Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1855-07-04

The WAY TO DO IT.-Just across the
way we notice that our friend Mr.. j. w.
White, manufacturer Of sheet iron ware,
&C., is daily turning out pipes for steam
chimneys of the largest kind There cam
be so much piping without causing music
elsewhere. Steam engines must accom-
pany them, and Burlington furnishes these
also. There must be music also in the
interior of the sweetest kind, where these
engines are put up. The way the trees
wi" "s cut up into boards, and houses be
erected Herewith in all sections of the
State, will be sight worth seeing yea,
hence.
LccusTs DYING ouT-HoGs FEEDING on THEIR
CARcAsEs.-A correspondent Of the St. Louis
Republican, writing from Alton, Illinois,
June 10Th, says:
Our musical trends, tho locusts, are emit
tied to paragraph, as their race is nearly
run, and they arc dying in considerable num-
bers. A farmer, living six miles north of
Alton, tells me that the ground under the
forest trees in his vicinity is quite covered
with their oarcases, and his hogs arc getting
fat upon them. The insect appears to have
performed its purposc--its body has become
large and hollow, and its strength exhausted,
and in flying from one place to another. it Mt
last tumbles to tho ground, falls upon its
back, and that is the last Of MIR. Locust.
A scientific and practical naturalist, an old
friend of the writer, residing near this city,
has communicated to me some items of in
terest respecting this insect, and produced
several small limbs or twigs of oak trees,
which had been killed by them. 1t appears
that during this brief outdoor existence, the
locust does tot eat, unless it sucks the Juices
from the tender bark Of TIE twigs--w ich"is
not ascertained. Its mouth is not furnished
with teeth wherewith to lacerate; but near the
rump it has sharp, stout, hollow horn,
which penetrates the bark, and through this
horn is dropped tho egg. As the insect
crawls along, 1t rips up the bark with this
instrument, and deposits the provocative SUBJ
stance about every half inch. 1t is saiG that
if the locust thus burrows line straight
along the twig, the latter docs not die, but
If the insect twists round and round, the
twig, that is of the size Of ones finger or
less, it dies.
Be this as it may, the small trees Of the
forests begin to look as though they wero al
ready nipped by tho frosts of autumn, the
leaves upon the small twigs drying up and
turning color. This is the only damage oc-
cas.oned by the locusts as yet. But my
friend informs me that the evil effect of their
operations will be seen in after years. He
says the sting of the locust poisons the sap,
which effects the heart Of the tree, rs the SAP,
thus poisoned, descends to the ground through
the heart Of the tree in autumn. As an IL
lustration, what is it that causes the great
sycamore trees, in the river bottoms, to be
so generally hollow and heart-rotten? Be-
cause, in the spring those trees leaf out very
early, and the leaves and tender sprouts nre
often touched by frost; the sap is thereby
soured, and in descending through the heart
Of the tree for successive seasons, the latter
decays.
Thus it is with the locust's sting, and its
unseen, silent work of destruction may be in
progress in our valuable forests for years to
come. This insect abounds throughout this
stair rs far as have heard from. While
one man thinks that it appears regularly
every seven, fourteen or seventeen years,
another thinks that its advent is purely ac-
cidcntal; while still another contends that the
insect appears in different shapes or places,
each year, and, like a cat, has nine lives
that next year the locust will have changed
into millions OF caterpilliars, the next year
moths and butterflies, and the next grubs and
bugs--thus keeping up a constant round of
until they appear as iocusts
again. aFls. ytst
ET Three hundred mich COWS have been
landed at St Paul within the lastt o or three
weeks, and since the opening of navigation
beef cattle to the value Of SIS 900 have been
driven there BY land. ss,.3 .g.V,,.t
rs Judge Stronc. ef the Snnreme Court