Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 2, 1875, Page 6

THE GRASSHOPPERS. Exaggerated Reports of Destitution fn Kansas, How the Sympathies of {he Credulous Are Abused. Beware of Cronkers. When a great Commouwealth comes beforo the nation ciothed in the garments of mondi- cancy, begging almo without stint at tho hands of the people, it i & right #o stariling and yet Fo pitiablo £a to call for immediate public investiga- tion, with a view of alloviating ns mueh ny possi- blo the distrees of a State so sorcly stricken, Tor the past four months the ery of starvation ins conb out from Kaneas through dho length aud breadth of the land. The number raduced to absolute deatitution has Leen placed as high 8 50,000 ;" tho appenl for nid Lins heen mado in avery city in the nation, accompanied with state- mout which woukl #o to show that {tho fertilo plaine of Kansan woro m danger of becoming ono vasi charnel-ionko ; no grent stretch of tho imagination has beon required to sco skelotous ghistemng in tho suulight on every hill, snd grun death stalking ovor overy plain, Knnsas hag always had a strong hold upon THE AFF TONS OF THE AM 1CAN FEOPLE and La uo one State fn the Union would charity flow in a broader, decper chanmel than to Kauman, Boston ulone, on the 22d of December, Bent o check for 85,500 for tho relief of tho suferexs, Bolieving tho awful reports of dexti- tution to have lind somo fuundation in trath. but to liave hieeu Inrgels exangerated, very mieh o tho datriment of (hat Stato, n TrIvUNE 1e0iter var detailed to interview & gontloman 1ocoutly from there, e to *THE FACTS IN THE CASE. The resnlt i given as foilow Durirg the montls of July and Auzust ramors roached the Fastern part of the State that in the Northwesl an army of prasshoprers 30 mtles wido wan destroying tho crops, Tho - mors proved well founded Tha Imo of march was from tho northwest to tho outhenst, Their apjiearance iu tho air was eilar to o violeut snow-storm, The variety wan tho (rylius Vividissimus; none of thet were uyer vno inch icngth, and it took or- dinarily abont twenty-four hours for them to thotoughly hursest a field of thifiy corn, Tho whent all ovey the Stato had proved an abundant crop, ond wus slready barvested and out of liscul’s Wiy, A OREAT DEAL OF FORN ‘e advance of the huo of murch wag eaved for fodder Ly cuttings aud stoclang it. Tho ouly crops dentioyed swero corn nud Tet. The abovo Etatoaents are givon in order to provo that it could only Lo thoeo who wero dependiog npon a corn erop alono who areZrendered destituto, This class was compesed eutirely of and thexe rettiers, as a rule, were ny West with very Ditlo uney, depending upon vear's erop to put thim nron their fect, Thero seltlery wele locat:d nearly. ultogotber apon lands in the | RY TIRRS OF COUNTIES, viz 1 Je Mitehall, Taneolr Reno. la por, Bacbonr, Prate, Yal Thweseli, Osborne, Sunthy, Fhillips, Rooks, Ttasis, Puwnee, Kiows, Comusnehie, Norzor, baw, 1 rox Tiodgman, Ford, and Cly In 187 untiea bt & populati out tho total population” of tho £ conrse thin number has beeu largels Dnereased by tha steady tide of travel tu that St during the paet four yeors, aad new countiod liave Leen formed wull her west uud koutl, I oilsct this, however, i the fact that hetween 26,000 and L0410 rel- tlefs havo lefe Kauras vines tho grasnhopjor raid, Thoe State, on tho st day of Sepremtur, declared, thiough Gdv. Osborn, her abinty ts TALL CARE OF HER OWN 100K, On the 1st duy of December, howeyer, tho Gov- etnor submitled to the hauwas Ceniral Retler Committee an extimate prepared by Aified Gray, the Seerctary of tho Mate Bomid of Agriculture, declaring o state of destitution fn cxinienco wost of the mxth prineipul menidian, and repre- Bontiug tuo number of destitate to bw 12,08 out of w toinl population or 66,104, 1o twelve of tho counties named tho Givernment biug indieated, its purpose to issue army clotuing, In Ford Gouuty thoe num- ber of ¢ tute wan placed by this estinate at 160, Tho people of thin county recently held s meeling, ans rejected all oiYors of aasistance f1oiu the State, giving tho number of destitute 88 two. Iho State las never mado n general ap- peal for aid, but has authiorized sgents from cer- 1aitl counties to solicit wubkerptions of monoy aud clothiug through the Bustern States, which have been douated with unsparing hand, and car-lond aftor car-lond sent out to the reliet of thiy distrenced people, An ESOLMOUS AMOUNT OF RWINDLING i3 going on under the giieo of chavity, and o sumber of counties luve scceeded in per- suading the nution to operate their poor- houses. Privatn individuals, too, bave festh- ered tholr nests quite eumfortably for the next two or three years. The Kausas Contral Roliof Comuuttee are untiring io their effuits 1o ascer- tain all who are really needy, und promptly for- ward to any county designutod supplios sont in tueir cure, This article 1s written with the intention of doing justico to n Btate which has uo superior, as fur ay climate aud s0il aro concerned, In tuo country, Destitution does eaist, but only to such an extent tuat in ordinary times the Stato it of her abundunce conll wwply provido for Lerown. Intho entito Htato vot over 2,600 vazes of uttor destitution oxist, as tho result of the muswhopper raid. Outeide belp 1 veeded, bug it should be SLNT TUROUGH THE IROPER CHANNELE at Topeka., The entire State will sulfer moro Quring tho next five yeurs from tho vaguo rumors of widespread suffoiing, than from a dozen grasshopper rmds. 'The falr namo sud future Jrosperity of tho Stato are beiug recklosaly ous dangered, sud bor matchlows climate aud superi- orsail in future years will tompt the settler m vam, unlesy this grassbopper phantomn is rowed down to reasousble proportions. dho wholo Btato to-day 18 groen with the grawing wheat, and nover fuher bistory has much s smount of terrtory been resded, o the prospecty bocu bettor for abundunt erops. W. E. Webb, sgeut in thin city for the ealo of the lands of the Atehivon, Topelia & Sauta Fo hno of railway, siaten that within tho lust two weeks he has sold ovor 100,000 actes of Kousas laud to & party of 2,000 Menuonites, who go there with over §300,- 000 in gold, and _anothior yarty nuwberiug over 700 aro now on their way out, Of the two plagues, grasshoppors and croak- ers, croakors wro tho worst. Without thewo [ests, the pluck and nerve which Liave brought anuse once to & prowd position wil, in lews than two yearn, bring to her brighter duya thau sl Laa yei kuown in hor Lustory, i HOW TO RESUME. SPECIE-PAYMENTS. T'e the Fditor af The Chicage Tridune: LEuvKaper, Is, Doe, 25, —There seems to e in tho Eastern Statos, aud 6ven in Cougress, an opinion that the business-men of tho West aro fn favor of inflation of tho currency. Thus opiuton is undoubtedly a mistaken ono. A year a0 or more L madoit 3 rule to talle with overy Dusiness-man I met, gud found most of them in favor of a-ourrency as *‘good, #s gold," aud that {8 undoubtedly the prevailing eentiment to-day in the West among men of business. The advice of the I'resident and Beo- rotary of tho Ireasury, aud (he sction of tho Henato {n passing & Lill for the resumption of specie-paywents, are generally indorsed. A question arlsos, lowever, to what extont the Benats bill will be eficient in securing the result simed at. Tho retiremont of the frac- tional curreucy, and fssuing silver to replaco it, 18 certainly a step towards efectiug thoresult, It would seets, howover, thut iu order to buve gold a5 weil ay wilver aciually i circulution, that the curreucy would huve to be*ivduced i vole wwme to u cousiderable extent. If it be true, s Bevator Thurmau 18, that the iucrease of Natiousl Uank-uotes utder tha tree-bauking cluuse, will not exceed $10,000,000 iu tho uest four years, then the ourrouey will remain in vol- ume the saue as now substuntially, and it scems improbable wiat it can ap;teciate to par iu guld witbu thut time. All oxperience goes to show Shat & poures curtency will ulwavs exclude s moro valusbleove. Sitver snd fractionslcurrency donot both circulate, Lecauve silver 18 worth the most, aud silver canuot cirendate unul the fractionsl wurrency is retired or de of eyual valuo, Audso mith gold. While our paper curtoncy Is Foduud- lnhguld will novor circulata ss money. 1t seems to the writer that, if the Coverument intends peally to recurae specie-paymonty Jan. 1, 1679, it ust deviso other meana fuan those ocuntained :ms.mw bill. 1f that is 1o be taken caly aa a pledgo ta logisiata horeafter, 8o s to redoom thiat plodgo and secura specio-pagmonts, wo have naight to ask whothor (¢ will bo, after this acs- rion, o the power of Cougress to rodecra its ptedge. 'The noxt Honsa of Joprescutatives will contain & Democratic majority, and it is not probable they will consent to rodecm any pledges mnde by this Congreen, So Congrees st wait {wn voars, cortaiuly, befors ic can logislate to fulttilita pledgo. Tt now has that power. Itis kearcoly (ho part of etatesmanahip to promiso to o a thing at a certain timo without taking the wteps (o do what it promincs. 1t takes ona stop, and & wirn ono by retiiing the_ fractional enr- rency and subsiituting silver. Why don't it do KOO MOre #lepping, RO AR to bo mure to pecuro epecic-payments Jan, 1. 18792 Why dow't it provide by law for retiring all uotes, both greenbacka and National Bank-notes, undor 810, o that gold and silver both may eir- culate, This might bo done gradually. " Tho President lins 1ecommonded thix, It “is well that tho swailost Bank of Xingland nota equivalent {0 $25, and gold and ilvor uro 1 all srall transactions away from businers centres, 1€ Congross will provido for the retiro- ment and destruction of all notea under 210 within a resonnblo time, it is not unlikoly that Loth the Government and the banks muy bo abio to restumo by the time fixed. 1L does not secm that Congress has yot provided any ade- «quata meana to secure actual kpecie-payment, and wo {hink it tho pait of honest men and of an honeat party to take stops Lo fulfill promisce, or ol ot to make them. Tha cnrreucy miust To reduced in volume to securo pecie-pagments, i fact. and Coneress should legelata to this ond st this sexsion, whilo the Republicans have a majonty in both Tousos. W 77777 —— i TIHE FARM AND GARDEN. I the Piney Woods in South Missis- sippi-Clover and Grasses—finy and Pasturnge—Vegetables About Ja: NOB=TWO Cropy & Year—Gardening in Winter—Rust=Proofl Onts. From Our Agricultural Correspondent,, McCoun Crty, Miss., Dee. 2L, —Thin point is 105 miles north of New Orleans, and 808 milea south of Chicago, aud in the pinoy woods region, —a region of yellow pino hat stiotches from Toxns to the Atlantic coast. With pine-landa ono ie apt to askociato a sandy, Father barron soif for farming. But that is not so of this eocction, asthe soil is rich clay of casy culture, aud adapted to a great variety of staplo erops, AsI intend to spend somo weeks fn this State aud Lanisians, 1 xhiall endeavarto give s trao acconnt of things connected with tho farm-management, the soil, and climate, that moy interest the roaders of Tue TuinuNe. On a closo inspeetion of THE ROIL, no ono wonld euppose that it wonld be poseible to exhaust its ferlility; and yet Ihave been shown many fields that havo ceased Lo bo profit- able for tho culturo of cotton. Butto mo ting is no objection to the county, and no real draw- back to the value of the country. Twenty years ago wo lemrd the samo story In regard to the wheat-lauds of Southern Illiuois, but & elight chango in tho made of culture soon dispolied tho fallacy ; and, even on the rich prairie of Ceutral Thiinois, it i not an uncommon thing to soe & farmer lock up the fertility of his soil by plow- ing wheu tho eoil is too wet. The planter of Mississippi bas tho same power over his soil to lock up its fertility for o time, and yot ko may uot know bow to unlock it. Tt requires no etretch of tho imagination to gee how the old planters rolled in wealth, and Low the changed condition lave paralyzed thoir efforts. In all directions there is a lack of of- fort to recover, to pick up the fragments, to ac- copt tho new cuudition of things, and to rebuild thoe luet fortunes, Thad this is not dono is no fault of tho soil, the climate, or the demands of commorco, ‘Tho average prodice of an scrs of cotton sells to-day for $60; and, while clover, orchard-grass, tormuda grass, and red top, may Do eneily grown for forage, Lay ie worth $45 per ton, cornis #1,95 per busbel, oats §1, potatoes and turnips &2 to $2.50 per, busbel, buttor 50 to €0 cents, and milk amost out of the question. ‘The soil hero will produ-e all these things, and ot people purchaao at thess figures, or do with- out thom, It might be asked why such a state of togs oxist, 3y reply ls, that there is NOTINNG STHANGE IN ALL THIS: for I ramomber that, not long ngo, farmers of “Northoru lilmois were making the mquiry if clover conld bo grown, if timothy would stand tho winter, and if_applos and other fruits could be grown. And, when I movedduto Ceutral LLi- pom, I was surprised that the farmers tid nol row potatoes for s staple srtwle of dict, but fived mwainly ou homivy, corn-brend, Lucon, washed down with silroug coffeo, and all well dis- solved in whisky Letween meals. I recollact of vimting a farmor who had & fiue stock of Short- Horuoa that ho was proud to show at the BState and County Fairs. Some of tha cows bad cost hum over &500 each, and one of the malo animals a cool thousand. After showing me all these fine nufinals, including & large number of cows with fine calves ot thor sides, wo pat dowo to a dinnor of corn-bread, friod ba- con, strong colfes, sud au extra dih of spplo-rauco mado 'of dry apples; no but- tor or milk, polatoes, ,or gardeu-vegotables of any kind, That sort of living smong the stock-mon of Coniral Ilinols wea quite com- mon, or_ratler tho rule ; but a few short yeara iave sufliced to ehange all thak, anduo farmer of thiat part of tho Btata but what bay bis supply of potatoos xnd vegctables, sod tho bacon and hominy hold s Jexs conspicuous position ou_tha tuble, * Then stock-growiug held tho firat posi- tion, and littlo olse Liad attention, Hut, to-day, ciieeso, butter, fruit, tho small grains, and veg- etablos, huve due prominence, aud, with = reater \'nms‘ of food, tho J;enoml liealth hoa wen enlianced, and ague and fover, befors 5o cowmion, avo almost disappeared. If thoso changes hnye beew o recout su Coutral Illinois, wa certainly should Lhave . IOPKK OF A CHHANGE FOR TIE BETTER in this State, where the oue stuple, votton, has Leen the arbiter of the farmer's profits and of Lis mode of living, For tho past five years, jSonthern economista Tiavo boeu presching less cotton and tmoro of corn and other products. * Ihey need not preach lewy cotton, for that is the great stapls, around which all ofher thiug clustor; aud, by tho Rrowing of moro grass, woro tori, oats, “pota- toen, and yegotables, greater thoir ability to grow moro cotton, Crass makes horses, cattle, will, aud butter ; and, ag the samo time, thoro animals supply plent-food for the cotton aud othor crogs; and it1s easy Lo eeo that in the growlng of all thioss crops, the cotton-crop is in- cronsed in volume, I ehall Lave occasion ta ro- for to this subjoct as 1 proceed in its juvostiga- tiou, ‘T'neso pine-1ands ave supposed to be lesa rich than the hard-wood lands and the river-bottoms, aud yet they (ROW IMMENAE CROPS when dressed with cotton-soed or manure, and produce cotton, sugar, rice, and all other crops of tho latitudo. lu tho soil thero iy & lack of Limo, of potssh and sulphur. The lime cun be wupplied from tho bods of marl or banks of shells; and clover, and no doubt other grasses, will be largely bouatited by plastar, 'ITie Mayor of thin city, Col. Hillyard, han shown mo a larga collection of letters from planters in regard to the products of the country, Theno were in re- ply to tabulated questions sent out for the pure poxe of drawiug oat tho tiue wtate of facts, Clover wown at the close of summer, and having tho advautage of the wot weason, doos remark- ably well, and, when treated with plaster, & par- ticularly lnxoriant,—in somo cases cutting 3 or4 tons to the acreduriug tho seasun. —On wh of tho DeSoto Houso fu a patch of rod clover, sown last May, that is doing very finely. In addition to this forage-plant, thore Is THE BEUSUDA 01tASH, which s to this country what the blue graes {s to the Nottl,—a reliable pustursge-gruns, that no drought or tramping will kill. 1¢ Linw boen held In great droad by tho cotton-planters, for the persistency with which it overruus cultivatod lields ; yob this is ono of ite groatest virtues, as intho samo characteristio ju the blue_grass, Whilo the clover will supply torage, the Bormu- da grasw is reliallo sourea of pasturago ; and yot tho planters now fight this graus as ono- wuy, iuktead of muking it wolcomo ua u friend,: Yesterduy 1 took & walk into the pincforcet. Tho troes aro snldom more than 2 feot iu disme- ter, but tall aud straight, with comparativoly lit- the fulil{o; aod the ground ia not so fully shaded but that tufts of nalivoe giass grow to wory or less extont, {4 is & common practice to BULN OVENL THE BUNFACE ANNUALLY, to prevent this hoavy wulch of plue-straw, ag the wpikes of this loug-leaved pino svo caliod, fiom coveriwg thin grass. This makes a rick {feod for slicep, but is 1stber a sparsa pasturage tur cows, Ou the wholo, it Lss httle value as cowmpuared to a fiuud pasture of clover aud L wmuda grass ; aud thou, to obtalu this jndiffer- out pasturege, thoro wust be sn immeuse out- lay for feuciny, i order Lo fence ju gli the grain sud other crops, aud to fence out the stool ‘Chis sunual burniug of this pine-tract destroys much valusble tunber, that will be required for farm-use sud for market, This ploo-timber ia THE CIIICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1875. nhow worth $10 e 3. Wo have bnt to recall the waato of forest-timber Lhat the ploncers of THimom put into their fences, and that has long slico diaspposred. Tha bost oak, ash, tulip, black- walnut, aud other timbor, wore rnthicssly spht into rails and made info worm fonees to keep cattlo from Lho grain, whore a tenth part of it would have feneed tho pasturos, Pine-stumps are slow to decay, but theas are #0 full of pitels that thoy ara burned out cotire, nnd thus tho land s roadily cleared ; and, a8 thero are no stones in tha way, A in Now York nnd ather Btates, tho steol plow has an unim- peded cotran, Jacksoy, Mich., Dec. 22,—At the invitation of some friends, I havo to-day vialted wovoral gar- dens in_aud " about tha city, as well s spoit & couplo of hours in the AROUNDS OF THE INSANE ASVLUM. The gardoner, Mr, Allen, had planted hiw Irish Dotatoes somo two weoks ago. In the garden were Iargo supplics of tho winter onion (shal- lots), tho purple-top, strap-lear turnip, ruta- bagag, and cabbage, for the Institution. Tho Jong autumn diought had been vory telling on tho crops of vegetatles, and yot thos wero all ood, and the strap-lonf me‘. Mokt suporh, Tho ground has bad liberal sapphies of manure, without hiel o good segetablen e bo groon, and, n addition, had had & dressing of Cincago raw-bono enporphosphate, which wavory highly commeuded, esneetally for eabbage and tometoes, Tha penr-trees i theso groumds look hLealthy, and lavo produced good avnual crops; and, from what 1 can learn, this fruit-treo 8 Loth healthy aod groductivo, aud wo may, in futuro, look in this dircction for nauY]\ly of early pears, Onts are sown tn November, or, in fact, all winter; and this crop is cut and harvosted, and followed with colton or peas, Mr. Musgrove «howed me, on his grounds, red clover, Bermnda grass, whita clover, timothy, and_ orchinrd-grazs, all looking well. ITo has found no troudlo in growing vegetablea at a Iargo profit, and follows with cotton, The difforence betwoen orlinary management and INTELLIOENT CULTURR is the diTorenco botween aquarter of & bale, and o balo amd a quarter, per acre of cotton, A picco of land that hind produced 50 bushels of oats por acro, nown i’ November sud ent in Apnil, ot also produced ovor & kalo of cotton per aero; bt this land had boeu manured. The barn of Mr. ML was filled with clover, bay, and osts, of his own growing; and tho hay was solling at §45 per ton to tuoee who kuew that clover wonld not 70w in tho State of Mbswissippi. And vot here ia the evidouco that rod aud whits clover wil grow as freely a8 in Liliuos, In tho couren of the day I met many plautors and gentlemon from all parts of tho State; and, while they admitted the fact that Bermuda grass mads a rioh pasturage for eight months of the year, aud that rye and oats would supply tho other four months of winter, yot they had neglected to avail themselvos of nll this, and depended on tha precarious pasturage of tho woods and commons. If a law could be passed preventing cattle from running at large, tho planters would soon provide pasturago aud forago for tho eutire home-rupply. One plantor told mo that he now paid £500 Lmr month for hay and corn,—the lormercoatlgfiz im 47 per tou and that hio was now sntisflod thiat b could grow his ownr hay. Both millet and Hungariau prass grow with groat vigor, and, when cat beforo tho sced is formed, is a most excellent hay, and has 10 bad effect ou tho health of aaimate; but the soed must 1ot bo permitted to ripen, as then it acts ns o diartic, and fs unsuited to Loruos, though youuy cattlo aro leas injured by it, e1a they have A NEW OAT, called the red or rust-puff oats. It Lasa very conrye Atraw and a hard hull; but, whou cutn iittlo greon, wakos a good fodder. It is usually cut aud fod in that way, ‘Ihio gardeners are.now ‘busy with planting. Some of them havo spinnoh 4 or 3 iuches higl, aud aro making bods for the transplanting of jettuce fu the open ground. Most of thomjuave plautod thoir oarly potatoes, and, in a few days, will put 1 the firat planting of wweet coru fur tho Northeru market. The same remark may bo mede iu tegard to cutly poms; but susp-boans must be delayodwoms weeks, At tho Asyluwm I saw not loss than a THUUSAND BUSHELS OF SWEET,POTATOES in most oxcollent order. The potaives wero placed in & rick about 5 feot wido aud 4 high, conv-shaped; on this is o covering of corn atalks stauding up, uud over tho sides 3 or 4 incles of soil, leaving the top of tha cone pro- tected by the stalks only. Over this, ou tho uorth side, i8 » roof of Loards, sheltering tha pit from rain, aod allowiug the sunshiuo to reach it. Thia is all tho proteotion that the sweot potato roquires in this climate. Bunar. —————— SONG FROM A DRAMA, 1 Xnow not if moonlight or starlight He s0ft on the land and the sga,— Teateh but the uoar light, the fur light, Of eyos thiat are burning for m The scont o tho night, uf the ro Afay burden tho sir for ther, Swes "I only tha breath of thy sighing Tknaw, au X lin ab thy fect, 'The winds msy be sobbing or alnglog, Thelr tuuch may ba ferveut or cold, The night-bells ey toll o ba nn?‘nl.‘- 1 care not, with thee in my hold The feast may go on, and {bis musia o scattersd in ecatasy round,— Thy whisper, 41 love thsel T love thes " utls tooded my soul with ita sound, 1 think not of time that is fiytag, Tow ahort i tho hour I kavg won, How near ia tuis living to dying, flow the sliadow still folowa thoe sus There {n uaught upon eseth, uo desirs, Worth & thought, though t were lal by » sign! lovethes] Iioveiheo! Bring uigher Ty spist, Ly kisses, to mio | C. Steimanin Scribner for Juntary, Nevado's Grent Cave. From the innemucca Silver Stata, The entrance to the cavarn is located abont § miles northeast from Star City, aud sbout 2,000 feer higher than the town,in tho Humbolds Rungo, 8 miles from the Cootral Pacific Naile road, 'It hes been known to the Indians por- haps for ages, and they eay that many yoars ago it afforded s passage tiirough the mountain to s puint opposito, whora the Humboldt ilonso tow stauds. A Pluto logend eayw thst it has beon (Lio Liome of the ovil spirit for many genarations, and the bravest warrior of the tribo will not ven- ture near its mouth for any purposo wuatover. They #ay that beforo the whites came among them thoy put bad Indians in tho cave to ap- rnm the wrath and hunger of tho spirlt that nbabita it. The last Indian put in thoro was ot aa bad a8 ropresented, aud was faided to tho openiog on the other sida by the spirit. Thocave waa partislly explored in 1863 by Capt, Proscott, James A, Bauks, who waa einco killed by the In- dlana near Camp Beott, and A, J. Simmons, now an Indian agent in Moutana Territory, Bowo timo ago o party of four, of which your corre~ spoudent was oue, procecded tosxplore the cave. Wo had heard a great deal about it, and were anxious to seo a little of it ourselves. Ou arriv- ing at the piace we discoversd to our surprise that the entrance waa 15 foet above tbe ground- rock on which we stood. The rock rises almost perpendicularly 150 feet above the mouth, and for goveral buudred foct on each alds, Having been provided with ropes one was thrawn overa Ilulm. of rook which projected over sha mouth of Lie cavern, by means of which the eutranca was guned, Lighting our pitch-pine torches we pro- ceeded cautiously in swglo filo about 100 foot in what appoared liko a large min- ing tuonol. The celling from 10 to 16 feet high in thls distance, atter which it narrowed down to a erack just large enough to get- through. Huddenly wo came to o squara {ump—ofl or perpondicnlar drop of 40 foot. Ayain ho rope was brought into roquisition, and by meuus of it the bottom was reached. Immediate- ly under the rosd wo Lsd traversed wo (found Inrge oimnbers, tho largost of which I should judge to bo 40 fect square and GO foot high, tho ontrance to which was scarcely large enough to crawl through, lHoto in this chamber wo no- ticod & veritication of the adage that ** Uonstant dropping will wear sway stone, In weveral placen drdps of water from the ceiling, which coutinuaily fell in ono place, thore boiig no alr current to chungo their course, had worn holes 1u tho solid fliuty floor from 5 to 7 luches deep, Wo oxplored the cavo to adistauce of a mile from tho entran ud our lights burning well showsd tuat tho cavern iy woll ventilated, Wa did not flud & passsgo throngl, though we traveled for thiree hours and a bulf by the watch, aud arrived at tho eutrance very much fatigued, St Katic King, 8, in wpite of tho complete ex- posure of theic_spiritualistio tricks, seom de- tormined ot to give up thoir profitable businoss, sud have procured thie publication iu a Phila- deiphia paper of & Jong letter, the writer of which declares * that upon tLe night of the Gth iust,, dospite Mr, Owon and Dr. Cuild, the resl Kutio Kiug omme from tho wplrit world and assumed bodily form_in his predence ; that he saw ‘the besutiful and distivotly visible face of & youug girl at ous of the ooulugs of the cubiuet sud that the apparition spake in 'a distiuctly audible whisper.' ''he Fhiladelphis Bulletin, bowever, declares that threo nights after this alloged matorializstion * au editor of that paper attended oue of the seances at whiot & face appearad at one of the opeuings of the cabinet aud was pronounced b; Holmes to be ' the face of & besuuful gir The editor, in wpite of the dun Lght, Lad no difiiculty, by furtively weing an opera-glass, 1 discoverivg that the beautiful face was only an ugly India- subber mask, 0 MONEY AND COMMERGCE. FINANCIAL, Tusiness was suspended throughout the city yesterday, in obsorvance of Now-Yoar's Day, Wo recapitulato tho fenturea of tho situation at the closo of businers Thuraday afternoon, Exchange was woaker, and rold at par to 250 premium botwoen banks for 1,000, Tho cloarings woro $3,000,000, Tho demand for money wad small. Rates of discount un~ ehangod At 10 per cont to regular customors, with concessions to indepondont borrawera with good cotlaterals, Streot rates, 8@18 per cout ; real eatato loans, 8@10 por cont. Tho Iirat National Hank bas doclarod a divi- dend of & por cont, payatle Jan. 1. The Third Natioual Bank las declsred s divi- dond of & per cent, payable Jan, 4. BPECIE-PAYAIENTR, Wo take pleasure in mintiug tha following communication concornivg tho resumption of specio-paymont. It will bo undorstood, how- evor, that the responsibility for the features of this echemo rests with the writor, Mr, I, Os- terburg, of Frankfurt, O, M., whots now in this cits. Mr, Osterburg 1o tho oditor of tho Ger- man Feonomist, s weekly economio paper pub. lihied {n Frankfurt. Ho i & closs studont of American flnances, and his contribotion to the solution of the conundrum of the day will bo roadt with interoas ¢ Hon. K. . Spbuner, United States Treasurer, Washington, Cincago, 1N, Dec, 22, 1874,—Your favor of 16th inat,,with copica of ofl “af docuinanta, is duly at band, for Which pleaso acccpt my best thanks, The siatia: tcs furnisied by your rojort and by the ono of the Bucretary of Treaaury are uf very great value and cane not be too highly approciated, Tiggarding the question of specis-payments,it is very gratilytug that st last the majority of the Americai peoplo buva come to tha wnderstauding that it oughit 10 bo accomplistied, But {t 18 very unfortunate that the queation of Jow it suall or can be done " hat atirred up so many difforent views that we are to-day Just as fur from it as over, The eutire mlsioritne rests Just in ons polnt, name. Iy, Uist we mi politcs with Suaiica: If uch wera ok the canc, a practical people as the Americans are would ot Lo 1ong in Suding out the proper way of earrylng out ancasura which, for every day of delay, will stanud aa o bisck apot in thetr country's hintary, 1€ Congruns does not entuct soma vositive law about 1t during this senston, and Joaves it 30 open question duting the next restienual compuiyn, the credit of Aworican seurities will bu grestly fmpaired in Eu- rope, and you will fiud many wilions of bouds come aver hiers from Europe for which gold will Bave to be rewitted, “Uho Idos seems lods prevalent now that Congress should fix a day when “apedlo-payment shall bo fo- sunied, To paxs such a lew without passiug in the same tino tho projer logislation * huw ta da 1t can bo of 10 practical reault whatever, \What guarantea ia there that the Treavury will be 1u a condition to CArTY ant that law ‘whon the Lme comes? 1f Congress pasves s law that specic-paymont ehad be 1esumed, say July 1, 181, it morely puls the whole question” o for ' tuat lengih of time, It given tho goll speculators the certainty that nolling viill bo dunsbegere July, 1870, to disturD thelr gawmb- liug, Thoy ean go Into largo’ operations with perfect anioty, knowing that Congreos will not interfere for eighteen months, The passugo of such & law would raine the prive of gald Immodiately, and if, at the same time, the Booretary of the Treamury shiould bs prolibit- ed from continuiug his monthly gold salea iu order to sccumulate Sgold, yon will sco o cousidorable rise within a very ubort Hme, and we will havo the old titne of lurgo Huctustions ugain, demoraliziug tho entire buritices of the coundry, “ Never pub off for " to-morrow what you can do toxday,” I un old German proverb, Why can't wg reuuinio apecie-paymenta lu three months just us well 35 in ove, two, or threo yeara? Do wo tiwed years to epare fur it 7 Amstrin ban propared for 1t coveral Uuiex, but never accomplishied it, nd alwiya lost more than she gained, We aro uow doiug our utinost to fall 1uto the samo tnistakes, Ta resume specio-payment wo must bavs spects, wa muul hold mote rpeoie thun we now Lold, and miore than wo will be able to relain from that 'which our miucs furaish, a long us_gold is merchaudise hera and paper * legal-tauder,” Tho anly way to got epeclo, tehencver we want (o resumo rpeciepayment, in, by In porting it from auy country whero we cun Ot 1L, ¥rauce solving far ua the problem 7 e can ouly pet spccio Uy {sauing a forelgn loan, 1f we negotis day w4 per ceut loan of £10,000,000 sterliug, interest and capital payuble in London, there s not the leant doubt but tiat the same can be placed at par. 1f Con- fieus, then, mersly authorizes tho Kocratary of the 'reanury 0 resume specit-payment s soon as holda %3 per cent gold 1o the xmount of greenb: snd fractional “currency in circulation, he will ba able (o resumo ln less than thros months. Although the Legal-Tender net is to bo repealod, which stiould be done to taka effect say within thirty days AFTER resumption of spocio-payment, yob our greenbacks can_remain fn_circulation, and 'they wiil thon be worth a8 much, and in some instances evon more, than gold, the Aema 18 & Lank of Lngland uoto comnmands & premiutm on the Continent, sltuough those notes are nut legal tender, hilothe Isw makei it tho dity of the Secrotary to Xeep not less tuan 25 por cant on Laud, he should really bold 30 per cent, in order to ba able v meet auy domand that may come 0 bim ; but whenever Ls holiy more than 40 per cent, he sbould only pay out gold, evon it a party prefers greenbacks, Tt miglit be said, fu opposition to this plan, that the withdruwing, or even tho atlempt to withdraw, £20,- 000,000 from the Engiish market, would dorange busi~ ness thiere and hera, would raiee the bank-ratd in En- gland to 10 per cent, or higher, sud_would make tho uegotiation uf the loan {mpossiblo, That is vory srue, provided we would agres to ship thal money _over lhore ab once; put we do not want o, "draw this money ' from Englaol; it reats Just s’ safo in the vaults of the Bank of Eu: gland or Notbsehiids as in the Government vaulla in Wall street, All wo need is to Luve It somewbero st the dinposal of the Government, from -where it can bo drawn, if tho hoiders of grealbacks need gold for some hurpous in waioh they canuckor will not use piver money. The, yold vin retaain by Eugland, o drawn in’ cartalfy awounts when wanted, aud at cortain [ntervals, and by leating 1 that way'wo Wil even get eoma Interest allowed,a0 tliat 1t reslly costa us but_very littie to pay the interest on the .£20,000,0. Another great benefit would bo tuat, very shiorily after Iwmption, of speciepuynient, this “Englist loun would staud 4 or B poz cat above par, sud wonkd oo- abla na to plsos ady por eent loan, intercat aud capital payable in Amorica, st par. Such & loan could thea be fsaned b redeom the outstanding 8 por cent bouds, snd, §f found practicable, to withdraw and cancol'soma'of the outatanding curroucy, CIIICAQO OOLD-MARKET. " H. J. Christopls & Co., bankers, 75 South Clark atreet, quots gold: 10 o'clock, 1113/@ 12; 11 o'lock, M1} @1I23¢; 12 olclock, 11136@112}4; 1 o'clock, 112@112%; 2 o'olock, 12@118¢ ; 3 o'clock, 11245@1123%. IMPORTS FROM ENULAND, From the Boston Aduertter, Tt wonid be difMicult to exhibit in a more strik- ing manuor the recont decline In the imports of goods from Ureat Britain iban by the following 1ablo compiled from the Dritish Board of Trato returnd, ‘The period coverod is eleven months of the prosent aud of three preceding yoams, The returny “’L,mu the exports to the United Kiates from the Lotal oxports In only tho leading articles of merchandiee. Home now attivles iave been addod to the kst withiu two years, but we bave taken ouly those whore tho quantity or value for all' four years could bo nscertalnod. Of the twenty-slght itoms there was on incresse In 1874 na compared with 1871 in only sevon. Even in these itoins the in- creaso was very inconeiderable as compared with the doorease in otbers. 'The most remarkabla showing of all is that mado by iron, There are some otlier classes of iron than shose reported, the exports of which to this country emn- not bo kmown; but taking those, which aro all reported for the four years, we find the exports’in 1871 to huve Leen™ 778,266 tonng in 1874 thoy were 763,416 tonn ; in 1878 they de- clined by moro than 60 per cent, to 467,137 tous ; and in 1874 thorehoa boen another drop'to 176,541 tons. The resuls of tho four years movoment s that the oxports of iron and stoel in 1874 are less thau 28 per cont of the corresponding exports of I#71. A large part of the dochue is nudoubtodly to benttributed to tho depression in busiuess in_this country, but thers is also muoh to ba sscribed to our larger dependence o home-made gaods. The table needs no explana- tion except in oue particnlar. Vo kave space wo romark that uumnl;unminns of cotton, linen, woolen, snd worsted goods, and of carpets, are thousauds of yards. Thus, the export of colton piece gooda iu 1871 was 141,807,000 yards, Othe erwise the measure, whon not stated, is. the #amo aa for the preceding item, the quantity of lead boing in tons, as is the quantity of all kindu of irou aud steal. KXFORTS YROM GREAT BRITAIN TO TIIX UKITED STATEY IN ELEVEN MONTUS OF TUK UNDRUMENTIONED YEAu, - Quantities, ———, Artictes, [T Fuia 7y 101,004 8 43,95 , R pppel oz Colton W2 Tran, ply, Trau, bur! ete, 1000 Iron, ruilroad;. 1ran, hoop, efc, Trun, cast, ete, Trou, stecl, raw. 94,443 3 28,001 7,800 5,678 101,472 141,376 8 R0 118,703 R neR) AT Stationery, ot pap OL281 96,640 COMMERCIAL, Business was susponded in nearly all branches adv yestorday, in honor of the first day of of A fow operators gatherod In the lowar hall of tho Board of Tradd Building in tho morning, but, except a fow tradea in whoat, notling was done, aud tho hinll was desortad at 12, ‘Tho trading in wheat was ohiefly In the Fob- runry optlon,” Bovoral partie had _orders Lo fill, and a considerablo quantity of soller Fobruary rold at 913 @dde, chiotly at tho onteide figuro. Sollor Janary nold early nt 903 e, Cornwas very quiot,—acarcely mentioned, in fact. Tt was understood that somo of the par- tion who failed to make shoir deliveries Fluirs- day afternoon’ to_tha_corner, eettled yesterday morning at 85¢. Pogaibly thero are @ fow who have not yot come to tita, Oatn wern guiet ; cash was quoted at 523e, and & fow of yesterdas'a deals settied at flint figuro. Homo pmties approhend that largo do- liverses will bo ado to-day. Ryo wan nominal at 98@% for No. 2, and €100 for No. 1. Barley was inactive, Thursday's closing quo- {ntions Wworo §1.21 cash orJanuary, aud February ab S1L2514@1.26, Trovisiuns wero roportod innetive and nominal, Following wora tho closivg prices of the previons duy ¢ Mosn pork, casl or January, $18.80@18,85; do, reller Febrnary,$10.133¢@10.16 3 %19.40wollor March ; and $10.76 wollor April, Lard at 213,10 carls or Januarys BI3.30@13.35 soller Februnry 5 and 81L50@13.5215 meller March, Shoulders, O @0go; fong clear do, D150 : ahort ribs S@biio; short clear do, Y140 ; and 9%@10¢ s, ——— THE LIVE-STOCK MARKETS. During the forencon thers win falr sctivity In the difterent deparments of the lve-stock market, and yricen wero i all around. The recoipte of cattle atnounted to only 743 hieai, most of which wero picked up early in the day, 1logs to tho number of 8,011 wore received, Tho bulk of them were tnken at $0.30 @T.00 for common to chofce. Bhicep wers steudy at 00@5,50 for poor to prime nnalities, The rereipts 1o 543 ead, Blipments wore aa followa : Cattl, s, n The Ate "o War. Tho war which the Duteh recontly waged against the Bultan of Atchin wosan exponsive one for & amall nation to sustain, - I'ho expenses 1 of tha two expeditions aro given in the finaucial statement recently Iaid Lofore tho Duteh Cham- bers a8 reaching nearly £12,000,000, but of this sum it is stated that over 21,500,000 would in any casa hiava bean spont on tho army and navy during the poriod of tho strugglo, g0 that thio extraoxpenwes of the two expeditions wero somothing over $10,000,000. 'This sum, how- over, will not sertously affect therevonues of the Dutch Esst Indies for the two years over which it 1u distributed, and which Iolland may bo ox- cused for belloving to bo nota vory high price to pay for tho soveraignty acquired ovor Sumatrn, cousidering what Java haa become in_her hands. A graver mattor, many Dutchmon think, 1s the loss of lifc iucurred, amounting to 2,012 In the second expedition, of whom over GO0 aro ro- turned as victims of cholera, The check sus- tained by the firsb oxpedition cost, it apposra, only reven soldiors actually slatn, but moro than ten times that numbor woro wonnded in the nt- tack which the Atchineso repulse e NEW PUBLICATIONS. " Every Satorday ” merged fn The Living Ase. Drof. Max 3 yidudl, on. W bike of Prociors J. 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Mary Hi wn or Mackenzio, or, if dead, her ehtldren, are roquired to olaiin t beuaat and W ¥ rlghs thoreio within 1 tha 173, e dat of IR said David 1uat if sbio or they fail ta da so, Ry Iuk'l‘!r-d W llmd' }l;lllllfl Lo Loetons, s dlrversd o w0d mttiurswt Afl‘:?»dlm-. et b addre-scd to £ VMAIIDIMI Huuae, noc] EDUGATIONAL, RURA % 1631, Atyall Mamily Hebcol 454 asonlisdt howe tac bove, Rov,J. ¥, BAO] !ui»m A, e o "'{' N }'.34‘.'5' e Buelet R et IAUSEMENTR {00 oo STAR LEOTURE COURSE, (l".\ll\u: l_lALh.l Only apposrance this Keason of FRED. DOUGLASS Tho Rlaanant Orator, TURNDAY NEXT, JAN. T o Wil Rl ver et Srndy e 0% “TOXHIN BROW IN.”? Teomanneed to bn the groatest eltart of his lfo. BALE QF TICKKTS begine THIS MORNING ot atison. MeClueg & Gotn, HT Btato: st =Oniian ek i peckngia'of 10, BUOd tor &ty - Ntar " onineiae- T walar mt 93 ' fackago. © Carnenter & Nhepio BURLINGTON OPERA-HOUSE. | Curnerof Stato and Sixteonthats, HUNDREDS TURNED AWAY, GREAT EXCITEMENT ! THE TALX OF THE TOWN. Original Parisienne Can-Can Tronpe BVmRY NIGET. HOOLEY'S THEATRE, IAPPY NEW YEAR Grand Matines THIS DAY st 3p. m. Ecening Por. forytauceat s, SATURDAY, JAN.3, saual Fam- iy Matinoo at' 2. tr. Kroning, 'st8 v'clook, Bouoicanita Emotlonal Desma, LIED ASTERAY! Cast to tho entlra strongth of the Company, a0z Appiingmen, “Girtumar, ‘atc. hionday 1818, Wate "PIilligs* groat English Drania, LONDON." In ntuf tho scasor " MoVICKER'S THEATRE — o} xI AST INWNWIGELT OF THE BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENT OF BATURDAY MATINEE, TIAMLET. SATURDAY NiGHT, SUYLOCK. k, Uriliant COMEDY WEEK, (0 which Mr, i tho autire Company sppoar. | =T 2 pE—= = GRIAND OPERA HOUSE, « S ? FRED ALdigst: orposto Shiorman Uouse GRAND NI courmo of elaborate broparation, the TRAGROLT AL Provaration, (b W YRAR'S MATINER at 2:50. : Fvery ovaning atB 0. m., Kelly & Levn's transiation of Morvas COMIC OFZER.A, LE PETIT FAUST! MARGUKRITR... ++.THE ONLY LEON. KELLY & LEON'S FAMOUS MINSTRELS 103 bill of vnrivalod_comicalities. HALSTED-ST, OPERA HOUSE, Corer of Halstod and Harrison-sts. AND MATINEN to-daynt 3 a'clock. 7 D o, FLLE D EX iy Words CAN-CAN DANCERS, And MM, RENTZ'S TEMALI? MINSTRELS? With ¢ Varioty C 5 st 1o Y TR G SLefT, Senloe at 8 in Chlongo, | Boutl Bide Stagos and West Division Cars in walting at closo of porforiaance, ACADEMY OF MUSIO, The grestast llving Kmotlonat Actress, CLAR RRIS ! Fur tho last time duriug this engagoment, CAMITIIIS. clogk to-dag, Morday Mius Morris an Alixe, Bunday olght Grand Misical Enlertanmont. 25 conte; rouerved, 50 cents. Machoth noxt L'riux AUADEMY OF MUOSIO. GRAND SUNDAY NIGHT MOSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS, Comimoncing to-morrow evaning., Adwmisslon, 9 oenta| gosarvud, b0 cents. CHIUAGD MUSEUM. The People’s Home IResort Th s ant time of Tiik iV This ovenine, st o of PAUL PRV and 118 LAST Liag, Mondar, Jan. 4, aor dnriog the wask, TH [ 1 i Gt A A A S O Atlande is afternogn, 3:3 Fdiis ot RAILROAD TIME TABLE IRRIVAL AND DEFARTURE OF 'TRALS FXPLAXATION 0F RErERE: enpted, 5 uxceptod riva Nunday at8:00 8, b1, CHIC) i MARKS. —t Satnrd x. Mouday ‘oxcopted, A Tieket 0 bt ix & freovort & uvmdua i & krenbort & Dibraus kib £ MK re AT oo b Milwaukne Kxpross.. A a—Depot carnat of Wollsand Ki 8 Depot corasr of Canal and K¢ glnfllfik‘l CENTRAL & GREAT WESTERY RAILROAY, i [ b Ticenty.eaconat, it corner of Handolphy . Leate, | Arrica, Jacknon Aocomiiodation. . Atluntic xyro Night Eapross, Mornine Kapress, Nigtit Kapress, CHlICAGO & ALTON RAILRDAD. Chfeago, Xanwas City nud Deneer Short Lin ana, Ho., and Chieaan, Snringfield, Allon and &, Louis Throvgh |, ’ epat, Wenl Nide, mear Madison-sty bridge, ie) At Deoty and 131 Handoiph 0 Leave, | (2 Fontel. bington K. Jolint & Dielieht Accomiodation: CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST, PAUL RAILROAD. Lpian Depot, enrner Wadinon_and {5, Ticket Offce, 83 Suuth Clark-st,, opposite Sherman ‘and ut Degol, Arr 45 p. m. Milwaukee, ruses, Y inona, 5t Paul & Minneauolis, through K(irous; also, via Dlilwankes, for Ripoy nl.mx; 5 A onasha rean *9:30 8. m, :00p. Mlimakes, Biadison, BT Chien - alao, Hay & Stevons {91720, Miiwaukeo & La ILLINGIS CENTRAL PAILROAD. Depot, foot af° and Jwol af Ticenty.second Ogice , 121 Rawdolphest,, near Clack, Touls Kxpross ouis Fant Lin 0& New Urloan: 0% Now Orlonus E)rxnflflum. Frarta ubugquo & Dinbugua & Gilniau 'as: 8t Bt CHICAG?, BURLINGTON & QUINCY RAILROAD, Depots, foot af Lali-tt,, indiana-av. and Siztesnih- wnd Ganal und Siateenth-alt, Tiekel Ofces, 63 Clarkar s i ut depote, v Teave, | Areios, Mall and Express Otlawa uid bir Ao, Ottawa & Sircator Pass Aururs Bamooger. .. uror Passongur T e o She ity Bng, ht Bxp, for Omab; Shvonwarth 2p- o tirovo Accommoriatiu “Urare Accommodati TMLix. Sunda.e, tRe Saturds KANKAKEE LINE, From Contral Pepot, ot Litkewot.. anid depot fhot wacindost, Ticket afices 11 Hunatph ot wid ot " | drrive, b Tadisuavalls, Louterilo & Cineia LR Day Expros®.. 8:25p.m. uatl Nieht 1 25 p, mil 76m,m, CINCINNATI AR LINE AND KOKOMO From Pittsburs, Chuctannt ner Clinton and Carrull- Ztandolphat., wid at deror. 7 LINE. i, Lods Katlicay depat, eor: Wrest Side. " Tcket afice, 131 T Leace, Arrice. A0 p. . 7:408. ., " 8:008. 1. [* 7:%0p, m, SUNDAY LEGTURE. ROBERT HERVEY, E;gi:":r;ld-nt of St. Andrew's ROBERT BURNS, Fith rocitations tdom Tam O'Shanter, Cotters’ Saturdsy RAND OPERAIOUBE, Sunde dmission, Tuconts. % Jan. 3, at8p. m, FITTSBURD, CINCINAATI & ST, LOUIS RAILROAD. ket e, T Handty-shr ane ok e e Arrice; Calumby A 2y . Calumbus, Pit B Night Eipress 7408, m, WEST SIDE SKATING RINK, Kashionable crowds, Splendid Tes, Grand Matinoe ‘aday, Musleafterndon and evenlug. Admittance, 2 coata. Lady's soason-tioket, 83; gon- DANOING, Unlon Flall, 18 Clark-st., carner Monros, Grand Sol. 80 evory Saturiay ovoning, Tjcknts, i) conts, euat and elonk rooms Inoludad. Muste by Wotgwaod's i, J. A, WEDGWOUD, Manngsr, —____OCEAN NAVIGATION, National Line of Steamships, NOTICH. * Tnemest woutheriy ruule hae alwass bi ailing o for O e TOWN evepy BATURDAY. i Balling from N, York for London (direct) every fortnight, Cabin pass 479, ourrenoy: steorage, at greatly uced rate torm tlekote st laweat ratod, Drafta tor £1 lIl(} uflw Adl.lSOV West, Adi P, B, B ‘estorn Agent, North ric and” Tandolph-ats, orth rer;;:nef!r;“-‘rm. d Nandaiphats. (opposita new - AMERICAN LINE. REDUCED RATES TO AND FROM LIVERPOOL, QUEI‘;NBTOWN, Andall poluts in Groat Britatn and tha Contlnent. J. UL HLNY, Wostern Agent, 133 Latallos, Corner Hiadison, Gront Wostern Steamship Line, From .N-' York w Bristol (Ingland) dicect. ornwi ‘apt. Btam r, 'fussday, Dec. 21, G Wesiora, Cat, Winduam, Wodnasdayy Jun. 30, Cabin Pasago, # 5; Hteucage, 830, upsion Lskors, ot Prera bk e Shure & M. B, GONADMPTION, WAST! NI INDIGESTION, SAVORY & MOORE'S Pancreatic Bmulsion and Pancreating Ars the most potant Remedial Agonte. Thoy are the digostion uf o Livar ( 1y, Somindios yob known for offuctiag tho U, and proventing nauses, while of they aluo otficlently supply'tie placy of thy ofl whon th stowach cannot tlorata it. Those faots arg uow attestad by the publishod records of Dumarous medical nieg, ez- A:hota frvi whioh acoumpany uauh botile. SAVORY & MOORE, 143 NEW BOND-ST., LONDOUN, W. Bottlos from 24 ta 3, And Jetalt of i Ghomiste fhesghit tho S'stos s Caadar wiio slso aiginly BA A" N00 > Uratod OOUG I LANTEGH, br PiOTOIAL BY RUBS ™ :Pfleé—@ ' ];:'istu"lla; withoat pata. K RILY. 56 Waat Sadisotate Chicagu. Oros huae 2 andidtn 8y, St s AR Coonie kv —FRAOTIONAL CURRENCY, $5.00 Packages FRACTIONAL CURRENCY IN EXOHANGE FOR Bills of Nationel Curvency, TRIBUNE OFFICE, BALTIMORE & OHI0 RAILROAD Taine leave srom Exposition Huilding und depot fool ap Tucenty-secon fflmqflu..wu o s I p; Arrive. Mall, Sandays Excepte Eaprosi Dy, CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC RAILROAD, Desot, corner of ¥ Van Liuren unid Shernianate. ¥eket 79 Grand Tueine Hotel, Therant Arrice, Leuve, NOTICE. o oo B0, e, T3 Hiaving this day sold all ot 1y ints L Do Viglet Copying Abd. 1eur. I Biythe, 219 Olive-at., B¢, Louis, Mo, colabrated Ink will in fubure be addrs 30! Untll furthor notlco, this mw-fifi' bo had of F. 1, ’EVELL, 91 Waslitn, place in’ Clicsgo whero tho genuina aril a sod LBV WINTER RESORTS, "WINTER RESORT. ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL, Ni . P., Uahanas. T.J. PORTER, I’ fetor. For tal mm.m:vy adiross J LINUEIWOOD S COu; 6% Broadway, N 1 prary two weaks, Bteauss SCALES. FAIRBANKS' STANDAKY SCALES OF ALL KixDs, FAIRBANKS, MORSE & 00, 111 & 118 Lake St., Chicugo. e careful !ubuyml)! the Genuine, MEDICAL OARDS. X 0 1 rauk)i chartared by (o Btrato of 1] 2 ols for 1ho oxprows parpuss il wiving thio hixhost treatinont fo sl cascs vatodiseaton. It s well 1Y ool 8t ||1'B o whd oiports 1linn, free, or 10 i ey, Lova, Ladica Fodufelug oiie bacd, i<, call oF . Oftico, 94, m. until 7 p. m. Buudars, 610 DR. BIGELOW. The lungest established and most sacenaful apocialist i the Northwost {8 still located a8 Now. 377 and 919 Sout] Clar] el bu ennwulte n all disnasys of iy o to by fuund in an fhu[ el Debillty, Par- Tial Tuipotency, and Venucoal Corplitnts: tho pctor et etTan. With fhevs ho clatias bia skilh Al Koad for his pamplets. DR, OLIN, 187 Washlngton. Chicagn, longer on Draciice than aup ih this Git7. AN hri Yot wud tha resulis of i i retions in yu " mannatly cured. Ladles icate aftontion, with homs boas clotont soidorica matatained. D he bead uf (e profsalun 'to bl shtiug tumarriagu ste., 0., 10 ovatsy NO CURI! ro ¥ Dr Kean, " 360 BOUTIE CLARIK-ST., CHICAGO, "May b lted, persunally or by wail, free of ghar onall Shroma e torvous divsasas it Ik AR By only phyaicl Lhe city wh "Gt Buure. § 5. . 5 85 MANHOOD IERTONED, A viotim of youthiul impeudunce, docay, uorvoun Qebiliy, gie. Lavisg seied ke will W Lo bis ol orecs o QU BRI e e P