Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, March 25, 1877, Page 6

6 THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 1877—SIXTEEN PAGES on Saturday morning, and for the’ corresponding 3ess Ponk—Tasqulet, but frregular. The PARIS GOSSIP. The Charity Ball at the Grand Opera. A Great Jam and 2 Brilliant Scene Notabilitiés Present. Patti’s Conjugal Difienl{y---The Offen- bach Affair---Victor Hugo. The Dwarf of Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain. Ball of the Parisian Players---Cos- tgmes of the Notables. TIHE CHARITY BALL. Special Correapondence of The Tribune. Pamis, France, March 2.—Do you believe in charity balls? I do not, as a rule; myself; it seems to be always *a cake for me and o crust ‘or thee,” with the people who get them up. as for the idea of benevolence entering into the yu@stion —— but there, there are ¢ynies cnough nthe world alrcady. So, without staying to malyze the motives which brought dose upon 10,000 people to dance quadrilles and cut up 2avh other’s appearance, for the benefit of the Lyon: i-weavers, at the Opera last Tuesday, 1 will content mysclf by giving you a short ac- count of the ball, the guests, and the house, as it Jooked Inside and out on the eventful occa- sion. Every traveled American knows the magnifi- cent . PLACE DE L’OPERA, " jtsshops and cafes, its lights and bustle; the cless roll of carriages to and from the fash. jonable quarters surrounding it; and, in the midst of all, the splendid monmment of Na- poleon’s glory and decadence itself, towering 230 feet above the ground. Those that have not scen it will be bardiy able to form an ade- quate coneeption of it from descriptions, all of which seem tame and Jifcless beside the reality. It is the very beart and centre of modern Paris, he culminating point of a1l the marvels wrought with the 1,500,000,000 spent by Baron Iauss- mann and his successors Lo the Adileship. Try 1o imagine it as it looked on Tuesday towards 10 o’clock in the evening. The vast open space in front of the theatre,and the streetsadjoining, Ulocked with carringes convesing the fortunate assessors of 23-frane tickets to the bull; the ¢ of the%mighty building bathed in the sled brilliauce of moou aud gas,~the one far away overhiead pure, calm, indiffer- «ent 10 the petty worry and mirth of us poor ter- ring and flarme sym- pataetically in countless yellow jets of flame. Picture to yourself the Boulevard des Capucines incumbered by a crowd of curious gapers, xiously straining their necks to see some of the fun for nothing, constautly hustled and dis- turbed by the conscouential malice of the seraents de ville, and as constantly returninz to " tlieir discomfort, as if the eternal injunction to “ Cirewlez, Messizurs I had never been uttered. Then, -turning your back on the vulgum pocus, ATy to ascend the steps of the theatre, where an immense tent has been the crected for the reception of amore distipzuished ests, the official di taries of the Republic, the Ambassadors, and the ladv patronesses of the fete. Through the icnt, hung with Gobelin tapestry, and bright with mirrors and light, on into the long en- 1rance - gallel On the rizht-hand side is the Band of the Repablican Guard, playing_dance- £clections at intervals of five minutes. The bare floor bas been covered with Aubusson carpet; flowers and palms-are lavishly erouped in all the corners capablé of holding them; and be- yond, at the foot of the Grand § s¢,—that masterpicee of the Opera-House,— A WELL-DRESSED MOB is waiting for the expected arrival of Marshal and Mme. de MacMahon. Preseutlythe Marshat drives up without his wife. whoisunable toleave ihe sick-bed of the Duc de Castries, her brother. “The illustrious oucst is dressed in the uniform of a French General, and bas the grand cordon of the Legion of Honor dangline from his sword-belt.” He is followed by a suite of ofli and diplomats, among whom may be recoguized Gen. Ladmirault (in evening costume), Count Moltke, the Marquis de Molins, cte., ete. The Director of the_opera (M. Halauzier), M. Al- phaud, and M. Vaisin (Prefectof Police) recéive 1he party, and the President slowly mounts the stairs, which are lined by a bundred Gardes Re- ruhliuu'ucs in full uniform,—all superb, soldier- v fellows, well set up, and drilled o perfectios Itisa swudyto watch how rigidly deferentiai they stand there as MacMabon passee. Each gruard has his eves fixed motionless on a column opposite to him, and_the most microskopic sur- vey of these martial faces wonld be unrewarded by the discovery of the faintest sizus of life. ere is, or was, a curious castom extant here, ollized the opers impressario to the Chicf "of the State to his box himself, carrsing a flaming torch in ats wude M. Halauzier atienpts to improve upon this with six ushers bearing six-branched gilt cudelabra. The effect of the provession wonld be decidedly pretty but for the draughis ‘1 the passages, which put the candles out as ast 18 the unf Tighted the wever, 5o m farshal. tinds 1 1o the State-box ull the e, and, on b ittemnt is made to infuse a Jittle gai- lancivg, which bss so far i K e story at th People come to them Lo see and to i x halls. e seem, NOT TO DANCE, and then nest day you find them complaining that the affair 4 slow.” In vain Juhanu Stiauss and Olivier Metra vie with cach other in the eflort to .enliven people who will mot be enliven- el R not il 1 o'clock, ifter the rather miscellancous company has grown a litele tired of stanng at the diu- nds flashing on the necks and arms of the aristocratic tenants of the boxes, that the idea > danang ecems to gain any ground, and then ixbut a sickly and afeeble pretense. With such a crush and movement in the room, a quadrille ven §s bardly possible, except at the imminent isk of tearing oues carefully-prepared toiletie into sireds, while as to a waltz—but the very notion of it is absurd. DBesides, it is not comu il faut to waltz at these subscription affai where the V"huc is “So mised, my deur,” Mme. Corniction, the retired grover's lady, may be heard observing to - Mie. Riendatant, whose husband bas 3,000 franes 2 year and a Govern- et situstion—in the Post-Oflice. Let us leave these wood souls to their own gweet devices, and take a hasty glance round the thestre. In the Imperial ™ box are, as I Jave faid, the Marshal and his suite; a httle her =it M.and Mme. Jules Simon, next to Duc and Duchesse de Broglic: not far from 1huse agam are two or three Princes and Princesses of the Orleaus dynasty. (This re- minds me, by the by, that the young daughter of the Duc’de Moutnensier has just been sol- nnly affianced to Kiug Alphonso, her consin.) hen” we come to a box containing a brilliant group, consisting of the Duchesse de Mouchy, e Comtesse de Pourtales, and Mme. de Roths- child, with their_attcndaut cavaliers; M. and Mme. Emite d¢ Girardin, Mr. and Mre. Harding, with their children, ete.. ete. I should nes bad to Zive you the list of all the nota- bilities in the room. But. it will not do to linger too long over this masnificent fete. From & pecuniary and spec. acular point of view it was a veritable wonder; and they say that the proceeds resulting from 1he sale of “tickets amounted to no less than i.0H) franes,—a good round fizure for the Toor weavers, who have need of it, from all ac- counzs, " Uu the morning of the ball,—thatisto sa Jast Tuerdage i i ADELINA PATTI appeared before the President of the Civil Tril- uial of the Seine, to present ber petition for the ruthorization to daim a legal separation from Ler husband. She was dressed in black, and ac- companied by ber lezul adviser, M. De Norman- die. The Marquis de Caux, with his lawyer, M. M also put in his appearance. In accord- ance with the provisious of the law regulating these matters, the suitor and respondent were shered juto the President’s privute room to- her, and an attempt- was made pro forma 0 bring about a reconciliation,—of course unsuccessfully. Permission was then given to Mme. Patti to formulate tier demand regularly in the law-courts, and in the mean- time to withdraw from her husband (who, poor man, must be bitterly repenting his rash display of temper on the night of the scandal). “She will for the present reside with her sister, Mnie. Strackosch. The admirers of the diva. will rejoice to hear that the unfortunate events of the past fortnight will not prevent her from tulfilling the numerous curacements :binding her in London. \'Il:nuxh:zg Paris. & Additianal lizht has bee: hich has also given much matierfor thrown on another | zossiping comment. [t would appear that the insulting expressions used by Offenbach “(MAITRE JACQUES OFFSNBACH, the papers call him grimly, since the incident) were addressed not to France, which would have been almost unpardonable. but to the French Republice—a very different thing, of course. Ofenbach was placed in rather unpleasant: position for a moment. There was some talk of hissing us operettas ofl the stage, and otherwise mal*reatihe him, had the accusation proffered againsthim by the Siecle and M. Arbel, the Senator, been proved. Even as it §s, the mischief done to the popularity of the Jight-hearted composer is considerable, and it will surprise me not a httle if we do not tind a stranzely-cold reception greeting the next work be may produce, whatever and wherever it may be, in Paris. The literary event of the Lour—nay, of the year perhaps—is the publication of the second volume of Victor liugo’s “LEGENDE DES SIECLES.” The great poet attained bis h year this weel nd yet, in_this latest work of his, one can trace no sien of failingestrength, His intel- Ject is as clear as ever, bLis thought as grand, his language as majestic and sonorous. It is really marvelous. How myny men have lived who could, like this extraordinary genius, for fifty years remain in his own country or abroad, not_ ouly undistanced, but actually unequaled in literature! Of all the brilliant “‘romanticists ™ who shone at the beginning of i he_alone remains, a iant still amongr pienitics. Lamartine Las gone; Vigny and Atfred de Musset have passed away; but Victor Hugo remains, a monument of a glorious past, and an example to a devenerate preseut. Harry ST. MICHEL. QUEEN ISABELLA’S DWARF. Corresponaence New Yorl: World. Parts, Feb. 24.—Iu one of the broad avenues of this city, near the Arcde Triomphe, lives a littleman who is Tom Thumb’s inferior in height—and, therefore his superior in dwarfish merit—by the full thickness of a pockes volume. He bias a ready wit, an intelligent face, dresses carefully, and has pienty of money, and his tura-out 1s, if not one of the most splendid, at lcast one of the neatest in Paris. He drivesa pony not much larger than a Newfoundland dog, in a trap that reminds you of the vehicles to which the goats ‘are harnessed in the Champs Elysees. Everything isin keeping about hiw, with the exception of his cigar, and that, being of the ordinary size, is biz enough 1o serve him for a walking-stick. - He has au establishment, and his servants (who, it must be confessed, are as much out of keepingas the weel, in being of the common stature) seem to treat him with the most profound respect. It is not to be won- dered at, for, to say nothing of the fact that he is their master, the gentleman in question is no less 2 person in dignity thau the ex-dwarf of her ex-Majesty the Queen of Spain. Before ber downfall Isabelia always kept a dwarf, if only to show ber recard for the \\'nf;s of her predecessors on the Spanish throne. To &m)'_’c by what one sees in the picture ga.lery at Madrid a Spanish court would have been only more incomplete without a Monarch than with- out a monster. There is the King and tiere 1s —thic Jatter often m the same picture close at haod. - Sometimes he shows ¢, as of one cver murmuring at fortune o mnade him greater than other men him immeasura- s; ometimes he seems pleasantly putled up witn a sense of self-importal as though he understood the Roval #we?” to inelude himself and his master. Many a Minister of State is misswg from the gallery, but there seems to be no break in the pictorial succession of dwarfs. When these pictures were painted nearly every,court in Europe had a curiosity of this “description. aud the little men were so highly prized that they were amoug the few objects of interest which Princes could present to one another. But the demand for them sradually ceased as common sense spread up- wards from the people to their rulers; the French Revolution brought it almost to a standstill, and the diminutive courtiers went into limbo with the last remnants of feudalism. One court, however, continued to give them an asylum; and the small gentleman who now i¥es here so pleasantly shared the contidence of Isabella with Mariori and the Bleeding Nun, and sccompanied her in her hasty flight from the Capital. He left one palace only tofind shelterin anoth- er. The Queen had laid by for a rainy day, and her Parisian exile was only less splendid thau her state at MadriG. Me had asuite of apart- ments given him - in_the regal mavsion in the Avenue du Roi de Rome, and ata fixed hour every morping he was admitted to the room of his benefactress with the lapdoz and the parrot, both brought, like himself, with no littie diffi- calty, across the frontier in those trying mo- merits when the Queen bad to surrendér every- thing but what was absolutely indispensable to hier comfort. He was of use to ber Majesty in a thousand ways; his wit entertained her, and ber favorite morning’s amusement was to see him make sport_of the old Ministers who had con- tributed to er downfall, or of thenew ones who were serving the Provisional Government at Madrid.. 1lis speeches a Ia Castelar were highly relished; and he somekow contrived to look tall for the purpose of caricaturing the gait and bearing of Fiwueras. When the latter under- touk lis desperate journey to Barcelona toquiet the Catalonian intransigentes, with Roque Bar- cia in his train, the dwarf made a great hit by appearing before his mistress one day all in red and carrying a puppet (made up in rude imita- tion of ‘the Republican Minister), of which hie puiled the strings to symbolize the relations be- tween Figueras and his unwelcome associate. Tiis representation was much applauded, ews ol it went the round of P in which_the Royal family Poor King Amadeus, who had pre the country . of course. not spared; the dwarf aliarly happy in sat touches on the solitude in which the King lived, through the refusal of the native nobility to at- tend bis court. But he was a good deal more than a buffoon —he was a trusted counselor; and beé was reaily oue of the few wire-pullerswihio shufiled puppet after puppet ofl the scene at Madrid until the stage was left clear for theentry of Alfonso, fe hada sound head, and the ‘smaliness of his aris in all kuown. jously left ud shonlders gave him _exceptional opportunitics of usingit to advantage. e was employed in confilenti ons, and in_this capacity was waluable, for he was about the only person knowa te have been formerty about tlie pe of the Queen who was allowed to euter Spain. No one thouglit of guspecting him—it was only the dwarf, sud b pital excuse for his prese in the country; he had come to look after his “ property,” a patelh of ground in the ueighborhood of Aranjuez bestowed on him one day in_a kind,of freak of good-nature by the Queen. He talked much about his property and of the pen- niless condition in which Le bad been left by the 1211 of the dynasty; and a pretended anxiety to secure his estate irom contiscation gave him an opportunity of seeing wany of the men in power and of quictly sounding them as to their dis- position towards the exiled house. But his chief business lay among the leadersof the Alonsist party: and he was the most faith{ul 20d the most intellizent of go-betweens for them and for the cabal in Paris. He was as free from molestation by all parties as the parrot could have been, and he had that birds #ift of aceurately. repeating whatever was said in his hearing, joined to an intellizence that was all his own. "His inewory was wonderful: he took 10 notes, carried no papers, but conveyed the substauceof communications from onesideto the other without losing .a single jtem of impor- tance on the way. When all. was ready, and Alfouso was sbout to start from Paris, the little man was in_high glee with the expectation of beinz promoted to the King’s suite. But the Jouns monarel was suficiently well adsiscd to cave as much as possible of his mother’s prop- erty behind him. in ideas as in personal belong- ings, and the dwarf was given to understand that, small as he was, there would uot be -room for him in the bagmage. There was another reason for lis exclusion: Alfonso simply de- tested him for the contempt which his influence in the Queen’s housebold tended to bring upon the Roval name. He was a part of a peculiarly hateful past, and_a part out of all proportion in importance to his_physical size. He was left in Paris, in fact, as_the Queen was left, because both would have been highly dangerous com- panions for a momentous journey. Isabella was nothing loath to have him with ber; she loaded 3 quent gifts hebecame what he is at this moment, 4 rich man. Alfonso would perhaps have been content to have seen both of thewm for the last time, but, as we know, be found it _impossible, in the long run, to resist bis mother’s entreaties for permission to returnto Spain. He coupled his assent, however, with one most intolerable condition: she was to leave the dwarf in Paris; and there was more negotiation on’ this article of the family pact which preceded the Queen’s Journey thawon all the rest put together—so inuch, at least, is now openly stated by likelv to be pretty well uformed. ‘The Queen ment of a courtier good-by, aud she left him for Aconsolation a well-filled purse, on which he Iuxurious Capital of the world. THE PLAYERS’ BALL. Correspandence New York Graphic. Lim with favors; and with these and her subse- peesons cried like an infant when she bude her abridie- Dow leads the life of a gentleman in the most . Paris, March 6.—Of all the public balls that are given in Paris during the gay scason, tlie an- nual Bal des Artistes Dramatigues excites usual- 1y the most -attention. Its glorics have, it is true, becn somewhat dimmed since .the days: when Racbel used to be present in full dress and diamonds, and when Madeleine, Brohan, Delphine Fix, and other celebrities of the Com- edic Francaise uged to adorn the dancing hall with their beauty, their grave, and tleir re- solendent tollettes. OF late years the stars of the Opera Bouffe and the Varicties-have had things very much their own way, but this year the “serious ” members of the profession tllck the matter in hand, and if they did not all min- gle in the dance, did not disdain to grace the boxes with their fair faces and gorgeous ap- parel. The ball took place on Saturday night last. By the rules of the socicty, the ladics who figure therein may appear either in faney dresses or in ball toilettes, while simple evening attire is strictly prescribed for the gentlemen. The Opera Cowique, where tne fete is held, time-honored hall thoagh it be. is somewhat re- stricted tn size Tor u hall of this nature, and the boses are swall, cluse, 3ad uncosfortable. By half-past 12 the toor is densely packed with gentlemen, scarce a balidress being visible amid the mass of black coats and white eravats. Half an hour later the guests begin to aitive in battalions. A special round of applause from the crowd greets the entrance of any well-known artiste in striking costume, ten damsels dressed as the millers of the Boulangere a des Ecus, and wearing enormous bats of white felt, exvitmg a special outburst of approval. The Comedie Frapeaise is represented by two very lovely women, Mlle. Reichemberg and Mme. ™ Lilic Broisat, the first in pale blue, the white, with white roses in her dark hair. The Porte Saint Martin vresents a brilliant appearance, With Jlle. Bianea fn a delicious Louis XV.- costume of white and cherry color, and wearing a coquettish hat set._on oue side of Ler elaborate and powdered coiffure, and with Mile. Dica Petit as 2 Duteh paysanue. A trying dress is this lust, but it is one that is perfcetly suited to the- wearer's somewhat peculiar fea- tures. From the Gymmase we_have Mme. Helene Monnier aud MHe. Marie Legault, the first in awhite silk ball dress, with a wreath of red roscs, and the second in a pretty bridal costume of the heoriue of thie Alarice de Madri Gras. Mile. Rejane, of the Vaudeville, fresh, fair, youthiful, and charming, wears o wondertully tasteful Bordel peasant costume, of which the prevailing tonegare crimson aud yellow. Thie most benutitd] neck and shoul Parisian staze are not indecorously displiy the exq ¢ ball-dress of pale bluc aud pale pink silk worn by Mle. Angele, of the Varie- ties. Sooth to say, the Iadiesat the Grand Charity Ball of last week wore Iar wore indeli- cate dresses thun arc those displayed by the dramatic stars to-might. Lindz, of the Palais TRoyal, and ber comrade Mlic. Mictte, are among the prettiest women present, and dauced per- sistently and with great animation. The most gorzeous costume in the room fis that of a peacock, worn by Mle. Gubrielle Ellvini, who is more a celebrity ot the demi- monde than of the theatre, thoughshe vecasion- ally fisures in soMe MINOr part in @ review or & burlesque, and where her dresses and her dia- monds never fuil to create a sepsation that her talent could scarcely arouse. Her toilette is composed of adress of pale salmon-pink 3 reaching but Jittle below the knee, and cat very low in the neck, aud with very short sleeves. The corsage 1s bordered with bands of peacock’s {eathers, and the back of the skirt is entirely composed of the same feathers set close to- I mether so as to represent the train of the royal bird. On her head she wears o hizh graduaied diadem of peacock’s feathers, setin a tiara of diamonds, avd around her neck is clasped a nificent neckiace of diamods and pearl- shaped cnieralds. Bracelets of emeralds and diamonds vomplete this novel and striki tume, which is loudly applauded when wearer first makes ber appearance in her box. But the warmest greeting of the evening is re- served for Mme. Judic, who occupies oue of the lower prosccnium boxes. She 1s all in black, with a cluster of searict roses in her dark hair, and she wears long black kid gloves that cover her arms to a pointsome inchesabove the elbow. Alas! the truth must be told respecting the beautiful quecn of the oper: boufle; she is wet- ting old and is zrowing stont, and is fast losing her dark and sparkling_beauty. She requires now the aid of the footlights and the rouge-box to produce her customary effect. There are but few of the mascunline celebrities of the Parisian stage present, the dark eyes, white teeth, and unkempt locks of Mounet- Sully of the Comcdie Francaise alone attracting special attention. The male clement of the American colony is very -fully repre- sented, however. By 1 o’clock “the dancing has become very animatéd, and many of the ladies have quitted their boxes to joinin the gay whirl. But one looks in-vain for any approach to the indecorous aperings of the masked ball. Dico Petit joins in the dance with Mounet-Sully, and 1 regret to say that the_voung and gifted trage- dian of the Comedic Francaise is an uncom- monly bad dancer. Judic descends from her box and joins in a waltz, and lovely little Maric Legaule flies around like a fairy with her white tulle veil floatine in the air. Iam told that the ball did not break up_ till half-past 4 o’clock, Dbaving been sigalized as the most crowded, brilliant, and elegant affair of the kind that has been scen in Paris for years. The receipts will add somethine very handsome to the Dramatic Fund, the calls on which are generally more extensive thau its revenue. CURRBRENT GOSSIP. THE BLACK CROOK. ‘When Richard Roe, the sable crook, Swore Joud znd long upon the book, And steeped hix perjured soul insin, To save his whisky-bloated skin, e little thought that Emery Staws ‘Would scratch him with bis legal claws, With peaked stick his steps wonld urze, And ply him well with puke and purge, Till, 'epite his puckers and bis swallers, He'd fain disgorge a million dollars, So thus shall Richard's piercing squeal Bring back unto the Commoniwenl The shekels he erstwhile did steal. What though success had for a time Quite gilded o'er Dick’s dirty erime, Now, poor, despised, and come to grief, Hle's, after all, a vulzar thief! MORAL. The honest policy's best, by gosh! For 'tis the only one will wash. QuEncus. THE MAN WIIO WEEPS. Detroie Free Press. : He entered a bakery on Grand River avenue at11 o'clock yesterday forencon. He didn't look like a neat and tidy old man about ready to join the angels, but he resembled an old man who had slept in a barn and was about ready to join a big diuner. T think,” he said as he looked around, *I think Il take o buckieberry pie.” The woman behind the counter replied that she hadn’t seen a pie of that sort for six months. “ What is collateral to huckleberry pie?”? ask- ed the man as he looked into the showease. She didu’t know, and he said he thought umpkin was, and that he would take a pump- Ein pic. She nanded one down, and, us be took out lis knife and cut into it, she said: “Tyenty cents, if you please.”? # Chanee a bill, I $pose?” he querled as he took in a twelfth part of the pie at one bite. “Yes, sir.? Have you any objections to feeling down my boot-lex"and pulling up a $10 bill " he asked 2s hie cut the sccond piece. Shesuid she had, and she furthermore hinted that e hadu’t secn a $10 bill for the last ten years. © Oh, yes I have,” he pleasantly responded as he cleared his mouth. I was looking into o broker’s window yesterday, and I saw over forty such bills,” ‘There was ona more mouthful of pie, and as he swallowed it the woman called out: Now I want the 20 cents!"” “So dol,” was his quiet answer; “hut I ‘haven't got it.” 'l call my husband and bave you kicked 1" shc‘ e\xclalmstli&" i “You wil 0 a young and vigorous man and have him beat uni bruise an ofd man like me, weak in the legs, near gone with consump- tion, and ouly barely able to stand up! That crushes what little spirit I had left when I be- gan on that pie!" He sat down by the stove and bezan to weep and sob, and after a moment she said : “You should have told me that you had no money.” X “Morc abusc—more recrimination—boo- llxmoo! he sobbed, shedding tears as large as ans. “Don’t make s0 much noise,” she chided. “There ¥ou go again, heapinz more anathe- Oh! what.a cold, cold never leave this bakery with a stain on my character—never! 1 have no money, but ou shall have my coat! Hero—take jt17 He was peeling it off, when she said shedidn’t .| want it—that she wanted him to get rizht out oy B never go out till [ requite this loo) claim—hgo-hoo!” he sul?bcd, nudflwl?c; pulled off his’ jacket and flung it after the coat. “Get out, I say—you .can.ha e—g¢ out ! she s&rumc{L % Vel ple~gct “My character (boo-hoo) must be cleared ‘belief is probably 2 form of hysteria- oh Il Jease t cno! (boo-boo), and if these arc not cn! ots, nod my.boots! Here, take my poor old 2} go forth in my bare feet!” ¢Stop—stop! I was anly in fun with you. I didu’t want no 20 cents of youany ol the time! Here are some fried-cakes and another pic—take ’em and go out " = IN ]é:n'e I—boo-hoo—cleared my character?' e asked. Yos—yes—you pre an honest man.”” ) #Shall'T leave you all my clotles?” he in- uired as lie dropped a suspender off his shoulder. ¢ No—no—no!" y “Well, I will go out, I will take along the fried-cakes and custard pie 4s mementoes of Lis oceasion, and I will go out fecling that you appreciate me.” * * Yes—I do—I do.? e He put ou his garments, took up his provis- sions, and as his tears flowed afresh, be went out, saviug: **Wheuever any one wants to break my {:cnrll; Iet’¢in call ine o dishonest ingrate. Good- ye. ¢ SNAKES IN TUE STOMACH.” New York World, March 2. Dr. A. E. Macdounald, Medical Superintendent of the Ward’s Island Insane Asylum and Pro- fessor in the Medical Department of “the Uni- versity of New York, referred in bis lecture yes- terday to the story recestly printed in the World of acolored girl in Harlem who claims to have a ive toad or lizard in her stomach. Ll bezan by speaking of the different forms of mental depression, of . the delusions of maniacs and melancholiacs, and especially of the de- lusions of persceution, illiess, and ill-treatment. With melancholiacs delusions of the body are very' comsnon, A patient on Ward’s Island believes he has been Killed three times; another insists that his head has turned to china, and is careful not to run the risk of breaking a third believes he lhas been changed into wax, and will not sit in the sun for fear of melting. Some believe they have rats or woodcocks” in their stomachs. Otbers believe that they are animals, and their fancies taking form they will go asout onall fours. The lect turer told of oue ot his patients who believes himself to be a horse, and wauts to eat grass; made himself a tail, and turns out i the ning with the other b , harnesses him- sell to a cart, and works like 2 quadruped. The Professor also kuew of a female paticut who be- Jieved hiersell a bird, ayd nearly brole her neck in attempting to fly. *¢The beliel in the extrance of animals into the body,” continucs Dr. Macdonald, “is an- other form ol melancholia. - Such is, no doubt, the case of the colored .girl in Harlem, who is reported to have 2 toad in her stow h 'Hl)ls the more probable bacause the person isa colored girl, und first_experienced this idea after a Telifrions mecting. She says sbe must have swallowed the animal at a Suuday-school picnic. The phygician who nas been advertising himself in tins case seems to forget that a toad nee air to live on as well as other animals. He that this cannot be a case of hysteria because it hus lasted three years; yet we all know that such cases oiten” 1ast that time. A someivhat similar case is redurded s baving happened some time ago. A lady believed she had a toad in her stomach, aud grew very il in conse- quence. Her physiciau, after vainly endeavor- ing to coax ber out of the idea, gave ber an cmetic, and, while sbe was vomiliug, dexter- ously slipped 1 toad_into the basin and called Ler atteation to it. Fora time she was cured, Dbut.a few weeks later she had the sane symp- toms as before, and insisted that the toad must lave given birth to some young ones, which were still in her stomacl re doctor, however, persuaded her that this could not be the case, since the animal she had thrown up was—a male. This effected a permanent cure.” Dr. Macdonald then called upon the stage, one by one, cight patients be had brought with him from the Insune Asylum and, by skillful questions, elicited from tliem accounts of their supposed disorders. One said: “1 have been onthe Island ten years. Goa Almighty seat meup. I don’t know why, except that I acted imoroperly and bad bad thoughts and tempta- tions to wrong-doine. Iwill not take a bath because I am afraid of wasting away.” An old Irishman said: “I was gent up because my mind was not rizht. I thought 1 was coming to the city to be killed.” The Doctor explained that this subject claims to have belonged to the Grand Order of Accepted Bakers and to have betrayed the pass-word, wherefore he is_in mo- mentary dread of being killed. A timid-looking little man said: I have gota doctor in ny stomach; he has been there tweunty years. can feel bim; here he 18 (putting his band on the pit of his stomach); I have got my hand on his shoulder.” Another patient said le was “filled up with witcheralt and consumption in the head.” Aunother believed he had been robbed of his heart and lungs. Another, suf- fering from hallucination of fear, believed be was followed by a band of assessins. who were, even while he was speaking, under the floor of the lecture-room. The last said he was not in- sane, but they were trying to make him so, and be had been bitten by alligators and snakes. In conclusion Dr. Macdonald called the attention of the students to the fact that hallucinations such as that of the Harlem girl are very com- mon, and are usually the result of some painful internal disease. In the cases of some sufferers post mortem examinations have revealed the existence of cancer in the parts supposed to be inlubited by animals. ¢ OLD SI*” ON EDUCATION. Attanta (Ga.) Constitution. They were Lalking about sending their children to school. Old Si suid: “Now, dese heah public schools is moighty edvancing tings ef dey don’t cos’ too much ! “Dey ain’t gwine ter cos’ us no mo’, ’kase de Council gwiue to ante up de cash de balance ob de yeah” “Dat’s all squar’, den; but yer’s got ter be be woighty *tickler *bout de kine ob eddycashin dat yer childrer: masticates dar.” “How is dat " “Well, daris two kine ob eddycashin—dat what ’Justrates, an dat what mounstrates!" 4] hieals yer, but I dou’t 'zackly ouderstand de pint.” ' “Hit’s dis den: yer kin go ter school an’ larn bout dat ralrode ingine an’ how hit's put ter- gedder, but, ef yer climes onter de cab an’ tries ter start the critter, ver's lierbul ter tetch de rong trigwer. What’s de *feckt ob dat? Wy, .ef yer suaid dar Jong 'nuff, yer'd larn how bit ‘cumi *part; but de bettin’ 'ud be gin der kurin- er’s finding all de peeces of de eddycated n(;? 's wer dat tried ter navergate de meersheen! Dat! eddycashun dat’s *Justratif, 7 ketehes the argyment. “Now, den, ’spusin’ dat, yer don’t git on de ingine an’ yer don’t go ter skool, but yer gits er Job on one ob dese farms heab. Yers wurkin® widanuder nigeer dot’s jess come outen de skool-hous’. De boss seys ter yer bofe ter go into de barn an’ git out shell-co’n "nuff to feed forty hosses fer two days an’er half! Now, what yer gwine terdo? You dot’s hin fotch up on de 1arm jess zoes out an’ shovels dat co'n inter sacks widont sturbin’ yer wool de leas’ bit; but dat udder nigger'll tuke er pieces ob chawk an’ figzrer all ober de side ob de barn *fore he's sat- ertide—aw’ dew’ll Put de hosses on Lw'f rashins when he's done! ‘Jess sol? * Dat’s eddycashun dat 'monstrates; an’ dere’s no use ob book-lar'n fer er nigwer dat don’t splane ter him how ter make erlibbin in de ole way. Dar’s too many eddycatid niggers Playin” lottery er finishin’ dar larnin’ in d¢ pen- itentiary now, you hea’d dat!” yer sec?” A COURCH INCIDENT. An amusing incident occurred recently at a church in Connecticut. The clergyman desired to call the attention of the congregation to the fact that, it being the last Sunday in the month, e would administer the rite of baptism to chil- dren. Previous to baving entered the pulpit he received from one of the Elders, who, by the way, was quite deaf, a notice to the effect that, a5 the children would be present that afterncon and be had the new Sunday-sehool books ready for distribution, he would have them ready to sell to all who desired them. After the servico the clergyman bcfnn the notice of the baptismal service thus: A1l of those haying ehildren and desiring to have them baptized will bring them this afternoon.” At this point the deaf Elder, hearing the name of children, supposed it was something in reference to his books, and, rising, said: **And all of those having none and desiring them will be supplied by me for the sumn of 25 cents each.”—Ezchange. AN OFFICE-SEEKER. A little auecdote is told by the New York Times' London correspondent. concerning Palm- crston: A persistent oflice-sceker found an appointment that would suit him, and he Nad political influence. It was necessary, however, that. he should learn Spamsh. *Come to me when you have got_over that obstacle,” said Lord Falmerston. Six montbs hence the office- secker returned, when the noble Lord had to regret that there wasnow no opening in the direetion in which the oftive-secker sousht pro- motion. “And I have been at the trouble of learning Spanish for nothing,” said the disap- pointed applicant. - “No,” said Lord Paimer- ston, “on the contrary, I congratulate you on an acquisition which Wil afford you the delight of reading ‘Don Quixote’ in the original.” - FINANCE AND TRADE. Close of an Uninteresting Week in Local Finances. The Produce IMarket I.eé Active, but Steady---Provisions ‘Tame and Easier. Yheat Stronger---Flour in Good De- mand---Other Breadstuffs Quiet. FINANCIAL. The business of the Chicago banks has been lim- ited during the past week. Paper has been made in small quantitiss. Dusiness has been quiet with- out as well as within finuncial circles, and tae nceds of borrowers have been jncreased ouly by some slowness In collections. The loanable re- sources of the banks have increased during this slackened demand, and good borrowers have had no ditticalty in procuring accommodatjon on fa- varable terme, Rates of discount have been 8 and 10 per cent at the banks to regolar customers; on the street, bank rates are asked. The supply of paper is light. New York exchange was quoted without vasia- tion at 50@7>c per $1,000 premium between banks. Shipments of currency to New York continue. “The clearings of the week ure reported as fol- lows by Mamager D. R. Hale; of Ile Chicago Clesring House: Balances. 231,790 P i $1.654,325 1,655,029 Total ....§15,859.575 Corresponding week ins year.. .. 16.080.08 TIE LONDON MONEY-MARKET. The value of money contines gradually to creep ap, in epite of the exceedingly small number.of mercantile bills in the discount market. To-day 13 per cent is the lowest discount rate at which the banks and discount houses will work, and there scems to be a pretty general agreement that the open market rate will be up level with the bank minimum next week. At the same time last year bullion was coming here to remain, mow it is steadily leaving us, with the value of moncy half that which raled in March, 1876. The-bank reserve is £13,000,000 now, as compared with £11,000,000 then; and the private deposits were incressmg them, while now they are declining, The heavy sellingof foreign securities to Continental markets was goingon at the time referred to, and money was coming lere for safe Keeping as a consequence of apprehensions of war. Fears on this ground having been materially al- Jayed, the fonds have been largely withdrawn. We believe the large banks which had their suplus bulauces forced into idleness by the pressnce of these forcign uccumulations have now nearly all they require to put out tolerably well employed. A twelvemonth hus conscquentiy wrought an im- portant chanze in the aspeet of this money market. No gold will now come here to remain without a rise in the value of money. This being the posi- tion, it is not dificult to understand that much more gold cannot be exporied without necessitating arise in the bank rote.—London Times' financial article, March 10. THE MONTEAL PA: > The panic precipitated by the irregularities dis- covered in the conduct of the City Passenger Rails way Company had by Wednesday settled down to a steady decline. The fact is apparent that the banks have not all preserved their usual caution in deal- th the Company and making advances on its shares, DBank of Montreal declined und closed at 196%, while Bank of Commerce closed at 11734. Other stocks uffered in less and varying dezrees. GOLD AND GREENBACKS. Gold was 1043{@104, backs. Greenbucks were 931:@ cents on the dollar in zold. C. FOREIGN EXCHANGE. Siztydays. Sight. AR08 408 of nuaryzand.Jul of "63—Jar.uary and Jul Unired $tatds new 5sof '8i. TUnited States currency 5s. BROKERS' QUOTATI Chlcao City 7 ¥ ct. honds. . Clifenzo City 7 ¥ CC. sewerage.. “hicago City 7 ¥ ct. waterloan. bonds (1ol bonds (L. Cook County 7 ¥ ¢t NorthChicnigo 7 3 City Railway, South City Laltway, West *And laterest. BY TELEGRAPI. NEW YORK. NEw Yong, March 24.—Gold opened and closed at 104%, with sales in the interim at 1043, Carrying rates 1 and % pec cent. Loans were also ‘made flat at 1@2 per cent for borrowi Silver ot London, 53% pence. Here silver 18 ecarce, and bars are: Greenbacks, 123;gold, 117%. Coin 1¢ discount. Governments active and strong. Railroad bonds generally higher on a fairly act- ive businces, State bonds guiet and eteady. Pricesnominal. The strong stock market o decidedly developed yexterday still shows strength. There has been a slict decline in geveral of the active stocks fo- dsy, but it has been so small, compared with the advance of yesterday, that it may fairly be con- sidered that 2 better feeling still continues. The market was strong and higher at the opening, re- acted somewhat early in the duy, followed by a re- covery,and was generally firm during the last hour, the closing priccs in omc instauces being the highest of the day, New York Central rising to 935, Lake Shore to 50%, Delaware & Hudson to 505, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western to 60. llinois Central declined to 48, Rock Island 10100%. Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy closed at 1023(@103. Chicago & Alton rose to 93 bid. Transactions aggregated 150,000 sharce, of which 8,000 were New York Central, 47,500 Lake Share, 48,600 Deluware & Lackawanna, 4,400 Del- aware & Jindson, 2,050 Chicsgo, Barlington & Quincy, 52,400 Western Union, and 4,000 Pacific Mail. Money market easy at 2@3 per cent, closing at 244 ; prime mercantile paper, 33@5. Customs receipts, $241,000. ‘The Assistant Treasurer disburacd $18,000. Clearings, $18,000,000. Imports of gencral merchandise for the weelk, 7,039,000 " Produce exports for the week, Sterling exchange quict; long, 481: short 486. The weckly bankk statentent is as follows: Loans, increase, S13,100; specie, decrease, $2,016.700; Tegol-tendors, incrensc, ST,173,900; deposits, fn crease, $2.100; circulation, increase, $163,200; reserve, decrease, £843, 325, 163200 GO ES 7 7 Coupons,'81. Coupons, 'G5. New. Coupons, Coupons, 'G8.. Aiissour! Pacinc. indiana Gentra Harlem pi Michigan Central Tanama.. Unfon Pac {Hfannibel & S, 3o Lake 34 Ce nt Tillnol S8 B onds. o bo ore. s Cen 7 Cleveland & PIitabirg 895 Rorthwestern .. - Northwestern pd. Tennessee, old Tennessee, new A Virginis, oid. . FOREIGN. LoNpos, March 24.—Amount of bullion with- dragn from the Bank of England on balas to-day, £10,000. s s Conéole, money and acconnt, 96 3-16. American wccurities—'5s, 1053: 678, 100; 10-40s. 108% 5 new 3¢, 107%; New York Central, 93: Eric, 6% preferred, 17%; 1llinois Central, 47, Panis, March 24.—Rentes, 107f 40c. FRANKFORT, March 24.—New 58, 1034. COMMERCIATL. The following were the receipts and shipmenta of the. leading articles of produce in tls city daring the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o'clock time last. year: Receipts. Flour, bris, Wheat. bu. G. anpics, orl: Beans, bu. . Withdrawn from store during Friduy for city consumption: 2,216 bu wheat, 445 bu corn, 702 bu rye, and 6,950 bu basley. i The following zrain was inspected into store in this city on Satnrday morning: 3 cars No. 2 N. W. wheat, 5 cars No. 2 spring, 2 cars No. 3 do, 2 cars rejected do, 2 cars no grade (14 wheat): 20 cars hizh mixed corn, 0 cars new do. 22 cars mew mized do, 137 cars No. 2 corn, 18.cars rejected do, 1 car no grade (216 corn) ; 3 cars white oate, 9 cary No. 2 do, 7 cars rejected do(10 oats): -6 cars No. 2 rye, 4 cars rejected do: 1 carrejected barléy. . Total, 260 cars, -or 107,000 bu. Inspected out: 15,616 bu wheat, 5,987 bu corn, 3,127 bu oats, 3,758 bu rye, and 9,652 bu barley. The following were the receipts and shipments of breadstnfls and live stock at this point during the past week. and for the corresponding weeks enulng as dated: : Recelpts— Cattle, Shipments— Flour, brit Wheat, b Corn, b Oats, bu, f.‘. hoga, N Aurch 24, March 17, March 25, 1877 1870, foria have mot been thoroughly moistencd this winter, and dry out rapidly. 1ook for an export surplus of more than 300,000 tons, and it may not be more than 150,000 tons, against nearly 500,000 tons Jast year. What s chauge for o wheat corer in Chicago! Scarcely anything comlng in, with no prospect of increased receipta for several weeks to come; and a corner in Milwaukee to keep up the price there! The leading produce markets were moderately active Saturday, and therc were no estensive changes in prices except that wheat was stronger. Provisions were easy, corn firm. and oats dull. ‘The weather was again snow-stormy, which tended to higher prices in grain, but the receipts were not materially affected by it, the volume of corn arriv- ing being greater than for many days past. The shipping movement was slow, the trading being chictly for future delivery. There was a very fair movement in dry goods, denpite the unfaverable weathber. The mail order Dbusiness was of liberul proportions, and the selec- tions of buyers who were present -in person were algo fair in the aggregate. No changes in prices were noted, the market maintaining a steady tone. Groceries met with a fair inquiry, and for most lines the market was comparatively steady. In the butterand cheese markets no changes were appa- rent. Dried fruits were quiet, excepting raisins, prunes, and currants, for which a very fair demand cxisted. Apples are in large supply, in timited demand, snd weak. Other domestic dried ruled comparatively stcady. The fish trade was qnict at previous quotations. No changes were apparant in the leather market. Trade, though better than a fortnight gzo, is not active by any means, and the desire to stimnlate trade leads to a more or less liberal shading of prices. Bugging was quoted quict and easy. Ofls were denlt in eparingly at about former fignres. Carbon and lard were firm. ‘White lead was steady at $9.75 per 100 b, Ilogs were active and steady at $: 40 for light, and at $5.20@5.75 for heavy. Cattle were in good demand and were firm at $3.25@5.85 for common to choice. Shecp were quiet at $3.25@ 5, At the lnmber-yards business was light Satur- day, and but few fresh orders were received, the bad weather having curtziled trage in all direc- tions. The sced market was reported to be more active and firm for clover and timothy, while other sceds were unchanged. Wool, broom corn, and hay were quict. Hides were in fair requestand firm. The demand for green fruits was moderate, the storm cutting off a good deal of trade, but most varieties were firmly beld, the offerings being only fair, and the eeason for native fruits is mearly over. Poultry was in good demand and firm. Potatoes were strong, being in fair retail request and limited supply. Eggs were firmer. TRail freights were dull and irregular, with no change in asking figures. The nominal rate was 35c 1o New York and 40c to Boston per 100 Bs of grain. Provisions to Liverpool were guoted at 50¢ specie per 100 B, Lake freights were quiet, with no change in figures. Corn to Baffalo was quoted at 34@3%c,” and 72 to Kingston, to load immediately, Forseveral days past regular No. 2 barley has been quoted at 53@5345c, while receipts in sev- cral specified houses have soldat 56@60c. The reason forthis has been an enigma; but it is now asserted that the No. 2 in rome houses is but lit- tle, if any, better than No. 3, and is, therefore, discriminated against by buyers who are getting orders from consumers. The discrimination has been most severe agninst the No. 2 in the Galena Elevator, anda comiuttee i8 now understood to be exumining the grade in that house, and will probably render a report early this week. Itis thought by come partics in the trade that a move- ment is on foot to have the Galens No. 2 declared irregnlar. The following table shows the number of cars of wheat inspected into store during the tweaty-four deys of March, 1877, as compared with the same time 1876 and 1875: Yol 77 7 e Rejected. Comeraanisbie L] Total... o T sevansesacess 285 & Chi o GOODS RECEIVED at Chicago Customs, March 5i: Seche Lreakey, 100 boxes tin plate; A. B,Mcekel: ukcflf }Iwrk'pl e (;sglh"fl\;lef BKOS.A. 107 sacks salt; L. C. (ucl a u_barley. m - lected, $0,700.07, -, Amount of dutles col PROVISIONS. HOG PRODUCTS—Were quict and rather weak, but ‘Without extensive change from previous prices. Hogs were in moderate supply and steady, but there was | latter batnz Tence they do mot - advanced 10c per br durlog the carly art of the sy slon, and thea declined 15¢, closing 5 below the Ly, prices of Friday. Sales were reported ¢f 35 brls cub gy, : 4,000 bris seller April at S13.00G14.05: 1,55 - . bris seller May,ad $14.05814.2234; a0d 1,250 brls iy - “Junoat$11.221§314.25. Total, 19.810brls. Themy, . ket closed tame st $19,875@13.90 for round lots of .67 $B13.00 scller April: Sig.qg aud 534.225@14 23selier Juge. 7 ‘were. made of 300 Dris prime mess pork, s and 140 brls extra prime at $9.5:89.75, P r % rp—Was qulet and tame, decliaing - pir i 5¢ loser tian the Jatest prices of s elosiag oc lowct than (b ateat peices’ oy “day, thoogh L 20! 23 $iles were Tegoried of 560, fes canh aco, s B0 el at 95,57540.451 420D, 10 L3 1eler My' 00,5736, To sea. “The markes ey .30 for round lots cash o £3.57°59.40 selltr Adrils $9.4755 £0.30 kT nd §9.606:9,62 4 suller June. teller s—Vyere dull, wish no material chanze in pr shiougl phe marke: tonded doWRWSTds o3 Nzt bgot: fngs. The Inquiry for shimmeat was very niodenie a0 the prices asked were generaily above buyery e, fts. -Salcs were reporied of 50 1S Sweet plekied hymy (18 1he) at 8¢; 50 hoxes ICDE cut hams on private termy: and 730,001 T3 SHOFE Tibs 8t ST.456T.47 seller Aoy and ‘$7.55@7.0234 seller May. The {ollowing were 1y closing quotations; Shout- Short Long Gepy Gors, ride, clears cia o R s o 7 Stag 1 3 A1 Lbng and 307 Guoted a¢ e casnor Aphl and Tise aetler May. Cumberlapds quiet st I G o, e, ali bosed: sweet-plokied oy & reen hams, 7G5 8 uon quoted at 8o for sioulders, £5{c for short iy e Tor Mors altare, 10346114 tor bams. il Sarie S packed: : OneAsz—iVas qulet st 528c. Y PRODUCT > Were steady and qulet at $1d3y GIT.0h formess; SIL7GE1.00 (o extra mess: ant oW \as quotéd at TEETH for cliz, and O s, el b RAP Gyl i . BREADSTUFFS. FLOUR~Was {n good demand sad stronger. The fa. quirs waslargeiy for cxpart, the Jocal trade also faking hold o littie more frecly. The lower grades wem chicly wanted for shipment. Prices were a shala llgher on some Iots, but there was o gencral chang In quotations. Eales were reportedof 150 bris winters, . partly at §7.55; 8,975 brls spring extras ot $2,00G7.00 ard 150 bils spring supertines ut SA.75EL85. Tota, 1,775 brls. The market closed Airm. with the followiazes the asking range of prices: Cholce winters. S7.5048.00; medium winters, $6.5047.00; low grade do, $6.003 6.25; cholce apring extrus, S8.5087.00: medlum da, $6.0050.25; shipoing extras. $5.50@5.75; cholds pat- ents, $6.0029.50 ; common do, S8.5037.50; gring supcriines, $4.0025.00. Rye flour, SLITHEL50. Buck wheat o, $6.0067.50. * BRAY~TVas In good demand and stronger. $13.75 per ton on track beln;z biL. with no oerings. Corx-MEAL—Cons¢ Was nomioal at $15.25 per ton $19.50&20.00 for hams. o track. : WHEAT—Was more setive, and stronger. advanclng 1%c, and closing 3c above the latest 1 i wltih 8 widealn ouc of the May premiuin to $)c. Tia publicadvices from Liverpool called that market stcady, with carrecs firm, but private cables were stronz T tome, and New Sofk feraors quoted a kood shipplsg d:mand, and_hoiders askinz an advaace of 2c from 2 Mlllwaukce the previous evenin st or cxport, ~ The public telegram from New York 10 yhings quict. as usval, The continued stormy Tizght recelpts, and a sziall decresse fn our siocky in_ store, were elemeats of strenzth, fo waleh some added a decline o Dritish consuls—txe mun;n1§ not due to any political complieations. The shorts houglit freely, the demaad befu chiety for May. which caused the increase in the premium, - Cash wheat was In falr Tequest, with prob. ably some sales not reportéd. Seller May opencd at s and receded . to $1.31, , advanced to $ suatk¢’ at the close. Seller June sold as J:@35c aboye May. Seller April sold at S1.26@1.26%, closfaz at $1.201. Selicr the mi atb. or regula; spriaz, was quoted at e below April.closiag 3¢ S Cash sales were reporced of 10,000 b 2p § 1,4C0hu do at SI.2o3: 82 31.17: 800 burefecied do at 1.400 bu by Aamiple at 75c@31. ) oo track, and $1.256 1 on board cars. _Total. 14,000 bu 0T WiEAT—Was [n good demand and firms with lizht. offerinze. Sales were 1,400 bu No. 2 (% Atorage) at $1.40%, and 400 bu by sample at $1.39% on tract L Was more active. chiefy for May. and ad- vanced Lc carly, but fell bazk afterwards 1o the closing riccs of kritay. Lirverpoul was unchanged, except aa 2 on carszoes, and New York wad dall, hag the one weathier, aud sympathy with wheas, brought out inore buyers, the résulting sreneth being dispelied by the posthiis of the fact that 216 car-Ioads had beon Inspected Ity store. 1t was reporid. that the country has bean geillaz very licde May.cora for two or three days past, nnd that thiere are several lurge orders here for shipment, hiut 1mitsd 10 furures which are a lile below current quotations, There was not mach in- auiry for cash luts, local consumers takinz the sample lots,” while rezulir was dall. ~ Sefler May opencd at 42%e, ndsanced to 4ic. cloge. Seller April sold at at 4344@iatic, hoth cloein month was nominal at sincu Iast Wednesduy closed at 41%ar. reported of 10,000 bit No. 2 at 1 @103 ler June Seller the and s e inside. th 30%e, and receipts dated Uasi saley weere Lu new hizh mixed 3t 3ve: 2K0 bit ¢ .00 bu shielled. Iy sample, at 33@11¢ un trad G4C0 bu do a2 SVbie e free on board cara. Total, .~ . OATS—Were dull and weak at the inside prices of Friday. Samgle oats were fafrly sctive, and glit-eized Tecelpts of No. 2 were In request, but futares tle better than nominal. - April was quoted at 3215 sefl- ers, and May =t 347.@5c, Berular, oats were luactive nt 32, and glit-edzed recelprsof No. 2 sold at 3p¢e. Licjecied outs were quuied a . according to dats ana lacation. The recelpts were oaly falr, and the shipmenis llzht. 'rs were buy- Loval denl < the sampies. the offering Lasnsaten were roported of u: Ko, 2 at e 10200 bit by samnle at Hxeus¢ on track: and 9,000 by at 20@3¢ free on board. Tutal, 22200 bu. RVE—Was 1 falr request, and firmer ander offerinzx, and In sympathy with wheat. No. = £01d at 864+ 66 *fc. and March or Aprfl were quni E it sfes were reported of 1,600 bit Yo, 2 0L 6 ;1,200 bu by sample at Gi@35¢ on track.” Total, ARLEY—Was quiet and Ittle better than nominal Tutures. while a few orlers for car lots, chivfly of ckly report of cms to =how a considerakl I the stock dorin the pust wee 530 aud Aprilas 5. miea o The Wer Eleyator, winfer recelpix, soid at: Co.’sat56c. Alot of do In Gul thrown on the market and 30! and fresh fn N little demand for products, and some holuers grew rather anxious In conscquence, which resuited In o shading of prices, thongh reports from other marketa were rather favorable o sellcrs. The stocks of provisions at this port are estimated to ;:nulmruc 155,000 t0 160,000 brls pork, and about 60,000 s la The *‘summer " packing to date Is estimatea at 111, 600 head of hogs, against 82,417 for same time last year, The following table shows the shipmentsof provis- fons In detall for the week endlog March Gross Tes. | Boxes.| Pieces, weelans, 1,239)"1.060; 5, 166 1,351,109 1081 7,67 24,3360 5,843,708 617] 30,001 1,668,214 301,804 other plegs of Jard, and 295 other plkga of Rms. The Cincinnatl Price Current gives the following statement of barreled pork made, and of the production of lard reduced to tes at 320 Da: Al Kinds pork. || Tverces lard, 151&7.“’;:54"“187& 1875-8. Total Amount of mess pork made. 310,387 -brls, agalns| 200,461 1asL year. _increase in mesa pork, fimfimf increase 1n pork of all Kinds, 92,020 brls. eturns from elghty-two Interior poinita eive an az- ate packing of 1,433, 140, ogalnat 1,964,223 durtag Kejected was quoted Sam) request, but cholce los were chiefl offrings of ‘euch were small. . No. 2 Canuda sold Ly mole at_90: ou track. Cash fales were reparted of 700 bu No. 3t 805@57C; 1,200 bu No. 3at Jdeie; 1600 bu 3ample at 3350 on track. Total, 7,500 bu BY TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN CITIES. Special Dispaich to The Tribune. LIVERPOOL, March 2i—11:30 3. m.—FLOCR—N0. L 258; No. 2, 24s. GuAry—\Whest—Winter, No. 1, 108 10d: No. 2. 103645 spring. No. 1, 103 8d; No. 2, 95 84; white, No. 1, 188 8J; No.2, 103 5d; club, No. I I1s; No.2. 103 81 Corn—New, No.1, 238 3d; No. 2, 235; old, No.1, 248 No. 2, 245 6d. ProvistoNs—Pork, 60%. Lard, 50s. LiverrooL, March 24—evening.—CoTroN—Qulct, but steady at 6}(@G7-16d; sales, 6,000 bales; speculation and export, 2,000 bales; American, 4,000 bales. were in ‘wanted. ani the BrEADSTUFFs—Callfornia white wheat, 103 5d@fhs 8d; 108 81@115; No. 2 to No. I Fed Western spring, 03 84@103 8d: do winter. 10¢ 842103 101. Flour —Western canal. Corn—YWestern mited, 243 343 0d; new do, Z1S@E233 G, Onts—Amerfcan, & od. Barley—33 60, Peas—Canadian, 833 6d. CLOVER-SEED merican, 06808, ProvisioNs—Mess pork. 60s. Prime mess beef, 738, }f‘l:rgx—.weflcun‘ 50y, Bacon—Long clear, 30s: shurt S 6. TaLLOW—American, 40s 6. PrTROLECM-Spirits, 10d; refined, 134. Li D (IL—268. ale, 43s. 73s. > DOY, Marcl zen OrL—Calcatts, 4586d. SPIRITS TURPENTINE- ASTWEEP, March 24.—PETROLEUM—36L. NEW YORK. Nzw YoRK. March 2i.—CorroN—Quiet st 1143 11)c: futures closed steady; March, 11.39@114%c: April. 11.41&11.42c; May, 1L.57411.5¢; June, 11.733 11.74c; July, 11,85@11.87c; August. 11.93@1 September. 11.79@11.50¢; Octobs vember, 11.55@11.56¢; December, 11.55@11.58¢. FLOUR—Firm and less active: recetpts, 7,000 bris: No. 2, $4.50@5.00: superfine State and Wetern, $5.75 ®6.10; common to good extra. $G.KGE.10; good to cholce, $6.15G6.30; white wheat extra. S$6.3557.10; fancy. $7.15Gi8.50; extra Ohio, $6.0038.00: St. Louis, 5081 £0.00@29.00: 3 Rive tour unchianged. COEN-MEAL—Qulet but frm: Western, $2.65@3.00 GrATS—Wheat strouszor, with little belier export 200 spring. $1.25G1.33; Green ‘moderate milllug demand Bay soring firm at $1.48: 2 Miiwaukee fn store, dostraighty SL40: No. 4 Clilcag spring, o calied toarrive, $1.30; do atraight Leldut ST+, Kye qulet but flom; Western.. &xgsuc. Barley—Markee dall aud declining, Malt qulet and heavy: two-rowed State. 85c. Corn—Tiecelpis. 51,000 bu; néw in modernte ex- Port home trade démand: oldIn falr demand for expo aucd Western mixed. S325515cs at steady pricea; ung i in_storé, 51@36c, Oats—Market dull and scarcely s Srm; recclpts, 12,000 bu: Western mixed and Staic, 38a@5ic; white do, T4@RSYc. Har—Unchanged. i € ! |xnl:hnlm:ed. a hanged. Bugar nizs—Coffce quict ond nnchanged. iet and unchanged. Mofasses quict and unchaged: Rice quiet but steady: PETROLETN—Firmer, with light offeringa; crade, 10} @l1c; refined, mx@pc;mm. “2c; naphtha, 1L ai TALLOW—Steady. Strarskp ResiN—Steady, at $2.05@2.10. SPIRITS TCRPENTINE—Stcady, Bt40c. EcGs—Heavy: Western 15@I16)c¢. Tizr—Firm; Califosnia, 22@2sc; common do, WooL—Dull and heavy: domestic fleece, 33@5ic; pulled, 20@13c; unwashed, 12@23c; Texas, 13G23C. PROVISIOXS—Pork market dull and easiers new mcss, §14.90: April, SI4.75. Beef quiet; middies steadr; Western lo0g clear, 8c; gity do, 8%c. Lard-Market easler: prime steam. £0.83; April, $.6069.82%5. BrTTER—Unchanged. Irm at 96 15%c. uletar $1.07%. e e e Coer Rl bt HEsdve s ¢ Lake quiet bug firm at IDh@IDic: PIR- Ed:':envy‘IS oty 5347527 o American, $17.008 .50.[ussla sheeting, 103 cI1c 10 50 55 Naivs—Steadys cut.’ $3.00; clinch, $4.5085.255 ‘horsehoe, S JETTINE SCALES. FAlRSANKS' STANDAKD SCALES oF ALL xinDS. FAIRBANKS,MORSE & C7, 111 & 118 Lake St., Chicago. Becarcful tobuyoaly the Geauie,