Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 24, 1873, Page 5

» T —— THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBU MONDAY, MARCII 24 1873 THE [LLINOIS FARMERS, Convontions at Farivilis, Elgin, Sugar Grove, Clinion, and Cambridge. Diseussi‘pn of the Railroad and Other Questions.: Denunciation of Monopolles---Advocacy of Freo Trado---Reprobation of the Congressionnl Sal. ary Steal, 1 Eariville, LuSalle Countys [ Spectal Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune. EAniviiie, I, March 23—Tho Co\mty3 Farmors'.Olub of LaBalle County mot nt Earl- wvillo this aftornoon, with their constituents, to +coneldor tho various questions to which their :mttention ig at present called, The attondance “was Inrge and onthusiastio. The moating waa wniled to order by Mr. E. R. Wicks, Presidont of ‘tho County Association. Mr. A. J. Grovor, of Earlvillo, ‘prosontod tho following rosolutions for the gonsideration of tho mooting : ” Resolved, Thint tho oxamplo set by Cougress in atoal- 1ng from tho public motioys, by tho passgo of tha Rale ary tnll, is o high crime sod »_burning diNgrace to tho natlon, and indicates n condition of the ublio con- .scloned which is ularming; snd that thet nationsl eafoty domonds that every participsut therojtr. shonid *ba compotlad at onco to retire forover to private dife. Resolved, That the recont offortn of railropd oflcinls +in Springflold, and thoir continued presonce iu tho lobby, menns miachigf and demoralization to tho Legialaturo, nud calls for tio utmost snd constant *yigiiance of tho poople. Resolved, That, for thio pinrposos of taxation, wo_will Aako N, Buperintendent Iurris, of tho Ohicago, Bur~ linglon "& Quiuoy Railread, ut i word, whot Lo 6350 thot his roud cost $40,000'per milo, ihat it this fa 1ho cost for tho purposes of -logiciation, it ehould be tho cost for tho purposes of taxation, 3 Resolved, That we insist that tho dnty on iron, steol, Teather, lumbor, woolens, tin, rallrond rails, plush, velvet, and all materful tsod in building rafivoa engluds, cars, aud steamaliips, ought to boat ondy ro- Yionlod; "that tio interests of farmora of tho Wost, raquiro abrolito freo tmddiin thoso matoriale; that 1t 3 quita s cssential that_twich waterialsshall Doimporty d freoof duty asthat rallfoi\is ohould oboy tho lawa ; it froo trado would onab thorafiroads to mako o tari®f of pricos conformabla aw. Mr. Hll, of Earlvill, moved that tho resolu- tion 8 be Jaid upon tho'table, Mr. Grover desired dihicussion, 1 M. 8. BI. Bmith was icalled to the flgor, who'| said that theso rosolutbons woro a cbfrect ox- pression of tho onso_botwoon tho puo[:lo oud the rallroads. 1Ho alluded to the opinion of MNr, DPotors, given on tho dsy boforo at Princoton, who Ld statod that the + pooplo had no chanco in the contest, bocause tho . caso must go at Inst to tho Unitod Statos Courts ; that tho pooplo had no othor chango, Tho spoal- +er would not adviso_contest, but onr liborties' ‘Wo nro only ropoating history. * - woro in dnngor. *Tha libortios of any people must go under ovont- “unlly, unless all corrupt and insidions influonces “wer continually watched by thom. If thoro fa 8uch o prospect when theso questions como to thio courts of final reaort, it io most alarming} Mr. Bmith spolce at soma’length, and with mucii feoling, In rogard to the constriction of the Su- ‘prome Court of tho Unitod States. Dutithe peo- plo hinvo final arbitrement in the cage. Tho peo- :ple must olect Roprosentatives in Congress who ‘will reconstruct tho courts In favor of the :pooplo and against tho monopolists. Onco o caso was brought before the Lord Ohief Justico -of England. A man contraoted to deliver cosl at a certain prico. Coal rose, bocauso of strike in stho monntime, and tho contractor had to pay tho :difforonco in the prica to tho man to whom ho !had promised to deliver, This wasall wrong. ‘Yot publie opinion will always control tho courts. ‘Eight years aftor tho Dred Beott docision no WJu ’j:o in tho Unitod Btates would have dared to tronder & ¢imilar jud%mant' on account of the ad~ vanco in publio opinfon, Mho pooplo havo tha jpower at last. But the railronds have itho power now, neing their iinfluenco to tho advaulugs. A iconl man told the sposkor, n fow duys ago,,| ot som railvond to go lnto pazt"|. i that ho muat toorship with Lim, or he must give up business, {It fna strango Hiiny (than from points near Chicago. A cosl mino rowner at Brimfleld ished cheapor transporta- ‘tion to Chicago in ordor that ho might compato with Chicago dealers, Mr. Harria_told him that lie conld not havo n singlo car, simply bocauss ko (Harris) ownod ou jutorost 'in » compoting mine. This ghows that tho railronds have tho power to build wup ono @et of faemors, ono village, onc district, one in- torcet, at tho oxponso of anothor. Pooria nnd tho farmors of that vicinity are now boing wado woslthier at tho expeuso of Kewanee and ‘the farmors living iu that noighborhood, by veason of chenpor froights from tho former place. Mr. Smith rohoarsed the history of the CMGHED, Burlington & Quincy Railroad botweon *Qalesbuig and Quincy, snying that the farmora +and citizons all along that portion of the route ! Leon cheated out of their gharo in tho rail- teoad by nn unjust salo of & first mortgago. Mr. iHarris enlls the owners aud officials of tho rond gontlomon and not fools, Tha Inst part of his wtatement is undonbtoedly truo, but tlie conduct .v§ tho stockliolders and ofiicials does notb pbov that thoy aroc gontlemen, when «th &7 go down to Bpringfiold, and say, “If you tal, & Off ono-sixth, we can mako no dividonds; ond B you roduco bur tariff of ratos ono-twalfth, wect ‘¥ only puy 4 por cont.” Since those fellows went 80w “thore with their story, tho Logisla- turoin ©trangely altored, Tho Hildrup bill has beon so nodified that it is mero dishwater, and nothing &eems likely to bo done, Tho sy, ‘t#kor read and commontod on. the fol- lowing 1 \iiaga, from o puper Tond by Mr. I Torguson, ©f Troy, at tho maoting of the Na~ tional Boar @ of 'Crade, in Now York: Mr, Fergu'son made a comporison of fourth- class froights ' charged by tho differont railrond lines for tho 1'nst five yonrs from the citics of Chicago, 'Tola 10, sud Bt. Louis ; vlaoy from six {ntorior compe:'élty points in tho States of Iowa, 1llinois, and Inc\ians, viz.: Muttoon, Dacatur, an Paris, in Illinois ; Tern: uto, in Indinna; and Keokuk snd Dubuquo, in Iows, to New York City. Hoe took the mont his of Docomber, Janu- sy, Tobruscy, Murel, a1 Apnil of anelt yours, a8 those moiiths anly show what the railronds would do tlio yoar througls if thoy had no water competition, “Tho rosdt «©f hia estimato wan that three-fourths of tho Weostorn producers’ grain woro given to tho rafirends to carry, tho romaining fowrth to .merket, Thoro was B tendency towards conmclidation among ‘nll through linos, crushing out all competition, and onabliug two or three rn.tlroad Lings to dic- tate to tho ooplo how much thoy shail pay for food, fuel, and clotbing. ** Already the raifroad .systom of our country (comprlsing over 60,000 miles, and fast incroasing) is: in tho hands of half adozen men, who can to-morrow morning tolograph ordors from thelr hondquartora that +will raigo the barrol of flour you buy at noon &1 por barrol, tha pork you buy ono and two centy per pound, the boof ‘you caf _the suano, the conl you burn $1 a ton, ovory bushol of grain iu the Country two, throo, fivo, oud ton conts por pushel, putting into their purses milliony of dollars Enl’flr night, to tho disadvantage of overy man, woman, and child, and to tha bohe- fitafono of s half dozen millionaires,” Tho railrond corporations hevo gained tho con- trol of Legislatures. Yot “it js -the eople’s Iand and mone that helped fo Eund tho ronda; it is {ho poople’s pro- ductions of land, loom, and furnace that furnish the froiglita for uaid roads, thot aro now run to seo how mueh can bo oxtorted from tho pooplo (to pay largo dividonds on ntovk that is watorad and douhbled overy little whilo), instond of seoin, how chaaply tho Treight could Lo carriod, whic} Is the only rulo that should govern a proporly constructod rallroad managod in tho Intorosts of tho pooplo. Tho pooplo, therefore, hiavo a right tosay what shall boa propor componsation for garrying thoir freight. 'There is groat danger to every iutorost in our country,—fluancial, pro- ductive, menufaciuring, and, abovo all othors, tho laboring intorost. 1t domands our carnest attontion und immediato action. Every mo- anent but tightona tho iron grip those railrond -amonopolies now bave upon tho pooplo's thronts,” 'The roal cost of transportation ia ounly from one-fourth to ono-third of 1ho tariif now charged. According to the roport of the Cummissioner of Agriculturo, the ancunt of grain producod in (e Uulizd Slntes In 1871 551,019, 776,100 buskals, Bupposothat only two- hirds of this—1,000,000,000 bushels—wero ransported, wo have tho ounormous swn of 216,000,000 oxtortod from tho peoplo, if that .umount wore hlllpgm\ from Chioago, aud tho still groator sum of £300,000,000 on the suino Bmount sbippod from Bt, Louis. But ag balf of the amount was whippod from losaor points at highor xutos, thisswn, would still bo inereased. Dut aking tho two places, Chiicago and St. Louls, wo Bavo an nvorago of 272,500,000, This sum ~Would lu tou years puy the whole national debt, ho Inborera and artlssue| of Penusylvania ohd New England, na woll as the® } onxry grain ab 1 cen Y pon in ¢ whon freight is carriody I erom points west of the Mississippl River cheaper~ It would build and oquip & double-track road of 8,400 miles in lungt‘}.\, ata cost of 980,000 por mile, uvur;yunr, almost long onough to roach from Now York to 8an Franclsco., Tho corn rnised on the Iilinols prafries would novor bo wortl loss then 60 conts o bushol, aud would bo countantly consumed. in Now Lngland and Livorpool, excopt for oxcouslvo nlmrinn, Thoro aro too many Judasos iu tho Loglsla- tnro, too many mon in- tho Intcrosts of “rail- roads, too many mon'who are influouced by cor- rupt motivos, Our railroads pny 10 por cent an-~ i nunlly, which {8 disbursed ns stock that goos on Inoroasing at s compound intorost, until it ihins amountoed-to an overwhelming sum. Whatis wooded now is to Taz iz railrondn into propor Togielntive' subjdction. * But this is not all. Crushing and’ dograding influonces have boon brought to bear n{mu;um farmors, untll they have como 80 low that thoy can hardly rise again, The warohousos and the Board of Trade of Chioago nood looking aftor, Thetr courso ia hostils to tho intorost of the farmers. A kog of powder oxploded undor thege inatitullons by somo Guy TFawkos would do » sorvico to the farmers of tho Blato and to humanity at largo. .. It is timo that tho farmors roso up in thelt might, and docid- od that thoy would nover sell another pound of buttor nor another ' bushel of corn until the could fix ¢ho prico ay_thoy plossod. _Mr, it closed hig romarks with an appoal for the con- tinuance of the warfaro. Freedom’s battlo; onco begnn, Bequeathed front bleading alro to son, shonld bo tho motto of thoso who advoeated tho caugo of tho farmeors, Tho farmersand thoir wives are truly tho kings aud queens of this world, Evory time has its purposo, and overy | purposo its man.” Tho farmors should bogin at omo; munito in 'town moatings, voto for tho right man, sond thoso who docoived thom to Covontry, to Texas, or to Alaska. Remomber thas * Btornal vigilanco I8 tho prico of liborty,” Mr. Grover road o statomont in roforouce to froight disofiminntions, It was as follows: TBosroy, Feb, 19, 1873, W, Lowls, Bales of two cars cornon fccount ‘of E, W Bomonnuk, Iil, Leaving a balanco of...cevuiaes $180.42 Tho froight from Ottumiwa, Iows, is § to 10 conis por 100 pounds loss to BDoston than from Bomougauk, beiug s follows : - From Sowmonauk, 1880 3 Oftumwa, 780, 2 ! Mr. Josoph Hadrt, Roprogontative in tho Logis- Inture of tho Stato from LaSalle County, and a ‘onuino sgrioulturlst, was callod upon to tall the condition of things at Springfiald, . Ho described tho intorviow with Mr, Harrls, The gist of that pontloman’s romarks ‘was that tho ronds ! woro oll poor, vory poor—so poor that it wns suggestod that -the hat should bo paasod mround for their bonoflt. Tho ostitnted cost per milo of his ronds was 48,000, Mr. Nowel} apolto a fow minutes aftot Mr. Tar- ris -was dono, Mo said that it cost 250,000 por ilgito build thd Ilinois Contral Railrond. Mr. artor cpmp tioxt. }io snid they woro willing to g nt and 4 mills por ton per aud - conl at 1 .cont per mile, ton mile. tho farmors would accept the canditions, 8o far 8B grnin wos conget_ned. That would ba ono-half of what 18 now chorged for freights through to [New York from the placo of production, Br. Harticorrected o misaiatement mado in the Cli- cngo Wost, rotorring to-liimsolf oud Mr. Xarris, Ho snid farther that ho-had not -boen-bought ny yet, although Lo did not know what might hap- uture. ; »p o alluded to tho authors of tho Hildrup bill, ' No bill haé thus far beon' reportod, -ho eaid, sat- Hsfaotory to elthor Houso. Tho various bills iworo alluded to by npmo, and tho status of tho {railroad_quostion” in tho Loglslaturo gonerally sroviowed. . 5 5 Tho reeolutions woro adopted, and the meeting soon after ndjnurred. The Farmers’ Club of Earlvillo 18 in o flourish- ing condition, having about 800 mombers. Tho fooling among thom shows a8 yet no diminution in inbonsity, 3 por Elgin, IKane County. Spectal Disputch to The Chicago Tribune, Eraw, 1L, h‘fmh 22,—Pursunnt to notleo, +quito n numbor of tho farmers of Kane, DuPago, and Cook Countios mot at Elgin to-day to take into consideration matters of interost to thom. On_motion, §, W, Kingsloy, of Bariugton, was made Ohairman, and 8. M. Blado, of Blgin, Scc- ary. 3 Dr. Teflt stated fho objoct of the meoting to bo to adviso with anclr pthor as to tho necessity of forming an organizafion to roniot tho encronchs ments of monopolios. 3 Benjamin Cox said a county organization now otisted, and moved to organize n Town Club. Mr. I'ecland wag vory sovero upon manufac- turors and railronds. Thoey woro destroyiug tho sgricultural interests, Ile did not know how n remody was to bo effected, but hoped somo way could he ahown, Ho was certain that tho farm- ors wero neturally honost. Dr. Toflt was i fovor of somo_organization, 1| 80 that thoy could work for mutual interests, -in maoking purchages, securing botter freight ratos, Mr. Bishop was in favor of n Inw provonting tho oxtonsion of patents, e also opposed the idon* of ~making tho -West simply o producor, ‘nod the East 5 muaufactur- er. Mhls doctrino mot with no favor. Lawyors should not bo pormitted to do all the’ legislating, but the farmers should have mora to 8oy in making tho laws, - Ho was opposed to caucua work, and asked if Hurlbut would now migreprosout this district, if it were not for such ystom tiat pormostod our politis. 110 furthor remarkod that our fathors bolioved in rovolution, and Le did, too ; and whou monopo- lies triad to stoal his farm, ho proposed to fight. A I:Dmmitteubconuluflug of L, Bartlott, Du Pago Couuty ; D. 8. Hommond, Gpok County ; B, Cox, John ](m\tlnE, and IL' E, Perkins, o Keane, was appolutiod to draft s constitution, Adjourned till 1p. m. - 5 ANTERNOON. BESSION. Tho Committoo on *Coustitution m{‘}orlcd. Tho report was accopted, and adopted by sece- tions. A gonoral discussion in rogard to the injurios to farmers by tho conomission men, elevators, railronds, and almost every ono oxcept thoso who buy butter, ogus, aud kindred produats, was indulged in by Messrs. Bishop, Scofield, Slade, Marsball, and othors, Quite & disenspion upon the question of nd- mitting to momborahip othors than farmors was Lind, all finally boing Jemittod to join. Mr. 0, H. Larkin seid all dosired to havo light. The moro ho thought upon this topio nnd oxamined its complicntions, tho greater and moro diffieult did i soem, It in fact called into exerciso overy principlo of our systom of government ; it oni- racod freo trade, protection, laws of trado, Yo duction, and consumption,’ aud wo ehonid ap- proach it with caro, and soolk first to got ol iho light possible, and_ not refuso o laok upon all siclos, * Teilroads nud all carporations hud rights and, befora the poople rope en masse, they must bo cortnin of tho.routo thoy dosirod.to travol. 1o wuntod light. v After & brief intermission, tho following of- ficors of fho Olub woro clocted ; Prosident, I Bishop; Vico-Prosidont, L. Bartlott Wayno; gecmlury, B, M. 8iado; Tronsuror, J. R, Mro- onl. After somo dosultory discussion, the Club ad- journed fo moct on the second Baturdsy In April, iy tho Elgin Court-room. Nugar Grove, Kane County. A mevting of formora was hold nt Bugnr Grovo, Il,, March 15, Tho Hon, Thoman Judd prosidod, 'Bpecchios wero mado by Dr. Hawley aud M. Houry Olinpman on tio selirond guios- tion, and the following resolutions wore adoptod : Jtesolved, ‘That tho farmora of Bugar Grove, fecling the enormons luad of oppression forcod upon N by tho combined monapolles of the land, do hereby coment “ohrselves into one graud union for self-protection in all our variod intorest, Jtesolved, That wo tike up the glove that the Tall- road King bus thrown down to ug, and, by united ace tion, will restoro oqual rights and vqual justico to the opprensed, Trevstvd Tt wo doprecato tn tho atrongest torms tho arrogant assumption of power by tho ratiroad mo- nopolics ju violating the laws of the Jand, sud demand of our Legislative and Executivo authoritios to nr ply ot once the sovercigu hal the Constitution provides, Jiesolved, That we will support no men for public oflico who does not glve unmistakublo evidencs that bis feelings and sentimonts uro fdeutical with the fp- torests of the farmer, Olintony Do Witt County. Tho farmers’ clubs of Do Witt County hold o county convention at Clinton on tho 17th inst, ‘Tho following rosolutions woro sdopted : Resolyed, That we bollovo tho tincs domand of ns & calm dol{boratton, bt doctelye action, i our deuling with the various monopolies nnd comblnations that.op~ 080 1, ¥ 3, ‘That wo belfove in tho old-fanbioned doctrine that Jaws enaoted by our leglelators should be vuforcad at any eost, until ropoaled or pranonuced unconstitution- al by tlig propor Iguuum trlbunal, 8, That wo beliove tho times domand our unttod ac. tion, rogardloss of party afliations, in tho elastion of Dot to ke laws, expcuito laws, und sit ju_judgoiont ou tholr valldity; aud that wo will ot support auy myn Foratiy ofice who fh 1ot i sympathy with tho fatmors' organ{zation, or who {s now {nterestad fn, or n tho em- ploy of, auy and all inonopolice, 4. That wo bellovo the Leglslaturo, and not indlvid- uals, aliould provido for the paymiont of ltigation nocasuary to enforco tho Raihway law; and that th Qenoral Assembly whould glvo itn Iningdiate uttontion ta the udoption of the neceasary legiulation wequired for tho vrotection of all our cltizens uiuinut theso cors Mr. Havt said to Mr. Cartor. that he and- | crowdod ranks of tho orate monopolics, and that suck: legtslation should avo precedanco of all othiers, G. Thnt whilst wo mny not, from any knowledgo wa Lave in ponscasion, any rosson to complain of Lo rox cent appointments s tho Bonrd of Commissloners, we do hieroby oxpresa our deeldod disapprobation of the courso purstiod by his Excolloncy, Gov. Bovorldge, in fguoring tho oxpressed wish of tho largost farmiors’ meoting over Liekl in tho Rtate, 0. That tho Legialaturo, by ita dolay, ins dlsregarded tho wishea o tho poaplo by not. paastug o law forbid- ding publlo oflicors and logislntors_aocopting freo DAsEes upon our rnfl\\'l\‘yn: and that, whilst it Is our dutyto oxpross our disapprobation of anything that looks to o bribe, or the nealeot on the pariof any of tho members of the Leglstature, wo will not forgot tho £althful fow who huvo oon and'romain faithful to tho poople'a righle. 7, Thint wo recommand that onch nud ovory townslip club seleot its purchinaing agent, . that munufacturors and ol othora iutorested iuny Jnow who to confer ‘with in tha matter of chenper purchasing. Rieaolved, That wo, {ho farmers of DoWitt County now in conventlon, do, cnfor solomn protest sguinst tho nction of tho mombers of the Iast Congress fn vollug to fucreasp tho salary of tho President of tho United Btates, and also tholr own salaries, . Resolved, That wo also domaud of our Sonators and Ropresontatives in Congross tho immediato repeal of tho duty on salt aud lumber, ? Combridge, ¥enry Countys At a recont farmors’ convontion at Cambridge, tho following rosolutions woro adopted : Jesolved, Thot the rocont action of Congress, in- ercusing tho salaries of a portion of tho offioera of tho Genoral Govornmont, {s o dengorous departurs from tho nimplloity nud cconomy practined by tho fathors of our Ropubl{o In the adminlatration of tho Governmont, and that, in viow of our lorge national dobt, ond {he amoimt of intorest we must and will pay-upon it 1l Hquidated, and tho ombarzassed condition of tho grent mags of £ pavplo depoudant dirastly or Inditastly up- on_sgrioulturo for their pocuniary suceoss in Jifo, by reagont of the low prices {lioy rocelvo for tha products of thelr labor and caplinl, such fegislation shows an alarming tendonoy toward _establishing . purso. proud, -~ oflico-holding nristacracy, to - rul for fts own_ bonefit o noton of meek and submigslyo serfas and, whothor such n rosult was or ‘wus 110t contemplated by tho supportera of said moss- ‘uro, wo fail {o porcolvo oven an oxcuso for its oxiste oncd, and thorofors demand fta_unconditional ropoal, Regolved, That tho part of tho sald act in and by which tho membera of ‘Uongras who votad for its pse sago caunod its provisions to travol backward, criw- fishi-liko, ovor {ho pust two years, and ecaop out'of the Nationnl Treasury $5,000 into ‘their awn packots for cach momber of tho lastCongrees, in sddition o thelr eslaclonof €300 por year, ‘provioutly xed Ly law ond woll understaod 1o L6 the limitof tho poy they wero oxpocted to got when clected, and thuk ralsing thelr pay to Fomo $30 or $40 por_day for tho timo thoy wero actunlly cmployed, 18 n_pieco of*financiering that, doon not neeord with our viows of efther honesty or common decen e THE FARM AND GARDEN. A Valuablo Winter Sweet Apple Farmoers? Colleges nnd GrangosmseA Subsiantial Fonoes=-Tho Enropoun *Larche==Ioncy=Locust and Harberry ¥or IMedgesseilow the Farmoer Cun Hlend Oif tho Railroad Nonopoly by Growing LarcheTrecs for IRailronds Wies-==The Iien Davis ApplesssTio Wythe Applesssflorticulturc for the Farmer === Preserving Fruite--The Profucer Not a Manufacturerss=Fish= Culture, From Our Agricultural Correspondent, CraxraLex, TIL, March 22, 1670, A VALUADLE S8WEET APPLE. \ Whon at Freoport, attonding the mesting of tho Northern Illinois Horticultural Soolety, Mr. K, Ordway prosouted s sweot apple for namo, I supposed it to Lo Sweot Romanite, 18 I had re- coived tho same applo from Mr. Btowart, of Quincy, under that namej but Mr. Ordwey writes mo that othors consider it tho Bwoet Pearmain of tho books, Whatevor it may be, it is the best winter sweot opplo, to my tasto, that has thus , far como under my observation Tho apple s of medium size ; striped and deeply splashod with rod ; appoars to bo o good boaror, aud is hardy. Wo hiavo fow valuable wintor sweot applos, and this ono should hove & wider test. I presume 3r. 0. will supply cions to thoso who request thom with o stamp. I can do the same for a few days, until too far advanced to bo sent with gofoty. 'Two or threo yeara ago, I racommendod & nursoryman to propagato this varioty, and gave him o lot of cions ; but with what result, Iam not informed. FARMNERS' COLLEGES AND GRANGES, Beforo mo is o addross by A. B. Welch, Pros- 1dung Uf thu Towa Agrivultural Oollogy, bofore tho Patrons of Husbandry. Mr. W. is not o mem- bor of tho order, but sporks of it in tho follow- ing torms : Our bond of wunfon is the congoniality of like pur- sults, Tho leading purposca of tho Farniors® Collega aud the Farmers’ Grange, though gained dhrough dif- ferent paths, are largoly tho amo, ~ Tho Gravge oocks to ald the farmer by multiplylug ila means of infolli- gence, by giving him tho maatery of all tho botter mothods ond procoascs of tho farm, by quickeuing, in- teusifying, aud olovating all the botter elotents of Lis sochul’ lifo, The Grango would sccuro tho farmer ngainst tha torpidity of solitudo und the extortions of nionopuly ; would kindlo in his broast o atendlor zeal oud a slurdier couraygo ; would touch al the Jabors of his honds with {ho gloiv of onthusiasm; and, in Bhort, would do for Lim what skilfully-organized efforf Las_olready douo for every oflier grost Luman industry on tho round earth, All this the Graugo aim to " do by monns_which ars the moat m- mediato and diract, All thisnlso thio Farmora' Collegs strives todo by piotlior motliod ;- by giviug & knowl. edye, tosuch s weill ook it, of all thoso” practical selonces that undorkio the procossos of agriculiuro; by ing ond sendiug forth men who may bocome, 18 tho vears pres, thu loadurs In o grad movetient which tho Grango lins inuugurated, Itis in harmony with_this noble purposo thiat tho Gollege, inatead of draining tho rural districta of thefr most promising yonth, ond_graduating them to awell tho overs law, or to wander in porpotual soarch of o vocunt pulplt, sends buck tho farmer's son {0 tho farm, ko cdueated that ho will ro- vilalizo all its oporatioun, and give them o now nnd enduring infereat. Such azc tho bonigy objeets which these bwo great onterprises aro_organizad to further, Aund, mark you, each seeks to nccomplish its aims by combined offorti—tho Colloye, on o closer aud more concentrated plan ; the Grange, on a wider and grander scalo, And what effort of men for thoattatnment of good, or for dofonso agafust ovil, hus ever reachied ita 1lual triumph, sluco tho world began, without come bined offort 2’ What progress, moral, soclal, or indus. trial, was evor achieved withont combincd offort 7 Comlbiuntion fs, in fact, tho grent inst progross, Civil{zation would ‘witbout it, Towa may bo proud of her Agricultural Col- loge, that aima to mako the farmor's son n bot- tor farmor, and the mochanic’s son & bettor mo- chanio, instoad of fitting theni for tho Jaw, the pulpit, ofiico-scoking, and othor over-crowded Profossions of lifo ; that pormits thom to work on tho furm or in the shop connectod with the school, instond of pursuing a courso of classic and litorary studios that will fit them for some soft placo ather than the farm or the workshop. This is what it leads to : ‘And who shall daro say, fu tho face of all this mar- velous sdvancement, this'yast ucoumulation of tho ro- oults of hard thinking, this_imporative demaud for skill, .and oxperieuco, and fudgment, and common senwy, that farming {8’ o dull, stupld, humdrum buni- noss ¢ that only stupld, humdrum peoplo shiould en- gugoln it; that tho Lrlghtost boy of. tho furmors Tamily must be unfited for the farm by sonding him to collogo to loarn the dend lunguagos, or crownod with o stove-pipa and dispatelicd 10 tho city to ougogo i tho mora cxulted (7) employment of selling nocdlcs, and buttons, und ape? -+ It Prosidont Wolch in vight in the abovo, some othor Agriculiural Collegas aro dacidedly wrong, for somobiow thoy manego to send the boys mmfv from tho farm, instoad of relurning them Lo it bottor fitted for its duties. I would suggest Bome propor questions for the boys of our farm- ors’ clubs to congidor: Firsl—Which is tho most desirablo: 820 n month and board a8 a faym hand, or work at gell- ing tapo or doing tho drudgory of some cloy warobouso uc $26 und board yourself? . Second—T0 own & small farm on_your own nc- count, or to drive n toaf or Lo a strool-car con- ductor in the city? FENOING AND THE LARCIL, Ronat—Bm: I havos farm adjoluiug the Umita of & protty lurge town, with 205 rods of front or roud ox- jusuro, and s unable ko fur to uaintain a board fenco Fa'trout ‘of it 1 (Muk tho luss owiior was. ontlrely beuten by the ravaging of hnngr{ enttlo aud Inwlcss peoplo, usinslors youig out of fown after dark ap- pear to fud a good deal of conyenienco {u a pisie baurd Tunce, und the cattio readily tind tho panel Which bas ‘boen Weakened by tho loss of a Loard, Now, I proposs to set u wire fonce outelds my road boundary,with no moro thau 8-foot leugthi of pasel, for temporaty uso, aud duside this fouce plint somo rapid. growing, hardy treow, to sorve as postu for the support of tiio wlres ws soon us they o lavgo cnough, 1 would ko to kuow if you think ihis, or somothing lko it, will protect ha siclia from caitlo, or if uiors wires ard necumsnry, *Flvo wires, No, 0, huve sovmed u uatlafuc- tory fouca lu many casts, which, to bo sure, wara lees exposoct, vital auestion In thia caso fo, as to tho kind of treo you would plant, if any, to wako'live fouce-posts, Gote auwoodl, poplury Hoft thaple, und box elder uro ull rap 1d growets 10 slhflar woll (v sandy loam of somo 4 feov depth, supported by clay) ; but 1io oo ubout hero hin triud Jarclics, aud, ‘romembering somo_fayorabla romarks of yours in Tme Tassune pon (Lo sy of thom, I um prompled to ask If you would advisy plant- fug thom fu the place of postu for wire-fouco, Oun wo grow the larcl suiliclently for this uss aa cusily and ns quickly us tho cottonwaud 7 And which varicty of Jureh do you recommend fur my purpose 7 ., If your fonco was battonod, there would bolit- tlo troublo from deprodators. Bomao fifteon yoors £go, tho Illnows Contral Raliroad Company made o post-nnd-bonrd fonce on both sidos ‘of the roud, from Chumnpaigu to "Tolono, a distance of tou inilgs, It was o good pino-board fenve; but thoe honest furmors, tho honost rentors, or some othor evil-disposed perjons, ruined tho fonce, ont of npso into birbarism Ono man, who rented a farm nenr by, waa do- tooted ona night in_taking a wagon-load of tha hoards that ho hed strippéd from tho fenco; and it waa found that ho had stripped noarly a milo of fonco for firowood. As a matter of courae, Kansns had & now sottlor in a fow wooka thioroatier.” About tvo Jearango tho Compuy o- pairod ihis fonco with & new one, putting in arbor-vitm, or whnt s called white codar posts, PuLing on ping bonrds, and tripping or batton: h ing tho pouts. Binco that time not a board has boon takon from this fence of ton milos. In tho firat place,.a man cannot, without thoe aid of n crowbar, looson tho hoards, and the fence js Joft intact. Iwould advise.IL to mako n simi- lor fonco. 'Tho cost {a uot very gront, and tho foneo will o mich moro_ officlont ngalust both stock and the stenlers of kindling-wood. 1t would bo vory dificult to malntain a wiro fonco againsk growing troes, as tho mnnual growth would soon cover tho staples and tho wira ; and, in two or threo years, tho wire mns rust off, A livo fonco of tho honoy-locust wouls 10 doubt answor & good purpose, Tho common barborry shrub will” also make a good, atron, hedge. Tho Japau quince I8 anothor shrub thal i l:firrly, but of rather o slow growth to bo opular, K Xs rogards the larch, it would roquiro ten or twolvo yonrs to nttaln a slzo sufliciont to allow of nttaching the wiro; but it would bo tho best troe for that purpose named, as the injury to tho troo would not make a rotton spot, a8 in most other doolduous trecs, Tho Europonn larch is ono of the most valuablo traes for the farmor to plant. In the spring of 1871, I planted 10,000 larohes. "Thoy woro sbout 1 foot Ligh ; the firat yonr thoy row nbout 1 foot, and lust yonr clmyfruw from to b fest. Thoy nro planted 4 by £ foot, and intended for posts and railroad ties in'the nonr future. I proposo to hond off theso monopolista gsomo dsy by having tles to soll them at big figures, By the way, it would Lo & good thing to set n fow thousand acres of larch for this purpose, whon we would hold a mnno{nly of ties, and Lo rendy to meot thelr high charges for freight and pnssago. Noarly all tho European roads use larch timbor . for tles, at great cost, and our ronds must slso havo them, and, it wo do_ not grow thom, thoy will do It thomeclvos. There aro millions of plants at Waukegan, rondy for sotting. What railrond company will offor a freo pass for tho farmor nnd bis wifo ono yoar for tho largest and bost plantation of tho lnrch plantod for tios, not loas than five nores, along tho llne of thoir rond, and a froo }m“ ono yoar to tho farmer for tho socond bost ? Lot us soe what rond will ba dlrst to engourago this sort of moiiopoly,—not counting plantations sot provious to 1878, For oue, 1 would like to bo temptod with n froe pass fora your for Mrs. Rural and mysolf. Lot us Lioar from you, gentlomen railrord managors. TIHE DEN DAVIS' APILE, Mr. Whittakor, of Wareaw, Til., lins sont mo small box of tho Bon Davis apple, from the fiest treo of tho kind plantod in Hancock County. Mr. W. auggosts that tho fruit improves in'flavor with “the g of tho rrees. Tho apecimons sont - would indleate such to bo tho caso.” Tho treo in quostion was brought from Kentucky in 1830, forty-four yours ugo, aud Mr. W. eays that it is In o vigor- ous coudition, Tho averago yield has been 25 bushels a yoar, Moro than 500 bushels have boen gathorod from it since 1840. For hardincss, and annunl crops of showy frult, this varioty hus bocomo very popular; but, In point of fino flavor, is far_bohind Wino- 80p, Bmith's Cidor, Jonathan, Minklor, and somo othor hordy sorts. Wo Lad botter not plant too many of thom at the oxpenso of the above, for somo day people may docido to judge applos by tho tasto, instoad of the color of the skin. THE WYTHE APYLES, I hovo oleo to acknowlodge cions of tho Wythe applo, an Illinois mecdling, from the Warsaw Hortloultural Society. THE FARMERS' RORTICULTURE, - At the last monthly meeting of the sbove Bocioty Mr, Grogg, in’ advising the farmor to plont o garden and an orchard, snid: Tho pleasures and onjoyments resulting from horti- cultural’ pursulta caniiot bo delormined by o cteh yaluo, Many of thom axo of such a charactor thet monoy cannot purchase them, Pleasurcs of this char- actor aro not fo bo welghed by gold, Yot thoro 18 o ‘monoy-value in horticulturo to the . formor that ought not to be lightly esteamed, Iis apple, and pear, and poach reea (I say uothing about a commerelal or- chard), or hia plat of borrios, or rows of grapes, havo & monoy-value in them of uo wmall nmu\lug A few Darrols of applea for summor, fall, and_ wintor usc, a fow baskota of pears,and peachied,and oherries, a fow gal- Iona of thio varlons small fruits; for sanning or prosory- Ing fn many other forms, with' which to graco tho tablo cach day in tho yoar, have fu them sn actual cash value of 1o mean.proportfons, And hio who bas to provido for tho wants aud needn of n family, on o farm or clse. whoro, Who will produco and usa tiiém gonorously, will vorify 'this assartion, PRESERVING FRUITS, Wo haye many inquirics in regard to tho best modo or plan of drying or proserving thd npple and other fruit, The whole subject hzs boen protty woll discussed st tho winter-mootings of tho varlous horticultural societios. All of the common modes are dofoctive in this: that tho procees {8 too slow, In order to mmko white, cloar snmploy, that have not beon acidifled, the proparation must bo_ hastoned, and tha fruit at onco plncod in tho dr¥or. Lvory housckeoper i awaro of the faot that in paring and cutting up tho fruit it changes color in s very fow minutas, and that this coloring of the fruit reduces its value. The Aldon procoss avoids this, not so much fn the peculinrity of drying, as in the rapid maunor of dolng the work. "TLi8 ig a point that Llias boon overlooked, and s but another proot of tho soparation betweon tho producor aud tho manufacturer, Pmdllcing iy an art or trade, if you pleaso to call it, an othor art o trado, quite diatinct, Both must bo lonmad in order to auccoed, ‘Thoro is no quos- tion that ono mau may do both at difforent timos, but it is not so cloar that he can manngo both at the same tima. Tn tho Aldon process, aud that in common uss, hot air is the clomont most in use. The sun- driod apples command a low prico in markot; tho acidified, Lot-air dried, the noxt ; while thosa by tho Alden procoss are nearly doublo tho lat- tor. Whyisthis? Not in tho nso of Lot air, for both processes make uso of it, but in the akill :ml appliances for ita bettor use lies tho Becrot, p And this brings us to tho question, can the former, on his small npimmtus, make as good o product aa that by tho lorgo appuratus of tho Aldon factory 7 T sny, most sssurodly, vo oo, but we onnnot do it #0 choap; and this brings thio wholo aubjact down to the simplo quostion, Will lc‘lmy? The rfiiug and presorving of fruits must ho in” tho honds of thoso who mako it & spocial study,—tho factory. ''hoto men must purchese tho frult from day to day, praparo it for marlkot, and goll it to their oustomers ; whilo tho farmer grows tho fruit, and Lis markot is tho fruit- propariig fectory. I bave no doubt tnat an im- provemont moy bomado in thie drying appa- ratus, by which o smell apparatus may bo put up fof niighborkoods that uvo losa quuntitios of fruit and vegotables to disposo of. ¥ISH-QULTURE. Bosoovr, Wi o the Editor of The Chicago Tribu Murch 12, 1870, IR : I havo beeu for many yeors un attontive reader ' of “Rural's” articles, and ‘have learned much from them, und make no doubt that thoussuds of others Hke mysolf have great confldenco in his judgment, and ‘benco the maro xluu‘;or of their bolug misled or dis- couragod by his articlo on tish-oulture, published in T TrwuNe of the 84 fnst, Tho part of tho article that I object to roads: * But, to uccomplish this, o 1arg0 sum miust bo vxponded b snaking tanks, for theso must bo of golid musonry, 80 thut tho walls'will atond frost, and of such Leight (st Sl Gsh will not Juwp aut of {ho_water, or 80 a3 not to {mrmll. tho mink and muskrat to feod on the flsh, which hoy will do if permittod access to the pouds,” A housw-cat {6 s likely to Jump in tho water as a fieh antof it, Muskrat do not catch fish ; mink do, aud tho best oy b o trap (hom, ond mako thelr polfa pay for their board, T presumo * Rural ” moang, by nolid wall, ono laid in coment, Now, cemout ia unhiealty to fish ; besldes, likoly fo crack at tho wator-lino, and, aa frosty woatlier sliriuks water in ponds, thoro probubly will Lo ‘more thian ono loak by spriug, ‘Thin Lus boon my ex- perfonce ;. Of three” which I put in flve yoars ago, I avo not ono that will hold water, though X used tho ‘bost material und hired tho best workmen 1 could fud, Oak plank drivon In ond down is tho best and cheape est urticlo {0 dam with that I have found, and will lnst o lifotime, Asu o {116 cost of proparing to raiso fish, It fa gov- ertied by tho nature of (ho ground, {lio convoujenco of anuterlal, wud 1ho tasto of (ho owaior ; but, ordinarily, ponda or {auks can be bullt to raiso s I{.Ivun number of Eflnlldl of fah cheapor than comforlsble quarters can 0 fixed to ralsp the samo number of pounds of chick- ene, oy requiro less caro, uud uot cost onc-fourth for'foud fhat tho chickonu wll, o . . . . A 'PAvizR, If tho tanka aro proporly sot in tho goll, thera will o no leakago of consequenco, oven though some of the lower courscs of stono aro not lald in mortar, ‘Fhore may bo loeatlons whoro plank muy bo drlyon into the clay in order to make tho ond, but that fs not tho wnso in tho location hint { visitad, whero walls must bo mado of thus ber or stono, and, as stone is noar at hand, that 18 tho choapost matorinl, Tho minks had better bo kept out than to tale your chanco to trap thom, " Tho statemont that muskiats do not eat fish 1 probably new to most puu{;la. Alr. Hum- mond asaured mo that thoy hiad boen caught in tho not, and had to bo’ litted out of the tanks with the aid of & pltehfork, That fiah will junp out'of tho wator is not eithor now or startllng, In a tank, in springlng aftor Insoots, they ofton land on the dry wall, and cannot got back. o provont thiy, "Mr, lammond placad u row of plauk on tho masonry, 4o'high ay to provent this oss, ~ A tank 6 oot wido and 80 foot long with 6,0000r 10,000 fish, is a difforent thing from & common brook, with its scanty su})p)y of wild trout, Hore tho flsh aro tamo, aud coufined to # small spaco, aud within eauy ronok of thelr on- ‘manufnoturing is an-- omios, and evon tho houso-cat fs not so averao to water as to detor hor from fishing, * Mr, A. Palmer may ho so favorably located thiat littlo oxpenso need bo inourred; but along tho TFox River, and in most placos in our prairie country, & Inrfin outlay {8 roquired to mako fish- Lrooding and flsh-growing n Ruccons. Aftor comont hian onco sot firmly In the wall, thoro is no ronson to supposo that it would bon- urious to tho flsh; but coment s not roquired n |nyln5lnp thoso tank-wallg, nor is ib neceasa- thint they bo wator-tight, unloss thoy are con- structod abovoe grownd,—n pinu that no practleal man would rocommend. A full and froo dlsous- alon on all theso polnts will bo of valuo at this timo. I might toll a ntory about trapping mink that hove cost one man moro, in the loss of trout, than it would havo cost him to Liave mndo tanks of masonry, 1Io scoops his ponds in tho gravally bod of thio springs, and losen no_troul y jumplng out of water. Ho now aund thon traps o mink, whilo many other mink food on his trout nli;htly. In chso a tank {8 mado, in plnces whero loakaga ondangers {t, it will hood to bo puddled with clay, both at the bottom and sides of tho wall, as the snmo 18 boing constructod. In this way, cracks or dofocts in the tank will do no damage. Fish-culture {s beginning to attract attontion a8 a poying invostmont, and wo nood all the light thiat can bo givon on the subject. RunAL, —_—— NOTES AND OPINION, The Nobrasla Logislaturo ia ordored to con- vono in spocial sossion, March 27, fo rectify sn act dono ot the late scssion, in roferonco to county boundaries, which act loft hiore and thoro wholo soctions of country unattached aud out- side the protection-of lnw, : ~Tho Alabama Logislaturo réfuses to appoint a committoo to nscortaln tho truth of tho assor- tion of tho Now York Sun, that $1,000,000 of tho bonds authiorized by the Court-Ilouse Legisla- ture hrd been sold. —Gov. Hartranft hns votood a bill of the Ponn- sylvanin Loglslaturo douating 975,000 to suffer- ars by tho Somoraot (Pa,) firo, becanse auch an, appropriation opens a big loak in the Trensury ; and ho recapitulates a list of Ponnsylvanin lor-~ rors to show how the thing would worlk, —Administration oditors find it nceessary to 8ny 0 good word for the Promident. 'Thlsis from the Buffalo Commer cial Adverliser: Somo of tho President’s enerlos aro trying to saddlo {ho rasponsibility for tiia shaskepsy cwindlo” ou to hin, o might havo refusod to sign the bill, Dut by #0 doing ho would hiavo given riso to o groat deal of publio inconvenienco, and might have rendarod nocess sary the calling of o Speclal fowston of the Forty-third Congrese, Tho rscally members who contrivad und pasecd tho bill purposoly tacked 1t on o tho Legiala- tve, xocutive, and Judiclal Appropriation bill, ipon which doponda the running of the wholo Government machinery for the coming yoar, To defeat tne in- creaso of slarics, tho Prosident would have beon com. pelied to veto the wholo bill, and to voto the wholo hill would bavo Inyolved tho nocessity of en extra scralo of Congresn, Under thase circutntancos, o donbtiess thought 1t best to put Lla signatura to tho Lill, 1fad ho refused and called for anothor sussion, overy Duino- cratic fournal would havo attackod Lim and falsificd ‘his motives, —Tho editor of the Woodstoclk (I1.) Sentinel rogrota that the President did not * eapouso the peoplo's sldo " in tho mattor of tho anlary steal, but soys : Wo presumo, howevor, that hio s tired of strifo, and, rathor thau rondor o contest necessary, ond anextra scasion of Congress incvitable, ho bas signad a bill, and postponed o strugglo which must _somo duy como, Detween tho pooplo aud the oftico-holding class, “ Tired of strifo is gaood. But, when the President snid, * Let us have peace,” did Lo moan that his pieco should be £60,000 ? —Sonators and Ropresontativos in the Forty- socond Congress (of infamous meniory) may read their fato In thia lottor of Thomas Jeilavson, written to Albort Gallatin, Juno 16, 1817 : According to tho opinion I linzardod to you a littlo bofore your departure, we havo lid alinost an ontire chango {n tho body of 'Congress, Tho uupopularity of tho Compensntion law waa complefod by tho nisnncr of repealing it, as to all tho world except themselyes, In somo Biates, it s sald, ovory mombor fa changed,—in all, many, Many hato been left out becauss they re- ceiced the advanced wages, 1 havo novor known so unanimous a sentimont of disupprobation, nud what i remarkable i, that it wou spontancoue, Tho now: pers wero almost outircly silont, and the people 1 only unruled by their loaders, but in opposition fo then, X confess I was highly pleasod with thls proof of tia lunate good sonse, tho vlgllance, and tho deter- ‘Tination of the pooplo to act for themeclves, —It I8 usunl, nfter the adjournmont of a Con- ‘088, to throw away tho Tist of its memberahip, 'hig year, however, and for somo years to come, tho list of tho Forty-socond Oongrose will be overywhero availablo for rondy roferonce. ~—This docsn't seom to be & good season for conscloutious Congressmon, inoty-cight of thom had conselentious scruples against voting the monoy for thomsclves, but only thres heve moruplos about Looping it. **Don’t go flshing on Bunday, my son; but, if you do go, nl\\'a{a bring homo the fish."—St, Louis Globe. —The Xonia Qomo) Gazelte, o Ropublican pa- por, oxprosscs itsclf in gho followlng plain lon- guago with roforonco to tho salary-steal : ¢ By- ary man who voted to pay tho outgoiug Congrens- men &5,000 additional salary ought to bo I)unumltinllfld for life. - Every mother's gon of hem is o thief, and should suffer a thief’s puu- ishment. —Shame, shamo, that the Senatoof tho United Btatos ehould becoma so prostituted! Shamo tha it should contain mombers who so far for- Eob thair hlih officc a3 to barter away their onor and mako the ofiico an erticle of bargaiu pud salo!—Pekin (Il.) Register. —Any adjournmont of the Logislaturo bofora Pnnniug o atringont Railroad Inw, and provisions or its enforcement, will not bo sntisfactory to the poople.— Wenona (IiL.) Index. ~—TFho railroad nud other monopolios that oxint mm[‘; aro infinitoly moro dangerous to tho Ropublio than Slavery was. Outwardly they aro not go dograding and dobasing; thoy do not lonva the moral stain upon the body politic that, whilo it-lasted, that peoulinr institution did; but wo doub ‘i tho erimes committo by and in the mnamo of Slvery ex- cood thoso which have beon porpotrated by our glgantio monopolies during tho lst ton or fiftoon’ yonrs. Logislatures lhave boon bribed and bought by wholesalo, corruption haa ostab- lished itéolf openly and doflantly in-moro than throo-fourths of tho Btates of thie Union; while municipalitics by tho hundred have humbly rogisterad tho docreos of tho monoyed kings. Tho whole thoory of Republican governmont lins boen ovorturned, and, in tho namo of the pooplo, tho railroad and other monopohes have virtuully becomo tho mastors of the country. Thoy mould legislation, and have their paid advocates in our roprosentative bodios, from tho highost down to tho Iowest. No act can pass which they do not approvo, and scarcely & law can bo oxcouted which thoy opposc.” Thoy own Judges and Courts, ns wall a8 Loglslaturos and Congrossos, and more than ono of tho roprosontntivos of thiose corporations s to-day asplring oven to the ll;ruldnnny itaolt.— Washinglon (D. 0.) Repub- can. —It is ovidont that the country is bolng slowly awakenod from its apparout lothargy, The revolutionary rumblings in tho Narthwast ure but signs of o polltical earthquake whioh, though long ropressod by tho arts of fraud and force, is as cortain to como ad tho sun it to com= {-lum its diurnul progress. Ofiicial corruption, o Protective system, tho aggrossive carcer of tho National Dauks, excessivo taxation, the shnmoloss public grants, extravaganco and thoft (overywhora nnuuaug tholr twin figures in tho }!ubl{u gnzc?, aro nbout at last producing the ruit that might have boen rensonably oxpectod. ‘Tho people are I.mcomlufi startlod ag from » deop sloop, and everywhoro the notos of proparation sro being sounded for a morciless crusade on corporations and corruptions.— Vicksburg (Afiss.) Herald, —Commonting upon the Prosident's Cabino appointmonts, the Springflold Jepublican suys *Wo ghare tho undisguisod suspioion of the whole country that tho nomination of Mr. Rich~ ardson s onc” of tho worst over made by the Prosidont ; not that thero is anything offonuivo iu the charaotor of Mr. Richardsan, but_that ho 16 an imitator and o small oditlon of hia prode- cousor, whon tho country cunnot afford Imita- tions aud abridgomonts, “Tho country is in that poaltion whon it nooda to *got tho bost’ una- rldged.” F —A moro serfous abjection consists in tho fact that it i vory gonorally bolioved that Richardson iy to ho looked upon in fuct ng no distinet man at all—no individuality—but moraly as s handpt gw ond of Bonjamin F. Butlor's arm.—New York un. MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH. Forelgn Markets, ol bvensons, Burcl 2311 o, mec¥louy, 29, Wi or whout 2d; spring, 116@13s 34 ; white, 118 0d@ Jaid: e, Tl SR 608 i sal M, 1y Lo.woy, March 23,—~To.day fn a holiday, The Stack Exchiango s closed, ' Tho weithor 4. fats iroughont England tolay, Livenroot, March 82,.—Catton qulat; middling up« Isud, AW Orlouny, DH@UKA; sales, A balod; American, 7,000 Lufes ; sposutution und export, ales, Drendatufa quict, Rod 2 L T g ’.)7:‘(!\1. od wintor wheat, 193 2d, Flour, Yorly U0é, " Olieoso, T0s, - Guimborlaud, 804 01, Short 3, Now York Dry Goods Market. Nxw You, March 23,—Thoro was an improved de- mand withs tho Jobbers for nearly sl descriptions of ootton goods, aud (hy watkot closed guite strong, ‘Woolens ara in batter roqueat, Enstern clothing manufa urors liave commnenced buyiug hoavy wool- ens, 4 Polka apot " while ground prints and percales arosclive, Main dross fabrica aro in_domand, but ‘wovon cotton atriped goods ara ?ulel. Forolgn goods aro moro netive with {ho jobbers, Dlack mobal alpacan, and colored Orloans cloths are veory brisk, and_ firm in price, Tho dr'! gonds . imports for tho wook Ao $3,087,410, a lioavy docrosso from Iast year, Plttsburgh Live-Stock Market, Trrrsnunar, Pa., March 22.—0ATrLR—Market dull 3 arrivils fate ; beaty $6.25@0.60 3 ‘atockers, $,20@4.25 common, $4,6035,80, SirEce—Murkot slow ; srrivals light; best, $6.008 .60 ; modinm, $5,00@8.60; comnmon, $4,60, Haau—Market ‘low 3 arrivala falrj Fhiladelphin, $5.0085.90 § Yorkers, $1.00@5,20, Tho Produce Markots, NIW YORK, Nrw Yons, Marel 22,—CorroN—Higher ; middling upland, 195e, BunAbsrurFs—Flour in falr shipping demand ; ro-- celpts, 8,000 brla ; supar Weatern nud State, $5.40G0.60; common to gooil oxtrs, $0.0087.50 ; good fo cholec, TSGTI0S wlilo whoat odlen, 408100, Ol Sugar 7.16610.50; Sl Louls, $1.60@12.70, Ryo flout quic and inclianged.’ Gora’ meal auist, ¥bont Lighor bt advanco nmked chocks businoss: rocoipts, 5,000 bu ; No, 2 Milwaukeo aflont, 81,685 hield at 8170 ; white Blalo, $185; whito Btato Western, $1.03. Ityo nud barley tuichunged Malt quiot; slate, $116. Corn moro aotive, o for_old for oxport} recelpts, 21,000 Lu; now mized Weater, U5%@00d 3 old o afloat, 6603 do in plore, GI@O04e; white, 670, Ontu ashado firmor ; hiotdern ‘mot oifulul frcely ; recclyia, 22,000 hus now mixed Westorn, 46@400; old do fi atoro, B1GB140 ; biack, 46@480 5 whilo, 40@sle, @%gv:nsmn—s:udy; e, 'Timothy quiet} 3,60 Euan=In good domoud ; Western, 3114@1c. IAY- nchanged, Ttovs—Steadicr, nt 40550 fur crop of 72, qEATIER—I0 good dehand ot 286310} Orinoca, 560, WooL——Active and firm; XX Oblo, 0003 tued, 050 ; unwaslied, 2R@3%, nooksts -Coffca dull ; Tio, 10K @183, Quil, Molaases qifot, Rico stoady at 13{@8Mc. * Piiovistons—Pork ateady, but miors aclive; mew mioss, $10.00; primo moss, $14.75@10.60, Voct dull and unchonged, Out meats “quict; home, 11@13%c3 shouldors, 6@7a; middlos qulct’ slort rib, 83c: clty, long cfoar, 8c. #teadicr ; Westorn nteam, 87-10c; kettlo, B3 @8ge. Burten—Firm; cliofco Western, 18@3le, + Cutgesr—Bleady snd unchanged.! Winsgy—Firm at 9le, . MILWAUREE, MiLWAUKEE, March 22, —BittApsTurra~Flour quiot and unclauged. Whoat irm ; No. 1,81,283 No. 2 £1.20%. . Corn iu fair domsnd and higher ; No, 2, 36 Oals wearco and firn ; No, 9, 20}, Dye stoady § No, 1, 6ixje. Barloy firmi 'No, 2, 80, LEoTeTa—Flour, 5,000 bila; wheat, 12,000 bu, SuTsENTO—Tloit 1000 brls: whest, 5,000 b, ToutaviiLy, Mareh 22,—FrLoun—Quict and un- chango, T'novistoxs—Strong ; mess pork, $15.50@10, Ba- gen=Bhouldors, Gi@t/u; dlenr xlb B@HY vy 832, nll packed. Iams firm 3 plain, 19@135e ; Rugurs ciived, 195@14c ; salos for August, 16c, Lard firmj Hloreoh, BG@83¢0 s primo ateam, B@BXC. wxmn;{-qllrm, o ety ER : MEMPIIS, Mestras, March 22,—Coyox~Finn ; good ordina- 15, 16X @16 ; low widdliug, 11411300, NEADHTUFEG—Tlour activa ‘al $6,00@10.35, Corn omalor at 0214@05c, Oats quict at 4c. Corn moal Towor ; £2.05. . TIAY—-Dull nt $22.00928.00, LnAx—-Dull ; $18.0019.00, Troyikions—Lork firm, $16,60, Lard and bull meats qulot and unchanged, Lous; 87, Louts, March 22,—Lneabsturra—Flour quict and 4 unchanged, - Wheat dull tnd unchauged; No, spring, 3141 ; regulsr sofeNo, 3 do, $1,33; No. 3 red fall, §1.65, Corn dull and a eliado lower, closing une scttled’; No. 2, $14@32 on enst track ; 33@333c n el- evator,’ Oute—No, 3, 270 on cant track ; 240 in cle- votor,” Batloy firm; for good No, 3, 80G85¢, Rye dull aud nominal, Provisioxs—Pork dull and lowor; S$IG.U5@1A.50, Dulk mente nominal ; buyors and eelors apar, Thacou quifet ; shoulders, 6% ; short ribs, 83c; clear, B1iG Ve, Wirlaux—Dull{ 87¢. ' EVELAND. CLEVELAND, March 42,— DREADRTUFFS—Flour firmier fooling, but prices unchaugod, Wheat dull aud in- activey No. I held nt $1.68; No, 9, $1.63. Corn 4@ 45¢, Oats 3 No.'1 itato at o, Firm § car lots, 16)¢, TOLEDO. ToLEpo, March 22 —DuEapstuszi—Flour stendy, Whoat in'fair demand and bigher ; No, 2 white Wa- 180 No, 1 whito Michigan, $1.70; mnber LG01{@1.07; spot, $1.073@1.68 ; April No. 706171, Corh dull; a slindo lower; high mixed, 390 ifapot, 41c ; Moy, low mixed, 383c { white 420 no grade, ¥ Oath steady ; No, 3, 83c; Jectud, Stc, CLovER SrED~$470, ItkcEreTs—Flour, 3,000 brls; wheat, 4,000 bu; corn, 20,000 bu ; oate, 6,000 bu. 4 Sinrearenme—Flour, 100 brls ; wheat) 3,000 buj corn, 8,000 bu; oats, 7,000 bu. DETROIT, DeTROrT, March 3. —BRRADSTUFTa—Fiour quict and unchangod, Wheat dull and o shado lower; oxtra, £1.93 bid, 1o salea; No, 1, 8L7 ; nmlor, §L07, Corn wtoady at 423¢e, Onta quiet and unchnuged, Croven SEED—$1,1064.85, * OINUINNATIL OrNenimaTs, March 93.—BREADSTURFS—Flour dull lower, $7.60@7.65, Whout quiot ot $1.05@ 1,08, Corn auiot/nt 396400, ' Ryo quict at E0@53. Vais quist ot 0@38e. Burley quiot nud wnchnyed, TTOVistoNs—Qulot and firm, Tork nominal at $15,00 @16.25_Lard quict: stonm nominal nt 73;@8c; lrotfle, 8o, Dulls meats Ormly held ; shoulders, 65 cleat xiby, ‘Txgo: cloar, 73c; demand ut de lows, Bacon }lfnt; sliouldors, Bigo; clear rib, B@8%e; clear, Wittsiy—Firm at 85c. % NEW ORLEANS, Nrw OnLzANs, March 23.—Busn-—-Good supply sud lover ; 90c, lav—Lotwer ; prime, $20.00; cholee, $20.00. Titovistons—Pork firmer ; $17.00, 'Bacon femer ; T@0}@104(c, Hame, 163c. - ‘Wittaiy—Dull and lowor at 10G5e, @nocEntes—CofTeo casler § 17)7@103c. Others unchanged, CorroN—Quist, Hales 5,600 balos § ordinary, 1950 ; good ordinary, 10¢c ; low middling,'17%c s middfhng, 183c; midiling Orlesns, 1876 Tecelpt bid bales,’ Exporta—Coastwiso, 02 bales ; stack, alcs, BUFFALO, Buyraso, March 23.—Flour steady, Wheat dull, Corn quict } sales of 2,900 bu No, 3 iu storo at 62c ; 9 cars on frack at G0, 'Oats nomlunl nt 43, Rye meg- lected, Barloy quiet ; sales of Weatern nt 8@05c, i 08WEGO, 0weao, March 22, —BREADSTUFFS—Wheat scarco, Comudull.” Oatwuginfnal. - PmrApeLrins, March 92,—BRIADSTUrES. quiot nud casier, Wheat dull§ rod, $1.03@1,Y" Minmosots apriv, $17, Gorn trm? vallow, 536 o, Gie, " itye, Bic, Oatu dull; 40@50e. Dl clinnged. Puovistons—Dull and drooping; pork, $10.00 16,60, Lard, B3/@83{c. slam s porky, 416006 Drtnotrui—Crudo, 19%o; refinad, 184c, Witisiy—b2c, = HSALTIMORE, Dairisone, Moreh 22,—Brrspstorri—Flour and Wheat stondy ind uuchianged, Corn scarco and stendy; ized Westorn, 69@60c. Uatu quict; mized-Wostern, 40@48c. Ryo unchonged, TnovistoNs—Quiot and flrm, Mess pork, $16.25@ 16,60, Lard dull, at 83@8)e. Bulk shouldders, 537 @00 § rib aides, Thic ; clear, T + bacon whoulders, . 63(@1c ; rib uldles, BY@B3 v rib, 83{@9, jour 0, 1 60x5c. loy une Wittsky—Nominal, ot 0. SPECYIAL NOTICES. A Triumphant Record. In glancing back at the history of propriotary madloinos In thls country, It becotuos at onoo ovident that Hostettor's Btomach Blttors bas been tho most successful of tham all, “I'ho rocord of Ita triumph covors poriod of nbout twonty yoary, and durlng that thuo {t has probably rostorod to hoalth and vigor a groator numbor of debllitated fnvalids than all athor tonfos and altorativos combinod, Tho amount of disoaso and sufloring that hus boon provonted Dy It oxtonalvo uso ay a prasentive modiciuo I3, of coursy, unascartalnablo, but it is & woll-known and undisputed fact that tho malaria whiol goneratos porlodio fovors snd many othor dlstroasing and daugorous disordors soldom, It over, produood any fufurlous offuot upon syatoms that liavo boon fortiflad fu advauco bya eourso of thia tnvaluablo vegotablg tenia, CAUTION! wonstomsns i, Solta A B e oo ok oo Tumerous Cottuturs for 2, oLV BUNCEANS BoNa, Now Yarl, Agonts for the Uritod Statds, MEETINGS, Masonic, Lal'ayatto Ohaptor, No. 3, I, A, M., Ocl 3 PP e Iy il Songes) vent fug, at g olofosk, Tor busfuious and work, londny ovouing, Apill7, snuolal hush N. a Fronsurvr, 1y ordor of l‘lllc inoss, oloction of ., Boorotary. SUBSORIPTIONS will bo recolved nt 154 Lasalloest, to the UHICAGO MERUIANTS' AND BANKERS? HAMMOTH LUCKY CLUB 01 Ono Thousand Ticketa to tho s Gancort) for tlo bonolit of il R G Lon. i seift biong 0 (o Sobnmon "tund, ‘and ‘swoh jar wil A ity o hato ia BI60N00 o BE50? G0 worth of wifia? Ll iador- Shbrs: & < ZECE! < E matlon'un appllcation FAIRBANKS' # BTANDARD ATRBANKS, MORSH 00 8 WEST WASHINGTON.-E1' POSITIVELY LAST WEEK OF THR GREAT CLOSING-0UT SALE OF THH RETAIL BEPARTMEN‘I Jumn V. Farwell & Co. ‘We have tully decided to close thiy Department on SATURDAY EXT, tie 20 fst To insure the closing out of the remainder of our Immenso Stock, wo shall offer the EHTIRE BAL-. ANCE at still greater reduction in price. Immense Sacrifice PLAIN & FANCY SILKS, * SHAW/LS, LACES, EDGIGS, HOSIERY, FANS, DRESS GOODS, &L, SPRING GOODS. Hew Syeine._ poriains ELEGANT NOVELTIES Talmas, Costumes, &o. FIELD, LEITER&CO., State and Twentieth and Madison and Market-sts., ‘Will, on MONDAY, March 24, make the firat Spring exposition of fash. ionable garments in their Cloak and Buit Departments, comprising Black Cashmore Talmas, Dolmans, Tunics, &e. ‘Camel’s Hair Tunios, in the new shades; Cloth Talmas andJack- ets for early Spring wear, = Novelties in Spring Costumes in 8ilk, Cashmoro, and other desirable fabrics. Algo their new importations in Thread end Llame Laco Points, Llama Jackets, Vests, Mandarines, Tunies, Christines, Talmas, Favo- rites, &o., &c. Inspection invited. DRY GOODS. GOLDEN OPPORTURITY Garson, Piris & o, ‘No. 329 West Madison-st,, OFFIERR Lot of White Piquesat 15 ets, yard, just Lall price, Lot White Piques, Huir Cord with Sufin Stripe, 25 s, worth G0 ets, . Rich White Piques, in very choice sfyles, 45 cts,, formerly $1.00, Bargaing in Marsoilles Quilts, Table Liuens, Towelings and Housekeeping Goods, Black and White Sevge Plaids 20 ets, half price. English Prints 18 cts,, worth 30 cts, New Shades in Molwits, Alpacas, Poplins, &e, at 37 1-2ets,, very cheap, New Shades in all-Wool Cretories at 40 and 50 ets,, regulur value 63 and 80 ets, Bargains on Clieap Dress (Gouds Tubles at 18, 2¢ and 25 cts, yard, Jupaneso Silks about half price. Cheapest Stvipo Spring Silks in {he city. Great Bergaind in all-Sitk Binck Gros Grains from $1, $1.15, $1.25, and $1.50 up to rich. est qualities, Bargaing. in Spring Style Ottoman Shawla, Cottons and Sheetings of ull grades at very low prices, P T T MUSICA; HALLETT, BAVIS & 00, PIANOS. PEEVENTY-FIVE first prowlums awarded for BEE| £0,000 havo Leeu manufactured aud nro now n USE, Frang Liszt, frat of lizing Pinulsts, saye it (4 tho most adwirablo futeumont ovor juida, §2~Thso Plunos, both Qrand wnd Squaro, onn bo in Chicago, fu Iargo numbors, with a. varioty of Bianufactures, at tho Plauo aud Orgau Warorcouis o W W, EIMBATL, ‘Wabash-av, and Thirteenth-st. A largs assortmant of now Planns nid Organs to RENT. g Buxiin wishlug o pay by Nustalliunts oa b accouo: othor 14 FINANOIAL, : LAPSLEY & BAZLEY, BROKERS IN BTOOK PRIVILEGES, No. 47 Exchuuige Fluce, N, Y. 8100 and commisston will Pl:l’fllllzl:_lhgml;cl:ll cantract, ving you tho peiviiego of el Bl P o Wliar ) atany tino in 80 or 60 day puohiaso an A 1 gontraot (uun on 60,000 Amorlonn gold coln, s iourrod bayund 1) amiouny atys on a1l contravts wor or furt ticu: writo fur our !l“ i Tt e 4 aiical Wastratibn, - W3 rafor fo Mosare How < U €., lioe uton Of any aollva siock, 125 nnd cammiseion wil tluo snd tering ui atocka) No further risk or outlay duoido fo' siek, A1 som, 311 ug ¢ Cn, ! . Ha ot & 0., "aud Mossre, Neott, Birong & Un. DISSQLUTION _NOTICES, DISSOLUTION, ‘Tha copartnorehip heratofors oxlsting undor thy name andstyloof IL, G, Burdick & Qo. ta this day dfssolvod by mutual consent. i, G, BURDICK, &, B, WINESANN, Obicago, March 18, 1623,