Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, February 13, 1876, Page 6

REAL ESTATE. Wanted, a Reduction of Railroad Fares to the Suburbs. ZEncouragement to Capitalists to Try the Narrow-Gauge Experiment. Sales of the Week Light.--The Recorded Transfers the Heaviest for a Year. Activityin Buoburban Improvements—Large _ Prospeotive Inorease of Population, The Loan Market Firmer-—-New Entorprises a South Chicago---An Elevator Project— Building and Reatl Estate in New York. CHEAP TRANSPORTATION. CHEAPER SUBURBAN TRAVEL A GEEAT POPULAR NEED. Tte advieability of putting cheap treins morn- ing aod evening on the railroads conpeoting Chicago and its suburbs, has been advocated by Tue CHIcAGO TRIRUNE in gesson and out of sea- #on for years. We have called the attention of thie people of this city to the fact that they are weated by the rsilroads as it Chicago were 13 mere way-station on the route between New York and €an Francisco. Tho eubject is one of peculiar importance to the pecple of this locality, ard is now beiog ugitated by the other papers. Tho necessity of cheaper traneportation for our commuting suburban population becomes niore presging 28 city taxation, and the grester economies of sub- urbuu life atiract an increasing number of in- habitants to the suburbs. The people secm fully alive to the importanes of it. The stum- Dliag block 18 the incredulity of the railroads as to tho profitability of cheap trains. They Lave proved higbly remucerative in lMas- achusetts, The roads owe it to themselves snd the public to maise experimentsin this direction. ‘The narrow-guage raiiroad is & means of cheap- enivg trausportation that degerves s trisl, and tuere are districts in this vicinity which would pport tuch ap enterpiise handsomely. This is the ca=e, for instance, in the southwest of the city. Local capital could find no better invest- mept than this, and it wonld receive liberal nesistauce from real-estate owners aud residenta «loug the line. ——— SALES OF THE WEEK. A LULL IN THE MARKET. The negotistions reported as consummated tlis week are Jess numerous and important than those of the preceding week, but the market Las nevertheless been firm and comfortable. ‘The activity of the last two weeks is reflected in the warranty deeds recorded this week. They represent transfers to the value of $1,500,000, LARGER THAN FOR ANY PRECEDING WEER forayear. The moraleof the real estate mar- Let in every direction is excellent. This is at~ tested by the fact that althongh considerable amounts of local and outside capital are bere oo the lockout for bargains, the number of sales is not large. Holders feal independent, and able to bold on to their property, unless they can get what they consider & fair price for it. The activity in the suburbs is marked. Old sub- divisions are being improved snd new ones are bemng made. As was stated in last Sun- day's article, this is true of the whole cordon of cuburban_eettlements that surround Chicago from the Calumet to Lake Forest. The burden of city tuxation is one obvious explanation of the increasing popuianty of life outside the city lim- 1s, Tho opinion we have expressed that thera will be this spriog A HEGITUA OF TAX-PAYERS aver the city line will no doubt be verified in the uest few wecks, But there are deeper causes than this at work in the growth of our urban end suburban population. One of thess is the extraordinary superiority of Chicago as s anufacturing point. Its rauroad connections give it control of materizls, and markets, beyond that of any otner centre. These are constantly creasing. The Chicago & South Atlantic Road, a large part of which is already completed. will give Chicago a seaport—Charleston—only 760 miles distant. Frompointa along the roed an- thracite coal can be supplied here at €6 per ton. The constant development of our advantages as a manufacturing poiot will add cnormouslv to our population. Exsmples of the operation of this law of our growth will be eeen this epring at South Chicago and the Grand Crossing, where the Joseoh H. Brown_Iron and Steel Works_in the first localitv, aod the Wil- +on Sewing Machine Mavufactory in the second will Lring with them A POPULATION DEACAING TTIOUSANDS. Tho recl-estate dealers reported businees last week a3 quiet but encouraging. Inquiries were ram~roas, Loth from largo capitalists and per- +oo# of emall meaus, from those seeking 1nvest- suent and thoso wantiog residences. A cause of encouracement is the demand for Louses, to purchaee and rent. ‘Uhis has already ket 1n strongly. New bouces, with the modern maprovements that can be bought or rented cheap are n active request. Many of the apph- canta are reperied by the honse agents to be new comera. THE PBINCIPAL SALES reported this week are as follows: Loring A. Chase bas sold to Rev. P. D. Youne, for John k. Tower, two two-atory and taserent brick houses, corner Ellis avenue and Brook etreet, for $18,000. F.C. Cole & Co., bave sold the two-story brick house and lot, 172 Eosauth street, for £2,250 cash. Dr. S. Place bas eold for T. C. Madden, 50 feet with tno three-story frame bouses, Nos, 14 and 16 North Green street. for £12,000. The Calumet and Chicago Canal and Dock Compsoy bave sld at South Cbicago 1 block for £10,000; 5 lots for $300 each, and 1 lot at £360. Bash & Potter have sold 23 feet front on Indi- 2na avenue, between Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth stroets, for $2.300. Walter 1., Peck sold 3251124 feet on Prairio avenue, and 175x124 feet on Indiana avenue, both tracts Iving just north of Thirty-seventh etreet. to William Keyes, for $15.000. J. Henry Eoff sold to C.J. Hambleton, 2ix 110 fcet on Lako street, near Wabash avedue, for 33,000, 1 T. B. Brrao gold business building and lov on - the cormer of Clark street and Chicago avenue, for $17,000. Casscll & Cross gold 242x150 feet in block be- tween San Francieco and Sacramento avenue, on Fualtou etreet, for $38,000. E. A Rice sold 100x100 feet and improve- ments on northwest corner of tush and Indiana sirests, for 60,000, to Walter L. Peck. Josiah H. Rissell, attorney for D. J. Fallis, Presideut of the Merchauts’ National Baok of Cincinnatt, has purchased for him, from Benja. min F. Ehrman, Lot 59, Tllis' Rast Aadition, fronting 132 feet on Cottage Grove avenue, just nerth of Thirty-seventh street, and runniog through to Ellis avevue. and improved, with four frame houses on Ellis_avenus, together with eight lots in Vincennes Road Addition on the ndgo at Washisgton Heights, for $35,000, of which $20,000 ia cash. Ho basalso for the same party taken an interest of $28,000 in some of the choicest grove property at Washington Heights ; £8.500 of this was paid in cash. 1. F. Andrews sold 16 lots corner of Fifty- ninth and Haleted streets, in Sidwell's Addition to Epglewood. for §7.200, cash and time. et SATURDAY'S rm:nxs, led e following instroments were filed for record Saturduy, Feb. 12: . The premises N cr};-;n-‘:-’fimhmm e erty, dated Feb, 1. $ 6700 West Honroe st, 324 190 ft, dsted Feb.11.. 8,5 West Washington st, 76 205124 ft, datéd sz, 8 3,000 e , 80 £t 8 of Monroe si, o1, , dated Dog. 7, 117 %500 Chicsgo 2v, b w cor Dearborn et, 8 1, 1603100 ° 1, with §iaprovements, dated Feb. 11, 3. W, Ford ard E. B. Howard to J. C. Caldwell. 0,00 North LaBalle at, 75 ft 1 of Indisva et, o f, 35x %01t, with buildings, dsted Nov. 5, 1675.... 9,000 Eleton av, near s w cor of Division st, e f, 206X X143 1, dated Dee. 18, 1675, L The premises No. 218 dfaxwell #f, dated Feb. & 1,200 Oakut, 115 ft e of Tush st,n, Bu0hY & -/ 2 dated Feb, 5.... ... evmssmeass Irsing piace, 314 4-10 {t » of Harrtsonst, w{, 2071235 ft, dated Nov. 18, 1875....... Hawiborn av, 175 ft s of Oak ki W T 1t nof Polkst, ef, 35 t, dated Feb, 10ueaanzeosec:e oe.o... 16,000 Sherman ot, 210 1t n of Polket, ef, 35x106 ft, duted Feb. 10.... seoene e eevese 13,000 Taylor £z, 138 ff @ of Robey st, 81, 138xi701t, - Eated Feb, 12.... .. senssnes, cese 6,150 Teglor et, 82 1t w of Lincoin st, 04, S0xLli ft, d20ed Feb, 13eenesezianarsssoosensseannense 1500 Toylor st, n e cor of Babey a, 8 §, 1382170 15, dat0d Feb. 12,eeusineesnvnnen . 6750 Chicsgo av, 54 ft w of Noble st, nf, 25x120% ft, dated Feb, 12,.....c.e..0 e 2,500 Portland av, 485 £t 1 of Thirty-third at, wf, 23§ X125 t, dated Jan, 20.......... > 1150 ‘Biair at, 175 £t n of West Twentieth st, o1, 25 X165 £t, dated Feb. 12.......... .00 Irving pisce, 3343 t n of Harrisan st, w1, 30x 1243 1t, dated Feb. 3 ........... . 7,000 Irving place, 2543 {t n of Harrison at, w f, 40x 1233 t, dated Jap. Sl....... eiiee. 14,000 Irvivg place, 314 ft n of Harrison at, w f, 20x 1223 ft, dsted Feb, 11....... . ... 5060 Irving place, 2343 ft 1 of Harrison st, w f, 20x 1233 {t, dated Feb. ... 7,000 Pratt ot, 91 ft e of Morgan sk, n £, 25 i {0 alley, dated Feb. $evneruunmnareeaseaensn . 2,500 NORTH OF CITY LIMITS, WITHIN A RADIUS OF '/ MILES OF COURT-HOUSE. Twenty-ono thirtr-seventh cne hundredth {except 5Ux206 ft) lying batween Green Bay Raad snd railroad, n of Ravens- wood, dated Feb, e Parry av, 347 fte of Waubon av, s f, 2505173 1t, 'with other property near the above (Bel- den-F. Culver to Henry B. Ruth) dated : B 2L, 5o oonsaniass anias +o» 131,000 BOUTH OF CITY LIMIT6, WITHIN A NADIUS OF 7 MILES OF COURT-HOUSE, Oakwood bonlevard, 337 £t w of Langley av, £, 433180 £t, dated Jan. 20......esee e Oafumet av, 163 ft n of Fifiy-seventh st, Wi, 150x160 ft, dated Jau. 1/ . 6,000 Gordon at, 371 ft e of Union st, & f, 35x126% 1ty dated Jan. 2t.... . ".ggg Same s tha sbove, dated Jan, 1 gt THE LOAN MARKET. MORE FIRMNESS IN BATES. Thera is a gradual improvement to bs poted, and the business done by losu agents is quite active for this sszson of the year. The demand is good, and there is aelight stiffening in the rate of intereat. We notea loan of $22,000 the peat week secured by good inside business property, placed at 9 per cent interost, five years time. Payments are being made very promptly, but few delinquents being revorted. COMPABATIVE STATEMENT ¥OR TAS WEEX EXDING ¥ED. 12 1876, 1 183 Considers-| ' Considers- No.| tion. |No.i tion. 2§ s 1sg 40707 o8 3,473, 8L 80,691 BL e Dol Aggregate......| B2 § G 23§ 458,38 S — Rale |'208 . COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FROM FEB. 1 TO FED, 1! 1876 167, Instruments, Considers| [ Considers- No!| " tion: | Xo.| " tion. Trustadeeds........| 321! § 950,070, 813; § TAIT3 Mortgages.. canes MI 178,37 59, 148,856 Aggregate......| 389 SLITMS 402 § 94,02 Beleasss. ...oeeeseenl 353, E—— MISCELLANEQUS. THE JOSEPH I BEOWN IRON AND STEEL COMPAST have decided to add blast furnaces to their works at South Chicago, and last week let the contracts for the necessary machinery, farnaces, brickwerk, etc. The Company also intend to erect a nail-mill on their land, and & rail-mill is also on their programme. The Company are conducting their enterprise under PECULIABLY FAVORABLE CONDITIONS #5 to situation and the coet of material and labor, and their plans cover the erection of the ‘most complete establishment in the West for the .manufacture of all forms of merchant iron. Such an enterprise is not only a private, bat a public benetiz, and will be s not inconsiderable element in the prosperity of Chicago and the West. A project of hardly less importance is the establishment of an clevator at South Chicago, where the vexatious charges made iu the city, and oftean exposed by Tme TRIDUNE, may be avoided, and the business that is NOW LEAVING CHICAGO for competing points may beretained. Tt would bo difticnlt to find & point better fitted in mavy respects for such busmess than South Chicago. BUILDING PERMITE. The followiog permiss have been issued by Building-Inspector Bailey since Feb. 1: Clers Bris, one-story, 16x24, on Calumet svenue, T. C. Boyd, four-story, stone {ront, 22x42, on Ohio street, near Cass, Egbert & Marshal, two-story, 25354, 216 Division streot, J. Gunzenbausen, two sory, 143x52, 191 Ontario street, Jacob Arrastrong, one-story, 23223, 915 West Madi- son street, 'P. Hopkins, two-story, 71x35, 352 May street, 3, E. Cale, two builaings, exch thres story, 20540, 703 West Monroo strest. Jotn Siolherays, “onestary, 20126, 1% ‘Barbour strec Sarsh Lieb, two-story, 23z42, 636 North LaSalle. 1L Stenhous, three-story, 25150, 173 Fourth avenue. BCILDING IN NEW YORK. The last anoual report of the Department of Building of New York says: ‘Twenty thousind six hundred and seven new build- ings, and 11,337 slterstions Laving been the work of the a8t thirfeen years, comprising the most costly and ornamental structures in tha city, and its architectural appearance has been materially xitercd and enhunced Dy these continmed transformations. Tho old: lxnd- ‘marks are annuaily removed and replaced by evidences of modern_wealth snd_avilization, St. John's Park, the New York Hosital properts, and others, The magnificent hlocks of stores on Church street, and colossal warehouses between; Wooster stroetand Broad- wiy and south of Cenal street, cover ground once occupied by the quiint dwelings of the list century. Such_ buldings ss the Equitabls, Au- toal, aind New York Life Insurance Compunies, the Bennett Block, Iribune, Siaals Zewtung, Post, West- ern Union Telegrapb, Delaware & Hulson Canal Company, etc., replace the time-worn barracks and ailapidaied relics of former dass. It has been smd that-business * follows in the wake of fashion,” in the of cities, and the axiom is not disproved altogether Ly the facts in the history of New York. The present business wircets were once the abode of ealih until the snereasing demands of commerce an- nually crowded them farther up town, yet the genius of progress has proved somewhat capricious in her march northward. For example, referring to the | building record_during the last decade, it will be per- ceived thas the most costly and extensive building im- provements, 38 stores, offices, wareaouses, and th iike, have Iying, o ‘been chicfly confined to that district say, beiween Willism strcet and the 208 Wooster and Church strests, south Cinal strest. In the district = eitusto of Broadway, extending from Fulton street to Harlem River, the improvements have beea chiefly second and third class dwellings and stores, while the finer class of structures, s first-clads dwell- ings, botels, theatres, ot=., bave Treferred the line of Broadway, say from Fourth to Sixth avenue, and ex- teuding from Fourteenth street north, That portion of the city situate west of Fifth avennue, and Four- 2 v-ninth streets, is occupled by infarior firstclass_dwellings, first, second, and third-class stores and dwellings. While north of Fifty-ninth streot and west of Eighth avenue, the land remalns un- jmproved, although, as results of the completion of the expensive boulevards, consequent speculative en- terprisoand high tazes, iho lots are held at very sd- vanced rates, The want of improvement is said to be a reeuls of the inaccessibility of the lots by auy cheap, rapid means of traneit end their disproportionately high prices explained by the prospectiva hope of their En‘:’sfim appreciation when such means shall ba sup- 2 s BUSINESS PROPERTY IN NEW YORK. Mr. Charles Matthews, owner of a very large | amonst of busines property in the lower part of the city, was interrogated and was very em- phatic in giving his opivion that on the whole property was 88 good to-dsy as it bad becn at any time. Business property below Madison Square was paving a8 well as ever. There were isolated examples of unlucky bita of property or gections under some special objection holding down the prices, but the rule was good enough to be called a general one. Rents on the Hos- pita: property. so-called, lying west of Brosd- way, between Worth and Dusne streets, in the dry goods district, ars not failing in the least. The pregent etringenoy in busivess, Mr. Mat- thews thinks, is abont over, and before & year is out those who have gone out of trade will return and those now in will enlarge their business. Commerce must go on and somebody must carry it on, and what vacant places there may now be found will bs filled by old or new firms. There | has been, he continned, a vastatount of “ spec- 2 ulative property.” so-called, which has fallen off | io osteosible values and is not quoted a3 high as in times past, but to judge the older business | property by this would be entirely falae andlead to error. Below Madison Square the sales are few and av figures sausfactory to both buyer and seller. Beverallots that he could mention have recently chsoged hands on which a et in- g{:}me of (x::m 8 ::I 10 per cent i8 beiog derived. e recent rentals are at good prices.—Ne York Torid. A e : A Clever Reply. ‘While arguing & case before the United States Bupreme Court in Washington a few days ago, Mir. Albert Pike made a clever raply to 9 tion of Attorney-General Pierrepont. The At- torney-General had questioned the evidence of one of Mr. Pike's witnesses en ths ground of the extreme sge of the man—78 years—and pre- | sumptive failare of hin facultiaf. *Well, your Honors,” said Mr. Pike, ‘I don't altogether like thst myself, for I acm 66 yoars old, and in a listle while I sball be 70, and even 78, and I am somewhat ssnsitive about old men with no mem- ores. I see on the Bench before ma one Jue- tico bearing this case who is 69 years old. anoth- er who is 72, and I would like to aak with what force the Attorney-General's argument. strikos them that 8 man bas no memory at thelr agas.” Mr. Pierrepon: yieldsd the point. Crnously enougb, the olient for whom Mr. Pike was srgu- ipg was ex-Gov. Reotor. of Arkanass, with whom he had oace fought & dual THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1876—SIXTEEN PAGES. EUROPEAN GOSSIP. A Visit to Alexandre Dumas3 1ncidents of His Career. An Ambassador's Life in Turkey: Horrors of the Grand Rue de Pera. The Dogs of Constantinople---What New Title Is Queen Yictoria Golng to Assumef ALEXANDRE DUMAS. A Paris lstter to the London Daity Newssays : «[ rocently called on M. Alexandre Dumss, &b his house in the Avenua de Villiers, and spent & delightfal morning, converaing with him zbont the incidents of his extraordinarily sucaessful but laboriousecareer. Will it ba believed that the illustrions name ho bears was &t first an al- most jnsuperable drawback to him? He was 24 when be wrote *La Damo aux Oamellias,’ and the now famous drama which he drew from the novel was refused by all the mavagers in Pars, who deolared with one voice thas such a piece would scandalize the public and be hissed off the stage. At Izt the manager of the Vaudewille, who was on the verge of bankruptoy, reasoned thus : “Thisis a pieco by Alaxandre Dumas’ sonj; it will cost me nothing to put on the staga; some- body is sure to come and see it on the first night for the father's sake. I have nothing to loseand so will riskit. But the coup d' elal was needed before the play could be performed. The censors refused to license it, and M. Leon Faucher, the Home Minister, declared categori- cally that it should never be put upon the stage eo long 88 he was in office. Happily the young suthor had & powerfal friend in tha Comte de Morny, who had not been threedsss in the Ministry of the Interior beforo he removed a!l difficutties. Thusin the eacly part of 1852 the piece which the Government had tabooed 28 im- moral, and in the success of which neither man- ager nor actors much believed—for Mlle. Far- genil had refused to accept the part of the heroine, and M. Fechter, who played Armand Dutal, had prophesied a dead failure—that piece was represented with success so immense, 80 startling, that no dramatic event before or eince hias ever equsled it. Fame 20d fortune came to the young aathor in one evening; to this day the piece continues to yield him a fine income, and he computes that uoder any equitable interna: tional copyright law the profits which he would have drswn from the United States alone would have smounted to o milllon francs. After the success of the ‘Dame sux Camelliss,’ M. Fould, then Minister of tho Emperor's Household, pressed AL Alexandro Dumas_to wnte something for the Theatra Fiancais. his object in this being leas to be- friend the young suthor than to play an evil turn to Mlle. Rachel, who waa at onco the pride and the termagant tyrant of the National Com- edy House. Allfe. Rachel had brought matters to such a pass at the Francais, by opposing the engagement of all actresses who would rivai her, that on the nights when she did not perform: (and she performed about seveoty timesina year) the housa was empty. It occurred to AL Fould_that, if the Francais could bring out come seusational pieco in which Mlle. Rachel took no part, her ascendency would thenceforth declire ; but, when M. Dumas brought him the ‘ Demi-- Monde,’ he hesitated. ‘The piece was taken to the Emperor, who read it in manuscript, and said that it would dishonor the Natiooal Theatre, thongh it might do for a smaller house; and, & short time afterward, M. Fould, baving proposed the author for the Legion of Honor, his Majesty, with his own hand, effaced his name from s list—a very unusual proceeding. All this did not prevent the *Demi-Monde® from being played at the Gymnase with almost the same Buccess as the “ Dame aux Camellias'; nay, more, 8 jury of distioguished play srights and critics_recommended it for the annual prize which M. Leon Faucher, the nuthor’s fitst per- gecutor, bad founded to encourage the piece * best calcnlated to improve the morals of the working classes.’ M. Baroche, whose function it was to award the prize, refused to confer it on M. Dumas: whereon the jury, declining to re- consider their report, moved that the prize should be abolished, which was donme accord- ingly. **A[. Alexsndre Dumas’ suburban honae is like one of those pleasant citizens’ boxes out of Lon- don, with a garden round it, bare at this seagon of the year, butin summerall abloom with flow- ers. The author does all his work in a spactous pround-floor stady, with large windows over- looking this garden, and with walls covered by artistic treasures, among which are two admir- .able pictores of Manon Lescaut and Marguer- ite Gautier. He is tall, stalwart, very pale, and his first aspect ia prond, cold, stern, and & little defiant. But he quickly thaws, and shosws himself the most fascinatiog of ‘cau- seurs. He is eay, cordial, vivacious, and simple, full of anecdote, wit, and laughter. He seems to wear hie heart upon lus sleeve, and to hear Lis conversation is like drinking champarne of & fino viutage. Ho talks freely about anything and everything. When his pamphlet, * L'Homme- Femme,’ was published, it 80ld the unprecedent- ed number of 70,000 copies richt -off withoat stopping. A fewdays afterward M. Dumas went Lo an evening party and was mobbed by Isdies, who vehemently abused him, sayiog that be knew nothing of women—that it Was always “tue-ls, tue-ls; and so forth. He left ear- 1lv to aescape from their scolding, and met one of the yonngeet and prettiest of these great Iadies in tho ante-room. She allowed him to aesist ber in pattiog on her cloak, and a8 he was doing 80 she turned round and suddeoly gaid: * Ne les ecoutez pas; c'est un chef d'euvre.’ Monsigaor Dupanloup, Biehop® of Orleans, ap- proved this_vigorous pamphlet, excopting its closiug advice, *Tue-la;’ aud when M. Damas met him, ehortly after its publication, the Bishop asked him incideotaily whether he haa read Gustave Flaubert’s ‘Madame Bovary.’ ‘Yes, Mousignor, have vou?’ rejowned the dramatist. +1 bave read it," rejoined the prelate, mildly, ‘and one muat have beena coufessor in the tural distrie:s to_understand how true it is. The cream of this anecdote lies in the fact that * Madsme Bovary'’drew down onits author a criminal prosecution 23 being an outrage on pub- lic morala. “ M. Alexandre Dumas reelcons that a now play ia always worth to him & sum of £6,000 down, including, of course, the sums received from performances in the provinces ; but the majority of his pieces also bring him in a permanent, in- coms, 60 that he has Bolved a problem which to an eighteenth coutury author would have seemed {antastical—nawely, how to earn au income of £8,000 8 year out of one’s pen without writing ina twelvemonth more than would fill 80v oc- tavo pages. Thelabor to which M. Dumas sub- jects himself in producing these 300 pages is. however, enormous and incesgant. Like M. Sardou, he is an indefatigable searcher after facts, but bis mind, far larger and more power- ful than Sardou's, digoats facts better. Prepar- atory to writing s * Etrangere,’ M. Dumas con- enlted the works of all modern authors who have treated of the Unitad States, from De Tocque- ville to Mr. Hepworth Dixon; and he bslieves that he has produced a tolerably accurate pict- ure of American cbaracter and manpers. He shows the chivalrous regard of Americans for women, their adveuturousness, courage, free- and-essy customs, The play cootains some startling incidents (the hero kills three men), bat all these incidents are based on proved facts.” AN AMBASSADOR'S LIFE IN TURKEY. The special correspondent of the London Times at Pera prefaces an article on diplomacy with the following fancy sketch: *For the finest town mansion in Pera and the loveliest ‘paradise on the Bosphorus, even with £10,000 or £12,000 as salary into the bargain, I would not be an Ambassador in Turkey. We have five of these exalted personages in this place, and all of them are amiable, estimable, hospitable gentle- men. 1 try toput mysell in their place with all my powers of imagination, but, warmly as I sympsthize with them, I confess that I see rea- eon rather to pity than to envy them. Not even the proud conscionsness of helping to wield the destinies of empiras would reconcite me to the sights, sounds, and smells of this execrable resi- deoce. Ouatside the lofty gates of her palace bome the ddintiest Lady Ambassadress must needs find hersolf amid the horrors of the Grande Rue de Pers. Isaw oneof them the other day picking her way from etone to stone as if sbe had been wading through the half-drained bed of the fonlest canal. She was preceded by her awarthy cavaes, a formidable guard with thick mustaches almoat half way down to his belt, = Damascus scimitar dangling on his thigh, and in us band a long. heavy borge-whip to awe the multitude aad clear the way before his mis- tress.. But what could that brave man do to protect the lady’s silk skirte unless he lifted her bodily out of the mire and carriea her the short- €8t Way ¢0 the place she came from? How could even the escort of & squadron of horse screen hor from that jostling throng of horrid men and beasts, who cross and press upon each other ‘with 88 helpless & strnggle as 1f they were all ~walking bliodfalded? She was brought faco to face with oume of her sex, and of her own, orof scarcely an inferior rank, when a desperate attempt at conversa- tion was made: ‘Comment, Madamae s Comtesse, vous sortes par le temps qu'il fait ? Qui voulez- vous, Miladi ? il fant bien prendre de I'air.' The words were hardly spoken whea, With uocouth shouts of ‘Guarda! Guarda!' a string of ladev mules with huge panniers came tramping, splashung, plowing their way through the crowd, and ladies, ladies’ maids, cavasses, Greek and ‘Armentau priests, dervishes, street porters, and beegars, 8ll had to make, pell-mell, for the refuge of the nearest shop—a shop, 88 1t chanced, where there were many simmering brass pots on the fire, as in-a patent kitchen, but in which, instead of pillau or conrcousou, the groasy fezzes or woolen ekull-caps of Mussulmans, Gregks, and Alpanians were being boiled into brand-new rcarlet purity. The poor ladies muost breathe the outer Rir; carriages they bave, and sedan chsirs; one or two of them ride; but, to say Doth- ing of danger to life.or limb, nothing can eave them from such dead locks as tho swarming mass of unwashed beings in tho Graad Rue isevery moment bronght to; nothing can drive from them the loatbsome handa thrust into their coach windows by the mendi- cauts, who have them at their discretion, aod ¥now that they can extort by their contact the alms which are denied to their whining voice. Indoors, however, the life of the wives and fam- ilies of foreign representatives is not 8o much to be deplored. Tley dwell in large, warm, well- gired, sumptuously-furnished apartments, with servents of all colors, with boudoirs, billisrds, and smoking-rooms, aud wiodows with views of tho Bosphorus; the ladies have their books and ‘music, their flowers,—'light aod swectness,'— their modes de Paris, their afterncon tea and oseip; the men their clubs and cards; and all inner and dancing parties, with ices and after- miauight suppers. Nothing more quaintly en- tertaining than Europesn societv in a Levant provincial city—and Pera, be it remembered, is only a suburb, and has at pight no interooutse with metropolitan Stamhonl—can be easily’ imagined.” THE DOGS OF CONSTANTINOPLE. Fres from the cravings of hunger after his frugal meal with Duke Humphrey, tho Constan- tinople dog (eays a letter to the Toudon Zimes) ‘becomes a social being, aud attends fo the affairs of the Commonwesith, At every stront-crossing, utterly deserted by men after 9 or 10 o’clock at night, you find a dogs’ council. Much as 2 visit- or to Constantinople may have cause to lameut his ignorance of Tarkish, Arabic, and Romaic Greel, he ought to feel more put oat by his in- still y to underdtand these doge’ Latin, Had I tho rudiments of their language, could I acquire the mesus of communing with these demure and, apparently, nnsympsthizing snimals, who knows what interesting particulars I might learn respecting the laws and institutions of their canine ropublic ? Perfeot gravity and solomuity, what ono might describs as ominous silence, provails sometimes for hours in their busy as- gemblies. Knowing glances, conventional signs, seom to suflice for their exchange of ideas. The occag’onal looking in or pairing off of honorable members adds importance or gives new zest 10 the dumb discuseion. Under the leadership of soms President, or on = motion from the Right or Left, tho meating is, now and then, adjouroed ; in comes, now & mes- sage, now & deputation from soma Upper House, now a report from some Sclect Committee. But, again, all at once some unexplained commotion seems to rouse the violent passions of the hith- erto 50 calm, so deliberate, and orderly Parlia- ment. There ensues a geperal rush, 8 sclmrer down one street, up another, a sharpyell. a ringing chorus of yells. Is it & messago of eace ?. a shout of deflance? a cry of distress ? No man can tell; but there is immediato re- sponse. From street to street, from ward to ward, from lull to hill, the nlarm spreads with the swiftness of the Highland Cross of Fire. ‘The uprosr is as of myriads of unchained bell- honods scouring the town, in the din of which dull, impassive man sleeps—as he best cao, Tho savago bark, the dismal howl, eweils abd sub- sides Itke the ocean tide. Itis jarring discord 10 the immediate neighborhood hesvenly musie, ‘a8 all sBound is, when mellowed by distance. Sometimes, at this very momeunt, nothing can be imagmed more overawing than the stiliness of the midnight air from my open wicdow ; nothing mors deathlike than & vast abode of men when wrapped in universal slesp. It is that -+ audible suence,” that appalling **voice of bushed up life,” which 1s all unlike the natural repossa of forest, ses, or desert, and strikes us a8 o paralysis of our own genso Of heariug. Sud- denly across the deep, from tho border of the cemetery at Scutari, or from the precincts of the Seven Towersat Stambool, the far away dogs’ concert, faint and indistinct, is wafted {o my ear: faintand vagne and dream-like at first, yot multitudinous, asif the Spectre Huntsman wero driving bis demon pack in full cry, yap yapping, from their kennel in the nether regions. ‘That faint wave of sound waxes and beaves and fills tho space as it rapidly advances, sndin o few seconds the empty haunts of men becoma the sceno of unappeasable wrath and strife. AN EMPRESS QUEEN. What (ioquires the Philadelphia Press) is the new titio which Queen Victoria is going to ae- sume? In her speech at the opening of Parlia- mont, on Tuesday, this announcement was made : *¢ At the time that the direct government of my Indian Empire was transferred to the crown, no formal addition was made to the stsle and titles of the sovereign. I bave deemed tho present & fitting opportupity for supplying this omission, aod s bili upon the subject will bo presented to sou.” Outhe 1st day of Septomber, 1833, the power and property of the East India Company entirely ceased (by tho act 21 and 22 Victoris, c. 106, which received the royal assent on the 2d day of August next preceding), and, on Nov. 1, 1858, Victoria was proclaimed 28 Queen of Great Britain and the Colonies, ete., in tho princi pal places in Indin, and, at .the same timo, Viscount Cauning, who was Governor- General under the East India Company, was sworn in aod proclaimed as Viceroy of India. TInstead of representing & grest commercial or- ganization, which had obtained immense territo- rial possessions, with concomitant political pow- er. Lord Canning became the deputy of his Sov- ereign; hence the new title of Vice-roy, which, ‘more correctly, perbraps, might have been des- iganted Vice-reine. Ever since, when Indu is oflicially spoken of, itisas *the Empire of In- dia.” If this be correct, its Sovereign, when a female, would be an Empress. \Ee suspect that the intention is that Victoria shail be 8g en- titled horeafter. Most probably tho proposal to bo made by the Disraeli Goverament will be bused on tho yire- cedens established in Austria over a hundred yeats ago. Aaria Theresa (she was born in 1717 and died in 1780) was Queen of Hungary and Bohemia, and succeeded in 1740, on the death of her father, Charles VI., Emperor of Geriany, to the whole of his Austrian dominions, a8 well a8 to the Kingdoms of Hungary and Bohemia. Five years later, her husband, the Duke of Lor- raine, was elected Emperor of Germsoy (he is Francis I. op the roll), and from that time until her death she was called the EmpressQueen. After the death of her husband (he was succeed- ed as Emperor by Joseph 1L, their son) Mas Theress reteined i her owvn hands the adminis: tration of all ber dominions—Austria, Hungary, Bohemis, Lombardy, Tuscany, and the Nether- lands—and the wisdom and humauity of her sway socured their unwavering loyalty and grat- itude. Victoria, with such a brilliant precedent, may be inclined to fully sssume the title of Em- press-Queen. It is most probable that the pro- posed change of title will be * to this extent, no more.” Her British subjects would hke her to continue * Queen Victoria™ to them. The sound and title are familiar. LOVE'S MEMORY. 11y to bide my heart's distress Far from the city's noises loud, Far from the cold and worldly erowa, Into the qule. wilderness. Ono only mate my heart wilt own— ‘Thy peerless self: and, failing thee, Though girt with hundred friends, mut be, Liks him who owns it, quite alone, But, in tho vast and lonely wass, 1 hear no voices wild or rude; My only friend is solitude, And'thers at least one joy I taste, Thou in the body art not there; But, 2 the silent sands I paco, Thine ever beauteous spirit-face ‘Haunts me in visions bright and fair. *Fis naught to me slthough the rosa Her scnsuous odor scatters round, Or gorgeous carpets swatho the ground o luxury my bosom knows, 1 pray my spisit thus: “Begonel D part fromm her I fain would dia1» And still my spirit makes reply : «tHope Lives while life remains, * Live on 1" HJI.B. FINANCE AND TRADE. Collections Unimproved, and a Demand for Loans in Consequende. New York Exchange Firmere--Light Movement of Currency. The Produoe Markets Generally Lowar— Pork and Lord Irregular. FINANCIAL. Ifit were not for tho slowness of collections tho local loan market would loso much of the animation it now displays. Ceuntry trade and country collections are urnally interrapted at this season, but this yesr the weather and the roads havo been worse than ustal, and the effect on city marchants has been intensified. Country banks continue to ask for renewals to some extent of paper faling due. The offerings of com- mercial, manufacturing, and miscallaneous paper from city customers is cufficient to employ moet of the disposable funds of the banks, There is in somo cases a surplos avatlable for Arst-claes borrowers, The Board of Trade applications are mainly from specu- Iative borrowers and the proviaion men. Rates of dfscount at the Lunks are 8.210 per cent. On the streat, good commercial paper 3 in demand. The supply of loanabile funds fs increasing. New York exchiange was offered at 50@25e discount between banks for £1,000. The movoment of currency to and from the dountry is moderate. 3 The clearings of the Chicago banks for the week are reported as follows by Manager D. R. Mals, of the Glesring-Tiouse: Date. Clearings. : Balances, Monday . 21,160,52 Tuesday. 204,678. o $1,904,190.01 Corresponding week list. year... eeees 18,881,093.32 2,056,872.69 CITY CEATIFCATES. The certificatos of city indebtedness isaued by the Comptroller continue to find purchasers at 9310 per cent discount. This rate 18 about as favorable as that commanded by good commerelsl paper. Notwith= standing all the revelations of irregularity in the City Government, and tho arguments made publicly agatnst the valldity of thess certificates, the confidence of the public in them does not seem to have bagt ma~ terially shaken, and thero is & steady demand for them fer short investments, BANK CAPITAL EVADING TAXATION. The question of escaping local taxes on bank capital by converting it into surplus has often been discussed Ly tho bankers of Chicago, and has recently been re- vived. Severslof the banks are serionsly considering the step, and by one or two the change, wa are in- formed, hes already been decided upon. Public opin- ion certainly looks with favor upon any legal means for evading the confiscation of property by the tax- eater. If this course is widely adopted, the attention of the Legislature will bo attracted to it, and & tax on surplus will be tolerably certain to follow. The only escape then will be to divide tbe surplus among the stockliolders or go out of business, A longerheaded policy would 'be for bankers and other citizens to stir themselves to reform taxstion in its origin. The business men of this city properly or- ganized can make its Government and municipal ex- ‘penses whatever they think proper. GOVERNMENT BONDS. United States Gs of 'S1 United States currency 6s. GOLD AND GREENBACES. Gold was 112} @113, Greenbacks were £87;@8S3c on the dollar in gold. FOREION EXCHANGE. Sixty Dayd, 8ight. 456 450 do, 25 cars No. 2 do, 12 cars mew mixed d cars rejected do, 3 cars no grade do (83 corn); 13 cars white oats, 13 cars No.2 do, 1 car refected do (27 oate) ;2 cars No. 2 rye, 1 car rejected do; 16 cars No. 2 barley, 21 cars No, 3 do, 11 cars rejected do. Fotal, 203 cars, or 113,000 bu. Inspected out: Gd41 bu wheat, 1,207 bu corn, 3,933 bu oats, 717 bu rye, 5,507 bu barley. The follawing wore the receipts and shipments of breadstuffs and liva stock at this point during the past weels znd for the corresponaing weeks ending as duted Feb,12, Feb.5, Feb.13, Recelpts— 1878, 1876, Plour, brle cees T8 44,453 ‘Wheat, bu, 235,458 952,846 Oorn, bu. 561630 483724 Oats, bu. 153,717 ugus 9,821 8,200 IIB60d0 120,350 9,313 11,413 6.t .. 90,816 115,674 119,915 18,426 - 17,813 13,266 Feb, 5, 1876, 1876 1675, 18 310 20,360 17,140 555,805 912000 218000 195960 257.000 863,320 Agentleman in from Ksneas reports that the farm- ers thereaway have been sowing wheat for a peck past and that prospects aro first-class, The leading produco markets wero rather less activo on Saturday, the trading belng sgain chiefly in whest and provisions, Thbe weathor was fine, and prices tended downward in most departments, under tho re- ceipt of news gengrally favorable to larger recelpts from the country, and unfavorsble o strength in Esstern markets. The trading was chisfly speculative all round, the shipping movement being quist, s 18 usual on Baturdays. In dry goods eirclcs but little change was observa- ble. The ploasanter weather of yesterdsy and the day beforo called out a alightly increased volume of orders, and in expectation of continyed {mprovement there was & more cheerful feeling among the trade. Prices remained steady and firm. The grocery trade was very quiet, and the easy feeling noticeable earlier in the week was sgain prevalent. With continued pleas.. ant weather an improved demand snd firmer prices ars looked for. Dried fruits wers quoted firm, with rather more doing. Fish met with an increased inquiry and wers held firmly, the tendency in mackerel being up- ward, Butter was in moderate supply and readily commanded former prices. There was s firm market for cheese, the demand continuing good for the season, Prices of bagging wers steddy. Leather remains dull and easy. Coal and wood wers ordered sparingly. Qonsumers decline to buy in advance of immediate wants, and for soft coal the market remains weak and unsettled. Anthracite remains firm at $9.50@10.00. 0Oils were unchanged in price, though carbon was weak | with & tendency to lower figures, Hogs were in good demand and prices were steady at Friday’s advance, Sales were at $7.70@8.%5 for com- mon to choice qualitiss. The fresh receipts wers 6,000, and for the week 86,679, The cattle trade was dult at Friday’s quotations. A limited amount of trading was done on the basis of $3.00@5.50 for common to choice. The receipts for the week ware 20,297, Sheep wore dull at $3.75@5.50 per 100 1ba. Received during the week, 9,599, The common grades of lumber met with & moderate inquiry ot recent prices. The market i firm jn con- sequence of the proapect of a reduced production, but Do advance is likely to occar at present. The stocks are liberal and fairly assorted, and were they other- wise the defictencies conld soon be made good, as vessels would experience no _inconvenience in making trips acrose the lake. The demand for iron, metals ond bardware generally continues moderate, belng abont up to erpectations, and mo change in mtes I8 reported to have taken place. Nnils meet with considersble inquiry at $2.90@3.00 rates, The demand is thought to be partly speculative, many thinking that rateswill be advanced when the spring trade opens, as they have in past seasons, The inquiry for wool is fair, being ‘mostly from the Western manufacturers, who now rely Cahls transfers—Paris... o CITY AND CODNTY BONDS. Bid, Chicago City 7@ ct. bonds..... 104% & fnt, 1044 & intl Chicago City 7 1 ct. sowerage, Chicago City 7 @et. watex lo. North Chicago 7 3 ct. bon (Lizicoln Park) City Railway, South Side.. City Raliway, West Side, City Kailway, North Side.. rs' Instirance Company. Chamber of COmMOTeo. uve ... 80 Chicago Gas-Light and Coke Company., ... 32 Chicago & Northwestern gold bonds. 893§ 203 Expositionstock. . .30 85 LATEST. NEw Yonx, Feb. 12.—Gold opened and closed at 113 with sales in tho Interim ot 118%. Rates paid for carrying, 1, 23, and § per cent. Loins were also made flat. Governments closed strong. Railroad bonds quiet and firm In thelate afternoon dealings, Milwankee & St. Paul consolidated ainking funds sold 8 high as 83). Northwestern consoll- dated coupon gold bonds in demand at 90, with none offering under %03, Pacific issues closed firm at the highest price of tha week. State bonds dull snd strong. The stock market was strong. Atthe opening prices advanced X to 7 per cent, but towards mid‘day a re- action ensued, followed by a partial recovery under realizations. At tho close stocks were generally lower, and steady. St Panl declined to 427; for common, a.d 8% for preferred; Northwestern common to 43%; Lake Shora to 653 ; Westorn Union_to 77%¢; Pacific Mall t035%; Obios to 22i; New York Central to 107343 Michigan Central to 603, and Missouri Pacifica 337, Northwestern preforred was firm'ut 64X @655, It is stated ofiicially that the repeal of the Pottor law will enable the Northwestern Company to resnme divi- dends upon preferred stocks this year, Union Pacific firm at €9(@ 9, Harlem 143, Now York Central 113%@ 1%, and Delawaro, Lackiwuna & Western 117G T, Transactions on the Exchango to-day_sgeregated 107,000 shares, of which 5,700 wera Erle, 86,500 Lake Bhore, 9,650 Northwestern common, 6,000 preferred, 5,600 Rock Istand, 3,100 Pacific Mail, 9,500 St. Paul common, 9,000 preferred, 6,500 Ohios, and 12,000 West- & pocin ipments to Europe to-ds o shipments to Europe to-sy sggregste $330,- 000 of wehich §430,000 was go1d coin, RETegale S350 The weekly bank statement is s follows: Toans, increase, §$18:,300; specte, increase, £639,400; deposits, increase, $1,040,400; circulation, decréasc, §155,8003 Teserve, fmcrease, 1,210,850, Money closed 2t 23 @3 per cent: prime mercantile paper, 5&0c. K ‘Customs receipts; $512,000, The Assiatant Treasurer Qisbursed £/ v , 0 Clearings, $:3,000,000, Sterling, 485)5@489, —_— COMMERCIAL. The following were tho receipts and shipments of the leadingarticles of produce in this city during the twenty-four houra ending at 7 o'clock on Sattrday morning and for the corresponding date one year ago RECEIPTS. | 1876, l 1875, 187 8,338, Flax seod, Ibs. . Broom-corn, [ih Cured meats, bs| Beef, brls. Pork, bris. Lard, bs. Tallow, 1b8.. Batter, 13..... Dressed hogs.. Live hogs, No.. 910] 1,012 34,8101 874V ., tont 3 2,171 . Lumber,No. ft.{ 140,000 116.000 Bhingles, No...| 40,0000 70,000 Salt, brla, . Pouitry, 1vs..... Poultry, coopa., Game, plgs....| Cheese, " Gr'n apples, bris) Beans, bu. [ e 7 527 ‘Withdrawn from store on Friday for city consump- tion, 8,158 bu wheat, 401 bu corn, 168 bu oats, 4,154 bu barley. The following grain was inspected into store on Sat- urday morning: 2cars No, 1 N. W. wheat, 20 cars No. 2N. W do, 4cars No. 1 spring, 47 cars No, 2 do, 38 cars No, 8 do, 29 cars rejected do, 2 cars 1o grade do (132 wheat); 1 cazr No,1 corn, 22 cars high-mixed largely on this market for supplies in the winter sea~ son. rices sre steady. In hides, broom-corn, and hay there were no important changes. Seeds wers ‘more activa and steady. Poultry was stesdy and eggs lover. : WHOEAT INSPECTION. The following record shows the number of car-loads of apring wheat inspected (in) in tais city from Sept. 1, 1875, to Feb, 12, 1876, and from Sept. 4, 1874, to Feb. 13, 1875, being fivo months and twelve doys in each The inference a8 to quality of crop 13 obvious. The inspection from Jan.1todate is 3,516 cars. against 4,846 aars a year proviously, showing a falling off for forts-thres days of 1,330 cars, The inspection of Saturdsy last, 132 cars, is the largest since Now Year's day. The corresponding inspection a year ago ‘was 30 cars, FOREIGN IMPORTATIONS rocelved at Chicago Castoms for the twenty-fonr hours ending 4 p. m. Feb. 12, 1676: A. B. Mecker & Co., 111 tons pig-iron; J. V. Farwell & Co., 1 case dry goods. Duties collected Feb. 12, 1876, §1,225. PROVISIONS. TI0G PRODUCTS—Were very active, and irregulsr, chiefiy in the speculative direction. The market was strong early, in continuation of themovementof the previods day, which was due {0 the belief {nemall stocks and light packing. The receipts of hogs were small on Saturday, but that is usual at the close of the week. The market turned when tho record compiled by the Secretary of the P, P. A. was posted, showing that our stocks of product are nat very far below those of & year ago, and that the pocking In this city will not « fall very much below that of last winter, when the in- creased weight of hogs i taken Into the account. This mado free sellers, and the market declined rapidly under heavy offerings, espocislly in pork, the buying being chiefly done by the short interest, The later fechng was slud!unfi around. We note that the ex- port of meata continues vigorously. the Daly Comvmercial Report and Market Remew gives the following o8 the shipments of provisions from thia city for the periods named : “Middles, Ibs. Week endice] Veb. 10, 14i6..| 6,202 5,008] 4,027 X 340, Serns wacee 1o e e S PR s Since Nov." 20,535116, 184 784,132, , 613, X ), 1132, &0, Samo Slu10; 57]117,208) 35,7931 11,532,918 Green Hams—Shipped for the week, 27.060 piect agaiet 8,163 pleces 4amo wask 1At year: #1aco Nov. 1y brls, The market closed firm at $2).75 cah o February ; $20,3TX@20.90 seiler March : §21 1540 seller seler Aprit; and $31.65 eelor Sy: < BLISgN.iTy Prime mess pork was quiet at 3 50 Dritas quoted At SIDHGILo0. . o P@IS0. Extra Luno—Vas active for fatire, sbove to 20c _below the clouiug pricea of o the st mles being TGl below LoD though Liverpool was Teported 64 per 114 4% higher. Sales wero reported of 950 fea cot at $12.57% ; 4,750 tes seller March at $12.575@ 1 80 9,500 ics sclier April at $12T0G12,973 and 17505 scller My at S1286313.00. Total, 16,250 tes, Toe market cluwselc'l‘ ‘:;ell‘lly .l‘[ $12.55@12.573 cash or salley February; $12.65 seiler March; $12.80 o ot §12934 1300 for seler Stay, ! eller April; and Muats—Were rather quiet and steady, ez ehiouiders for fature. delivery wero sesien. one et quiry wap falr, but busers arked concessions ghy boldera would not grant. Bales werc reported of 140,000 10 shoulders at 737¢ cach and meller Marers 430,000 Ils shor: riba at 1k eeller March, and 11 seller May; 80 boxes long clears at 1!'@lic; 140,009 “1be and 21,000 pes groen ams st IL5@1Lc for 14 1, And o for 17 averageo. The misse: thasey ot (1} following range of prices: h and sold from 10¢ Shoul- Long h ders, Cltug. R\m' fis 1 I (e e g uu Tk 107 8 g 13 07 B Z. . 1k 3 Long and short clears quoted at 113c cash, and 113;c seller March, boxed; green hams, 114@Ilxe; eweet-pickled do, 11%@!24c; Cumberlands, 1ixe, cash or seller February; long-cut hams, 135G, bexed; bacon hams, 13@133c. GmEAsC—Was quiet at 1@ic. @}auezrr pnonucrg;m:;muy and quiet at $9.59 .00 for mess, .50:11.00 for extra $21.50@22.00 for Bame. s 5 ‘TaLLOW—Was quoted at 8XBI%c. BREADSTUFFS. FLOUR—Wis very quiet at unchanged prices, Thy market did not dectine in sympathy ‘with wheat, bee cause the recentadvancs on thegrain was not followed by a marking up in flour. The demand on Saturdsy was very light. Sales were reported of 50 brla winters on pnvate terms; 720 brls spring extra, chiefly ag $5.25@5.50; and 25 brls rye flour at §4.25. Total, 795 brls. The market closed quiet at the following rangs of pricea: Choice winter extras, $4.5087.50; common to good do, $4.75@5.50; sprng extras, $1.00@L good do, $4.50@L.75; choice do, $5.0085.5: patents do, $6.50@7.25; Minnesots, $5.00@6.25; spring sn. perfines, £.00@3.50; rye " flour, $120@1%; bu wx;len du.‘sl.fl)@:igf e m' . zaN—Was a ower, topa at §9.50 0n 1Fack. pemne 0 MippLINGS—Sales were 10 tons at £14.00 en track. c,,k‘”.u,.,,_c.nm was nominal at $13.50@13.75 on” trac) WIHEAT—Was less active, and frrequiarly easier, the market declining about 13c further than at the close of Friday's trading. _Private advices from Livere pool were said to note firmness, but_the published dispatches called things quiet, snd New York was easier, with buyers holding off. Our receipts were rather large (132 car loads), and the finer weatner heid out the prospect of increased receipts next week, ‘which tended to bear prices, inderendently of the crop pews. The latter was not favorable to higher prices, though not a few looked upon the facts as ¢vidences of precocity which will be compensated ata later date, The orders from outside wers less numerous, and 1ozl operatora wers very uncertain. Soms thought that the larger holders had sold ont at the top, and others intimated it as prooable that they had only let g0 enough to permit a repetition of the milking pro- cess Iater on. Amid all, the feeling that wheat ia too high here s compared with other markets prevailed sufticiently to make short sellers more numerons than buyers, and the market gradually eased off, though it - could not becalled weak. The ehipping demand for tio lower grades was fair, but prices were lower, Seller March opened at $1.021¢, receded to $1.01%, sd- vaneced to $Lu23;, and declined to $1.01, closing $1,01:;, Sellet the month sold at §1.02 £ €1.03%, and gziler May at SLUSK@LUEY, both closing at the - side, Seller April Tanged %@3ic over March, Cah No, 3 closed at §1.02%, and No. 3at 8ic for fresh re- . ceipte. No.1was entirely nominal, Cash sales wero roported of 51,600 bu No. 2 spring &t SLO33LO3Y;. 16,300 bu No. $do at 830 for winter, and 84381}0 for fresh receipta; 6.000 bu rojected do st T1Xc fur winter, and T3ic for fresh_Teceipts; and 1,000 ba by sample nt 65@85¢. Total, 53,400 Lu. MixyEsors WHEAT—Was in moderate demand, but - lower, in sympathy with the general market. Sales’ wera feported of 1,400 bu No. 1 3t $1.16 ; 1,000 bu No. - 2do at $1.03%; 3nd 2,400 bu by sample at SLIG 117%. Total, 4,500 bu. CORN—Was dull and ‘steadier, thers being lirle change from the prices of Iriday evening. Tha - tendency was, however, toan easler range, in Svmpa- thy with wheat, o8 the weather was better, and the o ceipts moderate in volume. The news from other points had lttle effect, Liverpool and New York were unchanged. The market was steady till the last hour, and then eased down about 3¢, 45 bugers held off, and the few lots on esle could oaly be disposed of o concessions, Seller March opened at 41igc, sold a 4l3/c, afterwards at 413¢c, and declined to 413c st the cloge, Seller the month, or cash No. 2, ranged at 1@ e, and seller April a¢ 413@42Kc. toth cloaing at the'inside. Seller Alay sold at 45%@{6X(c, closing at 46c, and seller June was quiet at i @Xcgnnder May, ot salen, were reporied of 41,000 3 ¥b: 3 at L1ig 41%c; 4,000 bu high-mixed at4l}gc; 2400 bu new do at 3637¢; 2,000 bu new mixed at 33@355c; 5,200 bu rejected at 32@33c; 400 bu earsat Sic; 8.000 bu by sample at 30@36c on track ; and 11,200 bu do st NG 36¢ free on board cars. Total, 74,200 bu. OATS—Wera qqiet and ¥@?ic lower for seller the 'month and Alay, and stexdy for the intermediate op- tions, which met with 3 moderate inquiry early. The Teceits were larger, but there was little doing ‘in cash except sample lots, which were picked up by city buy- ers. Seller the menth or cash No. 2 sold a3 S1e, and * seller March at 317;¢. Seller April brought 32@S25e, - closing at the inside. and May $4%@34xc. Cash sales ‘were reported of 3,000 bu No. 2 at 3l%c : 1,800 bn No,. 2 white at 31ic; 5,400 bu by sampie at ic oo track; and 1,960'bu do at 33¢@38c, free on board. Totzl, 11,400 bu. RYE—Was in moderate request and steady at 67@ Grige for (reah No. . the butsids 1 spechd houser Other grades were {nactive snd nominal. Sales : 1.600 bu No. 2 ng?@mmy:m:, 200 bu by sample at 83@706 ou track. _Total, 2,500 bu. BARLEY—Wns moderately active and 5c lower, chiefly in-consequence of the heavy receipts, 43 . cars Delng inspected in. The bulk of the oterings consisted of the Jower grades, which closed very dull at a decline of 4@3c from Friday's prices. Buyers generally held off, though some of the shorts flled in. at the profit offered by tue decline, and a few rew doals were put out, many pariies being of the opinion that apother drop is inevitable, Seller february opened at 72)c, aud closed weak al 69ic. Seller March sold at 65)(;66c, closing easy at tne insida. . Seller April brought 62~ and May was offered at 60c. Cash No, 2 (car-lots; opened st 7lc, and closed at 50c. No. 380ld early at_1Uc, but closed easy at 33c, and re- Jjected closed at 26c, Samples were dull and weak, Cash sales were reported of 11400 bu No. 2at 103 7lc; 2,000 bu No. 3 at J5@4Uc; 400 bu rejected at 26c3 L“anflgo gfl by sample at 30¢@$1.50 on track., Total, 5,600 bu. —— TELEGRAPHIC MARKET REPORTS. FOREIGN MARKETS. Special Dupatch to The Chicazo Tribune. Livesroor, Feb. 12—11:30 3. m.—Frove—No. 1, 248; No. 2, 223, GRAIN—Whest, winter, No. 1, 10s; No. 2,1083d; spring, No. 1, 9s11d; No, 2, 8313d; white, No. 1, 103 6d; No. 2, 10s 3d; club, No. 1, 11s; No. 2, 108 64, Corn, new, No. 1, 28345 No. 2, 27a 9 ; ald, No. 1, 298 9d; No. 3, 298 6d- $ ‘Provistoxs—Pork, 818 6. TLard, 6%, Liverpoor, Feb. 12—2 p. m.—ProvisloNs—Lard, 578 6d. Livenroot, Feb, 135 p. M.—~AMERICAY CHEESE—~ 598 6d. ‘Provistons—Lard, 50s 6d. Bacon, long clear mid~ dles, 533 ¥d; abort do, 598 9d. LiveBroor, Feb, 12.—CovsoLe—ifoney, 9 1-16; account, 94 5-16. . 1835, 5%7, 977 pleces, agalnst 505,769 pleces the S 15, b o1 ploce, a5 769 pl cocrespond: d:l{:flndafll cut meats except S. P. bams and shoul- The following table shows the number of hogs packed at tha points named as returned to the Secreta- T3 of tho Chicago Pork-Packers’ Association : stocks in Chicago: The following were the Pork, brls, Lard, tcs, S, Y. hams, tea. 110 5,162 3,603 31,185 25,070 24,315 Zala 911 5 1150 e Feb, 13, 1875 ...146,495 N::mpcn" ‘The Bocretary of the Pork-Packers’ Association fur- nishes the folowlng atatement of packing by States s Packedto Estimated Totallsst date. for season, 680,684 725,623 468,086 639,818 250,590 11,100 95,640 season. this year. 410,620 . Grand Total..... w...... 4,884,759 . 5,569,193 ess Pons—Was unusnaily .:u‘i't' a0d advanced whiel it declinad nearly 43c, and 10c per brl, after closed somewhat firmer, Sales were reported of 3,640 bris cash at §20.80@21.15 ; 9,230 bels seller the month at $29,80@21.15; 7,600 brls seller March at %@ 21.30; 20,750 brls seller April at $21.05@%1.60: and 2,350 brls seller Aay at $21.43@2L75. Total, 37,390 AMERICAN SECURITIES—'638, 106; 673, 10934 ; 10-403, 1053 ; new 58, 106X ; New York Central, 1023 ; Erle, 15 ; preferred, L. Rerrveo PeraoLrvy—10d@104d. TALLOT—6s 6@ 468 9d. Pamss, Feb. 12.—RENTES—67f 70c. FRANSFORT, Feb, 12.—UNIr=p Srates Boxps—New 58, 1013 ANTWERP, Feb. 12—~PETROLZUM—33, THE COFFEE MARKET. Rio JaNemo, Feb. 12.—Tho coffea market is aal- mated. There have been large sales for the United States; good frsts, ST.00@38.50 rels per 10 kilo= grammes. Exchange on London, “6X. The Santos market is quiet and unchanged; quots~ tions tilt 57,00@59.00 reis for saperior, Sl NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKETS: Special Dirpatch to The Chicage Tribune. NEW Yomx, Feb, 12,~GRAIN—Wheat markst quié® - and prices without decided changa ; sales, 35,000 bn, part_last evening, inclnding No. 3 spring, st $1.16 1.15, and amber Pennsylvanta at §1.47. The ‘following quotations are more or less mominal: $1.00@1.07 for rejected mpring; $1.08@1.20 for ungraded spring? $LU@LI3 for No.3 Chicago; $1.19@1.15 for No. 8 Milwankoe; $1.25@1.27 for No. ® Chicago snd North- west ; $1.26@1.27 for No. 2 Milwaukeo ; $1.3(@1.40 for No.1spring; $1.30@1.38 for winter red Western; $1.21@1.47 for amber do; and $LII@LSS for white Western. Bye quiet at §7@3c for Western ; 0@92¢£0L Btato; and 85@%0c for Canada in bond, Barley quie and heavy; sales 2,000 bu two-rowed Joffarson County at 95c, and 1,000 bu graded No. 1 Canada at SLITK, Corn a abada easier, with moderate business reported; sales 29,000 bu az 60c for no grade, mized; 6430 fot graded, mixed; 633c for do in store; GAXc for mew yellow Sonthern; and yellow and white do together at G43¢c; also 20,600 bu graded, mized, for February, sf 43¢} and 6,000 bu do, for March, at 64xc. Oats quiet and unchanged; sales 24,000 bu at 46@idc for mixed Western and State, and 48@52¢ for white West ern and State. Paovisions—Middles firm at 11%@12%0c forloog Clear, Lard heavy:sales 100 tca at 13@13 1-16c for prims steam at the first call. For February, dc bidsad $13.073c aeked; for March, sales 500 tea at §13.12%; April, $13.25 bid, and_ $13.30 asked; for May, $13.8:% bid, and $13.40 asxed; and for Jane, $13.43 bid, 13523 asked. Watsxr—Held at $1.12%, with $1.12bid; last evene 1o 60 brls sold_at §1.12 per gallon. GEOCIRIZS—Sugar market steady, with moderate in- quiry; fair to refining quoted at 7%@134c; prime - at5C; white Havana at Sy@10xec. Coffeo matked quiet and nominal; Rio quoted at 15@18¢ in gold, Maraicaibo at 155 @19¢ in gold. . Tarrow-Market quist and unchanged; quoted s 91-6¢ for prima citys