacting the budnees of firo or In- land navigation {nsurance in this Htats, withont pro- curiuy from tio Auditor of Pubilic Accounts a certiti- o of authority statiug that such company has con- with all is requyitions of thin act which apily to »tich compatiias, and tho name of e atturuoy ap- poiuted 10 act Tur the company, Auy violition of auy of tho provialons of this act ahall subject the party violatiug the same to & pealty of §04 for each violation, snd of the sddilioual nury of £100 for each month wufttig which any sucls ageut sball neglect 1o filo puth ufiidavits and stutements as are heroin required, It the law from which the above is an abutract was properly sacouted, the agents uud soheitors acting for bogus compsuies would roon find Chlcago o rather unproitablo fleld for thrir poculations, Butas it s the businees s carried onzs OPENLY AND IEOKLERSLY 85 if 0o such luw was in oxistenco, Noarly ovory houde between Canal apd Ifalsted sud * Carroll and Harrlson streets tLat lus any lusurance 18 nsured in one of theeo bogus companivs, This district, ou accouut of it ivtlammatory charactor, mtaboud by the more respectabla compauics, and it s very hard to obtaln trustworthy insur- ance on uny property situated fu that soction. Honce poople Mving in that district aro com- pelled to ineure i woak companies or nat insure at all, ‘Tha reduotance on the purt of the bettar coupunios to fnsure in thut wection gives tho Logus companies a chanco, and thelr polielos ara accopted because most poraons think they wifl ba sblo to pay msail awounts, and snother koo« eral coutlagration is not hikely to bappen, 1t Is snfo to say that thero in nol 8 single insuranca cowpany writing in that district that could stand & conllagration of any oxteut. There aro a fow companios writing_thero that will pay sinall lusspw, Lut & majurity of thoso oporating in that diatrict will TAY NOTIING EITHED LARGE OR 8MALL, sod every cont that 18 accopted by thom for vlaclug nuks s nothing more nor less than une tuitiguted robbory, ‘Thus far, out of tho uuli- tudo of wgents” that vo business for bogus or buukrupt compauics, only oue has Lecn prosa. ented. " Ihis ono was Mr. A, C. Grecucbiuwm, Who was Lol & shorttime ngo and convioted. Ho bing tled tha city 10 avaid the peuslty, o e AN INTERESTING YOLUE, Tue Twese by succeeded 1o obtalbing the exphiation rognter 1 which a1l tho policlug placed Ly Nr. Giconebauw, snd on whuse ave count they a10 registerad, aro recorded, pouzs thut most af tho cowpunics Le ropreented wero cither wildeats or bursted-up. couceron which went ont of existenco long age. Mr, Groenebaunr placed but fow of tho rieks hiuie golf, but ook hlx bLusiners, which was ye Tury, wostly from eoliciturs and agents of othor companied, Theds sulleito L agents who placed riska in the companies ho represunted aro not ail irrenpouniblo acalawagy, buz kome of them claim to do nothing but tho falrest aud ot ro- liable kind of busiuess. ‘Theie are sven a few that have placed riska In his hogus concerns who belouy to the Loca! Hoard of Underwiiters, mou who would indignautly deny that they hiavi ever doue such business nnless the proof was of the most poeltivo kind, ‘Clo rogister of Uroenc. bauw's now in the handsof ‘Tue I'nisuneshows that the articles Iately published iu this paper hsve had somu effecs on tho publio, fur a great many of the policies have Leen cancelod mince tuat thne. ‘Thevw are, however, thuusands who wedll hold the policies in these bogus concorus, aud for their benelit the more uopoitaut entricd of Grocnobauw’s book aro hersby published. ‘I'he list shows the namo of the oimpany, which, {u nearly overy tustauce, f bogus or b'"h""fl Al nawe of sssured, amount of Insutaace, al. by whota placed, « Only such policies a8 nave bosn placed witl prowinout sgonts ur solicitors Ttape and etich aa havo not vet explm!roir been cane celed are gaven in the lsts Fame of e Conpany, iy wrhom placed, Dat-| iira Nume of Aarured, Warkingm st Nationa Worki National,o,. Workingmei' Nathoual Runbury, Fa.... A 1300, SB1arris &Ca ‘uhlflllllhrfln Ao 14°0 8Rlarrie £Co Tift k Schwamh, Thompson & Ed- c0]Sleven, un Belobendaky, | 1300 Tnnew Rarry, 100 Helohesdeky, 10| Holohvadeky, 501, Loske, 100 1, Tk 12 ol irnoimelt; 1000 Gruler, 100 1. ¢!, Warlng, 50| Belohraiaky, bt Heloliradsky, 100,85, 11, Lewis, 10,018, 11, Lewis, Bulohradrky s 500 Banford, 10[A, . Currte, Snydor & Mil- 1000 | ot 154 Fag& lownrd mo]n & Tuwanl 1000 Belobradyky, W0l Delahradaky, 1000(T, Buckley. Germanta, Funbury.. Huulnr Workingmen'n, Chaptn & Qora..,, Workingmen's . Chtiatian Preifer., Workingmen's Workingnien's Workingmen'a Cantinental, ' Continental. ‘Work'men's Not! unm:p i & Hose-| a 000.0, T Lyon, . 1000! thelobiradaky, 1500 Wlaney, | £ Branch Dist, Co 1000 laney, !4, Dranch Dist, Co'1500 Diauer, s, Branch Diat, Co 104/ Dianoy, leanch Dist, Ca' 1000 ilnney. . liranch Dist; Co 1000 Dianey, #, Tiranch Dist, G100 Blaney, {8, Tieaneh Dist. Sl Bianey, LIE. 0, Giibon ¥ Coy2000 Lasratoe k Oo O, Gibbon & Col20M) Larraboa & Co Hanmersmith,.'200 1 Belohradnky, Ennbury L1, Leather Co... 11500 Stevena, Merchania’,....| Mrs, Bucllannor. 1106 W, Bmith, 5 Lull & Guent- Workingmen's. [P, Gerhardy 10| zer, TILE CROT'S. ILLINOIS, 8 ecial Corresponien-e of The Chieano Tribune, Ancors, Dongls Co,, I, Aug. 1L,—Due TrisuNe of yestorday, a summing up of specinly from Uentral and Southorn Illicols, puts the damage to whieut at 156 por cent ; Lo oats, 40 per cent j and to coin, 10 per cent. Wheat whs worth 0c@%1, and flour at whole- pale £5@0, in Oentral IHinois, up to tho miadle of July. Now, good, old whoat i worth $1.506 150, and lonr 38@10. The mullors from Deca- tar to Torro Haute, and from Champaign souti, cunnot gol ano sh soitad whoat, ut ay prios, to 111 vrders for flour ; whilo the now cgop is worth- lews,—web and rotten. In fact, how could it to otlierwipe with thirty to fifty duys' rain upon it fu the shock or stack P A miller at Uak- taud, in ths county, tuld e yesterdny that ho | woa buying wheat in 5t. Louis for bis mill, cost- ing hun 71,65 at Oakland. A millor of this toan roturnnd yesterday from a trip south in search of wheat, and reporta finding bat one small lot of xound wacat. A Daris milier wrote mo that whoat wus worth £1,60¢4.80 thore, and chargod me £ for flour thut 1 bad bought throo weely sinco for Iu is plain that the new crop of fa'l wheat will not make good flour, and our sup- ply for o yenr to como murt bo frém Chicago or 8t. Lows, or wade from wheat bougbt in tnose matkets. Oats promised the hest crop for nome yoars, bnt nre rmined to the extent that no good oats will bo availablo fur shipment in this ecction, I handled over 100,000 bushels oats 1 Auguat of 1870,—the laat good crop here,—but bave ot yet received o bushel, I expoct o fow cars of damaged oats s the tatal recoipts of this crop. And. from Gilmau south, 1t is about the amo story, * Corn, fn theso flat, low lands, from Tolono Lo Mattoan, has been drowsed gut on At least ove- third of tho land planted. ‘Lho oihier two-thirds Jook well; but there is a geveral ‘compisint of its pot eamng well. A geutieman who hs omo 2,000acies near Chatsworth, told mo yosterday that ho had heon exameniug his coti the day bofaro, and estimated the vield st 80 bushols per acre, though it looked like good corn. The grearest trouble, however, fa that the crop i3 no backward,—not generally in roasting onrs at this lata dato, nod neoding ot losst mx weels more of. dry, warm_wentlor to maturo ; #o that an emly froat would bo runous, Jlay will also bea poor crop, as it is not yat cut, and flax will bo abput Jiko the osts, It some nincteon years' experienco ae a grain- deator in this State, I have not ssou brilllant promises of crops more suddonly * dampened.” A THE MISSISSIPPL. Meyrms, Aug, 14.—Thae river aame to a stand last sight. It now standa s fraction over 33 fost 11 inches. Thero is no further damage to re- port, thongh tho river I8 highor than in the spring. ‘Tho Immenao bottom between hero aud Crawloy s Ilidgo bas not beon filied with wator, &4 it wasIn the epring. Thero is zm-nt divor- sity of opinidn i regard to tno damage to’ tho cctton crop in_ this district, which extonds from the Mirsouri lino to the month of tha Arkansas. Bomo usscrt that tho damave will aggrogate 100,000 bales, while othera who have wetchod the effeot of the flood clossly aro oqually a8 positive thut It will not excoad 10,000 balow. Thore is much rejoiciug ovor the fact that the flood hns reactiod its limit, and aconuequent fooling of roliof, and 1f a rapid decline seld in thoro will probably be little ad- ditional dawags done. MINNESOTA, Bpecial Digpalch to The Chwaao Tridune, Wioxa, Minn., Aug, 11, —Tho harvost is pro~ gressiug very tavorably in this part of the State, Fivo days of good weathor this week., Travot- ers toport that much of tho whoeat is cut inthe Binnosots River Valley and adjoluing country, and stacking commenced, The barvest there i furthor advancod than in the couutios farther easi. ————— CITARLEY ROSS AGAIN. A Report Sinrted Jersoy City that the 3oy In n¢ Wome, Pureapciian, Pa., Aug, 13.—Tho Chlof of Police of this city denled tho truth of tho atory published 1 the Jersoy City Argus to_the effuct’ that Churlio loas bad beon found, aud iy now ab Lis homo in Germantown. New York Herald, Aug, U, Tho Jorsey City Argus printod yesterday afters noon thae foiloning ststemont, referred to above, in rogard to tho lost hoy Charley Ross, whom tho papor averred biad boou at bomo 1y Gorman- town, Pa., threo weeks ‘W arg tu roceipt of jufurmation to the effect (hat Chisrley Nusa, bhio buy wlows mysterious suiuctiun from Germantow, Philadulphia, ‘s Httle over a year ago, atid coutinuod abweuce bas puzzled all * the best puilfoe ™ of tie Lest cities on the: American contluent, v a1 home oiain and well, Now le wot there we di not know. 1iu returs: at present is s tnuch juvolved wystery aa hiv abduction, But that he (¢ ab home, aud that be biay beau thers for & perlod of threa wesks, wis buve not the wlightest doubt, Our lnfurmstion is derived from rlialle portics, sud wers we not natisfied of its corpectnean we would fiot make public use of Our exclusive posneasion of the infortuation i un) ather veritication of the old adsge th 10t keop b Becret, Wo say this with no Ui sux ur for (hw fuiling, fur it ia Lo the ] Araus owes the privileg Cuarley Ttow'a roliry efurs tho g Drictlyar thedu A prominent goatlen man of this city, ono i whom ws _(and the public) have the utmost cunfidence, Lias & daugbter, & young lady of education snd tutelligence § sie has & youny Iady fifond resid. jug lu Germantown who Is & friend of tho los fatnily, & frequent vislor at thelr house, Bhe eore Fospods with her {rihdu {n tuin cily of course—all our ludica do that—aud fu her Laat latter sfates thot Uliarley Hoss in at Lume, and bus boen homo for three weeks,” The Rtors fumily are keeping the ramtter seeret, Locatire they feel from the ciroumatances of the cuss wnd the notice it hus sttracted that ouce tho knowledge becomes publio the Lpuws will be wverrun with visllops, sy sunoyauce tuey desice o avoid, Tho youug Ly showed the lelter to her father, and bo guve ue the fuformation, deesing it to Lo tu & measuro pyblis jroperty, sud one in which the public luterest was superior 1o tho desl f the Hoss luu‘ly 10 avoid au_sunvyauce that can ouly be pelty 1 compartson tu the Joy that wyat posness thoir hoarts uw that thels pricelens irvadiire b restorod (hem, Wo are nub b iberty (0 @ive the Lsmes of the young I dioe tuvolved 10 the curreapanden: fact wo Fegred, #inco it muwt fu & meawure militate agstnst the credi- Lility of our statement, though we Liave no doubt in our own uiud of 1 truth] ueitber do we think the people ol Jurwey City would Lave if they kusw the Mcblluman's uane, Mr, Mullune, editor of the Argus, places the inplidit roliance on the above story, whioh brought o bim yoslerday afternoou quite Inte ju thie day by the fathor Of sho Jommey City young Inly whoss Philadolplia corzespondent gave Lhiy remarkabls inforation, . VERY 1LL, Special Disvatch € Ths Chicaoo’ Aunous, TN, Atit, 15.~William 1 Ahn, To- terual llulvcuu%t,;olgectmr.liz lyiug vm low with pneumouls, and buk faiut hopey 600 are entuitained, RS Mehuisty " WASHINGTON. Gratifying Exhibit of tho Recoipts and Expenditures of the Government, Mr. Judd Porsistently Laboring to Save the Chiengo Custonis House, Qon, Garflald on His 8ick Bed Talks Politics, His ldeas of the Ohlo Campalgn—Tha School Quostion. NATIONAL EXPENSES, A PLEASING BTATEMNENT, Bpectal Duapateh to The Chisago Tribune, WasmixatoN, D, €, Aug, 13.~Tho Trensury sccouuting oflicarn have Just complotgd tha na- tional alance-sheet for tho fescal yoar, ended June 80, Bix weeka' timo after tho expiration of tho flae ¢al yenr aro alwags roquired to recoivo tho re- turus from tho Paciflo const, This tatoment will bo & gratifying exlibit for thoee wholabored for economy in the last Congrean, and will bo a corresponding disapyolntment to tho croakers, Thero was no deficit, a8 was predictod in uome of the specchan on tho budgot; yot tho recolpts excoedad tho expenditures by the rolatively small margin of £19,970,065. 1t 1a manifest that, bnt for the practice of tho rigid economy adoptad at tho Iask (wo aoslons of Cougroes, tho predicted deficit would havn been mado. Tho balauca-sheot shown that tha ravenuos of tho Governmont wore £3,631,701 I(mul»r than the estimato mada by the Troasury v Novombor last, and that tho expensos wero 8602,040 fess than the estimate. More encour- azing than tho amall excess of recaipts is tho fact that the oxpenditures for tuo Iaat yoar were Inss thau for any fiscal yenr since the first War- year of 1861, Following is B comprshensive summniary of the mcml»m auit disbursements by warrsuta for tha Jast tiscal year s NET NECEIPTY, Cuatom,. Internal z Bula of publio lang Alscellaucoun ¥ous: 157,107,122 110,017,403 1,413,000 LATTHIN Totel ot reccinta .. NET EEPENDITE Civil and misonliatcous, War Department Navy Dopartmunt s Tudiann and Peynlon T 0,873 Iaterest on publio de 100,008,544 Total et ordinary cxponditures, ..., $214,813,31 R . NOTES AND NEWS. | . o MRS, WALLINGFOTD, Borcial Dispateh to The Ghcaao Tribuna, WasininatoN, D, C., Aug, 15,—Tha Sunday Herald prints the following concorning Min, Watlingford, whose allianco with a son of a Chi- cago clorgymau hag cruatod a Bobsation, ' ITer bellenhip belongain. very doubtlul ciccles, for sho s woll known to the police here, through msev- cral biackmailiog operations, in ove of whicha prominent avenue business man figured. She was taken ou ono oocasion to Baltimoro Ly ouo of our dotoctives to suswor a chargo of black- maliing thero. The atory as to her figuring at tho Centennial tea-party woe probably told by bersolf in ber boasting moods, The detoctive farca tell o numbor of curiong storics about ber operations In Washiogton boforo the place Lecaruo too hot Lo bold hor.” INDIAN AFFAIRS, ‘The Becand Cowptroller of tho Treasnry has made o decision wluch pinctically vullifles the terwme of the suirgnder of the Kiowas and Co- manclis. DBy that surronder the pouios of Lhe Indiana woro to be sold and the proceeds in- veated Iu cattle and aitlcles for domentic usca, ‘Tho Comptroller has declded that the mouney must bo paid futo the Treasury as belonging to the United States, The War Dopartment aud Boeratary of the Interlor Lave united In a requt- sition to tho Comptroller to reopon his dectsion, a8 it places thom in tho position of violating foith with these Indians. The War Departmoent nkes the point that the monoy doea not belong to the United Btaten, but was only receivoed by it in trust for a cortaln purposo, The Comp- troller bins agreod to Teopen tho caso, TIHE NEW NATIONAL DASK NOTES, Arrangomeuts have boon abouscomplated for printing tha new National Bauk curtency to takio tha place of that now in circnlation, "Tho now dies bavo beon prepared, ®hich are, io some nuuor particulars, mevumoma on tho old. The new currancy will Lo printod on Govern- ment flbro paper, such 88 ia usnd for tho groen- backs, 1lalf of tho back of tho noto will phow tle fibro, : CUDAN VESSELS, Thera {8 no doubt enteriained in Governmont circles ad to the character of tho steamer Oc- tavin, and that sho fs bythis timo in tho con- trol of the Cuban iusurgents. Vrom expros- wions that havo been dropped by Goverument ofticials, it is ovidont thoy are glad elio hns lert our shores. No fnformation hias becu received at either ‘the Stato or ‘Troaaury Dopartment, con- corning tho Ooctavis since Fridsy. A recent lotter from iavann shows that tho carfn of tho Laura I'rice, recontly seized {n Ilaytiop walors at tho requeat of thie Bpanish suthoritles,'oonsist. dng of arms and ammunition for the jnsurgonts, wa8 to bove bean transferrod to tho Octavia to bo run into a Cuban port. THE ‘CIUCAGO CURTOM-TIOUSE, Collector Jadd In still waiting bere, hoping to discuss withh Bocrotary Bristow the propristy of E‘muendlng with tha Ohicago’ Cuntom-ITauso | ullding, ~ Judd, thus tar, han had only a casual word with Bristow, which was in Now York. The Intter then soemed firm fn by nqlnlon to abide by hin order of suapension. Judd subsoquontiy saw tho President at Long Branch, NEVENUE DECISIONS. ‘Tho Boeretary of the Troasury haa docided to permit distillera to nso distilled ‘water to com- penuato for tho lossos by evaporation o high- wines, BLACK BLACK. The horse-marined aro iu troubls, The Dally Chrunicle will to-morrow publiali a voluminous statoment containing charges againnt Maj, Hlack, Quartermaster of tho Marine Corps. 'Tho charges aro now being oxamined in tho Treasnr; Depertmont. Th:l are of a 80T10US NALUTE AT scem woll founded in mubstance. The allega~ tions aro thiat Black has had corrupt bargaina with contractors, and has greatty profitod from his position, 2 THE INBANZ ARYLUM, Now snd well-founded charges aro mado agmost the manapoment of the (lovornment In- sane Asylum, Thero is Jittto donbt that two mora patients have rocontly boon taken from there aud abandoued, ono at Grafton, W. Va, and ong at Cincinnat] ¢ ——— GEN. GARFIELD, FUOM U8 HIUK DED—RIS LITEBARY HANITS—TUK ACUOOL QUESTION IN OKIO—TUE FUL'K I8 OUL POLITICH, From Qur Own Correrpandant. WasuinatoN, Aug. 12.—* [ have been read- fng," wald Gen, Garfield from the sick bed where Lo had boon lylog, in thie boruing climate, for #ix wooks,—*' I havo boeu reading charming, ailly old Bozzy’s journoy to the Hebrides over agaln, Hois always the samo kindly, lazy, genial, old nian, forover uaylng good things,—a slook, soft- handad, soft-hearted giant of a follow.” Gon. Garflold, when 1 saw him, Lad been in bLis bod for six wooks. A dreadful ausgical opo~ ration had Teft him wesk and wasted. Disonse hud cowe upon bim ke *a hammer of tho red wou of the furnace.” Mo was » dinmsutled matesman, A good conylitution is golng to bring him through; bat, for some woeke, ho muat Tefrain fromn participating in the fight againet tho ohieap and nasty rag-man's platform of Tog-Llorn Allen, aud Lis sucakiug ally, Thure wav, of the Jauus face, GARFIELD AT HOME, Qarfield livea io & home-like, modest, unpro- tentlous house, opposite Fraukliv square,—oune of tho most abtractive locations in Washjugton City. 1lnw oheorfi} upper chswber, which had been atripped of ite flcelh and was clothed only in ita bones, ua all Weshiugton houses in sum- wer-1imo are, be Lad besu lying for & maoth and s Lalf, looking 84 the wmighty summer- cumall fluating iu the burning, brazen wky, snd listeuing to the merrychup of the symmer- birds fu the park Lelow, g LITRIAGY HABITS OF FURLIO MEN, Gurfiold is & man of iufloite, reson: oue of the Lalf-duzen mea In Congross who read books. Hs (s one of the fow persons in politiosl e hoto who, i the tremondous orush and THOUGUTS UST 16, ToRBlLG ve w0 MINLeT 8 G e o follaw n courro of hght rending. No man has hiad a moro srduoun placa In tho Iast two Oone grenaca than the Ohairman of the Committes on Appropriations, And no ons aver charged him with neglect of duty. Yot Garfield finda tiran to read nearly all tho uew books, aud to keep up a regular caume of reading In the old ones, Ho has & hungrey brain, and o wonderful conatitu- tion, Thie Lisa boon the motuod of his buay life, The laat fow weeks havo warnod him that bLe oannat stand the racliot, Garfield readn everywhars, In tho oars, going tothe Capital ; in the cars, returning frow his Amily work; and in his Committee-room, 1o ‘w(ll tight Jim Beck about tha nacessity of Luilde lug fortilications at dintaut points, aud contest ith & Grangar trom tho Modoo country about the Modoe clnimn ; yet, in the Interim, will find time toglve ton minutes to “allly old Dozzy,” or somo of his charming comrades, I should #ny that the eecrat of Garfiold's sesotrcad in doe bate, the froshinoes of e iluatiations, his roady reforonce to literature in all b8 branches, {8 dno o his voracions litorary appotite, I huve read," ha sald, * sinco T have beeu lying bore, atrapaling with this usin, algtieon Jolmou s ani T ive ludosed el comtonsplaced them all. Protty falr work, [ mk? it, for six weoks of midsuminor fu Wash- wgton." ESTING FROM TILE AUNGBON'S KNIFR, 1875. cont inaurtry, ‘The uarrativo of Bozzy's jour- noy Iay boside him, and an 1mmenso ailas, Bup- ported by an elavatod stool, stovd near the bed, opened at the map which showed (he courso of Dazay in tho jonrnoy to tho Hebrides. A faith. ful wifo wae tracing with a peucil the ins aud outs which tho gews! old nhilosophor took on lin way to theno northorn ialands; It was in this way that Garfield was turnlug to profit tho lois- ure that tho surgeon's knife gaye lum, THE DEMOCUATIO FLATEORN AND TIE PAPAL EN- CYCLICAL Carfiall's conversation waa directod maily to tho fesnen and political outluok in Oblo, I will 1ajoat tho idens an uearly an possibio 1w bis own words. It hia Loalth parmits, thess thoughts will soon ho echued from tho stump “I am wscrey that the Outholia question, a8 conneeted with-tho puablic-rahivol Aystom, in rapidly becomiug an Importaud element m our pulitics, Tu Oblo, the Catholio lergy are tryiny 0 show that our puablio schools uire Godloss au worthleas, Tue Domocrats havoe practically lo- dorgod this poaition, and are thus striking a bloy av the basis of onr fundamental libexties, Tho ixeuo. which should never have bosn mado in this country, gcoma to have come. 1 huvo bioou laoking over tho litorature of shig question whilo lywg hore, nnd 1t soems to me that it ig ono of tho greatest 1s~ues of the ago. 1 ahall try to tell our poeplo that the battories tuat aro feveled at our sohwol-syatem are planied on tho Vatican, The history of tho lust fifteen vears in Europa and thiw country shows this. 00k at tho Syllabus of 1864, It {u Ay auathama- muranatha againat all modorn eilizativn. It decinres that all mon im not equal. It denien liberty of conecience, It insists tunt allegianco to a foreign religious, nod would-bo temporal #overoign, i8 superior to fealty o our national Wito, 1t declares that the doctrino that all mon bl bavo the right to worahip Uod according to tha dictaton of suoir owa consciance I pernicious aod unchristian, It makes proclamation that toloration of non-Papists is unploasiog to tho Most High. 1t Ia a bullaganat modern thought, It 1 a doflauce of modern progrees. Tho vicegorents of the Pope seom evervwhere try- ing 10 do homago to the Encycheal, Lying hero for aix wools, | havo tracod the progress of tist obadienca to Pius IX. through all the countries of modorn Burope ta our own land, and I am aurpraod and alsrmod to seo haw loud the Fapal apatbemas are sounding in the mudat of our American Commonwealths. ‘I'ho coptoet which for soven voars Las boen woged in tho Old World lias coms to the New. 'The ground that Papal authority has lost in Turope It ls secking to rogaln bore. Austiin bas swolished the Coucordat: but the Rod Ilut s beon elovated in Americs, and tho doctrines of the Coucurdnt huve been placed in tho Damocratic platform 1n Ohio, 1'he Tem- poral Power has Leon abolished 1n Rome, but tho Papists in America aio reaching out aftor tho school-fund, Tn Switzerland tho same con- teut 18 going on, Tho only important thing that our goud fricud Contellar Lus accomblisbod in Spam {8 to call attoution bg the furoads of oc- closiastical dominion, In "Fraveo tho Popo is iminiog giound, In Eogiand Glad- stons is engaged in o coniest similar to that of Bwwmarck in Germany. 1u Gerwauy, the iron-bandod Bismarck is ighting agulust the power of the Yatican with the most relentleus baud, Ho found tha emissarios of tho Papo tryiug to obtain possession of Univorsity, Churel, sua State, llo is procceding agsinst thom with that iron band, Ile could tolerato in the Empiro of tho Hohenzollerns no foreigu Yowor, 1y deuied thn 1ight of contempurancous sovoreiguity to tuo * descendant of tho Tepins, 1o found thet modera thought demaunded higher hounors than to have its bouiwhed namo luug on Bt Tetor's door in tho Index Erpurgatorius, Ile saw that tho Lncyclical and the Niuteentt Contury wado eorry brotherbood, and he bas made a succoss- ful wur agamst it. Driven frowm Purope, this power scoiny to be coming boro, It fv in our camprigo in Ohio thiy fall. ‘Tho batteries that aro levelod at our echool-systom aro indood plantod on the Vatican," Sowotling i this way ran on Garflold. Sinco that day bo has gapidly Improved, aud it It is ox- pocted that, boforo leng, be will enter tho Qlijo cauvass, -— THE NEW MICHIGAN CAPITOL, Aveciat Dispatel to Ths Chacaco Trionne, Laxsing, Mich., Aug. 16.—The walls of tho third atory of tho new- Capitol Building, excopt the wout wing, aro nosw comploted to the coruioe, aad the briok-work is run up into the aitic 6 or 8 foot. 'Tho progress so far this sosson lLes beon equal to tho contractors' anticipations, aud they can continus work throngh the winter on thoe roof and other parta of tho structure. Tho eaat front now nearly assumes_tho flue por- spoctlyg scel Ju tho ongravings, Ths doirioks havo recoutly been raised for the last time, oc~ cupylug about two wooks' time when ¢ho mason- work was suspeuded. Tho dorricks aro lens complipated than thoso at Desoines, Ia.,—the eighit being opurated by tho same epgiuo that ruos tho eaws and rubbing wmachinos, b{ 400 foot of sliafting. ‘U'hio * stonca that tho builders rojectod” ore numerous,—not from sny dofoct lu'tho quality of tho stome, but from tho shade or color not bolng yniform, No defect hine as y0u beon noticed in the » coustruction, A Practical Fathers Detrot Free Preas, Boating {e no doubt a good thing when Jndle clously inqulged in, but an old gontlomay resid- ing on Congrowy atroet, whoso sun was & member of one of tho wiuning crowa at tho Toledo rogaits, has rather cousoryative notious con. oerniug (ho musoular art. On Buoday tho fol- lowlug dinlogue cocurred Lotwosn tho fathor and gon: Fathor—* My boy, how much did you weigh when you begau to teain for Luis regating Bon—** Ono hyudred and sisty pounds, " l’l;.hor—-“Aml you pulied at 145 pounds dida't you " = p flilan—“a(pu, I worked down to that baautl- ully,” Tather—* And how much is that badge worth that you won dowu there 7" ‘ Bou—*Don't kuaw exaotly, but I think 1 he?nl vowme af the follgre say thoy cost 827 apigeo.” pl"‘lhor—“ Um; $27. Now thou It you'll wrork off tho ssme amount of fouh next season by sawing wood 1'll givo you s .Jldu‘;;lfl worth just four timos a8 mush as that one, aud au opdor on. fi:yfltfid«x for tho bost suit of elofues you can 2 Tho young goutloman iutimated that be ucdsed he'd tako a little run dows to thoe boate 0150, — Japancse Fau Decorntion, A New York correspondent of the Bloston Ga- zetle wnyns ' What do you suppose our peopla of tauto aze uniug todecorato thulr howsos wnllx ? 1 dou't mind Yunlug you on the track, for 1 sliall Lavo laid fu wy stock bufure thin letter gots in print, They aro using notbiug more or lous oxpensive than Japeneso faus—the kind you buy for 8 conts apioce. foar, thopgh, sooun as fho dasl flud out that they aro worth more to us, th thoy will zasa the price, For a couple of dolars you cau ot sowoe beautiful specimuuy of Japa nono art, and unlesy you havo tried b you have na iden how besutiful 1t in for decoratin. bhick :\vo or three faus bobind a picturs, or up sgeiosh ho cliumuoy-pleco, or backiu the shelvos whare you keep your old ehiva, T heard of & Isdy the otuer day whobad s border of Ljese {aus Tuuning sround bier patlor wall, A young artist I kuow lives 1n a reuted Liouso which hias a very ugly plas. ter centre-plece on the parjor coiliug,” e could uot slford £o got & new ono. 80 Lo Lisa the offon. ivo plac stugk full of brillisut faus. Alws Tad- oma had beautiful diswivg-room ou the banks of tbe Thawos decarsted with thess faus, aud the .t{‘m whe .Enklug uld bwaul:l..mhf- sli-papor sxpensive au o h:?‘-o"hnt‘:r who liaye uot the woalth of Mr, wasall Biurges bave Lo coutend numlvq with the faue, for which we are truly grateful,” THE ranm auu GARUEN, Prices of Farm-Imhor Through« out the United States, ** Hopper-Grass "'=-Effects of Illuminat- ing Gas on Plants, Excessive Foreing of Mantse--Tho ¢ 0ld Doctor » and His Delaware (irapes, Froit-Growing and Fruit-Drylng—Bweot- Potato Vines Taking Root, Pevared for The Chicaqo Tridune, TRIOES OF FARM-LANOR, The Departmont of Agrionlturo Roport for July, from statietics made up from all thoStaton, eliows thet tho avorago price of farm-labor for thie whale United Btates, at tha preront time, In, without board, 1240 por month,—n decling riuce 1809 of nearty 22 por cent, T'ho calcula- tious ars based ou tho numbers givon reapectively in tho consuncs of 1800 aud 1370. fu tho latter, thowe ato Inchudea who wore formerly alaves. ‘Those Lind 0o placa in the former enumoration, Thoy incresse tho wroportion of Jowspriced 1abor, and thus sesist in roduclng tho avorngo. The averago prica of labor, with board, In tho Eastorn States, la $16.50 ; u the Bouthern, £10.174 in tho Wostarn, 213.66 ; in tho Middle, £16.81 ; in .the Torritorios, 318,26 ; and on tha Pacifle Conat, $24.12, The averago prico paid for harvest-hands in tho States of Olio, Miohigan; Indiaua, lihnois, Wisconain, Minvesola, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebrasks, was, with board, $1.74 por day,— Minuesota paying the greatest average, §2.30, and Missourl and Kansas the least avorage, 81 and &1,46 respectivoly,—the resson, undonbted- Iv, for thoss low pricos being the suiplus of labor on accouut of tha ravages of locusts in thosa Blates. Indisoa paid $1.75: Iilinols, 71,83 ; Wiaconsin, £1.92; and Michigan, 82 por day, as the average prico for thosa Btates, Tho average cost of throshing whont is atated to be, in New England, from 10 to 18 cents por bushol 3 In Peansylvaoia, 7.7 conts ; north of tho Obto Rlyer and wost of tho Missiasippl, no Btate avornges more than 7i§ donts; Nobrasid® gots hbor throshing dano ag low as 5.8 cants; Cali- forula averages G.8 cenis; and Oregon, 0.4 conls. - The low 0ost of thresliing in the Btates north of the Ohio Liver and west of tho Mluwsisaippi {s undoubtediy duo to two causes : thouso of im- vroved and rapid machines, and the growing ap- plleation of stenm to tho worle; and also to the fnoreased yiold por acro over that of the Eastorn and Boutharn States, HOPPER-GRASS Y8, GRASSIOPPER, A Bt. Lous daily paper ias the following os a Dart of fta commorcial leador : Now vurletles of grass have appeared in the pastures of Weatern Miswourl, the sveda of which are supponod to hiave bocu Lrought from the Plaine aud dopositod Ly the grasshoppers last fall. ‘The most abunduut of thess {8 o yreen Luvch grass, which grows hizuri- antly_everywhero, aul has bocoime a fuvorito with cate tle, Thia grans fs without a name. Since the "hop- pers brougiid a Mitie good lnto tho country, auppoto thoy bo duly creditod bhcrotor by usming it after thotn, Wy not call it * hoppor-grass "7 Wa protest against tho grassliopper dividing tho honor of the distribution of soeds (7) aud weods with tlic Lepartment of Argriculturo at Waslungton, Not that wo boliove it fu trymg to do this, excopt la the imaginatlon of the avorage 8t. Lonis reporter. Unlike the boa-constrictor, it doos upt ewallow its * wittlos” whale, It doos, however, coustrict tho purke of the farmors, and somotimos wholly swallows tho rosults of his toil, Tho grasshopper chows his victuals, sud, like the mulls of tho gods, grinds oxcoadingly small,—so amall, indped, that thero would be but small chance for germination of any eeed it bad eaten. Seeds ara widoly scat- terod by birds, which do uwallow them whole ; by auimals which lmperfootly ohow and digost them ; by winds and fioods 3 1n tho hinir of ani- maly and the plumago of birde; by every railroad- train and overy passing vobiclo. Thoso are a fow of the ways In which they are carried, ‘Tho editorof Colman's Rural World, who has givon attoution to this matter, snys epeciniens enbmitted to tho Agriculiural Dopartment at Washington lava boan pronounced by the bote snist thore to be Hordeum pratense,—ona of tho wild barloy epocion, found moro or loss abiu- dant throughout tho Wostorn Biates aund the Tooky Mountaine, 1t is not gone; x known (hat thoro aro many ol thoso nnuuni aund Lignnial grasses grawing on the prairies, ibat ususlly remain ubnoticed, amang the lattor perenulal” spocies, by tho cas- ual observor. Bomotimes, howevor, from boing eaton off, thoss varletics show thowsclves to such an extent as to completely cover tho round. From 00 to 0 Bpecies of plante ave boon found o & slugle sjquaro fout pf old meadow-sod in Englaud, some of tuom scarcoly to bo distinguished by the naked oyo, With swple warmib they would sssume oir proper proportious, and the suporfcial ob- worver might imaginoe that one sot of grasaas bad changed to others, just as oven now navy por- sous will porpist in esyivg that whoat turns to chiesa, thange into oats, and thep Lo imoby. A lttlo caraful invewtigatlon sud dissootion unider the misrosoopo will woon detest the fallacy of this, So a litle pommon menso would have en- abled tho hoppor-grans mau to iave known that the grasahiopper (v) doos notewallow whole weads with which to ye-noed the regions it dovastaton, EVFECTS OF ILLUMINATING GAS ON FLANTA, The deleterjous intiueuce of gaslight on groen- house-planty lias lung been known to gardeuers, Honoo tho dificulty fu induciug. thom to ex- Linit, except for short periods, i buildings so Jighted. Within tho last fow years, instancos r8 on rocord of tho killing of shade and orua- montal treos in some of our city strooty from oucapiug gas, ocomsioued by the rupturoof tho maiug aud bravchos. A case is cited of an oxperiment in Derlip, Gormany, where 25 cubio foct of gas, distributod daily through 14¢ oubio feot of soll, to » deptu of 4 feot, caused tho death of the plants i s nliors time; and it appoared that less time waa rm]nueu whan the surfaco of the ground was closed In more compact, The inveetigations of amother exporimentor couvinood him that tho roots were not killed by the diract action of the gas upon tho rouls of tho plants, but by the palsoning of the soil. Dr. McMurttis, ohowist to tho Department of Agriculturo at Washington, was induced to make A teat-oxparimont in councquence of a questioy arising oub of a disputo concerning she destruge tion of mo extensive lot of catnollias in Philsdol- bila, in which (4 wes slleged ¢hat (ko dostruce ion was csused by the oscapo of gas from & broken wnain In the wutroot, where, tha ground being frosen, tho gue made its way through the subsoll sud ioto the simosplicre throuph tuo' ground of tue interior of a groenlouse, ‘Yhose plauts wore killed through their leavea, siuce, helog in pots placed on stsnde, it was imposaibls that thoy could bave been injured by gas cowing in aon- taot with the roota. During this experimout, lusting six daye, the gas being iuwroduced fuur titnos, a1 occasional leaf, a8 woll sa bud, dropped, On the sizth day, ou opeuicg the box to apply are of .95 mipht nct bave done ro, The o nient, to bo of keinutide vilin, Bhoult ..W.‘."::" eartied forward with diffarent suhjects, to dotay, mmri.ihllh dillerent” volumes of gam, bt ¢ . stantin each cans, the quantity and le timo Lecemary to fall, - L Ll EXCESKIVE PORCING OF PLANTS, Tho oxcossiva forcinu of planta £or prapag, ton 1 nein being diseuyend by variona ay tural jonrnals, 1o nover Lagomes sn old Aflotint geld o raro plant, sta *long pri and, to got hiv mono/ back, ho must, hy Wtdng furclnge of the staou wooil. and propagatiog Itom, groon slinotn, Ao redico tho vitwlity of 1he aiag 'hat_every customer who buys 18 cheatod il weedy aud wortbions plants, 1t 48 related of an English floringy who oxhibj. ol vory perfect and fouble damia.s Heagsy of Hastings,—that ho had #0 many arders, ay at wuch hLigh prices, that, Lo fll them, was forced to tako outlitga from entlings, y propagated from green wood, to such a dogrey 1hat a° dozeu roots were madu to produce nely 0.0.0 ptante.” The resnlt wan, shen these Planty camo b Licom, thay producedl nhone but siugi firvors, Ho wnd mwob only meomeed of nonding ont mpuriaas plante, thus o uring bis reputation, — but, honidey his, Tio was mado to retuad the mousy rea ) for tho plants, aud that touchol the toadyres of all wsoty, tho pockot. In this eomatry, 1oy mdividuals aro smartor. Tha reruln"fll! of thy niant {8 injurad, but that of tho pronagaton toosn’t atay linrt worth n cent. ‘The senndalyng propagation of that really valuablo grano, thy Delawaro, newrly rulnod its rapntation. Cortug bropavators mads money, and retred frog Dalaware-grape culturo, ien]. tory, ca ™ he Yeara ngo wo wora vieiling [ Ol Ductor,"~Kennjeott of ghleaag} memory,—and ho tolatod how by missed tho chanceaf propazating Delawares. Hy wad nent a lot of cuttings whon the Delawars gy now ; but without mark, and th lotter of advieg wan Jost, ‘Ilioy wora duly * stucl.” grow, and were as duly forgoiten, Afiorsards, he honghy Ateam-platiis, but of courkeconld mako Nothing ot of them, snd abandoued the nuraing of them. A city S oungstor - & nephosw—used yearly to visit tho children lu August, and, for two sy cueding yearn, it was obsorvod thab ey baunted A portion of tho grounds con. lmuma s abandoned nursery-block, One day, tho * Old Doctor ! followail them to their baant, and found them feasllug on Delawsres,—thy vines runting at will over tho ground nud trocy, and londed with frut, Al you weamys!” said he, *whydid ym not tell mo of thean 7" »ont” rnphnd thabors, langhing, ** we wante) the giapan, ' Yen," rep'ied the Doctor, also laughing, ‘“and you didn't want me to swiudlo any ons with steara vines.” Io justico it shonld bo added that ho neve sold nn nudulv-forced plant in hia hfe, In convorsation aftorwards, he maid that the stock would, logitimatoly propagated, bave p duced him 26,000, 3 undoubtodly the firsy man in Tllinols who fruited the Delawaro grape, It hian lon sinco ontarown tho reputation which rancally propagators mado for it far, In tha eud, tho vines regalned thoir health or died, sud now, whenevor \boy aro well cared for, ars _prolifle, FRUIT-OROWING AND FRUIT-DRYING. Thoe West will not dry much fruit thus searon, In fact, we shall uot proiluce onough ripo fruit of any variely to supply tho logitimata doman . Olutm\vburrien wo had” a fair snpply, nothing woro 3 alt other fruits bave beon and will by scarco, No, wo must oxeppt grapos ; thore will bo plenty of Coucords at lonst, 1f no diraster ahail yor overtakn them, Weo muat dc}mml upon our Eastern growors for much of our frmt. Wa reokou there are plenty of apples Eaat, and to sparc. ¢ Dolawsra and Marglond bave an overwholm. ing crop of poachos. In fact, the pooyle of thuso States soow to be in the predicawmont of tho darkev, wbo, wantivg potatves, praved for thow. A wag, nnrmg.th&, pravided bimsolf the next night with & bushel, and, taking bis stsud in expectstion, suro cvough tho prayer for potatoos was pgsin made; wheroupon he throw the basketful into tho room, The negro aroso to his feot in surprise, exclaiming, ** Dar! dar! Lord, dat'll do, I wants ‘tators, but I don't want "em frowed ail ober de cabin [ Dolaware aud Marviaud need not growl at their groat crap of peaches. Bond thom ~\Wost, ripo; and dry the surplus. Tlera are' a number of cconomical plans for so doing vow, and for so doing in tho most porfoct mannor. Tho latest rood one wo have seen s the Janea pueumatis dryor, now porfeoted, It is diiven by stosm, and tho fruit Ia dried by hot air, wihich I most oconomically and oauiat adjugted by means of the engive, wiich, at the samo time, furnishes powor fox aring, coring, and slicing the frug, Fwo hundred bLushels of apoles, and a corrs sponding quantity of othor fruit, may be propared and dried 1o a day of twenty-four hours, aud this without tho least discoloration. Bo perfect and cheap has becomo the mochsn- lem for drying fruits and vogetables, o natursl 14 tho lavor thoy rotain, that 1t would seem that tho day of canned fruits must soon bo a thing of the pase. It is high time tho air-cured, fly-be- grimed, loatheomo produsts berctofore called dri.d frnit, should be given over to those who bolieve no way 80 guod as that of thur futhora. BWEET-POTATO VINES TAKING ROOT, A corrcspondont asks what he shall do with s 8woet-potato vines that are taking rout from tho joiuts, aud whotlier it will injure tho pro- duct for them to do go. Certaluly the product will bo infured. Tlo continued wot weather Las caugol thom to root this sohson, oven oo tho lightest sands, The nsual romedy in to take! an ordinary wooden bay-rake, ana, ruuning the handle under tho vines, Jift them up beyoud tus longth of tho roots; then let tho vines fall hack naturally. If the woathor continues wet, it may bo nccoerary to ropeat the operation, eapecially it on black land. Another precaution thas should bo taken with this_crop, intha North, in: Ax nooo as frost blackons tho viues, cut thom immediately,: next tho earth snd tho crowns, aud cover the crowns of tho plants with earth, Thus tha po-, tatoes may romain with benatit for somo time in tho carth. If thus ba wut dono, tho potatoos becomo black aud nnpalatable from tho rolus of the vitiatod shp, and soon rot, P, INDIAN TERRITORY AFFAIRS. Evravra, I T, Aug, 15.—The coremonien of Inying tho cornor-atono of the Femalo Academy, locatod st Hoath Canadien, I T took place oo the 12th {nst. Grand Master McPhorson, of tho Lodgo of Indian Territdry, sesisted by Dep- uty Morrow, DBrea, Bucknor, Cunningham, and Judge Btedbam, performod the grand ocoromo- nica of layiug the stono, A largo delogation camo from Kansas aud polnts north in the Tor ritory, and soveral hundred camg from poiokt south. "ol Boudinot, Gov. Coloman Colo, sod Maj. .G, W, Tugails, Indian, Agent, made ad- dresses on educational mattors to more thia 2,000 persons. 1t {8 auserted by the fricuds of Charles Thompe san, who ran for Ohiof of tha Chierokeos against W. P. Raes in the Iate elootion, that bo is elocted by fully 500 majority. Muskoarz, Aug. 15.—The cornor-stons of & new bullding for she nes of the Indian Agency for tho Cherokeo, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creck, andSominolo Nations, will bo lsid on ‘Wednoudsy, the 18th. Tho ceromonlos will be copducted by tho Graud Lodge of Mesoos of Indlau Territory. Barbeguo supper and party in tho ovening. ha Masonic teroity, city ofticiala, aud wmembers of the press of the Htatss sre jnvited. Pansenger fares on raitrosds havo boon reducad to Geents per milo for tho ex- oursivus, The Chiefs of the fivo tribes are ex- pected o be presunt, and spoeches will ba made y some if not all of thom. The citizons of Muskogeo will entortain all who como. iy ki i a iy, OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, Pryvovty, Apg. 13.—Arfived, tho steamer 0 wator, a alight jar causod a uumber of leavea to drop,’ and BA sbarp shock caused them to loso uoatly sll thoip loaves. The firet amouut of gus introduced waa 7.7 per cont of the eutire volumae of the box, 'The ibroo subsequent admissiouy wero 3,85 per oente fouu Dlr). McMurtrie concludes: ** Without making auy allowauce for escapo of {he gay by diffusion, which probably touk piace, reasoning from tho fact that, wheu tho box waa cpeued, no odor of gas was perceptible withiy the box, we find tbat, slter tho irst day, the amount of gay did not exsoed 4 per cant of the volumo of tho box, It s, however, probablo that the ayaragy quantily wss much lows than 3 per centy spd I am iuclived to the oploion that, if camollins, or other plants, be contiued in sy stmosphore containing covsinually 1 to 9 per ocent of lluminating gas, they uust suffer, sud ultimately be killed,” Tu this paper the Doctor says: *The subjecl of the fuiluence of illuwiusting ges upon Yege- tation Law, until withiu the past yeas ortwo, bean slwostiwolly neglocted.” Lorein bo Ls evidently midled, a8 we have whowu, 1f Fhilsdelphis sud Washington gardeuers bsve uot undere stood the deleterious effects of iltuminativg gas uvon plants, Chicago gardeners have, e i also mislod ip clasuing cawellias and other plants together ju_their powor to withstaud woxious ases, camelliaa being well known ta drop their rol.vn from spparently slight causes. Praoticals plants vary much io thoir power to resist the Sl st O SEIE, pty 0p e aln, gaa oxtent of nesrly ) ‘fi’l‘ given, might haye killed, when 5?- 302 Pommeranis, from New York, QuxgystowN, Aug. 18.—Arrived, the ship Brtausio, from New York. THE END OF A FRAUD. ‘WureLivo, W. Va., Aug. 16.—Ths Brunawick Insuranca Compsny, of this city, the laat of the wildcats, waa closod by,tue Conatable yesterdsy: chlets gt Tl Ante ftecognizing Thoir Relatives, Jloma and School, & Huber, the younger, ona dsy, took au Aot nest 1o populate one of thoss glass contrivanced which bo used for making lis observations, aud which consisted of a sort of glass bell placed over tho noat, Mo sot at liberty one part of the auts, which fized thewmuelyes at tho fout of & eighboring chestout trea, The rest were ko during four mopiks 1n tho sppacaius, and at the eud of this Muber moved the whole iuto the fi"dfn' aud o h”iw &::‘u mausged to :Ic’mi aving met their compauigns, who lived Ez the foot of the cleatuat ires, they rés cognlzed them, They wete eeen in fact, them, to gestloulats, to caress ol mutually wita their snteuus, to take esch otw; by the maudiblcs, 8817 to embraca Jo token fl' oy, aud tliey re-entered togetber the "“‘u:, Lio'foot of the chestnut troo,. Very Sood they camo {u s crowd to look for tLe othor Lo under the ball, and iu » few hours ourobaerve spparstus was complotely evacusted br, . oucse. e ————