Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 9, 1879, Page 2

2 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JULY .9 1871—TWELVE PAGES, —_—_Caa oo uuanauanananaepeoO=~ eee eo EeEeEee———————————EEEEEEEEEEEEE—_—~>——X>>>EEE===——EE>>o>>>—ee— ee ——e———— FOREIGN. Speculations on the Antici- pated; Deficiency of © Huropean Orops. Do Lesseps’ Views Regarding the Practicabliity of the Canal Scheme. He Estimates that, the Total ; Cost Wilt Not Exceed . $50,000,000, Virtual Abolition of Flogging in Her Majesty’s Navy. "I Nearly the Entire Town of Irkutsk, Si- bering Destroyed by Fire. , ; Tho English Grain-Markot Review of a - Digoonraging Oharacter, | ENGLISH GRAIN TRADE, WHEKLT REVIEW. Loxnon, Inty 8 —The ark Lane Express tin its reviow of the British grain trade for the past week says: The agricultural prospects causa yery grave apprehensions. Sboutd rain con- {inie, the hay crop will bo useless except as manure. ‘The condition of wheat {s untmproved. Bar- Jey fo heavy Innd is nearly rained. Nothing but the speedy advent of sunshine can prevent the almost poueral failure of the princtpal cropa, In consequence of the weather and light sup- pltos in England, wheat has Improved a shilling quarter in a Majority of the country mar- Kote, but despite the Brmness of holdors it has been difficult to estnblish any advance for home- grown tn London fn the face of LIBERAL ARRIVALS attdlow prices of forcigu variottos, Previous rates, however, hare been well supported, espe- cially for choice parcels, and the tendency is rather towards an advance than a decline. Large foreign arrivala have not caused n ecar- city of granary room, asa large proportion bs gone direct, to millers, who bought frocly to ar rive,—transactions’ on the spot having Jately been confined to the rotail wants of small rnillers, Maize has varied littte, but fs rather against sellers. The arrivals at porta of call havo been small. ia Off-coast wheat was firm nt slightly improy- tog prices, particolarly toward the close. Maize was steady and unchanged. Aood businoss was dons in forward wheat, PARTICULARLY FOR RAD WINTET, July, August, and September shipments, and prices improved alxpence per quarter. Maize was not frecly offered. Though lato cheap purchases could not bo ropested, tho de- mand fs still slacts. Laat week's salcs of English wheat nmounted to 34,904 quarters at 42a 4d per quarter, against 18,202 quarters at 46s per quarter for the samo period Iast year. Imports into the United Kingdom for the ‘week ending June 23 amonniea to 1,415,042 + hundredwoights of wheat and 214,968 hundred- weights of flonr. At Mark Lane to-day (Monday) the supply of Fx clish wheat was again email, and prices ad- vanced one to two shillings per quarter, The supply of forclgn wheat was falr, and it ad- vanced ono shilling. Flour advanced 6d per barre), and oats 3d to fu per quarter. Maize nnd barley wero steady. GREAT BRITAIN. ‘ SCENE IN PARLIAMENT, Lonpon, July &—The acene in the House of Commons last night causcs ascnsation, A soc. tion of the Liberals having obtalned from the Government groat restrictions on the practice of flogging in the army and novy, ondeavored by obstruction to force the total ebolition of corporat puniahment. The Marquis of Harting- ton repudiated all responsibility for their action. Mr. Chamberlain, membor for Birmingham, amidst Radical cheers, aald: “Tho Marquis of Hartington, who was formerly a leader of tha Opposition, is now only the leader of a section." Noreatter flogging in the army and navy will bo Mmited to acts which are Hable to be punishable by death, COTTON FIALUES. . Lonpon, Joly &8—Ogle & Pickard, cotton- apinoers, of Burnley, have failed. The Habili- ties of the firm are stated at £25,000, RAILWAY DECISION. ‘ ‘Tho Atlantic & Great Wastern Railway bonds wore very fint yosterday, owin toa decision of the Master of the Rolls tn the suit of the Erlo Rallwoy Company againat James Mellonry, which {s stated to be entirely in Savor of the Eria Company. nor cror, Lonvox, July 8—Advices from Kent state that the hop crop threatens to be a more disas- troug failaro than for ycars past. DENEVIT FAIR. Loxpon, July 8,—The Princo and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Edinburg, snd the Dake and Duchess of Connaught at- tended a fote and fancy fair at Royal Albert Holl yesterday, for the benefit of tha French Bospital and other benevolent institutions In London. It fe estimated that £0,000 havo al- teady been realized, OARLH REPAILED, Loxpon, duty &—The Duxbury and 8t. Plerro wection of the French cable was repalrod July 6. MURDERED HBR MISTREES, Lonpon, July 8—Kato Webster has been found guilty of the murder of hor mistress, Mrs. Thomas, at Richmond, and sontencod to dosth. It was sgcortnined that Mra. Thomas’ body was boiled and thrown into the Thamos, ‘and the hoad destroyed by burning. YINANOLL. ‘The Manchestor market is ogalo disturbed by reports of monetary dificultivs. J, O, Taylor & Co,, dyers, of Heerstall, have failed, Linbiltstea, £50,000. NOTION OF REDUCTION OF WAGES, Braoknyen, Jyly 8—Various trou foundrics here hava ‘given notice of reductions of wages from 20 to 80 per cent. RUSSIA. DH. WRIMBR. Sr. Parenenona, July 8—Dr, Weimer, who furnished Solovieff with tho plstol aud poison at the time he attempted to shout the Emperor, faa friond of Joachin Geslesin, the revolution- ary agitator and editor of Der Glockuer, in cxile, who was expelled from Geneva scyeral month 0. é st CONFLAGRATION. ‘The latest official telegrain atates that the houses of fourteen out of fifteen wards form- {ng the most /mportant part of Irkutax, Siburia, wore destroyed by fire on the 4th, and mapy of the inhabitants are homeless, FRANCE, FRENCH UARVEST PROBPROTS, Loupon, July &—-The Times saya: “The frmnessof the ¥runch Exchange is sald to bo Aye to the prospect of ademantt for gold for the United States in consequence of a defictont harvest, Accounts from the French’ wheat- growing districts aro certainly unfavorable, but, looking at the coormous accumulation of gold, both bore and on the Copsinent, It seems rather promature to apsculate upon the probable ef- focts of the drain theroof to Anicrica, ‘The con- tngency of Americans preferring to take thoit, own bonds, ts was the case lust year, must be considered, and the probabilities are iu favor of | some improyetnent fn our xenora} businvss with ‘America. It is also too varly to sssume asa certainty that European harvests will be, ye- Honsly deficient,” ‘TUB DARIEN CANAL. i Panis, July &—M. De Lesseps stated at the Inst mecting of the Geographical Suclety that ho dove not think the total of expenses of the construction‘ol the Darien Canal will exceed 250,- 000,000 franca, The diMenitios of the work wero not so formidable as those whieh had been over- come tn the conatruction of tte Baez Canal, as A rallway already oxisted slong the course of the pronosed Pansma Canal, with alarce town at cach extremity, f De Lesacps states that the cautton. money, 2,000,000 francs, retynired by Venezuln, anent she Panama Isthmus Canal, has been alroady ald. i aceon te is BANQUET TO DB LESSREA, Lonpon, July. 9—A Paris dispateh to the Standard reports that a banquet was given Inst night in bonor of M. De Leassps and the Panama, Canal scheme. ‘ GERMANY. “THN TARIYY, Bentay, July 8—On tho third reading of the Tariff bil inthe Reichstag, it wos finally re- solved, on motton of Count Stolberg Wernl- gerod, that the tariff? on flour oud fate shall come into force Immediately; the tariff forarain and wood on the Ist of October, and for alt other articles on the Jst of January, 1890, This arrangement postpones a change In the tariff on all other articles for threa montis. The Count pointed out that the preparations would not be suliciently adyaucod for the onforcoment of the complote tariff onthe Ist of October, as pro- posed by the Tariff Committee. REJECTED. Benin, Joly 3—The Retchstag has rejected without debate the bill {a favor of w. retrospec- tive tobacco duty. GAZETTED. Banu, duty 8.—The provisional imposition of the new import duties on tobacco and potro- Jeum has been gazetted. | r "The Reichstag has adopted a clause fn the tariff subjecting imports from countries treat- ing Gorman productions unfavorably to an in- crease of 50 per cent on the duties provided by the new tariff. The Government originally de- manded that such dutice be increased 100 per cent. REVENUE FROM THE NRW TATUFY. Loxnon, July 8.—A Berlin correspondent of the Standard states that the new tariff will realize 120,000,000 marka more then hitherto, half of which will be roquired to cover the de- fleits of individwal States, and 2,000,000 for fresh supplies recently voted to the Empire. ‘The not revenue for the States is thug reduced to 88,000,000 inarks yearly. SPAIN. WILL PUNISIL SAN DOMINGO. MaApnip, July 8.—In the Chamber of Depn- ties to-day, the Miotster of Forolgo Affairs stated that he had ordered two friatea to pre- pare to support tho protest of Spain against the actlun of San Domingo. Senor Castelar de- munded that tha Government Insist upon the summary’ puolshment of the suthoritics of Puerto Plata, MEXICO. TRE STOLEN WAN-VESSEL Havana, July 8&—Additional advices from Mexico announce that the Mexican war-vesscl Libortad, the crew of which mutinted, returned to Vera Cruz on the 90th of Juno ond sur- rendered, Thero were soveral dead bodles and Prisouers on bonrd, some of the’ crew having made a counter revolt at aca, BELGIUM. PLOTTERS. ee. ca Bruasese, July 8.—The Holle Belge announces that a iresh placard hos been found on the walls of the Palace of Juatica threatoning the Hfc of the King if he ratified the bill rocently passed by the Belgian Parliament depriving the clorgy of the control of elementary education, BULGARIA. PRINCE ALEXANDER. Vanna, July S—Prince Alexandor, of Bal- garla, had bere an enthusiastic reception, ARRIVAL AT TIRMNOVA, Tmxova, July 8.—Prinee Alexander has ar- rived, Tis reception was one of indescribabic enthusiasm, ROUMELIA. PROTESTS. Pai.raPoro.is, July 8.—Tho British Commis- lovers have mado strong representations to Alcko Pasha, Governor-General of Roumcelis, concerning his unsatisfactory admlolstration, ROME, GERMANY AND THE VATICAN, Roms, July 8.—The Diritto announces that the negotlatfons between Germany and the Vat- {can are Ikely soon to reault ia a gencral am- nesty to the tranggressors of the May laws, BURMA. } DISTURDANCES, Sama, July &—Scrious disturbances havo broken out below the town of Bhamo, Upper Burmab. CUBA. ' REDUCTION IN TAXES. Tlavana, July 8.—Newa from Spain of the reduction of direct taxes is recolyed with joy, especially by the planters. INDIA. ONOLERA. Lonpon, July &—A dispatch to the Daily News from Rangoon says the cholora améng the British troops at ‘Thayetmyo fs apreading. BY MAIS. A RECONOISANCH IN WHOM THE PRINCE IN- PERIAL PARTIOIPATED, 3 Lonton Times, June 20, ‘The following account of a reconnolssanes in whicn the Prince Imperial took part, before the one in which he met bis death, fs taken from the Natal Witness, the correspondent of which was with Brleadlor Wood's Flying Column: May 10.—[ returned? this afternoon from a three dasa’ patrol, In which little was dono, }if- tle was seen, und many wero disappaluted. ‘The force numbered about sixty of the Frontier Light. Horse, uuder Cupt. D'Arcy and Lieut. Biain forty uf the Basutos, under Capt, Cockuroll aru Liotits. Henderson and Raw, and about eiehty of Buker’s Horse,—the whole being undor the Mirect command of Col. Buller, Thisactlye commander war accompanied by tha Princo Imperial, Lord W. Beresford, “A, “U. who hus already made — himso(t famil- arith, thy ‘gonutry), aul Mr, Drummond. We first went to Gantereneo Hill, whure the tonts of the Ninoty-fourth sre now pitched; anda more uuluterestiuy, bare, and stony spot to pibchitents on euuld, nob ba diss covered elsewhere outside of thy Kaltara, ‘The forta ure, it must be sald, really good, ‘They are firm, rile, erin, aud ilxegs" From Coutor- cace HI we went afterwul to u- fariner's house about five miles off, and here we bly- onacked while our horses fed contentedly to the mealie folds, At dawn next morning the troous toul a slightiy southerly couray, crossing the Blood Hiver, sud paasing on tu a bill front which one could see Rorke’s Drift, same four milea distant, ‘Fhe couvtry froin Conference TUN is open, and a good road might ensily be wade hetween the two camps. We off-uadilled: ata krual where the Zulus tiad beeg overnight; in fact, w few of thelr nutnber had been there that morning, out did not wait for us, T saw them making off up Slrayo's Hill, Just upposite, and they did not stop until they Teached the top, when they took iustant pro- ceedings to call a gathering of the clan, The ‘Towu-Cricr, on a tray horse, gave duo noticy to all the cittzone Mying in Kroale; aud very soou we beheld, from our halting place below, a ree spectable psvombly of blackakine ao the rae above. ‘Te mun on the ray horse avted as Genera).as well us ‘Town-Cricr, and diviaed lis foreda Judicluusty, Ue posted bly infuutry on the left, aud his cavalry on the right of the pass, ‘the infantry, J should say, nuinbered lity, while the horsemen coald only muster elyht, Opposed to this army was Col.’ Huller’s Inreg- ular foree. Some of tho young hunds thought @ bloody coniict was: about to be fought out oo the bitisida; tho older handy calculated that ue Zulua would disappear as B000 as We moved Up. wards. ‘The older hauds were right Whoo Lieut, Raw, who had been sont on abead with six of ig Hasutos, reached the sum. mit, he found biusell in Undisputed occupation of the field, Alter gallowiuye about from point to point, the Prince espied &. Zulu on a distunt xopjo, and made after him. Off went Lieut. Raw and the six Basutos alter fhe tpaticot Prince, and on cae Baker's Horac {un the wake of the Baautos, ‘The kopjo was reached ty time for them to seu o few scared Zulus maklug of ucross country, fur down uu the plain below. In the hope tat one vulict out of ty might find a billet iu a black | man's body, Baker's Horae opened fire on tho fying svecks beneath. There were no caauaitica, in our tight was Isandinna; about ts tie vale leys ia which the Zulu army concealed them- Kelyce before making that terrible onslaught on the ammenapect ne: troops. - Atvay onthe left rosa the flat-healed Mblazatze, Round the bara of the hill on which we were, Col. Buller noticed four fares kraals, snd at once decided Upon burning them, Bakerta Troop sul the Frontier Licht Horse went away down the northwest slups of the mountain, and burnt the kraala there; while Col. Baller, with the Rasu- tue, descended on the sontheast slono, camming out upon a kraal wlicra the Zalus had been ro- cently engaged in shelling meatics, When the horses had hau thelr {ll thesa were deatroved, aud we proceetied to another Kraul, where wo were joined by the other mounted meu, After this we procesded homewntds, ‘The wind blew cold, most bittorly so; and for those who had no Dinukets Uero was vo sleep that pleht. ‘The Prince waa among the forlorn and coverless ones, and he wandered up und down discouso- lately. Next day nothing occurred. We break- {nated, we dincd; we raw no Zults, killed noth- ing; met with no rccidenta, nud sot Into camp o8 quiet ag yor like. Those who know the Zu- lus say the patrol has dono great pood in burn- Ing the Kraals, as such acts teach the natives that we mean to thoroughly suopress them, One thing has been ascertained, and that fs thut there are no Zulus In any nutober ta the north east corner of Zululand. POLITICAL, ILLINOIS. PREPARING FOR NXT YRAR'S FIGHT. Spectal Correspondence af Ths Tribune, SPRINGFIELD, I!1., July 8.—Whether this boa nation or not, one thing {6 certain—ite integral constituents are becoming hungrier and hungrier for otfico every day. Previous to the War tt was seldom that man announced him- sell acandidate even for Congress notil alone in the spring of the year fo which the election Was to occur; and it was the rarcat of acts fora man to make any canvass whatever for n Stato offico below that of Governor provious to the meeting of the Convention. Ambitions mon generally contented themaclyes with securing their own connties or districts, and left every- thing clsa_to popularity, nrostige, or that old- timo spirit of fairness which never failed to divide up the candidates, among the several Portions of the State, (iradunlly, boww- ever, 8 chanco [n the good old way has been brought about, until now itis the rule that no sooncr isn man in- stalled into office than he bégins to Intrigue for his succession or promotion toa highar one. Sometiines the people rebel against this dicta- ton, as was noticeably the restit with Gov. Bev- erldge, Auditor Lippincott, and Sieut-Gov. Glenn. Bat others have been more successful, ani are to-day—n year in ndvanes of tho meet- ing of the Covontion—working arduously for office again. One other thing, aside from per- sonal ambition, contributes to this periodical onslanght on the partof candidates upon the rural potitictans, and that is: the freedom with which rafirond managers. distribute annual Dasses among politicians, I have fn my mind now an ex-meniber of the Legislature who iso candidate for aon important State office, and who bas beon continually on the go since the Legislature nillourned, dnt who, had he not vasses on the leading trunk roads of Illinois, would not pay his fare ten miles from home to secure a delegate. This promiscuous issuing of meses to everybody who by some accident or other happous to write '' Hon.’ before higname is shameful; and, being shameful, it {a ale® trua to that extont that Is is disgraceful. The State campaign of 1880 has atroady-begun. Indeed, so much of the rascally and worthless logislation of last winter was done in, the Inter- est of ambitious politicians, that one is justified in saying the canipaign beran last winter, With- out destring to be understood as advertising any of these fellows, the following gentlomen have sofaralgmificd thelr willingness to servo the Stato as elther to fo out canvassing themsctves, send out frleuds, buy or subsidize newspapers: REPUBLICAN ASPIRANTS. For Governor—shelby M. Cullom, present in- cumbcat; Andrew Shuinan, Lieutenant-Govern- or; tsacc F, Morrigon, Jacksonville; Col Wiliam H. Thoropson, Chicago; John B. law. ley, Rock Istand; John I. Rinsker, Carlinville; doseph G, Cannon, Danville; Thomas & Ridg- way, Shawnectown; Greoubury L. Fort, Lacon. To this formidable list lus personal friends do- mand the addition of the name of Richard J. jglesby. For Lieutenant Governor—John M. Hamilton, Bloomington; ex-Speaker sJanics, Thightand Pork; A.-d. Kuykendall, Vienna; Joseph G. English, Danville; Benson Wood, Eiingham} LD. Whiting, Tiskitwa. For Attorney-General—James K. Edsall, pres, ent incumbent: Joho I. MeFie, Coutlerville; Washington Bushnell, Ottawa; Uenry A. Neat, Charleston; E, B, Sherman, Chicago; 1. B, Crocker, Mendota. For Btate Treasuror—Edward Rutz, who has held the office twice, and who bas followed Gen. Bates’ exampic, and moved to Chicago for another- nomination; dobn WwW. Bunn, Springbeld; K.K, Jones, of Quincy, the stund- Ing candidate; Washington Cockle, Peoria; E. C. 'Hamburgner, Quincy. For State Auditor-—Thomas B, Needles, pree- ent incumbent, and ex-Auditor Gen, Lippincott. For Becretary of State—G, Tl. Harlow, pres- ent incumbent: ex-Senator Henry D. Dement, Dixon; Edward C, Lovell, Elgin, DEMOURATIO ABPIRANTS, For Govyervor—Gen. Jamea W. Singleton, uineys William Brown, Jacksonville; Dernard HH. Trusdell, Amboy; Congressman aA, J. Sparks, Carlylo3 Congressman William’ M, Springer, Springfold; Jotun C. Black, Danville. For Stata Treasuror—Wilian R. Prickoty, Edwardsville; and Abraham Mayfleld, Lineoln, ‘The Democracy, not bolng so certain of suc- cess, have not brought out caudjdates for the other State offices. But tho usual hungry horde will bo on hand convention-day, Since the late judicial election In Chicago, ‘the Mn- comb £aq’e, Sprinztield Wonttor, Danvitle Lost, ant other Democratic papers, have brought out Carter H. Harrison a8 an available candidate for Uovernor, but Harrison repudiates unything of the kind, Carter realizes that the General As- sembly clected in 1880 wit] be called on to re- apportion the Btate for Congressional purposes, and he evidently designs bending all hts ener- gica to the maklug of a Congressional «diatrict whielt will Jaat him ten years,—infinitely prefor- able too barren nomination for Governor. I think you will find this Congressional reappor- Honment matter the secret that coverns Carter in bis Mayorial appoiutmonta. MENDOTA, Spectal Disnaich to The Tribune Mannota, 1],, July 8.—Owing to theact late- ly passed oy the Legialature empowering City Councils to clect their allicera by ballot, Meri+ dota na again o Morabal, a Street Supervisor, and a City Attornoy. ‘The eeven Aldermen who have for the past two yaura opposed tle May- or's nominations for suid oftices atone voted, five others refualng to yote, on the grounds that Forrestall, for Marshal, and Noijsly, for Supervisor, were vot the wnev thelr constite Uonts wanted, ‘Tho meoting wns a stormy one, and the seston Ineted til inlduight. Afr, Frank Boyder fs the City Attorney, ; DEMOCRATIC DOCUMENTS, POURING THEM INTO MAINE AND OUIO, special Dispatch to The Tribune, Waaiinaton, D. C., July &—Tpe Democrats are busy sending off their campaign material, ant have had the arrogance to take possession of the committee rooms at the Capitot Instead of hiring quarters for themselvea, ng the Repub- Mean Congresstopal Committee has done. The quarters choseu are the rovms of the Military Committee of the House, The objective points ofthe Committes at present are Maine at Oblo, ‘The specches chosen are the constitu Monal arguments of Carlisle, Randolph ‘Tucker, ant Frank SJlurd, tho apevch of Wallace. on the Army ull, and Gen, Bw ing’s speech on the Warner Silver bill, large quantities of which are boing sent to Matue. {tts noticabla that the tre-eating speecteg dellycred early in the session, in whlch 6 laat-ditchers announcod their programme, ore not revelving a large circulation, —“Thie face of Itself is a confession of judgment by the Democratic Congressional Committes that the Demgcrata ty Congrces did surreuder, LOUISVILLE, f REYUDLICAN NOMINATIONS, . Lovisviine, Ky., July 8.—The Republicans ot the elty aud county held 4 Convention at Leider- krong Hall this evening, und mado the follow- ivy nominations: For Senator, A. E. Whson, Chict Clerk of the Treasury under Secrctary Pristow, from tha Thirty-sixth District; O. G. Holt for the Uhint District, and Leckstes Kem- por for the Thirty-ltth District. For Repre- sentatives, Phil Vollimer, dacob Ranbold, A. d, Mallard, L, W. Dembltz, Eltas Thomason, Thuo- dore Conrad, and il, 8. Irvin, piper Pamphlet Describing the Pracvedings in the Caso uf Alnj, Andre, Westchester (P1,) Repubtican, A few days ago Charles Keech loft withusa pamphlet which would by interesting to our anuquartars, Lt (s eotitled © Procecdings of 3 Board ef General OF especting Muj. Joun Andre,” and dated Sept. 20, 1780." It opens witha letter from Gen. Washington to Cone tothe ea Ae Followiu; andra. cluding Lafayetro sand Sccuben, ateht Brigadior Generals, ond Juhn Lawrence, Judge Advocate General. ineluding a letter ington, in whieh trent with some person for important in- telligence, ducted within one uf your posts. Thus become a prigoner, I tad to concert my gress, dated {rom Robinson's Iouse, in tho Highlands, which recites the capture of Andre ‘and the attempt to prevent the eacnps of Armold this Ietter Js 9 list of eral Officors who tried Maj. It consisted of. eix Major Generals, in- the Board o Then camo the opentng proceedings, from Andre to Wash- he saya he came to To fayor tile he agreed to mest this person on grounds not within poate of either army, Day coming on, he was concealed, “ Against Ay atinuiation, my intention, and without my knowledge beforchand, | was con- four Excel- Jeney may conceive my sonsation on this occa- sion, and will imagine how much moro 1 muat haye been aifocted by a refusal to recondict me back the next night os 1 had been brought. cacape. I quitted my. unitorm, was pnssed anottier way in the night without the American posts to neutral ground, anid wus Informed that Twas beyond all armed partion, and left to press for New York, I was tukon at Tarrytown’? A pass wae laid before the Buurd from Gen. Arnold to dotn Anderson—Andro's assumed nume; also o letter from the Rov. Mr. Robin- sou, dated from the war-ship Valture, demand~ ing Andre's releaso; aml a letter from the same place from Arnold, askitys that protection be afforded his wife and sie be allowed to returo to Philadelphia, ‘The Board consiierad these subjects, and con- winded that Andre was a spy nod shonld suifcr death. News of the judgment was {mmetiately sent to the enemy's camp, aid every effort was made by Andre's friends to. release him, Sir Henry Clinton even sent Gen. Koberteon and two friends, under n flag of truce, to plead the causa of Andre; but atl in vain. - A letter {rota Arnold also begs for clemency for Andre, and vontains the following threat if it be not extended: Forty of the principal {inhabitants of South Carolina hove justly for- felted their Ives, which Daye hitherto been apared by bis Excellency Sir Jaties Ciloton, who cannot It Justice extoud his inerey to them any Jonger if Ma}, Andre sufters.”” ‘Tie pamphlet. concludes with a request. from Andregto Washington Uist he may be permitted to dic a soldier's denth, and not upow the gb: bet, In all nts communivations Andre speaks of the kindness he received at the hands of the Americans up to the dread day of the 8d of October, 1780, nt 13 o'clock noon, when the closing scene was enact: CROP REPORTS. ILLINOIS. Spectal Plapatehes to Tne Trioune. ° Wannen, Lake Co., July 8.—Flax and onts are unt short by droight 25 percent. Corn will atl bo laid by this wock. Meadows Ilght Hay- crop short. Suurnxyvinie, Shelby Co., July 8&—Winter wheat better than last season. Oats are short. Corn doing finely. May will not be half a crop. Neoga, Comberland Co. July 8.—Winter wheat ten bushels to the acre. Grain excollont. Cut short by drought. Onts half acrop, Corn promises better thun for five or elx years. Clean and growing faat. Hay inay moke half a crop. Enazangrntows, Mardin Co., July8.—Winter- wheat crop better than last year. Corn is in better coudition than for threo years, Dnuut, Jersey Co., Inly &—Winter wheat will yield tet bushels to the ocre. Three bushels Icsa than Jast year. The oat crop {s al- most a failure, To short to cut. May ts in about the sane fix.’ Corn in fins condition, JENSEYVILLE, derecy Co., July 8.—Quality of winter wheal better than Inst year. Yielding from fifteon to alxtcen bushels, Corn {s better than for years. Conintn, Williamson Co., July 8.—Winter wheat yielding ten to twelve dushols, Crop bottor ‘than last year, Poor stand of corn. What there is of it good. Pastures and meadows short. Tay crop short. - New Canton, Vike Co. July 8—Winter wheat will ylold seventcen bushels to the acre, Oats bave suffered by the drought. Corn dolng well, Jay poor and scarce. Kang, Greene Co., July 8,—Wintor wheat will yield olghteen bushels to the acre, Put up in fluc order, Short growth of oats, Corn ia booming. Early planted over a man’s head. Hay not over half a crop. . Bette Pramis, Hamilton Co., July 8.—Win- terwheat yielding eleven bushels to the nacre, Shortened by drought, but better than last ycar. Oata hardly worth cutting. Corn from five to six.feot high. “ Genrsxo, Heury Co., July 8.—Chinch-bugs and drought have ruined most of the epring wheat, Very thin. Do not expect moro than half acrop. Corn yery uneven. Oats have im- broyeds Hay will bea better crop than wo ex- pected, Ennion, Warren Co., July 8.—Oata short. Chiuch-bugs have injured spring wheat badly. Some have plowed it up. Never saw o better prospect for corn. WISCONSIN. Spectal Dispatch to The Trisune, LA Cnossz, Wis., July 8—Crop reports from many pofute in Northwestern Wisconain and Southern Minnesota, received to-day, indicate a much better condition of things thao had been hoped for after the sovere storm of Sunday, Tho cool, breezy weather of yesterday ond to- day has donaa world of good to the standing grain. Thereports from all points west of Lancaboro, forty miles from La Crosse on the Southern Minnesota, are all favorable. Wheat suffered Httle or uo damage from the storm, Enat of Lanesboro, in the Root Valles, the hill: alitc farms were pretty badly washed, Probably 800 neres of grain were destroyca in this acetion of Wisconsin. More than half of the wheat this Year i winter, which the farmora are now busy cutting. KANSAS. Avectat Dievatches ta The Tribune, Cnester, Jefferson Co, July 8—Winter wheat belng stacked, Haye had very heavy rains aluco harvest, and grain hae been aprout- ing In tho shock. Crecks have been yery hich, and scine tleids nearly ull washed away. Wheat will yield fifteen bushels, Osta about rondy to cut, aud much improved. Corn never looked better, In the alk. Weather hot and sultry. Corroxwoon, Chose Co, July 8—Wintsr wheat balfa crop. Drought hurt oata badly, Corn doing finely, Neven fect high. Minzuan Pornt, Anderson Co., Juty 8.—Win- ter wheat stacked in good order. Crop better than Ingt_ year. Oats too poor to cut, Corn very ood, omo, Spectat Dispatch to The Tribune. SHape, Athens Co., July 8&—Winter wheat mostly cut, Will come up to lust year’s crop. Outs not mora than half crop. Corn very backward and uneven. Pastures nnd meadows short, day will not be more than one-third of acrop, Cinamnxats, July 8.—Tolegraphio advices In- dicate thut the getieral rain-storms that have pravatlud in tho interior and aouthern portlons of Olio and Indiana the past fow days lava been of creat benefit to the growing corn. Tho wheat. has bocn damaved toaonio extent, though not suiliclently to materially effect the gencral result, . MICHIGAN. Avectal Disnatches t0 The Tribune, Hannisvitig, Atcona Co, July 8—Wintor wheat not cut yct. Prospects for a good crop. Pastures elim. Timothy falr. Clover good, Exvk Raving, Antrim Co, July &—Drought has vot injured us. Spring. wheat fine, Qate ure very xvod. Wilt have s good cropof hay, MINNESOTA, * pectal, Dispatch to The Triana, Wrona, Mino., July 8.—Reporta received to- day from ail polnts on the Witiona & 8t. Petor Kallrond sro favorable as to the condition of the crops, Nota single station reports any serious damage from the rain of Sunday and Atouday, INDIANA. ¢ Avectat Dispatch to TAs Tribuns, Hantroun Crry, Grant Co., July 8—Winter wheat neurly all in thy shock. Good crop. Qual- inv tine, Corn very small for the thine of year, Flax and oats are goo i a SUICIDE.: Special Dispatch te The Tribune, Orrawa; Ill, dply &—Lewis Frost, of this | committed, sulcide this after. danum, No reason for the city, 23 yeare ol noon by takin act cun be assigned. Soertal Dispatch to The Tribune, Mrwaukneg, duly 8&.—At an carly bour this morning Peter Gestner, a well-to-do Qerman clizen, for thirty-four yearsu resident of Mil- woukce, aud about GL years of age, auicided by cutting the arteries of his wrists with a razor, and then shooting hingelf under the chin witha, shotgun, Mental aberration, resulting from excessive labor fn perfecting a now water-wheel, is ascribed us the cause. Gestner resided at No, 915 Mill strect, Lovisvinnn, July 8.—A Courier-Journal apects] frou Maysyillo says thut Miss Bettis Kidwell, aged 17, tng at Franklin 1 ® womau of the town, being il an with the River Trentdown to the und nlso that portion of the Otanabee River ex- tending from its inlet at Sand Lake to Lock’s Heide, Peterboro, in the Provinee of Ontarto, are act apart for the natural and artificial prona- gation of Mille, Flomin, Bisapp County, killed herself with polson, appoint- ment tn love fs the alleged cause. Enectal Mapatch 10 The Triune Qnanp Rapips, Mich, duly 8—-A Mra. Tyler, onrager, go County, took morphine at Alloston, Nov Inst night, aud dled from tho, effects of ft this h morning, | antecedents, But little ts known of her history or &pectal Dieatch to The Tribune Dupugqun, Ia, Juty 8.—Ah old man named Fonst, living near Iimboldt, committed sul- elde by hanging himself with a fonce-wire, Tis relatives orderod him buricd under the treo from which he awang, ’ CANADA. Drowned—Qnarrol — Piacloultare — Crops in the Northweat—Cannibnliam—Tho Duke of ArgyliwA Church RulteTho Cano of Lteut,+ Gov, Letelller, Specta) Dispatch to The Trinune, Ponr Connonny, July 8.—The boat tn which the six loft hero last Thursday night for Buffalo has been: found by a datective In Bedjamin Ellsworth's farm-yard, near Fort Erie, Elis- worth says he found the boat on the beach Fri- day morning, and took {t to his place, Intending to advertise It, Parties are searching alung the beach for the boales, ‘the finding of the boat leaving no doubt as to their fate, Spsctat Dixeatch to The Tribune Montngar, July 8.—Capt. Kirwln, editor of the Catholle Evening Poit, and the hero of yesterday's bloodless dunl, to-day assaulted Mr. Baldwit Mart, another member of the Club, The parties met on 8t. James street, whon the pucilistic journalist knocked olf Tart’s hat, anc called him s coward aud a cur. Mr. Hort did not'retaliata'at the time, but it is aimosecartalit there will this time b oel. a a real Rvectat Dianatch ta The Tribune, Orrawa, July 8.—Goy, Lalrd, of Keewantin has sent iile tuinily to Priuce. Kdward’s Inlond on account of the threatened trouble among the Indians -of the Northwest. During the past month there wero thirty-seyon deaths from amatl-pox in this city. Soectat Diawvich to The Tribune. Orrawa, duly 8.—By an Order in Connell, the waters of “Rico Lakonnd tributuries, together Bay of Quin fish during the space of threa years from the Jat of May, 1879, Another delegation from the Nova Scotia Government nas arrived here, aud Lad un inter- view with the Cabinet in relation to procuring, oetter terme for the Province as to the Provin- einl subsidy. ‘Tho missfon has uot been euccess- ful. Col. Melcod, of the Northwest Mounted Police, hus bees appointed a Commissioner for the apprehension and aurrender of crimtnale from the States. “Intelligence from the Northwest represent the crop-prospecta as exerllont.- ‘The crov-re- ports from different parts of Manitoba are en- eournging, though constderable Juss hus been nun ned by tha heavy raing in certain localt- on. An Indlan hae been orrested at Fort Sas- katchowan, near Edmonton, for murdering and eating hia wifo and four children. ‘The Mounted Police found the hones, which bad been bailed and the flesh taken off, and the skulls, which had been smashed and the brains extracted. Hpectat Dispatch to Ihe Tribune. Montnmat, July -8—An tustance of the shrinkage in value of real catate fs afforded by the fact that the residence of Mr. Wililam Brown, known as Marclimont, and adjoining grounds, wore sold at Sheriff's sate for $5,050, Five years azo Mr. Brown refused $50,000 for this, one of the handsomest places in or around Montreal. Inn letter to Donald Ross, of Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, the Duka of Argyll eays: ‘My son and the Princess have indecd every reason tu be gratificd, as they are, with the recuption they hava met with in overy part of the Domtnion. Iam very sorry that it will not he in my power, on this occasion, to visit Nova Scoilay but fam well asqured of the kindness aud hospitality with which I should be received in that Province,” ‘The important caso of Doble against tho ‘Lem- porallties s'und of the Presbyterian Church is in progress hore, DBealdes the avidence of the Rev. Gavin Lang, the evidence of Jumes Croil, the Rev. John Macdonald, Douglas Brymner of Ot- tawa, and the Key. J. 8. Mullen has been taken enquette. ‘The Key. J. 8. Mallen was ex- ainined by consent. ‘The evidence ndduced gocs to show that the fund in queation was obtained by virtue of the connection of the Synod of Can- ada with tho Chureh of Scotland, nnd that the act of incorporation of the Board specitically sot up this fact. Mr. Crotl stated that, since July, 1875, the capital hed been reduced br $74,251.59. ‘rhe Roy. Mr. Lang produced a ietter from the Conyeners of the Colonial Cuminittee of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, addressed to him as Convener of the Corresponding Committoc of the Presbyterian Church in Canada inconnection with the Chureh of Scotland, intimating that the Roy. Mr. Spratt, one of the tninisters of the Church of Scotland, had been sent ss a dalegate to the General Read to convey cordial crectings, —thus showlng that the Synod in Canada ha connection with, and was recognized by, the parent Church in Scotland, Special Disvatch $0448 Trikene, Quenec, July 3%—In the Houao of Assombly, the Hon. Mr, Joly moved tho House into Com- tuittes to cousider resolutions embodying an address to the Government sotving forth the reasona why Licut.-Goy. Letelller should not be dismlased. Mr. Joly spoke to his motion. Ie contended that tho Province_of Quebec hnd an autonuiny of {ts own, and its Legisiature wos only inferior to the Fedoral Legislature when it did wrong. He pointed out thut, av cording to some people’s pretenslons, the Lioutenant-Governor was only a salaried officer of the Federal authorities, Ilo showed, however, that the Dominion Govorn- ment had nothlug whatever to do with the dig- missal_of a Licutonant-Governor,—tha Goy- ernor-Gencral haylug that right yeated in him- self by the uct of British North America. He asked how It contd be posaibic that a party-voto could brosk the corner-stone of a political edl- fice, Ilo earngetly deprecated party-votes on such important matters, and spoke of the neces- sity of guarding jealously the autonomy of the Provinco, At is aunounced that the present Government intend creating » Department of Education,— the Conmmissioner to be a member of the Cabl- ‘net, und hold a aeat in the House, <a JEFF IN LUCK, Dispatch ta Evening Telegraph, New Onvrans, July 8.—1t fs learned that the Inte Mra, Sarah A. Doracy, of Mississipp!, who dicd in this clty last week, leaves a will bu- queathing her whole estate to Jefferson Davis, In maklng this bequest Mra, Dorsey rofers to tha great services and sacrifices of Mr, Davis on behalf of the Bouth, reproves his countrymen for thelr failure iu cratitude and appreciation for such sorvices; und revrets this sinall coutri- bution which she is able to make for his relief, ‘The catate embraced In this legacy includes two. larko plantations in the upper part of thy dtate, and the elegant villa at Beauvoir, on the sea- coast, Where Mr, Davis {a now sofourning, ‘the climate and situation of which bave proved cs- pecially favorable to Mr. Davia’ health and hia present occupation of study und labor in the praperedon, of his book delunsive of his admin- stration of the office of President of tho Con- fudorate States, — FOSSILS. Special Dispatch ta The Tribune. Orrawa, Ill., July 8.—The State Natural His- tory docloty met here last cvoning, and arranged for the exploration of the Ilinols Rivor and Valluy to the westward. Today the whole party, consisting of a dozen or more meinbers, aet out, divided {nto two partlos, by boats aud wagons, fora week's inycatization among the rich geological apeciinens and formations of tho valluy. ‘they will give particular attention to the study of those natural curiositics, Sturved Rock, Devry Park, and Bpllt Rock, beslde seek- ing Information among the other branches of ectence. : ny OBITUARY, Apecial Dispatch to Tae Tribune, Bioournaton, JU., July 8.—Mr. Groon filler, of this city, died to-day, aged 70, He wasanavve of Mason County, Keutucky; moved to Illinois twenty-llye years ago, and has lived in Bloom. ington gud -Chenos ever since, He was once wealthy, but bad lost nearly all bis possessions. awe A Moss estimable and much respected e i LITTLE PITTSBURG, Butcial Diapused to The Tribune, + Dunvey, Col., July 8.—In the United States Court to-day Justice Miller geve an opinion for aninjuoction jp the caso of Foss & Hunter agatust ‘The Little Pittaburg Consolldated Miu- tug “Company, and ordered thd defandunt to make miouthly returns on oath of all profits, aud pay 20 per cent thereof into we Registry of tha Court for the compluinants, to abldy the event of the suity olso required the dofendant to allow contplaliatta access to tle tnines aud books, to Verify sat! returns, This preserves tho complatuante’ interests itutil they can bave dlutermined the yalldity of the Trusteca’ tleed whereby they claim their one-fifth interest, was cbuveyad to the defendant without anthort- ty and withgut consideration, ‘The property ta ‘ealned at aomathing Vike $5,000,000, although the stock of the defendant fs $20,000,000. Dexvun, Col., July &—In the cng of toss & Hunter vs. The Little Pittsburg Consoiidated Couipany, Justice Miller, In the” United states Cireuit “Court, to-day declined to grant an in- Junetion or appoint a Kevelver, but ordered that the Cutnpany tnitke sworn monthty returns of its earnings, that one-iiith be deposited in Court, mul that the compialnante be permitted to ex: amine the Looks of the mine, * eh ieee - THE STORM. Its Ravages on tho Shore of Lako Pepti. Snectal to Bt. Paul Proneer- Press, Laxs Orty, Miun, duly 44—Iere ot Lake City, the atorm of Wednesday night was one of unprecedented sevarity. In the morntng evory one was astontahod to flnd that but little dam- ago had been done in the city or ite Immediate vicinity. ‘The steamer Popin, which arrived hero early {a the day, brought the news of great destritc- (lon at polntson Lake Popin above this .city. Immediately after «lnucr, a lorca party. was made up hore to visit the uppor Inke neighbor hood,—the steamer Pepin, Capt. Murray, taking: tho party up. We first visited the Village of Matden Rock, on the Wisconrin side, and reven wiles above Lake City. ‘Tho appenrnnee of the little town we found to’ bo truly lamentable and:hard to degeriba faithfully, The village fs located along the narrow strip betsreen the Jake and the bluffs, and wp o large ravine which comes Into the placo at right angles and about the middle, This ravine extends back Into the country two or three mites, und up this ravine lies the road run- ning to Plim City. Along each alle of this rond, for a considerable distance back, Hes a largo portion of the town, and down this great gully eame the torrent in the binckness-of the preced- {ng nigot,with a force and destraction thatinade {he stoutest hearts quall tn its presence. Wo found net 20 much as a drop of water, where o fow hours before the rushing waters came down to the depth of etght or ten fect, reaching from bluff to bluff, and sweeping everything before it. ‘The bed of the raving {s 9 “loose rock” formation, and, aa for up as wo went, an Irregulur gully had becn washed ‘out from ton to thirty feat in width, nud six or cight feot {in depth, the’ very rocks haying been washed into piles Wke driftwood, Jeaying in ragged, savage-looking wreck of tho whole Hitle valley. We saw one rock weighing neat half a ton, which bad been acooped ont of the bottom of the washout and hurled Ike a cork elear out of the yawning ditch and over onto the side of the ravine, Atong this ravine, onelther alde, barns, stables, woodsheds, and one or tivo residences liad been torn to pleces, mud carried a moss of debris to the Inke half u milo below. Several cows, hoge, and other do- meatie anlmals were clther smashed by the fall- ing buildings or awept away in the flool, A corn-trib, containliug 600 bushels of corn, was carried off by the flood, a store front was blown In by the wind, 9 grain warchouse wrecked, root blown off, the steepls of tho school-house blown aivay, and the large bell hurled clear into the adjoining prewises, cutting off a plum trea in its pnésage. ‘The wonder Is that In at) phe food below nud the tornado and lightning overhead, there wns not a iifo lost in tho village, That portion of tho town lying paralle) with the lake-shoro was Hterally filled with rubbish, rocks, trees, and logs, which cither came down the raviuo or were washed from the hilla in the rear. ‘The heaviest losers at Malden Rock aro R. M. Sauda, Dr. Golding, Capt, Louk, Ed Edhotn, and Tin Tavlor, While at Malden Rock, we Jearned that the family of Mr. dohn Davis, residing up the Rush River Valley,—which cotnes {nto the Inke about a milo above the yillaze,—had becn washed out, and his danghter, a young lady, was lost, and Mr. Davis and, bis wife barely escaped’ with thelr lives. ‘There were rumors, too, that great Gamage lind been done aud other fives lost in tho Upper Rush-River country, but we could gather nothing further tuat was rellable.: Mr. Davia, after getting bis wife ont of the house and toa place of safety, returned for his daugh- ter, Ho found several fect of water alrendy in the houge, and the flood Increasing avery second. Getting hot of the young lady's ‘hand ho started with her through tho | torrent; but upon wading arotind near the ' cor- ner of the howse the doughter stepped into adenp hole, already scooped out by the flood, when they lost their hold of cach other's hand, and sho was fnatantly swept under and away in the bideous flood, nado more hideous by the terrors of tho night overhead. Mr. D, only saved himself by an olmost suporhuman effort. The young lady's body was fond fn the morning in the driftwood some ways below where the honse stood, From Malden Rock the boat headed for tho high and beautl{ul range of bluffs ou the Min- neaota side, at the lower extremity of which is located the beautiful Froutenac, or Lake Side watorIng-place, and is knowa as Point-no-Point. Abont one mile from Lake Side ts. whero the eyclonc—donbtless the same that dealt such de- struction at Vasa—came down the bluff, crossed the lake und wont ov {ts way through Wiscon- sin, ‘The breast of thts range of hills is heavy wooded, aud the path of the great fun- nel-shaped pillar of destruction fs plaln- ly visthic. The timber {s literally «torn to pieces, and trees twisted off Ike pipe-stems and were either carried into the lake or else dashed to the carth in indescribable con- fusion. ‘The path down the bluff {s about forty tosixty rods wide, and Its descent was somé- what obliquely made. From here wo turn the prow of the boat near- W straleht back again toward. the Wisconsin shore to visit the Hamlet af Warrentown, lo- catod about threo miles above Maldow Itock 'Vil- Ingo, and inthe mouth of the noxt {ntersectin; raving of any {mnortance above the mouth o' the Rush River Valley. Tuls portion of our trip was the saddest, and sad indeed {t wos. Tho Uttie valley tat comes in st Warrentown from the country back fs wider than tho one ot Malden Rock, snd {s cultiyated, but now the corn and gardons are almost buriod out of sight, while portions of the ficlds aro washed away, and where thrift was so lately vialla 1s vow a scene of dosolation, yawning cheams, and ruin genorally, ‘The formation here is’ mostly a raat tough clay below the upper soll, and the little valley, from half a mtle back clear to the Inka, is gullied and torn in avery direction, andtoagreatdepth About fifty rods up from the luke aliore stood the house of a Air. Rush, and a Hitle belaw the homo of Mr. Berton. ‘The former family consisted of husband, wifo, and daughter, tho latter about 18 years of ae. Thelr house waa lifted from its foundation and torn into kindling-wood py the -fload as it started fur the lake, and the whole family were lost era they could even awnke to n realizing sense of thelr territle situation, During the early forenoon tno daughter was found {1 tho edge of the luko among tho drift, und a ttle later the inother’s remains wore also recovered from the dobris. ‘The father's body tag not yet been found, so far os we can lear. ‘The residence of Mr, Sexton shared the zame fato aa that of his nelebbor; but, having re- evlved notles of the coming flood a faw minutes earller, ho got his wife and child together; and they wore drifted into a neighboring plum grove, Whore they made out to keop their heads above water, until—as if sent by Vrovidenco—a skit floated down and directly to where they were struggling among the tree-tops. Mr. Sox- ton ayummoned alt his remaining strengto, and mado out to get himself aud Jomily luto it, when they reached high ground, without serious injury. ' tho only sorloug.damace at Frontenac was the buroing of ono of the beautiful cottages bolupging to Gen, Garrard, Se Hate In Braall, Nature, From time to time in all parts of Brazil the plantations are subject to the depredatiuns of armice of rats that issue from the forests and. consume everything cdiblu that comes in thelr way. During arecent excursion in the Prove ince of Purans, Mr, Derby fad an alinost not- versal Jack of corn throuchout the Province, dug to such Inyasion of rats, by which almost the entire crop of Jast year had been destroyed, This javasion, or playito us it {s called, is said to occur at intervals of about thirty yeurs, and to be elmultancous with the arying of the taquara, or bainbou, which 3 Brazillan foreata, ‘The popular oxplanation is, that-every cane of bamboo sprouse with a grub, the germ ofarat, withio it, and that when the bainboo ripcus aud dies the qerm becomes & fully-deyeloped rat and comes out to prey on the plantations. An cducated and observant Englishman—Herbert H. Mercer—who has resided @ number of years. in the Prov- Ince nnd had an opportunity of studying the phenomenon, furnished Mr. Derby the fol- lowing rational and curious explanations The hambou arrives at maturity, flowers und aceds, atintervala of several yours, which doubtless vary with the different species. ‘The period for ihe species most abundant in Parana fs thirty years, The process, instead of Dewal simulta- Deous, occuples abuut tive years,—a Jew of the canes going to secd thy fret year, an tocroased bumber the second, and so on progrossively, till dually tho remululvg and larger portion ol everywhere abounds in the: the ennea seed atthe anmo tine, Each cana beara about a peck of edible seod, resembling tice, which is very fatand nourishing, avd is often enton by the Indlans. fhe quantity pro- ‘duced Ia enormous, and large areas aro often covered to adepth of flve ursixinches, After eceding, the cand” dles, brenks uff at thd root, nud falls to the ground, the process of decay being haatened by the borings of larve which ive upon the bamboo and anpear to be particu. larly abundant at seeding-time. ‘These larva have, doubtless, riven rise to the story of the grub developlugintoarat. New canes spring up froin the seed, but require seven or clit years tabecome fit for use, nnd thirty tu reach mas turity. With the sucden and constantly-Increag= ing stpply of uonriehing foot fora period of flo Veara, the rata and mico, both of native and imported species, increase extraordinarily in nutabers, ‘Che fecundity of these animals {4 woll known, and -the result, after four or five years of an unusual and constantly-Increasing supply of excellent foot, and in thé absence o! enemies of equal fecundity, can “readily be im- agined, ‘The Inst crop of the seed belng mature and fallen te the ground, the first rain causes it todecay inthe space of avery fow days, Tho rate, suddenly deprived of foud, begin Lo mf: #rate, tnyading the plantations nnd houses, and constining everything that dovs not happen to be repugnant to the not very fnstidions palato ofa famlshing rodent. If it happens nt the time of corn-vianting, the seed fs consumed a4 fost 08 it can bu put futo the ground, ‘The tnaudtoca Is dug n0j The rice-crop, {f {t hoppons to be newly sown or in aca, is consimed, as ia also overs thing in the hone futhe way of provisiong aud leather, {f not carelully guarded In tin truuke, ELECTRIC LIGHTING. A Paritamentary Roport on Its Success and Its Uno In the Faturo. - ... London Times, dune wo, ‘The Select Committee of the Mousa of Com- mons appointed “to consider whether it fs de- sirable to authorize municipal corporations or other Jocal authorities to ndopt any schemoa for Nahting by electricity and to consider ‘how far and under what conditiong, If at all, gas orother public compantes should be sulhorized to aup- Diy lignt by electricity,” have agrocd to the fol- lowing report: ‘The general nature of tho electric light nas been wellexplained In the evidenco of Prof. Tyndall. Sir Willinm Siomens, Dr. Hoptdusen, and others, It ts an ovalittion of scientille dis covery which has beon in active progress durliy the whole of this century, Essentially the clec- trie ght -is produced by the trnsformae lon of enerey either through chemical or mechanical means. The cnergy may be de- tived from a natural force, ns, for inatance, a waterfall, or through combustion ‘of a material in the cells of a voltaic battory or of fuel ina furnace. The oneuty belng convert. eq fnto an electric current may be used to man- ifest clectriclight by passing between carbon points, or by -ronderlug incandescent solid bodfes, such as iridium, A remarkablo fcatura of the electric Neht fa that it produces a trans- formation of energy in a singulurly completo manner. Thus the energy of one-horse power may be converted into gnalizht, and yields a luminosity equal to twelve-candle power. But the same amount of energy transformed {nto electric light produces - 1,600-cundie power. It is not, theroforo, surprising thut. while many practical witnesses sce serious aiill- culties {n the apeady adaptation of the electrly Hvht to useful purposes of flumtnaticn, the aclontific witnesses see In this economy of forca the means of great industrial development, und helfeve that in the future it fs destined to takea leading part in public and private illumination, Teere ft ‘oue point ou which all witnesses con- curred, that Its use would proiduce ttle of thuit yitiated alr which {3 largely formed by the products of combustion of ordinary iluminants, Sclentifle witnesses also considered thut in the future the electric current inlght be extenslvely used to transmit power as well as light to con- aldcrable diatances, so that the power appticd Lo mechantenl purposes during the day infeht be made available for lieht during the night, Your Committee only mention these opinions as showlne the importauce of allowing ful devel- oprrdat to a practical application of clectricity, which is belloved by competent witnesses to have future important bearings on Industry. ‘So far as the practical application of the cle~ tric ight has already gone, there seems to bo no reagon to doubt thut. it has eataplished fitxelf for lighthouse iliumination and is fitted to illu. mine larze symmotrical placos, such na squares, ublic halls, roilway-stations, and workshops. tt Ys used in'Paris for lighting shops which re= olre a Nett by which different colors may bo dstingntaied ana uns recently been used in England for the game purpose with satisfactory results, Many triols bave been made for strect iuminatlon with greater or less succoas, Compared with gos, the economy for equal iMumination does not yet appear to be conciu- alycly established, Although in somo cases the relative economy for equal candiec-power is on the side of the electric-ltht, yct'in other cases gas Slumination of cqual turensity hus the ud- vantage. Unqtestionably the rlectric light bas not made that progress which would enable it in fits present condition to enter Into gencral competition with gas for the prdiuary purposes of domestle supply. In large establishments the motors neecesary to vroducu the electric Hebt may be readily provided, but so far us wo have received evidence no system of central origin and distribution sultable to houses of moderate size has hitherto buen established. In considering how far the Legislature should {ntarvene in the present condition of elecurie Hehting, your Committee would observe geu- erally that in a system which js developing with remarkable rapidity it would be lamentable If there were auy legislatvie restrictions calcu- lated to interfere with that development. Your Committee, however, are notin a position to make recommendations for conditions which may hereafter arise, but at present do not oxist, astothe distribution of olectrie currents for lighting private houses from a-contral source of power. No legislative powers are required to onable lurce establishinents, such a6 theatres, hatls, or workehops, to generate electricity for their own use. If corporations and other Jocal authorities bave not the power under cxistiny statutes to tuko up streets and Iny wires for street lighting or other public uso of the cluvtric lght, four Cotnuittec think that amplo power should bo mivon them for this purpose. ‘There sceme to be soine conflict of evidence ns to whether the extating powers are sufiiciont or not. But even iu regard’to local authorities It would bu neves- sary toimpose restrictions upon placing the wiroa too near the tolegraph-wires used by tho Post-Ofllco, as tho transmitting wor of the Jatter would bo {njurlously affected by-the too close Sroxunley of Use powerful electriccurrents for producing light. ’ Gas companies, in the opinion of your Com- mittee, havo no special claims to bs conaiderea as the future distributors of olectric Hight. ‘They possess no monopoly of lightinz public strects or private houses beyond that which js civen to them by their power of laying pines in tho streats. ELlectric. light committed to their cara might bave a atow develonmont. Besites, though gas compaules aro likely to benefit b: the supply of jas to zas ongines which aro welt suited as machines for producing electric gn the general processes of was manufacture an supvly are quite unlike thoso needed for tho production of electricity as a motor or {llumin- aut. Your Committce, howover, do nob consider that the time has yot arrived to'cive general powers to private electric companies to break up the strocta, unicas by consent of the local outborities, {¢ lv, however, desirable that local authorities should have power to give fecilities to compantes or private individuals to conduct exporiinents, When the progross of invention briige a domand for facilities to tranamit cluc tricity ag a source of power and lghe from a common centre for manufacturing and domes. tic purposes, then, no doubt, the public must reeelve compensating advantages for a monopoly of the use af the streets. As the timy for this has not arrived, your Committee do not enter Into this subject further in detail than to say that in such a case jt might bo expedient to givy tothe municinal authority 8 profercnes durin; alimited period to control the distribution and use of Lhe elcetric light, and, {ating their ace coptance of such a preference, that any mo- nopoly given toga vrivate company should be restricted to the short period required to re- muuerate them ‘for the undertaking, with a revisionary right in the municipal authority to purchase ‘the lent wod machinery ou easy tern. Butat the presont tle your Committes do not cousider that any further specilic recom mendation le vecessury than that the local au thorittes should have full powers to use the alectric Huht for ‘purposes of public ituninas tion; and dat the Legislature should stow its willingness, when the demand arlses, 40 ive all roasonable powers for the full development of electricity as a source of power and Nght. Dr. Lyon Playtair was tue Chairmen of the ‘ountmlttee, and bis draft report was adopted, — a —— Too Much of wn Argument, A writer in a religious nowspaper thinks. that the craze for bicycles will be brief becausa it ta not becoming, ahd says: “Think of Presitent Hayes or President Porter of Yale Collego on 4 bivyclat" To this the Albany Juurnal respondes “This sort of argumont long ago ccused to im- preas. Think of Mre, Heung runni fire-engiue, of Longtellow in blue oe! tug itias retail grocery, of Rapbac! a oranges three for e quarter, of St. Jaul playing croquet, -You can’t think of ft, cau yout But hocausy you can’t, shall nat enyiucs run, or groceries be kept, or oranges he veuded, or croquet be played? Ge to, thoy foolish pare graphist.”