Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, August 21, 1876, Page 5

THE CIIICAGO TRIBUNE: MONDAY, AUGUST 21, 1876, TFOREL Qharp Buttle Botween Turks and Servians at Aloxinatz, Trustworthy Details of the Gigantio Atrocities in Bulgaria. tle Possibility of Exaggerating s the Diabolism of the Mohammedans. pIassacre of 1,500 Women and Children in Abyssinia. TURKEY. T8 CONSTANTINOFLE BIDE OF 1T CONSTANTINOVLE, Aug. 20.—In consequence of Turkish strategy in marching back to Gran- ada Pass and around northwesterly to the. rear of Alexinatz, the great Servian ariny at Banja Pase 1 uscless, Alfo 8afb attucked tho Servian {ntrenchinents on the frontler and the Scrvlans fled towards Alexinatz, The Bashl Bazouks ara firing villoges bebind them. ANOTHER VERSION. Loxpox, Aug. 20.—A dispatch from Alex- Inatz reports that, ufter drlviug In the Scrviun outpusts on Saturday, Alle Saib pressed towards Teseln, The canuonading was heavy and the fishting oLstiunte. 'The Serviana withstood the gesault, The Turks Legan to retreat i the afternoon. The Servians followed, driving them ncross tho frontier. CRETE. * Lownox, Aug, 20.—An Athens dispatch an- nounces that un insurrection has broken out at otims, in Crete. . TUL ATHOCITIES IN BULGARIA, Currespondence London News, TATAR BazARDIIK, Aug- 1.—I bave just seen the town of Batek, with Mr. Schuyler. Mr. Buring was there yesterdny, Ilere Is what I gaw: Un approaching thetown, on & hill there were some dogs. They ran away, and we found on this spot a nuber of skulls seattered about and ono ghastly heap of ekeletons with cloth- fng. Teounted from the eaddlo 100 skuils, pleked and Heked clean, all of women and chil- dren. Weentered the town, On every slde wero skulls #nd skelotons charred, among the rutns, or lying entire where they fell In their clothing, There were skeletons of girls and women with long brown halr hang- fug to the skulle, We upproached the chureli, Thers theee rewning were more frequent, until the ground waa literally covered with skeletons, skullg, und putrelying "bodies {n clothing. Be- tween the chirels and the school there were heaps. ‘Lhe stench was fearful. We entered the churchyard. The sight was more dreadful, The whole elurehyurd for 8 feet deep was fest- tering with dead bodies partly covered,—hauds, Jogs, wms, and heads pru{ecml in ghastly con- fuslon, 1 saw nany little hands, hesds, and 'fi;rlu, with heads covered with beantiful diair, o church was still worse. ‘The floor wuy_ covered with rutting bodies quite uncovered. NGVER 1MAGINED ANYTHING 8O PEARPUL. There were 5,000 bodles in the churchyara and church, We were obliged to liold tobaceo to ournoses, In the school, a fine building, 800 wouen and chiliren had been burnt allve.” All over the town thicre were the same scenes. In some Pluces heaps of boles burled fu, shallow holes had been uncovered by the doge. The Danks of the little streom were covered with Vodies, Muny bodies bud been carrled to Tatar Bazardjik, o dlstance of thirtymiles, The town Jrad 9,000 fulibitants. ‘There now remaln 1,200, Maoy who escaped hud returned vecently weep- Ing and moaning over theirrulned homes, Their eorrowful walling could be heard balf a wile off, Bome were digging out the akeletons of loved ones, A woutin was sitting moanlng over threg mall sleulls with hairs cliuglug Lo them, which she ud {n her lap, THE MAN WIO DID ALL TH1S, Achimed Agn, bug been promoted, and s still Governor of the district, The newspaper e wunts were not exaggerated, ‘They could not be. Nu crime invented Ly Turkish Terocity was Teft unconunitted. Seven thousand bodles have been aIvln;: here since May 12, rotting In the sun, preyed upon by dogs; aud Sir Henry £illot has never Lieard thiat thie authorities demand o war Indemnity from the remuiulug [nhabitants of J0000 plastres. The town formerly puid 1,000,000 " piustycs. The harvest s rotling in the tlelds. The owners are in the church- yard, ‘The survivors’ cattle have Leen tuken b[y the Turks, who refuso to reatore thew. It 1s impossible to get in the harvest. It fanot true that the Turks are sending help, The fnhabitants cverywhere complaln to Mr. Schuyler thut thelr cattle ure not restored, and that help [a ot gsiven. "The stutement that the Bulpariana committed atrocities (s utterly unfounded and shawmefully false, Mr. Schuyler thinks that less than 20 ‘Turks were killed, nearly all fn open combat, There s wo Pruul yet that o elngle Turkish woman or ¢hild was killed or violated, The reports of Mr, Schuyler and_Mr. Baring will corroborate thie telegrawm. There s urgent oeed of rellel for the starving avd helpless fumllics, RUSSIAN AID AND SYMPATHY FOR SERVIA. Dispatch to Londen Times, Brragavn, Aug, 4.—Che Russian Socloty of he Red Cross, wlilch I8 under the patronage of the Fuipress of Russla, hus appenied through the Russion Embassy here to the Forelgn Oflice fur permission to puss through Austefan terri- tory the sanitary train and personal stafl des- tued for Servin, A similar trafy, conslsting of 800 Inrgze cases and packuges, in charpre of two medleal men, and witha number of dressers and e, Wi Kent some time ngo to Montenegro. {s not. merely In sending medleal und sur- gleal stores and nurses that the sym- puthy of the Ruesian people fs displayed, for the South Siuvenle movement §s_begiuning to show {tsell on u Iarger scale. Forsome timo ulte o hel.'lm of Russiau ollicers is signalized rom the Lower Danube, all on_thelr way to Servia. They come mostly from Bessarabii to Jassy, and go thencs to Galatz or G(urfiuvu, where they embark 4s passcugers on board the steamers ‘of the Austrian Danube Navigation Compauy for Servla, The recrulting and’seud- ing-out of this educated mmtn?r element Lo Bervia, which Is fnwolul want of {t, seems Lo be the merit of Col. lsmalloff, who, 28 you mu; remember, was on the stet of Gen, Telicruayelt, and who ‘mmd through here a couple of weeks 2o on his woy to Russin, where it aald ho wus grofugg ou wapecial migslon from Tehernayetr, At feast ft 13 ouly siuce Col, Ismaffoil's return to Russla thit this: immigratlon of Ruasian uillvers has tuken larger proportions, and, a4 it were, o more systemutic character, They do not, all go to Belgrade, but laud ot the varlous atatfonsontheServin baukof thy river, such us Semendria, whero they can get nore speedily to the seat of war ou {ho Tink aud on the Morava. Amuuilhnsu who have arrived at Belgrado s the well-knowu Punslave publicist, don, Fade- ell, According to informatfon comlng from lavonle sources, hls erraud Js to unite ull the vulunteers who have bitherto joined the Servian army, und the number of whoni is eetlmated st 10,000 men, luto vne corps, the organiza. tion of whieh wonld be fuuprcat measuro intrusted to thy Russian oftleers who Luve lately come to Bervie. The organization of these yolunteers under tralned otficers would ¢ no doubt u great advantage from andlitary pulnt of view, while, from u political point of View, the bearfizs o1 such an organlzation uo- dee Fadeyefl wnd” the Russtan ofiicers who have come out can searcely be overrated. Fur more even than Tehernuyell, Fadoyoll is the zealous nzman« of Panstavism, which considers Serviun, Bulgurlan, Busufun, Moutenegrin, and even Rusyian interests us quite subservient to the great Panslavonic ides, wiming st the union Of all the fractluns of tho great Slavonle race all pyer the Kast and Northepst of Bu- Tupe, Tho enthusinsts or fanatics of this Bchool consider the power of Russia as Uierely o meaus to an end, which is a federation ot ull Blayonle races on the most Liberal and Duluucrulh!\nlmoll. Bocialist, basts, This {dea, which not un?' 0go was but a dream in the fmagination of sume enthusiasts, has made great progress in Russia, not only in the lower tlusses, but umong tho cducated, and above all In tlie army, where the new organization accord- dings to thé Prusslun system, fnstead. of the old aystemn of professional soldicrs, hins o) ¥ide feld for s ?mpn-gaudl in this direction, ho organtzation of & corps in Servia by men imbued with these Pauvslavouls {deds, as Well as tho {nfiitration ,of similar ones lu tho Servian arwy ileelf, commanded :'{ ‘Pehernuyesf, anothier of the upostles of the ey h {cet of children 8 years of age, and ned o 'a, may {u thne quite alter the character of the Bervian moyeient, and convert it into a crugade for Punslavism, There sre, indoed, un- nlhllknbludpmofs that the Omlading has exer- tlsed coustderable fufluence ou the turn of wf- fuira in Servia; but the specific Be idea of irrandizement bas always had, and stil has, tho upper hond in this country. Small ua the country s, aud short as fts natlonal existence becn, the Bervlan people are too much st~ tackiod to thelr specific Servian vatlouslity to merge It willlngly in s future Pauslavonlc greainess, TIIE WAGNER BANQUET TAR COMPOSER CROWNRD WITH A SILVER WREATH—QENERAL CONGRATULATIONS—RE~ MARKA OF WACNER AND TOE VENERAULR HERR L13ZT. Disyatek to New York Times. Baramuri, Aug, 18.—~The Waguer banquet to-day was n splendid affatr, both In point of numbers and {n the character of the guests, No fewer than 500 persons were prescnt. Herr Wagner mado a long speech, explana- tory of his words uttered during the festival previous to thls evening, The romarks then indulged in meant only that, France and Italy having operan of thelr own, Germany wished that she too could now have anew lyrlc and dramatic art, He then thanked tho artlsts, to whom all were indebted. He also thanked the people of Bayreuth, who had helped him s much, and shown g0’ much interest In his work, Ho next oxpressed in warm terins his gratitude to the Manuging Commitlee, and said” that to them his success was largely due. . An hu finlshed, the guesta and the puble out~ side of the hail applauded to the echo, and erled, “1joch! Hochl Huchi! Wagner, in the usus) demonstrative way, Wagner was then eacortel ubout the hall, the (iuesu rising and saluting Dim us he pussed, Mme, Lucea and hig wile were with Lim. * At the 2od of his walk, his Milan publisher placeil a silver crown, made in fmitation of laurcl-lcaves, un his head. The cumpuser Was lltep\f touched, and mado a sec- ond speceh, expreasive of the great jmpression which thio festival had produced upon him. Dep- uty Duncker, of Berlin, made a most happy ad- dress. Warin congratulations were also es- tended to Wagner by Von Heust and M. Apponyl. ~‘Then * Wagner }.mld a glowing tribute to Herr Llszt, Ma old frlend and teacher, aaylng that, but for that great man, ug note would ever have been heard from hint. The venerable Lisat rose, and aald with mueh emotlon, “Other countries greet Dante and Shakspeare; " aud then, turming to Wag- nery “Boam 1 your most obedient servaut,’ ITo was visibly affected, After this totichlug seene, Wagner, ainld great merriiment and In- forial intercourse, commenced an endless hand-shaking with all those present. There was no eud of kissing, and the sceno was ex- ceedingly unique, and aptly illuatruted the artistic fraternity and goog-humor of the us- sewblage. Tho tdemonstration wua more ex- presslve of real interest inand gratifieation at the suceess of the perforruance than anything yet wituessed. The whols affulr was & fitting clos to & grand festival ABYSSINIA. MABSACRE, Loxpox, Aug, 20.—A dispatch from Alexan- driu, Egypt, says reporfs Lave beon recelved from Abyssiuta that Waldo Mikael, the insur- gent chief, has defented the Abyesinfans ot Zuokropn, ond 1,600 women and eliliren bave Dbeen massacred. CRIME. ITOMICIDE,. Bpectal Dispatch to The Tribune. 87. Louss, Aug, 20.—A man named James 11, Light shot and killed F. A, Rabine at Calhouy, Mo,, lust night. Rabine owns a pottery, aml Light & Duwson are the propriotors of another cstablishment of the sune kind. Rablne and Light had some trouble, growing out of being in the sume business, lust evening, They met at the depot at the time the train from Scdalia was due, and were talkiug to cach other, ‘aud it {s safd that Light accused Rabine of stealing a batch of ware from Light & Dawson. Hot words puseed, when Rubine struck Light on the nose, 'mucklu;: Iifm down, and then atruck him witha club after he was down. Rabine than ran, and Light shiot twice, Loth shots taking cffect in Ravlue's back, Ruabine went™ to his Touse, which i not. over 200 wrds’ from the dépot, and dfed fn ess thau 20 minutes, As he got to hls_house he told nls wife, “John Light has killed me." Coraner Davideon, of Clinton, held an Inquest to-day, snd the verdict was that Rablue camo to bis death from the effect of two pistol-shots fircd by some person unknown to the jury, Light does not deuy that he did the shootlug. Light waived examination to-dny before Esquiro Mullen and gave bood for “his appearance ot Cunton “fn the sum of 52,000, Light i3 fn_ his bed. Ile was badly used up. The bridge of his nose wus broken by the bluws received from Rabine, Light fs represented as befng & good man and peaceaby disposed, and tho comnunity gener- ally Jusiify the kilting of Rablne uuder " the cir- cuinntunces. Rabine 18 sald to have been o bad man, e was w German, about 40 years old, #ud Ieaves a wife and three chitdren, 1le was buried Lhis ovenfugr, The case will zo before the Grand Jury at once, as the Henry Couuty Cle cuit Court'will be In sesslon to-murraw. SUSPRCTED OF MURDIR. Spectat Dispaich bo The Tribune, PmLApeLria, Pa, Aug. 20.—The murdercrs of George Chiseled, at Elwood, N, J., were ar- rested lust evening at Muncy, Pa. On Friday ‘Thomas Lyons, who Lus a sononthe police force, recelved o letter addressed to Mrs. Full- man, & decent, honest woman, the mother of one of the murderers, who lyes with him. The lctter was postnarked Camden. ITle opened it, und found a letter pustmarked Muncy, and written by a brotber of Mrs, Fullman, named Crelghton, Informing her that her son, with two other men, lad arrlved nt Wis Louse, that her son wanted @ change of clothes, and that the whole psty Lud’left o ship at the city, und were on thelr way to Lake Erfe to nh{p ngaln, Lyons commuticated with Licut, Ever- ley, and yesterday be and bis son, with Licut. Everley, started for Muncy, They were ot ut Creighiton's, but Le, suspecting nothing, sald that they were at his sou's {n the nejghborhovd. ‘The otlicers went there and found the men they wanted—Joln 101, John Fulliman, and lewue Duyton, They surrendered , ut once and ur¢ now ot the Central Rtation. They say that thcg thought the nelizhbors were or huuting thew for stealfug cranberrlos, thut thoy flually ot out of tho swimp Lito Philudelphiz, and to Muncy after the usual manner of tramps, The daughterof the murdered muu, it is I.hnugflz, can recoghize them TRAIN=-WRECKERS, Rocitrsren, N, Y., Aug. 20.~Last night a dastardly uttemnpt was uade to wreck the 8t. Louls express a fow miles cast of this clty, near Lincoln Creek bridge. The embankment ut this polnt 18 75 feet high, and o rail was placed fu such o manner as to make it un ubsolute cer- tainty that the whole truln would o vver it, Fortunately, a mun walking on the track Qls- vovered the wen nt work,“and he notilled a furmer near, numed Wright, who succeeded fn stopping the train just [n thme by swinglug & lnhn‘er;xj. About 100" poasengers were on bourd the traln, LYNCHED, CINCINNATI, Aug, 20.~The Enquirer’s Hunt- Ington, W. Va,, speciu) suys that Inst Wednesday evenlug Bam Camden, a negro, outraged an 8-year-old daughter of Policemaon Hatfield, The negro was arrested, and Liuttield tried to shoot hiin o the Magistruto's oflice. ‘Tho prisouer wus removed to Barboursville Jull, ~‘Thirty musked men visited tho jail carly this mornbgs, overpowered the guard, and took the negro out. Tho lntter made n'full confession, und wus left Langing to a tree, The body hud not been cut down ut ¥ this morning, ; oo UXORICIDE. Bz, Louss, Aug, 20.—A man named Nugent, Mving on Kusson avenue, uear Benton street, in the neighborhood of the Falr Grounds, went Liome this evening {ntoxlcated, got intoa quar- rel with s wife, and shot her In the buck of the head, killing ber ulmoat instautly. Nugent was arsested. g R ok e ———— OCEAN STEAMSHIP NEWS, PuILADELPHIA, Aug. 20,—Arrived, the steam- or fudiuna, from Liverpool, New Youx, Aug. 20.~-Arrived, tho steamslip W. A. Beholten, from Rotterdam, LonpoN, Aug, 20.—~The ue:mMs Germanic aud Othello, from New Yurk.’ Bardinian, from Mufi““j”' and Oblo, from Thiladelphis, have arrived. 2 Inbalatlon of Oxygen for Diseaso, Tho Gazelle Medicale ds Paris states that B, Tamin-Despalle, n & paper read before tho Acudomy of Belences, says that u pationt of his was attacked with u sovere cercbral congestion at3in the afteruvon, He fell, sud, on recav- cring himsclf, found that the whole of the right half of the body was pnml{lml. The pulse was 83 and the face lvid. o had taken @ Liearty ineal about an biour before, M, Tawin- Despalfe, in view of all the {ngications which thu casy presented, thought bu ought not to bleed, or admlinistor an emetic. He ordered fu- Lulatfons of pure oxygen. After tho firat fow {uspirations the paticut felt botter, sud the power of motion wud senalbllity returued in the Kunlyud side, At 7 w'clock In the evenlug, aving taken o all sbout 8 quarts of puro oxygen, bo was well o TIE MOLLIE MAGUIRES. A Lawless Order in the Pennsyl- vania Coal-Regions. Some of tho Outrages Recently Perpotrated by Them. Assassination of Jurors Who Had Convicted Members of the Booiety, Five Murders In Scranton Alono Within a Fortnights Bpectal Correspondence of The Tridune. Benaxton, Pa, Aug. 17.—It would scem, from the number of outrages recently perpe- trated n tife Middle and Northern Cual-Flelds of the Schuylkill, Lebigh, Wyoming, and Lack- awanna Valleys of Penusylvania, that the fiend- ish spirlt of the Molly Maguires, who have in- fested the conl-reglons for sume years past, has not been subdued by the arrest, Incarceratlon, nud conyletion of some twenty of the moust des- perato and cruel leaders; and it looks very much os if the oath-bound brotherhvod were but wafting the lnauguration of another mincrs’ striko to commence thelr acts of VIOLENCE AND BLOODSHED. ‘Not a day pasaes Lut what some minc-hoss or collier s thereciplent of a dlabolically-Mlusteat- ed * cotfin-notice," warning him to leave the country within so many daya, under penalty of death, Besldes these, nunerous houses oceu- pled by persons swho have Incurred the cunity of the murderous organization have Leen pla- carded with horrilly-designed notices to quit. Those persons who made themselves conapieu- ous, either by furnlshing information of the do- Ings of the Mollics or testifylug agalnst. those artalgned before Court in Behuylkill, Northum- berland, and Luzerno Countles, are subjected to the venpeance of the outlaws; and already several witnesses have been BHOT AND OTUZRWISE MALTREATED, A few days siuce, John Miiler, one of the Jurors who recently convicted tho Molly-Ma- gufre lender, Alexander Campbell, of murder in the first degree, for complicity In the killlng of Mine-Boss Jobn P. Jones, was fired upon, while siiting in his house, at Mauch Clunk, by soine person concouled in the shrubbery about the place, He was wounded in the head, and will probably dfc. Another juror, named At- king, who testifled against one of the Schuylkiil- County Mollles, was clubbed to death near Wiconisct. Even woman docs not escapo the yengeful feelings of the band, who are sworn to disputeh those who in any way sttempt to oppose themn. Mise Moore, Postinistress at St. Clair,— 4 notorfous rendezvous of the Molly Magulres,— refused refuge In tho Post-Ofice for & member of the brotherkoud who was flylng from the au- thorities; and through her “actlon the Jaw- breaker was captured. One morning last week, Miss Moure wus shot while engagedin the dis- charge of hier duties in tho oflice. All that (s known about the tragedy ig, that the shot came from the direction of the Reuding Railrond. This murder, (ke hundreds of others, will be chronleled fn Schuylkill County s ANOTIIER MYSTERIOUS OUTRAGE, Lnst Saturday, at Giraridville, Mike Bronigan, a mincr, was asgassinated during a rlotous dem- onstrutfou fn front of n notorfous grou- gery kept by SReddy” Hooney. - On the following day, Suuday, a party of Brani- ran's friends made an aseault upou the den, for the purpose of discovering the urderer or murderers. The result was a bloody outbrenk, In which several persons ou both " sides were wiore or 1¢ss lujured,—oue of them, Pat Burke, fatally, As Is usualin such cases, no attempt lias been made to arrest the pnnlcimmtl in the outrage. At this time, a general suspension_of opern~ tions, to decrénse production and reduce ship- ments to the seaboard, extends throughout al- most ull the regfons; and, as o consequence of the idleuess, there {s considerable Inwlersness in places thot have hitherto been comparatively peaceful. The consumption of a villaluous com- pound called whisky I3 immenee; anditisa common thing to sce men, women, sud ehll- dren reollug about the streets in varfous stages of intoxlcution. MISERY AND DESTITCTION are everywhere nprarcut- aud, in the more {so- lated reglons, where the degradation is the pgreatest, the bleture presented 8 & frightful ong, und criminal transactions of the darkest chinracter crop-out daily. In some portlons of this reglon,—Shanty-1101, for Instance,~it has been found that whole famllics hove subsisted for days on the tlesh of dumestic unlnals that have been slaln to appease the terrible cravings of hunger, Littic children, cntirely naked, ‘wateh with engeruess, and devour with avidity, the elops that are dumped upon the lot on the outskirta of this handsome and wealthy munje- {pulity, This fearful stato of things, combined with the terrorisin exerclsed by the Molly Ma- guires, renders the situation o the Lackawanna dlstrict one difiicult to deplet with pen. Within the past fortnight, NO L,ES4 TIAN FIVE MURDERS have been committed within the Hiits of the elty proper, while tho mtmber of assassinations in the remote spots is twice that mumber, Near Carbondale, on Monday night last, u flagrant outrage, thut has occasloned great excitenent, was enacted. A party of Mollles, numbering between 50 and 00 of the most desperate spivits infesting that reglon, made an onslancht on the house of Peter MeNamarn, nn inolfeuslve and duscr\'ln&"lnhnrur employed T one of the nlnes ot the Deluwase & Hudson Coal Comy ny. MeNamurn was roused from Lis sluimbers by the marauders besieging the house with atones, byliets, and other missiles. Upon opens ing u window, he was flred upun sud killed, 11is distracted family appealed to tho ruiliug to spura their lives, but the only nswer they got was taunts, ‘The house was broken into, ONE OF MINAMAIIA'S SONS RUTCUERED, and the rest of the famlly were deiven futo the surrounding fore Thy buflding wus then rifled of everything valuable and portable, and set lire to. From hero the brigands pasaed to the adjacent minlug towns, alnp'lhu: at several volnts’along the ruad, fring Into houses, i in- dulgiug fu other acts of diubullsm, On the mountain they fired a sinall cont-breaker, W way antirely ‘destroyed, Passing on to A bald, where” they arrived about dayifght Tue doy iornlng, they completed thefr’ deviltr, awaskentng several miners und shooting th Oneof tiiein, Martin Donovan, bus since died. All along the route, tho houses that were not attacked were marked with hideous skulls nnd cross-bones, uud cofting and other ghastly devices. No cause van bo uw- slgned for theso lurrlbledu!n[:s hut It 1s gen- erally suppused that the Mollies, desiving Lo show the people how little they eared for the Vigllauce Committee, took this incaus to ex hibit thelr prowess,—if {t can b culled that, The Molly-Muguirc organization sceming)y hus A VAST INPLURNCE in this division of the coul-flelds. Many of the vrominent city officials ure members of the so- elety, nud ure alwuys on hant when o “draw " ta place for the *putting-away ™ of sume one wito has becoame obnoxious to the baud. “The organization has o very lur[gu memnbers ship here, and the headquarters of thy Chiefs ure located hero atgo, Ono of these, while fnu communleative mood, yesterday, furnished your correspundent with the followlnge fucts whont I!.‘llfllur irin and formation of the Molly-Muzulre uelety t < ’l'hu)lmdy 15 but one of the numerous secret ovganizations that cuncioto exlstenvce ln Freland hiving tho latter part of the lust century, ‘These seerct bodles wers known by different appellutions, such a8 the * Levelers,” thy White-Hoys,? the @ [earts o' Steel™ or wBtect-Boyk," the *Peepo-Day Boys!! tho Right-Boys™ and others, These, “slthouph operatiug under different wunes, had gencrally tmt one comimon purpode fu view, which wua o RESIBT TUE RAPACITY OF LANDLODS, who rented their Junds fur above their value, and, wien th tenaut had not the means to puy promptly on * rent-day,” seized Wi goads, or lung him aud his mnhy out 10 perlsh by the rfl:ufi(ldu. Muny persons are sald to have divd through exposure by thesy crueltica. Frior to the uccessfon of George L to the English throne, secret ~ sodetles — wero entirely unkuown "I Ireland, Thoe tfirst ograrian outruges ure buld to huve been cum- nieuced sbout’ November, 1760, Numerous tauses colubined to creats these organlizations,— the I:rlme cause, however, belug the despotism of the landlords uud tho hcartleasness of the “tithe-mongers,” who squeezed out thovery vitals of the people, and process, cltatlon, and leatllnlrnllon. agged from them tho litte ;’vmch e landlord eft them, ‘The people cra GHOUND-DOWN TO VERY BERVITUDR there was no law for them, The car of Juatlce ‘wus deaf to thelr appeals, Bo outrageous and continued became @ oppressions that the lwu]ilu sct about for 8 vemedy, which bad for t6 aim the murder of landlord and sgeut, aud tho demolition of thelr property, as a revenge for their eruelty, wh paralleled fn th AL the time Ireland was the a h {a sald to have been une history of ang fanid, the namne of alandlord In nyn of cruelty, there lived in the County Roscomnon an ol widow named Molly Mogulre. She had o amall holding of Tand, saod n'rlx%alml Tard to brlll;i up the family of boya which her husbund had left. her. The constuut fuflure of the crops made her some- what tardy in paying her rent; and at length the Iand-agent—un unscrupulous man—deter- miaed to BIECT UER from the little home that wus so full of macred recollections to her. Ile summoned his Serow- bar brigade,”—u gang of men kept (n those days by every land-agent, for the pur. se of eviciing tenants, throwing the uses oyer the heads of those who refuzed {o leave, nnd selzing the cattle of others for vent,—und Wwent to the “shaling® (hut or cottage) of Molly Maguire, The pray-haired mnatron wa. n her spinning: 1 when They comnmanded her ty leayes imt g0 nttuched wasahe to (he ofid hiearth, £0 lieart-hiroken at the prorpect of ton, that ahie sald she would dic firat, and refused to be deagged from the hut, The brigade then coni- manced the work of deatruction, und, layime thelr feonoclastle hunds ou the cottage, xoon Juitled i over the prostrate form of old Mrs, Muguire, who wae KILLED IN THE TUINS, ‘The cruel aet stirred the popular sentiment o u white leot, aud, at the old woman's wake, a few enraged and desperate men pledged themselves 1o he revenged for her death, Heatded Uy twa of Mally Magulre's sous, they bunded themaelves futo'u sozlety, to which they gave the nunlered woman's mune, and, in o short tine, It gprewd throughout the ndjofnfog vounties of Muyn and tinlway, Luand-agents were oceaslonally shot, harns birned, and often In the morning o seent went futo his dotnatu und wus shoeked to sce his fine herd of enttle disfigured by having thelr tails cut off durlng the night. These atrocities conttuued for some thine, but ot present are unkunown fn Ireland, The Introdnution of the Moliy-Magulre move- wment Into the coal-reglons octurred nbout the close of the War, It wes revived by some dis- satistled nnd desperate niluers, for the purpose of having REVENOE ON MINE-UOSSES and others fu anthority fu and around the col- Heries, nind received ite tiile from some of the vld wurkinen, who, in thefr younger doys, ot home, held tryst with thie Jeaders In suine ec- cluded spot. where the ¢ peelers " would not Le Hkely to lind themn, As the soclety grew in numbers and power, it was merged with the Ancient Order of Hiber- nlans, and now exerclaes the widest and most evil Influence In 4 sectlon of Pennsylyania where law and grder are not respected. The opern- tions of McParlan, and other members of the Pinkerton Detective Ageney, have resulted in comparatively nothing, as hundreds of other desperate und murderous Molly Magulves roan ubout the reglons unmolested, and walt an op- portunity to inake » grand onsluught upon the persons and property of thelr enetnles. Almost any duy may record u terrible and bloody up- rislug Of the bandits of the coal-regions, Aliven. FIRES, 1IN OI110. Crycmwvaty, 0., Aug. 20.—A Commercial speeial says the Children's Home at Ports- mouth, Ohlo, & new hullding nearly completed, was burned to<lay, Loss, 38,000, No insurance. A Commereial special aa{s o fire at Uhrichs- ville, Ohly, Inst night, burned three large bulldlm;s. 0. 13, Bartlett luses $12,000, Insur- ance §,500; W. B. Luder loses $2,500, no in- surance, DAKOTA, , Spectal Correspondence of The Tribune, YissroN, D. T, Aug. 17.—We have this evening had a very lienvy thunder, rain, and wind storm, during which the Congregational Chureh waes struck by lghtning and badly dam- aged. The bolt struck the weather-vane, and aftet badly shattering the belfry, tore a Inrge portfon of the roof up, bursting out une hole 2 or 8 feet wide, tearing-off the frescolng on the luslde, and scattering it all over the building, aud knocking over pews, &e. From the roof it paseed down the side, bursting-off the sheath- Ing, and scattering the fragments for some dls- taice around, ‘This woulid be a poor place for a man to come 1o to get facts for a moral, Sunday-school story, 28 the moral seems to be on the other foot; for, though every store in theelty s Aanked on cither side by n saloon, not one of them Las been damaged by any of the nuincrous thunder- storms of the pust three months, whilo the only places that have been damaged are two churches sud & parsonage. We linve slmust got rid of the grasshoppers, which have been our guests for the pust few weeks; and the ugfin which were lald here dur- ing Lheir stay are” begluning to batch out,~so wi shall “have no home<crop of them fiere next neason, 8s was feared, They buve destroyed a large portion of the mru-crur I this Territory, thouzh not g0 much but what there Is more than will he necessary to carry us thromzh till next scason; and, from the best authority, und personsl observation, I catt say that ot least seven-eighths of the smali- gratu erop {8 sayed. Tlie steumer Gen, Meade left here last night with o heavy frelglit for the Black Hills, and with from 50 to 76 pnssengers bound for that Jund of golil; aud “muny more are here walting for passuize on the Durfce, which will leave bere n u few days, Gold and galden reports continue to come {n from thy Hills; and rich quartz-leads are being cantinuetly reported, which are only waning for cat!u\l to open them u; . shicago capitalists now own and operaté the Dukota Southern Rallrond, running frum Sloux City, la., tu this clty; sud there {s uow u chunce for some more Chicago L'n‘pllnl nrrl encr;;i' n Dullding & road mmetiately from here to” Fort Plerre, e0 us to he ready, the moment the Sloux Reservatlon Is ceded to the Unlied States, to push the road right into the Hills, “'There’s ailflons In {L3" tor the fact that the reglon fs fmmewsely rlch {a fndisputable, as Lus Leen elearly delnonstruted by the great quantlty of ol fhut bus heen bronght out in xo short o time, und in the face of so many dificultics and hardbhips. A compuny of recrults are quartered here, awalting trensportation to the seut of war, They ore from New York, have been here about n week, and are walting for the Durfee to start. ‘They are not yet attached to any cowmund, but will'probably” join tGen. Crook. W.C.8. —————— THE WEATHER, ‘Wasuinatow, D, C., Aug. 20.—In the Upper Take region falltng burometer, fucreaslng cust- erly to southerly winds, rising temperature, and clear or pavtly cloudy Weather, LOCAL OBSEUYA NEBAL OBIEUFATIO! Cincadu, Aug, The. " Wind, T Siatfona, | Bur, Treokint o, I i Matnuetts Milwauke G, Ruchesier “Holeds TELEGRAPHIC NOTES, #Apectal Dispaich sa The Tribune. 8rriNarisLy, 1L, Aug, 20.~The State Board of Equalizatlon reassembles next Tuesday, The assessuient of three counties, inctuding Couk, are yet out, uud until they are ruported the Buard cando little, e g—— Cusupbell's Tuust to Napoleon, ‘This, told of Thomas Campbell, Is very neat, as {llustratinge the sentiment with which the authore of old duys regurded thefe publishers. At aliterary dinuer Campbell usked leave to llmpowuluns:, d gave the health of Nupo- con Bonaparte. ‘Lhie war was at its helght,und the very nientlon’ of Nupoleon's uame, except in_conjunction with some uncumplinentury " eplthet, was, lu most cases, regurded ws an out- riage, A utorm of gruans burst out, and Caup- bell with difticulty could get s few sentences heard. * Gentleinen,’ ho satd, * you must uot mistake me. I admit that the French Ewmperor {sutyrant, I admitthat be Is & monster. 1 aduwnit thut e is the sworn fue of our OWN ua- tion, and, 1l you will, of the whols bumau race, But, gentlemen, we tust be just to our great enewy, o snuat nol Joryet that he once shut o ller” The_guests, of whom two out of every three lived by thelr pens, burst futo a marryn! laughter, and Cmfiefl sat duwn o srhwopl, CASUALTIES. A Pitiful Tale of Danger and Death on Lake Michigan. The Yacht Sylvia, Coming from Mil- waunkoee to the Chicago Re- gatta, Capsizes, A Struggle for Life Lasting Ten Hours «==Two of the Crew Perish, DROWNED, Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribune, Racing, Wis, Aug, 20.—One of the most thrilling llustratlons of the perils of those who go duwa to the sea In ships," befell a party of six young men last night on the comnt be- tween here and Milwaukee, About & o'clock the new yacht Sylvia left the Jatter vity, having on board James Brooks, Junes Day, Hermann Engbreng, Theron Engbreng, Thomns Davidsou, and another man whose name your correspond- ent vould not learn, It wus the purpose of the owner, who was one of the party, to eoter his yacht In the regetta about to be inaugurated at Chicago. Up te 7 o'clock the sea was moderately culm ond the wind blew geatly, but suddenly u squall from the north- east Btruck the vessel and turued it on 118 side. All on board clung to the gunwale and drifted ou the fast-forming sea untll 8 o'clock this merilng. It was u terrivle eituation for the pour feilows, miles out frum the friendiy slore; lu a darkness that was ligltenul only by the bluk of the far-uway etars; fn a pgale that was fncreasing In fury every moment, and drenching the custaways with an almost fcy spray; with only the shie of the upturned boatand the tangled shroudsto cling 1o, and never a passing ship to hail. Mr. Brouks, the owner, was fast sinking ‘from ex- baustfon, and only retalned his bold with the aill of the herole efforts of Hermanu Engbrenyg, a brave fellow, who cheered and eucouraged his mates through the long, terrible night. About 2 o'clock the seu dismasted the yacht, and she instantly righted with all for. tunately on board,” The hupless seamen dis- covered the white sails of a pussing boat through the durkness, and shouted desperately for hu? but the vislon of succor canle und went, snd left them drifting on the treachierous waves unheeded., About 8 o'clock Mr. Brooks dled from the effects of crumps and cald, and his partner, Jiminy Day, was little better. The latter kepe constantly asking if his mate was dead, but the uthers, fearing theresult which the news would have, told him that Brookswas still ult Un- til this time tie wind that had been drifting them away from land veered still more to the east, and carried thein towards the shore. Near 6 o'dock the yucht grouuded in shoul- water, A heayy sea ngain upturncd It and washed the #ix ‘exhausted and nearly helpless men away, Paor Day uever rose to the surfuce, but sank’to the bottom with the dead body of his mate, By desperate exertlons the remain- {ugs four regained the yessel, and finaily reached laud after u struggle for life of ten long hours in the angry weters. The survivors dragged themselves to a farm-house ubout 5 miles vurth of e, where th vere kindly cared for till rested, and theu driven to town, The yacht was anew and splendid craft, but the owners, who were fn charge, were young and inexperienced, and should never have ventured on such a trip st night, The familles ot the two who were lost live in Milwaukee, and in all B;ol:zb[my this account of the ead disaster will the slrst intimation af thelr bereavement. The boat that }maud the drowniug men In the darkness made this port shurui after, and, on beiog foterviewed, the crew acknowledmed that they heard the cries of distress, but were tao superstitious and terrified 1o offer assistance. They never even notlfled the tug of the circum- stance, otherwise all might have been saved. Speciat Dispatch to The Tribun Dxrroir, Mich,, Aug. 20.—Last ulxht a young man named John Wheelock was drowried at Grosse Isle while bathing, Special Dispaich to The Tribune. B1.ooxINGTON, 1)l Ang. 20,—A map named Wallace, & photograplier newly arrived here from the Laost, and nesrly “unknown, was drowned this afternoon while bathing in Mack- inaw River, at Mackinaw, 20 miles west ot the vity. His remalns were recovercd, Iiis sup- poied Lo was attacked by crunp. A FATAL ACE. Bpecial Dispatch to The Tribune. BrooyingTox, Ill., Aug. 20.~Steel Adair, aged 10 years, was, while riding a scrub rave st the Clinton falr, Saturduy, thrown agalnsta tree and alinost instantly killed. He was the son of uwidow lving at Waynesville, — WAS IT DONALDSON ¢t Bpectul Dispatch 1o The Tribune. MILWAUKER, Aug, 20.—A decomposed body was found floating 1n the lake about a mile qut to-day with nothing on but boots and a belt, Ho could not be identltied, P o — THE MOUND BUILDERS. Bpectal Correspandence of The Tribune, Ciesren, 11k, Aug, 17.—Inu recent number of Tuz Trisusx the following notice of the Atlexissippt Valley Mound-Buflders appeareds At the IMEHI!F of the National Academy of Seiencen, in April, We. L. 11, Margan contributed & puper in which hie advineed the theory that the Mound-Bullders of Americs were Village-Indians from New Mexicu, so culled from thelr habit of fiving fu communities, The enrthworke left by the Mound-Buollders are very simllar in decign’ and rtructure 1o the embanknients which were ralved by the Village-Indiane of Yucutan unid Chiapaw us tho slte of thelr dweliinge, These It were, I warm Imaten, buflt of adohes but, north of the Uhia, probubly constructed f thaber, and thelr wally conted ‘with earth, 1 {lilustration of tuls thcory, Mr. Morgan cxbibited a plan of butidings adapted to the bauk-works creased by the Monnd- sublders, and also correspouding with the dwell- fugs of the Villnge-tndiang, The commumal mous af"life was hetter sudted o 1 wari thau to o cool cilinate; Lence Nr, Morguan concludes that the Vilage-Indiaus who sttempted to eatablish solve In the terrtory north f t ally succumbed i the steugple for ¢ thelr kindred in 3lexico nni ublo to_ sustaln themeelves for a much longer period,™ The theory of Mr. Morgnn was supported by ad- dditlonsl teetimony and urgument produced by Miss Voweil, who has made fndian structinres an ess ru’lll utudy, and by Prof, Marsh, who has, Ina Jong serlos OF comparisone, Teen fmpressed with the likencss Letween the skulls of the Mound- Huilders aud those of the Villuge-Indiaue, The Interest munifested by the student of selence to unearth bidden myeterles seems to Ve unbounded, and to the discoverers a soures of pecullar pleasure and proflt, purticulurly so fu the nineteenth ury, when the earth §s nearly if not quitn belted by buman intellf- genve, human researeh, und knowledge, Ex-Gov. John Reynokds, of Hinols, now de- ceaged, und who, during his eventful life, occu- pled » distiguisied place fu the formution of the politha) " wod suclal exiztence of 1Hinols lu ita early xtory, In his ¢ Life aud Thnes,™ b preserved an fuferesting outling histor tielul sounda in 1Hineiy, aud il ov ~—HBig Mol f the Amerlean Botta Aud who f5 there winong th of the State thut dun't ro Reynolds § In his *Pion nois," und * Life aud Thnes," h a durivg imonument to the student of histo entn while 1, vt ohifer inhabitants iov, Jolin i us un fudispensable historicot duta to the earlylite wnd settfement of the Great Nortfiwest. Reynolds, In his peculiar style, writing of theas mouudls, says ¢ Tho. nuwber of wounds in the Wedt, and the 1l of people fntiabiting the Velley of the ||)l\l fu sowe remoto perlody (s teufy aston- liese mounds were mnde by hund, and t Incaleulable number of fububl ridgo suyu: Eotten people et huve boen 5, VUG dd the chiof clity exivted not far from the mouth of the Mise soird, " 1t Is unsettied If these Lumull were cone rtructed for placed of worship, fortitications, or burlal purposcs, or for all theae ubjects, 1 havo never read suy reasonable accouut of the time, or by whon, Of for what purpaee, thess mouila wore mads tated that [n the West slune thery are sove: nd of then. vary from 10 feet big i o' American Lottoin, 6 miles eant of Kt Louts which mieusures aluoet 200 fect bigh, sud s 500 ¥urds fo circumference. Une writer states that the large fortificatlun at Mariutts, O,y wus mude by the Komuna when they bad Weatern Europe under their dominton, Thly ia rendom vhoating, {n my opinfon. Ou the Oblo River, 12 miles below Wheellng, are mapy mounds, one of which e very lar A town {3 1ald out'ticre, where tho Atlautic & Ol 1o Itatiroad, now tle Baltimors & Oblo Raflraad, strikes tie river, und Is called the_**Mound City," for the mapy wounds on its site, The Jarge mouud bere {200 feet high aud 5 rods fu circumference, 1t 18 stated thut the Great Mound near Washing- ton, in the Stute of Mlsswippi, i 146 fect hig and'60 rods n circumforence. At Circleville, 0., ure extraordinary works of tho anclents, soma of which are military, sud show uch advaucemens in the art of furtiication, Onw fort is exactly square, and the uther circulur. Tho square fortress s ¢b rods on cachalde, dud the hioular 1 500 rods around It *Theso forta ware walled with arth, around it. At Palnt Creek, 0., are aiso stupendons an- cfent fuctifieations. 'The 1and tnclo<ed is 4520 ruds fu circnmference, and embraces 136 acrea of fand. Within this fortification are aeventecn mounas, and 41 feat of the fort are encompaneed by a wall 12 freUhigh and & diteh 20 feet dee In Teungssee, and nimost ailthe Westarn Staten, many of thess Moinds and fortifications have been discovered. but [n the reglon sroand the Dig Mound, above stated, are an lmmense number, ugrl!:xpl more than in any other scction of the et ¥ have nften heen on the Big, 1t wan onco called, and discove or Monk Mound. as s Kind of bench or sccond etory to It Mr, [1Hll, the proprietor of the mound, after tha Monks left ft sunk “a well on tho slde of the mound, and faund the Jayers of earth composing the mound, and vegetable matter. In one section of the mound a great nunber of human hones were discoyerai ; It thie genctul supposition 4 that tsa mound wan the resldence of the yreat monarch of the countey. Other specalations mike It 3 place of retreat for the intihitants in thnes of the inun- dations of the hllflluql{ppl hotton., A few miles cast of Lebanon, InSt. Clalr Coun- ty, in un interesting mound, Thia in erected on the high land, wnd 18 elevated from GO to 8O feet ubove the stirface, Aithou I j have often esamn. inetit, |eould never discoser for what use it was intended, Near Caledonin, on the Ohlo River, in Palankl County, | have examined an anclent fortreas, it Ia situated on 4 slope to the Ohlo Kiver, and con- talun meveral acres within (ts walls, Gateways were apen, oue_to the rlver, and the other hack from the Ohlo, 1 thiok this fortress had no ditch around it me distance fron the Great Monnd, in the American Bottom, were three, and may be innre, watchi-towers or monnds of varth, ‘erected on the lushest gronnd in the vicinlty. O mounds & buflt on the ligh, rocky blwf, & from Cabois, ln Monree "County. The French eall It ** Pain de Sucre —Sugur Lonl, Another iy on the high blait, In Madison County, 3 or 4 miles northeast of the Great Mound, and the third 1s also on the bluffabove St Charles, In Missourl. the enern) opinon that tliesc olovatione wero watch-towers, and on them at night Leacon lights wero enlaed at the appronch of danger, Tu Madisun County therels & smaller monnd, near the one above mentloned, d which induced !lin'll"ll'ncllllb call them (L fammeiles"—the euts, On the rite of St. Louis o many monnds _existed that the city has ucquired the cognomen of **The Mound City." Abuve Uifs west of the rf ity, and In almost every dircetion iy well nv casty these mounda ary dincovered In many plices, 1 prosume eternal darknes will reat an tils subject, and hido from the wearch of Inqulry a1l knowledge of the people Wl innte thest eurihen pyramide, A moal curione mound “of rock, made not Ly Ik, bt by mature, siands proudly majestic in the Missianippl Hiver, and fecalled lu honor 1o it the “tGramd Tower. It In situated on the western wide of the Missjasippl, not far from the mouth of the Big Muddy River, In I GRASSHOPPERS. MINNESOTA. 8t. Paui Pioneer-Press, Aug, 18, About ten days since, for the purpase of o~ talning rellable jnformatlon as to the ravages of the grussboppers fn Minnesots, the exteut of damuge done, and the cundition of the crops and residents of the infested districte, Gov. Plllsbury comtnissioned the Hou, 1. Bassett, of this city, to traverse the devastated territory, to ascertaln and report fact; In pursuance of nstructions, Mr. Bagsctt spent & week upon this mission, and, returning, made Ly report to the Governor yesterday, Mr, Basgett went out un the Stoux Clti’ Road, aud first saw grasshoppers fu considerable num- bers at St, Peter, but no vtrwn. dunage secmed to have Leen done, untll Watonwan County was reached. Leaving the raifroad ot 8t. James, Mr. Bassett procured u team and thoroughly traversed the Coanties of Watouwan, Cottun- woud, Brown, Renville, Redwood, Yellow Medi- viue, Chippewa, Stevens, Kundiyohi, Wilkin, Otter Tail, and Switt, He tinda that {n ull of the above counties,and, #0 fur as e could leart, fn_ the cauaties south and west of them tu the Iowa and Dakota lines, that at jeast one half the crops are destroyed, Owing to the drought which prevailed durlnfi the carly part of the seasou the yield woul have been comparatively leht, and, with the grasaliopper pluzue udded, e 13 of opinfon thy elght to ten bustiels of wheat per acre is the uf most that will be realized, upun an sverage, thronguout the entire region above referred {o, uud thiis estimate [s uudoubtedly o liberal one, In some portions of the district crops of all kinds have been totully destroved, while in other por- tiung they huve been but partlally destroyed, and there are wany localities where na crop has Deen harvested for four successive years, owing to the ravages of the pestiferous *hop- pers. In these lutter localities the people are in A destitute condition, and tnore or less suf- fering must ensue before another teason, unless assistance {8 weanwhile rendered them, They are dleposed to feel that the people snd papers of Minneapolis and St, Paul do not fully realize the situution, or else they are lacking in syni- pathy for the unfortunate victims of the "op- pera’ rupacity. Most of thie farmers are comfortably provided with stock of vazious kinds, but_ many of them were obliged last spring to elther “sell thelr stuck or wortrage it to “procure sced, and the means of matntaintng thelr families until har- vest-time, only to find themselves with no crop to hurvest. The wheat harvest is suhalnuunl}! tinished (though the graln ia not yet stacked) and what there is of it Is in goud condition. Mr. Bassett's observatlons extended through & &trip of territary about 200 miles In lengthand 100 miles In breadth In this State, and the ex- tent of damage he{nml the Iowa and Dakota 1lnes must also be cohelderable. '1‘l|mu§h ull this territory the 'hoppers have deposfted thelr eggs, giving the farmers cvery reason to fear a renewal of the plague snother season, unless they should hatey this fall, und Ireeze to aeath, which Iy bardly hoped for, On the line of the Sioux City Rond Watonwan Coanty bus suffered most severely, and on the line of the Sty Punl & Paclile Kundlyohi County 18 the preatest sufferer, Throughout the infested dlstrict much new ground has heen broken this season, for seeding next yeary and from expressions of the lurge number of farmers with whom he conversed, My, Bassett 13 convineed that if they are en- vouraged to believe that eficetual means will be o d to destroy the pests another season, they will next scason take hold with repewed courage und vigor, and secd 2 broader Cxpanse of territory, but they are getting thoroughly ex- hausted arud disteuctened In malntatuing o sj- srle-hand fzht ugzalost the never-cading millions of destroyiug fusects. Al with whom™ Mr. Bas- reit conversed spolio of the slelening sight of Sutday, Gth just.,, when the heavens wers Mled, alt day oo, with an endiess clond of rasshopperd, wiieh cunie from 1o one knew Wihere, aid, flyiug east and south, spread over the entire sectlon” of the State lying between the Northern Pacifle wud the Iowa line, The wreat bulk of them passed over the afllicted communities, but large mumbers of themn alfehted in localities, devouring cverything by fore them—wheat, vats, corn, and barfey. But for the grasshopper-plugue, this fertlle reston of the Siste would bo In u highly pros. perous vondition, und even under all these ad- verse circuinstances, uny theilty vilkages and communities ars bullding up, Settlers throughout the entire region referred to ure more than sutised with the country, and everything save the secursed 'hoppers, which threaten” to Mierally devonr thew,” An abundunve of fresh, pure water 18 found fu the anltitwde of beautiful lakes which dot this great atreteh of fortile prairie, and the furmers only ask 10 be Jet alone b the' possession of it. ‘Tt Juel question seems to lave been happily solved by the acttlers upon the prafries of Wa- tunwan and wljolning counties, who burn huy, exvlusively, suimtacr and winter, Uum)f desti- tule of " other Iuel of wny Limd, they have made the valuable discovery that fuy can be utllized und made* to un- swer every purpose. IL {8 woven (by the chiliren usuully)into us large braids us can by convenfently handied, for the purpose of com- prossing §t, snd 15 thus bursed, o the satisfue. ton of hundredsof famyities, One ludy who hud u Jarge fuguily to cure for, told Mr, Bassetl that Jast wintel thiey cooked gud llved by heat from a hiay flve, and were made so comfortable by it that” notwithstanding the unusual severity of the weuther water was frozen In their house but twiee, Many of the settlers have stoves espect ully adapted'to burning hay-fuel, und the Men- nonfte #ettlers Luve put ln furosces for this speelud purpuse. NEBRASKA AND IOWA, . Ounadu Bee, Auy. 1T, ‘Tho voraclous grasshoppurs havecome. They arrived 1 Omakha fust evenfug, not fu full foree, but only & comparatively few stragglers of tho grand army that {8 to-day passing northward, Blgh up fu the ale, They huve beeu flylng to the North sll duy, and thelr fifght has heen watched with considerable futerest, It is quito Hkely that they will not troublo this vicinlty, At leust it 13 hoped 8o, ‘Those that huve dropped down upon the atreets aro very saucy and fndependent, Wy muku this statcinent from the fact thut at least seven ur elght Lave fnvaded vur ssactuin at ditferent tliies, sud lnterviewed not ouly our puste-cup, but nlso our exchunges, with o’ view no doubt to peruse tha crop reports, und to dis- cover 8 goud foraging I:muln. They huve no doubt ropurted ere this the result of thelr visit to the Lee vllice to the ¥ buss " grasshovpers. Tho following fs from the Couucll” Bufla Nonparell of thiy morning: 4 Lust evening sbout 9 o'dock the grasshop- pers lit down ou the strects of this city In lurge uumbers. The wind was blowlng strougly from ! 2nd une uf them bad & ditch | tha northwest at the time, How far they ex- tend cant we aruat this hour unable to ascera tain, 'That they are here, at lesst, there is no qtiestlon, jump nT over the sfdewalks and Into open dours and windows with perfect {mpunity and lawlessness. It {s not probable, hoiwever, that they willdo any wmaterlal damage. The small-oratn crop Is well sccnred, and it fs known ihat thoy have tnade only sliort halt {n tho general inovement they are making toward the southwest, ** Avcounts from Sfoux City state that they were flying I Immenss swarms over that point In & suutherly dlrection, on the afternoon of Tuudny’i_.lm that the wini was favaring thete flight. “The tall end of the cavalcade )it down u;lum thiem there that night. * Thoss that reach- ed here Inst evening were probably the advance #uard of those mentioned above, and will cone tinue on thelr Journey to«lay." LETTERS FROM 'THE PEOPLE, A CHICAGO GORILLA, Tn the Kditor of The Tridune, Cnicado, Aug, 10.—~\Whilo passing down May street Mondny evening my musings were siid- denly stopped by the outlandlsh volee of a fe- male, whom I thought was (utoxivated from the rude way she was speaking and the crowd that surrounded Ler, aud on appronching her I soon suw that she was no Carlstan by Lirth, appear- ance, or education, snd on Inquiry & boy answered, “That womun just weut fnto that house, and almost killed 3 man and boy, throw- Ing a stone or brick at them.” I passed on towards lome, shocked at the thuught, os (b brought to my mind an icldent that happened when I was young, caused by o plece of broken rick thrown through o window, uearly killing A mother and her hube, £ was bnpatient for tho appearance of the morning papers, to iemrn tho reeult of the afMulr, Not secinge an account of it, utd being Vaul Pry esough to investigate tho mutrer, [ learned that_the gentieinan'was - verely' imjured by the Virago, who entered his house expecting o eee or meet & person thers she had some fli-fecling towards, Not Gnding i there she commenced loud and threatening language, The pentleman, not wishing to huse his Tanily or Wikl dispraced by susticonduct, ondered her out and away from his premiscs, 8he not going, lie took hold of her to assist her away, When about half way out of his ° yard she beewne balky,” and then turned auddenly uud threw' a broken brick she had” concealed in her band, and struclc the gentiemanwitlh it {n the faco and Iis little boy on the leg; but, fortunately for Lim und his” family, bigher power saved him from heing kilied by the demon of destraction, and the cnmmunltry Trom witoessing o dreadfu} catastrophie. Amf now us a cltizenof Chicago, und huving i family, I sppeal to the authorities in bebait of the pruple to have the volice keep vigilant eyes upon that ferocluus specimen of humnnity, us sl §s more to be dreaded than a wild gorfilu from aw African forest, “THE BRIDGEPORT NUISANCEY 70 the Edltor of The Tridvune, Cnicaco, Aug. 20.—~Your editorfal, in thfs mornlug's TRinuxe, goes right,to the very root of this stench busluess. It hits the nail square ou the head, and relleves Dr. McVickar of il further mnecessity of appointing sdditfonal smelling committees, to go nusing around Dridgeport and the packing-houses for the causa of thls Intolersble “ Bridgeport' nuisauce. He lias only togo, with bis present comuuittee, to the fortilizing establishments and glue-fac- torics at the Btock-Yards, to discover, In short order, the sceret of this whole stink buslness. At the feriflizing establishments he will find fmmense revolving cylinders, set upon an fncliue, oud opening, dlrect, into tall chimueys, into which are thrown hogs, Yiorses, cattle, and dogs, In oll stazes of decay and putrefaction, together with tne cutralls ana refuse from the slaughtering and packing- houses, Intothese cylinders and through this 10888 of decaying animal matter he will find {n- Jected strong blusts of benzine or steam, forelug directly out“of these cylinders aud out of the top of “these tall chiluneys, {n the shape of guses und fing vapory, deconiposed matter, 60 perceut of the substauce thrown futo them, which is thence walted (the wind being fn o soutberly or westerly direction) over this great city ke the smoke from some vast m: - shop, e will further find that this 60 per cent of matter, when cmitted from theso chimneys, lieing at s burning heat, 18 extremely light, set- tling as It cools, which accounts for {is befng earried so fur by the wiud, He will find that what appears to” be smoke, pussing over this city from the direction of the Stocv-Yurds, (s not gmoke at atl, but simply decomposed anl- mal matter. This is all thiere {8 of 1t, sud it re- malng for the health offteers of this city to say liow much longer the bealth and comfort of our citizens shall be sacrificed to the greed of a few wuen who are engaged In running these fertiiics fug estubllshments, C. 1. JacKsON, TRINCIPALS AND 1IEAD ASSISTANTS. To the Kdifor of The Tribune. Cnicaco, Aug, 19.—~In un edltorfal fn Ton Tawuxs of a few duys ago the monagement of our public schools ls criticlsed, eapecially Wwith reference to the rank of Principals and Hvud Asalstants. From the standpoint of the wnter, {f correct, the criticisime were just and noncton savere, Lut u slnple statement of fucts may lead thg writer to u different view of the matter, Teud Assfstouts have prcclnelx the same worl as other = teachers, each mvln;i entirg charge of o division, aud, fa eddl tlon~ thereto, the care of ~ the whale school when from any cause the l’rlncl‘ml Is nbaent. The ame * Principal ® 9 appHeabla only to such ns have charge of large builds fnga owned by the uuly. In rented buildings the perdan baving oversighit I8 oftlcially destyg- nate ns * teacher in eliarge, though the tornt ** Principal " has been used for such inadver- tently, “The recommendation of the President of the Board and of thu Superintendent to this effect wus udopted by the Board last foll. Tho saine persons recominended that the * teacher It ctwrge ' bo pakl §50 or $100 ¢xten, aecords ing to the elze of the &chool, Thesa teachers in charge have each the entiro care of o divislon, the samo es other teachors, und, in_additlon thereto, the geueral oversight of the school and the keeping of the recordas, This year the extra_pay for such extra scrvice will Gy $87.50 to $35 per year, according to the slze of the wehwool. ‘Fhik is u virtunl reinstatement of a rula of the Board which prevafled for years, and sa Jong us the old style of school-buildings ex- Istedty by virtuo of which & tencher in charge of more than one diviston recefved $25 extra pay for each divhion additional to her own, which extra puy In some cses pmounted to $100 per yeur. Very respecttully, dJ. L. Bicsann, IN MEMORIASL. To the Edltor of The Tribune. Cnicago, Aug, 20.~Your paper contatned, a few duys since, tho notice of tho deatly at tho age of 50 years, of Oscur Brewster, of Oak Park, but formerly of thiscity, o was the son o Father Brewster, so called, now liviog in Whea- toy, and well remembered by many of our citl rens us {dentifled yeurs ngo with our Behool Board, the warm friend of our publie schools, und loved and adured by the hosts of chlldren who knew him. Notwithstanding tue advanced ufge of tho chler Brewster, nearly or quite years, his pleasaut fuce 134 often” seen on our streets, ‘Tho Hrewaters canu from the State of Now York about the year 1830, und wers mmong the pluneer settlers of Kuns County, ‘Il deceused was quite well known fn thls city, whiere he had lcufi lved, und doubtless there wers muny who, ke the writer, lnd not seen hm for years, could not follow the re- nuing to the fumb, and wero constrained to shed @ teur of surrow asthey reud In Tus Thinun thu notice of his death, He was hlgnlg csteem- ed by those who Knew him well, uot for his shrewdness und sharpness in o trade, not for his business qualitications or his power to acs cumutate wealth, but for his honesty, his love for the truth, aud notably for the kinduess and geueyoaity of lila heart, 8. RATILE W18 BONES, 70 A Editor of L'he Tritune. Cui0A60, Aug. 19.—For somo thue past thero Nt beens o stench on Qarduner strect near Hal- sted, which comes from a wugon kept by & bone pud l'or. Whichover waythowind goes the steuch Is surw to go with it} it Is us bad if not worss thun the ** Bridgeport nulsance,” It has been reportud severul thnes, buv uothing has been dane, 'Fho wagon from which the stench coiges 18 pus {n front of Nu, 83 Garduerstrect at about Go'elovk overy evening oud goes awavat? in the morning, * If the Board of Health would sce that this nuleance is removed it would do lts duty aud ulso do u favor for the nelghbgrhood A Rustoanz, BUSINESS NOTICES, TLadles, If you feel languld or exhausf with no incllnation to exercise, use that valu tonle, Uolun's Arowstic Bitter Wine of Eron, Do vot, b4 Clack treet. i Iurnett's Flavoriog Extracts are used and 1ndorsed by the best butels, confoctionets, grotasty W50 U6 029t faRsiIing 10 L1 GOURLEF,