Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 6, 1878, Page 6

6 WHIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY. JANUARY 6 18378—SIXTEEN PAGES. REAL ESTATE. Heavy Decreate in the Loan Business in Two Years. Increase of Payments---Fifty Per Cent Increase of Foreclosure Sales. Real Estate Sales Amounting to $30,000,- 000 Made in 1877. Sales and Loans Last Week-- New Subdivisions. In the real estate loan market the year 1S was anything but profitable to loan agents. The main features were renewals and fore- closures. Every means was resorted to in order to stave ofl the necessity of gobbling up the Town of Norwood Park, adjoining Count Farm, all cash, for §3,500; for Townserd & Gedirey, lot on State street, between Thirty- ninth and Forticth streets, for $2,009: 240-acre farm for L. lodges, one mile from depot, at Willow Springs, Cook County, IlL. for §12,000: for Miss Monnchan, stone-frout dwellinz an 1ot ‘on Aehland avenue for $8,030: for Judze Eberbardt, house and lot on Waluut strect, beuween Lincoln & ltobey, for $3,600; for Mliss Monnehan, lot on Walnut street, between Lin- coln and Robey, for 31,7CJ. - SGBURBAN PROPERTY met but 2 limited demand _and the sales were few and unimportant. Six lots lots in Brown’s ‘Addition to Park Ridze sold for §740: eighteen Jots at Trving Pari, $12,600; two_lots in Rich- mond’s Addition to La Granze, £500; two Jots at Jefferson, 51,2093 two lots in Hilliard and Dobbins’ First Additionto Washinzton Heights, $625: one lot at Montrose, $§1,000; one lot in gg&gdon’s Ridze Addition to Kogers Park, §700. The following subdivisions were filed for rec- ord daring the month of December, 18772 Block 1 of Young’s Subdivi N. E. 1{ of Sec. 8, 87, 13 Blue Island. Lots 23 and 20 of Egsn’s 95 Canal Trustees' Subdivision, W. 34, etc., See. 17, 33, 14, sccurity. Liberal terms were offered and loans were renewed at rates as low as 6 and even 5 per cent. In July, three loans acgregating §70,~ 000 were renewed by an Eastern life insurance company at 5 per cent. This Company was particalarly unfortunate in its fovestments, and, notwithstanding all its endeavors, had more foreclosure suits on its hands than perhaps all the other loan agencies in the city tozether. ‘The year opened with & low rate of interest,—7 per cent,—and this was the ruling figure of the whole twelve months, loans as small as $1,500 having been nesotiated at this rate. Anything Jower than this was exceptional In its character and not entitled to notice as a quotation. The total amount of business done was 8$47,606,2; apperently considerably in excess of 18i6, but the following rallroad mortgrazes are included in the tabular statement for 1877: Chicazo, Pekin & Sonthwestern R. R. Co. ersaneas.§ 1,600,000 Chicago, Rock leland & Pacitic R. B. 12,500,000 Baltimore & Oblo & Chicago R T Col ~' 10,000 Pennsylvania Company ... sese-es 7,000,000 Chicago & Eastern Limols & &. Co.. 000,000 Tots} s ...§25,110,000 In 1878 there were no railroad mortgages; in 1875 there were §50,000,000,—and in 1574 there were $§70,020,000. Deducting these amounts from their respective years shows that there has ‘been a decrease of more than 25 per cent from ¥ear to year sincc 1874 in the business passing through the hands of our local agencics, and 1hat 1877 ficures up a_deercase of over 60 per cent as compared with 1374 Pavments on the other hand do not show the same falling off, and last year was_only 33 per cent below the figures o 1874, Hence there has beenarela- uve increase in payments. The forcclosure sales are the most melancholy figure in last vear's business, beine an ncrease of nearly 50 per cent over 1876. The total number of fore- closures for the four past years were 5,322 The total number of loans mnegotiated were: 49,518. This is o proportion of bad debts of only 11 per cent, but even this 18 100 high & proportion when it i3 considercd that there is always something realized ou these Joans, and perhaps 6 per ceut s the amount of total dead loss on transactions in the real estate Joan market. Can any other busincss makea ‘better showing? Can any city in the Unton dis- xfl;r a clearer record than Chicamo? ‘ne total number of deeds of all kinds re- corded during the year was 47,560; in 1576 they were 50,854; 10 1875 the number was 57.633; and in 1574 there were 64,602 instrumects filed for record. These figures tell the tale of the zrad- nl decrease from year to year in real estate movements. Between 1574 and 1875 there was the greatest fall. Since 1875 there hrs-been o ciminution of. the downward movement and a tendency towards an cquilibrium. Real estate ‘Thas not yet touched bottom, but indications are favorable. to an early realization of this much desired condition. s SALES IN 1877. ‘The total amount of eales for the past year ‘was about §30,000,000, including city and suburb- an property. The most important were the Dearborn Block, §125,000; No. 23 Washington street, $35,000; the Dore Block, $275,000; No. 91, Dearborn street, $75,000; the Desplaines Honse on West Madison street, $40.000; the Woodruil House, $57.500; No. 73 Wabash av- cnue, $46,000; the Palmer House Stables, $10.- 000; No. 93 South Water strect, $16,000: Nos. 10, 12, 14. and 16 Canal strcet, $100,000; the Brevoort House, $135,000; forty acres at Oak Park, $23,000; forty acres at the southwest cor- ner of Sixty-thind street and Centre avenue, $50,0005 and 307 lots at Cornell 592,100, ETATEMENT OF THUST-DEEDS, MOLTGAGES, AND RE- yzaves or TuE TweLVE MdvTUS EXDING Dec. 31, Constderation. | Reteases. 3 oLl S 30,408,872 83,991,822 1L415) 3 124,031,000 12,248' 74 CONPATATIVE STATERENT OF FORECLOSUEE SALES FOR Cansider- ation. The past week’s business foots up quite a re- spectable amount, but £270,000 was a re-record, and another item of §200,000 was for the pur- pose of securing an indelitedness which required some prop, however frail, to prevent the creditor from sikine into sbsolute despair. It istoo carly as yet to speak of the prospecisof the coming scason. Interest tates are unchanged. Payments arc reported very good, and there are but few complaints on this head. The following were the important transactions of the week: » Lot in Green's South Branch Addition, front- ing 100 fect on Lumber street by 240 feet to river. $12,000: five years at 7 per cent. ‘Wibash avenue, 96 feet north of Washington street, west front, 24x162 feet, $12,000; five at 7 per cent, \Wabash avenue, betwen Twenty-sccond and Twenty-third streets, east fyont. 655159 feet, with improvements, $35,000; five years at 7 per cent. South Park avenue, southwest cormer of Sixty-first. street, 1153100 acres, $25,000; five years at 7 per cent. Sangamon street, northesst coroer of Van Buren street, 25x125 feet, $6,000; four vears at § per cent. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT FOR THE WEEE ENDING JAN. 5. . f] 1878. Il 1877. Instrumentsi— —t LS ] (!'.Ideml‘nd Xo.| C'siderat'n. Trust-decds]| 815 477,517 1045 347,381 ‘Mortgages... :uj. .’1)4,"73] 21 32,330 Aggregate..| 112§ 78,8901 1255 379,671 Releases ...} 124l.. ..ol 221]... SALES OF THE WEEK. There were_but few sales of city property the past week. The following are noted: John A. Buck sold to William Istel lot on North State street, northeast corner of Goethe Street, 1515150 fect, with 2003 feet running to Astor street, north and adjoining the above, for $105,000. Charlcs Fargo sold to William Greene lot on Lumber street, near southwest cornerof Loomis street, north front, 100 feet, runniog to river, for $10,000. Solia F. Darling sold to Simeon Nash the lock at the southiwest corner of Saratoga and nirty-third streets for S11,200. No. 246 Fuiton strect. 25x35 feet, was sold for 000. ‘3Lot on West Washington street, between Robey nndo(li‘i.ncoln streets, north front, 874x 55 5, lfl:e:;asstumwest corner of West Randolph and Curtis streets, 23x100 feet, with improve- ments, §3,500. An improved lot on Calumet avenue, near Thirts-third street, 22x125 feet, $7,000 ‘Henry M. Shepard sold to C. C. Copeland, Tot on Jackson ‘street, 50 fect east of Fourth avenue, north front. 50x09 feet, for $30,000. T. B. Boyd sold for Mr. Gary two stores and Tot, on-Larrabee street, near Diviston, for $9,000; for H. G Versems, ‘83-acre farm in County Clerk’s Division of east 3§ of N. W. 3 Sec. 18, V. 40, 14, Lake View. ‘Sundivision of Bluck 6, 7, . and 12 in the fore- going division. Prescott’s Subdivision of east 3§ of N. W. X 8ee. 27, 33, 14, Campbell’s First Addition to Glenwood. S. D. Weakley’s _resubdivision of Lots 7 to 11 and part of Lot 12, Block 3, Jenuing’s Sub- Qivison of south X of N. 3¢ of S. W. ) of N. E. 1 of Scc. 3, 33, 14. County Clerk's Subdirlsion of that part Iving south of railroad of Lot11, Bloclk, 1, Miiliard and Dobbins’ First Addition to Washinaton Heights. SATURDAY'S TRA ERS. The following instruments were filed for record Saturday, Jan. iy e ) Clybourn av, 2141; ft n w of Dayton st, swf, 255100 ft (with onilding 826), dated Dec. 81, 1877... Decrpath ay, 116 ft southof W £, 253120 {t. dated Jan. 4 ioeaii 800 Rumsey st, 167 ft south _of Emilyst, w{, 25x130 1t, dated Jan. 2 . 1,000 West Van Buren st, 12 Hoyneav, 75x06 ft, dated Sept. 17, 897 ocsasiioae .. 2,002 West Van Buren st, 1994 Tt west of Throop &t, & 1, 100120 ft, datedJan. 1. 5,500 Lincolnav, between Belden and Fuller- © ton ave, ne f, 3303150 ft with 150x150 1t, on laleted st, in same block, dated Dec. 1, 1877 (William E. Warren to Arthur Herbert)...... 31,081 Earl st, 48 ft cast of Stewartar, § d Oct.10. 1877, 800 1le £t, 390 ft s of Schiller dated T 4,200 1, 75x125 ft, dated Dec. 12, 1877 3,750 Milwaukee av, 208% ft n w of Ch av, nef. 2ix110 ft, improved, dat Jan. 5 .. %,000 Hoyme st of North av, 150 ft, improved. dated Jaa. 5., 7,000 £OUTIL OF CITY LIMITS. WITHIN A BADIUS OF SEVEN ILES OF TIE COURT-HOUSE. Indiana av, 170 ft = of Filty-third st, w f, 243163 {1 (with other property). dated Jan. 5... . - . .. Atlzutic st, 250 fus of Fifty-ifthst, wf, 50x1253{ ft, dated Jan. ENDICOTT. A Brother of thoe Late President of the Central Natlonal Bunk Denies that Mr. Endicott Is a Defuulter, but Fails to Tell His Present Whereabouts, To the Editor of The Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—It has apparently become necessary to ask the privilege of -denying through the press onc of the floating stories rel- ative to the late President of the Central Na- tional Bank. The charge so eagerly circulated that Mr. Endicott * sold his shares to the bank, took the cash, and left the city,” is wholly falee. Henever,at any time, sold a share owned by him to the bank, neither has that in- stitution onc share or any number of shares which ot any time belonged to him. 'As stated by the papers carly in December, and as Mr. Endicott himself told the Directors at_the last meering in November, “ by advice of those he supposed to be his Iricods, lic had purchased from time to time for _the bauk,, temporarily, shares of stock offered and_urged for sale by holders as collateral (the offering of which ata discount was, these same friends said, injuring the credit of the bank), and he held “these $ 3.500 1,000 shares in his name 8s trustce for the bank, never anticipating the faiture, and they now _so stand.” Mr. Endicott never personslly owned oue of these sharcs. The money with which they were purchased, he stated, was paid to the owners or holders, regu- larly and in a_ straightforward manuer, and pever did a dotlar of it 2o to Mr. Endicott, nor to any one in any way connected with or re lated'to him. The aividends upon this stock were credited to profit and loss on the books of the bank for its benefit, and any trustce notes which are in the bank were given in connection with this stock transaction, and held as agsinst toe same—a fact known and still known to any ofli- cer of the baok. Therefore, the charge referred to has no actual foundation. — The original sub- seription of Mr. E. was paid for regularly and Jegitimately, aud is not in any manncr connect- ed with the shares purchased for account of the bank, and were never sold or ziven to the baok. Tam joformed that itis claimed that, as no National Bank can hold its own shares in its own name and right (uow the baok Las failed), it _is proposed to attempt to fasten upon Mr. E- a personal owner- ship of this stock, which he purchased of out- side parties and beld as trustee, solely for the purpose of preserving the credit of the bank at othicr partics’ surgestion, and with no intention or design of actually violating the law.. Out of this transaction, bowever unwise it may now seem o have been, has grown the charges so freels circalated. So far as I know and belicve, I feel justificd fn_denying, posi- tively, | the reports that Mr. has in his possession, or ever had, auy funds belonging to the bauk. 1 am quite positive that the charze thut he has “nbsconded " with any moncys beloaging to the banks is wholly untrue. Tue Intimations that Mr. E. took large sums, or any sum of money, from the bank, aud inter- posed his paper therefor, arce, as I believe, Without the slightest foundation. Nor do T understand that either the books of the bank show it or the Receiver charges it. No cx- cuse can be offered, in the light of results, for much of the apparent mismanagemcut of the bank. I certainly have no disposition to Iessen the weight of that responsibility, or re- Hieve him from any merited censure, but that is no cause for the Stories of actual dishonesty that are so frecly and unjustly circulated. There are many legal questions involved fn the trustee stock transactions, and it may be well to await the final decision before rendering adverse judement thereon, It mav beas well to add, tbat the Central National Bank neyer discount- ed any note_or paper for me. and. £ never re- ceived a dollar of accommnodation from that bank, but on the contrary 1 am a large loser by the faflure. Epwarp M. ENDICOTT. ——— THAT MACHINE, To the Editor of The Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan. 5.—There appears in your Saturday’s issue an article connecting our Com- pany with one David Hedge, and, as the facts arelalee, we would like you to give space to the following, which are the facts in the case: One Lizzie Hedee leased one of our mnachines upon the 5th of December, 1575, and, with the cexception ot thefirst pavment, there has not. 10 the present time been any amount paid upon the lease, exeept $2.50, which was paia on the 9th of February, 1877, aud at the oresent time there is due and unpaid upon the lease $ . Having entirely failed in our efforts to collect anything from the party for a period of eleven months, o writ of replevin was Issucd by a Justice of the Peace, an] the machine was taken posscssion of by a constable. It is the policy of our Company to—auring these hard times—bc lenient with our customers that have the disposition, but not the ability, to pav. In the Hedge ease, for- bearance in our judement has long ceased to be avirtue. 1t is not often that we notice anews- paper article, but, knowing the reputation of Tue TRIBUNE for fair dealing, and believing that they have been imposcd upon in the present iustance, we depart from our usual course. Yours truly, Victor Sewing Machine Company. L. C. RigGs, Manager. —— THE PRESIDENT AND THE PARTY. To the Editor of The Tribune. CHICAGO, Jan 5.—In your zeal to defend the President from the attacks of the extremists, are you not going too far in appealing to the platform of the Republican partyi The man- agers may not have meant the platform to be saything but a campaign one, good till after election. However that may De, they realize ‘now that the Republican party was defeated in the first election, and that Mr. Haves without a platform was elected at a subse t cction held by fiftcen men. This being the case, and, it being true, as you say in another article, “ President Hayes is where he is by the grace of the Democratic party,” there can be no reason to_expect the Implacables in the Senate to be willing to let slip the grip on the officemaking spower. President ;Hayes very evidently understands | Ion of enst 3§ of Subdivision of Block | his title, and Is honestly: endeavoring 10 satisfy the party that was cheated and the majority of the party that originally voted for him. ————— COMMERCIAL MORALITY. Remarks by the Rev. Edward Sullivan at the Banquet Given to the Doston Cow- mercinl Clab. At the bauquet iven to the Commercial Club Quiz. " of Boston at the Grand Pacific Hotel the evening of Dec. 17 last, the Rev. Edward Sutlivan was called on to respond to the followlng toast: + Commereial morality as importam to our material welfare as Christian morality is to our spiritual.” In responding, Mr. Sullivan spoke as follows: i, PurerExT AND Grytires: In o preat metropolitan city on the othier kiau of the Atlantic Etauds & Cathedral famed for the grandeur of its architecture, the beanty cf its mueic, and the dell- Tess of tns services delivered from its pulpit. The Thousands wio frequented it on Sundays listencd with rapt atfeation 1o its glorions antkems, but no sooner had tneir sweet and siivers cadences dled s hurried to the places of cxit. John tne Bapiist, **to 0od Dean tolerated thie 1nsult for awile, and then quictly alicred the order of proceedinge, putiing the sermon befoze the antbem, and imstrucied the Vergens to lock the @ociat ucertain point in the service, thus leaving the jrreverent worshipers no choice but to toler- ate the brosiness of the sermon for the eake of ihe exquisite music that followed it. 1 have often thouzht, sir. that a correspondinz diversicn might be madd in the order of our banquets. with thisut- tendant adventage. that our specches would be probubly briefer, tnd more to the point than they irequently are, or that, ir a speaker should be tembted to spn 2. Jong yarn, the lsteners wonld tolerate his tediousness more patiently in view of tie 2000 things to follow. And vet, sir, it is very dittieair, on such nccaslons, to be bricf; how, for cxamplé, can 1 do adequate justice tosuch a senti- Tent s you have asked me o respoad to in the ery bricf time at my disposal? That such a toast has veen proposed at il 1sa fact whichreflects hizh honor on such a hody of men as I am cou- fronted with to-night, and augurs well for the commercial future of conntry ai lane, It declarce that this great gathering of representa- tive smerchante, from both st und West, are not med to proclaim to the world that commerce hasa moral no less than a soclal, or financial, political. or internatlonal asvect, and that only in Proportion as a lofty standard of moralliy s main- {ained In mercantile interconrse, can trude be said 1o rest on a xound and enduring basls. Would: fr, that, this were s creed universally acceptedi Tnbappily it is not. Men are not altogethier agceed 85 1o the relation between commerce and morulity, or the possibility of combining them in o perfect Farmony. Sheridan, doubtiess, thought himseif an eminently morai man; but when his tallor dunned him to _pay at least the interest of his bill, he replied that it was not his princivic to pay the interest, und not for his interest to pay the principal; and not a few. probanly, conld be fonnd in ouc own day who wonld condone the dis- Tonesty for the sake of the witticlem that convey- edit. D Nota few young men. standinz with the foot {imidly set on the first round of the ladder which 0 many before me have climbed both zuccess- fully and honorably, have.snid to me that for busi- neas men 1t was iinposstble to keep such a lnsuzy 8 n conscience, alleging enbstantially of cotn- Mercial life what was oncoe said wittily, bat-of courac falsely, of thc legal profession, that In it it was * hard to get on, harder to_get honor, but hardest to get honest.” And for some natares, doubtless, 1t is bard. Strange if, within the vast range of mercanifle life, maay are not found 100 weak to resist the averwhelming power of templation—when presenting jtsclf under T guise of rapidly-increasing Fain. Wimoss the Tecent revetations that have taken the public to completely by surprize. Butwhat does tnis prove? The utter rottcnness of commerciul morality? As- suredly not, but only the fact that, in business as inlaw, as In medicine, as in every other depart- ment 'of life, human_ictivities are inseparably bound, up with the question of morality, and in the discharge of even the commoncst dntics can find scope for the cultivation, or, if men wall, fur the violation of all the virtues that go to make up the noblest type of manhood. And hereI have only two remarss to make. In the first place, it 15 douptices humiliating, not merely to commercial men, but to human nafure generally, to read these successive revelations of rascality in bustness clrcles %o hear of bankers, brokers, merchants, and others occupying prominent_positions in’ soctal and commercial life, betraying their trusts, em- bezzling funds committed to their keeping, rob- bing even the widot und the orphian,—in some cases with absolute iinpunity: indeed, lately, out- rages of tbis kind have followed one anothier so ihick and fast that we_ begin to wonder, **Who next?™ and to ask. ** Whom can we trust?” ut Tet us not forzet that there i3 also to be found in commercial circles a far greater proporiion of stainless honor, of mnimpeached and unimpesch- able inteerity, of larze-hearted, open-handed ‘benevolence, that we do not hear of; and that it is only justice 1o set them over against the cccasionsl outbreaks of corruption that disigure its record. It isnot justto estimate a fruit-bearing tree only by ~the excrescences on its irunk. Yet this is the principle on which an nodiscrim- inating public foo often acts. Let one poor un- fortunate be drawn into the maclstrom of com- merciul dishonesty, and the press will prociaim it trumpet-tongucd. and the lightning will flash it to the earth's uttermost extremities, and all the more gladly if he should happen to be the_trastee of achurch or the Supcrintendent of & Sunday- school; Lut let the ninety-and-nine hold oo the even fenor of their way, keeping their hands Clean and their life stainless, and scattering their benefactions with_unstinted geverosity, and the world knows nothiag of it,—newspaper and_tele- graph are alike _silent. One example of this occurs to me, Mr. Chairman, = which hus come under my obscrvation, and which deserves to be rescued from oblivion. It has o pecullar interest for us this evening, inasmuch as it etands associated with the name of 2 ‘member of the Commercial Club, of Boston, \ho, greatly to our regret. and to his, doubtle: if e knows of our gathering, i3 separated from us to-night by more thin a thousand leagues of space, Something over six years azo, wien the firo-flend A3 ragine in our midst, and the crash of our top- pling homes, and places of worship, and marts of trade was siill ringing in_our ears, and the atmos- phere was thick aud black with the smoke and dust and ashes of that_all-devouring conflagration, the merchant to whom I allude hurried to thiy clty, and, with the loselight of sympatly. glistening T Dis eye, said to his friends here with whom he had Dusiness relations: **Keep a brave heart; don’t beafrald. Don't contract your business operations cven by a hoir'sbreadth. Luy and sell as be- fore, Your oblizations fo us arc heavy, but don't mind. Pay others what you owe theill now. Pay_us only when you can.” Mr. Chuirman, svords like these, utfercd at sucha crisis, are not soon forgotten, —ihey are imperishable. My second and concluding word is, that for all commercial corraption and dishonesty there 3 but ono cfiicient remedy, and that is the lifting up of the moral law into the chief place of autliority, and the making it in every aonbtful case the supreme atbiter of right, from whose decisions there'shall be no appeal. Let this be the stundard by which business-men and their tmnsactions shail be c&timated, and the problem of the morals of commerce will be successfully solved. In my judzment, it is the only standard that men” calling themselves _ honorable ~ men can _consent to accept. Let fts sancrions, 100, be considered obligatory in every rank of life, from the merchant prince to the proprictor of the pea-nut stand, from the occupant of the Presiden- tial chair to the shioe-black at the strect corner. Let a Government, for example, fuldll its promisca bionorably in all 1t8 dealings with its bondholders, and the moral effect of- its action will permeate to kociety, and, as it permeates, will purify. Veraci- ty will yield' good credit as’ its fruit, and credit s#ill beget confidence, and confidence is the coment that binds the body politic into one harmonious and cnduring whole, ~ And as with Government, £0 with_individuals. ~ *Men nowadays are csii- mated more by their bank account than by their purity of character; more by their weaith thon their moral worth. This is_oli wrong, wrong every way. Such stand- ards of value must demaralize society. As I re eard the matter, the peddiar who owns only $10 In the world, and carries all his merchandise in the park on his shoulders, is more worthy of honor than the **successful” merchant who occupics a marble-front and sips his wine at the risk of other people. But I must forbear; 1 have been advo- cating the doing of simplc right in commercial life, and yet have béen myself doinz a great wrong i encroaching on the time that belongs to other spenkers; #o only one word more: A business man once said to a clergyman who coneulted him s to the best way of warming up his congregation, “‘Put a stove In your pulpit.” And the ad- vice, rightly uncerstood, was good. Will you, as 'business men. accept a little bt of advice in return from a clergyman? 1t 1s this: If ¥ou would give practical pilect, fo the senttment **the morals of commerce, * bind up the Decalogue with your ledger and daybook, and tumn to it fre- quently for purposes of reference. Then com- merce. will indeed become honorable, —the Church will pronounce her benediction within your marts of trade as giadly as within ber own suiictu- aries, and pray with déepest fervor and sincerity. Heaven speed tie sallso gallantly unturled, Tofurnish and accommodatc a world: To give the polc the praduce of the sun, And knit the unsocfal climates [nto one. — —— ANOTHER IRREPRESSIBLE CONFLICT. To the Editor of The Tribune. CmicAGo, Jun. 5.—The editor of Harper's Wezkly, in the current number, closes an arti- cleon “Party Harmony? with the remark: “The President mav fairly insist tnat before in- sisting upon his harmonizing with them they (the Republican majority in the Seoate) show him a0 example of harmony smong them- selves.” The whole article is an indirect con- fession that the differences in the Republican party are irreconcilable. There has beenn gen- cral unwillingness to acknowledge this fact. ‘The record the party bas made has given to the name itself an important influence which the leaders recognize and are unswilling to lose. But it may be as well acknowledged first as last that the questions which bave come up for set- tlement are fonght over more relcutlessly in that party than outside of it. Mr. Schurz can with as much propriety be called_a Republican as Mr. Conkling can, Mr. Evarts as B, F.. Butler, Mr. Hayes as Mr. -Blaine. THe CmicAGO TRIBUNE bas upheld the Presi- leavinz the cry in the wildern = dent in his effort to puriiy the Civil Service— has also attributed honesty of purpose in his Southern policy. but has been forced to con- demn his oppositiou to_the remonctization of silver. The Fo) 1ty of George William Curtis to the Republican party has been too plainty .demanstrated to he brought futo_questi his opposition to the course of Serator Conk- ling is too_dceply seated to be lealed witl: the simple remedy of a party name. Al these are but the expressions of popular sentiment which is rocked to and fro by the constant dis- sensions of its supposed leaders. found, however, on slight fnvestieation, that the people have ~ at - Jest realized the situation fn which they have been placed, ond that they are not onlv disposed, but resolved, to act upon their convictions without reference to party re- trictions. The recent Silver meeting at the pernacic was perhaps the mose striking ex- ample of this fact that has been presented. The most slngalar spectacle is shown at this time of two vital problems eceking solution with no distinet party organization o represent the: viz.: the Fivancial Question and the Civil-Service. Even on the Southern policy, which is the only link that connects the Repuo- licau porty of 1835 with the Republican pariy of 1873, there 18 such wide difference of opinion as to render it impossible to flud any tvo who will on all points fully agree. The paver to which reference has alresdy been made councludes an article on *Semi-Repudiation,” as follows: A Republican who is proud of his party-name and history, is ashamed to acknowledge that the party has no common principles upon the two commauding political questions of the day. When the question wes of the extension of slavery, Ke- publicans were united. When it was of prosecut- Ing the War, Republicans agreed. When it viss of &'in reconstraction, Republicans But when it is of paying debta Aonc iny the nbuses of patrouaze. R sree. 11 Democrutic madness drives them réement upon the right sice of one vital into queation, it will be fortunate jor tha conntry. It will thus be seen that, according to Zarper’s Weekly, a man’s loyalty to the Republican party must be measured” by bis devotion to the bond- holders’ interests; and bis disloyalty by his ad- herence to the necessity of remonetizing It is barely possible there may be found men whose tiwenty yenrs’ conuection with the Repui- lican party wouid lead them to deny the rizht of this paper to cxcommunicate them on such grounds. Republicanism is further defined as “paying debts Aoncstly and restraining the abuses of patronage.” The differences of opin- fon on what is meant by honcst debt and what is_meant by abuses of patromaze are not likely to be soon_settled insids the Re- publican party or the Democratic party. ‘There is o division of popular seutiment on thesc ucstions which is outside the tencts of these ormanizations. ~ If the Implacables Qemand the continuance of the spoils system, how can they act in nccord with men of the Curtls stamp who utterly repudiate and con- demnit! if one faction demands remoncti tion and the repeal of the Resutaption act, liow can it be in_harmony with the other faction \hich demands a retufn to a cold basis iu less than a year, and that silver shall be forever barred from its legitimate usel Ioveer pzinful tie chufeasion, it must _coon appear that the Republican party has outlived ts usefulness, if, through the personal ambition of its allezed leaders on one hand, and the blind dovotion to' money-lenders’ extortions on the other. it attempts to retard the industries and the progress ot the country. The consezuences of forcing these two issucs will inevitably fall where they belong,—upon their sclfish or illy- advised advocates. The bone and Stnew of the old Republican party fs firm and strong enough ip jealously puard and safely protect auy andvall of the rights which 1t has secured during the past cigh- teen years, into however diverse channels it may subséquently run or be forced. Neitber M. Blaing, Mr. Conlling, Mr. John Sherman, nor Mr. George Williwn Curtis can, however, dic tate terms which are oppased to the best, inter- ests of the people without the result of the en- tire disruption of the party to which they have been supposed to belong, and their own conse- quent failure and unavoidable disgrace. WitLiadx O. CoLE. IT WILL PAY, To the Editor of The Tribune. Cr10AGO, Jan. 5.—I presume your political thermometer indicates the temperature about the ZTimes office whenever a Democratic news- paper cuterprise is on the move. We all know that the enterprise referred to makes the ZTimss kick like an Alabama mule, That paper got 1nto the market for the Tilden job, which work it performed for a_round sum of money. Some time previous to the St. Louis nomina-, tions its columns contained a double-leaded article azainst Tilden, scoring him as a rail- road pirate, and to the last dezrec unavailable. But in the short space of & few days the entire machin was bought, and went into the traces. It supported Tilden and * opposed * Hendricks. What a farcel It stands ready to go to the sham- bles again as soon as the purchaser ap- pears. The siens are, however, that Democrats are forever done with this gilt-cdged political prostitute. Tiey know that & better opportuni- ty for a flrst-class Democratic newspaper never existed in Chicago than at the present time. Tne great question, »Will it pay#”’ can be satisfactorily enswered. The loeal circuiation of Tne TRIBUNE among the Germans of Chica- o stands to-day at 93 per_cent s compared with that of the Zimes, With the English- speakiug forelgn-born clement from other lands the Times is most in favor. But as certain s @ Democratle paper appears, it will be at once espoused by this class, and the Zimes repudiated. So well | is this understood by the “ {ndependent ™ sheet that it spares no cffort to throw ridicule upon the prospect of a rival. Wealthy Democrats of this city can organize victory, not locally along, but inthe State, at the nest clection by establishing an able and solid newspaper as the centre of un orzanization. What the Democrats, the rank and file of the party, wilt do for such & paper in the ity wili be done in the State and throughout the coun- try. Idon’t undercstimate the task of starting a d0d newspaper, but on all hands the sentiment Is assured that the enterprise would, under prudent management, be munificently _re- warded. A.B.B. A PARTING RHYME TO 1877. Good-bye, Old Year! Thoush you and I But twelve brief months nave known each other, ‘And though 1 knew this hour must come, 1t scems like parting with o brothe; For, in the journey we have made, The rongh and smooth we've shared together; You've been impartial in your pifts Of sunny sud of stormy weather. ot 80 with some who knew me then, ‘And grasped my hand with smiles ond fawning; Then Fortune smiled—now it has frowned, ‘And all their love has changed to xcorning. But you have ulways been the same, Giving the best yon bad to offer. And pleasantly recelved my thanks, 1f they were all I had to proffer. Therefore, with tears, I say farewell, And greet the coming year with sorrow, st as we sometimes doube and fear Some evil that may come to-morrow. But we will trust in Iiim alone Whose ways are past our comprehension, "And pray that Bis great love may last All through our lives, withont deciension. S GRANT P. Rob1NgoN. DEATH IN HIS FAVORITE ROBE. The mortuary statistics of the whole civilized world show that about one-fifth of all mankind dic of consumption alone, and tbe number of deaths duc to consumption bears a greater ratio to the whole number than that of any other three diseases together. Moreover, investiga- tion proves that this ratio is steadily inereasi Its fucreasing prevalence has led to the popular Dbelief that consumption is incurable. Every year hundreds of these sufferers seek, in the sunny retreats of Florida or the dry atmosphere of Colorado, for heelth—and fiud ozly a grave. The influence of the atmosphere—the only remedial agent that cither Florida or Colorado can afford the consumptive—is at best only palliative. The cure of consumption depends upon two essential conditions: first, the arrest of the abnormal breaking down of the tissues, which prevents emaciation; and second, the restoration of healthy nutrition, in order to stop the formation of tubereulous matter. Fuliill these conditions, and eonsumption is as curable as fever. To fulfill these conditions the requir- ed remedy must increase the appetite, favor the assimilation of food, and cnrich the blood, thus retarding the development of tubercles. To ac- complish this, a more powerful alterative than Dr. Pierce’s Gelden Medical Discovery has never been discovered. At the same time, it soothes the irritation of the nervous system produced by violent coughing, which in its turn so often leads to more serious results. The use of ** e: peetorants 7 in consumption is absolutely sui- cidal. For while removing the tubercles already formed, they produce yet more scrious results by inflaming and destroying the sound and bealthy tissues. Consumption requires s rem- edy that will soothe while it relieves; harsh medicines bus 2dd fuel to the flame that already threatens to consume the system. The Golden Medical Discovery fulfills these conditions, and has been pronounced the best remedy yet dis- | covered to alley and arrest consumption. FINANCE AND TRADE. Banking Circles Quiet---Mew York Exchange Weaker. The Produce HMarkets More Active- Hozs Steady-—Provisions Easier. Wheat and Corn Rather Weak ---Other Grain Steady. Progress of Packing—Movement of Producs During the Week, FINANCIAL. ‘The discount business of the banks exhibits no new featurcs, The supply of desirable vaper is verylight. Country banks are rediscounting to gome cxtent. but not us heavily as carlier in the scason; applications for rencwals are numerous; the Board of Trade demand for bznk uccommodag tions is only moderate. . The surplusof loanable funds wonld be considered excessive in more active times. Rates of discount are 7 per cent for choice short time or call paper, and S@10 per cent for the ordinary run of mercantile paper. 1 New York exchanee was weak at 25¢ per $1,000 ‘premium. The orders for currency were few and small. ‘The receipts were larger than the shipments. The clearings of the week were reported as fol- lows by Manager D. R. Tlale of theChicago Clear- ing-Tlouse: Balances. sas22n Total.. Seene. Corresponding week la: BANK DIVIDENDS. The Merchants' Savings, Loan & Trust Company have made u quarterly dividend of 2% per cent. The First National Bank has made a semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent. _ The Fifth National Bank has made a semi-annasl dividend of 5 per cent. The Corn Exéhange has added §100,000 to its surplus. ‘ The Traders' National and the Commercial Na- tional. and the Northwestern Natlona}, have car- ried the prodts to the surplus account. con N THE TREASURY. A Washington dispatch to the New York Times states that the actual coln balance in the Treasurv, aguinst which there are no currcnt demands, is $79,440, Of this, nearly $4,000,000 18 in s1l- ver. The total coin balence on hand Jan. 1, 1877, after making all demund deductions, was $29,- 616,789, including silver coin and silver builion. GOLD AND GREENDACKS. Gold was 10214@102% in greenbucks, Greenbacks were 97X/3973 cents on the dollar in gold. FOREIGN EXCHANGE. Sizty days. 292 Steritag. Belgtur: Frade Suwitzeraad. Germany.. Tolinnd Tnited States 63 of '8 United St s of Uuited Sates United States Unfted Stares 107305 Ut ates new o United States new 44, United States new 4 per n SROKERS' QUOTATIONS., Chieao Clty 7 per ceat bonds. weras: Chicigo 7 pe Clevalimar (2 ity Liailway %;1‘5 Haliway (N dery’ Insurince Gas: Lizit & Col Chimber of Commere West Division Kallway7 ¥ cente *And Interest. BY TELEGRAPH. NEW YORK. To the Western assoclated Press. New Yous, Jun. 5.—Gold quiet, opening and ¢losicg at 1023, sellinz during the morning at 102%. Carrying rates, 1-16@3-64, 7 goid, 7, S, and © per cent, and silver at London not guoted. ilere silver-bars are 119 in greenbacks, 116 in Silver coin, %@ discount. Governments stea Railroad bonds ouiet. States bonds steady. Tho stock market to-day was frregular. Coal ehares opened at an advance of @ per cent, but under pressure toscll they soon declined 1@235 percest. A recovery of about 1 per cent was fol- Jowed by 8 decline of 13@1. The general lisy de- clined ;@12 per cent at the opening, but later ad- vanced 1i@1 per cent, Sabzequently this improve- ment was Jost. At the close the market was frm and higher, the advance from the Jowest point Tanging from 1%t per cent. the lat- torin Delaware & Hudson, which rose to 48. awanna sold up to 48, Morris New Jersey Centrul to 1552, Lake Jichizan Central to 6113, Western Panama 1o 115 bid, Northwestern to%k5;, prefored " Tock Island to 993, St. Panl 10363, pre- 5, and Wabasih {0 16, neactions_agzereguted 138,000 sharce, of 500 were Enie, 40,000 Lake Shore, 2,000 Yorthwestern common, 2,400 preferred, 3,200 St Paut, 5,100 Lackawanna, 9,000 Delaware & 500 Morris & Essex, and 7,600 West- @7 per cent, closinzat C. At one time during tho afternoon 10ans were made as hizh as 1% and interest. Prime mercantile peper nom- inal and neglected. Sterl 11; wctual business, 48135 for sixty vs Clearings, 314,000,000, ‘Fhe Treatury disoursed $510,000. Customs re- ceipts, 312, 000. Thiports of gencral merchandise (in 975000; produce exporia, fol §3,095,100% 00:" deposit: on, increase; S1:20,- 175, crease, & 800: reser: Thebanks now hold § Coupons, Coupon: Coupon: Coupons. 63, New 530 Quicksilver . ufckstiver pfd - aeltic Mall. - a8 IFt. W 216 Terre Hati erre Haute fd; L Titinols Ceniral Cley P Northwestern .. Nortuwestern 34 " Misiourl, t30 | FOREIGN. TLoxwoy, 7an. 5. —Consols, money, 047-16; ac- count, 949-16. Américan_sccurities—'y3s, 103%; 675, 105i¢; 10-40e, 107%; mew 5e, 105%; Erie, 85 prefer- red. Tenaessee Virginia 6, old. Jan. 5.~Rentes, 108f 25¢. COMMERCIAT. The following were the receipts and shipments of the leading articles of produce in this city during the twenty-four hours cnding at 7. o'clock on Saturdsy moroing, and for the corresponding time twelve months ago: . 0l Shipments. || 1878, 1872, 7,438 onl1gt Fiour, bris 291, 0. 1719, 1,050 1,106,022 50 Hided. 1 Highwin'a bris! Wool, b Potatoes, .., Coal, tonis. Hay, tons. Lumioer, Ehingles. o, | common to choice. . 1ast season: Withdrawn from store during Friday for city consumption: 3,233 ba wheat, 419bu barlev. The following gratn was 1nspected 1nio store in this cite Saterday morning: 5 cass No. 1hard wheat, 16 cars No. 2 do, 4 cars No.1 soft spring, 6% cara No. 2 do, 4 cars No. 3 do (04 wheat); 3 cars No. 2 corn, 1car mew mixed, 12 cars rejected, 19 cars no erade 4 cars white oats, 3 cars No. 2 mixed, 1carre cars -No. 2 rre, 1 car rejected do; 7 cars No. 2 bar- les, 1 car extr No. & do, 1 car ordinary No. 3 Go, 2 cars feed (11 barley). Tetal, 151 cars, or 53,000 bu. Inspected out: 16,655 bu wheat, 50 ba corn, 2,768 b oats, 1,000 bu rye, 7,93 bu barles. The following were the receipts and shipments of breadstaffs and live stock at this point during the past week, and for the corresponding weeks cnding 2s dated: Recepta— Flour, bris. Wheat. ba. Cozii, bu Qars,” b by Dressed ho 502 Live hogy, 1619 Cattle N 11,653 The following were the exports from New York for the week ending s dated: Flour, brls. Wheat, bu. Corn bu Several membera of the Board of Trade are en- deavorinz to get parties in toe country to see that they are damaging themselves and others by cribbinz damp corn. The corn which has been damaged by the bad weather of the past two months would be better fed to stock, or even de- stroyed, than mixed in with otherwise sound corn, which is deteriorated thereby. The leading produce markets were rather more active In the searegate on Saturday, and frregnlar within rather narrow limits. Wheat and corn were weak carly, and pork sympathized in the movi ment to some extent, while there was Iittle change in the minor cerezls. The later feeling was frm, on account of reports that British con- sols were lower. The rcceipts of grain were again small, and outside ordors fow, either to buy or sell. People elsswhere as well as in Chicazo are utterly ot sea with rezard to the gitnation in the East of Enrope. aud prefer to be quict till evems take on n more ded- nite sepect. Théy sco reason to believe that the declaration of either peace or a more general war would cause very wide changes in guotations, and are afraid to risk the chances, so long & neither event secms to be more probaole than Lhe other. Dry oods were in a very fair demand, Within the past few days a noticesble increase in the vol- ume of orders bas taken place. Prices remain firm. The grocery trade displayed incrensed acti ity, and a better, firmer feeling, pervaded the mar- ket. Coffecs were the dullest of the staplearticles. Teas and sugars were fairly active and decidedly frm. Rice, sirups, spices, soaps, etc., were quoted aboat steady. No changes were obscrvable in the butter and cheese markets, both of these stable articles remaining quict and steady. Dried fruits, both domestic and foreign, were qull. Fish met with a restricted demand oniy, and prices were to a considerable extent nominal. In the leather merket nothing new was develoned. Bagzinz, tobacco, paints, and colors were quoted dull and unchanged. There was a genesally quict market for ofls, with httle or no variztion in prices, Linsced was strose at Friday's advance, Lard and turpentine were nelected. ozs were active and steady at'S4.008+.10 for light and at §1.00@+.30 for heavy. Cattle were in fair demand and unchanged, at $3.00%5.00 for Sheep were quoted at $3.00@ 50. Lumber was quict and unchanged. Dealers are confldent of a zood trade as soon as travel can be resumed in the countsy. ‘The prospect for getting out Jogs is much improved, enow having visited the lurber regions generally. The hardware market was dull. Wool and broom-corn were quict, the Western orders being' few and far be- tween, and the Eastern demand hos fallen off. Sceds were quict, partly on account of the meagre enpoly. as buying orders were on the masket, and better prices were paid for timothy. Clover was caster, beiog more freely offered, to arrive. Hides. ealt, and potatoes were unchanged. Green fruits were quiet aud eteads. Poultry met with a fair 1nquiry at recent prices. The oferings were t, exceptof turkeys. Gome was firm, except venison. 1IN NEW YORK YESTERDAT. T. Recelpts—Flonr, 10,38 brls; wheat, 88, corn, 31,050 bu; oats, 5,991 bu; corn- meal, 1,352 pkgs; rye, 720 bu; parley, 4,138 b malt, 5,500 bu; pori, 190 pkee: beef, 173 piz: cut meats, 2,819 pkgs; lard, 2,007 pkgs; whisky, 436 bris. Exports—Wheat, 109,497 bu; corn, 69,793 bu. GRAIN IN SIGHT. The repott of quantities of breadstufls on pas- eage for the United Kingdom, us printed yester- day, should read as follows: Jan. 3. Jan. 4. 30 2,200 « 403,000 802,000 GOODS RECEIVED at Chicago Customs, Jan. 5, 1878: G. S. Maskell & Co., 19 bags eced; Henry T. Wells, 499 boses raising; Fowler Dros., 253 sac] L. Leclercq, 1 cask and 1 octave of brandy; the Adams & W Take Manufzcturing Company, 267 boxes tin-plate; Gould Bros. & Dibble, 1 casi tiles: Jansen. Mc- Clurz & Co., 1 case books; Meyer Bros. & Co., 71 tos soda-ash, 10 tes carbonate soda-ash, 70 brls ecda crystals. Amount collected, $1,159.23. Flonr and wheat, qrs. Coru, QT3 .o PROVISTO! TOG PRODUCTS—Were moderately active, but av- erazed lower, though hozs were quoted firm. The de- cline was chiefly In pork, which hus herciofore ruled high as comparcd with meats, and recedzd under a diministed demand. There was & better Inquiry for consumpiton, forelgn buyers belng more mumerous than for soveral days past. The export movemens con- tinues larze, and packini Is proceed(ng more actively wlth the advent of favorable weather. The Commercial Butletin givea the following asthe Total sezon. Ranead Ity Fraaklin. Chiiitenthie, Mo T30 %50 The followinz table cxhibits the det of provisions for the week ending .o Nov. 1. 1877, as compared with the Corre For weex endt; Jan. 3, 1 Same time, 187677 Articles. Pork, bris... Lard, bris. Latrd, tes. Lard, othe: Hams, bris. jisms, tes Huuns, hoxes Hams, plec - Huma, other prgs. Sides, bris Sides, tes Total cToss welght Tvs— Lard 1,112 44.511.673 Tiams. S70 oN.455 a2 stdes. Shoutders.. 17,431,214 <s Pork—was moderately active, but declt; per brl from the latest quutations of Friday ed of 250 brls (0ld) 6 $10.403 100 brl; 25; 1,050 bris seller January at S11.22 bils seller February at $11.3:461 Is seller March at $11.35@11. “The market closed qulet at $1 January: $11.30 b 1145 scller March 21,350 bris. for spot: $11.20@11. seller February; aad SIL. Prime mess Was quoted at $10.50@11.50; and extra prime at £0.25@4. 7 ‘sctive. espectally on spot, which was in it tiie market was zoout 2c per 100 5 weze reported of 5,65 tos cash at ot S7.40¢ d Total, 19,65 oF stller LAip— W, MEATs—Were falrly active, with little change In prices. : Shoulders were o shade firmer, while some Hescriptions or raiddles were offered | rather more frecly: Sales were regurted of 810 boxes shoalders at $3.0044.033¢: 120,00 1b3 green doat k4e: 20.000 DS Freen Toug( 1d€s AL Sc: 740 boxes lung Clears at §5.Gk 45.55; 330 boxes long and short cleurs at S}c 22h aiid $.00 TOF FELruBrs: 421,000 1bs shors Tiba at c'spot. Ge for Marcl, “aad te fur May; 30,0 B3 Fen 4o at £5.407 130.G0 b creen hams at 04c for 14 5i3@5e for 20-1b avers, The shows 1hé closlag price per 100 153 0a . Ib averases, followinz ‘tne principal cuts of meats: Shoul~ Snors L. andsk. Short aere by, o, glears. 3. 5624 $5.62) g 165 3 5 5.874 405 5 5 5608 10 5.7 58T 8.00 5 6.00 6.00 613 So0E clears Guoted at $5.50 looke, and $5.65 boxeds ComnE Thds, GGk e Doxeds ToE Ut hAmA. THGTHC Boxed; sweet-plekicd hams, TH@7sic for 16 8ad 15-3 en hams. G40 for samoe averages; o, JaGrife e “Bagon auoied, av 35,40 o srowders, ez for S1OTE Tl T 74¢ fOF short clears, 9} 10N f0r hay il canvastd and vacked. A\sE—Was quiet nt 5@7c. £ PRODUC [otWere stéady and aufetat $a.50 2 'S10,50¢511.00 10T eXra mess: aag $15.20610. 00 for bams. TaiLow—\Vasnaoted at THGTe for clty. and 7@THs for country. Sale was made of 400 briselty at THe. BREADSTUFFS. FLOUR=Was dull, with no mazerfal change a pricesy the demand belngz only local, and for small lotx. The tone of the market was weak. Sales wers lmited to 200 brls spring extras at & 537141 110 brls spring saperfines at 75683.50; 100 br's rye four on privat terms: and 75 brls bucksheat do 3TS5.25 Total, 483 bris. The market closed at the followiag asthe asking raage of prices: Cuolce to favorice brards of winters, goud tu prine brands of wiaters, $5.%G holce 1o five spring, $5.50G6.00: falr to pood low &pring. $3.00Q9.75: falr 1o {ogs, $5.2565.5): chiolce 10 fancy i Dgs. $7.009 5405 buck- good Minnesota spl Ainuesota springs. $5. 7 9.00; low grade. wheat, 5.35¢5.50. BRaN—'as n good demand, and Armer. Sales wew 45 tons at $11.25 per 1on on track, and $IL.I531Lu free on board cars. Screestics—Sale was made of 5 tons at $10.00ps ton on track. MippLINGsS—Sales wer2 30 tons at $11.25@13.00 paa ton. ‘StorTs—Sales were 10tons at S11.25per ton oa track. L was weak early. declintg 3¢, but closed only o5t prices ut Erld 5 1pts wer - fnspected 12to stores ¢ previous day. i3 made shart sells more free, and_ this made the market mora buyers fatesIn the seasi 3 o 1 Iy lower, which was cone - ironole o the atwmptioad. There: was v . unt of outstde part nand In rroportion to i the snt jierehases £e Teporte: stdzred umninons of mo Just ‘the Eure dl tradiag for future on & very Koud shlpptas d Tont supply: a o ¢ a3 b2c on tracki. Total. 53, 490 To\Was in fair reqiest, sad steady. <ota, Hirst atoraze, 3t S1.0, and 1. (Goha by Tree on bosrd cars. Total, declinlnz 3o iday: e B ng, and our receipts wers the'r was regaried 33 favor- msrkets were quoted s zain smail. Bus the Wi zble to a spéedy outslde ore ease [n the volume of arrivals sad ' [n number, the shipping Fodnect of fnvrease uture, but the saorts The supiiles stimulated sellers for touk hold nore frecly at the decti ket more active thn the pe the _month sold early N ere {n demand which was the 200 . ATS—Were a ifttle more active, and a shade easfer, ffcrinzs. The recelnts 'y’ statcment [ndicated and [arizer receipts arc gener- ally expected this week. The trading was principally in” February, which sold at —24l@2dc. an Closed | a¢0" the - foside. Sstler A on sold at Say 10t of regular were turned over hitc was irm at 23 Cash sales ws 2 < 7800 bu DY s a0d 4,200 il 'do at 254 . _ Tosal, 34,400 B, ivas In 1(ghE local request. the sales belog ‘was steady al S6ie56lc, oni- January was nominal at s6cang . Cash ales wers Teporsed of /000 bu by sample at 54°@38c on (0 b, ac tal, 1. i SY—ivas quiet a2 uachanged prices. The receipts were fizht. and the oiferlugs of both car-lots And futurea small, Fhe demand aiso was Hmlted, and The markes way desertea nt g February sold st 3¢ aud Januars was qn c. the former closing with seilers ot the g March was la: quired for at msbe. 29z for glit-edzed Xo. 2, and 5 i for No.’3: 37¢ for feed, P were dali except cholce lots, vetter thian No. 2, the offerinzs of which were far behind the demand. and It ‘s reported thas some of rlie malisters’ orders wery “ah sales ware reported of 1,200 bu alled with /E35C: U0 b At 3a 600 b feed .60 bu by sample a1 47@54c on track. Total, BY TELEGRAPH. FOREIGN CITIES. No. 1, 118 7d: 128205 No. 2, 105 G6d: white, No. 1. 128 No. 2, 12311d. 563 Lard. 41s. LIVERIOOL, J: —CoTTON—Qulet at 6324 8-16d: sales, 7,000 bates; speculation and export, 2,000; Amer- fcan, 4,000 BrEADSTUFFS—Cal ornla white wheat, 128 8J@I 11d; do club, 125 11d& 133 3ds No. 2 to No, 1 red Western spring, 104 6dG11s 8d: co winter. 113 20@1S T Flour—Extra State 208 Corn—Westera mixed, 204 3d; s 0l Outs—American, Ss, Darley—Amer: adian, 37s. D—American, 45250, Mess pork. 56+ Prime messbeef, 851 . 4ls. Bacon—Long clear, 323 64; ¢ do, 34 6 LLOW— Amerlcan, 40e. Fine American, G4s. A) ANTWERT, Jan. 5.—PETEOLECH—30Ks. The rollowlug were received by the ChicagoBoard of o2 Liverroor, Jan. 5.—Prime mbes por! Westere, 555, Bacon—-Cumberiands Toniz clea#, 324 @; short, clear. 333 lianis. 418, Lard.41s. Primemiess bes et s exira ladia mess. 1133, Chiese, 515 Tailow, Loxnox, Jan. 5,—LiverronL—\Wheat quiet. Cor aslade dearer at 595 3. Mank argoes o coast—\Wheat quict, Corn stronz: falr aversze Amer- fean mixed, 20333295 64. Carsoes on passaze—\Whest, quict.Corn, uach: : falF averuse quallty of Yo 2 Chicazo spring what for promni shlpmeat durldg the present and following month, 513 6JG32s. s, 231 83; Indiz'mess NEW YORK. NEwYork. Jan.5.—CoTroN—Dull at 11 5-18211 7-16¢ fatures barely steady: Jannary, 11.20G11.: "ebru- 11.33¢: Mareh, 11.. April, 11.57411.536; : June. 11.82@11.83¢; July, 1183 Frovn—Recelpt 't bris: shade easter, with oaly a very limited demand for exvort and home use; No. 2 ern and Stste, common 0 good extra good 1o chofce do, £5.G0R0.0 hite wheat Western extra, $6.0686 + common to zuod extra Ohlo, es0ta, $7.40 59.00. Dull and inchas ert. c . 'Mait quict sadug: changed. Corn—Lecelpta, 31,050 bu_without dlecid*d change: moderate export and home trade faqufry: 6 for steamer yellow: 5ifc for steamer mixed: 58146:00 {or new and old 1nix ixed January clos- inzat 53z bId. 59 loniog AU BUG: DI, SRYE asked &t Gi1gc b, ked. uats—Recelyts, ¢ firmer, at 35@40c; mixed Weater ‘and State, Steady at 67@057 for shipplng. vs—Firm and unchanged. xs—Coffce—Lito’ quiet and stead; strong at 7 L74c for falr to oy refning. refgn crades nominal; New Orieans qufe T8 OF —Qulet at 323(@33c. G3—Quict ad 2y 23c for Western. JzaTui—Quiet; lemiock sole, Baénos Ayres anf 0 Grande MNght midile and heavy weights 220 commnon do, 214330, ‘ooL—Qulcy and firp: domestic flecces, 32@38C 12.00 for mess. awasdied, 106 Tor Viestern 1058 .09, inufectured copper quiet at 26c for Dex shieathing: 1nzot gulet amlfincn‘a‘nge Pig-roa dull ani nochangud: sheer, JO4@LLC for Ks AILs—Sleady st $2.40 for © clinch. ——————— A Tarantula’s Home. Galena Gasette, One of the most singular curiosities in nature that has ever come under our observation is the mest_of a tarantula, a_species of spider whose bitefs supposed to result fatally. Itis con- structed of clay and small stones, and i3 about four Inches long and two inches wide. A bole * three-quarters of s foch fo diameter passes throngh it lengthwise, one endof which closed by a trap-door, beveled on the sides top, and. fttinz so perfectly that whoo dlosed scarcely a sign of the opening is visible. The Joor is rounding at the top, perfectly straizht on the bottom, and works on a hinge construtt- ed on the same principal as the joints oo which adoor hangs. The nest is lined with a soft sossaraer substance, and Is as round as if bored with. an auger. Itis said that the tarantuls when attacked, crawls intoits nest, and, closfog the trap-door, secures it_by inserting one of {3 lezs :‘lhmugh a staple scarcely alscernsble to tha naked ey a Amiable Obstinacy. 4 1f we may credit a certain newspaper prioted up among the mountains of the Granite State,3 family fn Piymouth, N. H.. deserve to carry ol the palm for obstinacy. While the father and son were at work on a hulldinfi;wu Fears ago, they got Into a dispute and both quitted the task and left their tools sticking fn_the cracks where they remained until a few days 820, whea . While at work they . the son finished the job. removed the windows of sleeping room, buk the female occupants, not to be outdone in stubbornness, hung up quilts and foccupied tb8 room through heat and cold. 2 L S S SRR