Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1873, Page 5

o Town,” which was tho firat TIIE CITICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1873. WASHINGTON. What Has Been Spent Upoh the National Capital. Govornment Gives It Threo Millions ---It Exponds Ten Millions, The Building of tho City---Now and Then---A. Rotrospect, From Our Oun Correspondent, WasnxoTox, March 18, 1873, ‘Whilo Congress hna been nitting, thoro s been no timo to- notleo tho oxtraordinary hold tho nowly-onorgized Municlpal Covornmont hera hins obtained upon Congrons and tho Excoutive. TItE APPROPRIATIOND 10 tho clty, dirctly and indirectly, aro grontor than thoy havo ovor been In its history,—far grontor than whon tho place was frat pitchod oro, Thoy amount to shout £5,000,000 direck this yonr, and noarly £2,000,000 moro for publio edificos, Tho Capitol edifleo itaolf gots n enubs Ding, tho srhiteot boing o shy man, who hnd ot loarnod tho nrt of lobbying, and could only stato tho nocosnity of repnira ot least. Lub tho grent now ronnissanco building for the Stato, War, and_ Navy Dopartmentas has recoived o lift which wiil covor it with stonc-onttera a8 soon s spring opens; & now statuo of Gou, Thomas ia ordered, to cost €40,000 ; and tho Farragut statuo 48 takon out of tho hands of tho attlats of tho lobby. In two yours from this poriod, thoro will o six colossal atatiics in tha slreats of this city, —fivo of them equastrian,—Wathington, Jack- son, Scott, Grant, Thomes, and Farragut, bo- sidos_out-of-door statuos of Lincoln, Boolt, and Washington. The old City Hall hos passed wholly into tho possossion of tho Unitod Btatos, and with tho procoeds, and o divorsion of city funds, o now Hotol do Ville will bo, eroctod in front of tho great now markot-honse, which lns cost 830,000, Bovernl now streot-railwiys aro suthorized, nnd tho building-pormits applied for or granted sbow an oxtraordinary advanco in conatruction, much of which is of a villa charac- for In tho eubizbs, In May, tho wholo lino of tho Baltimoro & Potomao Rond will bo opened, us woll o8 tho new Motropolitan Dranch of tho Baltimoro & Obfo. And tho Municipal Govorn- mont bns spont €8,900,000 in about olghtcon ‘monthe, according to its own report, andita op- pononts say ©14,000,000, assoseod upon nearly tho full valuation of proporty. romrs, - o enormous aquoduct which ‘rus cighteen milos, through cloven tuoncts and over six Dridgos, {6 at last comycted and connectod with thocity, ab n tolal cost of about ©6,000,000. Fivo bridgos of tho most durnblo obaractor, probably good for thio noxt quartor of a dontury, span Rock Crook, Ono bundrod and twenty miles of wator-mafn aro now in wso In. this Dis. trict, of which twelvo miles havo boon ralsed or loworad to the now grudea nd 590 fire-plugss 265 public hydrants, and many drinking-foun- tains carry off tho 91,000,000 gallons usod overy twonty-four hours in this Capital, which is but 20,000,000 lo8s than all Paris gots from its gove ernment. Tho amount of paving dono in tho past six- toen montha is aimost incrediblo in view of the former slow and conservativo progress of the elty. Ninoty-threo milos of brick snd conoroto eldowalke, and 115 milos of concroto, wood, round-block, graveled, cabblestono, Macadsm, o Dolgian block aircot, hovo. boo Ind. - Add %o ihis govouty miles of tilo-sowor, mnd cight miles of brick main soverage tlirough Elch o buggy oun bp rivon. with, etsp, and tho oblitoration of tho old Tiber Crook aud Canal by ono of the largost sowors in the world, in di- amoter from 20 to 80 foot, and you will aco that oid Waehington is no moro. Tho landmarks Liavo porished from tho oyo, And tho namos of tho atroots aro also to Lo changod,—thoso run- ping from north to south to bo numbered from First to Bixtioth, inatend of Flvat stroot West, Becoud street Endt, otc.; and thoso running from enst to west aro to bo no longor lettored A, 1 O, D, otc., but named, alphubotically, Adems, Hon- ton, Clay, Douglng, oto., on ono sido, aud Auder- o, Baiubridgo, Chauncey, Deeatur, otc., on the otlior. Tho Board of Public Works claim that, botwoen 1802-72, tho Toderal —Goyorn- mont has spont but §1,921,288 on tho streots of ftlio Capital, whilo tho hunicipality spent upon tho samo 813,021,707 ; adding Georgo- town's oxpenditure, £2,000,000 moro. ‘Beforo the Lritish burued tho public bnlldinas Governmiont spont hero 31,214,192, _ Aftor 1814 and up to 1830, tho Governniont'spont §3,014,000 on tho pubile odificca. “At thin pint, it may not boa dull matter to oconnt tho carly trinls of tho Elto aud its buildors. noTLOMG TOE crTe—1790-1860, Tho Amorican Capital lu. tho only seat of gov- crimont of n flrat-cluss power which was o thought and performanco of tho Govornmont it~ sclf. It ueed to bo _callod, i {ho Madisoninn ora, the ouly virgia Capial in tio world.” St Potoraburg vas tho thought of an Em- poror, but tho Capital of Russia long afterward Fomalnod at ascow, and Potor tho Gront snid that ho dosigned St. Potorsburg to bo only “a window looking out into Europo.” Washington City was designed to bo not moro- Iy a window, but 6 wholo inlsbitnucy in foo simplo for tho doliborations of Congress, and thoy were to osorolso_exlusivo logisiation over it. "o tho Constitutional Convention ordained ; anid, in log than soven wooks aftor tho thirteontly Stafo ratifled tho Constitution, tho placo of tho Capital was desiguated by Congress to bo tho Totomae Rivor. In six months moro, tho pro- cio torritory on tho Potomae was dofined, undor tho poraonal oyo of Washington. “TIE NOTIVE OF TUKLDING an etircly now city for tho Federal scat was not arbitrary, like Potar tho Great’s will with 8t Totorabitkg, nor fancifal, liko that of tho fou dor of Versnillos, It was, Tiko mauy of our iu- stitutions, un act of reflection buggestod by such harsh experionce a_onco drovo tho Papal hiead from Tiomo to Avignon, ond, in our dsz, hog withdrawn tho Fronch Covomimont from Paris to Vorsaillos, Tour yoars boforo tho Constitn- tion was mado, Congross, whilo sitting ot Phil- iloiphis,—thorlargast clty in tho Bisios—ind been grossly fnsulted by somo of tho unpaid troops of tho Rovolutionary War, and tho Peon- sylvanin. authioritios showed it o protection. Congrons, with commendablo diguity, withdrow to Princoton, and thoro, in tho collogiato halls, Eldridgo Gorry, of Mnosachusotts (whoso ro- tmaine now lo 1 tho Congrosslonal Cemetery of Washington), moved that tho buildings for tho uso of Cougress be orected oithor on tho Dolu- wazo or the Potomao. THE GTATE OF MARVIAND yas su oarly applicant for tho pormuneat suat of tho Governmout, and, aftor tho reoult at Phila- dalphin, hantonod to ‘offer Congrats ita Copitol editico ind othor accommodations ot Annapolis, Gongrons accopted tho inyitation, and thorefors it svan ut Aunapolla that Washinglon wurrondorad. lia commiselon, in tho Drosonco of that body. Tho caroer of Congroas at Annapolis—which was a vary porfeal, idy, and prolty winiatito oity— Toft # good Imprasslon upon tho membors for {cars afiorvards, and waa probatiy not witbous t fufluonco in making Maryland soll tho futuro Todoral District. ‘lho _growing * Baltimoro lnco fn Amorica, ‘aftor 'the revolution, to oxlibit tho “Wostorn bpiritof * driving things,” appoared In tho 10bby and tho prints, s An anxious competitor tor tho wwacd of the Cuplta; and th stimuls- tion of that day bore frufts {n tho first and only admizuble pattlotio monumont raised to Wash- ington, whilo Weshington City wan yot sooking to survivo its ashes, With tho joalousy of & noighbor, tho nug port and portago eottlomont of Guorgatown opponod. Baltimoro, and dircoted attontion o itsolf as doworving tho Fodoral be- stowal, and countad, not without reuson, upon tha influance of tho Prosident of tho Unlted Blatcs in its bolalf, MANY OTAER PLACES strovo for tho oxaggeratod honor and profit of tho Capital it is tradition In bnlf-n-dozon v of tho country— ut Havio do Graco, Tronton, Wrights- glts, Pa. i dormmtowi, Williumbport, Md. Kinguton, N. Y., and othera—that tho soat of Govornmiout wai at ono timo noatly iholr prize. o points, liowovor, gulnod ateadily on tho rast, —Now York and s0mo Indofluito spot on tho ot tomso, Tho Enstorn ~ Congrossmon wsod _to tho lifo of towns, and lttlo T Tovo with whet thoy consldored (ho barbarlo plantation: lifo of tho Bouth, dosired to nasomblo. wmangat urbune comforty, iu o placo already woll outablishiod, Trovinciglism, projudice, and avarico all played tholr part in tho contost ; and, in that day of pae por mouoy, it wag thouglit by many that tho gur- vonay must follow tho Capital, Tloico, necord- ingz {o JofTorson, whono aceounts on (ifh hond do ot rond vory olaarly, tho financlal problows of tho thno WERE OFTHET by tho rolaction of tho Capitnl, Tamilton do- farred to tio South tho Fadoral Cily, nid hind his ronmury polley ndopled in oxchungo for IL. Wion fofiorson and Tlamilton enmo to writo about oncr tliar, we o remindod af the adze Fhint, when tho wino Ja n, tho wit s out; bub it In ngreonbla to rolloct that they wero holh nc- cordant with Washington on this point, and Jof- forson Iind groat Inflionco ovor tho young Copl- tal's forlunes. Gongrosa mado n ronsonnblo doclslon on tho subjogt,. ‘Thio comforts of & homo wore to Tio necordod nt Philadelphin for ton yoars, to quiot Dhilndolphin, and menntimo n now pinco was to bo plautiad éu tho Potomno Tivor, and publio odilicos orcotgl upon it. Thio notual soloction and plan worbdo bo loft fo n commission #o- fectad by tho Prosidont 3 and thus tho TFedoral Gity fn nn Tixooutivo act, deliborated botwoon Washington and privato oftizons. Morlifying, indeod, wan tho carly work of smaking tho Gapital Cliy for thio thres Commmis- elonors, whoeo ranlc woro ronowed a8 010 grow dospondlont and nothor onragod. Tt wna on duly 10, 1700, thn, Drosidont Wasl- ington approved thio bill 'of slx sootlons which difeoled tho nceoptanico of TEN MILES BQUARE for tho pormanont eent of tho_Govornment,” “ otwoon tho monthof the Enstorn Branch nnd Conogochonguo.” Tho bill Tad bocomo o Inw by o claso voto In hoth Iousos, and tho Copital might lnvo boon placod, undor tho torms - of it, at the Grent Ialls, or monr tho fulufo Duitlo-site of Balls Bluff, o undor ‘tho prosonco of {ho Sugar-Lont Mountafn, i tho valo of tho Rivor Antictam, It in possibld that Washington himgolf, who hold dliorotionary control ovor tho Conimlsslonors, was not finnity of tho opinion that tho futuro clty sliould stand on tido-wator ; for o ind provious- Iy wwitton lotors, in praino of tho thrifty Gor- ‘Tman counry bosond thio Monocnoy, in Maryland. nt tho mnttor of tranaportation’ and passngo was groatly dopondont, in thoso days, upon navi- gablo wntor-conrsos, and it s probablo that, Shen_ tho law pnssod, tho spot of tho clty was alrondy appointed. 'ATIOUT FIVE KEATIS DEFORE nolocging tho sito for tho Fedoral Capital, Wash- ingidh mado o canoo upon tho Monocacy' River, aud, doseonding to tho Potomao, mado tho ox- plofaion of tho wilozivar, frot o montalng o tido-wator, in ordor to' tost tho fonsibility of lock and dam navigation. 1t lo apparont from his lottors fo Arthur Young, tho Barl of Buclion, nnd others, that ho wos sware tnt the Yaluo of his cstates on tide-wator was declining, and o wantod both tho_city nud tho canal coi- tiguoua o thom, & nobloman might wall, Low: ovor, havo that nttachmont to tho baunts of bis youth which hio would would wish o Aco it bonus tified by o city. "Fho bill was pussed whilo Congress uat in Now York ; six montha Intor, on Jan 24, 1791, Washington, at Philadelpbin, AADE PROCLANATION that, *Attor duly oxamining and welghing tho ndviutagos and dleadvantagos of tho sevoral kit~ Untions within_tho limits,” 1o had thrown tho Foloral forelory acroes tio Potomae rom Alox- audrin, “Tho nito of the now district wes not _entiraly tho wildorness it has boon reprosented, ‘Tho Potomno lind boon oxplored up to_ this poiat, and a8 far a8 tho Littlo Falls sbovo, by TENRY FLEET, 160 years bofora. Fléot was tho first clrllized holng who evor lookod upon tho sito of Wash~ ington, and his mavusoript story of asconding th river was novor publisliod unill 1671, When Loonard Calvort arrived in tho Potomac, in 1634, ho want up to confor with this adventur- ous fur-trader, who hind boon many years in tho country. “Tio placo,” 0l Tloot, ovidently alluding to tho oontractod Potomao Just ebovo Goorgotan, iejg, “without all question, tho most healthful and' pleasant piace in all this conntry, and most convoulont for hnbitation ; tho alr tomporato in summer and not violont in wintor. It abonud- ot with all munnor of floh, Tho Indiaus fn ono night commonly will catch thirty sturgoons in o lco whoro the river Is not ovar twolvo fathom rond. And, for door, buffalocs, bonrs, turkoss, flio woodn dg_swarm ‘with thom, and ho soil i oxcoodingly fortilo; but, sbovo this placo, tho country 18 ¥ooky aud moustainous, liko Cannids. -+ Wa lind not rowod abova thod nilos but wo inight hear tho Falls to ronr.” Lo carly sottlorn of Marsland and Virginia Tropt £o tho nuslgablo streams, and tho carliest pioncors of the torraco contitry of mryland Soro Seoteh and Sootch-Irlsl, somo Gornans, and o fow Cathollcs. GRORORFOWI AND DLLEAVEN (or Aloxandtin) woro rathior old placcs whon tho suroya woro mado for Washington Cily, and tho formor had boon Inid out fally forty” senra. Tho army of Gon. Braddock had landod ot Alox= suis, snd o largo portion of his ariny morcbod from 'Xock Crook, ns tho infant Goorgo- town was thon called, for Frod- oricltoyn and tbe_ Obfo. Au_ oarly a8 1763, tho father of Gen. James Wilkinson purchused o tract of * 500 teron of Jaud on tho Ryber ana Potomao, which probably compro- hianded tho Prosident’s houso;” but tho pur- chser's wifo objoctod to & remaval to such an igolatod spot, and tho property s transferrod to ono Thomas Jokng, In 1775, tho_young Wil- Iingon “ shouldored n firclock’ at_Goorgatown, ina company commandod by o Rhodo Tslun Quaker, homasRichardson,” in which algo tho futuro Gon. Lingan was o subsltorn, sud this full company drilled for tho Rovolutionery alrugglo * on o small apot of table-land banging ‘ovor Ttocle Creok, bolow tho uppor bridgo.” As Willinson lived ! thirty miles in tho up-country, ond was alweys puuclual ot porade,” wo may infor tht Goorgotown was {ho most considorablo placo in all this quartor of Maryland. As carly 13 1779, William Wirt, whoso paronts rosided nt Diadonsburg, went 'to “n classical “acadomy at Georgetown;” and ho and others long boro romombranco of. tho _prsiago of Ptho_ Fronch nnd American armios fron Torth to south over tho farry at that placo, of ehcampmonts ot Kalorame Hill, and wagous Ioadod with spocio croosing Rook Crack, dan. Washiugton also desiguntad_ Gaorgotow as ono of tho three groat places of doposis for military Gtoroa; and 8o important was Alosandria thit Gharlca Lo, in hiv pla of txanson, hud propascd fo.cut tho Northorn States from tho South by occupying it with o pormanont dotachment of ivitieh troops, who should keop apon the forrios betwoon Aloxandris _and Annapolis, and, by ‘monacing the vich farms of tho German sottlors in tho up-country, compol them to starye oub thio Patriot armica. o porl-town ot Bladonsburg was noy fusk pon o decllno, nud tho poriod had como whon tho intorior parts of Maryland, Pennsslvania, and Virginia wero sliowing forth thoir promiso. - Maryland had containod gon- Hdombly moro .population thau _ New York during tho Rovolutionary War, and wo miny concelvo Gieorgotown and Aloxandrin to havo beon ‘amongat the Lest grado of socondary towus at Ot period.” "Thoy stoed, as now, in fullsilt of cach other; and the ridgy basin and lowor ter- racas botwoon thom, whoto tho Fodoral City was to rino, prosentod o fow good forms tillod by slaves, and was already markod for & ‘COUPLE OF BIVAL BETTLEMENTS Dotoro tho Commissionars adopted it. Ono_of these prospectivo sottloments was locatod noar tho prosent National Obsorvators, and tools tho namo of Memburg, aftortward Tunkstown ; tho othior was projocted uear tlio presont Navy-Yard, and vas namod after tho Proprictor of tho catato, Carrollshurg. At any Tate, thero woro enougl poopls ou tho bite’ to give tho Commisslonors o great deal of . troublo with their bickering md rapacity; and it is likely that the {don had got abrond in advanco of tho oflciul cholce, that hero was to bo tho mighty Capitel, and thioroforo lands and lots had beon matiers of considorablo speculation. Tow who had passod the farry at Georgetown, and_bohold tho sito from tho opposite hills of Virginia, could fail to havo markod tho brondth of fiio ploturo, and tho strong colora in tho vound and tho onvironing wall of wooded clghts, which rolled back ~against tho distant sky, as 1 to luologo & noblo arcus of landsoapo, 2t for tho supremo doliborations of A CONTINENTAL NATION, Dropping down from_thoso hoights by stately radations, ovor sovoral nilos, 0 o torraco of fillain themiddlo ground, the foroground then divided, purallol - with ' tho oyo, into n Dagin ' ond o platesu, The' platonu on tho right showod ono prominont but ot pro- ciputons bill, with nn_agreonblo slopo, &t tho Diok of which tho Potomae rouched doop, Bup- porting axm, whilo uronnd tho biso meandorad a orgak that dunngo courso whan balf-way nd- vaneod, and thon flowad to the loft, pavaliol with tho Tofomao, and botwoen iwo ‘oqual grausy Iolls, straight throngl tho phin o Lusin, fiulug to tha inapirod 650, as plainly o8 tion, tho avenuos, grados, and commanding posi= tiau of ciy. ; “Ax suoh, Washlugton must havo builded it wp iu s ows formative mind; for many a tine I0E 1IAD TABSED TTIN IEVIEW. Io aid not requiro to tako noto of tho_ebiftloss Hlavo farm for which tho ground bad boon gl Toadly brokon. Whoro yondor orchard grow, ha B Tho Txocutive Mavaion, with itu grounds ox- tonding down to tho river-sido cottnge of that ourmudgoon Hootoh plantor who was to bo among tho lnat to say words of finpudonco to tho fathor of tho olty. Whoro tho plonsant Lill swolled up to tho olear sklos in the nigh, Washington s tho splritusl outlines of tho fnir whifo Capitol soon Lo bo ombodiod thero, Flowing down into tho plain, and_ oxtondin el ovor o il of o - Capltol, o rontizol tho lowor and tho uppor oity, on_which n oirolo of villas in tho higher haokground should somo dny look down ¢ and all tho tndulating spaco ho- twoon the bine hoights of tho Aancostin and tho heights of Georgolown, from tho river bnck to tho tablo-land,~ should, by nnothor contury, smolco with tho populatlon, worship with bolis nd march with musio to Lionor tho foundor o thin virgin Capital, Huving namod the throo elvil Commisslonors 10 whom Congress—winor than Congrosson of o Intor period—commltted tho businoss of Cepital- malidng, Washington aot out from Philadclphin, TO CONEEIL WITIL TUES ON TIE BPOT, 1t fs ohiaracteristio of Maryland ronda in thoso doya, {n March, that tho Prosidont drovo down tho Enston_fhoro of Mryland, instond of crossing tho Susquonnn, and wap forriod over from looltall to Amnapolls, At tho latter Jaco, Lo rosted ol Baturday, zacolving hospital- ty ; and, on Sunday, contintiad hiyjournoy by Quoon Ann to Blndonsburg, whero ho dinod nud slopt. Noxt morning ho' {ook brealcfast ab Bulor's Lovorn, n onc-story framo tn Goorgatown, liaving ocetpicd ono iweek in fotigniug and porilons travol from Philadolphin. From tho hoights of Georgotown, Washington conld look over tho helf-uncullivatod traok, horo o Commignionors i, plottad part of thole aurvoya or tho Fodoral City, and Ponneyl: vanin avoutto was thon a path through an older swamp from Georyotown o Carrollsburg. On Ifuonday, o wnisty and dimgreeabo day Washington fodo ont nt 7_o'clook, with Davld Stuart, Daniol Carroll, and Thomas Joluson, the tliroo Conumissionors, 'nnd with Mr, Androw Elil- cott nud Maj. L'Enfant, who woro suryoying tho frounds aud projooting’ tho streots of tho city. #T dorived no gront sntiafaction, " anys Washing: ton, * from thio raviow ;" and thls wo can rondily suphono from one proseat luovlodgo of whnt St bo tho oondition of tho soil of th District in o spring of {he youx on v dnmp dug, wth tho landholdors of Goorgotown and Carrollsburg contonding with onch othor by tho way, with tho ‘umorous uninyited dlors prossing aftor, aud tho crudo and tanglod naturo of the rogion. Thiat night, ot 6 o'clock, Washington ondoavor- ed to contrive an_accommodation” botween tho Goorgotowuors and Cartolluburgars wnd it wis probablyat this timo tht ho hnd redson to desig- note Davy Burns, tho Scotch. farmor and fathor to tho fuburo hoiroas of tho city, ne * tho obetin- ato Mr. Burns” o dined that night at Col. Forront's, with » lnrgo company. Tho noxt day, ‘tho contending Iandholders AGREED TO WASUINGTON'S SUGGESTIONS, and antorod into artioles to aurronder half {holr fots whon survoyod ; and, having given somo of Dis ohnraetoristieally protiso instructions to tho ongineors aud othors, tho Prosidont crossed tho Potomac in the forry.boat, his oquipago follow= ing and dined nt Alosandel, and- slopt. that night ab Mt. Vornon, his homestond. fhoro iu o statue of Washington in ono of tho publlo crclos ot tho Cupltal Git, renresontiog im on e torrified atood doing batélo-duty; but '\ LOOAL TREATNENT OF THE BUMECT would have boen mor touching aud thoughtful: tho vetoran of war and politics, worn down with the friction of E\;‘l’!llo duty ond_ rising party as- ority, riding through the marshes and fiolds of \’Vuamngton, ontho brink of his 60tk yoar, to filvu the foundiing guvommuug ho hiad roared an onorablo homo. Could o finer subjoct fimflml to tho artist or to tho mnn(ci})n\(ty of Washing- fon. tho virgin, Inndscupo of tho Capital, aud this grontost of founders of citicssinco Jtomulus, surrounded by the twoongincors, the thrao Com- ‘missioners, and cortain curtoous denizens, and seoking to' ronson tho nevessitios of tho Stato and tho pride of tho country into_the flinty soul of Davy Burus, that suceessor of Dogborry,—for o 18 8id to have Leon o magistrate ? Tho now city was ‘ONE. OF TIIE PLAGUES of Gen. Washington for tho romaindor of bis doys, beeanro Lo was vory Gonsitivo as to its suce cets ; ond it had to puffer the concentrated firo of critiolsm and witticinn, domestic and. fomllfil, 25 woll as moro serious flunnclal ndvorsity. ] novor bohold any of the ;ixcry of it; and thofact tht hio lind beon ronponsible for it, and had sot- tlod it In tho noighborhood of hin estntos, prob- ably woighed somowhat upon bis epirita in tho ‘midat of that light roparteo which o grave nnturo cannot anawer, ~ Qreator f8 ho who keopoth his tomper than him who buildoth o city. That ‘Washington did both well, tho lator contury ‘can answor better than tho formor. Tho oxtravagant plan of Maj. L'Enfant has not beon vindicated ‘until now, when tho babitations of 100,000 poo- plo bogin to develop upon tho plano of his mag- niflconeo, Tho neighbora of Gon, Washinge fon DLud mo copucity in thab carly day fo congregate in cltios, and tho Yodoral oto Tk £6 Wit 107 b giugatioun domination and o period of comparative woalth. It in ycb %o bo tosted whothior tho ornamontation of the city in to_conduco to an cqually Ropublican rulo wiih that of moro squalid times; for, Now York oxcopted, Wasbiujston s now the doarest city in Amoricn. TXE THUSTEES OF THE FEDERAL OITY, in whom ot law nominally repoeed tho con'vosod proporty, woro Thonias Benll nd Joln M. Gaitt. "Plg chick ownors of tho silo woro David Burng, Homuel Davidson, Notley Young, and Danio Carroll. THE COST OF THE GTIOUND on which Washington City atands was truly in- siguificant a3 compared with tho remarlablo ‘municipal exponditures of tho yoars 1871-72-'73, Tl fow proporty-holdors agroed to convoy thio Govorumont out of thoir Tarm-lsnds ax muck ground ag would bo_ roquired for strects, o Thucs, publio building eiten, roservations, irens, ato,, ud to gurronder, also, one-Lalf of the ro- ‘mathing land, to bo sold by tho United States na it ight doom fit,—recoiviug, Lowever, ot tho Tato of £26 por acto for tho piblio grounds, but Tolhing for the stroots. In othor words, tho Govornment, through its threo Commissionors, yas to plob aut tho Fdoral ity in th firstpiac, delinoating all tho grounds roquired for build: ings ond resoryations, and purveylug tho pact to Do inhabitod. It was then to divido thoso inliabit- sblolots oqually botweon itsolt and tho d; holders, and soll its oxn lots whon, and on what prices and_torms, it ploased, and, out of tho prococds of wuoh knles, to malo its payments for 1o pationnl grounds end rasorvations: ‘In this way tho Govornmont took sovontoon gront pareols of ground out of {ho goneral plan, ol o8 now surround the Capitol,” tho Presi- dont's Houso, olc., and tho uamo ' amousited to BAlncros, At SGO.60 per ncro, thia yiolded to tho farm-holders $96,099,—a vory emall sum in- dood if wo_compute Inforost upon it, and sub- tract principal and interast from tho prosout vaiuo of tho ground. "Pho bulding lots assigned to tho Govornmont numborod 10,136, Tho amount of salos of theso Tots, up to thio year 1834, was S741,024.45, aud an assoseimont upion tho unsold lots, mado ot that timo, Lroughe tho Governments alinro up to €850,000. 1osidos this hnudsomo spoculation, thio Stato of Virginin. votod to tho Governmont tho Bum of $120,000, and tho Stato of Maryland thio sum of 872,000, s n concassion for plantiny tho great city on ‘tholr Lordors. With equal courtosy, tho Govornmont gavo away o greab ‘many lots to such inutitutions as tho Columbiay and Goorgetown Collogos ond tho Washington nd 84, Vicont's Orphan Asyluma ; and. it aiso uquandorod mauy lots upon loss worthy solicit- ors, giving o dopot-sito away to A railvay com= iy in 1872, which was worth sevoral lutndred Tiloueand doftars. IN THE ENTINE ATEA included undor the sbove agreomont, thoro wore 7,100 acros, with ciroumforcneoof fotrtoon milos. fho unoven plain of tho city oxtendod four miles along tho river, and svorged throo-quarlers of o milo fn breadth, Tho only streams woro tho {Fiber, which divide tho pluin nently oqually ; Jume#' Crock, amptying inlo tho motth of tho ‘Tastorn Branch ; and Slash Run, omplying into Tock Creols. Thoso stronm fiill prosorvo tho o thoy Tocoived long boforo tho Capital waa pitebod, TIIE FIDST DEDICATORY ACT. waa to fix tho cornor-stoue ut Joues' Polut, near Aloxendrin, _Jamon Muir dlmnnlmnl tho_sormon, Daniol Carroll and David Stunrt placod tho slono, ‘ud the Masons of Aloxeudris performed thoir uystio rites. Gami. vl oy PERSONAL. A, 3. Moad, of Winons, s at tho Driggs House, David E. Hill, Presidont of the Akron Forgo Company, of Akron, O., is at tho Brigge Houso, Gov, Straw, of Now Hampshiro, who was olectod o fow days ago by o weo mujority, called on tho Dayor yestorday, Mrs, T, O, Shorman, Mra. J. L. Marsh, and M. T., J. Tuttlo, of this city, woro iu Now Or- loans at last secownts, Mayor Modill intonds to go to Springfiold thls evoning, to 800 what can bo dono townrd gotting our tax bill passed by tho Loglslatur Milo, Aimeo, Milo, Villiors, Milo, Doschamps, 0. A. Ghizzoln, I, Gutoun, A, Duvand, aud Mile, Tonnolll aro at tho Garduer lonso, A. E, Kont, of this oity, has purchased & slto for i aummor rosidence at Hun lafacl, o village twolve miles north of Ban Irancisco, lon. 8, 8, Mann, Elgin; Ion, Josoph Utley, Dixon; ilon, J, A. Cavpontor, Carpontorvillo} Tlon. Jamen Ilarrington, Gouova, ave ot tho Briggs LHouso, Con. Alfrod IT, Terry, Gon, 0. D, Graon, Gen, D. 5. Stauloy, Col, J. H. Gilwow, Col, B, Gibba, Cnr}l, 0. D, Ludloy, snd Oapt, J, . IL Wobnfor, U. B. Au nto at tho Tromont Tfouse, Tho Rafrond nnd Warchouso Commissionors havo takon rooms ot Andorson's Hotol, Gon. (. A. Brown I8 also nnong tho guants ot Anderaon's. Qol. John V. Ayor, of thia olty, hny roturnod 1o Now Orlennn, nfter o proteolod vislt to his plnntation on tio esho. 1o is stopping ab tho t. Clinrlos Hlotel. A Jnto Now Orlonns papor noticon the arrival in that clty of Ald. MoAvoy and lndy, end Gon. Tlotehkiss and Indy, of this olty. ‘lfhoy woro to romain ot tho City Holol forn fow day lshnul}vmcnn«l to othier places of intorost jouth, Owon Fawcott, tho comodian, formarly n mom- berof tho stock company at Wood's Musoum, when it was undor tho managemont of Mr. ¥, Aikon, and now oonnooted with a loading Now York {hontro, hns just complotod an orlginal Amorienn throc-nct comody, ontitiod * Amori- qam ok Homo." Tk piny 1 1ot ot boan pro- ucod. Among tio nreivalsat o Briggn Houso, yoo- 8, an Tu tho tordny, Voro tho folowing W, 11, 1t Bétidl, Dukolh; A, Hawloy, Plymouth, Ind.; Joha CGampboll, dittlorton, N. Jamos L. Camp, Dixon I, Bishop, n[oflouur‘;z Jongo 1T, Smith, Milwaukeo; E. Adlor, New York: J, J, Morrow, ittlo Rock'; . W, Buoll, 1L Smith, Milwaukeo; . . Duttorfleld, Hougliton, Mich. Among tho arrlvals, st tho Lvemont, Tonso, yostorday, waro tho followlng: 8. B, Konricl, Creon Bay; N. B. Lord, Milwaukeo; Joseph 8, Jmmln%o, Now York; Horptio W. Vail, alti- moro; U, 8. Kinting, 86, Lonia; 0, I, Ford, Bostou; Dr. I. . T.T. T, Tommodian, Ginclnnail; T, . Clarkson, Dos Moiues; O. §. A. Crospigny, Lonvénworth! A tostimoninl benefit has been tendored to Mr. 1. M, Van_Court, Buporintendout of tho Waspingtonian Homo, 'Ly tho !*Homo Socla- blo." 1t will oceur to-morrow ovening, in tho chapol of tho Ilomo, No. 672 Woat Madison stroot. Tho_ontortalnmont will consiat of the tomporance drama, ** TonNights in & Bar-Room.” Tho ndmisslon 60 is 60 conts ; children under 12 yonrs of ago, hilf price. Among tho narrivals at tho Gardner Houso'l yoatorday woro tho following : Ldgar Willism- | pon, Manchestor, England ; O. H, Hind, Do-‘| troft ; V. P, Kimbull, . 1, Harroun, Bonjamin | ¥. Lyon, Knlamozoo; Azol Amos, Dr. Azl ‘Amon, Jr., Boston ; Z. G Botzford, Loulsvilo ; A. 8. Hibbard, Now York; A. R. Burkholder, Dos Moinos. Among the arrivals at the Sherman Housos| yostorday wora_ tho following: G. Sommers, Groon Day 4 8, 8. unting, Tndisnspalia; G, 7% Qromuoll, Daruytor, Noiy Yorl; . Gloveland ; ., Rafferty, Pittsburgh fnmuon, Muncliostor, Lngland ; Dubuqio; A. Foutsin, Montroal ; Dr. P. Maley, Clrcinnati ; Rusoll Sage, Jr., Milwaukeo; H. A. Boyd, Toledo. Among tho arrivals at tho Maiteson Houso yostorday wora tho following : T. W. Tostor, Grand Rapidn; R. B, Dunton, Springflold ; 1. N. Lockhardt,” Now York ; 8, 'P. Tenadol, Snls Lako City; J. Cicoro Justico and_wifo, Avcoln ; L. B. Dubois, Donvor; G, T P. Buck, Aurora ; 0 R. Diorce, Rowanoo ; H. H. Bontolloy, Boston; A. H. Harrit, Dotroit. Tho Hon. John B. Rico, momber of Congroas from tho First Gongressional District, hns tho ovor to sond nny boy with a tasto’ for tho pomp and circumstanco of war " to West Point tobo odueated, o lavitos appliosata (o cll upon bim ot hia rosidonco, No. 832 Indiann avonuo, and ho will ustruct thom whoro o find the gontlomien who aro to conduict tho compoti- tivo oxamination through which thoy must go Doforo tho successfal ono con be picked _out. Tho npplicants must bo nativa-born Amoricans, Dotweon the agon of 17 and 22, and must ho resic donts of tho Firat Congrossional District. ‘Early yesterday morning Mra. Betty Shotwoll Caunon, wife of Robort M. Oannon, Esq,, died at hor residenco, on Michigan avenuo, noar Twenty-third stroot, Mrs. Cannon was & native of Loulsvillo, and was ocouncoted with some of the loading familics in Kontucky. She had lived in €hiengo for many yours, howovor, and waa well-luown in socloty citcles, Bho hed alson cnltivated litorary tasto,and during a tour abroad, 28 well as ut other timen, she lind contributed lottora and nrticlos o tho nowspapers of Clicago and Louisville, Her discaso was consumption, and hor frionds have such consolation as is af- forded in_the thought that sho died without acuto suffering, Tho funoral, which will be an= nounced hereafter, will be doferred until the Touiayille frionds of horself and husbaud shall lavo time to come to Chicago. aloy, Tho Grooley atatuto fund : §9, 540,55, Gov. Auatin, of Minnosota, will accept Troas- urer Scogor's resiguation. Charles I1. Lioyis, son of tho Virginia Senator, has resignod as Ministor to Portugal. . L. Warren, Into of tho Bay City Journal, Las purohnsed the Saginaw Znferprise. Mr. and Mrs, Goorga Alfred Townsond, of Washington, have suffored Loreavement iu' the death of an infant daughter. on. G M. Dodgo, it turn-out, was novor offi- cirily forved with sulmons to testify in tho cnso of Gredit Mobilor attor all.Tlo siiuply *dod- ol Mre, Harriot Ponniman, of Baltimora, mothor of Mra. Soerolary Roboson, dicd nt th Secro- tary's residenco, Tnst weok, 'aftor o briof illness. 8ho was upward'of 70 yoars of age. Quurleg 1: Boggs, Oliilog Stoodman, Jamos Alden, Thomns A. Solfridgo, Theodoras ‘Bailoy, Dolancthion Bmilli, and Ton'ry Walkor, all Ror- ‘Admirals of tho Navy, will forthwith'go on tho vetirod Jist. ‘Thomas R. Bharpo has boon promotod to Mag- tor of I'ransportatio.. ou tho Baltimoro & Ohlo Tallrond, bnving been tho assitant of tho lato . Proscott Smiith. Thecorporations kuow how to enforeo Civil Sorvico rulos. Commodoro Vandorbilt has givon 500,000 for tho purpose of cracting & largo sominnry for fomles, on tho ground of tho Moravian Chiirch, at Now Dorp, Sfaten Island, to bo builf on {ho plan of hg somiuary ot Lotlekom, Pa., and oi- owed by tho Commodoro, _ Johns Hoplins, of Daltimoro, is & many-mill- iouniro, imd Loy’ just givon two millions to found & Baltimoro Charity Hospital, but ho is 0t yol. famous enough o liave his namo spelled corractly. ‘Tho nowspapors novor heard of such numo 08 #Johus” boforo, and so thoy all print it “John 8." or 3, §, Tlopkina."” VA il A CHICAGO 16 TO HAVE A CRICKET CLUB. In responso to 6 briof announcoment, & num- ber of gontlomen dosirous of establishing & Grickot Club in thia city mok for this purposo at tho Shormen Houso on last ovoning. Chpt. Stowart was called to tho Chair, but vacated that position i favor of 3r. P, 1T, Tansoy, No. 41 Bt Jobn's Pluco, Union Park, Tho Oaptain dealt with tho quostion of the ‘meoting in an ablo manuer, and rferred to tho ‘many gala deya hio, iu company with_othors, had apout in tho enjoymont of this manly gamo for sovoral of thoso fiftoon o olghteen years Lo bad prssed in Chicago. Toforo tho firoa cricket club ‘oxistad in Chicago, but of courso it catastropho ‘mado it shavo tio common fato of nenely ail of our ineitutions, Now, howover, thecity was itsclt again—to publio bulalnge ani places of aniso- mont hiad all eprang up onco moro,—and ho thought thnt, with the roturn of Chioigo to hor former grandour, o crigkot olub, tha sourco of 5o muoh plossuro, ' should alao Uo rovlved. " [Ap- plaso, P\rtor tally disonssing tho, aubloct, M. Ten T, Dowan was suanimously hoson 1 Trondoni o tom, and A, Lynoll was roquestod o oct s (onorable Secroary. O motion of Mr. Francls D, MoMahon, it wan xeaclved thut fho prosout mooting form itaolf into o committoo to _considor tho most practioal moans of otsblishing such o olub, and Toport upon tho mattor at thio adjourncd maot- ing, tobo held in tho Shorman louso ot & o'clock on uoxt Monday _ovening, ab which sl Tovors of cricketing aro roguosted to attond. e st il “Tho Lirle Invoutigntion, New Yourr, March 24,—At the Erie Rsilwoy invoutigation to-day, §, L. M. Darlow, of tle Tirlo Difoctory, aud 'counsol for tho Compnny, tontlflod €bat Whon Mr., Lano, of tho old Diact- orn, lind calfod wpon bim rospocting tho proot- ad dlmngo of managemont, ho wantod 1,600,000, Hr. Darlow sncceoded i huving tho amount ro- ducad, attor communlenting witl Ar, Molloury 0 200,000, - Dositon this minount thoro was paid 30,000'to n Mr. 0'Dohorty, ond thoso, oxcopling Wwhat was paid €o Bioklos, and to miicollanoous counsol, woro all tho sums that ho know of hav= ing booh paid, ‘Uho London stockholdors, D, Tiutlow considorod, wore ontitiod to bo rabm- bursod by tho Compnny. Bi. lstlow, dolailed ut Jongth tho cironmstancss of tho nogotintions that Iio effeotod with Bischoftholm & Co,, whoroby tho Tilo Compuny was euved from bankruptey by that fimn - placing upon tho ~mar- 16t thirty millions of Erlo consolidatod. Mr. Tiarlow dld not know how muoh vwas paid to Gen. ioldlow for lii porsoual sorvicos, I roforoiico to tho §00,000 votod to tho Naw York Contral Cowmpany, that was for Lric's sharo in exponsoy Inourzad by tho Now York Contenl In connootion with the pro rata bill, tho Diroctors of that rond Tnving whiadthattho DL cont thom 106,00, o did nok hnow, howavor, ‘Whiothor tho monoy i patd for Tiigation. "Il fagt, was dovolopod tiné Gon, Blokles o- colvod 876,000 for b sorvicon in_counoction ith tho ghango of Diroctorship. ‘An Allny corrospondent. sty tha, of o motoya pald. by tho Brio Ditaotors for oxponsos in_conncetlon with the removal of Gould and otliors, £00,000 was divided up among six mom- Lora of tho Biato Bonate o S SO SPRINGFIELD. No Quornm in Either Xousc of tho Stato Logislntires=lmportant iills to ©Como Up To-Morrow=~Certificates of Organizntion. Spectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune, Srmarmenp, I, March 24.—Tho farco of o meoting was porformod by the Sonate aud House at § o'clock this ovoning,” There_wore 10 Bona-~ tors prosont and 85 absont ; 80 Roprosontativos rminnb nud 128 absont, Tho Sonato ndjourned u form, and tho Sposkor adjourned tho Houso without form, for want of »quorum. Itisex- tnetod thoro will he a large attondanco by Wodnosday, and_porliaps o quorm Lo-RIOKTON. It is imporatively necossary thero should bo & full houso on Wodnosdsy, ne tho Rivor bl il bo put on 18 pasango, 0ad thoro is ot & voto to spare. The absonco of ono of its frionds ‘may dofont tho approprintion. Tho Lako-Front Repenling bill aléo domos up, ond the Railroad billa aro tho spoclal order. Mr. Hildrap s [lrnpm'lnfi to make an oxhauativo argumont of five or six honrs, and Moesrs, Con- nolly, Morrison, Truitt, aud Dunham will make #ot oratlons, besidos spontanaous contributions 1rom o host 'of othors. Vory likely tho dobato ‘will consuma the remaindor of tho weok. Tho Bub-Committeo hus roturned from tho Ponitontiary, and the ontiro roport will bo pro- Bontad to tho Houso thia wook. It ia ot bolicvod that o Credit Mobilior has beon unesrthod, but somo drrogularities will bo exposed that will re- Bult n a more vigorous observance of tho rulos of morality and of tho prieon. Capt. W, I, H. Lawton hus boon _rocommis- slonod s Custodion of tho Unitod Statos Sur- voys, olos of organization of tho Indianapolls, Btrontor & Northwostern Railrond Company were filod in tho Secrotary of Stato's oflico to-day. This rond runs from Strostor, in Livingston County, to Crawfordsvillo, Ind., and connects with tho Crawfordsville & Indiannpolis Railroad. Cngltnl atock, 81,000,000, “ortifleato 0f Organization was alo fssucd by tho Becrotary to tho Natiounl Printing Cflmrnuy, of Chiengo; enpital stock, 860,000. And also to tho Iall’ Manufacturing Company, of Grond Crousing, Cook County; capital stock, $100,000. MARKETS BY TELEGRAFH. Now York Financial Nowss New Yons, March 24,—Tho week opons with au tm- proved feoling in fnanclal eircles, Moiicy was casicr, and aceeslblo to. borrowera on call at compuratively ehigap ratos, Torolgn exchango advenced, Btbokw woro In increased demand at o highor rango of values, Tho aunouncoment that forged # put ” aud calt® prstleges woro tlacorered, proved to bo ouly of a % cal on 100 shiarea of stock, A rumor of tho nogotiation i London of £2,000,000, stérling, Now York Cantral gold Londs wes 1mado, bul 14 1u perbups promaturo. Manoy ranged from 0 per cont to 164, and fnterest, witlitho bulkc of tho loann at 7 por cont, &t whick thiord wero offarings ot the cloas, Btoriing was firm at 1075@103, Gold wan lower, rangiug from 1163¢ to 1163, closing at tholatler rato,” Loann, 43¢ o7 per cant fGF carry- ing, and flat for borfowing. Oloorlugs, 10,000, Trcasnry disburscments, 71,600 qshcgaltonder circulaioh, $168510,00,an ot of ‘Gsoramonta qulof bt vory steong at 1 advaac. Slato honds dull; Tennessees beavy. palirosd mortgages aul, with an advanco i Union acifics, ‘Stocks wero irmor, and pricea 1@ per cont bighor, with no marked rasetion intll 3 o'clock, when o weak gecling at I and naxt of tho Juproveniont s lor i though ot tho cloo thero was o partial recovery s stendy tono, Tho greatcst activity wos fn Paciflo Mall, ., whicll foll at tho opening from 653 to 532y, aud aftor~ ‘euxd mado a steady advinco to 8137, reactlug In_Lato Jonlings 0 50%. Panama roso from 118 o 11014, the sadvanco being woll maintained. New York Oetral Toso from 1014 L0 103k, closing st 103, Harlcin wns strong aud ros to 1963(, Unlon Packlo' rauged from 43¢ 10,883 ; Bt, Toul, 60k to 57573 Oblo & Missiasiy- Pl 453 to 40X, end lartford & Edo, 43 to 47 MWostcrn Unlon waa excoptiounlly weak, and’ declineil from BT3¢ to Bterliig, 107% Coupons, '81. 5-208 of 17 Currencs 3 163 Now s, STATE DoXDA, 9 |Virginias, old 61 Norili Cafolinas, old INorth Garolinas, nov oL | sro0, 00 §t, Paul pf £ Wabish. 40" Wabusl i DaxIFort Wayn 80 ITorre Huul 68 [Torro Hauto, il T4 Chicago & Alton. G0 Chicago & Alton Bid. opt... 453¢ “ounessces, Gld. . “Tounessees, new. Virginis, fow. United Statea Ex. Pacific Mail. ... 45 | Indluns Cenir: 105 dilinoiu Contral 833 Union Pacific ato: 8L |Union Tacifie bonds. ‘Norlbywestorn pfd. ... 893’ Cntrai Paciflo bonds, 103 Rock Ieland,. 3 & Waatern 10 N. J. Central B, 11, & Brdo.ovens 43 B, Taul.. Foreign faricois, Lavenreoot, Mareh 2411 s, {or wheat, 12523 spring, 11a@1% w805 lub, 118 20a@12 4d. 83 64, Lrvinroot, Mareh 24—1:30 p. m.—Drendstufis fina, Corn, 74 00Gi28s, Tork, 6lo, Lard, §94 O Lokpow, Mareli 21.—Coudols” for miouc: count, D37} ; 6-209 of 105, 01; 6-203 of '0T, 03, 893¢; 'mov 0, 017z, Taluts, Mareh £4,—Tontes, G0F Ge. Livenroor, Murch 2i.—totton fitms middling wp- Jand, 94d; Orloans, 9%d; salos, 15,000 bales: Atnerl can, 10,000'bales s spoculation and oxport, 3,000 balos, Lreadstnfls Airm, Red winter wheat, 123 20, Flour, 285, Gorn, 27y 9AG2S, Tork, 616, Lacd, 38490, Clicose, T0s, Cumberland midalcd, 358, Slort ribs, 994, New York Dry Goo New Yoni, March 21,—Dusiness ws moderatoly ac- tivo with tho'fobbors, but tho distribution of sunnner fabrlcs wan cieokied by tho cold woatlier. ‘The coin- aninsion houaos wero rathor quict, Cotion goods wera betsc and ieady n prlves, oxcept for ths owest grade of sliootings aad ehirtings, which oo weak, Beavor Greel denimis aro sold aliead, and oll makea aro uclive ot firm prices, Prints are activo. Spragiics, Ancoucs and Freeman iniitation Jspaneso stripes, percalos, aud #polkn wpots," aro vory brisk, Forelgn goods ara ‘mor uetive it Jobbers' bandy, Colored eilks aro dull, and selling low, Marlcot. Now Yori Live-Stock Narkot, New Yonk, Macch 24, —Dreyss—To-day 114 cars ab Ono_ Hundredtls aixeet, 90 at Commuufpaw, 18 at Wocliawion, making only 208 iead, complottg, 0,000 for tho weoll, ugufust 6,700 tho provious weok, \Trudo s notive widl' prices’ sbout 3o hlghior, oF 10350 for falr 1,100 1bs Toxana; 113 for 1,200 ths Hiiuols 190 fox iz Ti( oWt Atoors, bid 100 f0r fat cattle, TH@1 oWt choldo reachod ‘1o, with 3 cars gxira O ow rades at 1ixic, 00 1ba por owt ; G cara 0 owt 111/@ T230c; @ cafs, '1,200 1h9, 113¢c, 07 1ba por owt ; § v, Tig ek, 126130, sl 3 cars Texans, 1,100 145, 1030, tfio muriot closlngs atrong, ‘Sugrr—To-doy 2,100, iaking 10,000 for tho week, against 21,100 tho prévious weok, Doing better, woll fug ut 63¢@8s; ouo car oxtra, 100 13, Michigan, Bl 1 o o T RRi, T Sae Tod e, Oloy 1o enk o Iug, Ot ear 103 10 735, Troas—Totul, SL000, agatut 09,600 tho previous ook, Prices advancod 10 534@03o wilve, and TH@THo for city drossed, Total Weatorn dressed for o Wock, 2,080, Tliore Woro 73 cars of live Lo- Philadelphia Live-Stock Mariet. TunrApetrniA, Mareh 24 —Bgrves—Fair demand snd fiemor, Bales, 2,000 extra Siate and Westorn stoers at $T.16@B25 § fult {0 good, $6,60@7.00 ; for commion, $5.0050.00, ‘Butr—Fatr domand, Ralos, 8,000, at 6@8e, Tioos—Iu demand, Sales, 0,000, st'E5.0038.25, I'ho Produce Marlots, NEW YORK, NEw Yonx, March 24,—Corzon—ore active aud highor; middling wpland, 102;¢, Lieabsroyra—Flour moro sctlve, und n fvmor SoFshipypiug geuds s raceite, 1000 brln; aupor Woateru andt Blato, $3.95@0.63; vouimion to good ex- 413, $0.06@7.65 ; Good to_cliolce, SLUGHAO: while wheat oxtra, $5,50810.60; oxtra Olilo, $1.20810.603 Bt Touls, $7.06@B12.76, liyo flour teady st $.05G 5.76. " Corit meal quict. ‘Wheat vory firm, with od- ciatd doumnd, high prices uskod cliccking business ; rocoipty, 6,000 bit; No, 9 Milwaukeo aflont, $1.06G 1,604 3 ot Supring, $1.86@1.673 winler red Wealern $1,1061.70’ ordinuvy No, 4 Obicago, #1,01, Ryo dull and nominal. Narloy unclanged, Mait dull,’, Corn & sliado firiner ; woarelty of frelght roou chocks cxport dotuand ; Tocolpts, 3,000 bu: - now mixed Wealern, 05(30t0 3 old do afloat, 60G06K0; do iy utoro, Gis 61370 4 yollow Wosturn,' Goca0030," Oate Itgher, with good domand recelpts, 80,000 now mized ‘Woste e, 416800 ; black Weitor, 5@ hago ; white, 40@5te, Coven Beip—Quict auduteady ; 82iG38%e. Timotly. aquiot s §.00@3.65, Fous—Quict ; Wealern, 244G 30, ay—Unichatged, Tovs—Unchanged, Qnocentks—Coifes firm ; Rio, 104@18K0, Bugar gastor.Blotawion quiot and tew Wew i at 730 g, ETHOLEUM—Orudo, 030 ado cofined, 200, “CyuprsTing—Dull ot 5be. f grain in warelou 500,000 233000 i o b Tiarloy, i Aait, b Toam bu, i OVIRINA--Fark diiot and Arm 1 Tieof dull and unchanged. Gt tmoats d Gic. Mildios firm, with good dowmand ; 'short for Inst LalE of ATell, 830 Mhort clear, apot, 8)ge. Tardatrongor ; Wentorn aloaim, 83a; ketilo, 8570, Turren—Qulol and firm ; Woatorn, 18@3fo, Guterar—slondy at 12@170, Wizsky—Stoady at ole, NEW_ORLEANS, New Onurans, March 34.—DUrADSTOFFs—Tlour dull; superton, '$5.90; {roble, $1.02@9.25; family Singhgthon, " ort quick i @igtka, ~ Ol Quict at 1l o, TInAN~—Fjrm at 0230, TUr—Dull ; primé, $47.00 ololco, 429,00, Trovistoxa—Tork ' lower, st $10.76@17.00, Dacon gl st TGTHGTN, Trams, 15je. ZLard dull; toren, sig@nic: kog, Oxaloe, Gnooknns—Sugar dill; folly fale 83cc, lolansos, primo B0o, Coffeo 17:6@10sgc, Wrtarr—Dull and {owor at 80G050, 4 CorroN—Autivo, Halon8,800 balen : rdinary, 13 ood ordinary, lflx?flnl.’o; Tow middiing, 1405 nid- lling, 10@193¢0; midalivg Orleaus, 10ke. Rocelptr, 7,808 bnies, Exporle—Continient, 2,118 bsles; consls Wiso, 1,805 balea; atack, 315,180 balch, THILADELDIIA, Purapesrnus, March 4—BuEDsTors—Flons steady and wnchanged, Wheat hold firmly ; red, §1.04 @1 amber §2,0, ° Ryolloll at o, Corn Ih fale dormia sclow, 0. Ost i imited et Wit 6. Ternonun—Cruds, 13503 refined, 184c. Wintair—Steady at do, BALTIMONE, Davzton, Match 24.—BREADATUFEA—Flonr stoady and tclinnged, Wheat stendy ; Westorn rod, $1.05@ ‘amber, $L8@100. Oori riner; mixad Wesl- 50@C00, Onts quict ; Wostorn mixed, 40@480. ‘unchangod, rovisIoNs — Dirmor, Mess pork, $10.25G0LS0. ‘Bullc meats firmor; shouldors, G0 tib- aides, 724 glear i, 56, Bugor-cored bamé 1agtie, Lard, $@ *BurTER—Wonlorn unchanged. ‘Wuzsie—Nominal, at 00ige, 0SWEdO, OawEao,! Mareh 24, —DREaDsTURTA—TWheat nearco and firm, ' Corn dull ; Wostern, 60c, - Barloy dull; Doy of Quinto, $1,10, BUFFALO,. DorraLo, March 21.—Market gonerally dull, Wheat Bomiual, Gorn—S$alos Genrs on track at ble, GLEVELAND, CLEVELAND, March 24,—LneAnsTUFEs~Floue quict snd unchanged, Wheat irmee; No, 1 iod at. 81618 170; No, 2 s0ld to nrrivoat §1.03, Corn steady? big Tixéd, 40} low mixed, ddo.” Outa quict§ No. 1'8tat, o REFTVED PETROLLON—Tirm ond bigher; car lots, 160, Legal tost Ohio, ’Jll.h'fi“rm D0, Togno, Mrch 24—linespsrurra—Flour frm, ‘Whost. In'fair domand and lugher ; No, 1 whits Wn- Tash, $2.055 No.2 do,$109; oxtra whilo Michigan, $1.09@104 7 ambor Michigan, §1.681; urot, § April 80, 1 red, #1735, orh wiondy aud mixod, S04@Wi¢a opot, 410; April, 41io fow milxed, D000 3 yollow, d0i(0; no grade, Oate stondy 1 Htlohigan, 98%c. CtovEn Serp—34,70.” Mammoth, $5.05. eat, 4,000 bu; corn, 9,000 b ; oate, 1,000 b, Kurestelers—Flour, 000 brlag whoat, 3,000 bu; corn, 8,000 bu; oats, 1,000 bu, DETROLT. rapszUFFA—Flour dull and oxtra white, $1.05 ; No. 1, + ambor, §1,08, Mixod corn loady ; yel- 310 good demand at §5}¢@30c, 8T, LOUIS, 81, Louts, March 24,—~DuEADSTOrFs—Tlour quiet and ‘unchanged, Wheat Qull aud_draoping ; most Bnlos on privato tormn; fow saloa pmplo lots' No. & rod full_at $1,60. Gorn firmer; No.3 82, on East frock, Oala dil aud wuchangod ; No. 3, H1@Tice on Eost ‘track, Barloy firm o bighor | No. §, 4003 cliolea to fancy, $1.1061,20, Riye, notbing dono, Tow, 423gc, DRY GOODS. THIS MORNING HAMLIN, HALE & (0. Will open One ITundred Cases Prints, new productions. Also, PACIFIC, AMERICAN, and ORIENTAL PERCALES. Targe additions will be made to their DRESS G0OODS DEPARTMENT, that will include many choice things ; and, ON THURSDAY, We shall open an additional One Hundred Cases Prints, 200 Pcs. Cassimercs, for boyy’ wear, good styles, and at o moderate price, and full lines of Cottonades, Doeskins, Jeans, and Tweeds also added to the Woolen Department, MADISON AND FRANKLIN-STS. HAVANA LOTTERY. Officinl Drawing, March 15, 1873, W ull st 870, (o] Proviaroxs—Pork quietat $15.25@15,50. Dulk meatn, Bt e 4 buyors apart ; 75@70 bld for oloar ribsand clcar 600312031800 sldca; TH@To. nolied, Dacon onsler; mhoulders 0025270...-800 6o Gollez April s clear uiden 930 ecllor July, Lard 0025281500 oo ctive aud firmer ; Alcam, 734e. A Joas—Firm at 4} @de. D AIGe 20 Carrre—Steady and unchanged, 0[B401...1800 LOUISVILLE, ol91450... 300 Lovsvanur, Morch 24, —BREApsTusrs—Flonr quict ; B0351T.1100 extra family, §1.25. B00|3ib1t TnovisioxA—Stoady ; mess pork firmor, at $16,608 e 10,00, Dacon—Shonlddrs, 6:@G650; olosr rib, 8@ ol 8% cloar, 8%@84c, all packed, ' iams frm ; platn, ot E@l&l,\f'o;;‘l,llgudrfi o, 1335QHe, | Bulk medts' uo: B angod. ' Lard frin ; chofco tioree, 8(@8Hc. ‘Wiilaz—Firm, ot dosete * ) Mescems, Morch 24.-CotroN—Quist snd une e chaugod, 500,218 BrrAbsTurrs—Flour quiot and unchanged, Corn oy 3481e. loworat 45c, Oorn incal dull at §3.05, - 0 g Ttax—Dull at $22,00323.00, B0 L0l ) Dnan—T.ower ot $18.00. 200 st TrovimoNs—Tork dull and a shado lower ot $10,25. 500,23 Lard dull nud nominal. 1l aud o sbide 80021 oer: shouldoms, G Bacon— 025 oulliors, Te; sidos, B@DY "SIxGn oo ATI, CrvomaTy, March 24,—BREABsTOFFs—Tlour dull ot ST.00G7.85, Wheat quiot at $1.0SGLOS. Corn guistat EGHte. Tiyo dullandlover ot 1GHte, Cats, Tioviatoxs—Pork steads at §16.00615.25, Tard hold ‘moro firmly; ateam, 7%4@8c; round lots hold at 8o, Xoltlo, BX@Bge. DUl wcats vory firm;_ shoulders, Bygc;cloar rib, Tige: mles at 38,20, buyer Moy : cloar, Tio! Tncon tirms mwulders, Oye; cloar £l salen at 8%, sellcr Juno cloar, 83¢¢, willi more buyord tlinn sollsts of cloar at B MILWAUREE., MiuwAuKEE, March 24.—DRuaDsTurFs—Flour quist and uncliunged, Wheat ateady s No. 1, §1.39 3 No. 2, $131. Onty steady; No.3, 20ige, Corn dull ond nomindl; No. 2, Bite, Ryo—No. 1. Gse. Barley nctive aud highor; N 0. RccEipra—Flour, 2,000 bels; wheat, 31,000 bu, 1g ; wheat, 7,000 b, BiutrsteNTs—Flotr, 14,000 LOCKHARTS LIFE OF SCOTT. The Life of Sir Walter Scott, DByJ. G. Lookmaur. Libiary Bdition. ‘Unlform et tho Library 1iton of tho Waecloy Novels, 120, Wit 10/ino Steel Engrasings, 88.35, Ths editon of Tookhart's admirably work comprisce {3 e i, pnisingd st Fomsanbla Litton. 11 prosenta in cobc ot L orary S siamdam Life B ol oAy s sanf Lo grant clasics In ihe Gomatiniont of TiAtADIs " LIBRARY HAWTHORYE, Prench and Italian Note-Books Of NaTmAwIEL, HawrionsE. Library Edition. 1vol., 19mo. With two Nllustrations. §2.00. 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M, WINEMANN, Oltcago, Mazel 18, 1818, & & EEgEEEEEEEEs §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§€E§§§§§§_§§§§§§§§ Ermee ESSpEacozEns ) W 2370, S0 g 1 S L Mado to order in tho most complete artistio mannor, of f{abrics unsur. Fnsnedfqr durability. Monoy choer. 'nily refunded if' not satisfactory. WALSGH BROS,, 8, B, oor, Stato and Washington-sta,, 85 Woat Madison-st. (Bhorman Houso), Ohicago, Plke's Overw Monses Cluctuoutt, ROYAL HAVANA LOTTERY OF CUBA.-