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

TIIE CIICAGO TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25 1877, ‘broom-corn, seeds, hides, and hiny were quie g 1ittia better than nominal, On the streot hastnees was done ecarly In ponltry, game, and ecelpta alnca v ° $5 fenita. Poultry sud game were ensfor nnder large | Frfuay. udshicad yard stock 10tal for the week ending I th d 1,7 S (not offerings of soft and paor stack. The cholca re- | Sh shraonh and s 43 yant fost Woeks N0 market for ast weeky market s ahade frmer at €4.60 @$.70per 1001be live, ZAST LINERTT. 1keq net rerelpta, 8,570 falee, 15003 constwine, 1,2, CnaRLzeTON, Drc. 34,~(0TTox—Qulet; midditng, 10%&10%c: not recelpts, 5,540 bales; anles, 800; to tha continent 8,078, Bavaxxam, Dec. 22.—Cotron—Qulet; middiing, ®HAs receipte. A, 8701 to do with reducing t ce of United States bonda; the matter is one of commeretal probicy between the country and {te credizors. There nre no algns of the vresence of Mezican flollars in unusunl sums. The Philadelphiaresolutions FINANCE AND TRADE. nce Lomnany ChicAgo (- Light & Coke Diminishing Activity Among the f tha Bonrd of Trade ate very wood ones. Tho Cusmber af Commerco. cefpts sold quickly, but the stock that had been in- 3 10Mes. mat roceipts 6,221 haloss Fross Focelpis, & 4741 | w i it 1l fu'e {4 J th R " d whole question Ia one of econflicting sectional Banks-~-Clearings, L i IEH ey the aln wan hard to el ot any price, {-’fi;%fi":.:fiwx:"’fifi B IO T SR 3 [ mtes, 1400, fntereste, mud tho peojila. i West scem to Uo nrkeys eold at 7@10c, chickens Al ¢, and o B8 9.0 = afllieted with silver viras. e GRAIN 1N BTORE. XK. .\ Dec, 2. . # cntiemer 0 NEW TORK. o PALTINORR, Dee, 24. TTLE—Doll; frriees, conatd. | ments, and entirely snsended by some Jeading com- | the romonetization of sllver wero consulted, and Currency Changes for Two Months 15 the Saters danaetalil Bk . ;l;:ao:flmwg;;r‘: ‘.“;: :f.:l:l;r‘" ::l;h:m 1‘::‘::": gring ’q_u‘-’ycwmm«mfl, SR, b “é’I"' @sHer orat | mission Houaes and jobhers. thelr yiews, tnken se & wholc, may e brief ~sNovomber Losses New Yons, Dec. 24.—0oid anll at 102K, Car- 1 a At datess Baen st JToceipiaL 1, 3481 Raes: 303 & rememiw stated, Thoy contend that. ths Funding bilf, tring rates at2to 5 Exceptional loans made flat. ing of Satnrday last and corresponding dates: tions. and steady; ‘range, 830c; recelpts, TURPENTINE. although not chargeablc with all the mischlef, by Fire. Ting cohindic Dee. 23, Ixe 18 Dec. 3. | 3810, Witsmixotox, Doc. 34.~Brinits of Toaraxtine— | has had more to do with bringing down United Sliver at London DBdlgd. Herosilver M"In“&z %.pfl"'-w T 1877, “W'(m ';fluhnullmwlnnehmnmnnmloa!(elmulvl.n Firmy 204e. ¥ States seenritfos than the Stiver bill. The 12014 In greenbacks and 117 gold. 8llvor cof §oln Woos J e ) s i . five-twenttes wero directly alfected by the Fund- Ing i), and the other classes of buruls doubtless auffercd In sympathy with them, It s non- sense to say that tho natlopal debt conld or would be paid in silver, even If the Bland bill aircount, ared. Governments weak and lower. Railrosd bonds were firm, Btate sccurities wera quict. TIE CURRENCY. “DON'T HOTHEIR THE 8YNDICATE.” The Harkets Qulet—Searcely Anything Dolng in Prodace—Waeat and Corn Stroger~— . Provisions 8leady. BT, Lovrs, Mo,, Dec, 3i.—linas—Dend dully o few scattering sales for packing at $3.7343.00) reccipts, 4,000 ChTrie-yery dulls demand Iy vory lights I g GrAR R B A ] 3 i Years recoiptr, 315, = To tre Editor af The Tribune, became nlaw. Where'would the siiver como i Sarine i uREr_Ra shipyinig, and vory lght butshers de- | Cnicaco, Dec. 2h—an ftem similar to tho | from? This conntry produces only £55,000,000 following a short time nzo appeared In the pa- pers: ' Unless there {s Ioss silver talk in Con- greas and among the peoplo, the Byndicate de- elaro 1t will be npossibic to dlspose of the now 4 per cent lan.” And the bullfonlst press com- mented upen it In’ this atyle: *“Don't theas silver lunatics sce what they are dofng? Dun't they sco tiat this silver talk bothers the Bynal- cate, who, by disposing of 8 loan at a low Inter- est ond toking up bonds that are drawing a high rate, are saving the country millions an- nually, and thereby reducing the public debt?” Yet the people grow! and say they are starving —tho Wiotic fools! ot can that bo when the Syndiento Is paying off the debt by saving In- terest! 1f the Byndicate aud the Government 18 let alone in this matter great results aro suro to follow. Forin a fow Fears after tho gold #pniis* have nulonded thelr gold, as they per annum, and the surplus silver of Europe, to tho enorimons amount of $200,000,000, fiuds o ready outiet in Chinn and Inilia, We are nnder the tutelage of forefgn syndicates and have not, thus far, dared to think for oursclves. Shail wo have in our mines conntices mitlions of the Pmclnuu metals and not presume Lo usa them or our own beneflt juat beeausd the doing po might somewhat Inconyemence the moncy centres of London, Paris, Franklort, or Berlinl What tho American people stand mostlyi in need of is an _abundance of silver. The bond- holders shall have dollar for dollar and cent for cent on their investments, but the peopleof this cotntey ate golng to uso for their own benefit tho wealth that a bounteous Naturc has placed at thelr disposal, denly deeided to close np business from that honr until Wednesday morning at 13. The market closed very strong, and the balls bad complete con- trol up to the closing hour, The active and atronge est apeciaities wero Lake Shore, St Panl common and preferrad, Northwestern common and pres ferred, Nock Toland, Pacifc Mail, and Weatern Union. Transaciions were 0, 000 shares, of which 21,000 wera Lake 8hore, 13,000 Northwestern, 5000 St Paul common, 7,000 preforred, and 6,000 Western Unfon, * Money, ya‘l. closing at 0. Prime morcantlie P lones Faceipte, $215,00. ‘aatoms racelpts, $215 000, ‘The Asstslant Treasarer dlsbursed 807,000, Clearings. $18, 000,000, Produce exports for the weok, $6,467,000. Sterling qulet; 3 Coupons, '81. 3, FINANCIAL, The small smount of clearings Indicates more Plainly,than anything else the low levol of faancial operations. The adjournment of the Bonrd of Trade carried & good denl of business over to Wedneaday, and the continoance of tho soft weather had jts effect in keeping down the volume of tranesctions, This state of thinga e beginnlag 10 tall unfavorably on the wholesale houses of the clty. Worss weather hasnot been obscrved slnce the winter of 1802-'03, snd therc 18 not now the temporary stimulus of the War, as then, to keep things going. Merchanta cannot make their collec- tlons and cannat ecil thelr goods, and thia is trae of those In the cauntry as well s thoso {u the city. Many findthemaelveadependent npon thabanks who fu ordinary times would bave no need of auch ac- commodation. The supply of discounts under these clrcumatances was not satisfactory. The BY TELBEGRAPIL FORFIGN CITIES. The followlng wore rocefved by the Chicago Bosrd of Trade: Livzaroot, Drc. 24=11 4, m,—\Wheat—Winter, 110 1188d; soriog, 108 4d@11e Bt white, 128 74@120 11d1 Clud, 121 101@130 24, Corn—New, 2v8 8diold, 200013 500, Pork, 568 Lard, s Toxvox, Dee, 24—Liverpool=Wheat Rrm. Comn stondy, Mark Lane—TWheatand corn firmer. Cargoos off coast—tWheat firm, Corn qulct: falr avorsge Atner- fean mized, D0e@osfd, Cargoes on pasange—Wheat trm. Corn quiety Country markets for wheat—English Ashadodearer. Frenchatifl. Arrivale off const for or- ders—Wheat small, Com large. Sceclal Dirpatch 10 The Chicagn Tribune. Liveneoat, Doc, 24-11 A m,—0RAIN—Wheat— winter, No.T, 11a0ds No, 2 114y spring, No. 1, 118 No, 2, 10s4d1 white, Ko, 1, 12s11ds No.2. s 7d; club, No. 1, 138241 No. 2 124104, Corn—New, 20y ad; ol 204 806308, THROWING UP TIHHE GOLD SPONGE. Bpectal Dispatch to the New Tork Tribune, WasNRGTON, Dee. 31.~The Bland Siiver till 1s bound fo pass the Benate when Congress fo- Counons, '6: banka conll rendily take more negotiabla paper, Trovisioxa~Pork, . Lard, 42a. have unlogded sliver lately, tho basis .wiN get assembles. No event of ' the future Is more cer- and yet kecp themaelves as strong as needed in 1L3vrRPo0ta Dec. 2¢-Tatest. ~Corrox—No ales. umscttled; then the Hothechilds and a | tain. It may oo amended so that freo coloage cash means, Ttates of disconnts wors 8@10 per Tineaparerrs~California white wheat, (28 7aatzs | GoB 0 UG bt T or tnance | for privats account shall not beallowed. The cent at {ho banks to Pegnlar customers, and on the 1143 do elnb, 123 1045434 243 Xo. 2 to No.1 rel Western Bu amount of fegal-tender sliver doltars fssued may bo lmited to $4,000,000 8 month, though that would be an amount more than four timesas great os the sfiver coinago of all the double- standard countries of Enrope combined (France, Belgium, 8witzerland, Italy, and Greece) during the present year, and moro than cight tincs as great as the siiver colnage of France with o pop- will buy up all the existant first-water dfa- taonds; then matters will be In good shape for more demanetization all round. The Govern- ment will then bo able to fund the dobt intda nesver loan at 23¢ per ccot on & diamond bnsta, Look nt that saving of {ntereat! But n hea- yen’s namo **don't bother the Syndicate ¥ while they are negotiating this dinmond losn, for If {ou do, see the millions tke country will bo strect 7 por cent for call loans, leurduu from the country for currency were Hght, ¥ New York &xchangs was firm at par. Clearings were $2, 800, 000, CURIENCY CHANGES FOR TWO MONTAS, The Comptroller of the Currency has prepsred the following atatement of the currency mave. spring, 108 1@ 1181 do winter, 11:@11a 04, Flour=Extra New York, 208 0d, Corn—\estera mized, s D@01 e =4 2 new, 20813l Oata—American, M. Bariey—American, Total . QUL4M . $AL761 1,147.017 | 20d. Peas—Canadfon, 3040, Total of all kinds In store, 2,833,015 bn. Theso trLoven Bern—American, 433508, fignres show an increase during last week of 245, - I'rovistoxs=-Mess pork, 304, Primo mess beef, 808 700 ba wheat 12,589 bit corng 0,100 bu ryo, 40,- | 61 _bard=Amerlosn, 421, Tiacon~Long clear, 338 0 short cleag, 3tead. 048 b parley; and & decreaso of 10,073 bu oats, .| SEREEBATOC oo ol 78 . oiln 24 C.. /4’4 lan 0w L 4 eutrs] Total incroare, 207,214 bu, The sbove mnofed oslugz annually! In a few years moro the basls | ulation almost as great s our own for tha yenr e and Treasaty! belloer 1o eptpsnber, snd B anotations of kard wheat Include 114,283 bu No. 1 it 7o 34 refined, 116, Wit Umaotfled uin, anit one. of tho Ruths- | 1877, Dut tho passago of tho bill seoms ‘cer- Novembor: FUANITRE Lol PR ) Minnesota, and 22,002 bu No, 2 do, ad. childe, whom we will supposs to havo a whiter | tain. United Stator bimds Midas secure oo, op, | Norshwestern B0 sl Tn addition to tho abovs there was afloAt in tho | Festx—Common, 541@s 6ds pale, 135, and purcr dismond than the other (s kindof | Ifthis ls the form {n which the bilt is ta pass, Bonds for elrmation de.. " 4 sTATK nOXDS, harbor, 12,103 bn No. 1 spelng; 43,600 bu o, 2 | ErtniTs TUmPXNTINR=255. W Kohlgoor ? aimong its fellows), will get all tho | it will, in cffect, bo the adoption of a pollcy nosited. $ 2,514,700 § 4,763.600 g Sz, ot 7,070 ba hard No. 2; 9,083 bu hard No, 2; | ~ANTWERF, Deo. 24.~PrTrorRU3—0l8 0d. other dlamonds demonetized. Then . tho Ouy- | Identical with that of the Latin Unlon. Why Manas for RO RHR T T e 30} . 207,270 bu No, 2 corni 3,108 b rejected do: 62, - S crument eau fund the debt Into a “soiitairo™ | sliould not tho bili still further bo smended Thtal beid Tor ciceniatio us.u&uu B4 130,850 NEW ORLEANS, 160 bu hi; h‘ . 'd d & 237 bu No, 2 hie e AMERICAN CITIES. diamond loan at perhaps no interest at all. -All | then, 50 aa to make the mint ratlo of gold and Dcnua neld as securlty for - New Ontxass, Dee, 24, —Gold, 1024@102, 460, high mixed doi 1007 O Moo & OAMT (e XEW TORK. that fa noceasary 8 to put a purchasing power | allver In this country the .sume as that in R, st pstanes 18,205000 14373,000 | Bignt exchand on New York, 5-10 diacount. BAQ Hu o, 3 AUite Detn. Soectal Diratchto The Chicaan Tridune. of two billlons or such n matter into that | Europe, and to authutlze tha President to pro- ehouTied 1t Treaeiry under s o FOREIAN. IN NEW YORK TESTERDAY. Ko e i tinain—Sonerste fugatry for | ono Glamond of his, and the = gencrous [ posotothe Govornments now composing the actot. J'-vl’n':".ll."leflg ; 576,000 1m0 | Loxoor, Dec. 24.~Coftwols, money, 0435 ace | Nrw Yonx, Dec, 24.—Tccolpts: Flour, 28,811 | wheat for prompt deltvers at a shado stronger pricers fllulwlll m{m?. lll‘w z‘fi“: wx}num( 'l;uqmlrlnw ln!é|ln |Unlnn s{m the u'n:lxm fi:‘n'u};l- m\ms&cm ) n dep an e i -, | bris wheat, 148,036 bu; corn, 162,262 bu; oats, fon bustncas dull, and Indicattve of no Important | any intcrest .00k nt that saving of *millions | to their monetary confederation e advo- pngtonlontiog binke, 14o0.808 gnoen20k | Unifed Clates bonds, 039, 10355 78, 10343 | 044 o corn-meal, 158 pls; e ot bm | Shanmesas o yahueat 8,000 bu o, 1 Miiwanked spring | nonusily.” - 1¢ the Governnient and the Syndl- | cates of the Silver bill are hionest when thoy ex- 1347; 1,000,232 3,180,004 | * New'York Ceniral, 1004} Erle, 8%; Erla pre- | barley, 65,500 bu; malt, 1,820 bu: porky 1,600 and %6 81,33%: #,000° bu No, 2Chicpied¥hring ad'ort- | cato ars “hothored” with this “silver, and & doslro, by lemslntlon‘ to raso the silver pre 0ld,” and then dozen *¢ dlamond ¥ talk, | dollar to par with n gold dollar, aud malniain 1t ferred, 22, 25,085,008 90,050,712 pkes; beel, 62 pkgs; ut meats, 5,803 vkgs; lard, ‘yateterms, quoted at $1.33bid and ' $1.45 aeked (with . 7 . 24,1 ' ' " No. 2 Mitwaukee apring quoted firm at 81,5 afloat). | thoy can’t do this mighty work of gettinft the | there, surely thoy will welcome ald frotn n: B s b Tadn Des:dh chenites 205F 10e #] 30,815 phegs; whiaky, LA bel o e Anrrad. ot attrasting mott atten- | dobs funded into ' - sclitwee ” dlamond foan | sonree: and It needs no rgument Lo prove thi g REAL ESTATE Exporta: Wheat, 70,350 bu; corn, 115,013 bu. | yian, and ruing & trifo hizhers new frregular and not | drawing **no futerest '—so $*don’t bother the | 115,000,000 of peaple, working hntmonlously for ircuiation mettred "fis."'gég 11-&{“{39 i WIBAT BUFTLY AND CONSUMPTION, in much favor with buycrs; mixed Western un- Efindlcm.c." And how toolish it Is, when it Is | this end, will be stronger dnd mora likely to Tonl sireutation o A member of tho Chicago Board of Trade calls | graded, =5ia0é for new and old; unmerchantable urrency. for the peoplo’s good aud the salvation of | succeed than 43,000,000, This s the apparent 5 . .'nls»m.m 812,210,504 The follow!ng Instruments wara filed for record | attontion to tho statoments mado by the New York | 88 £0daic. Jiye unchanged and duil, Oats a shade Hoeiet] 3] 4 B folds O it S‘“"“ tms ur“;xhorll::gid Nu}vhthnmhwn. nb]eull ol tl!um:}-.»; A&l}agn "o'n (n:n udl“r.fl“““‘ X =, o Monday, Dec, 24: TWeakt, higher, with & falr inquiry; mixed Westarn, bu 8 ervetus; ho not like the idea of being burn- | amendment, not adop! )y the Committee on MIXed fu ceiomD) t wrre popEnTY, Producs Exchanae Weally rolative totho volume | B T08 VINE ROCET ™ o0 1 Gt Ga@aoes No.2 | od but how necessary (& was for tho snlvation | Finance, of which ho hus given notlce, Ilis " of homa graln deliveriea of wheat In Great Britatn, « 3,835,000 4.014.000 | Westernav, n w cor of Monrng at, 0 fy 1i0x107 and conanmption thers, The New York suth \ty | Chicago. 20,000 hu at J0K@d0c, Aggrezatoof grain In |- of his nnd others’ souls! A number of .years | smendiment directs the Presldent Hi R, 7'::3.'«‘:;») B | s Weat Monros Sl e s of Uakley e P o A 4 orlLy | tore, 7,873,007 bu, se against B,740,030 buy’ Dec. 25, | ggo fn 8pain they uscd to put thumb-screws on To Invita the Governments of tho countries com- e e, 101,00 Thomn | Arten o3t fanmes 0 Croment (o Char placs the home dellverios & 2,874,704 quarters | 1470, and 8,312,741 bu bec, 20, 1873, . men and put them Into machiucs called rucks, | postngthe Latin Union, and of such other Euro- Sincasy: Famo & :3&:;3 Clement) ; 's 20,000 | for the Liwclve woeks ending Nov. 24: which ahould | I'navistoxa—Mew pork inorg astive for eatlydelfys | Tho mqulsitors did not do this for revenge, or un natlons as he may deem advisable, to join ce , 433, S i Le 2,302,284 quarters, according to Iiritish esti- st steadler ratcas sales of 650 Lrls new, part at mates. This orrorof 482,480 quarters makes an 23 for lnspected:s other kinds neglectedy 850 | important difference fn the situntion, nnd ennbles | 913 primo wmes quoted ot BIOOM - exi Drime. $8.001 for forwand delivery, Westorn mess g,000 | B® to sccount for tho fact that durlng last Septem- | yuy), “with Decomber option guoted at $12.70312.00, ber and October the stocks of wheat in Liverpool, | jepuary, €12.70@12.00; February, $12.807812,0% 2,000 Glaswow, and Dristol decreased 138,480 quartere, | March nomfoal, with no sales reported. Cut meats Delng only 520,012 b the 1st of . Novomber, while | dull at about stendy ratea. Dacon sold for focal delly- 2.230 | the stock of flonr was decreased by a quantlty | ery to tho exrent of 50 bxy long ciear st 1,200 | cqunt to 52,800 sackas of 280 lbs cach. @ic. Wostern stoam lard lesa sctive for esrly 120y | \With auch 8 deficient crap as that of tho United Sulvart andauoind N b e e it 1 Kingdom in 1877 s repreacntod to be, only leaving | gt o 3 s > Arcntes aL$9,001 for furwerd delivery in moderato demand, ATHing Eress 60,000,000 for consumption, the farmoracannot | gin’ Decombor option guoted at $A.1% Jan- dotivor on the eamo basts as on 8 guodcrop, 1f | uary st 8,174, Fobroary st 04.274, and tlie estimate of the crop he anywhoro near correct | Mareh at $8.8741 aales to the extent of 1,000 tes they must have cellvored, in tho tlrat twelvo, nh-exemn‘er lb'ilhfl‘);uJlflul{‘;::a;\:t):.umrut AT, of . | echolce, for of January af 253 1, tes Fol ::,‘,"“,f,,‘:'"‘&‘;'f crop year, ono-third of thoquan- | TV el 27 250 tow March a4 85,3751 oloed Giod Tlio New York anthorlty places the consumption | STALelY soustit aad for the Coutlcat quntodat 5.0 ot 411,000 guarters weekly; white other equally | “Taprow—In moderate roquests sales of 102,000 1bs. good authoritles placo 1t st 430,000 guariers, Buaans—{iaw in morodemand on a basts of TN@THo basing the estimate on the last census of 33,800,- | for poor to good refining Cuoay refined us Jast quoted, 000 peopls, It wonld soem, hawaver, that even Wnisky—Bold to tho extent of 50 bris of fayorite theso Agurce ato amall. Mr, Jomes Calrd finds | braud at®t,(0: reguisr brands offered at 81.00i4; mar- that tho averago annaal connumptlon por head | ket very quiot, Frmunme-Trade on & moderate scale, with rates durlng the last elght yearawaa 355 pounds, agatnst | o oraily quoted steadrs acconimodntion for graln and 311 pounds for tho clght years procedinz. “This | provistons lo mout demsnds for Liverpool oo smail argues & continnous growth, which weuld maku F‘f‘- }:‘r’d at {?lvfifl"’ |m‘;.m;|;u,:n:~ :fl:f‘[o 8L {04 per the nt consumption fully O bushele per caplta SUor Tarad COMMERCIAL. e ocn et Sy ¥ Sk gus S | SR i sl SRl ey Agatn, thelr deliverios of 2,702,284 qrs, deduct- 10 the Jertern Aswocluted Trost, The following woro tho recolpte and shipments | ed from thelr total croof 7,300,000, would leavo, | Earrocidctany L,’:i.....f,},'!,‘;:“;f‘ ta-murow. of the leading articles of produco in this city during | on Nav. 24, 5,107,716 qrsin the hands of thoir }Qf\‘fi"i"l siiipping tn fnfr demand: yeceipts, tho forty-clght hours ending at 7- o'clock on | farmers, and, placing thele consumption at 420~ | Featern: § lie United States In a conference to adopt a com- mon_ratio of legal-tender as between gold’ and niver, far tho purpate of establishing interna- tionally the nss of bluetallle money and securing fixity of rolative valuo beiwcon thoss motsis. Buch conferonco to bo held at such place In Eu- ropo or In the United States, at mnch time within #i% montl, nas may be mutually agreedsapon by the Execntlves of the Governments fulnlnz the same, wheucver the Governmenia »o invited, or any thiroe of them, shall ‘have signifed thelr willing- ness ta nnile in the eamo, "This is n senalble proposition. It {sono that has been advacated by all the ablest bimctal- lists in Buropo and this country, and might possibly give us double-standard monoy, or en+ ablo u¥ to try nu experiment with it without that wholesdle destruction of public and privato cred(t which some of the siver Inflationists scem to desfre, Dut would it not bealittlo nbsuid far the United Statcs to remonotize silver on tho basts of n ratio to gold of ous to slxteen, and begin the colnage of dollars on that Lasls, aud then afterward nsk foreign countries to confer with us about the ratiof Why not walt until we seo what European natlons will agreo to before we buggin our colnage! No great loss could result from such delay, a8 this conference would be held within six montbs. to get the advantage of thelr nelehbors. O no! 1t ‘'wos to. get them on tho right track, get then down to tho 't hard ‘pan ¥ of vorreet thieology, 60 that thes mlfim be happy bereafter. A fow years agd in America thoy began to put thuinb-screws on mien and put them Into machines called “bankruptey.” Tho bondholdesa did notdo this for reyenge, or to et the advantaze of their nolghbors.” O mnol 1t was to get them on the rl{uhn track, get them down to the ““hard pan? of corroct monoy, so that they might bo happy and prosperous when they got there, Then “tho “clect that hotd “honds ' and through tickets to the joyful and prospeetive cternity of bilss can slng sonys, and walk the gold and diamond strects, while tho damned (poor) aro warmly engaged ehoveling and *dlugine’ duaky dlamonds underncath the ound,” But “don't bother the Syndicate?; f you do you will delay this glorious *millen- pliz,” - onN R. F'aos, RNESUMPTION AND SILVER. To the Edtor of The Tribuns. Cmioado, Dec. 2h.—In presenting the argu- ments;in favor of tho remonetization ot silver, has not a most pertinent renson beon overlook- edl In view of supposed resumption of specle poyinents belug undertaken, the question ls, Wil the uso of silver ald or nssure the under- taking! Tha gold that moy become avatlable fromn custom recelpts, tho salo of bonds, for ro- swuuotion aud redemption purposes, will pro- vide only & port of tho requisito coln; add to uieuie Al a-1a 1L, dated Dee. 24 Shotier at, 364 [t b ot West B X128 0-10 {1, dated Dec. 24, Weatern av, f w cor uf Man 'of 110107 ft, dated July 10 5 Weatern av, 44 1t 8 of Grand av, o f, 14412 L1 Alsa 104117 11 In 98200 bibek, Impro; LA LN s RO WM 1an ft, dated Oct. 18, . sial 16 ft 0 0 Thirtleth Fiato at. B3ty ft 0 6F THIUEH st W 15061814 11, daied Doc, 13...c0.. Washington at, nw a1, 1253150 (8, dated Dee, | Dyterian Clureh o St upal Church), fts of 491t 3 of T ared bec. 10.. J ot il Mar Treusery Joronent Lialanco u Treasuryt 1 8 161,000 § 17,540,000 b 110,152,043 132,970,314 MR06417 EI0E0 BRI,400 0,800,002 _Tho Insurance Chronicle prinis a table of in- ancance losses {n the United States snd Canada darlag November, which coutalns startling figures, Tno deatruction of yroperty in November, 18 was 87, 210,000, against §5,001,000 in November, 1870, an increase for the month of 82,164,000, The lomacs to fnsaranco campanies havo increased in riill greater proportion. In November, 1877, the losaen to Insuranco companios reach the **enor- mony total™ of $4,845,100, against only §2,- 60,100 in Novembor, 1876. Tho losscs by **spo- clal™ risks Lavo Increased $1,500,000. Tho nam- Lerof frea and the number of' speclals burncd ate creater, The CAronicls connects theno alarm- fug fgures with the headlong reduction of rates, and insista that cheap insarance 14 one of the most dangarous incentives to Incondiarism. What with largely-Increased lossce and largely-reduced rates of premium, the vital question to by answered now by the companies thua affected {s, How long the eandle, burning rapldly at both ends, can last? FULLMAN PALACE-OAR COMPANT. The stocks and bonds of the Pullman Falace:Cay Company haye becn put on the regular lit of MILES OF T ot Michigan av, nears e cor of Fifiy-t f, 73x1L0 1t, tsted Nov, fi. Fifry:nith st, i {1 w of 1501t uated DEC, Buues ever, NOW AND THEN, - To the Editor of The Tribune. LaxsiNG, Mich,, Dec. 2.~Wise men chango thetr minds, foolanever. Yourpaper of to-day {8 quite a contrast to the same two years sgo. You now speak tho feelings of noarly every man In ™ G, "%, Tl 4,231 upCENno. Bate ad extra, #5458 Weatern, £).83:43. 187 conimon 10 g ptocke called at the Stock Exchange in Now York, | Monday mornings 000 qra weekly' for tho next forty weeks ending | 5038 to_cliotce, $3.7040,00; white wik this ity or ono hundred millions of sllver and the Western country on the money question. e enpfat stnck ontelanding 18 £5,008,200, and | ot T IE e | A D1, 1078, thoy would sull o to fmyort ooy ey su R exi Ollo’ £3508 | yiver bulllon fur which certificates could b fs. | Tho flnancial polley of John Bliorman fs Lo morg the Lonus outstanding aro 32,:307,000; the Com- D iy e — 1ore stocke in storo Nov. 24, 05,187,272 b, Itls | 87,4000 h!a" dour dnily €3.73 e sued, and then, with tho conldence that must apolicable to the drcumstances and conditton of pany hure 400 cars, which cost $8, 401,252, Their Cann-MEat—! w1 g 1570, || tem. | 1879. | for iho farmors of this country to dacido tho price. | GXkinerihent + Dee, 1, 1870, thero wero 2,000,000 grs in store cvl{lfl. 149,000 b In the importing ports of Great lizitaln and Ircland; ",{,‘,‘fi';‘.’f:wt: iy Dec, 1, 1877, the stocks wero 1,400,000 qrs, Tak- | Ity aulcty Weatern, Ing this Into viow, with the quantity reported on | Torata, f62,000 bu: Dec. 20 deatined for Great Britain, wonld show a | BaM@COMCT steam yollow, wiig doficlency of 10,000,000 ges, iRGL Saseos ¥ The Liverpool Courler of Dec, 1 mays: The | sutdves whitedo, flour on bakeago & yesr gy fo tho United Kingdom | ~ JAY-VRchaneod. o ‘was 8bout 70 po‘r :nnrt more than now,d:nd barley cl‘;‘l‘y‘l‘;:.l“ ..'.;&’#3?};‘“3‘(".’,‘.:‘,, .dcul]']‘;" n':;rlmmuy une and oats were thon far above nt dimenalons. | BT 4 ARHY; 1 o Thoe serious l-I‘Mlt:h-nu:n, url-lrrz as they dont the a:,‘:':'f,‘:??f.nl):s. .: ;m:':"’ "?‘ififéfn.fllu‘u'u':"'a% tlme when ahipments aro usually larger than st o, Jtice it AR unchanged: any otlier part of the yesr, and when in fact thoy | yivia. oo il o laai crude, Tiot roted, liave becn excoptionhlly Jarge from United States | “Jaiiow-2o. Atlanticnorts and (ha Baltic,—our principal source | Briabeor torrrnri: of supply forthis year,—cannot fall to be of Interest | Kaus hleadyt W p‘n'r'fi"uffi?fi'u:,a Moot s ong clear middles fen, Lard=-Primo \be Incorporated, wvould not the banks and’ tho Uovernment find resumption o possibility to be wnintuinod witliout suspension, when with gold raatio, - Haf €135 1 alodls belng used It wauld not b posstbled All the true frionds of resumption must know that, by the remonetization of silver, and tho confldence assurcd thercby, resumption would bocoms possibls, when without the em- ployment of silvor resumption would be jmpos- sibfe, ‘Tho Government might puy gold down ta £300,000,000, and then sell bonds to fund tho balunces how would this aid the bunks to re- sumed They would not receive gold for thelr Treasury-notes, and, i oll vases of disturbed contldetice, thelr deposites would bo drawn, and I tho bank biving $100.000 gr 81,000,000 of clrculation could take'cnrs o thelr notes out- standiug, Low could thelr depositors bo patd in coin withont a quantam sutliclent within the control of tho bank to pay or ward off the this country than is tho theory of tho English Constitution, 1If it helped England in tho time of John Stuart Mill, it Is ccrtalu death to us now. Any man who dennunces the c|}'rmx|mnk (his own moncy and credit), or any circulating medium, for the foollsh reason that it has no intrinsfc value, ought to be indicted. Unleas this Congress passca the Silver bill before ane other ycar tho bottom will fall out of two-thirds the busineas mea of this country, The major- ity of tho Bzuolu of this Stato bre not repre- sented In Congress on the monoy quun';.lun. other nescts are works at Detrolt which cont §iH11, - 422, putents 8101,383, jnvested in other car arnu. clatlons 82,302, 577, and material, supplles, vic., $200,122. 'The tolal revenue last year (ending Jaly 31 last) wae 170,029, and tho dividends declared, §471,030, OIS0 & MISBISSIPPI. The roaction in the prica of Ohlo & Mislssippt Indlcates that thers was no solid reason for the rise, ‘Tho compromise now in negotistion for a ropresonitation of the confilcting intorests in the Uoard of Stockholders will not take tho road out of the hands of 8 Recelver, nor pay its heavy debts, Anawacksment of $4 5 share fa sbout to be mado on the stockholders. . . VBOSVECTS OF TILE MONBY-MARKKT. The ¥inancial Chronici¢, in a study of fhe symp. “TIONDS QUIET.” New York Grashie, Dec. 22, Itis onfy & month slnco we wore assured by o prominent morning paper that if there should this city yesterday morning: 28 care No. 1 hant wheat, 10cars No, 2 do, Bcars No. 1 spring, 60 | totho trade, be any chance of the passnge of the Blund bill toms of tho money market, finds little evidance to . 9 do, 18 . . . Western (14 SR TR draftat § confirm thie viows of those who expect 8 closs ;:::,: .';q (lnltlowt}rl(y?';l.‘::n lz:llnl;‘z;nl:n:":a: LIVE STOCK, {’-:il:‘.‘.‘.""h’d.".'.’.‘.{‘.‘.‘!.fi;.’:.‘m ot tho banks nso sllver and accumulato colng | Goverument bonds and all sorts of stocks money market in the early montheof the mew | b4 cars No. 2, 4 cars now highemized, O cars ro- ciucaao, w,...“'_‘i»,m,,z‘ i hanged. thon they may cutertaln resumption 28 posstble, [ would fult from 10 to 25 per ccut, and kpld year.” Depostta will noon begin to sccumalato, | ected, 0 cats no geado (67 corm; b cars No, & | SATTLE=Tiecelved duriog Sundey and Mondar, HEW QULEARY. and without thy rumonetization” of silver how | would goup out of sight. Well, that time has bank rererves will ba smgle, the paymenta of divie dends will set freo a large amount of currency now locked up. and, {n gencral, the loanable funde in 1o market will ba so Increased that low rates will provail. H a3t week, 1, . ‘w OnLEaNs, Doc, 24, —FLorR—Marke . hitu oats, 11 cara N0. 2, 1 car rejcttod (170413 | aiuanih oo wisalss e dosrbnd, and. aluos ho- pérde RS et R Y G gata No. 2 ryu; 20 cars No. 2 barloy, 3 cars No.3 | durwent no noticeable change, ruling sbout as last e or e Domand falr and market Srms yellow, do.: 7 care oxtra No, 3, 13 car foed (51 barloy), | week. Nelthersutpoers nor tho humo trade seemed to | bics whito, Geige. Uste Bicady, with fulr deinands Total, 207 cars, or 110,200 bu. Inspoctod out: | stand fu noed of sioek, and nut all of the moagro sun- | STE@IC, |\ 4, Lo omigal, . 10,019 bu wheat, 408 bu corn, 1,313 bu oats, ply on ¢ale touhd buyers. Bales reached only about 700 Tay—rair demsuds cholce, $17.00818.00; prime, 1,051 bu rye, and 11,226 bu barler. liead. or s little more than ong-half thoofferings. Tha 0. can they do sol ‘Tho tiovernment will not bo able toaid banks, as thy $350,000,000 required to rcsumo payment of coin for tho Treasury- noteg will only be about 300,000,000, and the co to baresched by tvnding sud confidence, ‘fie funding may oceur, but the confidence witl not bo assurcd, as the fact of & shortago ju gold come, The Bland bill, or sdmething vcmhn' ilar to it, {a certaln to becomo a law. What fs thi cflact on gold and bonds} Tho same paper tells to<day: The atock market was agaln dull and inactlve, lmlxrlw- wore steady and strong st tho clus TIB PRICE OF GOLD. Gold Tell from 102% 0 102%. Uorerameut bon: The New York Journal of Commerce, 1a notice Tho Ban Pranclsco’ UAronlele of Tucaday ast ye. | TROSS Of prices was 81.7504.00 far Infortor to cholce i ~horkMarket dully 812.75 Lardquict; | coln for resutnption s so well xuown and | wero quiet, Statog weak, and rallroads steady. 10 o Aot and Beary conaltan of 100 s mar- | pori coplos shamers of aln 1 nearly iy parts of | T, bulchers waf seing macly b #3.e502.00. | A ey Wi prom st i M | Chol "o fnly smody of providiug o | ™Tu otber words, zod i a low ths morning ns Ko, xplalon 1t by the fact that thora fs s yotno | fho State of Califarnibs and gives returnd from | oot oPo boeres o o cauvused, TG, B woats deiuart haniiidors, | sliortugo fs by uso of slivar, Doca any ouo sup- | it hias been nuy timo for seruntcan vears, and outlet for gald, notwithetanding the sitnation of political affalrs abroad, Thero fa a very Insiguifi. cant morcantile demand, and only & romote proba- tality of gold belng exported, Conssquently speca- lators find the carrying rale likely to encrosch upon thelr possible profts, snd they conslder that 1t Js beal to reallzo while they can, MORE PACILITIES YOR BORROWNRS, London advices state that the vrospectus has been isined of sn Anglo-Ameriean Land-Nortgago Bank, with a capital of $1,000,000, in $23 shares, on which only $3 48 10 be pald {n. This bank will advance money on real estale moricages in the Uslted Status apd Cansds, the advances ot to wxzcocd balf the valuo of $he security, LONDOX BULLION MOVEMENT. The bullion movement at London for Noveunber showed an excose of $3,500,000 of exports over fmports, Germany took no gold, France only $1,400,000, the United Statcs 81,355,000, and posa that & Lank that {s prepared to resnuno in sllver coln will bo driven fojthu walli No, sirt T'no banke that can mect 'Vm resumption muat haye the ald of ellver, and all the requisite nalwlum {n their solvency beside, to weather the storm. And hence, for this, if for no other reason, tho remonetization of sllver should Lo the first work of Congruss upon tho returu of the mem- bers to the Capltal, "I'he President should favor this actlon, and If for avery short period, pendiug tho apprecia- tion of silver under thodemand thiat would then exist for its usc, the Bocretary of tho Treasury should not racetve bidsior ¢ per cent bonds, tho bldding would soon foliow, and tho refunding of'the 5 and 6 per cents at o low 1ate of interest would go forward, resumption of spocie pay- ments wilt bave been sccomplished, and tho dawn of vetter days at haud. Lot us have the allver iulug to the clouds of darkuces that now surround us, sud brighter days will come. RRSUMITION, Goverument_bonds show no sign of whatever, On thls polut the morning papor are uuable to ind words In which to cxpress themwclves. DES MOINES DECLARES YOR BILVER DOLLARS, Dns Moings, In., Dec, 24.—At the citizens' meoting Baturday cvenlug, the following veso~ lution was adopted: | Resolved, 'That the interests of the Amerlc people requize the romonetization of atlver, and unlitited colnage. and that ailver be mada legal-tender for ounts snd all debis, and private, both of principal and wte _for dutics on Imports. Lengthy discussion was had on the repeal of tbo Resumption act, when the whole flnancial «uestion was reforred to a spedal committee to report at an adjourncd meoting next Friday, by resolutions, one of which must be fo_favor of nineteen counties, Tt wonld scom that tho whest E,fl:".,,‘{:‘.,',f;:{'.,’.““‘a“‘“" weighton 1,800 crup of the Pacific Coast s not now in dangor from Cll!ll:!rltl(:tg"’o‘l‘—'l"‘ll‘lll-“é:rli' ::Iéh%wl x';) drought. o 3 5 T Board of Trado heM no sesslon yeaterday. | Ghod eerosiveil Tho rooms of the Call Noard wera open aud a [ o fn 113010 LV N crowd of operatots gatbored thers In tho morning | | ing 1,05010 1,200 108, oco... and traded In & umall way In tho téading srticles of | Buichérs* Kiack—troor”f6 EBfitios produce. Wheat and corn wore frmer in sympa- 100! thy with Liverpool and New York, and provislons, were stea ‘The mivor gratn murkets werg qulct. Wheat advanced %@Xc, selling at $1.0050 1.00%. and closing st 81,10 for January, sud Pehruary sold at $1 105@1.10%, closing at the outalde. Tlhe business was Jight, and confined to filling & few vutslde ordurs, and changing from the nextto the fullowinz month at a differenco of 1@ e Corn wi made at Aniaidloy packed, sige. jouluers, Ukey clear rly, Rlqas closr. Al 181 ;llll‘llvn rectifiod Muh‘lnl. L. ‘Grocenize—Coffes dull and nominal; Nlo cargoo: ordinary tw prime, 17@liMe. Ko l'nfn' ?llr nrg-mh common Lo Kool camiuon, 42(@al5e; 1alr 1o fully tMuwTes prime (o cholee, 7!{wT7ier yollow clarlivd, AN, Molasees siemdy, with & Talf domaud: coine non, AXSTIoITalr, 4Te, Rice quict, but Anng 4348 ohye. ’hlAl—Hullanamtnll( B2ig0. LOVISVILLE, LouisriLLs, Des, 24,—~Cortox—Stesdy and une chaoged, utet and luehn‘t«l. 25— Wheat—Alarket dull o Matkot smster; White, 43¢i mixed, Sic. dulli white, 350; mized, dde. Ly fl‘llfl 3 ProvistoXs—Pork qulet at $13.23G12.00. Bulk e aleey Sales b sait o 6 13 lave, 0. 1o shaaldcrs. Uacon nomilnuly cloar vih aldes, JHe. Hunu—bugsz-cured in falr demand; 11@11Me, Lard Qulcts cholvoleaf terco, b8, Wuinky—bieady; 81.05, HILWAUKKR, M1Lwavxsz, Dec. H.~FLoun—Quiet but rm, Unaln—Wheat 8ot opened o Lighers No, 1 gruti Xo 1 Milwsukce lard, $1.14 No. b Mliwaakoo, § West- quict and firmier, 8 fow salca bolng %@43a for January, Februatysoldat 424@42%5c, avd May at 4ie, 2 100 ans Egypt $,415,000. Indis toox sl t Uate closed t Haturda 4% o1, 16 .7 ' 81 3 Ho. 4 4o, $1. 1041 January, $1.1 Frbnge epe B quption act. ‘The mect- llfv?r.' 3 forlgn demand ‘ot that el was :n.‘;:..‘..ft,.“ ,;l'ya Sohd ot 505 cohe 1’1:'-'12;’:'{‘0% _:g:‘"fip;}?'&:'f:gg'i?;'ug‘&“flfl;{‘gggl,{flfl,;’:’.;.‘,%,}"},’) i m'!“z,*:: !‘,’.‘.'.'Y’m‘,':i“' Py ua,':'“,ffl'::l; WIIAT WALL STREET THINKS, be r;“;:l‘;x;;ozdufiufllpw':m,‘ind the ouly $3,700,000 greater than the impurts, 8UG7%4¢ cash, and L7%c for Janusry, Feed wos | tho tredo—owlng 40 tiie wirunt fer=weta fow ! hf Nfi‘ fastey ueglcetody No, 3 sprivg, Béoj De- New York Herald, Der. 33 unanimous scutluiont was i favor of “dad's TUM BANK OF ENOLAND. quoted a1 5T\, estra No., 3 at 41, and No, 3 at | fheps wassusicient domund o dnort v G | Smaviatona- 8o fur as the mancy-ceutra ot New York is | dollar. mi c. d st vary full pri the iwarket rull PRoviaioNs~Qulat and unchan; S, et watatenty, seen boing upone of | S e eeh el St | 1t AL, S 4 pork wi y, sales bolog reported o i v & , 10, 500 bris at 811,83 seller Fobruary, t 1a anmugwmm- Wkt ata u‘x:f. pra—Flout, 10.(00 brist pead, o 7 8t 08 sbove ¥MENTI-FIOUF, (0.0 br.o: W Yard wae nominal st §7.77)4 for Pebruary, and | Oaurcs It NAL) BT it lenwere reparted of 250 | 5. ST Mi- A i % 4 P | i Sk Sun s, Mabisg hai b o . Sales were' reported of 3 A $ ). 2,02t i 0, 340, ). boxu*angAml-hmclenuannr Juouary st o | NS 403 ) 403D ) G802 it i—Whtst qulet awd wh-mnzt sor-Market dults s gy . Boxed shoulders wero mominal at ¢, audst et bttt e Ay Ry n ————— OURRENT OPINION, M, Blaino's trip to the Hot Springs will give him & good chance Lo renow his acqualatance with Fort Bumith & Littte iock Itallroad allalrs, 0 long as M, Hayes cantinuos to exerclse Tha return of ¢ho Bank of England for the week | 3834 euding Dec. 6 showa: Surplas, $15,305,740; pub- lc depasita, $23,384,5814; othee deposits, $04,- 146,715; Governmnknt securities, $45,011,050; other securitlos, $57,370,623; notes unemployed, $54,177,695; noles fn circulation, $135,007,000; agd bullion on hand, §118,000,010. NEW COUNTRRPEIT. concerned, au fnvasion of Lhe capitalists’ strong- hiolds in Wall street yesterday revealed the fact that the autl-sliverites aro ranged under the banners of the Byndicate firmis, and tho pro- sllverites Hght on tho slde of the local brokers and of houses that was embarked {n domestlc negotiations, Mr. Morgan, of the firn of Drexel FMLADELYBLA. PurLansLbaia, Fo., oo, Hl.—FLullI—Qlllul‘ ou- e i i g Prisvivioxs=Dull and unchapged. Y 5 8 libors! conservative policy (n the Admialatration A new conuterfeit $5 bill, letter D, upon the “‘-‘9&3:; t‘:‘;;fi:&;“&;‘f&""{- i . L y iy 'I&'?“.'.‘"‘”a‘fu‘" ;"p,":z]';fi' &"’:g:f“:;:& ‘f;’:“;‘;“"“‘:‘:“‘::‘: of the Goverumenl, Democrats abould not be found Firt National Dank of Hanorer, ¥a., s an- | Whisky was auoted ae8L00 pot gitlon A 1ot $i0 8 | Bl iy Wi g, e A, mow Dofore Contress, woud. baye | 8 alliauce with radlcal lopablicus who are 0p- uounced by Dye's Gosarnwent. Delector. Tt 1 | 1) xow York for esport. L g S 113 B8 | M 168000 bay o, | UpOD thu Bnaneial rospocis. of tho Union, | posiog bl —Larrisdury Lalriot (D)o bilated troia wa sliered plate, prolalily tho ssma | Ty rod hogs were scarca and frmer, thoogh i $io b B i ui outs, | JR0R Ao Destiation. however, in siying that | Wo constantly hear on one haud that Sco- uu thal waa dued for the Tauaque +\ 8% ote, of | S0 GG S0t aest dona, | M 118 fo pliprvaToLLs, his extablishment would recclve bilver in mod- | getary Evarts wants to be the noxt Republican can- which la the last eight weeks about a quarter of & There was comparatively fiitda nlulnl.?ml it T 410 $58 | Juvramaroru, ¢ 24.~FLovs—Quiet and unchang: | erate amuuuts on deposit, uud give depueltors | gigaio for President, and on the other hand that ha million Lisve been set atoat. I e g . Ja oy 100 410 Lo AANoWhes-No. 2 10 81100132 Cora—Now grecubucks for 1t ou “dewund st par. He was | /4 ing 10 destroy the Repudlican party. Which GOLD AND GENENDACKS. . kopdacticies,” The Bt (0 A 1ei spsinke 213 €10 10 | miaed waswe Gite 3 Ry, $agd7C. §ot awraro of the pressiice ol the Mexlcan dul- | V198 (0 SsbteT Sbe YoBath 80 POV lhe tl 2. Gold was 102540102 1u ereesihecks, ok s, and the dlutributlon, was fx‘;u'ifii“‘.‘n." e €10 o | SNSRI o, 1,500 beads snspmenta, [, 18518 408 taarket W any vonshlergble quagtitles, | pras (tes.). . hu"i,'fb"k' RENTINGNK conis on. by dollse gwemue.' No price-chauges wore notod, The 23 410 300 | sobests 20st0N, Hateh, e \ll?uuurl‘l? that ::&?n}x?:] ¥ Lot the Prosident IPJ)MI to the people, e FOREIERTEANGE: Qowmand for groceries was yory modurate, aud 1w | $noii 18 £ | mowsox. Dee 3u-Fiota-busdy, trm. sod wne | tho iiver bl the country fo slarmiod rabout | maks B somprouite) AL up, SiiArol for ‘thé ety aays, Sigas, | toellng prevalent umony the trsde was not very | ¢ q 410 T | BEE o qutet ol Bothings 16 would, e sugested, bo o grave | Tty s4dackion did undee like clrcumatances, $10 m, gulets new. mized and periow, eigaes | DULE ) 18 FORL 8 SUE S G St TR | au the victors ofto-day wild 824 hai tucle Luurola cheorful, Prices wero gcaeralty well sustaloed, but | §; uslitics | ©1d 6468, Oatala fair deniand; unchauge it or O A it ate withered, aud their victory & prelude to flnal wero ot apoclally inn. Dried fruite woro qulet, | 8t 37564.00. sty s 34 s et b tult of tho natlonal securities Leing paid I that | qoteat.— Ned York Mull (Rep.). ¢ Gua baoged. Corn nctal. As to the statcmeuta fronn the Weat to the effect that tne trade-dollar s at a discount whopn compared with greenback uuruncf. it s in fact dull, ordery showivg & marked falliog xR Oswzao. 5 steadys 8o, 2 Tolelo, off ss cowparcd with the opening days le‘(oulun.u.—n:‘u ol Bouthern politics s getting & deal diversified already. Moblla bas just had 8 lively muuicipal cauvase botween reguial Democrsts snd onK, vas—Racelpts 3, make of lagt week.. No prico-clearlnys werenoted. A ]:"-m’“' hfi"‘”"- b “.:"':‘m "&:nu% """"‘ PETROLEUM,. Y < 11 8 mis lich current quoiations will show lght movenient 1n butter nd cheeas was oted 8t | Lob® withaoooe e o) ey sirers oan tad bova | CLBvELASD, 0., Uec. 34 —FaruoLsvs-Markss et ‘satne firus, bo. | {ugependonts; sud thore arg alrcady thrse caudl- sbout former quotations. Tho inquiry fsalmost | suowa here as ouo thna for uun'; eekar Trices miuch | steady aad Srm; standard white, 110 test, 1. Jioved that the rewmonetization of stiver, under | dates for Mayor in the dicld ut Memplite, the Work- astes, | Eatirely conined to tho Vetter qualities: Dealers | Sh0gacio s Friday luss, wlih very slow sslg endwtiesry | Firtsuved, Dec. 44 —The Olf ExchangestParkers | corialn peatrictiuns, wauld do the country Bo tugaea bolug 1ha latcal comurs. Al in ofle, paiots, and colors were not very bus: Ve oht Ry Jow &8 Th4c, 10 dread 83 P crom awts dos | 2ad OILClty closod az 4 . m, Baturday, sud will reiosin . A princival restriction should be one ‘Clie Republican party is in tavor of rolorm il tards, 74 | cookoprme bt truw uhes drcas °£"‘~ o ibiaes | closed Guill 10 5. m. Wedacadsy, the b, Tho war- | yhay would prevent tho application of siver | of whatever in the public service necds refgrulax, i Priccs wero the same a4 oo Batorday, sud rulod | 5 dresa 87 2e; extrs and prewium, JAGC o 113¢c, 10 | ket closed stesdy st 103c at Parker's for immcdiate 4 3 2 ca, | 1t waa the behief that Gor, Hayes wassound sud e e o Ligig | ey, Whits Lead wan B ay 8030, =ihs beice E”:l}u‘fitfia):"gg iy &‘f.‘&fi‘fmfi‘ shipmeats; 1¢n0d dull; S4ous13c fur Philadalpbla da- "flx‘fi ‘r:::ll:;x’lm;’u‘fim‘ ':;i ‘:fi‘ifi"?fiflf«'fiafl?‘m e onthat laporiast i4sus.shat 10 sioat 1= Unjted plats new 440 10514 | eatablished at the luto meeting of the waunface | 508 STPREC ety 7:000 quariers and fa " | bvery. . deie ward posituating him st Clnctoath, aud clecting DS iR ) e e g, ot “cnl” o | RS Gl S ey cotToN e e hcwait (o, vius | b, Slarmiris” Whencyst thy Almiaisiralod SBOKEZES' QUOTATIONS. wood were dull as previously quted, il Eis haied: St sals 'of ol o brithe | @arvasrow, Dec. 76--CoroxDulls nst pecetpta, | Of Sllver and perbaps deoressiug that of Kold. o sppointaeats but pact o Aro decuanded by tho = 2t wted, | Tho luwbor inarket was quiet sud steady, Some | sheek At SN@Stacs falr 1o cholcs mulzcd dots of Ahoed | g (yg bates; midali o ey f Tha cofuage of ‘silycr sbould pe Miited to the | rest ‘needs of she service, mud iy doterwined to lcago City 7 per cens boads. 07} 9§ | dealers are bavi: wod trace, but thls i o . | mod lambus 8t 6'3@5¢; good o extia lambe, B@BHCH & jea; widdiing, 10kcy salen, 1,403 constwies, | (o .l ty Clicany CiLy 7 Der cent bewer: 07! iealors sre baving & g + 4 0 oxcep- | Gy jiad of very boor Tuzs sheey as low as Bhge. 5,610, Guvernment sloue. conduct all departments of the Government on Clicago Cisg T por ceab Weter Londes.oavii toaal, the bustncsa guneraliy betog Hgbt, Wool, |~ Swikz—igoeivts, 10,700 makiog 20, 890 £0F the week, | Musies, Deo. 24.—Corrou—Unsbanged; middilng. The Fundivg bill, be coutendsd, had pothing | strice buslnese principles, uubissed by tue merw 3 r\l‘flnl'vnr!nn(helmln rvlrl tho r'n-‘v i sustain him agalnst al opporitiou, —Clerel Teader (Ziap. ). L Hed df lina. wa bull, ~Clincinnuti Commerc sincerc now than it was when ho erannal 3 n the Kon abtnet, L whi] be foand thl the lent, and will or( President Hayes hos boon waiting for tha' vote on tha New Vork ofilcinla to res how much jp. finence he han In making apyointments. This re. callw Mr, Lincoln's remark that ** he had no fnna. ence with tiils Administrats own. _Mr, Lineoin after a shilocama to have nome conalderation In hia own Auministration, —Utica Ilerald (Liep. ) ton, " referrng th hig Once more, thén, the conntry Is fnlly united and the long strnzale ended, Aenin we have & completa Amcrican Uongress, waich no power can break. Each Ktateagain siands as the posr of the other, and togothier we 1oar teanmg the march of Amerlcan civilization nod greatness, The long night 13 past. The ennntry s onn, All the Btates are frée, thelr rights nmply garantecl, and a more perlect’ Unlon_eatablisherd.” And here lct na rest.—HicAmond (Va.) State (Dem.), The African raca ean never obtain ahigher place nntil they are worthy of ft. The Prealdent's policy will redound to the good of the colored peo- plo.as well an the white people. We were held up sixteen years on thn points of bayonets. Wo had no founilation under us, Ilayea pullod away thess rops, and down we came tothe Kround. Then we iad 10 got up anddo for eneselves. In Lhe holy words of Iloracs Greeley, It was '*Root, hoz, or H0."—~Colored Longressinan Cain, of South Caros There has been too much trifling with ths rights of the people on this question.. When the nliver ngitatlon began 1t was donied Hhst eilver was denmm-zlxin by tricks nol underatoord even by the Dien who a) abandoned. Tt swas next asserted that tho contracs stipniated M‘mf.’nnn gold, ‘Thin also lell helore the facts, T allver In market was pointed fo as showing that the two metals could not como together. From ded them in Conuress, This haaheen en the innquality between goid and thia all intellizent ndvocates of asingjo atandard have been driven. 'Tho bondhalder's case fa thay stripped of [ezal meelts. And morally hin potltion 18 no better, for o resortad to cunningly stealthily execnted tricks to nccomplish “enuls know to ba othorwiso impossible,—Alemphls Avae {anche (Rep.). oviued, Wa hopo ho [Drosident Hayes] will neo that every conslderation of honor, gratltude, and of common falrnesx regulres that lig shall €a-oo- erate.with the ltepublican party; and not try fur. ther to nct with mere theorists, who Are always the yery worst clusa of advisers. Tho Intentiuie op the President are well enaugh, b vised. That some of lde sdvisers ebould changod 13 undoabied, The time to roadapt his Administration Is darlng the present rocess, If it shall bo dono, he can start with the new year, in harmony with Congreas, and prepito to doa grand work, No Admiuisteation ever ha1® botter oppor- tunitics beforo it than has that of President Hayes, Bat, to realize theso opportunstics, we need pesce; ‘This I8 of irat hmportance, — Pitleburg Uommerciab t e £ b v nl- Gazelte (Rep.). The greatost fraud in tho history of thi country ls that of changing the mensura of metailla monoy In 1473, Tho peoplo were boalunlng ta emorge from the era of inflatlon, Thelr faces wero in the right dircetion. They had fn the twelve years of Inflation permittod to be hanped npon, of had heaped upon themselves, a prodig- fous auantity of debts. Of courso thesudebis were moasured {n dollars. Themoney-chaniters changed” the doliar; they made tne metallic basis ono metal nstead of two; they contracted the wetallic basls ono half: and now' they ‘maintain that tho depre- clation of tno ailver they threw ont ehall bo codnted an an Argument mgafnst ita fostoration. Thera mever was, before this, such andacity in fraud in the experlenco of mankt above tha lamb thatcomplained of tho moddy water nd. Tho wolf on the stream wodest vesst [n :umrn‘r:;ur; v;llh your gold al (Iud. Rep.). It would be vory diverting if the Presi- dent shonla oblige Mr. Conkilng so far as to eo- force one of tho Clvil-Service rales aboat which the Senator manifesta so much concern, It would not be & bua idea, {n fact, If all tho principlea which the Presideut has laid down for the govern- ment of the Clvil Hervice shonid be enforced, It would, at least, be a nnve)lly in Washington, But 1£ tho Prosidont wants to obf} mugh, ho might enforce” the order relative ko Fod- eral ofliclals faking active partin cancuscs and con- vontlons. It might be an {nhuwan thing to do, but 1t wonld holet Mr. Carnell wut of tha-Saval Gfica 2a cftectnally as if ho had a powder-magazino fired izo Ar, Conkling very under him,” Whatever Mr. Conkling may think abont the rules, Mr, Cornell: evidently, s not Bread that thoy WhL avor be chforced. - Mo defles them now, as he did when the; Te now, And, with all of Br. Conxling's now- ) Tor Civil- Horylca reform, we do not beliova It 1 mora to ‘‘ruu ths machine, "—~ANew York Times (Rep.). The defoat s so complete nnd so ernshing tuat nothing can add to lts completeneas, but the brief interval since tho Presidunifal Watorloo b filustrated that familiar propensity of haman ns ture, tokick & man when bo {4 down. There n0 ane sa puor os to do revorence to the vaue quished roformer, and oven such fastidlous opyo- nents of the machine ns Jfarper's Weekly and tho Nuw York Tinies are taking him lo task for hls fallure In the attempt to which they ogged himon. W ate disposed to bo romewhat moro genernun; wo recoguize that the Prosident husan immiense llu\vnr of dolag good 10 the country by carrying ont he wishes of tho party which clected him, and our Inmt Liolds out to burn for the viivst ainner. After the Christmas festivities nnd the Now-Year's re- ceptlons, we expact to welcoma bis xcelloncy back agaln into that party outsido of which ho la powerloss, and wo will ncither reproach him for the past nor oppods him in the -futnro, If ho will subordinata his pollcy to tho witl of the' Doople.— 8t, Louls Globs-Democrat (Lep. ). The opposition to the Prosident’s appoint- ments {8 not mado on public but on poreonal wrounds, and tho only Issuu in the case, so0 far as Benator Conkling 1a° concerned, W a claim on his part to control and dictato the Now Yark appaint- monts, Bnru(l:y thin 8 & gross violation of the spirle of the Constitution in referenco to appointe wmontw, It may be, and doublicss s, true {hat the [lrcnent Neoty York ('ustom-Uone officers aro en- Irely unobjectionahlo to the public; but tho pubtic is not the Chiel Executlve uf thy Guvernmiont, while the Prenident v, 1t may be, and doubtiess .4, true that the presont Incuinbents are better frlends of Henator Conkling' thau the persans nomipated by the Presidunt; but nathing In tho Constitation Intimatos that a'Senator may dictate to.tha Presldent what appolntmonta hie shal) make. Tn'short, the President is acting clearly within the ine of his coustitutional anthority, while the fen- ators° wha opposa him amo ae clearly ncting from personal and factious motives. Therefore, we say %0 far a8 there Is any principle Iavolved In the con- teat §t fo on tho sldo of the Prosident, It should havo boou avoldod altogether, and mighis huve been if proper tact and managomunt had been usod ;. hu!} viewing the contest as {t stands, wo azo cleurly oi thogpinion that the Senate 18 in the wrong. —/n- dlanapolle Journal (Rev. ). . Honator Eustis, of Louisinun, hadg returned to Now Orleas 4 tho Picayune thus roports liis oxpresslons of fon: **Senutor Lustis thinks that the Uemocratle Nenaturs are docidea not to ask any favors from tho Adminlstention, 80 far as Foderal patronuge ls coucerpod, by sppeinting Pemocrats to oftica; hat they tnslst that, when a Lepublicsn is appointed to oifice he shonld not ba of that ciass which haye in the past hrought scan- dal on the Clvil Servico. With the excuption of & few Dewocraclc Benators upon the grert Tueus pro- sented by the Nuw York sppotutments, the Domo- eratic Eonators determined to vote for the con- firmatlon of . the appointments, because tho consldored that r. Iluyes reprosentes the consorvative’ wing i the ~ Repab. lican party; tnat the touthern Democratic Senatars awed nothing ta Mr, Conkling, and con« aldared that to strengihen him would be to give eucouragenient to that wing of tho Jepublican party which hae been hostile to our section; and, s auestion of uational politios, they conaldere by helping the weaker party,—the Adwin- tion, —they conld more succcsatnlly keep np the divivon (n tho Hupublican parey.. Senator Eustis also uald that, if tho Admintsiralion i de- termined to malutain the fight, it te by no means cortain that they would mut wucceed eventually. Tliose fow Democratic Sionators who difurod from the majority took au entirely ditferent view, of wers actuated by tha anine motives ad tu the effect Upon tho national partica, In reforcnce to tho Idvees, Mr. Eustin auys thera §s a vory favorahlo disposltion mautfested lo give this imporiant sub=: Juct o fair hearing.” ——— FIRST REGIMENT OF CAVALRY, To the Editor o) The Tritune, 5 Cimicado, Dec. 24.—A letter from the Chale manof the Finance Cowunittce of the First Regiment of Tufautry, 1. N. (i, appears [n your, paper of Sunday, De: As commander of the First Reglment of Csvalry, L N, 4., I begleave tostato that the partics authorized to collect woneys or subscriptions for the suld cayalry or- anlzatlon are particnlarly cautioned 10 expisin he fact that the fands sousked forareespecislly intended for the cavalry, sud for uo uther or- gunlzotion. The cltizéns of Chlcago arc un- doubtedly well satisficd es to the necessit! which vx{sts for cavalry, and,whils tho comman. has pever mads a public mxkum for subscrip- tlons or aid, the re feel that the prompt response of the cavalry when calles upen in the city’a hour of peril, and thelr constant ~ feadiness to fulll] the duifes which they misy be ratled upou to per- form, entitlo thent to conslderation ut the huuds of thoss of our citixens who 8ro ablg to asslst the organizations. We do pot require u larte sum of wonvy to complote our m&ulvmeul, ae the officers of-the command luye dune w Lrest deal already towurdstbe uniformtug of the wen, ang, lnatesd of usking §20,000 or $40.000, wu only need about $2,000, and we respectfuily asic our public-splrited citizens to aid us to that ex+ tont vuly. ‘As the very bost feeling exists between tho cavulry sod {ulunlr vrgunlzativns of this city, we trust that no mistakes will oceur lu the e of subscriptions, and beg to state that it any funds have been pald tothejeuvalry which were in- tended by the douor for the fufaurry, upon & presentation of the facts any such funds witl bs fmuwedlately pald over to the orgautzation for which thoy were origizally intended. fu the weanthuo we bopo that vir wants will not be overlooked by our citize od that thuse wille fug to assist will forward subscrivtious tu Alds J. L. B. Daly, Daly, Heurotly & Co., Wahaalt avenue. Very respectfully, . Yy AGRANONTH, AUsjur Commandiag Firat Cavaley, L No @