Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 22, 1874, Page 12

i i i per honum, A. bad risen step by iop, THE CHICAGO DATLY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, ~ MODERN EXTRAVAGANCE. The Cost of Fitting Up a Suite of Fashionable Drawing- : Rooms, From a Minimum of $14,000 to a Max- imum of $50,000. Hovw . Mrs. Mogquette Tries fo Imitate Mrs. Auhnsson, and How Mrs: Wilton Tries 1o Imitate 3rs. Moquette. And so on Down, Through Mrs. Vel- vet, Mrs. Brussels, Mrs. Tapes- try, and Mrz. Three-Ply, to Mrs. Ingrain. We all of us, no doubt, realize, at some time in out lives, that the AMlicawberish estimate of incoms sud expenditure was really the correct ane, and find that some great or peity extrava- gance has Jed us to fall into that condition of ‘misory which ensues upon the spending of the sixpencs too much, instead of having s surplus to thet amount. Extravagance, however, is €0 entirely A MATTER OF FROPORTION that whether the woman who buys sn Aubusson carpet, or she who purchares an ingrain, has been the fitting subject for the domestic-econ- omist's criticism, depends altogether upon the fact as to wliether she can afford it or not. Nrs. Autusson may havo predicatod her oxpensos Tpon an income of §50,000 s year, while Mrs. Ingrain ey be striving to make both ends meat ©op €600 or 2700, This malses sll the difference in the world. Mrs. A. may bave no famiy whose wants she must consider, while Mrs. I sy have a larga one. 1t is only the fact that alovo of luxury has extended itself throughout the entire nation ; and not tuat only, but an esger, craving de- gire to . v SEEM AS WELL OFF AS ONE'S NEIGHEOS. No distinctions of rank being either granted or inherited bere, it is supposed thal none exiet, 2nd that Mre. L is, therefore, just 88 good as Mre. A. Howissheto show 1t? Tt iss fact ihat eho may assert,—en axiom which she has ‘been tsught to believe from her first mentsl ef- fort at receiving idess from others; but, after 311, it wants gome outward manifestations o prove the fact. Howisittobe dope? By outward sow, of course. Just as Jarge & house, as good clothee, as handsome farniture, ss Mre.. A bes. Unfortunstely, Lowever, L ia only 8 clerk st 1,000 & soar, in the great store or maunfactory of A, who hius an income of $30,000. Whnt is to Lo dane about it? Who was A8 wife? Ab! Afrs. L remembers well. They: both went to the eamo Sundsy-school ; then Mrs. A. did not dress Linif a8 well 5 she did, and her mother was oniy o dressmaker ; while she herselt hsd ad 2 nice homo,—not extravagant, but good enot:gh tor the times, for ber father was hesd 7 sookkeeper with tho great firm of Moguette & Brussela. Thoy had both married clorks in “the enmo establishusent ; but, while L. had stood still, and pover gob more than his paltry thousand until now, D ien enci ad & family growing up around them, the L.’ had a hard strugglo to make both ends weet, while the A.’s might indelge iu every Iuxury that money can bay. WHAT A COXMMUNIST Mre. L is! Could she oply remrrange aflairs, ‘how eoon incomes would bo egualized! It is usoless totry to competo With the As; bul ot sl events, sho will not be suubbe: by Dsa. Fraction, whoss busband is ouly a book- Yoeper at 1,500 3 year. And so the sirifo goes on, ench one trying, by somo special expendi- Lure, to prove that slle is just 8 good ag some ono clse Wwho has & listle more money. Ars. I Lnows she ought to do without & new carpet, or only buy tho very chespest of its land ; bus how oan she, when Mirs. F. bas just been gelting a fapestry? And so tho sixpence tog muchis spont, and fpancial distross onsues. One needs TP bare lived 8 long time, or to Lo super-philo- sophical. to roslize thab ““Tho game is not worth the candle.” = Sl it might be intercsting to consider what tho expense of furnishing i to various people,— ndmitting that whether 1t is extravagant or not T morély a question of whetuer it is in propor- tion Lo cpe’s income or pot. Starting, theu, with the house itself, which the millionsire "owns : It Low cost 375,000 to build. The interest on_that swmount givess yontat of ¥7,500 vear. Ve are Lroating now, of Tommo, of local sabjects, and not exceptional cases. The bouso contsins drawing-rooms, li- bracy, music-soom, etc. Commencing with THE DRAWISG-ROOMS: These are "first frescoed, nud_the paintings are exquisito 1o decign and execution. = No' mere Gaabiug over open designs, but delicately fin- jobed with the brush of an artist. This alone ceats €500, but then 1t might Liave beon doubled. Then comes the paperidg. This costs 150 mose. _ Yes, but then, if 3rs. Aubusson had Tvedin Now York, ordinarsfoapering would not Bave satisfiod her.. The walls would bave boen covered with fluted silk, instead of paper, which Tmorcly resembles it, ‘Uhat might have been Called extravngance, especinlly 28, in 3 year or two, {ho fashion ™ would perbaps change, and tho wholo Toom have to. Bo ro- fitied To proverly bang & drawing- room with ailk would cost from 32,000 to $3,000. 1 compasison, the paper is & miracle_of 6cono- @y, tossy nothing of cleanliness. Next come the carpets. These, if of Aubusson, must bo mado to order, and will cost {rom 31,500 to £5,000, Abotit ‘$2.000, however, ia 8 fair esti- fato tomake. Moquotte or Axmiuster, how- over, are in more genersl usoe. Thoss would only cost 500 Lo S800. Next are THE CUKTAINS, * B There are four windows, beside the bay, to be fucnistied, Teal lace curtains are purchasable ot from 53,000 to $6.000 the window,—making the emhg lttle fortuna of from $16,000 to €36,000. This is on_extravaganco, however, Shich even the most reckless or the wealthiest Taroly indulge in. The proper thing to excludo Sanlight and {resh air, to_ keep the carpots {rom Sadin, aud canso the inmates to fade, are, first, ihe Ince stinde, costirig from $20 to $50. _Taging E350s & fair average, wo hnd thess will cost €910, Then come the Jace cartoins, at from $200 to S500 the set. At €350 these would amount to 81,050, Then the Lieavy hangings of o Cor eatin will cost about - S1,000 % e1,500. We thus find that the Findow' graperies will requiro su _outlsy of $2,760. This i modest; for we are dealing ¥ith (acts, not_fancies, The pier and mantel Toirrors, with the cornices which must match Tith the micror-frames, will cost from $3,000 t0 $5,000. THAE FURNITURE * is now added,—s cabivet, pedestal, and bronzes. 00 to_$2.600, and wo 500, The iatter, if real, alwnys ar, even in the The firgt two cost frum will estimste them at 21 which tho by ne means act, worth, in money-value alone, il tho abor- tions which the uncultured nonveau-riche hins selected, because it was the thing to have some- thing of the sork. We bave pretty well far- nished the drawing-rooms now ; and HOW STAXDS THE ACCOUNT ? This Jooks 1 7o sum _to spend mercly upon drawing-rooms, but we isvo ehown it o o a really moderato estimato. Take TRE MAXDIGY - instesd, and how does it xead : Frescaes, retouched by hand. Silk bengings. Tace curtains, real. Lace shades, real Furniture, wilh Inlaid @bl = ‘Small ornaments, statucttes, fower-stands, ete.. Tokal. s voaen s O You start in surprise. This cannot bo, Tho cost of the fittinz-up of & euite of drawing- Tooras, not including statusry or_pictures, esti~ mated at nearly 350,000 Te ‘must seem liko ex-~ travagunce to little' 3rs. L. with her paltry {houssnd a year; and even Mre. A., in_Chicago, Goes not go quite chat length, Qur frst esii- ‘mute is & nearer approsch to tho truth, but we Inow of one house in New York whero the man- tol orpaments plone, consisting of clocks and candelabrs, cost $12,000. With tho cabinots, pedestals, bronzes, famiture, efe., thu grasd galoon probably cost AfORE THAN DOUDLE the lacgest estimate wo have made, to fit up. Yo, Mra. Aubusson’s drawing-rooms baving cost 515,000 1o furnisb, Mrs. Moguetto gets just % neur that figuro as ler income will allow. Sometimes, by judicious (?) scrimping in other quarters, she quito Tcaches it, and is 88 misora- Uiy-hapny a8 sbe hopod to be. Then. 3frs. Wil: tou doos hier littlo best to kesp ap to the mark ; but $10,000 is an extravagant sum for her, and whe must pinch somewhere to make it out. Mre. Velvet hus Lard straggle to raise $7,000, but sho does &0 want to bo ou_Mrs. Wiltan's visiting Tist, with the posaibilics of gelting an invilation to Atra. Moqueltes grand crush. Slrs. Brussels” firure is ©5,0005 and now comos the gonuine sauecze, THE REAL FINCEING ECONOMTES. The second dresses sud bonnets aro made at lome; a boarder or two_taken jusc for com- puny,—the parlor-farniture bas nothiog st all to Howith i, Thiero ste certain economies of the {able studied, aud tho gaod china 18 ouly nsed \when Mrs, Vélvet comes to dine. 3rs. Tapes- try 18 in despair because $3,000 18 bor nitima~ tam. How she twists sod turns to make tho most of it, to get just ssnearlyup to Mrs. Brussels’ mark ua she dau ! Her carpets are the samo in design, if_not of the sme material. She wishes she did not fool that they wore a bese imitation. Hor corigins aro wrooght, and, if they do look like onses of embroidery on descrts of Bpace, and are from thelr meagreness & constant dource of agguish, atill they are = gradusl approach Lo what she wishes they were. In her Inmost condeiousnces sh realizes that 3frs. Artiste’s fine Notlinghams, With tbeir graceful dosigns, sTe much more satisfactory; but then Alrs. Brussels had eocer- odat themas being “common_trash,” and of oouree she could not_got such after that. s, Tapestry must koep two girls, and 5o the family breakfast off of ZREAD AND TEA, and only hava deesorts on Suudass. The joint of mutton” is sliced with sppropriate delicacs, 20d s mode to fast as long as_poewible, While' iho steak has & favor of cooliing-butter, which canses s, Epicure o decline & tecond invitation to diuuer at the Tapostrss'. s, Three-ply hus &1,000, and Mrs, Ingrain only £500; aud eo the auction- £hops, and tho houses which are being rold ont under the hammer, are much baunted by these Iadies. They buy bargains a la Toodles, to find that they havo paid quite too dear for the whis- flo. Esch oneis grasping at something above, bevond her, that sho fancies 1s a Jittlo bettor bo- canse it shows a hittlo more. Let - dlrs. Tugrain only reach Mrs. Three-ply’s or rs. Tapestry's fovel, got such s house snd such furnituro. and 'then sho will bo happy; snd £o sho tolls aod mwoila; forcgoes the presout good for the futnre show: attamns it %o find out the. trath of Fitz-Hugh Ludlow's _poem, snd that - Whilo the bonnet'is making, the faca growa old, and overyshing comes £00 lats,~too late.” And WERELN LIES TITE EXTRAVAGANCE. Whilait was only right and proper for Mre, Aubusson tospend 30,000 in ber drawing-rooma it she liked, each of those other Jadies who bave desconded 1a the financial sealo have been gulty of extravagance, becauso they bave each At~ fempted more tian they couid afford. only 1o prove that the longed-for felicity bas beon lost In ifs pursuit; that “ Happiness is the gay to~ “morrow of tle mind, thad never comes.” — — . The Monarch of Modistes. Mr. Worth, the famous Paris costumer, is 2 native of Linconshire, England. _Jis father was alawser. Upon somo of the windows of tho Surencs chateau is engiaved the ececutcheon of the family, which some of the French facetiously intorpret n§ * une noblee de Robe.” From some family misfortuue the children wero obliged to abandon their studics and_ecoke their owa livelihood. At 20, Charles Frederick camo 1o Paris to learn French and to find work. He found employment as cutter in the Maison de Modes Gagelin, and the Judy whom he b onco fell jo love with, and soort after mar- ried, was also eriployed thero in the capacity of dcmoiselle do mogasin. 1t was in this bouse, st the time of their marriage. that they began to work upon their own account, anl founded the establishment which has since bocome world-yenowned. The work- shops (ateliers) are immeriee in eize and pum- ber. Tach onehes its specialty; one for cor sage, ono for jupons, another for trimming, etc., etc. ' Abont 1,000 work-people aro emploved in the confectionof robes and costumes, which dro gent to all parts of the world. The models of pew designs are first made in muslin, to note the effcct, and overything that goes ont of the shop is fashioned uuder tho superintendence of Mr. Worth bimeelf. His sctivity is indefati- gable. Ofton, when o dress is fivished which failn to pleaso him, ho has it quite taken to picces and re-made, He nccepis an order for no sort of & dross for less than £20,—which is not un extravagant price .when ono considers that bhis ateliers aro in the most expensive part of Paris, and that the materials and designs he furnishes are first-class and original. Althongh Mr: Worth i ot & man to bo afraid of if ono has a litferal exchequer, women sav that they often climb the staizs to his clegant rooms io the Ruo dela Paix “with fearfally beating hearte, and when once in his presence are actually afraid to say what they want and how they want it. 'This is what might in truth bo valled o “cringing slave of fashion.” Tet Mr. Worth declares ho has any amount of trouble with_women,—that they wang to wear colors that do not hecome them, and & supera- ‘bundanca of trimming that is far from good taste, We remarked to him orco, ¥ Here you are the arbiter cf what women shall wear. ‘In- vent us s walking costume, protty and becom- ing, and jn_which we can walk with s much eaze and a5 little fatiguo as men do in theirs.” _ “Theve.” ho excinimed, “but yon won't wear it. Tdo not see the elightest objection to women wearing trousors with s tunic, a5 1 have wanted them to. Aund fhere is tho Parisian costnme, which is the perfection of beanty bod grace.” In per-on Mr. Worth is of medinm English height, strongly but not stoutly built. He has TG cxtravagsutly funiched bouses, may | black oes, bair snd mustache dask and a fully st suy Eum ranging from BL500 to | developed forchend, which s phrenologist wonld oo many | ibousauds, Gimng §3,000 | doubtless eay is crammed with form, percaption, as n suitable valuation, we will | color, taste, inveution, etc. Ho is not a bit Sy pothing abou: tho imitations. The woman | * Frenchy.” Ho retaing much of tho bluntuess which characterizes the Eoglish, and has “ token ho will buy Moquotte carpets and imitation bronzes deserves to oe ignored. At all events, they are no more iu keeping thag s rich il dress frimmed with_cotton lace. Most American ~women know what real lace is, sad buy it when they get an¥. real brenze from nu imitation, picture froms bad ove, and are quite at sea upon the subject of statuury. The rest of the furni- ture, including two rcgulation-cots, with one or two gilt Teception-chaira; an odd fatueuil, a centro table, ortomans, and other devices, Fille. 1t may be, » Turkish divan in the centre of one of the pariors, giving it lirst-class stesm- boat sppearence, We sy esumsto at sbous $1,500 to $3,000. THE NECESSARY DRIC-A-FRAC, iocloding veecs, mantel-orvaments, a clock, Ccandelabra, ote., will, ¢ & moderate valustion, oost the fashionable woman $1,000 more; and, $t eho hss esthetic tastes, with 8 gemuine lov or beautitul {lungs, ood an unhmited purse, These little tems may amount to fabufons sum. Ve are ouly considoring those things which are cbnaidared meceseary 38 indicating 8 ceriain foldor—not greenback—rapk. ~OF pictures and fog. Wo have seen horri- figuies cheek by jowl o loom, the choicest tho - richest while, in a0 hum- ‘sometimes $reas- , ired & alioice bit of the painter's or eculptor's Siataary we so5 notbiog. ble doubs and mucou with the ratest fabrics of carvings of the cabinet-maxer, Srapess of the upholsterer;. Tle cortage, mmply_ fitted, i Nine-tentha of them cannot tell don’t know 8 good on” vers little of tho suavity that characterizos the French, He is modest and wnaffected in manner, sud would pass foran nnassuming. Lon- est, common-senso Rort of man, thoronghly conscientions in a profession which he bas raised 10 the dignity of & fine art. . ‘He is pot far from 40 years of‘sge, and has the appearance of a mav who lives temperately and gimplr. Idoubtif ho swokes, even. Hoides into Paris evory mornitig on horscback, nsuslly Toaching: bis business about 9 o'clock, and often Temaiping in the evening until 10. He has two Fons, one 19 and_the otber 17—both well-bred a3 woll-educated young felloss. The youngest fins much of his father's zenius forinvention. and may, one .dsy, be Worth the lPCOBd.—»E"AghsIL Magazine. —The London Orchesira &m: “ Rumor, who ‘has her facetious moods, €pe’ of & ¢ We Theatro® as the latest novelty ‘wicls ! metropolis is threatened. There is to be a man- ageress, the players aré to be all women, sad o A the authors, while the semele orchestra from Yienus is to be engaged in its entiraty. We havo mot heard the precise spot whers this Wornen's jnstitution is to bo locsied, nor are wo acquainted with any 1ady dramatista beyond THE BOSTOX PUBLIC LIBRARY. Somo of Its Rare Books---The Parker, Prince, Tickror, and Barton Tibrarics. Ancient Bibles---De Beauvais’ “Specu- fum Triplex "---The “ Nurem- perg Chronicle.” Luther’s Autograph---Eliot’s Indian Bible and Primer---The *Bay Psalm-Book.” Shakspeareana---Manuscripts--Soulpture and Painting---The Tosti Engravings. [SECOND ARTICLE.} Carrespondencs of The Clicugo Tribune, Bosrox, March 16, 1874, Tho short term of Iife of the Boston Public Library. sud the urgent Docossity of sapplying at once the most pressing needs of the reading community, have prevented tho Dircctors’ spend- ing much money in tho purclinse of rare bouks; but several ** benefactars ™ hava been such wiso bibliomaniacs that its troasures of this kind ara by no means inconsiderable. The lover of ex- travagaut bindings, leaves of satin and vellum, and letrery of gold, will find littledo gratify his taste; but ho who seels original editions and real rarities will not be doomed to disappoint- ment. . With the LIDBARY OF TEEODORE PABRRER camo tho first accession of rare books. The oldest smong them is the first volume of a Latin Bille, printed by Eggesteyn, a6 Strasburg, in 1468, —celobrated ss being the first work of that printer. As tha datoof the earliest printed book is somewhere Between 1450 and 1455, it will be scea Lhat this volume is less than cighteen years younger than the ofdest book in the world, It is of extrome ratity. ‘The typeis the massive a0d vigorous form which Gormany established in taking the lead in tho development of the art. Tho red cagital. lotters apo inserted by band, thero ave occasional illnminations, and frequont red marks scroes the open spaces of tho lettera ennance very much tho besnty of the page. A LATIN BIBLE of Montelin bears tne date of 1470. It is besuti- fully tlluminated in red, and blue, and purple; ana the colors have preserved a wonderful fresh- ness. A book on the “Lives and Deaths of Poets and Pailosophers” wants the title-page. It 1y written in Latin, by Welter Burleigh, and printed in Cothic type, st Nuremberg, in 1472. Tho poets and philosopbers begin with Thales, and ond with Sencca; and their ives and aeaths are interepersed with & swtabls amount of moral digsertation. We com then to tho EPECULUN TRIPLEX— Triple Mirror—of Vincent do Deauvais, one of thio most voluminous ard 'celebrated workis of the fifieonth century. It isin mue volumesas bound, and sucy volumes! Surely they were ginnte'in those days! Ten deguuerate men of S timo could havdly 1ift guch s weight. The covers afe two solid boards, hale an iuch thick, held together by an enormous _picce ‘of Jeathicr. This is the origionl edition, Jarge folio with uncat margins, priated by Men- tetua, of Strashure, Tho date 1478 occurs at tho end of the last volumo 5 and it is estimated that the work must have been begun at least five yoaru before, Itis celebrated in thie history of Finting s the first book ever printed in Scras- Dirg. Vincent de Beauvals was a_monk in tho Abeey of Rovaumoni, whose learnivg atiracted tho oitention of Lomis tho Pious, aod who receied the appointment of Rteader to the King. He is described as a man of conobitic virtoes, fervent piety, and good manners; and ho s said to bave devoored all Pookis, “ancient spd modorn, that eame in his oy, Wocan well beliese it, for he vefers to o Jose than 450 aufhorities, His Mirror is tho 'ENCNCLOPEDIA OF TUE TIUNTEENTH CENTURY, and & marvel of patient labor. He dascribes it, in bis preface, 28 o collection of atl that is worth to bo contemplated, admired, snd imitated, Whother visiblo or invisible. With the threo Tirrore,—natural, historical, and doctrinal,—a fourth the moral—has usually Leen bound up; but it is now kpown to bo a wretched compils- tion by some wuknown writer. The enumera- tion of tho branches of Mathematics witl verve o illustrate the advancement of scienco at that fimo. They included Arithmetic, Mueie, Goom- ctry, Perapective, Astronomy, Weights and Measures, and Metphysics. ‘Next wo turn to tho pages of tho NOREMTERG CRBOSICLE, » Koborger of 1193. It is a romarknbly fine copy. The cover 1a of lizht leather, beautirully pressed in emall and delieate figures, and orma- Imonted with brass kmobs, plates, aud clasps. 1t coutains upwards of 2,000 sirited aud curions \Food-cuts by Wolilgemuth—Durer's mastor—aud. Ploydenwuril, Among them are tho firat stic- cesaful imitntions of tho crosa-hatchings of » penwdrawing. Tho book is o description of arersthung, from the crestion to the end of the world, The first cut represents angols, well-dressed in long cloaks snd decorativa badges, who look on whilo the Hand of God, somerwhat wrinlded and skinny, begins ita work on nothing. Successive circles, always with the Creativo hand 1n the corner, occar in the follow- iug ordor: Land, Water, Fire, Mooy, Mercary, Veaus, Sun, Mors, Jove, Saturn, Zodiac, the Crystal Heaven, and the Primum Mobile, In tho picture of tho Ark, tho Indders, sawe, snd sxes aro quite modern-looking tools. Noah s:gnds ia tho foreground, aud Keeps bid vork- ¥y diligent by poking tiem with o stickt from behiud. - But the chiof feature of the boolt 18 $T8 PORTRAITS. A modern photograrher’s ehop is nothing fo it. Everybody who ever lived and loft 8o much 24 & ame behind has sat for his picturo. The entiro lino of Clrist is vepresented, and tho wholo Apostolical successlon. 'The features of every King, priost, poct, philosophor, eibyl, saint, and witah, {hoss Gerfman engravers knew bow to evolvs ont of the depths of thcir coneciousuess. Al the cities in tho woeld aco drawn. Al tho Tairy stars, sacred fircs, phowers of stonés. oclipees, comets, and “ horrible aspects™ aro put down in their order, and their coineidenco with momorable events it noted. Tho last scene of 21l is not omitted. Tho Judyo of the World re- Clines upon a cloud, while two angels_saund tho final Lramp before Him, and grim skeletons drog themselves out of black boxes in the ground. Wo cannot stop_to look at the Nuremberg Diblo of 1483 ; the beautiful Lutin Bible of 1519, desorived by Baumgarten, with gilt-cdged Jeaves and ailuminated letters ; the Epistles of Popo Vius IL, printed in 1477 ; and a Bible, without date, of whick the text occupics & small parallel- ‘ogram in tho centre of the pago. and is enrround- od by a commentary, in wlich “innumerable Qquestions mie espluibed by *analogy.” The Tpistlcs of St. Jerume bave these Words writ- ten in ; LUTHER'S AUTOGRAPH on the insids of the cover : ** fn jloreno lilis non est obulus charitalis.—Martinus Lutherus.” A Tatin translation of Polemy’s Geography. Toberger, 1525. is curious a8 containing several Yery carly maps of tho New World, iu ono of ‘which it ig called America. Accordingsto Humboldt, there is no racord of the usa of this name pievious to 1520. Some of tho ancient maps are diversifled by an occasional picture of & Hing who “died bera.” A copy of De Brs'a Voyayes appears, from its collation, to be un- usnally full ; and agotker rare book is 3 volums containing nine various works illustrated by him. The engravivgs aré of au extraordinary fineness and spirit. , THE REY. TIROMAS PRINCE began the Batematic coltection of his books and manuscripts *‘on_ eatering Harvard College, Juno 6, 1703, in the 16th year of bhis age, though he hwd reccived at least ono book *from his mather” when he was 10. At the time of bis extensive of its kind that bad ever been formed. It was etored m _ boxes and barrols in the stoeple of the Old South Church. Daring tha occupation of Boston by the British, tho Old Soutix was used as 3 ridiog-echool ; an it is supposed that a large part of this jnvalna- ble hibrary was used in_kindling fires. Among the treasires that remsin ara copies of the frst and second cditions of ELIOT'S INDIAN BISLE. Of the first odition, Cambridge, 1683, lcss than Atrs. Contlivre, Miss Braddon, aud oue or two this theatrical nunnery will bo consiatout and exclude all male paxera b tho doors.” others. Perheps the hypothetical authonties of twenty copies ara kaown to be in this country, ond one of them hss been recently wold for 21,000, Thecopy of tha ascond afl&ou iy tha doath, the New Englsod Library was the most | only one which contains the dedicafion fo the Hon. Robort Bogle. “ Abount 1639 fhe New Epglish Reformers re- dolving ugon a ew “Tepnslation of tbo Pealms tho chief Divines of the country took each of them o Portion to bo translated.” The Bay Pealm-Book which resalted was TIE FIRST BOOK printed in this coautry, ~**The Freeman's Oath” a0 o small Almanac alone preceding it. A copy Lins Leen sold for £500. P ELIOT'S INDIAN PRINER is iu the original binding, sad thonght, in that state, to be unique. The title reads: *Indim Primor ox 18t "Book by whichchildren may kuow truely to read tho Indian Language And spiritusl milk for Babes Drawn out of tho preasts of both “Testaments for the nousishment of their souls.” Tho first part conteios Indian wards of from one to fifieen syliablcs. Among otber good thinge that follow sre “tho promises of God which the Poor Indian may hope to raceive,” and “ prayers for difforeni occasions, and for eyery aceasion that shail be” 3 Copt. John Bmith's Description of Now En- gland;contains a map, and a *“ porzraictuer’’ ot it suthor. This map 16 the only impression known of the plate ja, 1ts original state. Its fidolity to Dature is shown by the fact that the scs 18 filled sth the various monstors and sea-serpents which are known to have existed at that early day. THE TICENOR LIBRARY contains maoy rere specimens of early printing. Amoug them aro St. Isidore’s treatise, “Ls Sumaio Bono,” Venice, 1433, aud scveral very rare editions of Don Quizote. In oneof them to lines bave been carefully concealed, in com- Lance with the diections given in the Indox xpurgatorius. Tite peoudo sccond volumo of Dou Quixote, by the fictitious Avellaneds, is oue of the rarost of Spanisi books. 1IN MSS. wo notice utograph leiters of William Penu and Toger Wlliame, aixd a raco old voluwme, Humbor- tas’ » Do Inatitutione Keligiosorum.” It is on satin-like parchaent ; and Lho colors, red, bluo, and black, are sull perfoctly-bright, altiough the baud that wrote it laid dowu the pen moro than 500 years sga. Tha lesters are beautifully made, and Lardly o be distinguished from tha Gotlic type which tioy precoded. THOE BARTON LIBRARY is not yet open t0 tho public, but book-lovers aro famuliar with ite Tichos from the excellout de~ scription in Dr. Wrnoe's Private Libraries of New York. In Shakspeareana the collection is the finest in thie country, and iis confidently pre- dicted that it will_take rank with the finest in Europe, It contains some 2,000 volumes ; and the provious possessions of the ubrary’ will swell the number to about 3,000. Its richnoss in this field has induced the learned Suporintendent to nudertake the preparation of 8 Shaispearean Encyclopedia. IV PINE ABTH the connoisseur will find excaleot busts in mar- blo of Joshua Bates, Edward Evorets, Mr. Tici- and Mr. Motiey; Stowy's statue of the Arcadion Sheplerd-Boy;_two originai portraity | of Frauklin, painted in France; acast of tho hoad of Shakspene on the Strattord monumes; au autigue bust in macble of s unkuown man, painted by Signor Ceccarini; and some owr choige works uf art; but chief 1n valuo aze TUE TOBTI ENGBAVINGS. They were purcheed in Buwe by Mr. Apple- ion, and preseuted by mm to iho Fuvlic Laorary. At tbe timeof their parchase toey Tormed the finest coltection in Rows. Cardinal Touti, theiw pravious owaer, was the fouudor of the atistic school of S Miclicie ; aad two o bis distinguished scnolais, Mercury aad Cala- matts, made it & point to formsh him with proofs bofors lotters of theic numerous works. {'ha strength of the collection lies in the modern French sud lualisn schools ; but it numbers among ita tressures same wood-cuts of Albert Daurer, and 8 fow ctchings of Salvator Rosa eud Rembrandt. I most 1atoresting foaiura is the Yolumo of Madnd engravings. FIVE WELL KXOWN PAINTINGS OF RAPSIALL, which belonged to the King of Spain,—the Visi- tation, two Holy Familics, the Madunna of the TFush and of the Spasm,—wero brought to Paris in tho general rifliog of art-galleriod which took place in 1813, At the close of the war they were Teclaimed by Spaio, and Bonuemaison was ap- pointed to restoro and retucn them. ke obtain- ed permission to havo engravings ‘madeof them: and he omployed for this purposa tho best artists in Paris. Tho plates were brokon after fifty im- pressions had been takeo. Thereare ooy two copies kuown to oxist 1n this countrs,~the other being 1n the porsession of the beirs of Mr. Tick- nor. Osgood & Co. Lave xecently . reprodaced theso engiavings very successfully by the heliotype procesa AL LaNoDoS. = & 5? Acconnt of Chardes from | iy Edwmuad Yaty Dickens? Separation Wife. From a Letter by Edmund Yates to the Kev ¥ork Ifer- all hilo he_complaing that his friend is not so {olorant 88 he mizht bo of “ tho wavieard and unsettled feeling whic i part of thq tenure on which one holds an imazinative lifo,” bo docs not seek to ecrcen himsclf from tho blame which will follow the sct. * I claim no immuni- 5 from blame. Thero is plonty of fault ou my gide, I dare say, in the way of o thomeand un- certaintics, esoricee, and difficulties of disposi- tien; but only one thing will alter all that, aod that is the end, which allers eversthing.” He was dead sev upon carrying this separation into offect, refused to listen 1o anything like remon- strance or o take any middle course, aud car- Hed it into effect then and there. 'Hencefor- ward he ond bis wife lived spart; “‘tho eldest gon went with his mother, Dickens at_once giv- ing effect to har expressed wish in this respect, and the other children remained with himself, thoir intorcourso with Mrs. Dickens being loft entiroly to themsclves.” And then follwed tha sclf-inflicted coup which dislodged Dickens from Dis pedestal and overshadowed tho rost of bis life. So far the scparation bad been ® purely private matter, and, though the general .public Tad, of course, some inkling of it, it would havo cauged a three-doys’ talk and then been forgot- ten, bad not Dickens, in the over-excited and ir- rational frame of mind m which ho then was, Chosen to tako the public into his copfidenco and lay bare tho secrots of his domestic life. To preparcd o statement of Lis caso for publication mn Houschold ords, ~and, although Mr. Forster strenuously opposed this proczeding, ll ho conld wring from his friend was on offer to soppress if, “if, Tpon. referonce 10 the opinion of s certain distinguished man still living, that opinion should not prove to be in agreoment with mino.” The present ywriter has Dickens' own aathority for raying that_thad disunguished man was Mr. J. T. Delane, then and now edtor of the Lou- Jon Times. Hia opinion coincided with Dickens', and 1be statemont appeared in Houschold WWords, Whence it was widely covied throughout the country. It was s&cmily followed by anothor statement, which Dickens alwara called the *yiolnted’ letter,” a paper subscribed by his name which gob into print without lus ssnction. Tt had been aiddressed snd given to Mr. Arthur Smith 3 an authority for correction of false ru- mors and_scandals, and Mr. Smith bad given o copy of it, with liké intention, to the London correspondent of the New York ZTribune, by whorm it was sent to his journal, and there pub- Jished. 1What ihis sccond statement was Mr. Torstor does not ssy, but it ie probablo that it had ome 1oference_to & document, acopy of which was sent at the time by Dickens to the present writer, with the following lotter : Tavistock Hovsr, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, ) Loxnos, W. C,, Monday Eveniug, May i1, 185 My Dras ——: You will readily believe that I shall pever mako an ungencrous use of the yaper of which I send you @ copy on the other eide, thouga 1 believe Tothing wil ever reconcile e to the two who have Figned it. BDut ca I know Jlw, P——gears to have ‘been abuecd, I think it aimply just that she should see it If you think #0100 (but not othersrsc), show it 1o er, with my kind regard, Ever falthfally, - CranLes DICKENS. The “ copy on the other side” ran thus: 1t baving been stated to us that, in reference to tho differences which have resulted in the separation of 3z, and Mre, Charles Dickens, certain statements Liate Deen eirculsting that such differenzes wero occasloned by circamstances deeply sffocting the moral character of Mr. Dickens and compromising the reputation of Others, we solemnly declaro that we now disbeliere such statementr, We know that ibey aro not believed by Mrn. Dickens, and we pledge ourseiycs on all occi~ :‘IDH to contradict them o8 entirely destitute of fonnda~ on. This papor 15 signed by two female members of Mrs. Dickens’ family. * Thero isno doubt tat so soon as the state- ment was printed in Household Wordsan extraos- dinary revulsion of fecting took placo agamnat Dickéns, He who had been looked upon 28 the incarnation of every domeatic virtuc, now stood before thio world 88 ‘breaking up his home and casting off his wifo, avowedly for no fault of her awn, but for the mero capricions gratification of his own morbid fsncy. Violent articles were written about him in the newepapers, and tbo following® epigram, not given by Mr. Forster, was largely ciscalated : With tongue and pen no more may Dickens fudze, o vatn for truth and cbarity Lo pleads ; “Thie, world aroused, the auttor now we'll judge, Not by bis Housenold Fords, bt houselold decds. ‘His acquaintance was split into o sets, one of which sided with Mrs. Dickens, and among the friendships which Dickens lost at that time wera those with Miss Burdett-Coutts, his part~ ners in Househuid Words aud publishers, Alessre. Bradbury & Evans, and his old and inti- mate ally, Mr. Mark Lomon. He bors np brave- Iy azainst those troubles, but that the pain of em entered 1nto kis oul the Tollowiog extract from lettor of his to the present writer, Jaao 38, 1853, will sow o cuia kngm o museh L kava £l within this : ‘ 3 y elegraph. 1ast month. ond wht you would see that my'heart is 5o jagged and rent au 2ut of shape that 1t docs not this day lesve me hand enough to shape these words. Under theso circumstances it was lucky, that be found & new excitement in cormmencing his public readings. Theee originated in his giving a cratuitous reading for the benefit of the Sick Children’s Hospital, nud when the London pub- lic had once seen and heard him they raved to ho being in no way coy. TONETARY. se him again . SaTURDAY EVENING, March 21 There bas been no cbange worthy of note in the condition of financial affairs for a week pust. Money contiaues very abandant, sud, notwithstanding that many peoplo complain that they cannot borrow, we kmow of two Na- tional Banks in thts city that would be glad to take 1,000,000 of prime commercial paper, or would Tend that amoaut oo first-claéa collateral security for sixty or ninaty dsys at8 per cent. We kaow, slso, of no less than soven or eight country baoks that bave olfered sams of from sense of wrong bas been” upon e, and wiat & etraln and atruggle I bave lived undery & to forward prodice now sre st 35¢ per 100 [bs to Baltimore, and 40 to’ Now York. The understanding that the Erie Canal will not open till My, whatever ba the weacher, cuta off hopo of forwsrdng by sail for & month to come, aud the offer to far- the inducement to load 1nto vessels before they can be moved out. Some of the vesscl-owners fec] decidedly biue over the prospect. X It was stated fo-day that ummgfl for corn till the 1at of May is being farnished in this city for 1c per bu. The teading produco markets were generail more_active to-dsy, with a better feeling rouad, boch hors and at_other points. Tho in- citing cause was the important reduction in ocean freights yesterdsy, smountiug to nestly e per bu, which stimalated to o better shipping demand. * Shippers to Europo have hold off for somo time past, bolioviug that ocesn freiehts wore uonecessarily high, snd thus has indacod dullnces at all points where grain is held, from the absence of & legitimate” demand. The re- duction will undoubtedly cause s much greater Retivity in the forwarding of prodnce across the occau. In the dry-goods marketsfair aggregate of sales was sccomplished at _generally well sus- tained prices, s J¢c reduction iv one or two 220,000 to P00 ench, through broker® | brandy of blesched cottons bein 1 X 3 i the only change hers this weel, 8t per ceut for | poted, Tae sttendanco of country meyrchnngu ninely days, or even 1n somo CICY | exhibits a gradual increase, and 13cal retallers six months. TUnexcoptionable collaterals, how- | qluo aré buying with more liberality, but the ever, aro demanded in thoso cases : bavk stocks, | movement is sl lacking in activity. ‘Groceries ity railway stocks, or something of equel stand- fug. Thero is s great deal of real estate paper on the market that conld be had at agher rates, but, as a ralo, tho baulis do notcaro to_ teke ik, though with the present revival of confidence 1n real estate values in_this city it seems probable that ths clsss of paper will goon be ro- garded moro favorsbly and s good desl &f the surplus money find employment in that woy. The largest part of the sur- plus money in this market mow comes from tho country, and as there is likely to be but little opportanity to use it iv the conutry for thie next six months, tho prospect is iu_favor of continnance of an easy moucy-arket ail the spring and summer. ‘New York excbange was sold to-day at 25c and at 50¢ per $1,000 preminm, ‘Tho clearings of the Chicago banks for tho wozk wero : Dalances. 165,001.08 % 184,901.44 ke .03 23718 152,064.G 239361507 240,28982 2,255,66L58 208,019.85 . $14,784,450.00 §1,308,844.%6 The foltowio, [farnished by quotations of local stocks are esara. Hammond & Gage: Asked. Third Fifth National Bank. Union National Bunk. Commercial National Ban AMorchants’ Nationnl Bank. German National Bank. Rortawestern National By Corn Exchauge National Bunk. ational Bank.. Cook County Natfo Natfonal Bank of Tiiinois. National Bank of Commerce. Tnjon stock-Yards National Bank. 168 55 105 Eigin Watch Compous i Chicage Gae-Light an 1 Chamber of Commerco. Traders’ Iusuruacs Comj LATEST. New Yonr, March 21.—Tnere was considerablo stir smong foraign bankers this afternoon, on tho report that Mr. Gottgetron, lumber exporter, had dwappeared after selling about £40,000 of bills ou London, the only sccurisy for which was forged bills of lading. This entleman had provionsly stood well in banking circles. He gold his bilig direct to bankers. ‘Mouey very easy thia alternoon, and loaned down to 2@3 per ceat. “Forcign exchange closed up dull at 848414 for rimo bankens' G0-day storiing, aud S48735 for logand. Gold closed at 1113{, after selling at 112@ met with & fair inquiry, and if we except_cofees the market may be quoted firm all around. Su- 5rs aze in Jiboral domand and ara stroog. Cot- ees aro dull and dechning. Sirups, molasses, Tice, spices. toas, and other livea were scllwg fairly ot about stendy ratee. Dullnces and do- pression agawp prevailed in tho butter market. To anticipation of & continued declise, buyers are umiting their orders to small amounts, and stocks are now beginning to sccumulate with unpleasant rapidity. Checse met with ouly & moderate inguiry, but the market remains strong at 17@18c for prime New York ractory. and at 16@17c for Western do. Canned goods wero distributed to a fair aggregate st un- changed prices, _ Dried fruits were quoted dull. and for forego descriptions the market was un- gettled and easy. Raizins were off snother 3c, with which oxcoption no quotablo changes wero noted. Fish were active, snd most descriptions werg firmly held. WhiteGsh and troat were Jowar. Cosl, wood, pig-iron, paints, and feather wero unchanged. Bagcing remoins q siet and . Oils ruled stealv sa previonsiv quoted. ‘sir sctivity was reported at the lumber-yards, and the demaad on both Jocal and interior ac- count, particalarly the latter, continues liberal. Prices are without alteration. At the whalesile market s cargo of shingles was disposed of, part_baving been sold previously, to atrive, at £3.12¢, and the remainder this morning at £2.25, afloat. _Probably a pumber of cargoes of JTumber will arrive st tho sale-docks pext weels. The local demand for brick, lime, etc., was again zeporied fair for the sesson, Sith prices comparatively stosdy snd vory strong for ordinaty building brick. No material clinugs was noticed in metals, iron. or nails. ‘The wool and broom-corn markets remain guies, tut steady. Hops were dull and lower, Seeda were farly setive at abouc Friday's range of pricos. Cholce apples were scarce and salable af tull prices. Oranges aod lemons were in Tiberal supply, and steady. Potatoes sold resd- ily at recent prices. Tae supply of pouliry was Jarger, and in some instances concestions” wera ‘made, but very choica stock brought fall prices. Eegs woro firm. Highwines wera quict at the reduction nozed y2sterday, with wales reported of 150 bris at 92¢ per galion. Ciucinpati was strong, .but New York was quoted ensier at 96c ssked. Our ‘macket has beeu ralativels higher than those on the seaboard for some time past, in consequence of which fact our shipments are ‘made to interior ‘poinws only. - Provigions were quiot and unchanged. Mess pork was in fair request at Fridsy's prices, gev- erallots bewng wanted for shipment. Lard was but little inquired for, the business consisting almost eutirely of working off two or tbres Apiit lots by parties to whom it wul be deltverad ten days hence. Aleats wers in oaate de- mand, aod should=ts wers 3¢c per Ib higher on guaranteed lots. The receiyts of bogs are fall- 11137, Thia rates paid for carrying ranged from | iug of eo ths¢ Lolders of prodnct 3 p;:'{r it fo B onsacos, "$15.000,000, | re lest golicitous about the fatare, Tebasury operations for tho week st (be New |82d moro disposed . do = insist ~on full prics. The market closed steady nt York oflice included disbursoment of £300,030 for intorest and in redemption of '52 bonds, and receipt of £2,574,744 for customs. Tho Treasury also sold, £1,000,000in_gold. Imports for tha week: Dry-goods, 3,259,646 ; merchandise, £4,274,570 ; specio sbipments, 630,000, of which §429,000 was gold cvin and bullion. ‘Governmens strong and steady. State bonds quiet, and lower fixures for some. The stock market carly in the day was dovoid of any fesiure, cxcept that prices wers lower, During the afternoon the mariet continued weak, and closed at tho lowess prices of ths das, Thoe jending stocks were Wapash, Lake Shoro, Erie, Northwestern common, sud Western Union Sales petween 10 and 2 amounted o 117,000 shares, of twhich 27,000 were Western Union, 14,000 Wabash, 27,000 Lake Sbore, 6,000 Ere, and 10,000 Northiwestern common. Coupons, 'G5 Caupons, '63 (oew).. ginias, old. . 32 North Carolinzs, oid..2 North Carolinss, new.213 {Terre Haute pfd 30 (Chicago & A.,ex.div.103y iC. & A. 10d, ex. di 4 Obio & Misiireipn 423 Cleve,, Cin. & ’s|Chi, Bur. & Q Laks Sore. Tudiana Cen 1linols Central, 1({Union Pucific st Union Facificbonda. . 835 |Central Pacific bonds. 93K Del., Lack. & Western 2033 lxmum, Hart, k Erie. 1% ol COMMERCIAL. SaTuRDAT EVENTNG, March 21, The following were the receipts sud shipments of the leading articlos of produce in Chicago during the past twenty-four hours, and for tho corresponding date one year ago : the Following ranga of prices: 3ess pork, cash or seller March, &14.60; do_eeller April. S14.62}¢@14.63; do seller May, $14.90@14.923¢ 5 Qo ecller June, 515.20@15.25; prime mess £12.50@12.75; extra_prime do, 811.35@ 11.50. Lard, cash oc selier March,38.00@8.924¢ da seller Aptil, $8.921@5. do seller May, $9.10@9.12¢ 5 do seffer June, $9.25@9.30. Sweat-pickled hams, 9@10%c; dry saited meats, loase, at 5:@33Ke for shoulders, TH@7%e for Cumberlauds, S@8j5e for long clear, 754@8o for short sibs, 836@SIgc fur sbort clear the eamo boxed st ko per [b abova these prices. Mest= for April delivery e higher, sad for May 3¢c high- er, than casb” prices. on meats, 6}4ec for shoulders, 83@9c for short ribs, 926@9c for short clear, oll packedin hhds; the same looss, @10/00; beef hams, $23.00@23.50. City tal- Yo, GY@63c; grense quotable at 43(@Tc. Sales were_ reporicd of 1,115 brls mess pork. at 914.60;750 brls do, seller April, at $14.65; 250 bris doat $14.60; 500 brls do, seller at $14,921¢; 1,250 brls do, seller Juae, at 315.20; 50 fea lard at $8.95; 500 tesdo, seller April,at 8.95; 500 tes do at 38.9216 ; 250 tcw do, sellor May, at £9.12}¢ ; 100,000 Tus shonlders at 55¢c; 23,000 1bs short ribsat73¢c; 50 tes sweet-pickled bellies at 8¥ge. Tha Daily Commercial Report gives the Jfol- lowing 35 the shipments of provision from tlus city for the woek ending March 19, 1874, and since Nov. 1, 1973, with comparisons : Tork | Zard | Hams Should's |t Yiddles, e, | Ba. 241 2,7 2,164 4,809,68¢ Same me 125, 158.435/160, 454) 42,4413, 113, 863|183, 01 o Toclades il ub mesis excapt ahouiders aad . P Week onding Starch 19, 18 'l Flour was very dull st unchanged prices. ‘Holders wero not disposed to ahado guotations, seeing that flour was firmer in New York and whest higher here, whila buyera held off, excopt for o faw small Jots on local account. Shippers were out of tae market. Bran was 50c per ton lower, bung in larger supply. Sales were re- Eamé of %00 brla spring extras at $5.50; 600 sis do on priva.e terms; 75 brls superfines ab §4.50; 200 brls do at 94.25; 100 brls do at §3.65. Tatal, 1,175 bris, Also, 10 tons bran ak $18.00 delivered. The following were the saking quotations at tha close : Far 10 £00d While WIRteTSaes s 0 @800 Chofce do. 27850 @ 95 187, | Red winer 515 @ Choteo prin exta 562%@ oy 0,67 um to good do. 5.0 T o 19524 | Good to choice Minnesd ol Paybs o Pstent 0. : 800 @ Oats, bu.. i o @ e, bu. 50 @ Barley, b 475 @ Qrass seed, Iha. . 600 @ 150 @18 Flax seed, Ibs. Broom carn, 118, Cured imeats, b Butter, fs. Dreased hoge, No. Live hoge, No... Withdrawn from store on Friday for city 6.604 bu wheat; 376 bu com; 5,647 bu cats ; 750 bu ryo; 183 bu barley. With- drawn for do during the past week: 25,936 ba wheat ; 34,910 ba corn; 16,109 bn oats ; 6,209 ‘bu rye ; 12,272 ba barley. The following grain hes been inspected into store this rosaing, up to 10 o'clock: 51 cars Theat; 68 cars corn; 6 cars oats; 1°cat Iye; 9 cars barles. Total, 135 cars, or 52,000 bu. Tho following wers the recelpts aud shipments of breadstufTs and livestock st this point during thie past week, and for the corresponding weeks ending as dated : . creT sECETPT. larch 21, Mareis1d, March : m_mfl' T Tt Flour, bris. Flour, brls. Wheaf, bu. Live hogs, Catlle, No. Ll Thotg Is &t 5096 frelebls, Wheat was active, eod aversged 1@l higher, under s better speculative demand. Liverpool waa quiet and unchanged ; but New York was stronger, having turned yesterday at- ternoon, owing to the break in ocean freights. There waa » better export demaad at the sea- board, but no marked improvement here in that respect. The movemeot was almos: entirely epeculative, the shorts flling in vesy freely, while & good many long purchases vere m: by parties who thought this to be only the begioninz of an upward turn in prices, that will make ample armends for the re- cent dopression. There wers mot enough of 4hese buyers, however, to sustain the market in tho later hour of the session. Seller Apnl opened st 91.18, Tose to $1.183¢, receded to £1.18%. advanced to 8119, declined to 8118, and cloged firmer at $1.183{. Beller May sold at $1.297(@1.25%, closing ot $1.23%. Regular No, 2 i closed at 81.18%, and gut-edged doat On 2 storage, No. 1 spring_closed_at $1.24, Northwestern do at $1.24}¢, No. 3 spring st €1.15, sud rejected nomimaly st 109, Cazh sales wero reported of 1,200 b No. 1 North- western at 81.243; 1,200 bn No. 1 spring at $1.2¢ ; 400 b No. 2 Northwestern (Central re- ceipts) at $1.20 ; 400 bu do, and 15,600 bu No. 2 spring, strictly fresh, at $1.19}{; 2,400 bu dost £1.193 ; 400 bu do st $119)/; 1,600 bu do &t §1.19; 2,000 bu do, regular, at 31.13}¢ : 4,800 bu do'at 31.18% ; 10,400 bu do at $1.18%(: 6,500 bu No. 8 spring at §1.15; 400 b by ssmpio at $1.34 5 400 budo at $1.33; 500 bu do at $1.82—all on mcck. Total, 43,500 bu: ~Corn.was more ective, aud averaged ¥@lc higher, the inating cause being much the He 24in wheat. Liverpool was quiet,and New York was stronger, owing to tho decline jn ocean freights, while our receipts were again small for tho season, with but & poor prospect of s large increase, Parties who have been out in the country say that stocks are very much reduced by liberal shipments to th Esat_direct dming tho past winter, aud that tne receipts at Chicago _ummer will be smaller than i any previous summer for many years past. Thers 18 no doubs that the opershon of the Railroad and Warchouso Isw has discrim’nated very much against Chicago, 28 iz has cut 0.2 the special ratos from competing, Painis which analiled oug graiardeilets ta Arkd aam frem Southern Juin s deal mane . Reage & pish cheap storage hero for grain takes away 3c lower. Bacon hams, I11¢@13c. Mess feof, $9.75@9.00; estrs mess do, 8975 corn hag gone past ua than ever befo DAY ety of Tt chtn oate sord fhe helped to kespdosn prices. ~ Seller April pened this morniag at 6134, advanced to 613, reced. ed to 61, rose to 6174c, doclined to G154¢, anf closed at G154@6137. ‘Seiler. My sold &t 6ip 643{c, closing at 6334c. Regular No. 2 wasinactirs, Strictly fresh receipta of doclosed at 633¢c. QL rejected closed &t 53¢, and new do at ¢, boty on 2 storago. Cash sales_were reporied of $1100 b No. 2, 010, at 5232 2,500 b o ot grer 2800 ba_rojected, old, 8t 55¢; 2400 budogl Sijgo; 1,600 bu 018t 37c; 2,80 bl do, new, at B u do by eample, shelled, tad Total, ri‘my) bu M0 ate were fore active, and fally 3o hisher & sympathy with whest and cora, xyo%fye,il’;},f" also quoted moro_sctive. Tho receipta of you torday were nearly equaled by the hipment nad 1ho inspection of this WOrDIng was yeck Tight, which caueod grenter strength i cash log fhunin the more deferred options. Seller Mg sold early. at 46igc, and closed at 46%c. Seliey ‘April sold at 43}{@13}c, clomog at (he outside. Regular No. 2 closed 3¢ $35c, and strictly fresh Teceipts of doat&die. Rejected was nomina at 42}4@43c, on 2c storage, Cash esles weraro. postod of 2,400 bu No. 20t 44ice; 3.0 by do.. 34c; 600 bu do at 4dc; 10,000 bu do rogular at &350} 15,000 bn do at 43c; 600 bu by sample at 47¢, on track; 600 budo at 47c, free on carm. Tofal, 32,200 ba. "Rya whs very quiet, but quoted steady st pre. vious prices, at 8¢ for regular No. 2, and s for do on 2o storage. Sales wers limited ta 1,200 br by sample at_ 8¢ on track. There way nothing else offered for sale. loy wos very quist, but firmer, undera modesate demand with besrcely anvthing offer. ing. The market closed at 3L for Ne.2y storage. Casly saleg were reporiod of 400 R 81517 400 budo at S1.50 s 400 bu No.3 at 31417 400 bu do at 31,40 ; 1.200 bu rejectad at $1.30 ; 400 bu do at $1.28 ; <00 bu by sampls at $1.45 ; 100 bu ao at 31,40—all on frack; bu do at' 81,25, delivores.” Total, 4,500 bu. The total grain-carrying capscily of the ves. sgels now in port is footed up by tho Commercig] Bulletin at 8,458,000 L. Of tlus total 87 vessala, with 2,200,000 bu capacity, are classedasd % andare fit to carry wheat; while 52 vessels, carrving 1,253,000 bu, are rated as B 1, and wll carry corn. LATEST. Wheat was fairly activo in the afternoon, tha trading being mostly in the May optiou. Scller April Bold at 31.183,@1.18%. and seller May at $1.233{@1.2334, both closiog at the ipside. Com was in 1moderate demand. and sweady at 613/G 613;c seller Aprd, and 61%4@643c seller May, o CALL BOARD. Provisions were nactivo and Jominal. Mess pork, cash or seller toe month, closed at §14.50 @1470; seller April,“1LE{BILETH; sellor Bay, 914.90@14.95 ; soller Juue, 315.17:¢@15.20. TLard, casn, or seller the month, Sc offéred; zell. or April, '$8.9@8.95; seller May, $0.10@ 9.121¢. Short ribs, cash or soller the montp, I7.695¢@8.00; soller April, 3T.STH@T92 seiler Alov, 55.15@8.20. Shoulders, cadh or sell- er the Tmontb, offered at 55Ze; seller April, 5% @5%0; sellor May. 53@e. Sbort clear, ca- or seller the moath, offared a 8o ; seiler Aprl, $3.15@9.45 ; seller sy, 8}c. ———— CIICAGO LIVE-STOCK MARKET. SaTURDAY EENTNC, M: % The recelpts of live stovk durfig e wmfi‘:n::u ‘a3 follows: Homs. Sheep, 148 Lasi Week bef Woek ending Feb: 21 Total 4 weeka. ... " Shipments were as foll Alondsy.. Taeeday.. 173 ENT 4 1,005 8 4,57 CATTLE—Activity and firmuess hiave been (ho pro deminsnt festure of the cattle murket throughous b ek just closed. It wid be seca tnat our receipts har Beea protty Lrge for tis stags of the season, bt i firm position of the Estern markets gave shipgers confidence, and all o Terings that were fit for shipmeat Esstward were picked up on the duy of arrival. Pricaa opened Srm at the cioeing quotatious of the previom eek, and have gradusly worked upward_unll st the close they show an advadce of a 8.ropg 23¢ per 100 in all shipping grades, snl 10@i5c in_ other deserip~ tions, Tue arrivals elbraced & somewhat better clast of atock th ia Lt week or the previous onv,thers buing 2 large aumberof fat, * meaiy " steets, of {rom 1,40 101,550 1ta average, snd & correspen ling diminut.oa in the supply of rongh, thimnish lots.~ The pricst paid by thippers ranged from $4.75:35.00 for mediuz ateets, averaging from 1,080 to 1,230 18, 10 $5.X@653 for ciira steers, averaging {roi 1,000 1o 160" lie, Stock steers have met witn » good inquiry ot 81.538 4.75 for common to prime droves, averagiug frum 101,100 lts, Buichers' wants wcre met st $2.50@LE for ‘scalawags, andat $3.75@7.00 for cowmon to goud grades, Only a fow droves of Texas cattlo werore- Ceived, but from this time forward the supply mhy.bt expected to stoadly increase. Tuero. wero sales s $150@5.00 for poor 1o extra qualities. To-day the market was_pourly supplled, aad traé- ing was necessarily of 3 somewhat restristed character, Jn comparison wiih the preceding days of the week, the number of buyera wss small, but the wants cf those. in attendance more than equaled the supply, and prices were thoroughly sustzied sll around. Tus caltio-pens are mow empty, and if suppiles can b Fept down to modecato proportions, the jrobabilties are in favor of & coutinuance of the activity and frwe Dess characterizing.the market throughcut the pist week. quoTaTIONS. Extra Beeves—Graded steers, sveraging L400 s X . $8.00G80 10 1,550 o Choico Beeves—Fisie, fat, W 1o 5 year old stecrs, averaging 1,300 450 1bs.. i = y etecrs, nveraging 1,200 to 1,350 b AMedium Grades—Steers in fair flesk, aver— sging 1,130 to 1.250 Ma.. X Butchers' Stock—Common to fair steers, and good to oxtra cows, for city elaughter, averaging 830 to 1,160 B. . L Stock Caittle~Common cattle, 1n 700 to 1,050 e Cattle~Texas, wintered North Cottle—Texas, througn drave HOGE—~During the firsi half of the week this mar~ ket was characterized by extrems dullne's snd de- pression. As was expected would be the resol, the extravagunt prices paid toward the closs of the pre ous week induced largely {ncressed recelpts, a0 ers, taking zdnmLz;: of the over-supply, L f60e per 100 ba. The closing quo- 25, From this point cea rapldly receded until the close of tradecy ‘ednesdsy, when $4.50@5.75 was the raogeof the ¢, Liter, nnder diminished receipts, tho marke Tescled, workiig back to $5.00@6.00, tutat tho ex- treme close weskness was ngain_developed, sud ¥8 now guote poor to common at $4,759.13 ; medlaz sk $5.26(@5.35, and good to extra ot 35.4065.80. To—day thero was a falr amount of trading duriaz the opening houss, but when it became spparedt the arrivals would reach fully 6,000 bead, buyers EE¥; more more cautloas, and prices weakened 15@%e Early safes wero ot $5.00@6.00, but later fu tho 33| tho ssme grades wero neglec $050@5.50. ARTE the farenoon's asles were the following H0G 8 L5, No. Av.. Price)No. Ac. Pricei¥o. Av. Prit of 219 5.0 449 183 g5.3500f 17 B € 170 520 3 185 a8 B 1% 535 | 169 na &% 63 163 5121 4T 185 15 55 62 205 540 |58 2l 18 83 7 160 5% (3 209 10 3 49 1T 5% B3 2k m B 73 163 535 |28 12 202 52 e 8 5% |3 S 5 85 21 25 530 |41 18t 158 6% 40 185 530 |81 20 6 5B 65 174 525 {195 18l 263 58 48 211 550 (58 2 25 83 2 16 slo | B B2 106 19 sdu 13t 16t 80 85 82 164 500 |97 29 SHEEP—Tho sheep trade has beca sctire, and pricet Tave advenced 25@50c per 100 ibs, Tze recelpts ¥ the largest for many weeks, but, Wity a1 ‘between here and the Eastern markels, shi etod ready to ta¥e sl offerings in excess of ocal gmentty And prices Taled frm af $5.00@5.50 fo poor 10 PR mon' at §5.05@6.25 for medium (o good; and st ¥ @123 for cholce to extis. PROFESSIONAL CARDS DR. A. G. OLIN, 187 Washington-st- iz The oldest and longest-located Physi in the city in the trestment of sll Cbrovlé snd Bpecial Diseases. Call or write. Dr. C. BIGELOW, CONFIDENTIAL PHYSICIAN, Eutablished 18 yeors fa the city. Write arcallssdde sadisfied. Office, No. 219 South Clark-st., Chicsse. e e SCALES. FALRBANKS STANDARD SCcALEES $1.41 for No. 3, and $1.32 for rejected—all on 2y AR r— VSRR prEr et H b At 5 5 H H