The New York Herald Newspaper, June 19, 1875, Page 4

aaa a wary th was a talk with Clay en the aud probabilities of tue election, Cla; epetnies Wita the utmost freedom of men and things, *in- timated doubts and prepossessions cen ernivg individual friends of mine, to of which I Metened with due consideration, morning after this conversanion appe-red tne charge that between Mr. Clay and Adams there wag been a Corrupt bargain and sale. ‘The letter Mauking thla cuarge was publisned in a Pailadel- his paper anonymously, and intimated that Clay faa odered to sell out his innueuce to Jackson for | kson declined to | tae Secretaryship os Scute ; tuatd make any varguin, ana as a consequence Cly had transierred tis influence to Jou Quincy Adams, | Olay pubussed a card on the muruing of January 31, saying that the author of the charge Was ‘a base aud infamous ¢ luiato’, adustard apd @ liar,” wherenpon at e Kremer, a Memoer of Coa- gress from Penpsyivania, avowed himself as re- | sponsible for the siory. Kremer sbrank frem the controversy, aud decie and make yoo his enari PRESIDENT AT LAST, On the 9tm of Fevruary, 1525, Congress elected Joun Quincy Adams Presiusut, ne receiving tue Votes Uf tuirteen States, ARdrew Jackson o/ seven, W.H. Crawford of jour. Aiexander H, Everett was the first to notify Adams of Dis iriump, Cou- gratulations poured 19 upon im, ‘Those ol my wile, children aud family were cordial nd atte ing, and I received an affectionate uo trom =r. -Rutus = King, = of New York, | written in the Seaate Onamber alter tue eveut.” ‘ihe Russian Minister caileu to congratu- | late Bim Upon Ene Iss) In tae evening he went. to the Presidenc’s drawing room. “It was crowded to overflowing. General Jackson was alu we shook hauds, Me was aitogetber and courteous, I diy Sulututiuns.”’ “I enclose Mr, Ruius King note, with w letter of three lines to my lather, asking lor bis blessing aud prayers on the event of tuis day, the most importabt of my Ife, and Which 1 would close as | began, with supplications to the Father of Mercies (that its copsequeaces muy redound to His re and to the wellare of may country. After | returned from the drawing Tvom & band of musicians Came and serenaved me at my house.” The correspondence between Mr. King and Mr. Adams is worthy of reproduction @ rare dramauc aod domestic eVent in nistory. RUFUS KING TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. SENATE Caan, Feb. 9, 1 My Dear Sin—We have at this Imocient Beard ine ie pf the election, and 1 send you and your venerable ther mny witectiouate congraiulatious upon your choice s President of the United States on the drst he Hiuse ut wepresentatives. Lt include your lather, 1 consider your election as the best amends jor the’ i Justice of Which he Was made the vicim. To me and dune che choice bas been such as we have cordially boped and expected. KCFUS KING. The reciprent of this note in bis turn sent it 1m- mediately oy post to his latuer at Quincy, with tae doiloWing accumpanimMeat:-— 1 JOUN QUINCY ADAMS TO JOUN ADAMS. i Wasuinaron, Feb. 9, 1825. My°Dxan axp Hovonsp Fatuxa—the inclosed note from Mr. King will inforin you of the event of tis day, upon w hich 1 can only offer you my congratuiations and ask your biessiug und prayers. Your atfecuouate aud dutiful son. JOHN QUINCY ADAM Joun Adams was at this time infirm in body, yet Be did uot iall to respond to the felicitatious of Dis 60L :— JOHN ADAMS TO JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. Quincy, Feb. 15, 1825. ever did J feel so much ‘The multitude of wm: Thave your letser of the Sth. solemnity as upon this occasio thoughts and the intensity of my feelings are two muc! for & mins Like mine, ii its uineuet year, May the Diessing of God Alanghty continue to provect you to the end of your life, as it has heretofore protected you in so remarkable a ‘manner irom your cradie! I offer the same prayer tor your lady and your tamily, and am your affectionate father, JOUN ADAMS. CALHOUN THREATENS WA, _The next day Daniel Webster, with Joseph Vance, of Ohio, and Wiliam Archer, of Virginia, a@uneuuced to Adams Oflcially bis election. Al- wouxu on the throne troubles came, and tucy were the Drst sigus o1 that terrific political con- Uroversy walch was to eud the “era of good leel- ing” and introduce the stormy career of Audrew Juckson, lwo days alter the election George Sullivan iniermed Adams that Mr. Caihoun was anXious to have Joel K, Poinsett, who Was alter- ward Van Buren’s Secretary of W. tary of State, And Lauwdon Cleves, 0 rum Suut | Carolina, formeriy Speaker 0/ tue House, to be | Secretary 01 the Treasury, and toat if this was | not done tuere would ve War upon tue admiuis- | twanon, “1 told Sullivan,” sayy Adams, ‘tuat I | woulda some day call Ou Lim to testly to these facts In & court Of justice.” “i had no doubt Mr. | Calhoun, im holding tis laogusge to him, Im- | feuded it shoud coms to me, ald that its object | Was (0 lulimidate and aeter me Irom the noi- | imation of Mr, Clay; that 1 bad heard tue same in- | wn Lima through otuer channels, and, | Muty, at some future day some occa- rise Oi necessity for proving the | » In which case f spouid certainly | He said he should certainly toen | reluse to answer. 1 said bis relusal to unswer | Would be as good for me as the a: er iiseit.” | “This,” says Mr. AGams 1b Commenting Upon the | tion, “is to Uring in Jackson as the uext | t under the apspices of Caluoun.” “1 | It is not io man that rec The power which | airected the steps o! the great men Of those days | wurely blasied the fair ho; ot calnoun and | made Jackson, whom he was striving to serve | bis bitter and jieloag eoemy. The next day Mr. AGumis ouerred Mr. Clay ine State Vepartmeat, ‘Waich be accepted. | An effort was wade to substitute DeWitt (itn. | ton, and if the event of falling im that, to Dave | him made secretary a: the Treasury. Clinton evi- dently made un earnest fight to obtain a seatio | the Cabinet of Adams, but withou: success, as the | Treasurersmip Whicd Le craved was coulerrea upon Ricoard Rush, of Penusyivanis, who nad won tne | admiration of Adams by nis demesoor in Eogiand. Adams asked Crawiord to continue in the lreas- | Ury, DUS be declined tue Ofer ada Was so much sbaken 10 health that he retired from public lile only io be appointed by AGams toree years later | vo be Judge of tae District Court in Georgia, which | Odice be weld uti bis death, ia 1834, Caluoun ve- | came Vice President and this left the Secretaryship vt War Vacant, so that in selecung nia Cabinet AGams appointed simpiy three members, retulp- jag SoUluarc, McLane and Wirt, woo had served | under Mouroe, lt was not uotil Jackson came | ipto power toat the custow of making sweeping Temovais irom office became the rule Of politics, INAUGURATION OF 4DAM3, “March 4.1825, alter two successive siee Bights, lenter upon this Gay with supplication to Heaven, frst for my Country, second for wyseif and those coonected with My good name and jor- | tunes, toat the last results of its events may be | auspicious and blessed.” This War tue Insagura- | tion Gay of Jonn Quinsy Adams as the sixta rresi- | seat of the United states. At nalf-past eleven o'clock he drove to the Senate Cusmber, accom- pPauied With an escort of several companies of | Militia aud w cavalcade of citizens, southara and | ‘Wirt riding m his carriage, James Monroe foliow- 1D hi» Own carriage. After he deé.tvered nis Ugural address irom the Speaker's chair to crowded auditory, and probouncea the oath of omfce from a volume of jaws neld up) to him py Jonn Marshall, Chief Justice of the United States,” he went to the Presidents Bouse to puy his respects to Monroe, and after- ward to a ball at Carust'’s Hall. “I closed te Gay a8 | began, with thaukseiving to God for all His mercies abu faV.ra past, and with prayers for the continuance of them 'o my Country, aud to myselfand mine.” Tee next morning be Romi~ natea .iay tw be Secretary of state and Kichara Rush to ve Secretary of ive Treasury, thus sadly ing DeWitt Ciluton, to whom he offered ou to Engiaod. clinton, however, de- clined, ana Kuius King accepted the kmbassy. it i odd wo find Clay urging the pomi- nation of Willam Henry Harrison. who was afterward |v defeat bim for the Pre: i JOFr tae wiission to Mexico. Among the courte: she new President received was a private jeter George Cauning, woich gave the assurance 19 persoval wishes had altogether been fa Vorable to tie election of Mr. Adams.’ We observe, 100, that Samuel ovley, a journeyman mecaan- ical instramen: maker ol New York, came ali toe Washington to present the Premdent th # box Of misiature knives, forks, razors and scissors, made by himseli. [tod nim'l made but wonid On in, tals case, considering it us ma ie example of skill ingenuity, which I suould be glad to exnivit assucn to my iriends.”” to be secre- | cy, eR LIPE IN THE WHITE HOUSE. ! The volume cioses with Adams fairly embarked Upon tue Presidency. The only sign Of opposition that bis administration receiver at the close of this book Was evoked by the appoiutment of Mr. Clay to the Departmeng@r State. Upon his con- Brmauon by the Senate there were twenty-seven yeas and fourteen pays. Among the Days were Andrew Jackson, Hayne aud Nathaniel Macon. Atong those who confirmed wr. Clay were eu ton aud Van Buren, afverward to pecume the Berce partisans of Jackson. Mr. Adams’ life as President was quiet and iodustrious. We have a wiimpse of fis Habits which is Worth repeating bow :—"'Since my removal to the Presidential man- s10N | rise BoOUt five; read two chapters of Scott's ‘Bivie aud Commentary’ and the curresponaing commentary of Hewlett; toen tue morning news- pers and paviic papers irom tue several de- pariments; write selaom and But euougi; break- jast an four, from ping tw ten; then nave a suc. cension Of visitors. Upon dusiDess, io Fearon of Diace, Solicitors jor doastiona or lor mere euri- ' Ost, from eleven till velween four ana five O'clwwk. Lhe veads of departmenis, Of Course, vc. cupy much of tus time. Becween ioar and six 1 take a walk of tnree or four miles. Dine trom hali-past ve till seven, and irom dark unt avout eleven l generally pass tue evening in my cham ber signivg iaud graote or biank -puteuts, ta tae wmtervai ef which, for the last ten days, 1 gave browgut up turee mouths of urrears in my | @iary index, Avout eleven i retire to bed. MY evournys are Lot so free from interruption as 1 iad moped and exvecied they would v@, nor Dave i tue prospect oj methoulzing the aistribu- | Mon Of my time to my OWN Fatiafaction, Luere is uel tO VOrFect ANG relorm, Bud tue precept of Giligence is aiwayy timely.” @ cannot be ee thie review than by qeotias votiona) cosracter from ae refaces them to the ent the year preveding Bim upe Wectiou \o (pe Presluenoy:— Aligracious Loss dawning Seb bua! Pes, ite ei Gre, with impioring c bb, Jor Vitiue, TOF the oRy. be tides ut (Oy OF surroWw ruil, Me, Lord, pomse@wion of my soul, eved sednes, Wits sendiast uiind @ sere to bear i Usiel CA FORS, oar. ‘crows vl myry's ever oe wie eat busthow 9 ed Lo KU beiore the House | 8. received numerous | } huve a whole “setting” oi eggs spoiled.—, | Of our farmers this week, end all agre: , Wito it, | Where the n 5 ' gloriousiy. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1875.-TRIPLE SHEET. ' VEGETATION’S FOES, A General Onslaught by the Bugs and the Worms. BY THE COLORADO BEETLE. pais Et Serious Damage Threatened to All the | Staple Crops. | RAVAGES ee GRASSHOPPERS MOVING ‘TO THE NORTHWEST. pint en Ae | Ravages of the Army ard Measuring Worms on the Grain and Fruit, CHINCHES DESTROYING THE WHEAT From all parts of tne country we are constantly | summer assault upon the potato flelds, the wheat | flelds andthe corn flelds of the land. The West | has suffered most; but the East is not escaping. | Formerly the attention of farmers and scientists | was devoted mainly to the extirpation of diseases | among plants,in the nature of smut, rust and | rot. In toe later days we are pestered by the hungry stomachs of millieas of rivals of mankind. No longer do farmers seek jor an antidote: they | look for a poisop, They would not cure; they | would kul The nome of the grasshopper and of the potato beetle is ip Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri and Iowa served only a8 temporary camping grounds. But | now New Jersey, Maryland and even Connecticut | are attacked. The reports of devastations by in- | Sects which have been published in these columns are constantly supplemented by Iresh news, Mis- | souri seems at this moment to be suffering more severely than any other State. To-morrow the cry for relief may be as sorrowiul on the Atlantic | Seaboard as it 1s0n the Western prairies, We give the latest advices concerning the raids of the insects, } THE POTATO BUG. NEW JERSEY. A‘armer says thatif at night a fire is bullt at both ends of the potato patch the potato bugs can be seen flying toward the light, and that they Group into the flames and are burned to death. | Puis experiment is certainly worth trying.—The | Fredonian, ; A new worm is now at work on the currant | busu It looks like the old “measaring worm,’’ | so called from its havit of movemenc; but it may be the result of an amalgamation, Uulike the regular currant worm it thrives on heilebore and plaster, and bids fair to become & serious nuisance. The apple and cherry trees are this year full orm nests.—7he #redonian, Mr. V. D. Vannest iuforms us that aiiuough his potato vines were almost covered with the eggs of the Colorado bug a Week or 30 ago be finds that almost ali the eggs wave rotted or spoiled and but very jew larve have been produced. He Says tnat this is the first time he was pik to fights- on Gazette. fhe Colorado potato beg has obtained firm pos- session of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jer- sey, and iS carrying on its Work of devastation with a spirit almost as relentiess as that which characterizes the Western grassuoppers. Not content witn destroying all the potato vines Within its reach, plants, as well as the cantelopes, citrous and watermelons, so that supply of toose indis- foo fruits and vevetadles this summer in ly to be a suort one.—Philadelphia Star. THE GRASSHOPPERS. MISSOURI. (From the St. Louis Republican, June 16.) The army worms are stili on the warpath. Quite a number of the farmers of Perry county | have been compelled to plough up their laud and replant, and some fears are entertained that they Will bave to plant corn the third tame. We have talked, says Living Democrat, with a numoer that the uhe Governor’s proc- grassboppers are leaving. lamation, or something @ away, aod the fact of their leaving is satisfaction enough without inquiring into tie cause and ef- tect, Mr. R.A Thomas, of Calaweil county, has experimenting with salt aud i# satisfied that chinch bugs can be driven out of the county of wheat wien be sowed salt broadcast across one ead of it, Two days afterward uot 4 bug could be found where be bad sown the sait, but they were pieaty in the balance of the fleid. There is great scarcity of provisions on the south side of Davis creek, Lalayette coun.y, many famuiles living on vread and water, and do not know t bread will come from. It is nut oO onthe north side; but the grasshoppers are locreasing every day; Bave eaten ali the biue rdeps, hemp, &c. As» they “Our people seem to be encouraged, believing, as they do, taat the hoppers wili leave us ia time to replant and raise an abundant crop of corn. Countiess millions of the little pests nave been seen passing over our town for the past few days on their figat to the bortnwest, and it is believed that our county will soon be iree from tocir ravages. On iast Monday our town presented quite a lively sppearance, there peima more of our country people in tuwn than jor Many months, and our Grange ware- house did « wholesale business in the way of fur- nianing grain and grass seeds to the farmers for the purpose of rep'auting their devastated Heids.”’ (Prom the Cieveiand Herald.) We are on the Verge of starvation, We did not year on account of the drvugaot ir the grasshoppers have o have planted our corn twice, an hoppers have taken it. There nas ut@ this part of tne country, aud Low there eat Many that do nut know where tueir 1 is almost impossivie to get adoliar in mone;. Almost everylody isin debt apd capout away; aud the Lord only knows what We are agoimu tw do. if tue people don’t uelp in some Way, tor idon’t, if you could only selp us by jetting our coodition of koowm ia your place, apd soucit ai@ tor the Gestitute, What ever amount you will send to me will Le properly dusposed of and thavkiuily received oy ail, We pray you to help us as you can. Yours, £e., SILAS C. HULL, Secretary La Due Grange. [From the Sr. Louis Kepuolican.) Weather warm and crops are springing forward w wheas will no. reward the farmer wita t ryiuing promises well. Pientiulness he people ir the bugs will vet we hi and the are meal is coming from. 1 is doing nooly ia Busine Fiki ‘The reliet committee met yesterda usual ac ope o'clock. Mr. Samuel reported the donation of $100 from Mrs. General George FV. Dorris. It should be rememverea that sli coutribuvuops cou- signed to the Kelle; Committee to tals city «ti go to their destinations iree o! coarg On Monday, the 7 my WOrMs have so compie d whole felds of growing whe d corn iu Perry county that the farmers are obiiged to piougu and plant them anew. INDIAN TERRITORY. Says a Fort Givson despaten of the istp—Mill- | 10D8 Of grassnoppers essayed their new wings on | Sunday, rising lice swarms of bees, and started erly direction. ihe aif Was flied lice # tae son Tue Grand, s Tivers Were covered Wi-D me failed wo fy across at the siart. 1ea Without pang of re — ores. KANSAS. Ato Th, The jocaets throughout ie region begaa to take fight om Friday iast, and imme; rms of them were observed in the air, moviog in nortuwest direction, Their instinct seeus Wo di- Feet them to tr: j DUt Cocasionauy Un.avoravle Winds drive thew out of their course, Very few of the pestis now remain io this piace. Advices (rom ail parte of Notch western and soutp- @ to the effect that very few of toem have descended, and consequently the Splendid crops throushout that Vast rey.on are a | promisimy #8 belore (be wcusts came. und iy fuuy Lve-#Xtus Of Che State Lue prospect (ot wih iui mea arvest &ue Lever more javoraule, It is estimated inet the Arsaveas Vahey Wik produce 2,000,000 Losuels of Waeut, Noriuwestera Kansas as mien more iu ivy, Oariey Bud Outs, receiving information that insects have made a | it bas attacked the tomato | has seared them | Tne bugs were hard at work ona piece | damage is also increased, | | makin; and the corn harvest romises to be equally as large, The de iations of the locusts have been conflned to wn area of about forty miles in breadth through the easvern part ofthis State, and in portions of that such dé two-thirds of 1c only partial, ing corn, buckWheal, polatoes aud oiber crops that may be pet in mm June, and if the lecusts stay away they expect to harvest a fair yield. It 1s urged that ‘he genera) government snould ap- | — a commission to study the habits of the Wuere they have sone, and obtain full informa- tion concerning them, It 18 known tout ail the locusts leaving this country were covered with parasites, and it 1s believed that the parasites destroy them; vat there 18 @ Very general jeeling | That two littie ls Known of the pests, and that it 1s tue duly Of ihe government to appolut a com- | petent commission for the purpose of stadying Uielr jaoit& Senator Ingalls has telegraphed to the Secretary of War asking him to uirect the military aug signal omcers throughout tue North- West (0 Observe and report the Movements O! Lhe jocusts. {From the New Lonéon (Conn,) Telegram.) We tnis morning took tne hand of a Irieud who has just returned from the grasshopper region of Kansas. Tomking we would preier hearing of the latest accomplishments of nese acuve litte creatures from tue lips of ope who has seen with his own eyes, we made tquirles, One liustration Was suficieat, Our iniend bas been boarding with a farmer Who last year sowed a certain Deid with timothy. As tue ground wardened the grass- hopper planted its lengto and breadth with exgs. ‘Ynis seasun ine farmer sowea uqjoiniug fields with oats and Wheat. And the grasshoppers came to time and went through ten acres of vats, leav- Ing hot 4 stalk standing, in something less than three days, and nm they went jor that wheat tieid and the whet is not, for that the grass- hoppers took it in at just one moutniul. Woo Wants to 40 (o Kansas? (from the Girard (Pa.) Cosmopolite.) | The following letter was receivea vy @ Jady resiaing 1 tals vorough from her brother in Kunsas:— 3 Lawrence, Kan., June 7, 1875. None of us nave been eaten by the grasstuppers, although they have devoured all the other green things in my Viciuity., I had ten days ago one of the Gnest vegetable and iruit gardens you or L ever saw. I have a good place now to make a garden, but that tsall, On Friday, May 28, they invaded my premises, not merely three hundred thousand strong. but lully three thousand million Strong, or at least a multitude that no mortal couid ever euumerate. I have one acre of | land that was mostly covered with fruit, such as raspberries, biackberries, strawberries, | currants, &c. Not a vestige of anytnu leit to mark the spot where ouce they grew. 1 grasshoppers Were about one inch or one and a quarter 1n length, aud they came pouring in upon mein a stream, flooding my piace completely. ined coveriug my strawberries aud va) shrubs and flowers, but 1t was of no avail, ‘They ate turougn almost everything except tin or gluss, and seemed only hungrier when they got through f[ had peas toat were almost ay lor USE, POTATOES As large Us @ ToOLO’s egy, beans that now would have been ready lor use, and my strawberries, one-fourth 01 aD acre, just begin- ning to ripen, and 4 fer crop no man ever had, Every tuing 13 Dow looking a8 though @ fre had swept over the place ana left a few stubs of fruit | trees standing, for they ate ali the teaves of the trees und have takea the bark, too, from over fiity oi them, (hut wili surely die; but the damuge they did my garaen Is but & drop in the bucket to what they did to the tarmers in this county. . L. He {From the wiitamapers=Ou) Gazette and Bul- jetld,. THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTY BUSHELS CAUGHT IN ONE DITCH. The following {8 an extract from a private let- ter received by Projessor James Elden, of this city, Jrom F. O. Marvio, of Kansas State Univer- sity, Luwreace, Kan.:—‘“I suppose you have read and re-read about our pets, the G. Hoppers, drs. But will tell you @ story or two Maybe you have not seen, Just out Of town live torce men, who own three cousecutive quarter sections, anenutire iront of ope aod a half miles. a ditch te whole ieogth, avout a wide and eignteea inches deep, ana occasional pits ot larger dimensions, Was when the hoppers were quiie small. Week's time there hopped toto that ditch, irom whicn they did not hep out, only 330 oushels, Now, by actual count, a quart contains 4,000 of them. Just think of the Dumber in thatditco! The men saved their tari, ‘At our back door we dug @ hole one foot by three feet, and one and @ hal) fee, deep, and stretchea some old carpet to atrect their Jamps. In one aiternoon we caught haifa bushel. Reports frour other parts of the State are very iavorable, and [ think they sre thinning out here. Many bave moulted the lasc time ard are on the wing. Tne littie pests are a curious study, aNd muco' +: oe learned of them, r0Wa. (From the Otramwa Courier.) Last night @ train was stopped by the grass- hoppers aear Red Oak. Their first appearance in that part of lowa was day before yesterday, but that drove did not stay long, bat leit, going north. east. Yesterday, powev frest supply and in greater iorce than the former came to take the | place of the departed. They seem to stop about one day, and they clear everytning before them, a! Heid of about 200 acres w. ea Jy ‘wo ing of tue le pot afect it Go younger ana more tender g ir. Osoorn the grovud ull over so thick tuat the} touch eaca other, and sometimes are fol or three deep, Last uizut, ne said, th tue Dulldings Were covered with ¢ | ports peopie leeiing pretty diue; farmers charging tueir bands, bat the general | seems to be that ii the hoppers should tue Corn Will Still come on aba make & good crop. the train was occasione the killing of the hoppers on toe causng the wheels on the track like & top spinmiog. The | engineer, abuut two miles this side of Red Oak, rau out of sand and bad to rum back to the city for more, Mr. Osborn save, fo far as he can learn, they cover @ strip of territory about 100 miles wice, yoy ny) as jar west as Crete, Neb., as plentiiui as in lowa, He thought irom the course ey were golog they would adous take in Des vine: tubs Oo} m to be talks, bus do lvaving nothing bul s rt hig! stopping = of GLENWOOD, lowa, Jane 17, 1875. A good many grasshoppers were dying about yesterday. They have teken the corn in the southern and southeastern parts of the country, e done jittle damage to the wheat. NEBRASKA. Despatches from ali parts of Neoraska and West- ern ioWa say that the ravages of grasshoppers thus jar nave been confined to a few counties in Nevraska, although myriads of them are fying over the State, coming srom Kansas and Missouri and going in a northwesterly direction, The crop prosp were never finer, but grave apprehen- wlvns are felt lese arassooppers should alight, #0 in 4 ew hours sweep taem out of existence. Cacao, June 17, 1875. The following is an epi‘ome of tne crop and grasshopper reports received ap to this mor iug:—Grasshoppers were seen in cuuntiess sum- vers in Omaha, Gtimore and Paptilen, Neb., yes- teraay. Reports irum filieeu otuer ,vints im Ne- brasku are very eucotraging, wud indicate that toe growing crops are in good condition. e pests have ali leit Neoraska City. it 1s estjm: that one-toifd of the crops tu that region art stroyed; but the farmers ure replantigg, and p ia many places. reported to bé infested but with parasites, In ow: thousunus. mans upcbacged thus far having Leen omparacively small ares OHIO. (From the Toledo Commercial, June 1%.) SPREADING THE EVIL BY MAIL. Speaking of the practice of sendiug packages of Western grassuoppers throug the matis, wBicnh we early took occasion to denounce, tne Van Wert Sulletin states that it ts iaiormed by an agent of the mail service between Chicago Crestiine “that mM & nail bag a lew days ago a bux, cover, cootaming jaes was broken vy cot ble, aod the ’hoppr He caugut Cy slled UTAH. SatT Lake, June 15, 1875, The weatner is warm and the crops througnout the Territory are tn spleadid condition. lhe dam- age done vy the Cricaete in the soutnern part of tue lerritory ie slight. MASSACHUSET Ia. [From the Sprivgfieid Union, Jane 17.) In these days, whon the very dust of the earta | {# tarning into Voracious insects toat devour every jorm Of agricultural product, it oegins to 1ook 48 if May Hua before lim a struggle for ex- satenoe with the insect world as arduous as that the first agew of . bY his iuveation lute master of ne larger powerless ber t devouring the Unarmed Hindooin tne pre Abd it may ve duapied a (woke of the Deaste, directty upua im envi AL A ny Wine ay t are uot jess furmidavie tian tue ussauie Woica tue insects indirectly make Upow uilu by Hibucklug Dis f[v0d sup Les, Betver tigers tuan yrassbop- ta preity evioeut ae Wiiee Wumae ID pet; Lous (oan potato vu; that one of tue el weuuity need vi Lew mod Venture of wa struction Of crops has been total, butin probably | ‘The farmers whose | elds have been aevastated are now busy plant | vcusts; toascercain Whence they came irom and | | but im grain is very largely increased. ‘This | lo a | Saya they cover | to fy around | of | irom hydrophobila on Wedu the foe is n’s march | this subject, They may be | quite worthy of their ste: through rgia created less marca Of the grasshoppers through Kansas. GRASSHOPPERS A BLESSING, {From the Worcester Spy.) Some of ine Missourt people having tried the wrasshopper as un article of diec find tha: he has great merit hitnerto unavpreciated in this couu- try, thougb tt is undersiood that John the Baptist | availed himsel! of it during his sojourn in the wilderness, und uncivilized people in various | Parts of the world have aiso found it better to lake an invasion of locusts a season of feasting ( than of starvation. Wishing to test thoroughly the dietetic capabilities of these tusects, certain ladies and gentiemen of Warrepsburg sac down e day last week to # locust ain- | ner. urst course, grasshopper was tasted with some mi were soon dispelled, however. Tae party res- | olutely suppressed tneir quaims, made @ Jaithiul trial of the dish, aud agreed that i tasted like chicken soup With a delicate mushroom flavor, ‘rhe next course was batter cakes, througn whicu locusts had beep weli mixed. Prejudices had already been conquered, and these delicacies were dispas#ionate:s judged, und wituout dissent approved, ‘Taen a dish of baked grasshoppers, pial, Was presented and proaounced excellent. rhe crownlug glory of the feast was u dessert “a la Jobn the Bapust,” baked locust and honey. It was the ubanimous verdict o: the company that the great foreruuuer had no reason to complain of his diet in the wilderness. The guests at this odd banquet were not only satisfied but enthusiastic, We do pot hear that they passed resolutions in honor of John the Baptist, woose example had taught them to turn a terror and a pest into a biessing, but they did declare that henceforth they should “esteem grasshoppers a luxury to be classed with oysters, trufiles, musprooms, &c.”? They believe that im future the advent of the locusts Will be @ cause of thanksgiving instead of mourning, & beneficent gifs of nature. As evi- dence of the readiness of the Warreasburg people to accept the culinary and dietetic innovation it is siated that a baker of that town has aavertised for 6500 bushels of grasshoppers, De livered Immediately at the present market price, $5 a bishel. The first invoice of this sea- son’s crop Of grasshoppers has already been sent vo St. Louis, and an active demand Is expected trom that er Ye At present, while the locusts are in tie Wingless condition, and can be captured Without difficuity, it is estimated that eucn acre will yield not les3 than filteen bushels, which 1s considerably more than the average yield of wheat, while the nutritive Value of the iusects 18 not less than that or wheat, busiel for bushel. When tis crop, Which needs no plauting or cultivation, harvested, the land 1s available lor other uses may be made to give an aduitional profit. i THE HARVEST PROSPECTS. [From the Commercial Agency.) Reports of harvest prospects received this week are from several points in Arkansas, Alabama, ‘Yexas, Mississippi, Nebraska and Colorado. The Arkansas reports all represent the area un- der cultivation in cotton not much, if anything, beyond the area of jast year, but thatin grain ip- creased about one-third, lzard county reports the fruit crop as seriously injured by frost. Cotton in all case good stand and healthy, but spring rains have made the seasou iate. Corn promises alarge aod excellent crop. ‘The repors from Conway county states:—“Farmers in this section of tue State are turning their attention greatly to the growing of grasses and small grain, ‘the area in wheat this year is almost, if not quite, quadru- pled, and the crop promises a fair yieid.” Jn all caseg the promise is that the crop of breadstuits will be large and of excellent quality. From Mississippi we quote report of Tishomingo county as a Jair specimen of a!l which have reached us thus far, The chief products of this section are coro anG cotton. The area under cul- Uvation in cotton is about the same as last year, The tratt crop Will be afallure. Condition and prospects of otber crops are very good. Planters are now har- Vesting the wheat, and it is greater in quantry y than they have ever raiwea Coleman county, Texas, reports @ very small area under cultivation, and none of tt in cotton. The grasshopper plague as disheartened ¢ farmers, und the chiel products of this section now are beef cattle. ‘Ine other counties of wuich @ the area under cultivation ia Texas, d cotton are not sudiciently advanced to justify a aecided opinion, but i they fulfil present romise they Will be very good indeed, thougn ater than usual, * @ moderate increase corn and than an age at tots season 0 From Nebraska we bi ports of seven coun- ties. Of these a few only report a grasshoppers to @ serious tions of some of these count Our advices inte: ed ricts comprise th of Platte River a w i | Within thts line there will be bo smail grai amount to auything. Farmers are now ploughing ueat aud planting corn. In the couuties @ grassuoppers have not appeared tne ever iu better condition, and t 1 ‘ge and good crop are excelle! ‘ts from Celoraue are nut encouragia, | In some counties we are advised the grassaoppe | batched out very tbick—carly in the valleys, and later @+ the elevation increases. Cousequeatiy | as coro, Wueat aud oats are chiefly grown In the | valleys, the farmers are replanting; vac Mj up | im thé potato region the grassuoppers are sti ) ing Out, and will DO doubt de inuco more serious mischiel, 1o the mining Couaties of woich we nave | reports, the mimers are elated by te unusual | profitable Working of the gives, Wuile the stoc! | Taisers are depressed by heavy losses during t | Wiuter, whica was one of uuvsual severity. The estimate is that there may be half a crop raised, | but nothing like enough to supply 1004 for theit | Own people. From Wyoming Territory we have advices, but in (he region reported the people are chiefly em- ployed in stock raising, so (hat their crops do not enter inio an estumate of harvest prospects, RETURNING HOME. THE SEVENTH REGIMENT TO ARRIVE THIS MORNING. The Sev hateu- | | wereno better than common robbers. Sut pub- | le robbery was, alter all, not the worst crime of | MISGOVERNMEN The New Order of Things Ac- cepted in the South. THE COLOR LINE DANGEROUS Maintained by Continual Fed- eral Interference, MoNTGOMERY, May 21, 1876, [have given you somewhat detailed accounts of the political and tmdustrial condition of the four States which some republicans in the last Con- gress wished to subject to what was called tne Force and Habeas Corpus bill, and before making furtner investigations 1 desire to lay before you a summary of my observations, which will, I hope, help you to form a just idea of the actual condi- tion of these States—Arkansas, Louisiana, Missis- sippi and Alabama. THE NEW ORDER OF THINGS. 1, There was, in all the States, forsome years after the war and up to the year 1868, or in some cases 1870, much disorder and @ condition of law- leasness toward the blacks—a disposition, great- est in the more distant and obscure regions—to trample them under foot, to deny their equal Tights, aud to injure and kill them on slight or no provocations, The tremendous change in the social arrangements of the Southern States re- quired time as well as laws and force to be ac- cepted. The Southern whites had suffered a de- feat which was sore to bear, afid on top of this they saw their slaves—their most valuable and cherished property—taken away and made tree and their political equals. One needs to go into the far Suuth to know what this really meant, and what deep resentment and irritation it inevitably bred, At the same time came the attempt of President Johnson to rearrange the Southern States in a manner which the wisest and pest democrats I have met in the Soutn have declared to me was unwise and productive of disorder. I believe Mr. Johnson meant well and patriotically, but my ob- servations have convinced me that he was in error, at least in the time and manner of assert- ing bis policy, He aroused the hopes and desir of tue worst class in the Southern States, and disabled the large number of moderate and con- servative citizens, who ought to have ruled dur- ing the reconstruction of society there, and who, uniortunately, were pushed aside. The result was violence and disoraer, not general, as has been charged so often, but still very serious, | and not to ve endured; and this lasted until time and the punishment of criminais by Jederal power under the Enforcement acts brought people to their senses, I believe that there wan, during some years, a necessity for the interference of the Jederal power to repress disorders and crim which would otherwise have spread and inflicted pernaps irretrievabie blows on society itself Bat, ater ail, lam persuaded time was the great and real healer of disorders as well as differences. We ofthe Northdo not always remem-er thateven in the farthest South tnere were iarge property interests, important industries, many elements of civilization wich cannot oear jong ¢ontinued disorders; and, moreover, that the men of the South are Americans, like ourselves, having, by nature or long training, @ love of order and permanence, ana certain, therefore, to reconstituie society upon the new basis pre- scribed to them, and to do it by their own efforts, | #o soon as they were made to feel that the new order of things was inevitable. That there were, during some years alter the war, shocking crimes in the States | have visited no man can deny; but a grave wrong is done when those days are now brought up and those deeds recited to describe the South of to-day. THE MISROLE IN THE SOUTH. 2, There has been in all the four States I have seen, since 1968, great misgovernoment, mostly by men who called themselves republicans, but who | were for the greater part adventurera, camp fol- lowers, soluiers of fortune—some Northern men, but also many native Southerners. Tois misgov- ernment has been various, Its most marked or prominent feature was the unscrupulous greed eas and savage thing.” said a Southern man w@ me; and another remarked, ‘“{fever you, in the North, want to re-englave tha negroes you must give us three months’ notice, 80 that we may all move out, with our wives and chilaren. They were @ source of constant anxiety to us when we held them in slavery, To attempt to re-enslave them would be only to invite them to murder us and lay the country wasie.”” An Mississippi aione aid I find politicians silly enough to taik about the Caucasian race and the natural incapacity of the negro tor sel{-govera+ ment; and even there the bést repubiicans told me that these noisy democratic demagogues were butasmall, though aggressive and not unpowertul, minority; sud even in Mississippl @ strong re pudlican, a iederal law officer, an honest and jaithiul man, assured me that the northern ball of the State, whicn is the moss prope to occa- sional violence and disorder, 18 to-day, to his per+ sonal knowledge, as peaceful and orderly as any part of New York or Onto, THE COLOR LINE A CALAMITY, 5. The division of political parties on the race of color line has been @ great ealamity to the South+ ern States. It had its origin in the refusal of the Southern waites, after the war, to recognize the equal political rights of the blacks and their at tempts, in state Legisiatures, to pass laws hostile to them. This folly has been bitcerly regretted by the wiser men in the South, A Mississippian said to me, “It was agreat blunder. We could have better afforded to educate and train the colored people and tithem for the duties of citizenship thun to have had them alienated from us.” He was right; it was a great, though probably am 1m evitable, blunder, it Mung the negro into the hands of the so-called republicans in the Southern States, and these, by adroitly appealing to hia fears and to bis gratitude to the federal goverment and by encouraging bis desire for official power and spolis, have maintained the color line im politica and by 1ts means kept themselves in power. Itis an indisputable fact that there can be na permanent and beneficial settlement of political j questions in any Seuthern State until the color line 1s broken, While the white vote, or the greater part of it, 19 massed on One side, and the black vote, or the greater part of it, on tue other, ag is still the case 1n Louisiana, Mississipp1 and Alabamu, it 1s impossible to get good governments for the political issues will, of necessity, Be faise aud Will have no reiation to any real question of administration, but only to questions of race. THE INJURY DONE BY FEDERAL, INTERFERENCE. But it is the federal interference under the Km forcement acts, and that alone, which enables un scrupulous politicians to mass the negro vote upon one side, and to use it for their own aggrandizement. ‘The great mass of the Southern colored voters are illiterate; th easily impressed by extibitions of powe: are readily alarmed avout their safety, all ignorant masses, they are very apt to fou0w a leader. The republicaa leader nas alwaya the United States government to back him, Packard, chairman of the Repuolican State Ex ecutive Committee of Louisiana, ha3, as Marsnal, the absolute command of federal troops in Louis ana. Spencer, United States Senator irom Ala bama and repuoitcan leader 1m that State, rua up to Loutsvilié and secures for the asking S2¥- eral compautes of intantry and cavairy, to be stationed in Alabama, at a time whe, as the United States Marshal testifies, there Was no need at all for troops; and Perrin, one 01 Spea- cer’a underlings, at the same time Deputy Supervisor of Election, candidate tor the Legislature and distributor of government bacon, shoots a bole through bis own hat gad then orders iederal troops to punt for image inary Ku Klux, Governor Ames, in Mississippi, refuses to stir to prevent @ riot at Vicksburg, bus uiter the riot, after forty or fifty blacks bave been killed, and wnen the negroes are demoralized and fee! utterly helpless, sends tor 1ederal troops, which come at bis command, and reassure the biacks, Such manifestations of po’ strike the imagination of the negroes, as they would any ignorant population, and they sollow very readily and blindly it. possessor, Some colored witnesses in Alavama being asked why they all voted ugalost Teplied, “because Perrin told to; ked if they would have voted the democratic ticket if Perrin had told them to, they answered unbesitatingly, Yes.” But tue leaders whom they thus follow do not {nstract taem in political duties. They do not discuss political questions before them. They ap peal only and continualiy to toe negro’s Jeara and and pecuniary corruption of the rulere and their subordinates, who, in @& multitude Of cases, notably in Arkansas and Louisiana, | the men who arose in the name of the repabdilcan pariy to govern these Southern States, The | gravest offence of the State governments was | their total neglect of the arst duty of rulers, to | maintain t! ce and execute justice. They did not enforce tne laws; they corrapted the judi. | ciary; they played unserupulously upon the ig- norant fears of the blacks and upon their new born cupidity; they used remorselessly the vilest — tools for the vilest purposes; they encouraged ais- order, s0 that they might the more effectually ap- | peal to the federal power and to the Nortnera people fur help to maiataia them io the places they 80 yrossiy and shi ssiy abused. I must, however, except bere Arkansas. The | peconstructors of that Sate were certainly a set | of ruthless robbers, But they nad among them a few men—notaoly Governor Clayton, I think—who held society in an tron grip, and by main force | roduced peace. They pat down witn a stern and PI ‘A vegiment, 700 strong, will arrive | ost a crael, hand, the disor- | a undincbing, and almost a Ly , | ery.’ So pertiuaciousiy bax this base tosin0a'ion | home this morning irom Boston, where they par- | aers whico they found; they made laws which are icipated in the Centennial celeoration of the terrible to read, and they executed tnese laws Battle of Bunker Hil, Toe command left Boston | with a vigor woich saved society and gave peace last evening by special train and em- | barked on their special steamer at New- | port, The regiment will reach the | about seven o’clock A. M., and on their | to the Stute by encouraging the orderly people of all parties to take public affairs lato their own city nands, and by aiscovuraging and terrifying toe Jawless class. The result is that Arkansas is to- | disembarkation the members of the Seventh will | gay the most peaceful State of vhe :ourl have be received With miltary honor’ by the Seventy- | first regiment, under the command of volonel | Vose, and alterwara be command to tne armory in Fourth avenue. The Seveuty-first Will, agreeably to orders, assembi at their. armory in full dress uoiiorm, white dd immediately proceed to t foot of Murray street, where tne will for.sed, the leit resting on Washington strect, and e the Seventh With the cusiomary salutes. THE PALMETTO STATE LINE INFANTRY. ‘This morning the Wasuingtou Lignt iniantry, of | Charleston, 8. Will ufrive im the city irom | Boston, accompa command of Major McLean. corted up Broadway to the h | Ola Guard, on Fourth avenue, wae | collation will be furnisned them, un | petvision of J, Strittmatier, At noon a gr anquet will be given them oy the m | chants of New York, headed by A. T.8i } and otpers. At two o’ch tney will take up their line of march jor toe Charleston steamer, escor by the Old Guard, and Will at three o’ciock take | their final arewell of their Northern friends, | DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA. They wil be es- ny of the bearskin hats, at a quarter te | il a bythe Old Guard, uoder | that societ! visited; and as it has an excelient Governor, who worted by the latver | knows the extreme importance of preserving | peace and order, the Stare is iairly on the Way to prosperity. UNHAPPY LOUISIANA. The injury done to a community by the total failure of ita rulers to maintain order, repress | erime and execute justice is more seriously felt | in Louisiana than in any other of the foar States of which I am speaking. It isa wonder to me has not entirely gone to pieces in ther State; and lam persuaded that its white plendia | population possesses uncommoniy nigh qualities the sa- | when I see that, in spite of am incredible misgov- every Vice and crime, which encourage | erom tewart | which saamelessiy eorrapted the very fountains and sources of jnstice, and made the raiers a ter- ror to the peaceadly inclined; In spite of | this order and peace have been grad- ‘ually restored and ‘ now maiatained, aod this by the efforts of the people algnue, ond in spite of their rulers. No thougutial man AN ENGINEER KILLED BY THE BITE OF & DOG. oan see Louisiana as it ia to-day without gang | The Brookiyn Board of Healta » | mains of Andrew Jackson in engin | by & Spi | of modness, he /eit no alarm, jared, im thi { appe | a's fever. day after- | a oigh respect for its white people, noos granted a permit ior the burial of tae re- | to. ir, Who died ay last, at nis resi. | dence, No, 228 Nineceemta street, Soutn Brookiyn. | eontinuou | Jackson, who was thirty years of wze, wae bitten | of tue The state is y as At for seli-governmeut 4s Ohio or New | York. The attitade of the races there toward eaco other is essentially Kindly, aad only the Torts of biack and white demugogues est kind keep them apart politically, Jog about two months ago, butas the | Phe majority of the white people of the Stare ure Wound was slight and the dog had no appearance | weil disposed, anxious for an upright gover On Friday. tue 11th | \net., toe drat Tie of the terrioie disease Jorm of & great aversion to water. suort time he Was unaoie tu swullow any | order, } hiquid, but did not thea safer irom Geiinam or | Dr. Keed. of Heary street, was summoned, | | Dut could do nothing to prevent Jackson's great ) dislike jor liqcids. A violent lever set in om Mons day and om iuesday the patient became deitrivus, | The sight of & glass Oo: Water Would thiow him | mont, ready to help bonest and wise ralers, if | they could only get them, to maintain peace and 1 sincerey believe that whenuever ta are relieved irom jeueral oppression—and in their worst kind of oppression—they will | eet Op a govern tessentially honest aod jus and wil deal fairly jusvly with the oolore {oto vivlemt spasms, and it required the united | citizens. | exertions Of several gorse as to prevent him trom | THR CONSTITCTIONAL AMENDMENTS ACORPTED, leaping irom the be ve ro bee: inore Requent aod avonining bu Wednesday, ine | & There is not, in any of the four States of patieor irutoing ab the tu! nu maniesting | whicu Is All the symptoms of hyd ils worst | tuity to the Caion, aay even reniote wish to re- rophenia ea owed noo! The dog has sinc orm, He vecame ex: Gt one o'elvek diwd q been suot, AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITION, wtne 20d and 24th inet, The spriog exhibition of the Queens County | Agricultural society wili bo heid at Mineoia on | Arrangemeuts are being made for an extensive display Of articios ot inte! aos ae CKee ae ensigve the biacks, any hope or expectation of | Tepealiug any constitational amendment, or ia | amy way curtain the rij of the blacks as | ettizens, The former slaveholders unaersiaud | beriectiy that the vlacks cannot be re-ensiaved, “Toey bave been free, wad they would drve us | Ont of the country if they thought we were about to re-ensiave them. They are a quiet and peace- ole peuple, oxcept when they are exasperaved; | DUS LueR Key are terrible. A black Moo is o FUG | ceived the solid colored vote. | most | people, by whom be is liked and tras | stance: to hia sense of obligation to the federal power. In Alabama they were told that the bacon was sent by General Grant, and its receipt mace it their duty to vote the “straight republican tioket,” In some parts of Soutnern Louisiana the negroes | are stili summoned from the field to political meetings, “by crder of General Batier.” 1 know of acase where a candidate for a county office circulated a printed “general order’ com- manding ali colored men to vote for nim, and signed “U. S., Grant, President;”’ and he re One of the mreliigent and excellont mea I met in Louisiana told me that in 1872 he bad made thorough canvass of the part of the State in which he lives, addressing himself entirely to the colored and try: ing to expiain to them tne necessity jor good gov- ernment and their interest in the matter, bow sald he, “I presently became awere that I was followed by ® republican, an iNiterate and low. lived man woom no colored man would nave trusted with $5, but who overturned all my arga ments by whispering, ‘Doa't believe waat he tells you; they only want to put you back tuto slaw been used among the blacks that whea Inst fall the éemocrats carried Alabama I Know of two ta in which colored men came inte tue nearest town to ask white democrats, In woose houor and kindness they trusted, whether taey would v@ allowed to choose their own masters and whether they would be separated /rom their wives and children.” 6. Human nature being what it is, no one can be surprised that the poiltical leaders wno foaud It thas easy to mass the colored vote, who found also the feaeral power fing toto their bauds and theme selves its ministers, who by (hese means alone were able to maintain themselves in power, regard- Jess outirely of the use they made of this power~ that under these coaditions they should be come nd remain borh weak andcorrupt. ‘The mass of ignorant men by whose votes they were kept in power paid no taxes, and were not, ther@ fore, directiy affected by the public plundering, and the plunder has been so great and the | mamber of walte men engaged io it 80 small thas they were always able to divide with the more amoitious colored leaders, who, on their part, | have been, as was inevitable, easily corrupted, Nor bas the colored man been siow to learn the trickery and baser parts 01 political management, They were ignorant and poor and saw power and wealth in their reach; and they did what poor od ignorant white men, having the same temp- tations set before them, have done the world over, and notably in tne city of New York, I must reserve to another letter ® furtner dis cussion Of this subject, for itis of the utmost im portance that it should be gene: understood in the Nortuero States that the Euforcement Jaws, and the federal interierence which it per mits, however necessary ¢ may once oave been, are now purely snd dangerousiy miscare vous. UBARLES NORDHOFE, | THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY, The Gifty-fourth auouai report of this institution is just puolisned, It shows that the total number | Of books tu the brary 18 165,120, an increase dur ing the jast year of 9,002, a larger increase tuan ia | any other y simoe 1872. The vumoer of active | members is 4,074, and of syvseribing members | 9,708, # total of 6,960 members, agagaing: 9 918 inst year. Tne loss of members was caused we stringency Of the 111164 God depression of tfade, whien joreea Many clerks (o withdraw their mem ber-bip. we total incuwe for the eee wae 087 Hd the wxpenditures $39,974 29, waich 456 Was for Kularies, DINGIOg, & Ory 3 he tual pumosr of yolu ar Was 23,145, v0: Ww '@ ued at Loe nan ofury, 46,855 Ot 10@ OrAnGD vit) 1d 2,422 WG tne residences ot | memoers, The average daly circulation | Youumes, Books are nuW sent tu any pact of | city velvw Suxivoutu street lee Vow Geats oud