Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 29, 1874, Page 10

10 WOMAN. Wby Do N"ot American Women En- ter into Domestic Service ? A Grand Feminine Onslaught Upon the Rev. Br. Coliyers Indignant Ladies “ Go for Him* on the Subject of * Poor-Houses.” English Servants and American House- Leepers—Not a Time to Do ““Carm.” WMiscellaneous Xtems Relative to the Fair Sex. “Why Do Not American Women Go iato Domestic Service. T the Editor of The Chicago Tribune: Siz: Some iime ago, in trving to make women out of work understand that I could not Delp them, T 6aid that, if I were so situated, I £hould go into domestic service, and edvised thom to doso. I think that no ono who knows mo doubts that, in such a case, I would do as I Lave eaid; but I once knew a philosopher who ‘was wont to say, * Some people differ from other peoplo,” and thia indicates that somo people act differcotly from other peovle in like circum- stances; and, as the question of work for women is of too much importance to be lightly dismissed, and as cach one hns eome right of choice, wo may not measure all by one pattern, and set aside the claims of those who are longer or ghorter than the standard. Ho is no states- man who would legislate for a people irrespect- ive of their peculiar cheracteristics,—no philan- thiropist who woald aid them regardless- of their tastes. To the philosopher, nothiug is mora un- reasoning and unreasonable then Caste; yet ho cannot disregerd 1t, for he knows that IT RULES THE WORLD. Say that men are starving in India, and that Dritivh statesmen and philanthropists wish to aid them. Can they do this by sending over ship- loads of bread, biscuit, and canned meats? As- suredly not, for they know that theso men .l perish miserably rather than eat the cooked food of a Christian, and so lose their caste. 8o their Christian benefactors send them wholo grain. Tens of thonsands of American women aro per- ishing, soul and body, for want of paying work. Spall American statesmen and piulantbropists say to them, *“Come into our kitchens!™ when they knaw that, to do this, they would lose caste; and, for their refusal; leave them without assist- cace? . ‘We are told that American men do any kind of work, why not American women? Thisisa mistake. American men will keep a merchant’s books, sell his goods and deliver them, take care of and drive the horees used in his business, bandle his boxes, sweep his store and the pave- ment in front of it, wash lus store-windows and cleap bis bottles ; thes will dnive the omnibus or street-car in which he goes to and retuzns from business ; but they will not drive his pri- vate carriage, will 'not clean windows or pave- ments in front of his dwelling, will not cook his dinper, or wait bebind his chair while he eata it. More to the point in this case, they will not go down his aren-stevs, into his kitchen, to hunt wives. Now, the preachers, and otker good and wise men, tell us that it is the bounden duty of all women to be wives and mothe:is ; but how can they be, without husbands ? And, if Ameri- can women go into kitchens, and American men will not follow them there, HOW ABE THEY TO MARRY? Hloreover, to be successful as a domestic ser- vant, & woman muet have a good, stout waist, a pair of rough, strong hands, and substantial feet,—three requisites to which American men have an especial aversion ; 8o that ona who in- sista on American women biring out to do house- work simply urges them to aceept o life of cetib- acy, which I should be glad to ges them do if they would bo bappy in 1t ; but that large claes of people who teac that love is 3 woman's hife are very inconsistent and unreasonable in asking them to accept occupations which would cut them off from the hope of having families of their own. Some may disputo my position that a small waist, delicate benos, and compressed feet, unfit 2 woman for housework, and voint to the tenas of thousands who work, in their husbands' bouees, sixteen or eighteen bours a day; and I point toem to the tevs of thousands of Ameri- can women and children who fill premature gravee. The Irish emigrant sat on the stile and waited for bis Mary, whom he must have in the churchyard, with her baby on her breast; but the American mothers who are &0 laid away, as & direct consequence of the overtaxing of their crippled and distorted bodies, may be conated by tho thousands. ‘I'he perils of the birth and care of children, to American women, caused by those disfigurements which are pecceszary to please American men, are now more thanequal to thoso of tho battle-tield. Wonld it be wise to 2dd to thoeo perils by the strain of hard work before nmurringe, even if that work did not cut off the ‘bope of marriage ? Our girls are broght up like Lot-house plants, cubject to ony accident which may break the walls of thoir glass-prisons; and, this morning, thousands of them are shuvering like buttertlies caught in 2o sutumn-storm. It is essy for an old beetle to say what she wounld doin their placa but they are not beetles, Shall they be held re- eponsible for thst eystom of casto which is na- tional, which stamps personal gervice as menial and & bar to promotioa? Wo have had a rail- ,me for President; but bis wife was a gon- tloman's daugbter, accustomed, from infancy, to ezs and elegance. No privato conchman expects to bave his annual messages read to Congress ; but to every woodchopper this is oue of his possi- bilities. No servont-girl can reasonably expect to Do the wifo of 3 Member of Congress; but auy seamatress may. The American peopla have Practically sot THE SEAL OF INFERIORITY on those who engage in domestic servics, while professedly cacinng the equality of all; ‘and 1t 18 unfair for the strong to visit a common gin upon the weak. American men have established echools, col- leges. and univereitics, at & cost of millions, and taxed women for their support. Tuese institu- tions are designed to aid young men and poys to Fet away from mere manual Javor and reach tho lesrned professions ; while, from most of them, girls and women 'aro excluded. Tho land is full of workehops in which any boy can earn a trade, if no tiades-union have any objec- ton; bat what provision is made for teaching Birls to bo eflicient laborersin any one depart- ment of the world's work? Would I be wrong in saying. None?’ Then, why complain of their incompeiency? Wouldmen gonerally be compe- tent Iaborers if left to pick up & knowledge of :{mlr t(\l'ltdhea - ';)'_h«lzok and by crook.” here s lit- o and there 2 littlo, a3 girl th;l‘xk e s girls generally do? I +* Education forms the common mind," why do we not educate our girls (o some nfi:.d - craft or profession by which they can got & v ing? Aud,if it is tho duty of the Biate or people to do this, why should an institution for that object ba 'branded as an eleemosynary cstablishment > Are our colleges oud uny. ‘\)cmuca designed for paupers ?. Are our botefs, boilt and owned by joint stock companies, Poor-houses ”? They are nos generally so es- Semed; vet, when the Ladies' Educational So- fooY tricd to start a_joiut-stock-company bosrd- - egomv\nss, o which” women might find better do in leaar 008 for less money than they now wiled miery 0dsiogs, and in which those who by wigne St acquire s knowledge of somo trade ot on thocY could eam a living. thoy were + On the tureshold of thair enteryrise. | opalaE. e erprise, by two B FEymen, both educated in instita- tions establisiied. by the public, with the as- comption that their efforts would fagter pagpec. 510 5 the assertion that their proposed k-mp Do TP 32 4 roon oty 55 og pardon, vour Honor! It wag s our E your bull dx.il"elge‘::glq'w ox.” Ab, hem! Tany makes n raining-echoals o convert laboring men i preachens, and lawyers, and doctors. ang” ooy engineers, etc., are novle institutions; bug & school for teachiug iznoraot, incfcient il some basiness by which they wmight get a living, aod in which they could hiops to become tlo wives and mothers of American citizens, would be—wall, not to put too fine 1 point on it, wonld be s “peor-ticuse”! Aud tae uulo.ranate girls who availed tnemselves of its advaulaies would THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1874--SIXTEEN PAGES. be—ab, welll would ba pauperal Now, thiais a very narrow and ungenerous view of a broad and important subject; and the generous men who bave taken it will live to Beo thoir mistake, or_die soon. Our girls may be eilly and vuin,—may have falss pride and & lack of 1mdependence,—but they are our girls, We caonot do without them, and must e'en make the best of them, or it will be tho woree for us. They aro the hope of the nation, and, as they are, 8o will eho be. When they come asking education and a chance to labor in that field which they sbail choose, can we be content with saying, *‘Back fo the kitchen, you jades! Come, cook my dinuer, and you shal eat when I bave euuu;rvhl Reject this offer, and starve, or do worse!” No!no! gentlemen, this will not do. You muet take care of tho girls, and help them to follow the beaten path socioty marked out for them so long, long ago,— the path which leads to wife and motherhood ; nelp them to maintain the caste essentisl to be- coming the mates of native-born American citi- zens ; and begin your belp very soon. JANE GREY SWISSHELM. Anothér Woman on NMr. Collyer’s ¢ Poor-Tlouse,”? To the Editor of The Chieago f'ribune > Sm: About ten years afo, a movemext was started in this city to establish an INDUSTBIAL HOME FOR WOMEN. The enterprise failed at that time, partly from lack of funds; but the germ did not die, and, within the Jast few montbs, has sprung into new life, urged forward by a few earnest, whole- souled women, who, while surrounded by plenty themselves, have oyes to see, and hearis to feel, tho harduess in the lives of others. The object is not to cheapen lubor, but to fs- sist working women to a place where their wages, already meagre enough, will provide them some- thing bke the comforts of a home ; and also wlere they can fit themsuives for different branches of industry. We are constantly reminded, from the pulpit, the rostrum, and by the press, that, if homes wero made more pleasan$ and attractive, men would have less disposition to paironize saloons and other places of evil. If that is true, it is quite probable tbat some pleusant associations thrown sbout women might serve to prevent them from falling into temptation. It is expected this contemplated Home will, in time, become eolf-sustaining,—the inmates paying a portion of their earnings towards its support,—and it scems tobs a necessary and worthy institution; yet, not long sioco, a gentle- man and clergymsn, who was invited to address a meoting of thoge interested ia it, said hoshounld call such a pluce A DOOR-HOUSE. As well cqll our churcises, schools, and colloges, poor-houses ; they a10 usually buit by the pab- lic, and many of thém mamained by the public altogether. ~ It the congregation of Unity Church should present their pastor with a home, would he be apt to retuse it, or think or call it a poor-house ? Thero was an essence of ill-feel- ing towards working people pervading the whole adduBse, which he hsd so carefully prepared. Evidently tho gentleman has had troubls very recently in proviaing himself with eicient help. Thero certmnly is a choice of labor; withous having been either & mimster or blacksmith, tho preference would surely be with the tormer, for many reasons, chief of Which is, that such meet and associate with people of refin iment and edu- cation ; and, 11 one chooses to_be a poor minis- tes rather than a good blacksmith, be has an un- doubted right to Le 8o. 1f the *¢ professions are 8o overcrowded,” would it not be 2 good plun for gome of those already in to step down and out, —tako to the * carpenter-berch and the anvil " themselves,—instead of constantly reminding those outeide thas there is no room for them ? 1-em§s I do the Reverend gentleman injustica ; but it looks very much as if he were afigid pro- feseional services would become cheapened. He appears to be one of those wao, baving seized the bull by the horws, cry out lustily to otLers that they'd oest GRAB OLD OF THE TAIL. The desire for elevauon snd improvement is commencsble in both men and women ; aua it is 'x.‘t]:e goujfine that is preached trom every pulpitin 0 fand. T is not 2 country of nobility and serfdom. Wealth is not handed "down through very long lines; and geutility, when peoniiess, does not live on post-obits. but on its own labor. We are rich one day, and the next must puc oar haud to the plow, our shonlder to the wheel Probsbly 'a large majority of American working women® in tlis city are women of rennement, and more or less cultiva- tion, who, at some time, have bad homes of comfort, and not unlikely luxury. Not much wonder that those who have paid their anzual dues to hear Biother Cullyer preaca the simplicity, and charity, aod love of the religion of Christ, bave no paiticular desire to biachen themsolves agamst the pots and kettles of s lutchen, Besides, American women 2ro nct sirong coough to do Lousework; sud, if they were, there i8 no reason why they should Lo forced to do it because they could keep Mr. Collyer's bouse in better order, and therehy save him the anooyznce of teacning foreigners, Thero is also 8 good resson why girls prefer shops. ‘Ll working hours theto commence at 7 or 8 o'clock in the morning, and end at 6; while housework lasts from early morning to late at night, Suudays not excepted. bo, if ** Miss Coluwbia " doa not like kitchen- work, 8he 18 to be driven to 1t, is she ? In other words, scourged or s:arved to paseive acquies- cence. Admutablesentiments! Coming,as thoyao, trom the lips of s man sud minister, they - are full of unusual strength and force. The kitcnen 1S THE PLACE FOR SERVANTS ; at least, that 15 what wmost people expect them to be. Would any gentleman like to sco bis wife, or s daughter or eister, tho_servant of any of Lis frieuds or neighbora? Let Mr. Collyer labor to elovate public opinion to what it shouid be, instead of trying to drag women down to what it is. Wuen bo succeeds 1 making society believe that a aowan in the kitchen may be a3 much s lady as one in the parlor, snd when a woman who earns her own living is treated equaily s well as anotber who hae some one to earn hers for ber, ho may perhaps staod a better chance of gettiog the American girl he so much desires in the culinary department cf hi# home. Furiner, he gays: **If & poor woman has lost Ler way, God kuows I would help her to find 1t; if she i down, I would Lelp her up again,” otc. Apples of gold! II you arc an homest, hard- working woman, who nceds a hittle encourage- ment and_assistance, Iobert Collyer will pass youby. But just once sin or Siarve, and he rushes open-handed to the rescue. Work, and figbt, and struggie as yon will to keep out of the mud-Lole, and” expect 1o help from him ; but, wien you hare falien in, and biackened and be. grimed your dody, aud lost your immortal soul, iie w;u be ready =s & friend. Encouraging, teuly Ivis to bo hoped that the ladies WILL NOT BE DETERBED iz this good work by any ovstacle. Let the en- terpruse be pushed forward with as much haste a8 1t will admit of, and let 1t be a howe 1 fact as well 08 namo ; not with bare wails and floors, but carpeted and fitted up equal to our churches ; well warmed and lighted throughont ; provided with pictures. flowers, music, and books. Work- ing women manage to obtain the bare necossities of life now. Let us fuinish them with some- thing like comfort, and, if we can, luxury. 1t will not hurt themn. The * mother” of this family should be a woman of beart, and soul, and mind ; pleasant and genial ; with education sud refinemeut ; one who would conduct affaira in such n way that no one calliug it a poor-house conld say it was a poor home. BoeTH. English Servants. To the Editor of the New York Wurld : Str: Wilt you allow sn English womsn space in your valuable paper to eulighten the Ameri- cans as to the cause of noblemen’s and weaithy commonera’ houses yunuing like well-oiled cloci- work? In England, where I lived fifteen years as ser- vant, the ladies of the wealiby classes vever have snything to do with the housckeeping, never have o word to sny tu the servants, excepting their ladies’ maid or children’s vurses. A house- keeper superintends the servants, engages aud discharges them, in all the places I lived in. The ladies never spoke to the servants, except on meeting them they would return our respectful cowtesy by & slight inclination and = gracious smile. “All the reproof or praise was done by the heusekeeper, who, in every honse I lived in, wasa strict disciplivarian, 1uch more given to faulc-finding than praising; she, in her turn, vas eccountabie to the stowaid, whoie Lusiness it was to buy the pro- visious, oversee tha men-servants, aud pay the wages; and he it his turu was accouutuble to the family lawyer. Our respeciful bebavior in Engiand 15 duo to several causes. Ainong them .- “are taught from infancy, “‘servants oboy Your rossrers, aund accept cheerfully tho ataton ‘n life God hss placed youin.” I never could wake auy one. born 1n this country understand the elavish devotion aud reverence to tue nobil- ity and gentry that are taught the English poor. Lsm marned and have children of my own, and would cheerfully cut my tonguo out if I thought it woald teach 1bem to e the slave that I was taught to Le. The sermons thatare preached and the lessons taught us of Submiseion and re- £pect are aided by the conducs of the ladies and Eandamen towards us. The great distance they eep, their dignitied and gracious manver on meeting us, Lelp the lesson that they are supe- rior to us. and not made out of tho same clay that we are. Now, if American ladies want their servaots to behave as they do in England, they must keep & housekeoper, od treat their seryants the same as English Isdies do_theirs. It i my opinion that no lady will receive submissive respect who is Lier own housakeeper, and keepa scolding and “ belling,” as the saying is, after her servants all day long. 1 hope the ladies of New York will not be offended at an Euglish servant giving tbem advice, but it 18 ooly fair that sometimes the servants should be heard as well 28 the mis- tresses. As ol tho papers are full of abuse of tue servants, I thought 1t would do no harm if an English servant should tell how English ladies treat thewr servants in England. Very Tespectfully. AN ENOLISH SERVANT. Not n Time to Re ¢ Carm.” s'rom the Detroit Free Press, ‘‘He's ecooted with snother woman ?” ex- claimod a cnr&m[ent female, afllicted with asthma, as she pulled berself throngh tho door of the Central Station yesterday foremoon. The Polica Sergeants are naver basty about expressing their opinion, and the ono in charge of the sta- tion looked at tho woman, and didn’t even nod bis head for her to goon. Thewoman taok a chair, or nearly two chairs, pulfed _away like a ‘ack-horso for several minutes, and then, as the tears camo to her eyes, she continued : +T'll never forgive him, and if ho's canght rou may eentence him forlife! To think that, after we've lived together these five years and better, ho ehould desert his own true love to run away with a girl named Sarah!” “Yon refor to your husband, I suppose,” said the Sergeant cautiourly. * What other woman's husband would I be re- ferring to,” she demanded. * Of course it 18 my husbaud—my John Henry Polk.” *¢ Aud Linfer that he Lias deserted yon.” * That's what he's done—deserted me and run off with o girl named Sarah something or other, and [ am left bere without a friond !” ** Ho shouldn't bave done that,” remarked tho Sergeant, after a long pause. ‘“No, he shouldn't,” she replied. ** Why, what was he when L married him ? Didn’t I take Lim when ho wes & good-for-nothing, insignifi- cant winffet of 16 and bring him up to what he is ? And now this is my return " She sobbed away for a while aud then went on. “ Mo called mo bis darling—his dear gazolle, aud Losaid thatI was sugar melted over. aud all that, and I believed it—yes bolieved 1t, liko the fool I am.” ** And be's gons, eh 2" “Gone! Indu't I say he'd gone? I can hardiy beliove it, though, when 1 look overtho letter ho wrote me ; and eseo how ho called mo hisshining angeland his noonday etar. Ican hardly realize that ho has loft me and taken up with 2 freckled girl.” **It's very gad,” sighed the Sergeant. +“You don’s know my foeliugs,” sho replied ; “don't begin to realizo how this beart of mine 18 wrenched. 1 wish you'd catch him, sir, I wish you'd bring him back here and staud bhim over there, and leave me over here and lock the doors for about two minutes!” # Ba calm, madam,” remarked the Sergeant. *Carm! HowcanlIbs carm? When I think of John Henrv and Sarsh and dear gazelle and sbining angel snd moonday star, can I bid my heart be carm? " Slo left her busband’s description and went away, aud the police will catch hini1f they can, Miscecllaucous Feminine itema. An armless Milwankee woman boxes Ler hus- baud's ears with her feet. —Wo are told nothing was made in vain: bat how about & pretty girl? Isn't she maiden vain ? —Tie Misses Smith, of Glastenbury, Cunn., havo determined to eat no Thanksgiviug turkey until thev can vote. —A Western paper chronicles s marriage in this suggestiva style: **The couple resoived themselves into & committes of two, with power to add their number.” —An old lndy, hearing somebody esy the mails were irregular. said: - It was just so in my young days—no unskmg any of 'em.” —Aun Omaha girl broke her back the other day while making ber bed. An awful warning. —The San Francisco Hoodlum says, * Oh, chawme bair!” when be meets a gurl nith it trizzled. —Jonquin Miller has written sbout * A storm in Venice.” BMra. Mitler 18 probably thera. —A womanin St. Croix used her Liusband's money to hure five lawrers and get s divorce. —The Suah frighteds his wives into Bubmis~ sion by wearing a Earopean | '3 hat puilod down threateningly over his righu e5e, —A Maryland wife had ber hasbsnd fined £2 for kissing her, and he had to pay or g0 to jail. —1he Omaha Bee bas ** pot " ua, It saysthat the female population of that iown are not Oma- bens or Omahossee, but Omaoussies. Wo may nuw expect them to Omsahustie that editor out of his boots.—St. Louis Globr. - 1t's easier for a needie to go throngh the eye of a camel than for & woman to say ** 11's of no consequence,” when you &ick o hole in her new silk dreas, —The tyrant man has treated contemptuounsly the woman suffrage projositiou in Michigan, and Susan swears that if any voter ever lets her sit in his lap again she'll pinch bim, so belp her gracious ! - —A Vermont lady fainted away 2t a party, and. when a young waa cried out for some oue to saw her corset-striugs in two, she arose. drew o pair ot Bhears, and sad she'd like to sco ‘em saw. —A. T. Stewart haen't finished his Home for Women yet, and he probably will not. He fouud tuat wowen would not enter it under his rules, one of which 18 that they should have no beaus, and should be in at 8 o'clock every evening. —A bashful young man mortaily offended the bride of Lis mast wtimate friend by sammerms when taken aback by a request for a toast at the wedding-supper: * Tom, my f-ir-friend, may youll.uwe & wedding once a year as long 88 you Livel” —A correspondent writes from s Swiss town: ] way wuch amused, on looking over a visitors’ book, at the ian, to fiud that, uuder the heading ‘occupation,’ two German gils bad writen, *looking for s busband.’” —An_Indianapolis girl invited her traducer to walk with her, and wben thoy amved st a lonely spob bhe drew a razor and demanded s retrac— mar;; The guilty wretch saved himself by instant t. & 5 & breach of promiss trial in New Hamp- ehire the lover was shown to bave wrtten a let- tor containing fifty-seven pages of note paper o his dulcines, and the jury acquitted him on tho ground that he was either insane or idiotie. —A gitl in Georgis brought a suit agaiost o Tecent lover, claiming $10,000 damages, but sho compromiged for four bales of cottoa and a new porasol. Her lawger took the cotton for bis fee, and she kept the parasol to heal her wonnd- ed affeclions. —* What would yoube, dearest, it I should press the stamp of love upon thous sealing-wax ips 2" I” rosponded the fairy-like creature, *“shonld be—stationery !" —A woman at Oneids, N. Y., stopped on a ras with ber bare foot, aud was so frightened that sho went into spasms, and afterward coufessed to ber busband that she was about to elope with one Bill Stevens. —“ Wby, you see,” she began S‘you takes chestnut and cut round tie bull” with a sharp kuife, and you take oae-ball the chestout in your moutb, and your fellow takes the othar haif in h:]mumu, and pull, and the bull comes right o1 —An elderly lady purchased ove of the Egyp- tian mumumies at the Niagara Falls Museum, the other day, for 2 parlor ornament, Sho sid it would scem better to have o man around, oven if ho was advauced in life and withered. —They do funny things on the River Seino, as the following from 8 French newspaper shows : ‘A young man of agreeable presence, and de- sirous of getting married, would ke to make the acquaintrnce of on aged and oxperienced gentleman who could dissuade him from takiug the fatal step. —Wben a Milwaukes man read that an Ottawa woman committed suicine becanse Ler Luspand refused to kiss ber, he put on & muzzle. The old lady biaen's commitied enicide yet, but horarw her the othor uignt kissing & neighbor over the ack fence. —**Cowe here my little man,” said a gentle- man {0 & youngster of 4 years of age, when sit- ting in a parlor whers a large compuny wers as- sembled ; you koow me#” * Yes, sir, I think I do. ‘Who am I, then,—let me hear 7" **You are the man who kissed eister Jane last night in the parlor.” Jaue faintod. —Among the dozen women who was crowded into the otfice of the Detroit Director of the Poor, Istely, was a little tema'e with sud eyes and an apxious Jook. * Well, whatdo you want 7" asked the Director when ho came to her case. **1'd like some mopey,” she whispered. * How muchi?” “Well, I can't say, exactly, sho replied ; **how much do you generally give ont to them when they want to buy a bead belt?" She didu’t get any relief. —A lndyand her 8-year old dsugbter were among the passengers on & Woodward avenne car yestorday, aod presently the little mies obe sorved a man take oat lus handkerchief, fourish it around, and then wive his nose. The clild leaned over {o ber mo:ber and whispered: ** Mamma, that gentleman is trying to flirt with me, but 1 suall give bim the haidkerchief-signal %1“ 1 distruss his motives I"—Detroit Free ress. LIVE STOCK. Statistics of a Great Chicago In- terests Growth and Management of the Union Stock-Yards, Firms and Railroads Immediately Connected Therewith, Capitals esy Bonamy Price, in his lecture on finuncial crises, and what constitutes capital, is the industrial life of man; the division of em- ployment, the producer of raw material, the manufacturer of all articles, goods, and com- modities, of whatsoever description, entenng into thoso materinls which goto make up the grand whole, demanding an equivalent in exchango for other goods, or their ropresentatives of vaiue, the circulating medium of & nation. The trad- ers and other agancies that are engaged in putting all this merchandise in its proper place, at the mill or at the door of tho consumer, sus- toin the relative position s agentsof capital. To this portion of capital belong the railways, canals, steamships, &ec. Then sgain, the relations of the growers of cotton, wool, and grain, as also the producers of cattlo, hogs, sheep, horses, ete., hold no lesa an important position 83 re- gards the capital of this country. And it is of tho lattor—tho live-stock interest of the WWest— of which woare about to write, with & view of placing it before the public, in all of its phascs of commercial and financial importance, and more especially that particular interost involved inthe bandling and ehipping of live stock at and from tbig point. That its wonderfnl mag- nitude mey be fully recognized, we will turn the leaves of the bhistory of Chicago, back to the year 1825, when it was scarcely more than a fon or bog, aod its commercial importance was 8o embryotic, that it wes scarce- ly worth & name, and when its transactions of a business character wera confined to a fow traders in furs. - But in this memorable year, tho then little village of Chicago received its firat through shipment of catile, by William Hamilton, Esq. In 1826, Gurdon 8. Hubbard brought the first drove of hogs into the city. In those early daga no “puts” or *calls” distarbed tho traoquit grain markets; no *bulls" or “bears” pro- voked fluctuations, in the then undeveloped live- stock market, and no eager reporter inquirod after tho state of trade, or burdeued the readers of Chicago En-intu at that day with long tabics of figures and other dry statistics, saowing such commorcial transactions as receipts, shipments, and sales. Yor the mextseven or cight years nothing worthy of special meution occurred in this branch of commorce. Ta 1832, however, an item of importance was contributed to the anuals of tho city, and this enterprise was due, if memory in ot at fault, to George W. Dale.—nn interest which canoot bo well estimated at the present daze, 8 it is eo large. 1tis nothing less than the packing ioterest. Dut, a8 & very common growth was developed during the fow succeeding ~yeain, we will pass over the intorsening spaco, between 1332 aud 1836, in milenco, in ordérto £ave both time and spaca. In 185¢-'7, howaver, 8 great impetus was given to the live-slock trade, and from that time to this it hns, like many other branches of commerca, expanded with' s rapidicy that challeages s parallel in this or any other countrs.—an incresse from which w0 can sce, A8 it weie, the insignificance of yes- terday entirely obliterated in tho immensity of to-dsy. JInorder that the magnitudaof thia medium of capital may receive adoguate public attention, wa present the following comparative figures, between 1357 and the present date, which ehow the receipts and shipments of beel cattlo: Fears 1337 Received. Shivped.|Years, ZRecerced. Sii 43,504 25,5021803 2604 2 1461357, 25,97,1833 204,12 1369, 12414613 112743191 243,24715 1573, 1, 3311374, * For ten months, ‘The increased receipts and shipments of beef cattle have not been gs large as those of hogs, esflunin.lly for the past few years. Therefore the following tableis given, which shows the actual increase in the live stock trade since the UNION 6TOCK YARDS were constructed in 1865, at whic date the av- erage momthly receipts of hogs were 40,935 head, againet 361,479 Lead per month in 1373, while for the present year tirough the month of October we tind that 293,938 head was received, bat as the great _slaughteiing and packing sea- son i now fully inangurated, it is peliered that the averaze receipts for tho year will exceed those of 1873, Ioas. 50 Skeep. 200,420 1-0,134 74 (10 monihs). Tbe receipt of horges in 1866 wero 1,553 Liead, while for 1374 they wers 16,359, ‘The zbovo table speaks for itself, and shows with ofticial certaiuty the greut increase of the live-stock traflic, 28 also the expansion of capital iavolved in that important branch of commerce. And as we wish to give in minute detail the now mammoth concern known 8 the Union Stock Yards, we will again tura to the year 1826, where we find that before, and at tuat time, A FEW PENS, OB ROUGE CINTIIVANCES, in the early lustory of tho business, were con- siructed near the river, which would not far ex- ceed the peus covnected with the farma of our rural friends. Tho nc : step of progression was the Lake Slore yards =~ in _ 1836, sud 2 short time after tlis Williard .F. Myrick erectod in tho vicinity of Twenty-minth etreet s tavorn—for such was the cognomen applied to a country hotel in those days—and nearly opposite and to tho east of this tavern Mr. Myrick cou- structed & few stock peus, in which was placed the first Fairbanks platform scale ever used in ting city. Shortly after tuis Mr. Jackson con- structed o few stock pens mear the then old Southern Hotel, silusted on the corner of State and Twelfth streets. At these two points a con- siderable portion of the stock coming to the city was baodled, until the year 1818, when the well- known “BULL'S HEAD " yarda were opened near the building now known a8 the Washingtonian Iome, on the coruer of West Madison street and Ogden avenue. This old tavern seoms to hava regretted its former use, and to have thrown all its corn spirits into the gutter, and turned itself into an msylnm for inebriates. Mesers. Laflin, Loomis, Horace Hopkins, D. K. Belding, and Jobn B. Sherman successfully oporated these yards until 1856. They proved adequate for _the trafiic during the old atage-coach days, and the slow and easy menner in which this trafic was then carriod on, There weks no rzilronds in those days; heucs the stock was driven in and disposed of for city consumption mostly. But this, 88 many other of the good old-fashionsd ways, was 8000 to become a thing of the past, for, shorily after this time, the Western railroads bezan to intersect the great praities of the West, and hence a change for the better took place. Westorn commerce began to move more xnpid}f, and an unprecedanted de- ;vclopmenf. opened up the resources of the mighty ‘est. E The Chicago, Burlington & Quizcy Railroad, the Chicago & Northwestern, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Ilinois Central, the Chi- cago & Alton, the Milwaukes & St. Paul, and the Chicago. Danville & Vincennes are in tho main the great railway channola that tako in the enormous receipts of stack, depositing the same at the great Lead-centre, For the distribution of stock from this market to all points in the East the following Lnes of railrosd form the avenues for the outlot: Mici- igan Central, Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Pittsburg & Fort Wagyne, Pittsburg, Cincinnat g.hx Louis, Canada Soushern, and Baltimore & aio. Mr. Sherman foresaw the death-blow to the old Bull's Hedd yards, and with that sagacity thas bas marked his business career from the dav be became wdentiied witn the lve-stock interests of the city, Lo sold them out, and purchased an interest in E THE XTRICK YARDS, which had previousty been leased by the Michi- gan Central iu 1356, From that time until the eud of their existencs they wera known as the + Bherman Yards,” aod were capabls of accom- modating about 5,000 head of cattle, and £0,000 bend of swine. Abaut four years before this dato, the Michigan Southern Road being come plated, the ** Son hern Yards ” were constructed io arder to sccommodate the increasing trafiic. They were d on Tweunty-second street, \ves:y of Clark, In 1859 Joseph McPherson ooenad yards known sa the Fort Wayne yards, situated corner of Mitchell street and Stewars avenae, which were about as large in extent as the * Southern.” In 1862, in order to meet the growing demand, Messrs. L. C. Loomis & Co. opeved tho Cottage Grove svenua yaids, just south of the Sherman yards, butin a pecuniary point_of view had little success, aud they were closed in the course of three years, and the ma- terial sold to the Sherman yards. A All the pens, contrivances, and yarda having ‘been mentioned, wa will proceed to give some of the causes why so large an enterprise as the con- struction of the mammoth Unpion Btock-Yards was undertaken, and also to mention the gentle- men who took upon themseives the arduous Jabor of organizing the Company. In the year 1865 the live-stock trade ASSUMED SUCK PROPORTIONS of commercial imporfance that it was thoaght neceasary to take some steps towards toe religy- ing of the overcrowded and ipadequate accom- modstions thon provided. Mr, Sherman and others, baving closely watched the progress of thls intercst from ita infaocy, were the moet capable judges of the mensures to be adopted to this end. They will compre- hend the magnitude of tho interest involved, aud, mensuring its future expansion by its past, they wers the first to advocate the construction of the great Umon Btock-Yards. The reador | will darive some adequate idea of the magnitudo of the business transacted at these yards whon 1t is stated that the value of the stock handled here during the past year was £02,000,000, or about §36,000,000 more than was = re- quired to operate any other ono line of businoss, In fact, from this source alone, & very perceptiblo influence has been felt through- out all the commeroial avenues of the West. ‘Cho live stock interest here has a most aalutary and, we might say. controtling influence in the finan- cial circles of both city and country, and this is especially trus at thid season of the year when such s large volume of currency is employea in_pork und boef packing operations at this point. Hence, with the aluost certain and ioevitable results tnat were fore- shadowed at that time, ths oconstruction of the present mammoth accommodations for live-stock was fully decided upon as & means of overcoming the many inconvedieaces encounter- ed under the old system of handling stock, such a3 the endless amount of emtebhing In ordér to deliver it to the difforent yards. In fact, all parties intercsted were Locoming heartily tirad of so much unnecessary labor and expense in placing the stock 1n the salo-pens. Heuce, & CENTRALIZATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF TUE YARDS, and to this end the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and the Northwestern Roads, in con- cert with the Hon. John Dore aud other capitalists, commeuced the construction of yerds just west of the city-limits, and known as the Western Union Drovers’ Yards. These were placed under the management of BMeaurs. McPherson & Allerton, but as the con- struction of the present Union Siock-Yards had also been commoiiced the samo year, the Union Drovers’ Yards proved a failure, sud inless than threo mouths after their inauguration they were closed and the material sold to tae Unioa Stock- Yards. Having now given s brief history of the live- stock Lusiness, a3 well as tie location and opera- tions of the various yards up to 1S5, the road is clear to enter into furtner delails of tae UNION 6TOCK TARDS AND TRASSIT COMPASY. No doubt this subject has boen pretty well ex- hausted on previous -oceasions, but it is hoped that 1t 18 an interest of §o much lmporcance to our readers that they will nat tire in apain re- viewing its bhistory, as in every pauticulsr the cnterprigo has proven a success, far beyond tho expectations of its projectors.’ In tha fall of 1854 2 prospectus was issued, and the capital stock of £1,000,000 was subsenbed to, the dif- ferent railway companies taking $925,000 of it, and the rest was taken by private partics. Therenpon & charter was obtained, and T, B. Blackstone, Esq., was appoisted Presi- den of the organization, and on the 1Ist of June, 1335, gronad was broken, and the great Union Btock-Yards commenced. And eo great was the nccessity for their completion, that on the 25th of December of the same year they wers finistied and opened to tae live stocls tratic of the Northwest. This event was shortly ful- lowed by tha clcsing of all other Fards in the city. The areaof grovud owned b7the Com- pany i3 345 acres, 140 acres being occupied by veas, and sbout 40 are covered with baildings, including the comwmodious Excasuge, the Umon Stoci-Yard Bank, THE TRANSIT HOTSE, one of the fincs: ho:els 1ntue Weet, hay barns, scaie houzes. &c. And we might meot.on just bete that the hotol was bailt in conuection with the yards, and 1s conducted by Messrs. Saerman & Tucker., This hocel has a capacity for accom- modating about 400 guests, and is usually well filled the year round, In justice to tbo merits of this houss, we will 82y it 13 the bes: and most. popular **§3.00 per day’ house in the county. Ths entire arrangements and outfit of this honse are first-class in every particular, Tracks and roads aro .coustructed by aud belong to the S:ock-Yards and Transit Comrany, making con- Dections with every road leading into ths city, and which, in ex:ent, aresomething over16 miles, 50 that Btock is received and slipped without tho least delay orextra expense in switching. Thesa are among tlie few admirable features that desorve ugm:ml mention, as aigo tho execa- tive ofticers who had the constraction of these yards in cbarge. One is tho completeness in drainage, and the other is the water-supply. ‘Chey are well watored from two artesian wells that were bored shortly after the yurds were opened. Besides theso wells the Company has adopted the Holly sys:em, through which it so- cares an adequato Bupply of luke water. In sbort, theso yards are constructed on the most’ approved plass, sod, under the ablo supervison of Mr. Jobn B. Suerman, they bave been kept in the best of repairs. In faci, they aro constructed so couveniently that they only require the employment of 200 men in the dilferout departments, such as clerks, foromen of divisions, yard, feed, aud scala mas- ters, yard ond trackemen, carpenters, black- emiths, police, and so on, Befors going into further details wa will state that the orginal sum involved in the coustruc- tion of these yards was $1,675,000, and_yet this large sum has been nearly doubled eince that daze in the many valnable improvements and ad- diuons that havo been made by the Company sinco 1855, in ordor to accommodate the largo increase of traflic. During the present voar largo improvements have been made in tho way of macadamzing streots snd alloys: in the construction of new pens, and in the ercc- tion of new outbuildings, ete. ‘The Company, in conuection with a few uf the prominent packers, has also crected & fins fire-engine house, organ- ized an eflicieat firo company, and procared a new Silsby fire-steamer, all at a cost of $12.000. A large addition was last year mado to the Live- Stock Exchaoge Building, doabling its former size, which, with the original building and bank, bias been gupplied dutiug the present year wit: tho most approved sieam-heating apparatus. These, with many other minor improvemonts, have been perfocted during tho past and this year, at & necessanly llrfie outlay of capital. As 5 farther jndex to the progress of this traf- fic, tharrnndor is roferred tv the following state- ment o RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS from Jan.1to Oct. 31, 1874, as compared with the business (ransacted during tne year 1873 for the sasua poriod of time: Mont, Hogs. Shee, Horses. 21, I 24,808 45,100 20,218 17,558 16,055 G Total............726,128 2,999,287 253,530 16,359 The shipments from Jan. 1 to Oct. 81, during the preent year, were as follows: 2,000,996 124,243 16,273 In glancing at the above statement the reader must remember tiat it only shows the cperation in this traffic for the past ten months, and, as the two remaining months of the year ara embraced in the great slaughter season, itis but fair to presuwe that tho total re:ei?ll aod shipments for the present year will largely exceed tnose of 1873, woich were 761,428 cacttle, 4,337,750 hngs, and 291,334 sheop. This, we_Eeliove, embraces the chief operations of ths Union Stock-Yards, and as Prof. Swing eays. ““a cityis the clinux of the creature called mao;” the 8ams may be snd 1n regard:to the Union Stozk-Yards, as they ate the culbupation, the climax, of tho im- mense herds of cattle scnitered over the broad proirica of the Weet, the millions of swine produced throughout the grest farm- ing communities of the land, a8 also of tha namerous flocks of sheop and herds of horaes that are brought to this preat live-stock em- porium. Horo, those vast tlozks aod bords find & raady markot, which {a the caseatno othor point of the conntry. It is from this point that tho seaboard and intermediate markets are sup- plied, as also the wautsof our local butvhers and packers. It needs no further evidence than has already been presented to convince even the most casual reader that the Chicago live- stock market, a3 now conducted. i8 one of the most important commercial intarests of the city, and wo might add that it exercises ‘a greater influence ou both the financial and commercial prosperity of the Weat tasn any other gingle interest. 'There- fore, ehould it not become the pride of the hive-stock raisers ana shippers throughout the reat Northwest, and the inhabitants of the Ehta haviog within its limits an iostitation of such magnitude, heing o coustructed, and all its workings so systematica! as to producs the facilities for receiving, takiog care of, and mer- keting, itslarge da:ly receipts to the city of mam- moth packing-houses on one side, and the large number of promineut shippers on the other, wio control a capital up into the milliona of green- backs, making this the markes of markets in this or any other country ? o In conclusion, it may not be fmproper to cail the attention of the reager to the exeoutive offi- cors of this Company, and to point out the effi- cient manner in which each baa discharged the important labors imposed upon him, as it is to the untiring industry of Mr. James 3. Watker, President of the Company, and Joho B. Sher- mau, its Superintendent, and George X, Will- iams, Secretary and Treasurer,—especially the lattor two,—that its prosperity is in & great measure due. It bos been the aim of these gen- tlemen during the long vears of their experience to place the live-stock marke: of the Wess in the pos:tion it now occupios, and they have reason to contemplate with pride the results of their labor, - No men bhavo done more towards de- veloping this important interest than they. As has been previousiy statea inanother portion of thisnrticle, the beef and pork-packing, asalso theprovisioninterest,are of suchimmense propor- tions, and are_so intimately connected with the live-stock traffic, as to entitle them to brief men- tion in this connection. Among the many oper- ators in the packingand provision line, wo will mention ANDAEW BROWYN, who, besides operating a becf and pork packing- house on the southwest coruer of Eizhtecnth and Grove streets, is 210 a wholesalo dealer in beef, porg, lard, hams, smoked beef, tongues, tripe, aod pige feet, all of which lines of provisions ko makes a specialty, and as he bhas adopted the motto of produciog and handling nothing but supetior arucles, ho has sacceeded in working up a large and prosperous trade throughout the city and country, Alr. Brown's storehousa ard oflice are situated at No. 101 South Water street, whero ke has ample room and otber tacilities for keoping pace with tie largely-increased tiade that be is roceiving. This gentlemau has gained o very favorable reputation during thae past few years from the excallent quality of the nams aud smoked beef that he has nandied. Promirvent among the beef and pork-packing establishmeuta in this city, is thatof LEEs, RUNDRICES & c€O,, located at Nos, 467 and. 469 Bouth Canal street, and No. 104 DoKoven streot. This firm was or- ganized under its present name and style Jan. 1, 1872, having traneacted business rrevicus to that time under the firm name of Lees, Corri- gan & Co. Besides being extensivelr ougaged in the beef and pork-pacaing trade, this house operates s large wholesalo rueat-market, as Nos, Jto 14 Weat Jackson street. This gives them the capacity and facility for pacsing 100 head of cattle, and_200 head of Logs per dey, the year sround. They aiso have the most complete arrangement for tha curing of meats during the summer, a3 well as during the winter months. The mild cure of their meats, both beef ana pork, makes them very desirabla for smoking purposes. Their Weatorn trade ja smoked beef 18 not oniy large, but they ship extensively to the different sezpoard nod European markets, where, owing to the popularity of their prodace tions, they always find ready busers at full mar- Jet pricos, 4 brief, the. houss of fiees, Hen- drices & Co. is well end favorably known throughont the city and country, and. their busi- ness shows a healthy increase. H. E. MALLORY # BROS. Tp to the year 1364 the iive stock brought to this market was generally disposed of by the owners accompaaying it. Bat the traffic 50 ex- panded that sommission seliers became s neces- sity, and ofithis class cf operators thera are nov at the Union Stock-Yards between fifty and one hundred; all of whom seem to have about all the business they can well attend to. Among the oller opersiors, H. E. Mallory m.a in_this Bros. ara ivneers, a4 It wers, braush. af dive stk commerch: Henry C.,, tbe senior member of this firm, bas been sctively engaged in the buziness for the past twelve or nfteea years, and was formerly an active member of the firm of Wallworth & Mallory, which we believe waa dis- golved in 1371. Hauk, as he1s familliarly known at the yard an excellent ealesman, and, bein; a genta), nholo-hasrted gentleman, 1o well and favorably known to the trade. Hub Aallory, 08 tho remaining partoer i3 called by lus friends, also has larga experience, having been from 1864 £0 1871 » member of the firm of Adams & Mal- lory. Mallory & Bros. scem to bs domng about all the business they can a:tend to, or, to uie the languizs of tha senior member, they are getting their share of tha trade, which amounted to sales of 162,000 Logs, 11,560 cattle, and 10,350 sheep. DENNY & REDMAN flung their business-banner to the breeze, as live-stock sellers, some mix years ago. They ars both live, industrious men, and make a pretty stroug commission-team, as their eales to date for the present year foot up 142,309 hogs, 80,000 cattle, aud 8,237 sheep. These figures were taken from the tirm's booas, and are there- fore corzect. This firm does not make as larze pretensions 28 somo others, and yet, for indastry, reliability, and experience, they pass at par wherever they are known to business circles. HORINE BEOS. a CO. have an exper.ence of even years a3 commis~ sion sellers, while the members of the firm bave been identified with the live-stock trade of the Northwest for a muck longer period. They are doing o large and prosperous business, and, what is more, they aro ecuring toeir proportion of the iucreaae, as their sules for tne past year, ac- cording to their books (which they had the politeness to allow us to examine) foot up 192,350 hoge, 15,760 cattle, and 5,650 sheep. After s most careful investigation and examius- tion of a few of the represeutative commuission firms st the yards, we do not hesitata to make the statement that there is no other commercial interest in the West, that involves the handhng of such a large amount of capitul, where there is 8o little chenting or cause for complaint as in that of the Live-stock commission business. Among the r more prominent features of the Union Stock-Yards that deserse apecizl men- tion at this time, are the arrangements employed for the weighiug of live stock. Likoe all other prominent stock-sards in the conatry, the FAIRBANKS' PLATFORM ECALES are uged to the exclusion of all others. Of these standnrd mediums the Union Stock-Yards employ eleven, the following figures showing their tonnage capacity and size of platform: Eight scales of 50 tons each, with platform 1% by 46 feot; two scales of 30 tons capacity each, with platform 7i¢ by 34 feet; one scale of 6 tons capacity (for weighing hay and other feed), with platform 8 by 16 feet. We learn that scalea of the same mauvufacture to the number of thirtecn aio used in the st. Lonis stock-yards, while elevan are emplosed at the stock-yerds in Cincionati, and tho Pennsylvania Central yards have five in activo operation. In fact, these scales are em- ployed almost to the entire exclusion of others by stock-yards, railroads, and elevators through- out the country. So far as those used nt the Union Stock-Yards are concerned, they are pro- nounced by weighmasters as perfectly accurate in their work in ail kinds of weatler, neitaer cold, beat, nor heavy drafts affecting them in the least. At tne timo theso yards were opened, 1n 1865, otlLer scale manufacturers offered large in- daocements to the Cumglny if their productions could bs used. But the Company, sa well as buyers and sellars, wero uawilling that any other scale_than the Fairbauks shoula be emploged, and henco, a8 before stated, the various scale~ Louses were supplied with those. It is a fact that before the general introduction of the Fair- banks scale 28 a medium for determining the corract weight of live stock thers was a vast amount of diseatisfaction sod _grumbling among live-stock mon throughoat conntry iu regard to incorrect weights. But now, when prominent farmers - and atock-growers, as also railroad-shipping stations and stock-yarda, are supplied with those standard &cales, thera is no further cause of c.mplaint, as neitber buyer nor seller caa badeceived 38 to the zeal weight of bis property, If we shoull measure the resl value of the Fairbaoks’ production by the scales now in use at the Union Stock-Yards, the proof would bs conclugive that they have no equal in this conn~ try. Let the reader for a moment consider tha enormous wear aud tear that thess scales are sabjected to in a single year, ia the work of we:ghing, aa they havo done for the past tew years, from 3.000,000 to 4,000.000 hogs, and from 600,000 to 800,000 head of catds. And, what 1s more, a very large majority of this vast number pass over tho sosles {rom two to threo umea. ence, it i8 no enzi'gcmtxon to rtate that the elovon geales employed at the vards are rubjected to the work of weighing 2,000,000 tons sunually. The question migbt be asked in this conpection, when subjected o such enormous duty, do thess scales alwa, = ¥ ys i correctly? In answer sy cm:{;n,m“ wark Ianguage of our most exverienced SR tha aad live-stock men: “ When propag Fiiittey 7o can placo implicit reliance o SCPeRe] 2e8s, asen when theircapaotty s teoiy ST dratis in the most 1apid successign. g BEATY weigh 5 pounds carrecty Ml they determino 50,000 1T as Ppounds, early days of these yar spint of grambling bad dflr;mb“."" occasionally a buyer ot seller woud gl Batisfaction atthio weight of ‘stagy’ LI 0 sold. T such instances it wag 14 L0324t or drive the stock to some other scalg i;‘u bou 1o where it would be reweighed, and in g o pary stsnce did ono of these standurg Lg,o0 i show a different result, or Pprove mp o s guilty of falao weight. It in’ nansesry Sh joto o detailed account of the snperjy these seales, Or of the wisden 00U of Union Stock Yards in emeion, *f, U 24 the Fairbanks aro tos welbiclX .ty country and in Europa to requira ap, ‘1“ e recowmendation at our hauds. A b e turers of scales, Messra. Fairbaois g 20t eatned 3 Toputation with which they porlST enm'elvfl ezlns_"ed. uThe{;ennnly conld ;:‘:l& o more flattering notico tha i foliowing s 1 18 containeg n g The Hou, Thaddens Fairba Vi, Ioventor of tho Fairosmrrii bty Ly the Emperor of Austris a Kalght of 1o hC: Order of Francis Joseph ; the only apa® 12y in which the honor Lis been conferreq m;‘;’;h"bt can exbibitor at the Vienns Amey Tribune, Jan. 9, 1674, Exposition.—yn, ot TUE MICHIGAN CENTRAL AND Gmeyy RAILwATs, By - g thy id i Among the different hines of thia maraot with tho Beaborrd fLrr® s tbat offer largor inducements or better gyt 0 sliippers of liva stock than tho girery Sk tral and Great Westorn ronds, - In Jaea b madeackzugein their running time from i, LT to Buffalo, of much importaiica to shippaet Sl this chauge, their rauning time beueny jpuy ol and Suspension Bridgo, of Buffalo, hys ot duced twelve hours, 50'that, at the prassey o™ the stock-train leaving Chicago ar Ly L33 will arnive at vho Bridge, or Baffalo,in i s, unlosded, fed, watered, udrested, xadfom, at 9 a. m. the second day. 'Thusit x|l be. 4 under the new amrangement thatonly Lorty.g; hours ate consumed from tho time of ].umr Cbicago uutil the stock is again en rots g the Pridgs or Buffalo to the seaboard, tyey o3 ploting the transit to New Yotk in four ds; Sy place of tiva davs as was required_under iy, running time, while the run to Boston, Pyl dence. and other Now England cities is gap four and a half days agaiust six days as regy; in the old schedule. OF, in other don: it required futy-five hours ppdye [ old _ronping timo beiween thia ' pe s0d Bufalo, whereas nnder tho new thy 1y made in forty-four bours. This ia cortaiay s tor time than is made by Any competing figa, g in the transportation of live-stock 13 remiter 1 8 very large €aving to shipperan tug way o slrinkago or 10ss of weight by long confoemay of the s:ock on the road. And as this iy one of the most eerious cinses of loeses encogoy this change of Lime is an item of grest impor. tauce, and, hence, is drawing a largs i trade towards that line. So admirably ara sy traias handled on these rosds, that their ummy can ba calcnlated upon almost to an hoyr, Tho average shipments over thess myy amount to nearly 400 ears per week. Thia resat isno doubtdnoins groat measure to tas meq. tioned redaction 1o time. To be more pracss iy the mater, we will give th: readers siaremy of each weck's ahipments, from this poct gy the Michigan Cenaral Lioad, from Aug.§, s up Lo the I4th inst., a8 follow Honth, No. of cars. Aug. 8.. 15 | The total number of cars for 15 wests m 5,803 Such 8 large numbor of cars shippal over a single line in such a short space of tirw speaks volumes for the management of that liga of iransportation. The very bestof accomods tions ace offered at Dotroit and Suspensie; Bridge for unloading and fceding stock, as alg {or the comfort and coavenience of shippers 12d their attendants. Iu brief, tho AMichigan Ces tral and Great Wes:era Roads seem to be faren ite thoroughfares over whick to transport km stock to the seaboard. _ . ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILWAY. This line runs througn the moat densely pogs lated ard tertile portions of Iilinois and Lo, and hence is ons of the most important ros that supplies this market with live-atock It operates two geparate branches, one ruoniogty Stoux City on the Missouri River, and ths othet terminating at the State ling between Iows and Mionesota. ‘The branch line runs, to Tolon, Tllinoig, which is 137 miles south from Chirsgy and is the principal feeding pointin that direc: while Dauvleich, which 18 200 mules west, Forreston, 120 miles west of the city, an the points on tho - main road when stock is unloaded, rested, and fed. This line by justly eared for itself a most envisble reputs tion, as far as the accommodations that 1t &% fords to its live-stock patrons are concerned, and also a8 to the regularity mn tueir ranning time, and tae accommodating manner m which they supply commodious cars to meet the domand, with a view of transporting live freight without injuring it, while esvecial care is taken by tbs Company and its employes to deliver the stock at the stock-yards early esch mormicg, so that it can” be pliced umpon the market early on the day of its arrival, thereby saving the owner the unnecessiry expense of feed bills. The Company also provides comfori- ablo and conveuient cars fcr the use of drovers sud their employes, £nd rhippers wbo patroniza it expiess toemselves, without scarcely a siogle excoption, as entirely sshsfied with the ratea charged, and accommodations offered. In short, the Illinois Central is & favorite routs to the Bouth and West, snd, a3 ils admir- able faciities for the transporistion of stocle ara unexcelled by any competing live, it i8 receiving a very large share of patronage in that class of freiglus. The general amraoge- ment of the road, 8o far as relaces to 1ta roling stoek, track, and ocher genersl conveniances fat the handling of Liva stock, as well as all olbir freights, are such as to 1nvite trade in its diee- tion, and the official figures of 1ts annual pstre again live stock show an increase durng i past six years beyond that of 20y other rosd @ taring this city. JESSES. CORY & CO. Some months ago brief mention wasmadsdl the probuble estavlishment of another Ea pesn packing-house in this city. ‘Che yumor 1§ now become a fact, Moesrs. Cory & Co., of fi_’ fast, Iroland, having opened & branch establ ment here, which i3 at presen: in fall opersi under the supervision of Messra. David W Moore and Thomas Garrett,‘who are slso me bers of the firm. The house allords mflé‘;: dation for handiing g8 per Messrs. Cory & Co.’s © . pack lmnu;md h::m‘: &m;nl:.‘fi;!?{: :-'rfl{hw market, and to supply the requi S ‘own customers onplpbu other side of the. _lm_n;l- Their ultimae pucceas in their new underl is beyond any doubt. THE DROVERS' JOUBNAL, G, publiched at the yarda by IL. L. Goodsll &£ (0, has becom the recognized authority on all ters pertnining to the Live-atock trade xh_mg out the West. It has attained a very vufii:‘ ol culation, aad is cunstantly extending 8 usofuluess. ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND. e an . Tea! They will eay of me, * Onr friend is dusdl As now I bear them sadly say of her, When Life's electric spark at last is fied, And Reat o'ertakea the wearied traveler. But I will epring, pure and shining fame, Adown tLat many-fluted raintow-arch, To yon bright realm, where sorrow never eAlA And soundleas ages losd their golden Yea! Ishall sit where flru!ug m«m’md. ‘A pearly necklace, round some rosy hill, m'?fu.‘.’ at last, with calm, coutent:d mindy To do my Blessed Master's perfect will. In my own palsate dwelling, built for me Before the world was coined from Cusos X will bebiold th’ anmeaanred moments fes, And lesrn tho hidden wisdom of the Psste To intellectnal haights my soul ahall bound, e null&r-dq?rlu “}ml;li i sweet n:onb“" ought is the pinion that starry I " Love the atiment that cheers the = In lien of this worn vestiture of flesh, A piritual body shall be mine, Cousuming manna daily rendered {resh, Al 78 colestial wine | And quading Jesus Corists colsstll WISl g, S Breaxing Up Bettings B Betting at borse races i being hmk’:‘fl?fl, Paris. Hecently a number of the :eep';” pool and betiing agencies were mmml Gesny fore the tribunals, aud condemued 10 F37 20, fines, The parties sppealed, and it v:; stood that no farther interforence place uutil the appeals wore deeided: B iy ting then recommenced ¢ us £ mgra indnxtrio‘l:!l] tinn “3?;: I £ ay nighe just precedio) 2 mo:::xguye csawded with an -élaudd%\f ] lowed the betting to go o until WIERRIT,,y n 1nvaded the promises and soized ¢ gi‘:c. hat time the rooms have been aud public bettiog is stopped. e L HEPTT XREETOECEANAN FOIRRSMACRREARES B ospoRRRR PRRSBTa SRS Sesnnep FRasena zmn AAEEE NCR N R RED R Ee e THETEC Y CTARFORE A m e B EREESYETSIR AN B