Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 28, 1875, Page 5

‘an mec sevearenn A ‘aie antics oth parties. Some of the fiercest of his ene- miss baye already publicly ackoowledged their Iult, and-others have tacitly acquiesced. The most surprising thing about the various news- paper apologios called forth by the Governor's recont action is, tha: they exhibit no mortifica- tion. Something of the kind would be exceed- ingly becoming in the premises. One of the most trying spelling-matchos any- here on record took place Istely in Bosfon Tho contestanta were on the one side members pf the press, and on the other High-School boys. {he nowspaper company was mostly made up of sompositora and proof-readers, commonly re- ted to be accomplished spellers. Yet the bora wero victorious. At the very last round, proof-reader of the Transcript and 1 echool-boy rere the ovly ones standing. The proof-reader pissed ‘‘conferrable,” spelling it with one r. ——— A country editor in Minois bas improved the spportunity presented in the death of the Hon. Jous Hicmaax, ex-member of Congress from Pennsylvania, to write a touching obituary of Beav Gicewax, confounding, acd so demning, tho two celebrities. To make a member of Con- yrees of the Beau and an impecunious dandy of the Hon. Joux is to destroy two peculiar indi~ ridualities and to eubstitnte in their place an @x- wodingly commonplace character. Mr. AxDREW Jounsor’s fearful denunciation pf stratocracy hss confased and terrified the rural Democracy. They feel as if the com- pinint might be Inrking about almost any bar- room and affecting the price of drinks. Senator Eaton's State-Sovereignty speech is the best campaign-docament the Republicans of Connecticut have been able to find. ‘tame OF DEsCExT is Sex paar in the University of Strasburg. See tpei Wood-Cuts, 12m0,, pp 334, Ne York: D, Appleton & Co. ; ‘There is perbsps nO subject that more inter- esig the edacated classes of our day than the foctrine of Descent. When Darwin propounded the theory anew to the scientific world, it is ob- vious that 00 more could be expected of him than an outline of the splendid bvpothesis which he bad borrowed in the crade form from Lamarck, and bad developed and strengthened, on the basis of natural selection, In suggesting the direction in which to work in solving the mystery of the origin of life, Darwin gave into the bands of his fellow-scientista the task of @emonstrating his theory, of eupplying the vari- oug links in the chain of testimony which it is in the power of no single expert to mass together. Many different observars have willingly undertak- en tho work of testing the evidences of evolution and selection, and from time to time the results accumulated by their labors are presented to the pu Mr. Oscar Schmidt has been one of the stu- ious investigators toiling in the ceuse of De- seent and Darwinism. He has paiiouily gone over the groups of facta already combined in support of the doctrine, and has added one to their number here, and strengthened a weak one thors, according es bis researches gave bim now material. His review of the phenomena of life, and of the arguments by which varions men of science have attempted their interpre- tation, indicates a profound conception of tho subject in all its bearings aud dependencies. Hoe bas done especisl service in showing that tho chaams occurring between tho species of fossil organisms have in many cases beon bridged over by the labors of recent paleontologists. In thousands of cases transitional forms and varie- ties that united, in an uninterrupted serica, one strata with another, have been arbitrarily divided {nto separate species, thereby cresting appar- ent breaks in the derivation where actually none existed. The observations of Waagen, Zittel, Neumayr, Wurtenberger, and others, are cited in proof of the frequant- occurrence of the frequent transition of one fossil epectes into avother. Still, Mr. Schmidt cordially acknowl- edges that the amount of intermediate forms at gresent precisely determined are a vanishing uantity, as compared with the countless mal- titude that must have existed. ‘The most important chapter in Mr. Schmidt's work is that which discusses the origin of man. ‘The doctrine of Descent never included the ridic- ulous assumption that man is derived from the monkey. That absurd conception bas served an excellent purpose by way of a joke, but no one familiar with the theory developed by Darwin has for 8 moment admitted the possibility of the transformation of the highest species of the spe into s human being, in avy past or future age of the world. Man does not stand in the direct line of development from the spe. It iss natural de- duction of Darwinism, that in some remote peri- ‘od of the world the progenitor of man and the agnthropomorphons spe was one snd tho same ; bat, owing to some difference in their primitive conditions, the process of development carried man and the apo into diverging paths which can ‘never approach nearer to each other, but must continue to grow farther and farther apart. The demand for intermediate forms between man aud th@ ape is therefore senseless, but intermodiate forms connecting man and the ape with a com- mon ancestor are regarded by science as quite Likely to be among the discoveries of the future. ‘Mr. Schmidt indorses the theory of Steinthal and Geiger, that “Language created reason; before language, man was irrational,” and re~ marks: ‘It need only be indicated that, 28 Geiger baa biatorically proved in so many in- stances, ‘slow development, the emergence of vontrast from imperceptible deviations, is the tause that the same word requires various mean- ings’; that the creation of language therefore testa upon this process, and nowhere makes ite sppearance suddenty and bruptly.” As tothe question whether mankind is de- weended from one or more paira, Mr. Schmidt rites Friedrich Muller in reply. ‘‘At the time when there were races and no nations, man was Wapeechiess animal, as yet, entirely destitute of the mental development which rests upon the agency of language. Independently of the Premises unfolded by natural history, this hy- pothesis is forced upon us by the contemplation of the languages themselves. The various fam- Lies of languages, which linguistic science is wbie to discriminate, not only presuppose, by their diversity of form aad material, sevoral in- Sependent origins, but, within ove and the same race, they point to several mutually independent points of origin.” ‘According to the pedigree of tho races of man- ‘kind made out by Haeckel, and closely adhered to by Friearich Maller, the first divergence trom the original type separated primitive men into two species: the woolly-baired and the atraight-baired, Tho woolly-hsired epecies then aivided into the tuft-hsired variety,—from whom sprang the Hottentots and Papuans—and into the floece-haired variety,—out of which evolved Me Africen negroes and the Kaffra. Tho straight-haired species developed into the stiff- haired variety and the curly-haired variety. From Abe stiff-baired variety arose the Primitive Race, Sventnally separating into the Oceanic and East- *m Asiatic Races. Ontof tha Oceanic Race Proceeded the Australians, the Arctic, and the 4mencan Baces; and out of the Eastern Asistio proceeded the Malays and Mongolians. Tho ¥arly-bsired variety divided into the Dravida, the Bubians, and the Mediterranean Race. ‘Tho species mentioned in this pedigree are re- Farded ag no longer existing, the present forms sf man being distinguished 3 races. The lommation of Isnguage did not begin until after primordial man had diverged into races, “We tust therefore aggume that at the time when the Yarions nations of the Mediterranean race were ¥ne,—the time when man belonged to no nation, but merely to s race,—menkind was destitnte of Iengusge. Muller considers 8,000 years approxi- mately anficient for the period elapsing between the divergence of the races into still speechless Societies, and the epoch at which they formed THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 1875.—SIXTEEN PAGES. conjectured migration from Asia computed, tho year 6500 before the commencement of our chronology seems to be tho, earliest epoch at which we may speak of a Hamito-Semitic Ptimeval people inthe North of Europe. ‘hero- fore 3 Mediterranoan race already oxisted 12,000 yoarsago. But what epace of time was requisite to enable primitive man to eeparate into races, is entirely beyond compatation, and the more 80 as not tho slightest trace of him has hitherto ‘been found.” ; ‘Mr. Schmidt considers the evidence disputable that man existed as early asthe upper ertiary ago. The remains that we bave of gur oldest ancestora,—those who dwelt with the mammoth in Enrope,—display a high grade of development, and belong to a period when nian was in posses- sion of langusge and used it to elevate himself gradually above his lowly origin. PESSOWAL. Mies Kervoae is roported to be seriously il! in New York. Count Dx Tnarronp, of Newgate, is at the Tremont House. $i Dr. Many Watxen finds her cardia on every streot,—*'s specialty in gentlemen's underwear.” Mrs. Many Bean, of Brazil, Ind., sues for a divorce. She complains of her husband’sgrowl- ing propensitios. Jons Caxtetan Fonce, of Brooklyn, an Ameri- canized Englishman, the Tox Axpnews of the Scandal City, is dead. An indignant Jerseyman is’ going to move to South Abingdon, Mass., where the town cannot have a centennial until 1975. “And Sovomon slept with his fathers,” which the New Orleans Republican finds to’ be an evi- dence of commendable economy. ~ The spelling-school haa not reached Now Or- Yoans yet. Tho Rev. Bishop Wirxen says tho “right of confirmation will be administered.” ‘They say that the Pittsburg Opora-House and the Mazrurons are not suited to one another, ‘We thought everything was sooted in Pittsburg. Jesse Hirrie, Chicago's most popular hotel- clerk, left for St. Lous last evoning, where be will take the position of head-clerk in the Lindell House. z Cuavez succeads Vasquez as the pot bandit of California. It will be observed that their names ond in the same way. Perbaps their vos will follow suit. “As Jong as Fre playod old sledge,” said Joux Fenny, “thie Jaacau-NeKoven business is the first time I've known low to beat high oa Asquare game.” Corussvs Trurn, of Lowell, Mass., is 18 yesra old, 7 feet 2 inches high, snd weighs 215.. To think tha: all this meat is wasted in mixing Grinks for other people. A Madrid dispatch says: ‘‘ Auroxso gave an sadience yesterdsy to Sxnnano.” James O'Nem says: “That is the sorbota King to have around on benefit nights.” “One Faosr, of Marion County, Kentucky. has named his five sons Sevene Frost, Wister Frost, Wire Frost, Jack Frost, and Brack Frost.” An ice family they must be. Tno Father of bis Country has » descendantin the millinery business,—Msdame Wasminaroy, of New York, who will soon tako up her reai- dence on Wabash evenue in this city. An exchange would like to see Besste Tunsen married, though not anxious to speck firat for her. It thinks sbe ongbt to have a man of ber own to cirous round with nights, banging pio- tares. Jexnm Fise, of Toledo, was appointed Dep- uty Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas two years ago, but the Court would not confirm her. ‘A fow days ‘since she was resppointed and con- firmed. 'P, B. Stans, a Louisiana State Senator, took s seat in the parquet of the St. Charles Theatre, New Orleans. There was astampode, and in a few moments the Senator was the sole occupant of the parquet. Why should not professional men have busi- ness cards?: Ask the owner of the following: “G.C. Wacooxen, Evangeliet, Elmwood, Ia. N.B—Cslla for protracted meetings promptly attended to.” Col. Frep Grant and wife will leave Wash- ington to-morrow or next day for this city, where the Colonel will reanmo his duties on the staff of Gen. Swenman. The President snd Ars. Gnaxr will accompany them as far 28 New York. Davin Perens, who has servod six years of a fifteen-year sentence in the Connecticut State- Prison for rape, lias scquired Latin, Greck, Arabic, German, French, and Italian. Davis a colored man, but for sll that the story isa trifle thin. To young ladies about to start for Washing- ton: Aumstancus Bex, the Turkish Minister, has a full black beard and brilliant eyes. There being no limit to the number of his wives, any number of candidates for this aristarchracy will be cared for. Persr McNawana, of Rochester, who thought he could meemerize s bull by looking him in the eyes, changed his mind when he found himself on the woodshed-roof a moment afterward, and saw his wife coming with a step-ladder anda club to got him down. “Err Penems” bas found a woman to marry him. The name of this charitsblo angel is Miss BE. Louise S:aru. If she doesn’t slaps lang- plaster over Ext's month some blessed Easter morning when he commences his foolishness, she might even wish that she were dead. The double farewell benefit of Mr. Jas O'Nzm, lending man of Hooley’s Theatre, yos- terday afternoon and evening, was one of the most successsul ever given in this city. The ai- tondance was very largo at both performances, ‘and the beneficiary was made to feel how sin- cerely the people of Ohicago had become ast- tsched to him. Mr. Wanrer C. Sraicxin, of Peoris, writes to know what Mr. Uprox will give for a copy of Poregrine Pickle's "letters in good condition. Tn the absence of Mr. UrTox wotake the respoa~ sibility of offering one of Urrox & SHEAHAN'S Chicago Fire books, or as many af thom 2a Mr. SrnickLER would like. ‘Mr. Cuanzes Howano, of the Adelphi Theatre, was presented by his friends lost evening with s handsome souvenir of Chicago, in the form ot ssilver snnff-box. The presentation was made on tho stage by Mfr.,Fnaxcr, and was heartily sp- plauded by the audience. The occasion was the conclusion of his engagement. Ina ‘New Haven court Cuantzs H. Mier sued far divorce from Jota Asn Mrure. At the same time snother Jura ANN MULLER was trying to escape by divorce a vincalo metrimonii with another Coartxs H. Murer. The former couple were divorced, and the latter, supposing the decree was for them, remarried, and now there 1s trouble among the Muuizas. James Wenzen snd Cxanzes 8, MancuesrEe, of Charlestown, Mass., with their wives, started a new religion of fres love, vegetarianism, and mortification of the flesh. On one occasion they stripped Mrs. Wevzen and mortified her flesh with stair-rods to such an extent that aha quit their creed and caused their arrast, which ended the religion. ‘Misa Racuer Noaz, the favorite loading lady of the Academy of Music, terminsted her en- gagoment at that theatre Ixst evoning. She will accompany Mr. Tooxs on his visits to Indisnap- olis and other cities, playing some of the parts in which ehe has been sc succeesfal during his engagement in Chicago, go with him through Csnada, and return with him to Chicago. She is n most acceptable addition to his alrandy excel- lent company. Mrs, Gen. Laxea, the well-known tragio actress, leaves the Clifton Houze ‘to-morrow evening for Lafoyette, Ind, with her company, to play s short engagement. It is. suggested that, when she opens her season hore, it bo about the 10th of May, during the session of tho Soldiers’ Convention. Her sppearance at thet time would be appropriste, for the double rea- pon that the veterans of the War would thus be enabled .to do honor to a patriotic Indy,—tho | widow of ove of the bravest Genorals in the Union army, and one of the most echolarly and brillians exponents of the histrionic art, as taught by the greatest mastor,—Smarsreane.. It will bo in order for the managers of the coming Convention to extend to Mrs. Laxpes a formal invitation. One of the latest Enropean scandals is to the effect that the Duchess Soria, youngest sister of the Empress of Austria and wife of the Duke D'ALENCON, an Orleans Prince, has fled to the United States with a Bavarian photographer, with whom she has long been infatuated. She had, previous to ker marriage with ALENcoy, been engaged to King Locis IJ. of Bavaria, but the march was broken off on account of scandal- ous stories in which the same photographer was involved. Faanx Movttow is reported to have said, the other day, that he couldn't prophecy the result of the trial, but he hoped that Tittox would beat, becouse that would ploase Truron and it wouldn't burt Beccuen. ‘Whatever happens,” said Moulton, ** Plymouth Church can't afford to ship Beecuer.” ‘ What!” was the astonished rejoinder, “ even if he ia convicted of adaltery ?” “Yon see,” said the great heathen, philosoph- ically, ‘it's their way. Popular preachers .are like good cooks. A good cook will get drunk, and popular prencher will commit adultery.” Mr, Harny Sreans, of the firm of Draax, Usse & SpeAns, well known in the society cir- gles of Chicago, will sail in a few daya for Europe. Mr. Sreans was educated in Germany, and has mado one or two trips across the Atlan- tic sincejhis school-boy deys, but this trip is fraught with more interest to the young man than any heretofore made. He goes abroad this time for the purpose of waeddiog Miss Lizz Downrxa, of Paris. The young isdy, with her parents, left New York somo fif- teen years ago, and bas resided in Paris sivce that time. When Mr. Srzans made his fret tnp over the deep, some ix yoars ago, he mot Misa Dowsrxa, who with ber father had been revisit- ing her oative home, and was returning to France. He wooed and won Miss Down1xe@ while abroad, and now returas for the purpose of bringing the lady back to her native country a3 Mrs. Sreans. His many friends in Chicago wish him all havpi- ness, and & sposdy, eafe voyage, A sister of Miss Downrne’s, singular to relare, will at the same time wed a young man by the name of Casx, but not of the firm of Duaay, Case & Spzans, a Mr. Casr married a few mouths ago. HOTEL ARRIVALS. Palmer House—Joscph H. Kissam, New York; E. HL Murlburt, Marquette; W. T. O!ark, Omaha; G. W. Horton, Keokuk; A, H, Halter, Montana; F. Weigman, Philadelphia; E. H. Murdock, Boston; W. Handy, Cincinnati; Vernon W. Buapp, St. Louls F. A. Ball, Toronto; Issic Hahn, Providerce.; W. H. Hussall, 8b. H. . Louis; ‘J. We. Sctinckers, New York; , Fink, Now York; Robert Armour, ton; ‘New 3, Patrick, "Milwaukee; AL -Grand Pacyic~Wiiliam Lovering, Buffslo; Sharon, Bloomington ; James Gage, Philadel- Bacon, Boston; J. P. Sanford, Alvany pain; @. Gen. Jumes Gwynn, Philadelphia; Judge William Mf. Doeder, Cleveland; Wile Ttamsey, Cincinnatl; W. F. Kohl, San E. G. Blake, Forsyth, New Yor! M. Fay, Pittsburg; the Rev. John HW. Converse, Riacine;' BL. Stores, Kansas City; Benjamin B. Kerr, ‘Pittsburg; William W. Wheaton, Dotroit; John E. Simpson, Indianapolis; W. B. Clough, Bt . W. Tomlinson, ” Detroi He Te Aldrich, ‘st. Louls j A burg ; John 8. Baldwin, New York ; John J. McLean, Georgo Macdowell, Manchester, England ; E.E. Wood, Cincinnati; He McIusyre, San’ Francisco } George W, Adams, Providence; Francis Murphy, Maine; J. A. Lyon, Now York; Tnomus ‘MeNellis, Boston; Jon's. Campbell, Butraio; E. Miler, New York j Charles Wilck, Baton Rouge... akinner’s—Jamea Wallace, New York; the Hoa, Fred ‘P. Evans, New York; E. Kollandet, London, England; Col, Jonn Webster, Minneapolis; James Jones, Cedar Bupids; T. B, Emery, LaCrosso; Ellery T. Stocto, Boston ; and Col, E. Hi. Gratiot, Plattville, Wis, ——__ +. ‘The Longevity of Women. The London Times says: ‘At the monthly meeting of tno Institute of Actuaries, held re- cently at King’s College, Somerset House, an in- teresting paper on the duration of female life 2a distinct from that of the male sex was read by Mr. Cornelius Walford, F. 8.3. Hashowed thar the subject was one which had not attracted much special attention till a comparatively ro- cent period, Dr. Hawley, of Breslau, wio wrote in 1693, having evidently supposed both sexes to be equally long-lived. Maitland, in his History of Loudon, published in 1793, was of opinion that the old idea of there being more females than males in the world was s fallacy, the chris~ tening of boys within the billa of mortality be- ing 3 per cent greater thao those of girls. Korse- boom, in his investigations into the mortali- ty of Dutch snouitants in 1772, separated the male from the female lives; but be does not ap- ear in his tables to havo noted any difference in their relative longevity. Four yoara iater M. Doparcionx, in his observations on the nominees of French ‘fontines,, Jaya it down that the ‘ex- pectancy of bfe’ is greater in the female than in the male of all ages; but he does not deter- mine the procise ratio. It was the ‘Equitable Society which, in 1762, first approximated to the truth of the matter, by making a distinction of rates of premium for each sex, and talking no female lives under 50 years of age as in- surers except at special rates.’ The well-known Dr. Price, 8 great authority on insurance mat- tess, in 1771~'8 speaks incidentally of ste grostor mortality of males aa compared with females,’ bemg generally acknowledged; and’ Brand, speaking of the ‘Amicabie,’ says that init ‘the life of a woman as compared with that of a man ig of the same proportion astwotoone,’ Mr. 1. Cheater, in 1783, asserted that the difference be- tween male and female lives was in favor of the latter ; and the same rulo was laid down in some Swedish tables constructed about the same date. It3a only in the fifth edition of his work on subjec: that Dr. Price appears to have woke up to the importance of the question, in the interest of insurance companies. Mr. Walford thon quoted the ststements of the Carlisle Tables, of tho Parlismentary Committee of 1827, of ‘M. Quetelet, of Mesars. Batley and Day, of Fin- Jaison, etc., as onthe whole showing that from tho first to Inst the expectancy of life is grester in the female than in the malo sex. Tne same result was ur- rived at from certain statistics of universal lives among the higher and wealthior cleases, which were obtained and tabulated in 1874; a result - which may be expressed in tho following terma, viz: that ‘ at ovory ago tho aggregate mortality from birth up to such oge 18 greater among males than among fomales, ond that out of the same numbor of each sex, born alive, fewer males than femaies survive to any given age.’ On tho whole the above statement is confirmed, added the reader of the paper, by the experience of foreign countries, both on the Continent and in America. But this must be understood witn some qualification ; for, strangely enough, while the oxpectancy of life is groator gonerally among ywomen than men, most offices find that, of a given number of insured lives, more women dia than men. This, however, was to be accounted for by the fact that whoreas malo insurers are drawn from all cissses, only one email class of females, as 1 rule, seek to insure their lives—namely, women in @ state of actual or ex~ tant pregnancy; end here, 2s he bolieved, tae secret of the anomaly which hed been observed.” —-___— Congressman KBawley on Protection. Hartford (Conn) Courant, ‘Whether or not New England nas “ prospered under protection” msy be a matter of opinion. Now England <has built up vest manufactures, including a wonderful rango and varioty of prod- ucts, She was driven to-this mothod of com- ensstion for the misfortunes of a sterile goil y the adoption of protective tariffs against her protest. But that avy doctrine of proteo- tion, either that of Horace Greeley or that of Seymour snd Blair as laid down in the Na- tional, Democratic platform of 1863, has been fairly tied in this country, is certainl: more than Gon. Hawley has over claime What be did most positively urgo, both here snd in debate in Congress, is that New England is not s peuper clamoring for more pro~ tection ; abe has Lot sought tho changes in the tariff that are the tormentof capitalists ; she will contract to get along as well as the other sec~ tiona, with almost avy arrangement of customs duiies, provided its eubstential continuance, for even ten yeara, can be guarauteod ; that if tho nation should undertake the oxperiment of a yeo-trade tariff,” New England will not whine, nor will her manufacturers, who bayo ‘bean fifty yeara porfocting processes and teach- ing generations of stilifal workmon, suffer more, to esy tka least, than the beginners of the West nad South. And,. af the same time, he is quite ‘willing ro afirm the legitimacy of the doctrine soncedes ent r all practical purpose difficulties arising in ‘ing the specific ap- lication and the length of co TRADE SALES. Some [Interesting Facts Touching a Great Mercantile interest. Wholesale Stocks in the Infallible Bal- ance of Sucplyand Demand. Tho Auction-Plan Applied to the Jobbing Business of the City. Dry Goods, Carpets, Boots and Shoes, and Other Merchandise, Under the Hammer, Successful Application of the Plan on 8 Large Scale. ‘The general business system of every groat industrial and mercantile city, in its complex and meny-sided aspects, will be found to present, as the result of intelligent observation and study, a great many side views and special features which indicate the effect and development of partic- ular Iawa and nocossities of commerce, the growth and expression of special interests and requirements, bearing » permanent but peculiar and particular relation to the general andcommon channols of trade, and often-times invested with a popular interest of s more intense and more universal character thanthe old familiar foatures and aspects of commerce. The entire community are acquainted, in a genera) sense, with the common course and cur- rent of trade, the ordinary methods, and laws, ‘and customs, mutual bearings and mutual rela- tions of the main divisions, classes, and de- partmenta of commorce, the successive manipn- lation of the staples of a universal market by the respective banils of manufacturers, jobbers, re- tail deafers, and consumers in overlasting so- quence and rotation, There are, however, cer- tain specis! channels of trade which, though of incalculsble importance, snd entirely indiapensa- ble to the natural and free devalopment of every logitimate industry and of overy great and per- manent morcantile interest, sre far less general- ly undorstood and realized, Among these ex- ceptiona} and special branobes of the grand com- mercial system of Chicago there Is one interest known in this city, as in New York, ag THE SYSTEM OF TRADE SALES, to which a somewhat full reference in this con- nection has been suggested, not less by its present mecnitude and importance as a heavy item of trade than by pointe and features of an essentially popularcharacter, that render it an ospecially mnterestiog and apprepri- ate subject of public information. The groat trade suies of New York City have come to bea familiar matter with che mercantile eiement of the entire nation, and twica s year for s quarter of a century have awakened attention from the four quarters of the continent. The trade sales of Chicago, inaugurated. we beliove, by Mr. GEORGE P. GORE, in 1861, at No. 54 Lake street, have naturally un- dergone a mote rapid development than that whien characterized the initial iustory of the aighty enterprise in New York, for the reason that the Wostern public bad recovered from the ‘| indifference or shyness encountered iu the Last in tonting the legitimacy and permanence of & now principio aad a new method of mercantile opers- tions, such as always greets a formal departure from established and traditional channels of commerce. The novelty and the originality of the trade-sale system cousisted in the application of the auction iprineiple, to wholesale operations in all classes of common merchandise and staple goods constituting the bulk of the snpplies of the merchants of the world. The inauguration of the enterprise on a national scale was not only an original but an adventurous step, and ita success implied THE INSTRUCTION OF THE COMMUNITY in new principies and new methods of business. ‘Phe practical and permanent value of the prin- ciple has been satisiactorily illustrated in the fect that the trade-szle system has become an indispensable feature of the commerce of tho nation. And- under the light and infuence of thia great precedence the merchants of the West have come to recog- nize tho inestimable utilty of the auction pnin- ciple as & measure of economy in wholesale transactions in merchsndiso, dts largest and most successfal application as a measuro of economy being that of abbreviating the success- ive processes of sale and transfer botwe manu- focturers and consumers. The fact tuat the wholesale auction trade of the city, which, aa stated, was first established on a permanent basis in 1861 through the efforts of Mr, Gore (now George P. Gore & Co., Nos. 63 and 70 Wabash avenue), consisting st firat of regular-appointed sales of boots and shoes, and afterward extended to dry goods, furniture, and other classes of staple goods, bss sinco derel- oped to the proportious of a great and universal jobbing trade, constituting a steady centre of supply to many bundrods of retail dealers in the city and in the country, with constant accessions to its patronage from every section of the Northwest, would seem to indicato that the wholesale spplication of the auction principle in commerce has come to be thorougbiy and universally spproved by the popular judgment of the country, serving the general community of retail dealers the ssme measure of relief, convenience, and economy as is afforded to private consumers by a logitimate system of retail ssles to the highest bidder, where the commodities of life are ‘WEIGHED IN THE INFALLIDLE BALANCE of supply and demand, and the selling price proportioned to value with unerring precision. though, up to the present day, the trado sales of Chicayzo, in which tho auction system of transferring wholesale stocks of boote and shoes, dry yoods, furniture, carpets, crockery, etc., directly from the tanufscturers to the retail merchant without any other intervening agenoy, have beon conducted under the auspices of but one great establishment, tho development of the business has been such as to oaforce public recognition as a vast morcsntile necessity and as an indispensable feature of the whole- sale trafic of the city, with indications of 8 perpstnal extension and enlargement of tho interest, with such evidences of 4 natural, intrinsic, and inccessing popularity as Boam to guarantee the early application of the principle ovor larger fields. And the prediction that at no very distant day ONE-HALF THE WHOLESALE BUSINESS OF THE crry may be conducted by the same system of public sales,—hulf the merchsndise of the city passing under the public hammer on the shorter process oftrensfer from the manufacturors’ hands,— would not be wholly destitute of logic and probability. It is tho opinion of many thonght- fat merchants who are carefal observers of facts, indications, and tendencies in commerce, that the fulfillment of this Intereuling (prodlo- tion will dopend simply on tho ‘and intelligent realization by the whole commercial world of the publio utility of the principle if enacted by common consent into a general Inw of commerce, as a mensure of economy entirely without a substitute and without a parailel, It is no doubt true, as has been sometimes sug- geated, that the public confidence and public favor into which the trade sales of- Chicago have devoloped in go short 2 batory may be in part attributed to the mercantile genius of Mr. Goro, already mentioned as ‘THE FOUNDER OF THE SYSTEM IN THE WEST, (so far as it has proven @ permanent aud conspicuous feature of Western commerce) aman of largo talent snd uncommon excellence of character, whose liberal business cultdre would rondar his presence formidable in any mercantile intorest or department, adapting bim ina remarkable degroa to the inspiration and enlistment of confidence and popularity, and to conferring on the now system the strength, co- herence, ana dignity of 8 perfect system and the highest morale of commerce. But tho success of the system is as well explained by the utility and permanence of the principle incorporated in it us in the talent and obsracter of the pen- fleman who bas done so much to do- velop and realize that principle, or idea. With 8 view to ‘ing some items of general intercat touching the history of trado eaies in Chicago, and some information bearing upon the present state of the business, manner of con- ducting sales, etc,, s representative of Tue ‘Tnrmvne yesterday visited the ostablishment of Mesars. Georgs P. Gore & Co., and, aside trom replies to 2 few pertinent questions, waa allowed access toall departments and a cursory examina- tion of atocks on ail of the six brosd floors of tho dofty building occupied py the firm. It would geem that the first efforts made by Afr. Gore to organize a jobbing trade on the auction plan was limited to boots snd shoos, the priacips! impediment to progress being THE NOVELTY O¥ THE PLAN and the stupid indifference of the public to the ublio matbod of sale. Patronage developed slowiv, but, wbeing tho resuit of cautious bis satisfactory inquiry and experiment, had the ad- Yantage ofa steady, unintermitted growch. A. city or country customer once entered on tho ooks of the house, and once subjected to thor- ough astonishment at the class of barzainy and the character of the stocka alnavs available at appointed days. wasin no danger of ever becom- ing a baokalider from the new faith that was in him, Relations once formea were neyer canceled, and, in the present aggregate list of 1,500 morchants who rely upon tne sales uf tho establishment for current supplies, a c.so of serious dissatisfaction and abandonment of tho advantages and economies of the plan is never heard of. Afow years of diligent and persistent effort to conciliate the popular mind to tue new process and new principle resulted in an unexpected degree of popularity, the sales, including additional branches of merchandize, having reached upwards of a million dollars por avnom long before the great conflagra- tion, in which the firm’ wore baraed out’ at 22, 24 and 26 Randolph street, the destruction being heavy and com- plete, including everything resembling a relic or shadow of etock, capital, or insurance. ‘the vitality of the business, however, waa illustrated. in the year immediately aucceeding the fire, when, in ove of the pine abanties erected on the park, tha jobbing sales of merchandise under the iam:ner reacned the figures of the year pre- ceding tie fire, $1,000,000. AT THE PRESENT TIME the sales of the firm aggregate about $2.000,000, with s steady patronago and attendanco from every section and latitude thronghout the North- west, the items of the past season, which may be of interest, oeing as follows: Boots and shoes. Dry goods. Furnitare.. Carpets. Carriages 38. Crockery and glassware ‘The trade sales are ly. as is always to be seen by announcements in the advernising coiumue of Tue Tarzvxe, on Tuesday, Wedaes- day, and Thursday of each week (Saturday be~ ing 8 popular retail day for consumers), the oc~ cagion always drawing together an animated and interested assemblage, composed almost oxcln~- mvely of city aud couutry merchants. “ THE TRADE SALE BUILDING now occupied by Messrs. George P. Gore & Co. isa spacious edifice of six stories, 55x180 feet, asgregating 62400 superficial fost for storare, and thorughiy snd elaborately equipped with house elevators and all m ware- fixtures and convemonces for the manipulation of stocks, Tho order and arrangement of storage, etc., which give evi- dence of rigid system, are sbont as follows: Basement, crockery, presevting the aspect of a grand wholesate crockery warehouse, the stock embracing consignments from all the East- ern potteries; second floor, boots and shoes, carpets, clothing, and notions; third ficor, duplicates equal in extent and bul to first-class jobbers’ stock ; fourth floor, dry goods and car- pets, duplicates, ete. ; fifth floor, furniture, pur- chased unfinished and in white, and finished by the firm. The first floor is set apart for the ex- position of buggies and carriages, and for the general business offices, # forca of thirty-three clerks being required to supervise the several departments. BELATIONS OF MANUFACTURERS 2 AUCTIONEERS. Notwithstanding the fact that the firm have branch offices in all of the groat cities of the East, in each of which ero retained two agents in steady employment to negotiate consignments of the best products of those markets, which would appear to bea suflicient provision for gaar- anteoing ample supplies for the Chicago trade, it is said that the leading maoufacturers of those districts whose goods have from immemorial periods constitnted the buli of theregular whole- sale trade of the city have learned to recognize an interest and sdvantago in these trade sales, which they also take measures to render avail- able by soliciting and negotiating tho sale of their respective merchandise, the magnificent cash patronage of our Chicago establishment constituting a natura! avd reasonable subject of competition. For, aside from the consideration that the firm make casb advances on consign- ments in unlimited amounts, the cash plan of the suction system ensbles the mann- fecturer to afford the sale of his products at s reduction proportioned to interest on all timo sales, The advantage of this reduction to the merchant and consumer is POSITIVE AND ADSOLUTZ. In regard to the class and character of mor- chandise entering mainly into the sales of George P. Gore & Co., the fact that their goods have won tho confidence of the entire mercan- tile community, when indorsed with tne abso- lure guarantee of the firm,—which is tho ouly form of guarsntee ever given by them,— and that the oldeat and most raputablo retail merchants of the leading cities, towns, and villages of the Northwest have for years past loaned to place their main dependence for supplies upon these public sales, id sufficient evidence that the prevailing character of the goods isin keeping with that of tho best stocks Of jobbers and wholesale dealers. $900,000 2"330,000, TO WHOLESALE Youcancure a sorethroat with thehelp of Dr. Jayne's Expectorant, a good remedy for conghs and all throat and Inng disesses, ADVERTISING, DO YOUKNOWIT ‘Many of our citizens are not aware of the complete and systematic workings of the old and well-organized News- paper Advertising Aconoy of C. A. Coos & Co. (estab- Usbed in 1853), and now locstoa in Kendall Building, southwest corner Dearborn and Washington-sts., Chi- cago. Tho advertising wants of our creat commercial city aro indeod numorous, often causing hundreds of ad- vortisemonta and notices to be sent to different nowspa- pers in ell parts of tho conatry fom our Agency. For the purpose of accommodating all who dosiro to advertise at distant points, we have always at hand the lowest adver- tleing rates or prioca of each and every newspaper, Which sro given tothe advertiser by us, and are the same as ho would receiva ia person at the office of tho nowspapers. Advertisomonts aro rocelved by ua and aro inserted with promptness in the psporsof Cmicaco, Bautrax, Nova ‘Scorts, New Yons, Sr. Pavt, New Onteaxs, Wasn- INGTON, BALTIMORE, Moms, DENVER, PETLADELPHLA, Bosrox, Sax FRaxctsco, ete. Our extended counce- tons and facilitics aro equally complete with all Ameri ean and European journals, ‘Many of our mozchants and manufacturers eal upon us daily with thoir advortising, aud all others are cordially fnvited to call and axomine our files, which include hundreds of nowspapers and periodicals not to be found elsowbore in the olty. Wo aro pleased to farnish figaros for advertising in any papers published, and will give torms that cannot fail to socure the patronage of those proouring estimates from us. aA. COOK & CO. Agonts for the advertising columns of all newspapers in tho United States, Cansdas, and loading Buropean jour nals, FINANCIAL. DOO COU LCOL ENC LOTOTT COON CCE Cook County National Bank Depos- its at par, wanted in exchange for timber lands within 100 ies of Chicago.- BL F. CLAREE & CO., Room 4, No. 122 LaSeile-st. DRY CLEANING, LADIES’ SUITS, Woolen, and mized goods. also Bmb: Sacques, cleaned SUCCESSFULLY by the DRY PRCCHSS, Wihooe ripping or remoring Tvimmings. Crapo Valle AUGUST SCHWARZ, BOSTON STEAM DYE HOUSE, 158 Iinois and 265 West Madison-sta, TO RENT. FOR RENT. EVANSTON HOTEL, pertly forniehed. This house has recently undergone thorough renovation, repaired, eolarged, supplied with Lako Water from the Holly ‘Work, and Ges throughont, with extensive improvements now being made. Will be ronted low to acceptablo parties, Apply to Dr. C. H. QUINLAN, No. & South Clark-st., or on the promises st Branston. TRUSSES, Ee. es At DR. SAESES: Red! Meloncite evar; Trans tondaut for Ladies, lies} Cara Trass Offen, 303 Wash fitted and warranted. Lady at ICAL, ELL & SELLY, 505 Wast Madisoa-st.. Chicago, Qflce wars, € toe. ni. aud 2to5 p.m DRESS GOODS, NOTICE! All purchasers of DRY GOODS sre particularly requested to exam- ine the new scale of prices we make on and after MONDAY, March 29, the following being only a few quo- tations in some of the leading de- partments: DRESS GOODS (worth 208),- - - 10 DRESS GOODS (worth 30c),- - - 15 DRESS DRLATNES (worth 260), - 1212 JAPANESE POPS (Worth 30), - 18 to 20 JAPANESE SILKS (Worth 480), - 25 STRIPED SILKS (worth $1), - - 7 BLACK SILKS (worth $1.0), - $1.00 GUINED SLES (arth $2), 15 TRISH POPS (worlh $2), - 15 BLACK CASHMERE (worth $1), 5 HCHATR ALPACAS (Worth 490), - 25 BBILN LUSTRE (worth $), - - 40 TABLE DAMASK (worl $1), - - 60 HOCK TOWELS (Worth 140), - - 08 HAMB, EABR from foto - - - 40 PRINTS, all styles, 6c and upwards. ‘We warrant these goods all new, stylish, and desirable, New York Store 284 & 286 WEST MADISON-ST. GROCERIES. GROCHRIHS! BUY YOUR FAMILY SUPPLIES AT SLACK’S HARINOTH GROCERY HOUSE 109 East Madison-st., Between Clark and Desrborn-sts. Save from 10 to 30 Per Cent and Get Standard Conds, Fresh Arrival of Fine Flavored New Ohop TEAS! Atthe following LOW PRICES; - Oolong = = = + = gB0c, GOc; SOc, t . 1 Japan. = ” 3 Oc, $1, 81.: Hnglist Breakfast 7. ~ “Gbe, BUe: Bf, 81:10 Standard A Coffee Si Granulated Susan, per 2 a ‘New Turkey Prones, per Choice Sf. Louis White Winter Wheat, Blour, tf Wearern dacens pe - hoice St. Loula Wit “= Winter. Gest hoice Mlinnesote, 5.3 Fomatoen, 3 Ib. cans, per Case of 2 doz. S3. Mountain Sagar Corn, per Case of 2 a Price's baking Powder, 1 Ib. Royal Basing Powder, 1 th Ga Royat Baking Powder tin bail) Proctor wc, Cambios afettied een Soap, GO burs, fall welsht, per box....--S4-10 STAPLE and FANCY GROCERIES Of description, at prices that defy compotition. Siils Rea psa aa Co. i. SUACKE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCER, 109 East Madison-st. FURNITURE. ‘We offer for CASH a large stock of Rich and Medium Furniture at Actual Manufacturers’ Prices. , For a Hat Tree, all wal- nut, six feet high, with good-sized glass. C2 Buys aMarble-top Table; regular re- a) tail price, $15. For a Best Tick 40 Ib. Heir Mattress, mede to order. ou s. Buys an ali-wal- BS2rss5 Set; glass15x26. A lerge stock of PARLOR AND CHAMBER SETS AT CORRES- PONDINGLY LOW PRICES. ¢.¢. HOLTON & CO. 225 & 227 State-st, EDUCATIONAL. Union College of Law. Second year, tending. Twent Torms, $808 year. Studonta entering I compiere thelr school seatafverat ‘aiae rchoul months, aa favoradly aa by outer ‘Octoddr. Diploma admits to the bar. or catalogues address '¥. B. DENSLOW, Sec., Trivane Building, Chicago. ALLEN’S ACADEMY, Corer of Michigan-ay. and Twonty-second-st., Cht » Sasily socoselblo from all parta of the city ‘The most: splendidiy-ea2}ppod, achool in toe Nor ic pane, nies an bose ote ans. (Spn term begins April recrived at any time. 4 aes TA W. ALLEN, COL. S. 8. NORTON, Proprictor and Principal of the MT. VERNON MILI- TARY ACADEMY, ac Morgan Park: can, be. personally Prine lock saat Apel 8 Parents devising: ta veo a a ‘v0 him aro ziforded this opportanity. PROPGCSALS. WINDING-UP SALE, ‘TO CLOSE OUT THH BUSINESS GE JTL DAVEY & C8, . 224 & 226 W. MADISON-ST. A RARE CHANCE TO GET Dry Goods Cheap. | Come and See the Prices that we are now offering our Entire Stock at, and SAVE MONEY. MANY GOODS LESS THAN HALF PRICE, THE BALANCE OF OCR Fine Laces and FinUrolieriss Also, a very large assortment of EXTRA FINE TABLE DAMASKS, TOWELS, TABLE AND PIANO SPREADS, At fully one-half less than Regular Price, AN Goois marked in Plain Figures—th present aud farmer prices, STORE TO RENT FRO MAY 1, es it is, or divided. pec BILLINERY. MAME. GELINEAU, Who has just returned from the New York im- porters’ Openings, in- vites the attention of the Ladies to something very choice and elegant in fine Imported Goods. 244 WABASH-AY. PARLOR BEDSTEAD. A Proclamation! Now, all men by these proseuta knows Too Empire Parlor edatead Coy ‘Torco Highty.theas West Madison at, ‘Where nil with kind sttontion moet, Tovite inspection of thrir stock . By ofty and auburbaa folk; ‘For FOnNrrUns of every kind ‘At prices low all there will iad ‘still adhere, a3 they bezan. ele well-Knowa INSTALLMENT PLAS And will continuo thus ta trada = TPA thousends moro are heppy made, Allaro invited now to come ? ‘And visit their Exeroniox. Should you require a cooking stove Qe parlor don'e the city ro You'll tind them j00d ut prices low, Besides, from Tha Empire Bedstead Ong Carpets and other household goods, Furniture in all xinds of ” Blsck walaut, cicstaat, and pian, x fan pecans ane in their tips: io other house such bargains givos Their motto is, *‘ Livo aad Lot Liva.” then, with care, So full of pleasing information, * And thon mako up your mind to go And trade with Tho Empire Bodstead Co., 883 West Madison-si. JEWELRY, &o- GILES, BRO. & CO., Have the targest and best selection of Fine Diemonds, Cameo, Coral, and Gold Jewelry of new styles to be found in the West. 2 New arrival of Necklaces, Guard Chains, and Silver Goods. OPENED MONDAY. 266 & 268 Wabash-av. DENTISTRY. | DR.H.R. PHILLIPS Wentist, 169 South Olark-si,, bat Madison and Monroe, Best Gum Sets. Best Plain Sets. Gold Fillings, from. Silver Filings, from: Teoth Extracted without pain. ALL WORK WARRANTED, 45 i { » Peel Toul! THE RUSH CONTINUES. lis Depond argoment; Stig ametter of demonstration E i Bat Teor Et SteOHRSNYS argo Dental Establsuauna’, Ouse Claas anc Randolpn sts, The quality of teeth erothe that is known to tho sion; Manniactured by S. 5. ae of Fadndoipiis. ‘In _everg instance sstisiactlon jen or money reiuaded, hratnclassy we gives grmoaor seluaded. Piling, Areca, warranted DENTIST. DR. W. DE LA MATTER, Baceousor to D. M. Towner, is s4ll carry : Bose et the old sind. Ta Woet Medlaow-ary whore be wil be pieased to meet all she old patrons aad olurs. ices reasousble and all work guaranteed. NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS. nilding a'School Hours tin, on the O., Be of March, 4 » xt the efty limits, anti t 7 Bis, Piaias cam bo teen at the afice of J. C. Coonranr, Architects Nor Ip Nizoa's Building. far aat Bi forts mola of tbe werk or fm part. "All propose a noaled eure re ase Be rad Clerk of the Board of Direciors; cad bs domed" Proposal. for. School Hi tao otiice of J. O. Sach & site sh lees the Depot af rotten : es. . ‘when ail bidders are invited to be prosout. ‘Tie Board of Diroctors reserva the right to reject say oe. all tho bids, x tgaccopt any bid tay may dour bon or tbe ntarentot ° 5 ‘onder of the Board of Disretors. fod JON CRAWAORD, Clack. RERLOW. pss D.M. TOWNER, Dentisé, (Formerly of Halsted and Madison-ats.), has removed To 497_West_Madison-st., corner cf Sheldon, éCALES. a FAIRBARKS? STANDAKD — ‘OF ALL KINDS, S EPA FAIRBANKS. MORSE & OO, OY 11 & 113 Lake St_.Chicage, Bacarefal to buvcaly the Geauian,