Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 20, 1878, Page 5

ROUND THE WORLD. At the Universal Exposition in the French Metropolis. The United States Txhiblt---Ag- riculiural and General Dachinery. Bewing-Machines-—The Pretty Machin- ists—TRailway Rolling-Stock— Eduneational Exhibit, Too Heeh Red-Tape and Decorcm at W, Krantas' Show--Drinks at the American Bar. Bpeetal Cavrespondencs of Tha Tridune. Panis, June 20.—In addition to the resping and mowing machines mentioned already, thers sre soveral In the Amerlcan scction which it would be hardly fair to pass over unnoticed, though, like the great mass of srticles exhibit- ed, thoy offer few, It any, polots sufliciently sovel {o nced very lengthy remark, Among tlicssare the Johnston and tChamplon” Reapers,—in the general principles of construction very simi- Jar to tho McCormicky—on which, indced, almost a1 bave been modeled since 1851, 1n vofnt of solidity, it Is difilcult to chousc between the splendid exhibits of the American makers, The chiel differenco scems, fa mauy cases, to Jie n the price—and in the color of the puint sscd for orummentstion. Looking st these shamplon,”” Johnston, or Buckeye mowers and reapers, §t secmn & very long while indetd since tho pinst nupA ATTEMPT ° to reap by machinery was made with the Scotch fuvention of Mr. Bell, in 1627 The cutting por- tion ol Bul's muching wes formed of a a series of shears or sclsiors, the shanks of swhich were conuected to bars, 8o that the whole gerles could be worked at ouce. A great step was made in 1851, The Amerlcan Iinprovers on Bell's primitive indea tormed the cutters of tri- angular pleces of steel, riveted to & bar, ono sigle pointing forward, and the edges mndo harp. These cutters were moved by a recipro- cal action through siats in a row of projeeting points, technically known as “fngers.” On entering the standing corn they hold the stems in position to be cut, and act as & protection to the cutting cdeca of the kuives. Thers was another great difference: Iustead of propelliog the machine before them, as in Hell's inventlon, the horscs walked by the side ol the reaper. In addition to certain other advantages, the “Huckeye appears to have that of peculiar lightness. Whether this virtue {s not cotnter- balanced by necessary lessening of durability, 1 will leave American farmers to say. Thisisa matter that can be tested only by thine aod ex- perience. The varlous azricultural machines on viow at the Exhibition will be put to the proof vractl- cally beforelong. A cowmpetition is flzed to como off somewhera fn the nelghborh! of Parls. It Is probable that America will carry off the honors, though England, Fronce, and Belglum Jook dangerous rivals, In the United States Agricultural Annex you aleo fiod several fins displays of A PATEST WEIGIING MACIINES. That of Fairbauks & Co., of New York, Is, on the whoale, the most complcte aud taking. Tho Fairbnuks machlnes are being largely used in the Xast,—in Japan, Slam, cte.; and the Bey ot Tunis has fntroduced them fnto Africa. In- deed, bis Boyshin has been so delighted with the Ingenlous Amerlean fnvention that he bas Iately scnt Mr. Falrbanks a decoration of tho sceund claga of the Iftl Kar Order,—whatever order that may be,~accompanied by a curious Ictter of approval, beginnlng **No, 1,201, Pralse Le to God alowe!™ aud purporting to come from * tho servant of God (may llis name be rlorified), who relles on Liim, and leavea to Him all his carthly aflairs.” A vood deal of attentlon is being given to the ceramic brick-kiln and patent triple-pressure Drick-machino cxhibited by W. L. Gregg, of Philadelphla, Afte & passing glance at these, and at HIJ ‘Wickut whisels shown by the New Huyen Whcel Company, Messrs, Hooper & Dar- lngton, of Westchester, and Hotelikiss, Field & Co., of New York, visitors can conscientlous- 'Id’ afford to leave the Agricultural Annex of the " pfted States, and entor the Awmerlean portion of the . N YOREION MACHINERY GALLERY. It they happen to bave been at the Philsdel- phia Exhibition, however, they will find com- paratively little to Interest them, It is quite piain that the Parls World's Fuir bas followed {uoqulckly on the Centennial, so far as the United Btates is concerned. Few Europeaus, Thuwever, relatively speaking, wituessed that erind demonstration; and to them tho small but wonderiul display has all the charm of wovelty. Urowda stand, by the half-hour at a time, chiug tho fngenfous loons of B, B, ‘Tilt & Bon weave protty sitk handkerchiefs, rib- bons, and daluty book-imarkers; or staring at Alloo's automatic cash-recorder. Another very Eunulnrtmnz is tho inechanleal type-writer: ut 1 suspect tho fuce of the youug lady o charge of 1t bas much to do with that. Just hereaboutaunmechunleal ereatures of an artistic turp will find themselves ou & most refreshing ?I:m. Besides tho prelty type-wriler, there are L] PHETTY SEWING-MACIINISTS st Wheeler & Wilson's, The exUibit of Wheeler & Wilson Is superlor to its nelghbors i variety less than fu the perfection of vach separate There i a dark-eyed young ludy in charza of oue of the machities who would carry oft tho prize at a beauty-show, or I know noth- ing of besuty, Bhbe lovl fter tho buby-liuen wurk, Nothing could ore charmivg |u ite wuy thap this littie show of fufant wardrube, embroldered skirts and bibs, loug_clothcs wne short clothes, socks and jackets. Tho stiichlog is oltwost as ine as though it wero done by hand, sud the embroldery-designs would do 0o dis- credit to s Frouch art Wiceler & Wilson lso exbibit specimens of ladies' and children’s leather shoes, elaborately ornamented, Ali the work s done by the No. U machiue, which tost ladles appear to regurd as ope of the best {nvented. On this subject I am obll to coufess my profound iguurance. 1 certalnly should not Desitato in giving tho prizes, it [ wero s juror; but® thank Heaven § uta not & Juror, ‘That dark Leauty would win hier case without trlal, 1 cannot thiuk bow thoy allowed her to get Iuto the exbibition. A pretty fuce |s ssrareasa roc's ece in the Ctamp de Mara, M, Krautz has gone in for belng solenn s well as serlvus, and las baulsted everytbing In thoshape of the mgreeabls with tho pitiless rruclty of an Orivntal despot. There uever was u greater autocrat. No doubt the Exhibltion of 1578 Is wdinlrable; oo doubt it 1s grund and ad- mirable as uu exenplification of tho arts aud fu- dustrles of tho world; but it ls TUK GUASTLIEST PLACE Imagloeble to peopls who want to be amused. Pleasure has been sacriticed to business, 1f woy bave no wish to leary, aud to learn painlully, be lad bester keep uway. Nob every oue cares to Lo serious av Mr. Kruntx; and his exhibition ts bu'}px un‘nuulx:uull"l miu ulow, i ‘nere is altogether too much red-tape and decorum ubout it. Red-taps stops the ?uy at every turs, Decorum checks the luughter and sete upou the visitor's stotsch wherever be gues, lucompreheusible barriers mect you every moment. ‘Too much circumlocution aad centralization, Nuwblere is this more evideut thao at the ‘Frocadero concerts. All the oflicial wusical arranzements wre truly ridiculous. To Sccure @ acat belorchand, you bave to make that \vflrmlurhnuxu to the Trocadero, where the ouly buoking-oltice s mtuated. There, ten to one, you tind yourself at the end of an fnwense “queue,” waltiug patiently snd jmpatiestly— sccordiug to your tenper and the state o your dizestion—for the spirit to move tho tickets ollice Peuule to attend to you. ‘The spint moves very slowly in the bosoms of these udmivlstra- tlon fudividuals, 1t {s alwaye safest to provide Yoursell with @ cigar and 4 newspaper, fur you Eenurully bave an bour or av bour and a balf of :x’;‘lgg to cudury betoro tue oflice-window is OR BLAMMED IN YOUR FACE. The officiala are slcepy, rough, and insolent, French polituess indecd] Thero's s fue exbibi- tion of it at the Trocadero. M. Liave given It a place in the retrospective muse- uin, Nor s tbis sll. Bupposiog you bave wun- 3ged, by book or by crook, Lo obtalu u ticket, Elull ave still otber aunoysuces befure you. Lo futerlor of thy Salle des Feres is dum und Taughly, The concert never begius Gl balf un Lour wier tbe advertised Lune, sud, a8 | bave t‘ld‘!uu ulready, the wcoustic qualitics of the uilding effectuully spoll the cotertauuent Wheu (tdoes begin, Our admilstrative rulers -lx:d Wisters Lave deliberately forgotten that e public—especially the forelgn part of ft— Soies L tho exuinluon tu be wuused uy well as THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1878&-TWELVE PAGES. 5 runtz must instructed. s it falr to expect people with lim- fted time at thelr disposal to_wasto hours and ruin thelr tempers mereiy to obiige 8 morbld hasslon for unnecessary formalities and sense- uaa routinet Dut we are wandering from the machinery, ? ask pardon for the digresslon. My forbesranc! in 80 norely tricd daily by Krautz, Berger & Co. thot It fa hard to_svotd holding them up to cx- ecration now and then. I sm weiting this Just opposite Mr. Berger'a oflice, toa; and tho sizht or |‘t act on journalists muchass redflagona mad bull. It Is tz.:rdly necessaty to mentfon much more of the Amerlcan machinery efther. You have seen it nearly all at Philadelphla. T wiil pass over thn wood-cutting, boot-making, carkscrew- making, and other machines, and say only & word of the varfous exhibits of way snd tramway rolling-stock ana plans. TUE PULLMAN PALACE-CAR exliibited by Chicago (unless the catalogus lics) 1s the moat prominent featura o this depart- ment; but you don't nced me 1o tell you what & palace-car ‘fs, I suppose. We Europeans are gradually learning to aporeciate the comforts of Amegican travelingorrangements, Palace-cars gro slowly being introduced into England sud France. 'On tho Midiand and Dover lines they aro tolerably familiar; but In France, except on the Northern Railway, they are still rare, Fes- tina lente, Ten yenrs heuco we may be as com- fortablo as you. I have now nearly come to the end of the American section. Fdison's phonographs and telephones have been ueacribod so often that they can safely afford Lo be s little neglected. ‘Thera Is ono mora thing ta be scen, however: TIE AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL NXMIBIT} not tua least fotorcating featuro 4n the section by any meavs, though most visit8ra give 1t a wide berth. Hlere yon find & tolerably-completa display of bouks, aclentilic apparatus, models, drawings, etc., relating to education ju the Unlted Btates: models of national schools; ex- amination vapers sct to pupils in the primary and bigh schools; specimens of the work done by the puplis at the_art-schools of Massachu- setta, [iltiots, New York, and other Btates; be- sides & collestion of educational applistces nsed in the dcaf-mnte aod biind schiools of Amierica. Inune case you ses sammples of toys, carved heads, baskets, and a nnmber of pretty tri- fles mude iz he publicschools kinder- gacerten. A litle further you have 2 curfous exhibit of other knlvk-knacks made by the {nmates of the filinots Blate Asylum for Litfots (Lincoln, I1l.). Poor souls! I caunot understand how they succeed so well. The mats, book-markers, and watch-pockets they aend us are 8o nicely finished that 1% ts bard to believo they are not the work of more intelii- ent belngs. 'I'ig free-hand drawings, decorative destgn: and water-color stuities of atill iife, contributed by tho Massachusetts Normal Art School and the Cooper Unfon, New York, are extremaly Interesting, and in inany cases very remarkable. It would not be easy to find & fauit, espoclally in tho charming waier-color ches of Qowera, Irults, and shells exhitited by the Massachu- actts Normal School. THR DLIND EXHIBIT 13, on the other hand, not by any means so com- lete us it should be. Very tew of the clever instruments Invented to help these unfortuuates are showan, and you wet but an (mperfect idea altogeiber of the svatem gencrally adopted for teaching, There are spevinens of twu blind alphabets. One, illustrating the old-fashioned plan of teaching the blind to reaa by rased Jet- tees of the usual shape; tho other, {llustrative of the new system, to which the name of Now York point systemn has becn given, Dots are substituted for lotters, and any letter can be reproscnted by & simple com- bluation of six or fewer dots. It Is not long sluce 1 gave you su account of a visit to tho Parls Blind Institution. 1 tound this so-calied “Naw York" system, or something extremely like it, had ru{nued tho old letter plan long nfio here. In fact, Parls and Loudon scen to be alicad of Awerica {u all mattera counected with tue education of the blind, When you have finished your inspection of the United Btates exhibit, You will probably want a rest and a drink. Go'to THE AMERICAN BAR. The brandy-smashes are excellent, the corpse- rovivers are corpsc-revivers, and the mint- juleps would put lfo futon dead mule. You ‘will scc many falr faces, you will restore your dimiolshed strongth; and, when you rise to de- part, the world will bave a lcas weary look to you, and, if sou met M. Krantz, you will almoat Torgive him the countloss wrougs he and hia oftlcinls wilt have been fuflicting on you frotn the first moment you sct foot {n this gleantic, splendid, wonderful, but temper-trying exhibi- tion of 1578, Harnr MzLTzER, THE CROPS. ILLINUIS, Apectal Dispatcnes to The Tritune, Virpay, Macouplo Co., 111, July 10.—~Wlnter wheat will yield fourteen bushels per acre. Qualty very zood. One-fifth will be threshed in tboshiock. Three-fourths of tho remainder will be threshed soon and put on tho market. Worth uow 75 cents. Corn very spotted; but little good. There will not bo morn thun halt & crop under favorable clrcumstauces. QGuiaasviLLe, Pike Co., July 10.~Winter ‘wheat harvested in flne order; thres-fourths of it in the stack; balanco belog threshed. Wil yleld from fifteen to tweuty-five bushels per acre, Homo of it will turn out over thirty bushels to the ucre. About balf of ft will be s01d early, ‘I'hose that can_will hold for better rices, Now puviog fromn 70 to 80 cents per ushel. Oats nearly all cut. Yield good. Corn looking botter within the lust fow days. hENNEY, DoWitt (b, July 10,—Wbeat most- 1y stacked, Wil hold moat of it. Rye all in shock, Usts are spleudid. Corn is better. Glyves promise of an abundaut barvest. Wieatox, DuPage Co., July 10.—Rye and barley are cut, and ars very good. Oats aro headiog out very tull. Corn fs growing amaz- fngly, and will soon equal last year. Myritororis, Massac Co., July 10.—Wheat, one-hall crops six bushels to the qualicy good; two-thirds fu stack, Not dhlpoml to sell At present prices. Oats good. All cut. Corp 1s cqual to last year. Rovixson, Crawlord Co., July 19,.—Wheat snd rye mostly stacked 1o good ‘order. Somo are threshing and bauling to warket, Quaiity better thau last year, Tho fecllug at present {s tu sell it they can get 75 cents per bushel, Oats mostly in stack in good conditlon. Corn good on sandy land, backward and weedy un cl-‘)-. WyoMing, Btark Co., July * 10.—Winter wheat twonty to twenty-lvo busbels per acre} first quality and superior to lost year, Most of the wheat will go into atac! armers will hold for the present, Hye all c d expectod ta vield from tweuly to tweuty-five bushels per acre. Quality No. 1. Outs beading well and promise a good ¢ Bowme rust in spring wheat, Cori & g stand. Compares weli ‘with last year's crop. El.uwz. Warreu Co.y July 18.—Cora s grow- fog rapidty. A falr stand, with better prospects Wheat all harvested; will yleld from iteen y bushels per ncre. pects for vats uever botter. 'ros- one harvested t. n“‘n'n.u. DeWits Co., July 18.—Rye all cut, and iu splendid coudition, " Svring wheat bhas done nicely (u the last thres weeks, nud will aku haif 8 crop. Outs all beaded out. Coru swall aud from 8 week to ten duys late, BeLuaviLuy, St. Clair Co., July 19.—~Winter wheat will yleld from twonty to twenty-five bushels per uality much better than lust yesr. Farmersdo not wantto sell at 50 cents. Fourdittus of the wheut has gooe futw sta.k. Corn (s dolug fuely, Mascouran, 8t. Clair Co., July 19.—The aversge yicld of winter wheat for thls connty will bo ;om;ucn huune]l-_l.morn:l‘l:y uli“:e{cenl;l ctter than Jast year, Farmel 6 8l 0 s &%:;ent Jow n’;l«t ©of 70 o 8Jcents, All i stuck fo good sbaps. Corn ss guod as last ,«..Ar\;ou. Fulton Co., July 10.—~Farmers will not sell thelr wheat right away, Quality and much better than last ‘y: . Nurust io wheat, Uats heading out well. Corn looks splendid; the esceastvo heat whil injure it uuless wo bave iu soon. . Douglas Co.,'July 10.—Wheat sl iy 'y fully {w tocrop of lGTII cut, Quality sud yicld with three o four times the acreage. stacked. Farmere not willlng to seil at present IK}{ nr‘lcu—'m cents. Quts being harvested. 0. 1 crop. BuMMERYIELD, 8t. Clalr Co., July 10.—Wheat nearly all in stack. Will yteld on BYETage seven- teen bushiels per acre, (uality good. Farioers are undecided a8 to selling st present low prices. Oats very good and about all baryested. ATLANTA, Logun Co., July 10.—Yleld of winter wheat b0 per ceut better than last year. About ball will go foto stack. Rye all”cut. QOats beadlug out well. Soms rust priug wheat, Corn eversge about the sameas lust year. 3 ProruaTeTOWYN, Whiteside Co., July 10.— Oats fillug well, "W be a besvy crop. No rust In spriug whest. In good coudition. Cora 1u color aud size sowpares well with lust year, 10WA. Apecial Dispasches o s Tridune, Lorr's Cuxex, Humboldt Co., July 10.—If the weathyr contioucs so wariu, wheat will ba wlwivst ruined, as 1t is just [o the milk, Oats are bheadlog well, aud sre oot yet hurt by the sust. Coru Is growiog wonderfully uow, but the staud is mucn below an averaye. BurLag, Scott Co.; July 19.—Rye and barley nearly all cute Byc good; barley colored, Qats leld - heading well, 1he & heavy crop. Acreacn of epring wheat larger than usual, but ri wet weather have injured it very much. not as good as 1ast yeas O'Buiex, O0'Brien Co., July 19.—The storm of the Zith ult. fodeed much of the erain; a lit- tlo rust on hiades. Corn growing rapldiy. Proapects good for average crop, Havriy, Audubon Co., July 19.—Prospects of & large crop of wheat. Jtve and barley being cut; will be a good crop. Weather very hot; (0 t0 113 degrecs in the shade. Estugnvittg, Emmet Co., July 10.—Barley Nt to cut. Oats are hravy, both fn straw and head. We had s very hard atorm the nizht of the 11th, that lodged oata and wheat coustger- ably, The hot weather Is damsging wheat very miich. Steaw heavy, and heads long, if welil Rlled, would be the beat crop in years. Corn half 2 stand. Kxota, Keokuk Co., July 18.—Rve harvested in good order. Brnn wheat harveat excellent. Heads weil fllled, Oats very heavy, snd in many Instances lodged. Heavyrains and winds hava Istd the grain and grass ncarly flat, Corn :fnv.-r-llv clean, and many ficlds too Jarge to plow. ButLEr Crxtne, Butler Co., July 19.~The harvest of sprinez wheat will commnence ina few days. Crops will be poor, owing to blight and rust, _Oats will be a falr cron. CLeAR Laxs, is., July 1).—Ten days since the farmers of Northern Iowa were jubflant over the prospect of lnr%n crops. To-day their spirits are down to zero irom Lhe effects of heat and storm. Much of the grsin {8 badly rusted, and oats and grass are flat. Still, the breadth is 80 large that & moderate yleld will aggregate s falr crop. | Corn WISCONSIN, Bpectal Dispatches to The Tribune, BuMnxr, Barron Co., July 10.—Winter wheat and barley are out of denger, and nearly ready to cut. A full averago crop. Bpring wheat wiil be the heaviest crop ever raised, if it esapes rust, of which there Is some dauger, owiug to the hot, molst weather. Wasinxaron, Eau Claire , July 10.—Rye fs belug haryested, with muclt® delny from tre- quent showers, but is ciop, Bpring wheat in good condition vet, and heavy growth, Oates good. Wheat will be ready to harvest in from ilvc to ten days. Btand ol good as last year, but ¢rowing weil. Fox LARE, Wis., July 10.—The thirty-hour storm of last week, followed as it has been by the fearfut hot weather of the past few days, has injured wheat to some extent, Many coms plaints are beiug insde of tho havoe causel by rust and blight, the latter caused by tho heat, which Is causing all grain to mature too rapidly. But the prospect Is still good 10r a crop cousid- crably abovo the average. Harvesting will be- ginin ten days. Oats lovk well. Corn Im- proving very fast, ‘Lhe thermomoter for the pfll;'l&k hiss ranged botween 84 and 100 fo the shisde. corn not s MINNESOTA. Special Disoaickesto Ive Tridune. 8aux Cextir, Stearns Co., July 10.—Excent rust und some lodging, wheat Is all right. Cut. tiogrye; good. Weather bot; will sbrink the whcat if {t continues. Burreanur Varizy, Blue Earth Co., July 10. —The best flelds of wheat are lodged and tapgled. Mors or loss rusted. DBarley 1s all lodzed. 8o nreoats. Prospect of heavy yleld of wheat not 80 good as a month njiu, BitAROrKE, Scott Co., July 10.—Most of the barley cut. Good. Spring wheat will be ready next week., Good d lodged. Hot and raining. Lrrcurieup, Mecker Co., July 10.—Cutting rye and barley. Crop good and heavy. Spring ‘wheat rusted on the leaves, but not " the stalk. Wheat is so heavy that it is lodeed, LA Verxe, Rock Co,, July 19.—Weather hot, with showers. Some wheat snd oats bauly logred. IRye all cut, Good. Hasrox, Nicollet Co,, July 10.—A heavy storm on Bunday blew wheat down bauly, Wheat nearly ripe. 8ball bave & bard harvest, HANSAS, Svectal Disvatches to The Tridune, Oswezoo, Labette, Co., July 10.—Threshers report wheat ylelding from sixtecn to twenty. elght bushels. Millers are offering 70 cents. Corn [u roasting ears. 3 Enix, Neosho Co,, July 10.—~Winter wheat yielding frow fifteen to thirty bushels. Soiling at b0 conts. Corn is dalog well. Lonarox, Eik Co., Julf 19.—Winter wheat ylelding twenty-tive bushels. Mostly rolng tote stack, Wili not move at present urices. Oats ali cut. Corn better than last scason. Srpax, Chautauqua Co., July 19.—Winter Wwheat yisldiog eightcen bushels.” 8ell none ex- oot from compulsiou. Corn equal to last year, Brnrox, Butler Co., July 19.—Winter wheat 13 mostly in stack. Sowo thresbed. Yiclding eightecn to twenty-four bLushels. Low pricy discournging fintuediate sales, Corn far ancad of laat year. —_— NEBRABKA. 8pectal Disvatenea to The Tribune, Avnion, Boone Co., July 10.—Rye and barley about cut. llave commenced cutting wheat. ‘The acreage will be exceedingly large. Pros- pects for good prices are poor. Graln has lodged very little, Oats very good. No {njury to gratn from rust. 'Tho past two weuks of hot weatler have almost {nsured a good crop of corn. HBroommxarox, ¥ranklin Co., July 10.—Rye and barley about all cut. Ryo I hordly up 1o au average crop iu yield, but quality Is flac, Buarley In this scction Js heavy, Oata aro well headed, and promise a big crop. No Injury frow rust, and av grain js lodged. Corn never looked better. CALIFORNIA. Bpeciat Dispalch to The Tridune, 8ax Dieco, Ban Diego Co., July 10.—Winter wheat badly rusted; owing to late ralus will not get more than Lalf acrop. Barley wili do bet- ter; not a full crop. Farmers feeling blue. All expected & goud crop. Irospects nover butter up to the st of Muy, DAKOTA. {pecial Dispaich o The Triduna, 8ioux Farrs, Mlonebahs Co., July 10.—No wheat cut; very littie rust} will commence to cut ext week., Oats hcavy, aud lodged some, Flax is sptendid. Barley good; cutting, Weath- :: intenscly het, avernging 04 degrecs for tou 1y, MISSOURI. Hpecial Dispatch te Tha Tribune, Kmprmos, Osago Co., July 10.—Wheat all stacked. No effort boing made to thresh or sell. Uats all cut. Uood. Corn not as good as last year, — TENNESSEE, Spectal Diszalch to TAs Triduns. Baxuw's Brariox, Davidson Co., July 10.— The salo of wheatis slow, About balf acrop. QOats good. Corn botter thao last year, Tubacco growing well, — FINANCIAL, Bpecial Dispateh to The Tridune, CreveLaND, O, July 10.—An lovoluntary petition {n baokruptey was fled to-day fu the United Btates District Court agalnst L. A. Ben- ton, o well-known Buperlor strect jeweler, by thirteen Now York greditors. Mr, enton has been loug In busiouss biere, and wau o few years sinco knocked duwn and serlously fojured by s burglar in bis storo, Nsw Yorg, July 19.~A. M. & R. Davies, umbrella manufacturers, suspended L . Liabiities, $300,000, 0" yoaterday Blolb\lwmxhr;ln & Co,, blank-book manufac- turers, have suspended, Llabilities about $100,- A voluntary petitlon in bankruptey has been filed by Willlam P, Tiltog, fron du\ezformerlv of the tirm of Gerry, Colwell Tilton, of this city. His liabliities amonnt to $70: 000, of which 210,000 are (ndorsements for the Girard Tube Works and_Iron Company and Pittsburg Bolt Company. There arv no ausets. Aundrow J, Kerwin, builder, has been adjudged a voluntary baukrupt. Liabliites nearly $3,000,+ 000; assets reported vory smull, LovisviLLx, Ky., July 19.~Thomas B, Crutcher, sn_iron merchant, flied & voluatary &e,glll:‘n I:' b;nmgxwug. thulnlel about MS.& ; assets, h! h the pereonal property, au 8 Jargo nuwber of chores u a lon.v i ——————— AN UNHEALTHY DISTRICT, Bpectal Diapalch to The Tribuns. ‘Warsntows, Wis,, July 19.—The State Board of Health concluded their semi-avpual meeting at the Commercial Hotel In this city tois morn. tog. Drs, Griffin, Marks, Reeve, and Faville, sud Goo. Biotlif were present, Iu aadition to areview of the regular work for the current year, tho time of the Board was larvely occupied Uurlog its session {u hearing complaints aud re- ceiviog testlwony in regard 10 the uusanitary conditlon of the Cruwfish River Valley, wbich ls alleged 10 ve greatly overtiowed wod rendered unbealthy by the will-dam at Milford, Jcflerson County, owtied by Blessre No 8, Green & Son, After exumluing s number of wituesses upon the poiut, » cubcommitece of the Board was sppoluted to personally vislt and lnspect this eutire valley, praparatory to a fuil roport as to {ta sanitary” couditfou sud the wmeasurcs which way be necesury 10 Luprove Is, CIIICAGO FISILERIES. The Great Change that Has Taken Place Since 1872, Extracts from the Latest Repor of the United States Fist® Com- mission, Bpecial Correspondence of The Tribune, ‘Wassinaron, July 13~In the latest report of the United States Fish Commission ia n lengthy description of the Chicago dsheries. This Commiasion, over which Prof. Bsird pre- sides, Is only of & few years® duration, but has grown rapidiy in usefulness, and recelves cach year incrensed ald from Congress. It was orig- Inally un outgrowth of the American Fish Cal- turlsts’ Assoclation, s memorial having been presented to Congress suggeating the import- ance of Federal action In stocking the common waters of the United States with brood-flshes. The Association held its last annaal convention 1n Chivaco. % In 1871 n law of Congress authorized the ap- pointtment gf a ¢ Commissior to Investigate the allezed diminution of food-fishes along the sea- cofEt and n tho lakes of the United States.” Of course this necesaitated lengthy and careful experiments, but fulfliled nothing beyond a theovetical presentation of the causes of de- clive; and, It must be admitted, the premises assumed turned out to bg not unlversaliy cor- rect, But continued Inqguiries righted the er- ror of inexperience, and o basis was formed for MORE PRACTICAL WORK, beneflcial in & material way to the people, and alding in the sclentific development of dis- puted questions in Natural History. From this Lezinning has arisen the mow important in- dustry of stocking the inland waters with the most valuatle specles of food-fishes,—Congre:s laving increased tha annual allowance from $5,000 to $50,000. Bince this commencement, nimost all the Btates have instituted Commis- slons that ald {n the work, and from a hurried investigation, conflued 10 the suminer months, a yearly labor has been inaugurated employing thic services of & number of men recognized as scientists and practical handa at the Lusiness under thelr supervision. Prof. Baird, In his ruport, ssys of the work of tho Commission: The work of the Flsk Commission, In the oroper investigation of thi bject, requires the soplica. tion of many branches of Acience, apd the con. curronce of numerous apecialiste. This requires s thorough knowledze of all the conditions—poys- 1cal, mechanic nd biolozical—of the waters, the habils and characteristica of thelr inhabitants, and the collecting of accuraio statistics of tho catchi and all thees data must be known for & period of yenre, aithouah 1t 18 hoped that the Com- misaion has nearly rcached the point when dednc- tlons somewhat “definite can be made. In the ipaaly fnto the conditivns of the ocean and its inhabitants, It 1s, of course, not necersary to go over the pground slready cov- ered by other branches of the Qove ernment,” Thus the hydrograpny of the conat, tho general character of the sea-bottom, the naiure of the tides, eic., are well poluted out in sl chierts of the Conat-durvey and of the Hydro- Eriphic Ofice. | Thero aro required, however, in addition to what {s svailable, long-continued and careful obucrrations of the temperatures of the water atthe surfaco, at the bottom. and at inter. micdiato poluta, — studied in_connectiun with the local couditions of the atmosphere ; determina- tions of tho cliemical cumposition and of tha den- sty of the water; of the precive relation of the vurlous portions of the sea-botton or of the water o the entiro animal life,-to ba alioswn only by the uso of tho trawl, the dredge, and the towing-net; astudy of tie' successive stages of animal life througbont the different ecasous of the year: an examinatinn of the vegetation, eanccislly of e diferent apccics of algme, wulch alvo bavo n fnie portant relation to the problem, “All these and ‘ather subjects have been connidered by the Com- missions with tho aasiatance of eminent naturalists and nhysicists in the various branches of the in- quiry, In this important enterprise this Government has not been alone, but SEVENAL EUROPEAN NATIONS haye similar {nvestigations under way,—princl- gnlly. howerer, those of Germany, Norway, and weden. The Norweglan Government, espe- cially, not only keeps ® vessel aod one of fils most eminent xoologists on the cod-fishery prounds, but it has aiso o telezraph, mostly sut warine, along tha entire coast, and stationed patrols at intervals, to notily the flshermen of the casual occurrence of o school of berrlug, Notwithstanding the very great attontion which the art of isn-culturo has recetved in Kuropo, this ound little octaslon to adopt any for- eiym methoda or processes: inuced, the American metliods hava been recolved with' grest favor in Europe, and conatant spplicatlons have been muds for aevcriptions, deawlugs, and models of tho American apparatus, As the work of the Commission becomes more Inriely kuown, the spplications for benefits of its work are more nuineruus, fncreasing from nincteen in 1873 to over 800 in the last vyear, Of the fish most in demand, the Califoruta salmon ravks first, with stuad the second in favor. Bince the appolntment of State Com- missions, the work of the Federal Commisalon has been greatly alded, as the czgs recelved from the United Btuies establisiment huve Dbeen hatched out and nmgfllv placed at the axpense of the States, or by privale subscrip- tlon, But, even with this ald, the applications are OUT OF PROPORTION to the facllities pussessed fur hatching and the amuunt of the abpronriatious aliowed, Thus lar the operatious of the Commission bavo been conflued to the propazation of those apecios which, born in the upper wators of riy- crs, receive there bat m small portiva of their growth, and, ofter & few moutha’ sujourn, de- scend to the ovcan, and there remaln” unthl full muturity Ia reached. Alter this they return to the starting polut, solely for the purpose uf re- production, The propagation of such soecies a8 trout, black base, perch, ete,, bas beew leit to State’ Cowmissions,—theso fish being local i tlicir hobits, and lvivg the year round in or near the same spol. The cost ol the propaga- tion of the tirst-usmed fish s borne by the United States, and Lhat favolved tn the trans- portation and introduction into the desired watcrs s met by the States. The rallroads slso contribute, by furnmsulng facllitics for rapid trausportation of the youug fab, which are ac- comupanles by skiliful attendauts. As ulrcady stateu, the Cowmission has been lmzelzo-ldcd by private euterprise. in the neighborliood of Cuicao, (encva Lake, in HBoutheustern Wisconsin, has been stocked by MR, N. K. PAIRDANK, of your city, who wished todetermine, “as soon 88 possiblo, by planting 8 very large number of flsn in & lake pertectly adapted by nature,—so fur as uny smnall fresh-water lake can be,—the racticability of stockiug small Jakes with the tter varicties of food-tishes." The following fizurcs show the uumber of ahad piaced fu the watcrs of Illinots: Culumet River, 70,0005 Rock Kiver, 130,000, Califorula salmou were distributed as lollows: Calumet Taver, 25,0005 Ruck Hiver, 35,000; Fox Kiver, 85,7003 Deun' Luke, 3,50, ' Beuldes this, Titinols has been furnished with 29,000 saimon, aud 850,000 egzga of the Caliturnla salmon, bincs (h lnvestigations in 1671-'73 the whole- sale trade has Increased mlmhv in Coteago, Tus total numser of pounds of Ush handied (o 1872 was 7,401,103 This embruces cvery variety dealt {n oy wholesylers. In 1876 the Bumbor of vounds packed for shipplug was over 9,000,000, with 8,000,000 pounds 1t the nands of the deal- ers at the end of the ycar that hid not been {nspected. ‘e greater part of tuis amount cumo from Lake Michigan, The eh Is dressed und salted at the flsbing-sta- tlon cnough to preserye it until it reaches the mar- ket, 1t s toen abibped in boxes by rul or boat, After the fsh fa recelved by the deal. and before it can be repacked, it must bo cled. A few years Bgo One msn was for “tuls* duly; but the trade baw increared 10 such sn exient that the Heua. Inspecior has beeu comjelled to appoiat & Deputy for each waolosala bouse. The Iuspecior lnforms ine tass the irade hsa increascd fromw 12,000 1o b rrels per year for tho tast Bve or alx o6 Liiat the demand GREATLY EXCKEDY TUE SUPPLY, sud that uearly twice Lhe smuunt vbtsiued could be disposed ul.” Th fresb-fab trade 14 8180 quite extensive, Nearly all the cuught of Chicsgu, Bouth Chicage Calumet, and various other places nea avld fresn. "fbe awount of fresh teh sold yearly Chleago musl equal one-fith uf tbe quanuity used in the whoieaale trade. Io the repurt of Prof. Baird for 18T2 1t was stuted that ** At Chicugo there were six boats flablog with trot-hocs off the wouth of tue nver, tbeir caleh beivg alwost eutirely the pusct.! And just sfte Tucre Las been no uut-ishiug bere lor years, the tew experimunts made proviug falluses, 1t s quite posalble, bow that the fithy curreut of tbe river no longer Hows intu the luke, that thers way be somesuce cees with ncte? The lutter cooujecture, says Prof. Baird, Las proven true. Last scaron (1873) tbree pound-nels were set Juat off the mouth of the river, sud wers quito succensful, the calch in thean uets exceeding that of the saing vumber of ncts vt South Clicagzo. Toe largeat baul 6l Chicayo was cousiderably’ grestec tua0 tho largeet haul at Souta Cuic: A {'bicagu, justead of the six buats Mr. Mlilnce found there in 1572 Behiu with trot-huce of the wouth of the river, thers were, last acasun, NEAKLY ONN HUNDHED BOATS 804 300 mcu cuployed bu tko sawo buslucss, sud threa ponn having small, anseaworthy bostw, onl milo or two'to wet tneir lince: quence, thet* eateh_ eon ceot in the apring and fail, are taken, The maiarity of the hoats are ** ma {nawe, " or simllar boate, which sep very se thy. They fannut ffieen of twénty milen, and sometimes farther, ines, which €0 ont a and, in conva- mostiyof perch, ex- hen ranny **lawyers Setting their o contain from (00 to 1,000 hooks esch, baited wita minnows ~ befors leaving shore, they continas on, sad ran into Michigan City and temain overnizht. hext morning, they taks up their ve in Chicago daring "the day. This Kind of fishing {8 catried on anti] the harhors are frozen over. e lines eatch larze numbers of turgean aod lske-tront. Darine the spring and fall. the lines nearest ahore catch quantitics of Inwyers,—sometimes the entire catch being of this noprcies, The lawyers are fl!n!l’l"g 20ld to ped- diers, there being no demand in the markts, Of tho other apeclea canght, all except the dog-fieh, sheep-head, and gars, find & ready sale. While the Chicsgo tiver floweil into the lake, the water was afected by the flith for some dis ainng the shore, and wan, withont donbt, lhe c: of the failare of the attempts fo institute pou net fahing there st diferent times, The carrent of the river no longee flowing in that direction, an- other trial was made, and In May, 1875, thres mrl:nl»nzu were set oft the mouth of the river, Etarting ear] lines, and & BUCTE GNOD BLCCRSS that the owners fcel sanztine of a good barveat, Tho sexson was a rewarkably poor one all lhzm! the 1ilinoln shore, The calch inthe two nets off Chicago, which wero ont the whole season, con- widerabiy exceeded that of any two nets off South Chicago at Llhe same time, 8"“';‘."..""“"25'"5 ([:llln Be of the netroff Chicaso was reset in Keptem- ber, to try the fall-fehing: but tho repeated. and violent storms wiich occurred at that sesson dam- lced!:’hu net to such an extent that it Liad Lo be re- wored, It fa not probable that the fall-Bahing will Aniount lo much At this end of the Iske, owinz to the heavy siorme which almoat Invarishly vist the lake in the fall: and oficn, for s week or more, the watcr §a 30 rough tuat it would be lLinpossible to vintt the neis, ‘The nrincipal obstacle to saccesatul pound-net fishing hiere at prescat seema to he the canzer the nets are in from the numerous (ug-boats and pro- pellers which are continually cronsing and recross- ing the harbor In evory direction. Last season, through carelessncas and in fogs, the leader of No, i was badly dawiaged several times,—once abont elghty ruds being carried away and destroyed by the wheel of & tug catehing in tho netas it passed over. Atthle end of the lake, whitefah sce, freauent the mouth of a river while rear and sturgeon to prefes the shore at 8 distance from anver. All tne margetavle fish taken at Soutls Lhicago are dresscd and sent to Chicago in wagons, They generally FIND A EADY MARKET: 8t times, when tho market fs flled, they bring a low price. The net-owners say that, when x larze run ocenrs In warm weathet, the most of the fish- ermen hurry their entlre catch inte tho market the fiest cay, d, supplylng the demand, the fsh wiich are taken the remalnder of the run bring & price g0 low that it doew not pay the cxpense of rettinz them into the market, and laree quantities are allowed to spoil. The only way (0 avold the dificulty would ba to tako only enough fish from the pounda to aupply the demand, und in this way kecp the prices uniforin and avoid neelessly de- stroylng large numvers of fish, An eaplanation of the various atresms and lakes ir ihils State will without doubt reveal many rpecies not anticlpated, and probably s number new to Sclence. From the effects of ibe Chlcaza-River water upon the fishes In the streama throngh which it pastes befure reuching the Miasioslppl River, and the eflact of the distlllery on the water and_fshes in the Little Catuuiet. it will probably be usele to introduce new food-fahes, ~ Dut other stream and the numneroua lakes in this part of the State, €an be successiully restocked. Eelw would withe t doubt succecd, and the finding of the small nd at Riverdale proves that they e lived for 8 few years in that stream. ———————— QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SENATORSHIP, To the Editor of The Tribune, Waopsrock, 111, July 18.—In view of your pabe Meatlon of the cummunication from Joliet toach- ing bledges to bo obtained from candidates fur the Leglature who are to vote for a United States Beuator next winter, and vour timely ediorial re- marks thereon, mauy Republicaus in the State de- ¢ Information in regard to the Senatorial con- test In 1877, Is it true that Gen, Logan canvassed the State for Senator fn 1876, and procured instructions to l(csnllllmn legistative candidates to vote for him, and no oneelsc? Is it true that durlng that long contest for Ben- ator {o the wisterof 1877 any ober Hepublican ro- cclved vates enoush from the independent snd Iiberal members of the Legialature, which, {r adied to the voleg of all those whu voled for Gen, Logan, such other ltepublican conld hava been alectea? 180, Will you bo guoa enouzh to publisb the 0wing on how any batiots stch other Ro- lcan could have been elected had Logan's rienus all voted for him? 18 it truo that during the contest Gen, Logan de- clared over and over agsin that If hecould not be elected noother Republican ahould be? 1f it be true that tien. Loran prevented his friends from voting for any Ilepubilcan besides bimsell, whon such Republican could bave been elccted by tho votes of his friends, ia he not slone responsibie for having tbis groat Republican Stale now repreacnted in the Senato of the United Yiaies by an **Independent * for aix long yoars? Agd, fartacr, ia it truo that the Republicans of tho Republican mem- pefn packel fn the inters et of any candidate who, If he cannot be elecied Ulinself, whl elect A Democrat? A RepunLicas. [In regard to the frstequestlon, we are not orepared to answer positively until we can as- certafu the facts from Gen. Logan himself, as ho wust know, But it is truc there were other Republieans who recelved anough Democratic or indopendent votes to bave elected them if the ¢ Logan vote,' so-called, had been cast for them. The record ruvs as fullows: 22, 1677, —Twenty-elghth jolnt ballot; 7 Lo a ehiolce, 1012 Logan lawrenca (Rep) +» G-0f whom 5 were Dems. 104 Jan. 21, 1877, ~Tweuty-ninth joint ballot; neo- essary 1o & cholce, 102: Beoisraoecerenen N Waeliourne (Itep)... 6—Of whom 4 were Dema. 9—0f whom & were Dems. 101 m’!;l_:lrly‘flm Joint bullot; necessary to & cholce, Lozan...ciie aee Washburne. Milton liay. [ 12~0f whom 7 wers Dems, 101 “;!:D_Amrucnnd Joint ballot; necessary to s choles, 80 14—0f whom 7 were Dems., 102 “'El.alfly-lmrdjulnt vallot; necessary to a cholce, 83 18—0f whom 7 were Dems, 101 Tt’v‘lh-“.’“"h folnt ballot necessary to & cholce, 82 0-0f whom 5 were Doms, 101 Jan, 24, 1877, ~Thirty-ninth Joint ballot: Lawrenc, +o 49—Uf whom 13 wero Doms, Lisinca (ind). 00 111 Jau. 25, 1877.—Democrats unlted with Inde- pendents und efecied Judgo Davis, (It wasiuthe power of tho Republivans on any oue of elght ballots, cxteudlug over three days, to have clected a Republican Beuatur, In regard to the last questlon of our corre- spoudent, we have no luforwmation.~Ep.} ——————— THE BANNOCKS. Bousx Citv, July 19.—~Tea Day, Chiof of the Baunocks at Lembi, wishes to remaln friendly, but cauut control his warrlors. The scttiers have all foft thelr houics, aud are camped at Balmon City, Ten Day and bis son bave uotited all settlers to leave their homes sad gu to the town, as be balieves an outbreak liable to oceur at auy time, Travel bas ncarly cesscd, though the wail still gous through. ———— G. AR GETTISBCRO, Pa., July 10.—Exteusiva prep- arattons are making for tho encampmeat of the Grand Army of tbe Republic, which beglus to- worrow, Two hundred and ffty warquee aud bospital-tents bave been put up ob the grouuds of the Memorial Associution, ou Cemytery Hill Arches of evergreens are being erccied in the streets, and houses are beiug also decorated with gvergrcens und buntine, ———t——— CHICAGO FIRES, Jarm froms Box 0168t 7:3 ycaterday morniog was caused by tho buruing wut of a chimoey at No. 235 Church street, owued sad occupled by Philip Markey. No damage. u;l;ha slana frowm Bo«t h “l e‘l&p‘y’u‘l‘m‘l“g toon e 2 atove- 8 r‘t n u’a"m‘:l?lrncu u’! M. Waudre, No. %3 klek street. No duinsge. ———- Ant-Wars la South Africa. Dr. F. E. Colenso writes to the Loudon Na ture from Marttzbure: * 1 uoticed vue wornlng tuat aloug the bottom of the frout wull of wy Liouse, ou the verauds, thero 1av @ quantity of reddlsh-brown powder; there wés couurh to 61t » wllec-cup. On luoklng closer I saw hat v wes wale up of swall und lareer fragweuts which glistened, sod ou fuspoctivg sowe o wy band they turned out @ bo thy Leads, legs, trunks, ete.. of countless ants. A nnmber of these animals were still on the wall above, and my attention beiag now arrested § watched them and saw that thty were contributing to the carnage beneath, * This spccies of ant i 8 smal), comparative- 17 harmicss one, the chicf ain of which is that it makes ita way tocvery species of food and awarms on it~ As {s usual with ants, the gen- eral body of fneccts 18 sccompanied by larger Individuals, wnich are provided with heads and Jaws quize disproportionate to their bodies, and with these faws they do all the cutting up. Among the ants on the wall there was & large sprinkling of thesa ‘sol- ante.' ‘and the whols community seemed bent on deatroying thes ‘The propor- tion of heavy-jawed to ordinary ants was sbout one to ten. T'aaw & group of little nnes fasten- ing on to ablg ant, which made desperato cfforts to releass itself. At first tha big one bit several littlc ones in two,and the parts drupped down from the wall; but aftera while the little ones severed ait the legs of the big one, and finally got on his back and cut him In two. The froup then dropped domn to swell the mass be- low, ~ Bimilar sccnes were enacted elsewhere on the wail. “*The cosmencement of ona combat was as follows: A big ant walked along till it met another big one, and the two shook antenna. Just theo & mefiu one scized hold of & hind lex of oneof thess big ones. Neltber took any notice, but eonunu:g a rapid conversation. Buddenly other small ones came up, when the big oue whose feg was grabbed, turnea furiously on the littin une and seized bhim by the middle. This could not be dome until the biz one had doubled h'mself up; as soon as he bad hold of bis small antagonist he Jifted him in the air and enipped him In two. Meanwhilo all the big one's leza nad been seized by the littie ones, and the party scemed to turs over und over, littie bits tumbilng down, now & leg, now Lalf an ant, till the blg one was vao- quished. ‘The ant is most assuredly sunject Lo passion, The way {u which the blg sot turned on the little one was singularly Indicative of rage. The deterinined manuer in which be Jaid hold of Lhe iittle ono was quite buman., 1€ I had bad a magnifyiopg zisss, the scene would have been really exciting.” SPORTING EVENTS. THE TURF. ToLepo, 0., July 1v.—The unfinished 2:30 race was won by Scott’s Thomas, taking the sixth and seventh heats. Auclent Order Boy second money, Ellsworth third, Woolley fourth. Time, 2:33, 2:31. The free-for-all for & purse of $2,000 was won by Ureat Eastern in three stralght beats, Hope- ful second, Midoight drawn, Time, 2:33), 2:23¢(, 2 A Rarus made two trisls againat time tors special purse of §1,000. ‘Iime, 2:19, 2:173{. In the 2:20 class, purse $1,500, divided, six started. The Orst heat was dead between Pro- teine and John I o 3:223, Protelne taking the sceond 1o 8:2], when the tolsh of toa race and the Rarus trial wus postponed tll to-morrow. The 3:26 race was also pusiponed. ‘Toe weather to-day was tnuch cooler than on any previous asy of the meeting, and 4,000 people were in aticadance. BASE-BALL, Apecial Disoaich fo The Tribune. Pronru, 1., July 18.—The most intensely ex- citing game of base-ball ever played In Peorla ‘was played to-day between the Chicagos and the Peorla Reds at the park, lo the presence of 2,000 ople. Below Is the score: Chicago Whites, 8; ‘eoria Rods, 5. CrevELAND, O., July 1%.—Milwaukees, 0: Forest Citys, 3. HorszrLrsviLre, N. Y., July 19.—Hornells, 2; Stars, 1. AQUATIC. New Onuzaxs,July 10.—At the State Rowing Regatta of the last aay, in the one-mile and re- turn race. double scull stclle, Perseverance won, Time, 13:38%(. St. Jobn sccond and Hope third. ‘The second race, four-oared shell, was won by Hope. Tiwme, 10:30!4. St. John sccond, South- crns third, Lees fomith. ‘Tne third race, slogle scull, consolidation, was won by R. G. Musgrove, of the 8t. Johe Ulub, Time, 10:47, beating Charles Edwards, of the Urleans Club. A BUFFALO SCANDAL. The Collector of the Port Charged with Seducing s Young Lady—Probability that He Will Be Removed from Office. DPupateh 1o New York Times. Brrravo, July 16.—For & week or two past certatn circles of Buffalo rociety bave been a good deal agitated over & scandal o hizh life which bas not bitherto been wmentloned In the le2al press, but which cannot much longer be Kept from the pubilc, since it bas been brought to the sttention of the authoritics at Washing- ton, and I lkely to result In a change In tho offica of Collector ot Customs at this port. ‘The follawlug are the facts: A voung dauzh- ter of an old resident and well-known busi- uess-man of thls city, residlog in Dela- ware street, was lately discovered to be foan abuormal conditton for au unmarried lady, and, on being called to sccount by her parents, charged Mr. John Tyler, thie Collector of Bufla. lo, with be!ng the author of her ruin. Mr, Tyler {s & marricd man, somewhat famous for his yal- luntry, and was a retired olficer of the recular army on hal(-pay when he was appointed Col- lector under Uen. titant’s Admiolstration, ile lost wn arm fn the War of the Rebeilion, sud has heen satisfactory and rather populer Col- lector. \When confronted with this charge he put in & general dunlal to the ears of his triends and miscgllaneous inyuirers, but is said to have owned up to the strong pressure of the girl's (ather. and adontied the truth of the ac- cusation. However that mav be, tho facts were cutnnunicated to Preslaent Hayes by some friend of the family, sall to be 8. 8. uthrie, un old acquaintance of the Presldent, formerly of Onlo, but now n resident of Builalo, and an ageot of the Tressury Uepartment was forth- with sent bere to Investigate them. Mo s ro- ported to have convinced hunsell of thelr truth, #ud to have informed Mr, ‘I'yler of the necessity of bis immediaterv ** rising to explain.' Tylcr asked for tine tll to-norrow to make lis ex- planution or dental, and the story of both sides will thea be reported to Washington. The girl's statcinent is geuerally credited here by thoso who have become cognizant of the scandal, and it (s believed thst Blr. Tyler will be soun removed anda new Culloctor ap- pointed In his place, This bas enlisted the tu- terost of politiclans in the scaudal, and specula- tun 3 now rife as to wha wiil be Tyler's succes- y that Uuthrle is a gandidate, ms on hls Ohio nativity, which Is roug card with the present Ad- 4 but he aslresdy nolds laco hers o tho ewploy of tae iric Rallway, be belug a brotherin-law uf Mr. Jewett, The pew apuintes will probably be ex-Muyor Hrush, ur ex-Sheriff Weber, or the preseut Deputy Col- Joctor, C. C. Canbee, Bome of the Iriends of Tyler sueer ot the 1dea of bis removal on such & charge, and say toat if Prealdent Hlayes un- dertukes to remove all thu tovernment em- ployes whose morels du ot cone Uy 10 the Buuday-school staudary, ke will require sn ad- ditional clerleal furce to make out commissions jur the new appolntees. ‘Lliere aro said to Le, huwever, sume aggravaliog clreumsiances cou. nected with tho cuarge sgulnat the Buflulo Col- lectors The girl 1a totherless, and has been considered rather weak-minded. Blio is now at & lylng-iu retreat uear New York. ————— . Oypsy Musicians, continental Gaselte (Purta), The Tzigaues are surpassed in originality and strangeness, The fashion has now paséed to the Hobemivns de Moscou, who have been en- guged for m manth at the concerts of the Or- sogerie. They are forty In number, twenty-live wowen and fifteen men. They have eyes brill isut and plerciog; like those of & bird ol prey, hooked Doses, thick balr, white, sharp teeth; sud. although they were born in the country of suows, thelr faces still retalv the geucrous browu of the Egyptian sun. They belong to tue great waudering race, whose children wre known in Spain sy Uituuss, o llungar; ‘Tzicanes, at Naples as Zingari, and in Euclaud as piypucn. At the Orangerie, the troupe ls group- ed [ w wost picturesgue manuer; the women arc seated, covered with brithant-colored ks, their tunics fringed with guld and siver, their barr adorued with fowers, wnd thelr curs sud nccks overloaded with extravagant Jewelry: the toen staud grave sud serluus, their eycs tzrd ou the leader, who wtauds fu the midat, guitsr in hand.” The chiel Iy Nicolss Cichidue, son ot Ivau Chicbklue, the suprewe chief of the Land, He 13 & haudsume, futellivent-tooking mau, and passiovately fond of wusiv, o4 tudeed are all the wewbers of the band. Mo wakes su dw- pereeptible slen of the bead, sud the chorus breaks forth, wow lively, en: levant, wod savaze ke & oy of revult, or sully lauguid, or platutive, like o whis per of ove. The sharp tinbres uf thie dupraud wivgle with the contraltos uind the deew bass of of the wen. Rowsuces full of teuderucas stic- cecd vowic and popular subis, Whicli we hose will s00n take the place of the * Beau Negriot ' oud thy “Fus a Scbastion” Fiually, 8 youug ir], almost & child, springa from the group and annces, accompanying herself with the volce. This troupe Is one of the best of the five or six. sloging bands that Russia poseesses, The ** Nightingnles of Koursk,"” as they are called, are protected hy the Imperial conrt; thele presence 18 indispeusahle at all grand fates, a they are frequently sent for to the palace of the Emperor. In the night restan- rauts of Bt. Petersburg, at the falamds, at the Hermitage of Moscow, the boyards, after dinner or supper, fnduize In the music of * The Niaht- ingales™ at the rate of 100 roubles an hour. At Moscow they live In a special quarter. called Iyroderka, where they are proprietors of their houses. This s tho first Lime thev have ever quitted their own country, and it was with no small aifficulty that they wers perruaded to do 8u; It may thercfore be imagioed that the epopee af their journev, under the care of M. Karynski, was sufliciently comic. They sre now lodged in a modest hotel at Batignoiles. They pass the day in siceolng, smoking, and drinkiug ten, The finest winee scem to them fnsipid as compared with their favorite beverage. The troop {s certainly drstined to a great success, and wo recommend every one to go and seo it. —— Fifth Avenue Sentences Josey Mansfleld. D Prkine, Josephine Mansfleld, the Cleopatra who exer- clsed such power over our Antony, Jamea Fisk, Jr., was In Saratoga yesterday. Every one was on the qu!l vive to ace Josey, and atill no lady dared to be seen looklog at her, or much Jess talking to her. As this wreck of s once beantiful and volup- tuons woman strode across the balcony of the United States Hotel, & fashionable young isdy from Fifth avenue pulted my sleeve and “get~ tled Josephioe's hash * with a Fifth-avenue Judgment: * Just as I expected,” she sald,—** Josephina Manafield has a vulgar Jook." * Whyi" I asked, “ Because,” replied the young lady, *ahe wears dark, bright blue ribbons and gloves, and any one who wears these positive Bowery tints has vulgar taste, ‘Then she bangs her hair in front like a Gypay girl, and weighs, I'li bet you, 23 pounds—buh 1" So Josephinc’a case was _scttled In two min- utes by the Judgess of our Fifth-Avenus Court, and to-day all the ladies nr:urr,lnl out the verdict pronounced—or would be if Josey hadn't taken the next train back to New York. BUSINESS NOTICES. 8t, Lonis, Nov, 10, 1877.—Messrs. J. 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