Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 26, 1879, Page 6

o . THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY., JANUARY 2, I879—SIXTEEN PAGES FINANCE AND TEADE. Unparalleled Sales of 4 Per Cents Since Jan. I The Rise in Stocks Uninterrupted— Chicago Loan Ifarket. The Produce Markets Less Act- ive, and Steadier. Hogs Firm—Provisions Easier---Grain Quict—3ovement of the Weeks FINANCIAL, The principal event in financial circles was, as ¢ has been since Jan. 1, the subscrintions for the 4 ver cents., These were Saturday §14,023,- 200. As reosorted by tclegraph, the sales of 4 per cents since the resumption of specie pay- ments have been, together with the calls made: Subscriptions, Calls made. 9 $10,000,080 16,000,060 10,000, 600 10,000.000 Januery. 20.00, 060 300 14,025,700 There have now been called this vesr S130,- 000,000 of 6 per cents; there are still $213,079,- 3000f 520s to be called. After these come £194,550,200 of 1040, and $252,736,350 of Gs of 1881 There are now ahiead of the pew 5s of 1881 the followiag amonnt of bonds that must ‘be redeemed before they can be affected : 5-20s of 1867 uncalled. 520 of 1 2 _receemable since March 1, 1 ©s of 1851. The amount of 4 per ceuts authorized by the &et of 1870 is §1,000,000,000. The amount sold -up to date is $337,000,000, s0 that there now re- mams to be sold but $663,000,000 of 4 per cents, which §s not enough to refund all the 5-20s, 10-40s, and 6s of 1881. Legislution will be needed to suthorize the issue of miore 4 per ceats. The G per cents of 1SS1 camnot be redcemed, excepting §18,415,000 on Dec. 81 next, before 1881, when $274,321,350 of them fall due. The only way of reaching thesc 6 per cenis hefore 1851 would be by purchase in the open mar- Let. After the Gs of 1851 come the 55 of 1881, smounting to $508,410,330. The following is a swmmary of the bill, now before the - Presi- dent for his siznature, passed by both Houses of Congress to fadcilitate the refunding of the deot: v It suthorizes the Sccretary ofythe Treasary, in Liie process Of reiunding the national bebt, 10 ex- change Gireelly at par tke bonds of the Umited States bearing 4 per cent interest for the vonds commeonly known 38 Sve-iwentics ontstanding and uncajled, and directs that woeneser all ruch 1wenty honds shall be redecmed the provision of tois section. and all existing provisions of Jaw authorzng the refunding of ihe national deb:, shuil apply to any bonds bearing 5 per cent or a hizher rate of intcrest 1hat way Le redcemable. In zny excharze made under the provisions of this kection interest muy be allowed on the bonds re- decmed for 3 period of three monihs. 1t applies to the outstanding bonds, as fol- Jows: Censols of 1867, Censols of L 18,415,000 e 50, 189,321,350 Sixen of 1351, 1hi 350, 1881} : 75,000,000 TFives of 1881 iduc May 1, 1881)... 508,410,350 TotRlS soass svoimssmine $1,203,522,300 To refand all the outstanding bouds bearing more than 434 ver cent interest would reqnirc The following were the fluctuations of the | Dressed hog: active stocks for the day: Stocks. Opening. Highest. Loicest, Closing. N. Y 5 Dox 11d st 3 Central..... 53 51 Michizan Central. 4% 87 883 Lake Saore....... 0 T3 Ty C. &X Western.. 62 6335 o 44% Do preferred. ... 52 83 C.. 1.1 & Pacitic . 1251 126 Tlinois Central .. $4% 8 Chi.. Bur. & Q. 3 it Chicago & Alton. Ve 86 Union Pacific. 5 67% Lrie ..... 26% 263 Wabash Rai 35 24 Onio & Miss 5% n C,C\C. & 46 A 5% 4% 5% 4115 97 51 g 3% COIN QUOTATIONS. The following are the quotations in currency in this market of coins, bought and sold: Asked. Trade dollars.... .. . New (41214 grains) dol Hexican dollars, old and Englisnsilver.. Gola aud silver dollars were 1003 in currency. POREIGX EXCHANGE. Sezty days. 486 “signt, i Sterling.. Belmiom France... T. S. 6s.0f 81 {ex. int) .. 208 of '67 (ex. int). ! 5205 of 65 (ex. int).. U. S 10-40s. T. §. new 38 of 61 T. 5 pew s, U. §. 4 per cent coupons LOCAL SECURITIES Chicazo 7 pet cent bosids (long). Chicago 7 per cent sewerage (1ong] Chicazo7 per centswater joan(los: Chicago t per cents, long Chucago G per cents, short, Cook Connty 7 per Cent bons Cook Coanty 7 per cents, short. Lincoln Park 7 per cent bonds. City iailway (Soath Side). City Railway (West Side).... . City Railway (North Side). ex. di City Railway (North Div.) 7 per cent bonds .. * *103! Chamber of Commerce. Chicago Gas Light.... siosr: W, Div. Railway 7 per cent cert ~joaii City Scrin. 97 Traders’ Insarance. i ‘West Park bonds. *And interest. BY TELEGRAPH. KEW YORE. To the Western Associated Press. Nzw YORE, Jan. 22.—Goveroments active. Railroad bonds were strong. State securities were dull. The stock merket, although less active than yesterday, was, nevertheless, extremely buoy- ant, and the upward movement in prices was continued. The advance for the day rapged from 3¢ to 25§ per cnt, the latter for Michizan Central. Northwest, St. Paul, Canada South- ern, Iilinois Central, and coal stocks were also promincat in the upwara movemeot. Among the investment shares Rock Island, New York Central, and Chicago & Aiton were again higher on good dcmand. The closing dealings were charzacterized by great strength aod activity in the eutire list, and in a number of instances the highest quotations of the week were current. 'ransactions, 330,000 shares, of which 41,000 were Eric common, 4,000 Eric preferred, 31,600 Northwestern commot, 21,000 Northwestern pre- ferred, 6,000 St. Paul common, 7,500 St. Paul preferrcd, 41,000 Lake Shore, 40.000 Lackawan- na, 15.000 Michigen Ceotral. 12,600 Wabssb, 7,500 Oitio common, 4,000 Olio preferred, 9,600 St. Louis, Kausas City & Northers, 9,600 Mor- ris & Essex, 5,000 Illmois Central, 5,000 St. Jo- seph, 4,000 New Jersev Southern, 5,000 Canada Southern, 3,000 New York Central, 2,000 Pitts- burg, and 2,000 Kansas Pacific, Money market casy at 2@8 per cent, cosing the issuc of about §510,00,000 more 4 per cents than are authorized by the act of 1570. The market for Governmeat bonds was weak. The Gs of 1581 were unchanged at 1063, and the 5-20s of 1567 at 1013¢, but the 5-205 of 1863 receded 3, to 10134, and the 10-40s 34, to 1043, The new s of 1851, although, as we have shown, exccedmgly remote from the possivility of heing callea, suffered a sharp decline, falling from 105} 10105. The new 414s fell from 106 10 10584 Gold coia was in light demand, 2nd sold at 100 in greenbacks. Yoreign exchange was weaker. The supplies ol bills are light, and it is noticeable in the foreigp-cxchenge market that there is no in- crease in foreign orders or in shipments abroad to account for the rise of prices on the Board of Trade. Sterling grain and commercial bills wore 4828, and French bills were 52234, Actual +transactions in sterling were at 4843{ and 48734, The posted rates remzin the same. Consols weakened still furtber, and were quoted all day,at 55 1516, a decline of X§ since 1he day before: - The currency movement has been Jight dur- {ng the past weck, compared with what it has been previously. The orders for New York cxchange have also been moderate. Discounts Bave been in active request, both from Board- of-Trade borrowers and the mercantile custom- ers of the banks. Bankers renort that their discount lines are well filled, that their surplus bas goue into use; and that chicap movney is no more. Rates are now quoted at 7 per cent on call and $210 per ent on time Joans. The Clearings of the Chicago banks are reported as follows by Manager D. R. Hale, of the Chicago Clearing-Houst: $19,997,084 $2161,754 Corresponding week 136t yeur- ... - 18,223,102 1,580,797 ‘There was a gale of Chicago City 6 per cents, Jong, at 105 and intere: E it The price indicat the firmness and advancing teugeucy of munici- pai securities. Thesc bonds have hitherto been quoted at 102;6@103. The stock market was active and excited. The leading stocks advanced upon the prices of heday before. There were realizations, but they were not caoush to affect the market. Opinions differ, of course, on the merits of the present rise. Where are operators who regard it only as arepetition on a wider field of the clique tac- tics that put up Western Union carly mn thewin- ter. Uthers point to tuc lovg-continued buying of investment stocks aud railroad bonds as proof tind outside caital is really going into stocks. To the outsider who rushies in to make | his Jortuae, the prospects of a reaction: grow fzinter as prices go higher, but the bard-headed insiders think there may siill be chances left in he market-to ke money by operating asainst e crowd. Noribwest common advanced from 6210 G3%¢, and "closed &t thut point. Tie pre- ferred closed st the bighest point of the day, §6. St Paul common advanced from 4 10 4434, and closed 2t 44%: the preferred gained 1, 10 83, and Leld it; Rock Island went up to 126 at the close, and Ilinois Central to 86, 8 zainof 1%; Alton moved up ¥, 10 563 Wabash 1, to24; Delaware & Hudson 1%, to 44343 Lackawenpa 3, 10 54¢; Canada Southern 134, to 513 Michigan Central 2}, to 863¢; Lake Shore opened and closed at 5 after selling 35 bigh 2s T3%; Burlington & Quiney was un- changed at 1133/ Erie opened av 253, sold as Ligh as 273, and ciosed at 2034 Obio & Missis- sipol closed 3§ lower than the opening 113 and €., C., C. & L lost ¢ of its advaace, and closed at 463 St. Joe common opened and closed at2. Prime mercantile paper, 3% Sterling exchange, sixy days, steady at 485; sight, 4573, 20,268 12,719 283,033 18,851 Live bogs, No Cattle, No Shipments— Flour. bris Wheat, bu. Corn, bo Qats, bu Rye, bu. Catile, No.. 5 The following were the exports from New York for the week ending as dated : Flour, brls. Wheal. bu Corn, bit........ Withdrawn from store during Friday for city consumption: 349 bu wheat, 391 bu corn, 784 bu oats, 450 bu barley. The following grain was inspected into store in this city Saturdsy morning: 7 cars No. 2 red winter wheat, 1 car No. 3 do, 2 cars mixed, 23 cars No. 3 hard, 70 cars No. 2 spring, 93 cars No. 3 do, 25 ears rcjected, 1 carno grade (233 wheat); 2 cars No. 1 coru, 46 cars high mixed, 41 cars new do, 30 cars new mixed, 90 cars No. 2 corn, 10 cars rejected (220 corn); 22 cars white oats, 25 cars No. 2 mixed, 6 cars rejected (53 oats); 1car No. 1rye, 7 cars No, 2do, 1 car re- jected, 6 cars no grade (15 rye); 2 cars No.2 barley, 6 cars No. 8 do, 9 cars extra, 2 cars feed (19 barley). Total, 540 cars, or 230,000 bu. In- spected out: 21,590 bu wheat, 4,456 bu corn, 2,307 bu oats, 505 bu barley. . It is supposea that at least some of the men ‘who advocate the expulsion of the clerks do so because they want to control the vote of the Board by purchasing tickets for their clerks and dictating the way they shall yote. The ides ap- pears to be absurd. The right of a member to be represented by kis clerk is a point that ought to be considzered before. the question is decided,. Grain receivers are not now allowed to take prain from the tracks of the L. C., and some of them claim that the inspection is too rigid under the circumstances. Grain “‘mear the Ioe,” and plsced by the Inspector in the Jower grades, is geperally sold by sample, and much more realized thau if sold from store. A case was reported Saturday of a lot of 19 cars which were iuspected to rate as hizh mixed, but was all pasked into store as new high mixed. The stocks of wheat along the S8t. Paul lines in Minnesota are variously reported as aggre- gating only 400,000@700,000 bu, where they usually amount at this season to two and a half or three million bu; und the wheat is mostly beld by millers at that. This news forms some offset to the heaviness caused by big stocks Li Shoalders. boxes Shoulders, tcs Stoulders, brls. Shoulders. pes.. Tongues, pkzs Hocks, pkgs .. ‘Total gross w'ght, ts— ard . %, 70,336,514 43,178,668 127840, 717 24,242,243 The Cincinnati Price Current eays: ‘The movement of hors the past Lo wecks has exceeded in number the expectations of most oper- ators, and in he face of this hes developed one of the most remarkable advances in the trade for some years. \What iufluence this advance may have on the remainder of the season’s business is problem- atical: the inferior quality of u large part. of the arrivals at the principal cities wonld lead to tho conclusion that a Jiberal proportion of the present recciptsaro drawn ont by the advanced prices for hogs; and if this be so, a liheral further diminu- tion of the supply may seasonably be expected for the remainder of the seson. Withall this, how- ever. 11 must be apparent to aay one 1681 Chicaso estimate of two weeks ugo of 2.750.000 head for the season is likely to be considerably excceded. vhile the .estimates forthe others of the larze cities will, in the aggregatc, be fully reached or somewhat exceeq The total packing to date at the six latze cities 16 4,335,000 head, agaipst 3,205,000 to saine date last year, an increase of 1,130.000. In regard to interior voints, nothing has vet been develaped to essentially Ctiange the outlook 3 indicated by the catimates published two weeks ago. ln some places the advanced prices of lioge has curtatled the operations of interior packers, they br.-m'T' un- willing to follow uo the higher figures for hoge, Some of the packers in the principal cities had large ontstanding contracts, Which mode them anxions and active buyers of hogs when the mar- ket.began to develop tye upward movement two wecks 820, and to this is partly due the extreme prices ich have been paid. e Tne Commercial Bullelin. of this city, gives the followini as the azpregase sales of the past week: Mess potir, 874,60 brls: Iard, 303,230 tcs; short rib sides, 000 1bs; hams, 1,127,000 Ibs; shonlders, 0,000 1bs: long and short clear slded, 10,000 bxs. The agererate valne of these urticles reaches $16,250,000—or a daily average 00,000. This_is undoubtedly the trade in provisions ever reporied in this city, Mrss Ponk—Advanced 7i4c per brl early, then declined 15¢, and closed 73c belovw the latest prices of Friday. Sales were reported of 2,250 bris seller Febraary at $8.80@9.00: 12,000 bris seller March at $0.024:@9.17%; and 9,500 brls seller Aprii at $0.15 ,9.30. - Total 0_bris. The market closed tame at abont S7. 0 for old spot, S8.85@8.5753 for new spot or seller Jan- uary, S8.874@8.90 for Feoruary, $0.00@9.025% for March, and §9. 15@9. 1752 for Abril. Prinic mess pork was quoted at $7. 50@8. 00, and extra prime at 35. 75@7. Lanp~Declined 7i;c from the latest prices of Friday, though 2izc higher at the opening. Sales wWere reported 0 tos spot at 5. 750 rce seller February at $5.974:G6.00, 6,750 tes veller March at $6.10@6, 173, and .00 tes eclier April U $6.20@6,25, Total, 11750 tes. The market clozed tame at $5 for cash or seller Janoary, $5.975¢@6.00. fer February, $6.07%@6.10 seller March, and $6.173:@6.20 seller April. MeaTs—Were less active, with uo important changeg in price, though the market was casier, in “hera and in Milwaukee. sympathy with pork and Jard. 'There was 2 mod- The leading produce markets were quiet Sat- gm te trade for export. Sales ;rd;oreo&x:fl:xcdd of fim) i i 0xe3 Sh ers at. 3 )\ s do seller urday, aud the gencral fecling was steadier, the | JFR7 o0 300H tes sweet. pickled do au changes in price being much smaller than the recent average. Grain was rather weak early, and pork products opened out stronger, but both returned to ncar the latest prices of Fri- duy. The shippiog movement was rather slow. Domestic and foreign dry goods were in light 35,000 1bs jong clears at dc; 15 boxer do 1.300 boxes lone and ebort clears at $4.3714G5.40 spot and scller February: 2, 650, 000 T3 short ribs at &4, 05 sogt. $3.09@4.13 for Teb- v, $1.17% 2 4. 35 for March, $1.30G4.421 nd $4.65 for June; 15 boxes do at 51 5150, 000 1bs green hams (16 1bs) at 53ic. The {ollowing were the prices per 100 1bs on the lead- request at about steady prices, Groceries were | ing cuts: quoted fairly active, and the market was firm Shoul-| Skoré |L.& . | Short for most lines. Dried fruits continue in good ders, | rids. I:lmrs. clears. request, and both foreizn and domestic varie- I £t cared. |62 Si1 Py ties were held with_confidence. Canned 00ds | Hoved.oorrerl 509 | 589 contipue in 2062 demand from the city and country trade, and remain firm. Fish were quoted firm under an increasing demand. The putter and cheese markets were fairly active and firm. Nothing new was noted in the mar- ket for oils, leather, tobacco, baggiog, and coal. The lumber market was steady, with fair sales. The log supply the coming season, if reports may relied upon, will be heavy, and in some Jocalities the stock will probably exceed that of any former year. The demand for wool and broom-corn shows some improvement, and prices, thougn no bigher, are steady, especially for the best grades. Seeds were firm, with fair sales, choice timothy and clover being stronger. The sales of hay were again light, and prices easy in. anticipation of larger receipts. Green Iraits s01Q freely to the city trade at the quota- tions, . Rail freights were quoted at the following range: Fourth Dressed Dressed Provisions. ‘Bag, Sy, 5 January, boxed February, boxed. March. boxed .. 7 Long clears quoted ¢ $1.0712 loose and S boxed; Cumberiands, $4. @5.00 boxed; lonz: 614@Uzc for @5%c for same erage; green hams, g24; grecn shoulders, Bacon quoted at 455G 4i4c for shoulders, 43(@5¢ for short ribs, S@5KG for short clears, TH@74cC for hams, all eanvased and packed. g GrzasE—Was auoted at 5@54c for white, 435 @43ic for yellow, and 4@4%ic for brown. BEEF PRODUCTS—Were etendy and_quict at S7.75(@S. 00 for mess, £8.50@8.75 for extra mess, and 314.50@15.00 for hams. TALLOW—Was quiet at B@OKc for city, and 53 @#c for country. BREADSTUFFS. FLOUR—Was quiet and tirm. The trading was chiefly local. Shippers made some inquiries, but ‘mostly held off, some expecting a reduction in freight rates, Sales wers reported of 175 brls winters at $3.005 300 brls springs, partly at $1.00; and 100 brls ‘rva flonr on private terms. “fotal, 575brls. The following was the nominal range of prices: g class. @rain. Flour. beef. hogs. | Choicé winters, $4.75 @5.1u% To Baliimore. .37 .32 .64 .87 .y'ifl Good to choi‘éc\ ntt 0 @4.50 Philadelphia., .38 o .66 .88 .73 | Fair to good winters. @4.00 New York ... .40 .35 .70 .90 .75 | Cholce Xinnesotss. Boston. 45 30 80 -195 .80 | Fair to zood Minnesois 0 The following figures were named for rail ffl"' to :,x’\?g: springs, 5 @3 g and ocean contracts: oo o a2 ~—Flplr——— Buckswheat. . 4.00 @425 Brax—Wasmore active. and irreguiarly firmer. ‘The weekly baok statemeut is as follows: Loans, increase, §1,247,800; spedie, increase, $57,100: legal-tenders, increase, 53,633,800; de- vosits, _increase, $3,390, circulation, de- crease, $150,000; reserve, increase, $2,573,350, ‘The banks now hold $17,285,000 in excess of their Jegal requircnents. [ £ 1681, 10055, New points : ‘oupons o ..1063 Coupons, " 10137 10. Receved, Shipped, Coupons, '68s.... ..102 . . e 58.. .. 1063, Chicago ... New 1. 06 Toledo. 18 W. T. Telegraph.. 9 Quicksilver.. 247 Quicssilver, pfd... 34 Pacific Aiail Mariposa. Harivosg, pfd Adaws Expre: Welle, Farzo & Co. 97 |Terre Hante .. American Exprees. 473 Terre Hunte, pfd... 9 S, Expre 3613 Chicago & Alton... 8C N 11533 Chicago & Ait'n, pfé107 Erie. . 263{ Obio & Missiseippi, 107% Erie, pfd 81 L. & W oz Harlem. 6 1chizan Central Panama... C.. B. 12 annibal & St. Joe. Lake Shore... ¢, pfd.. 38 Iihinois Central : C. & Pittsburg.. Northwestern. Nortawestern, b i s 07k U. P, Land Grant..110:3 U. P. Sinking F'ds. 109 NDS 63, sraTe Tennessee 6, old.. ‘Tennessee 63, nev Virgnia s, old. FOREIGN. - Loxpoy, Jau. 25.—Consols for money, 95 1516 American _Securities—Reading, 13%: Eric, 27':_yreferred, 4734 United States Bonds—'67s, 10334 5 10405, 107145 pew 5s, 107X ; 43¢s, 10534, Pans, Jun.'25.—Rentes, 114f 15¢. COMMERCIAL. Latest quotations for January delivery on the leading articles for the last two business da; cases lipen: gzouds; A, materials. Collections, Barrels, $1.39; Sales were reported of 70_tons 252@3. 00 per ton on track, and $7.75 1o arrive free on board cars. Conx-MEAL—Coarse was nowinal atabout $10. 50 Der ton on track, The following table exhibits the receipts a ScuEzxiNs—Sale was made of 20 tons at S10,00 per ton. shipments of wheat at the principal Western IN NEW YORK SATURDAY. New Yorxk, Jan. 25.—Receipts—Flour, 12,509 brls; wheat, 118,350 bu; corn, 92,550 bu; oats, 16,913 bu; corn-meal, 5062 pk barles, 24,200 bu; malt, 8,250 bu; pork, 1,255 brls; beef, 1,853 tes; - 3% | lard, 4,23 tes; whisky ' Exports—For twenty-four hours—Flonr, 4,000 brls; wheat, 93,000 buj corn, 1,000 bu; oats, 1,000 bu, 5 562 brls, GOODS RECEIVED at port of Chicazo Jag. 25, 1879: Fowler Bros., 1.234 sacks salt; Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co., 4 Prior, one case dry Co., one case artists’ 3 Drovn & H. Abbott 63561, rye, 3,316 bu; -meats, 7,249 pkgs; vere quict, as compared with the trading eariier in the week, though a fair volume of business was transacted. was_essier, tending slowlv downwards, though hogs were quoted frmer at the Stock-Yards. Liverpool reported a dechine of 3d in lard and 6d in meats, while our receints for the week were equal 10 abont haif the shipments. The folfowing table exhibits the number of Hogs packed at the points named since Nov. 1, 1875, a3 compared with the returns of previous seas the towal packing of the season of 1577-"7 ‘The market Suonts—Sate was mode of 10 tons at $8.00. F2ED—Sale was mado of 10 tons at $11.50, . SPRING WHEAT—Was rather quict, and avi aged easier. The market declined W@3e, ad- vzaced 3¢, and closed ‘e below the latest prices of Friday. The Lritish markets were reported czsier, and New York wasioactive. while our re- ceipts were larger, bu: with an Increase in the vol- ume of shipments reaorted. ‘The macket was un- settled at the outses by this news, which indoced » Iarger ulferings for fature, but the decline brouxht outu fair dewand, ander which prices rallied, Tne speculative demand wns chietly for Miarch, and ap- pearcd to be mostly local, = considerable’ business being done in scalving between here and Milwan- Kee. The shipping cemand was better, and the discrimination zainst Central receipts for No. 3 practicaliy disabpesred, the closing fiznre being 70;-call round. No, 2 closed ot 8E5@8c. Scller Aarch opened at 88Y4G86%c, declined to S55@ 86c, advanced to 86c, and fel! off to S6%c at the Ci - Seller February sold at 841@35%c, closing ¢ 83%c. Seller the month was quict A Si:@ 85Yc, closing at 847%@85c. Spot sales were re- ported of 70,400 bu No. 2 at 85{63545¢: 23,600 ba No. 3at T0@70%c; 4,800 bu rejecied at 35@aic; and 12,000 bu by samiple at 54@77c. Total, 110, . WiNTER WiEAT—Was qdiet. Sales were 500 bu No.2red at 87c; and 3,200 bu by samble at SO@ 91c. No.2 in jlinois River and Northwestern elevators was nominal £t about 86c. CORN—Was moderately active, and sveraged he market clusing %@!4c lower than on , for May, while there was little change for the nearer futures. Liverpool was casicr and New York guiet, while our receipts were Sboat eqaal to those of Friday, and the stocks in store hure appeared to have iucreased about 180,000 bu dur- ing the week. The market sympatiuzed wheat in fulling off early, and then ruling steadie There was & fair aemand for- Mar delivers other futures were gencrally neglected. Tié Saip ping demand was quict. Seller May opened at #5kc, sold at 35%c, advanced to 333c. and fell back to 35tcc ot fhe close. Seller Apri) sold at B1%@31%¢, and March at 31@H1%¢, both closing at medium figures. February sold at 303;@303;c, closing at0%c. January was quoted at 30',@ To date, Todate, Todate, 80%c.” Caslicorn closed at 30!c. Spot snles were Mess pork. Pointe. s, a7s. 897, f 45.000 bn No. 2and high-mixed at lard.. . - 7. T 2,355,961 2, : 5,800 bu new high-mixed af 27%@ Spouiders, boxed. A 1,200 bu neW mised at 26l @27c: $00 bu Short ribe, bosed. jeetod At 263ie: 23,000 bn by simple at 271,@ Whisky 4 20c on track: 3,000 bu do af @26Y%¢ free on 3 bourd cars; and'400 bu ears az 3lc. Total, 50,200 Wheat.. Live hoe: Cattle. Thae followinr were the 5 receipts and ship- ments of the leadine articles of produce in this city daring the twenty-four hours ending at 7 o'clock on Saturday mormng and correspond- ing date twelve montbs aco: Flour. Teal 458,430 107,250, ¥t The following were the, receipts aud ship- ments of breadstuils ana live stock at this point duriog the past week, and for the corresponding weels ending at date: Jan. 25, Jan. 18, Feceipte— D, & Flour, or] at 15, ductuating Letween 153 and 143, XNarthwest gold bonds were 1063, St. Panl Einking Funds 103%, spd Burlington & Cedar Rapids 10 Hams, ne Tums, ot Sides, brla. Sides, pes. 5 Shoniders. boxes .. Shouiders, tcs . Shoulders, brls! Shonlders, pes Tougues, pkes Hocks, pigs. “Estimated. The followine is a detailed statement of the shipments of provisions for the week, and since Nov. 1, 1878, with conparisons: 78-79, Week ending Jan. %3 boxe: Pork, brls.. u. OATS—\Were in moderate demand and weak, closing an }i@Y c lower. The traaing was chiefly in May. The market closed essy. in sympathy with other grain, and cash was oficred more [rec), with no particular demand for it. May rold at @ 2325c. and closed at twe fuside. February sold at 19%@19%c. and March at 20%c. Cash or Jan- uary Were quict at 193ic. Samples wero plenty and rather more active, Cash sales were reported 5,000 bz No. 2 5 11,400 bu Total, 51,500 bn. YE—Was in betfer request and firm. eold at 45¢ and Febraary At 4ic. local and chiefly encenlative. s on seme otier days of the we were reposted of 2,000 bu No. 2 ap 44c: 400 bu rejected at 44c; 1,600 bu by sample at H@rd5e on track. Tozal, 4,000 bu, BARLEY—Was azain gniet aud easy. A few orders were tilled cariy. and afterwaras the market wad Jifeless. Futures opened steady, bat closed weak, Pebrnary selling at 90c and 3iarch at 9lc, both ciosinz with seilers at these quotations. No 2 gold a1 80292, ontside in A., D- & Co.'s. Exura 3 £0ld at yigc for mext wonth, und at 47%c for Mareh. Cash do sold at 47c, and A., D. &Co.'s Tecupls were quoted ar 50c. Regular No. 3 was nominal at 33@34c. Samples were duil. The #earcity of freigit-cars keeps sbipvers out of the markel, aud lucal conenmers nre nOt buying. Cash gales were reported of $00 bu No. 2 at 92¢: 800 bu eXUr BAE 47e; LG00 bu by !;ulntéfl 2t 238G ssc o rack; and 1,200 bu do at 29}:@43c delivered. Total, 4,100 March The demand was Samplesdid not seil MORNING CALL. Shoulders - 33801412 | . Mess nork—Sales 11,730 brls_at §9.20@0.25 f 3 1 RS s .25 for S 55: so 1,861,412 | 3 ieh and S0, G945 for April. Lard—5. Salt, brls. 2528 1,430, 1,682 .08 tcs at $6.171 for March, _ Short ribs—100, 000 s 8t 34,2745 for March and $4.4245 for April. p LATER. &N provision call was held Saturday afternoon. Wheat £old ou the carbstone at 8633¢ seller March. BY TELEGRAPH. . FOREIGN. Special Dispatch to tue Trivune, Liverroor, Jar. 25—11:30 a. m.—FrLovr~No. 1, 2283 No. 2, 188, Gea—Whear—Winter, No. 1, 952d; No. 2, 88 No. 2, 6s10d; white, No. 1, 9 3d; No. 2, 88 9d; club, No. 1, 98 3d; No. 2, 95 Corn—New, No. 1, 228 3d; old, No. 3, 23s Provisioxs—Pork, 4ls. Lard, 32s. Liveneoor, Jan. 25.—CoTros—Moderate in- quiry at 5 5-16@3 9-16d; sales 6,000 bales; spec- ulntion and export, 2,000; American., 5.000- ProvisioNs—Prime meas beef, 70s. Jan. 25.—REFINED PETROLEU—8%@ 6d; spring, No. 1, 885 o, “Srimirs OF TURPENTINE—22S. The following were received by the Chicago d of Trade: e B ao0m Jan. 25--11:30 3. w.—Flovr, 160 226, Wheat—iVinter, 8¢ 6@08 2d; Xo, 2 spring, s 10d4583: white, 83 9d@0s 3d;_club, 95@93 & Corn—New, 225 4d; old, 23s, - Pork, 41s. Lard, iysrroor, Jan. 25, —Prime mess pork, East- ern Siee G cutern, ls. . Bacon--Cumberlands, 263 short ribs, 26s; long clear, 253 6d; short clear, 26s; shoulders, 21a §d. Hame, 37s. * Lar 3184, Prime mess becf, new, 72, Iudia mee beef, mew, T!%?:" v:xu‘:u lgd.ll mees, , 408, w, 30s 3d. o Tam 33y Lavenroor—Wheat rather pring. 75 3483 24, Corn rather easter; Cargoes off coast—Wheat and corn tirm. casler. 23s Gd. ' NEW YORK. To the Testern Associuted Press. New York, Jan. 25.—CorroN—Quict but steady at 9 7-16@99-16c; futures steady : January, 9.45¢; February, 9.40c; March, 9.60c; April, 9.81c; May, 9.96¢; June. 10.08c. Trour—Quict; receipts, 13,000 bris; super State and Western, $3,00@8.50; common to good extra, $3.50@3.90; good to choice, $3.95@4.50: white wheat extrs, $4.55@ : extra Obio, $3.75@ 5.00; St. Lonis, $3.50@5.75; Minnesota patent process, $5.50@S. 00. GralN—Wheat—Winter lower; spring quiet but steady; receipts, 100,000 bu; rejected spring, 76c: uneraded do, 94c; No. 3 spring, 92@92c; ungraded vod, 98c@31.00%; No. 3 do, §1.03@ 1.01%: No. 2 do, eales 113,000 bu at $1.09@ No. 1 do, S1.092[S1.10; ungraded am- @1.10. Rye firmer; Western quoted at 0c. Larley quiet: maltnominally unchanged. Corn nominally unchanged; receipts, 93,000 bu; 406@48¢; No. 3, 453 teamer, 435 @ 46 o. ©. 103@i7c Iu store; 48¢ ailoat; round yellos, 52c. Oats dull and Jower: receipts, 19,000 bu; o. 3 white, 32303 No. 2white, 335 3 No. 1white, 343(c. mixed Western, 31@ 24, ite Western, 3233@34}4c. Aar—Quict but steady 2 40@45e. ‘Hors—Nomimally unchaneed. GurocEuzs—Coffee quiet but steady. Suzar nominally unchanged. Molasses nominally un- changed.” Rice steady and unchanged. Prrrorux—Market dull; united, $§1.00@ 1.017%: crude, B} @8%c; relined, 9kc. TanLow—Quiet but steady at 63c. ResiN—Firm at $1.35@1. 40, TowresTINE—Firm at 204@20%c. Eces—Firm; Western, 30c. LeaTnen—Quiet but steady: hemlock sole, vres and Rio Grand light; middles and heavy weights, 19g21c. i WooL—Domestic flecce, 27@40; puited, 17@36c; unwashea, 10%25¢; Texus. 13@23c. iy Provisions—Pork—Market aull. Mess, $8.25 for old; $9.75 for mew. Besf dull and un- changed, Cutmeats firm; long clear middles, 43c? short do, Sc. Lard quiet; prime steam, $6.45@6.50. BurrEr—-Firm: Western, 6@3lc. Unepst—Quiet but steady: Western, 2@8%c. Warssy—Nowinal at $1.10 MeraLs—Manufactured copper quiet: ingot lake, 25%c; pix iron dull und nominal: Scotch, 22 24c; American, §15.00@17.00; Russia sheeting, 105@10%c. e Nains—Cat, $2.10%2.15; clinch, $4.25@5.25. e —— L SOME CATS. Feline Interruptions of Theatre Perform- ances—The Lotus Club's Pet. ew York Sun. In the Academy of Music one evening last week, during the performance of *‘Robert le Diable,” just as Mlle. Lido began singing the aria, * Robert, toi que j’sime,” the attention of the audience was attrocted by the appearance of acat upon the stage. Pussy looked at the prima dompa, calmly surveyed the house, and then, walking down to the footlights, after blinking at Siznor Arditi, began the tour of the orchestra rail. An usher, who had been watch- ing pussy’s progress, stood at the foot of the left aisle, and. amid the titter of thc house, waited to receive her. As she reached the end of her journey he cauzht her in his arms and triumphantly carried her out of the house. “The wonder is that cats do not intrude upon the stage more frequently than they do, for there is no theatre without them. “In most theatres several are kept as a protection against the ravages of rats and mice that infest all such huildings. The best behaved theatre cat in New York is Redds,at Walluck’s. As soon as the curtain falls he makes histour of the stage; but, when the bell rings for it to rise, he needs no reminder 'of the fact that his presence is not needed. He understands his business thorough- ly, and bas pever given the managemient the Teast cause for uncasiness. This is 3 very valu- able trait in 2 cat; forif pussy once manages to catch the attention of the audience, it is ulmost tmpossible to save the performance from ridicule. When Barry Sullivan was playing Hamlet in Liverpoo! a 1ej Years ago, a cat came upon the etage in the middle of the scene wherein the gbost first appears, and insisted upon rubbiog herself azaiost the ghost’s legs. The bouse, of course, was convulsed, and the entire act was ruived. Clara Morris at one time was playing Camille in a Ciucinnati theatre. In the last act Camille rises from her lounge and stageers to the mir- ror. She regards ber sunken cheeks and wasted form, and says: ** Ah! how changed 1 am. But the doctor bas promised to cure me. I will have patience.” While spesking thesc lines the actress was horrified to see in the mirror the re- flection of a cat which was purring but 2 few teet bebhind her. She realized that something roust be done before the audience should take in the situation, or the entirc effect of the scene would be lost. She turned sbortly around, so &s not to frichten the cat, and took her in her arms. She stroked her gently, and, with tears in her eyes, exclaimed: ‘ Poor pussy! how soft and warin Is your begutitul fur! It is many weelss, is it not, since I held you like this in my arms?’ Some one eise may soon take my placc, Ah, pussy, you «ill not have your mistress with you lonw.™ With these words she walked toward the wings and set the cat free. The audience supposed that she was oply speaking the lines of the ‘?lny, and the scene passed off wirhout any aceident. Macready was playing Macheth in Dublin, ap Christmas, and the tragedy was to be followed by the incvitable pantomime. Among the prop- erties for tne latter was a live pi, which got loose while Macready was making his great specch in the banguet scene, and ran across the staze squealing with all its might and main, The whole house was convulsea, and Macready was oblized to juin in_the general merritnent. The curtatn was rune down, and there was Do more peact for Wacbeth that, pight. In E. L. Davenport’s first enzazement in this country there was a mnost unexpected introauc- tion of the cat clement into the Shakspearean drama. He was playing Hamiet to a crowded house at the Walnut-Street Theatre, iu Phila- delphis, and In bis suliloquy, as he was deliber- ating whether or not he would bear “ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,” a fellow in the rallery actually slung a cat at him. Io bounded upon the stage, slightly erazivg the actor in its descent, and escaped unhurt, with the traditional luck of cats. When Ben De Bar was manager of the St. Charles Theatre in New Orleans sbout seven yearsazo, he was frequently annoyed by the passage of cats across tn¢ stage during the per- tormances. -'The place was infested with rats, wnd three large Toms were kept busy all the season looking after them. But, useful as these eats were, it became absolutely mecessary to suppress them. They had been -allowed so much license that hardly a night passed but they would with arched backs und measured tread move in solemn procession across the stage, and turn tac most serious performance into a farce. De Bor at last decreed that they should be banished up-stairs to the flies during performances, and should be brought down ounly for the purposes of business. The stage carpenter made a sort of tencment for them by throwing an old dilupidated scene across what in theatrical parlance is known as the “grid- iron,” that js, the frame which holds the scenes in vosition. Here the cats were able to roam at pleasure, and their new quarters seemed to suit them very well. They multiplied rapidly, and were nightly visited by cats from the neighbor- booa, to whom tlicy kept “open Louse.” One night, however, there was an_unusually large assemblage, and their weighe being greater thau ¢ould be supported by the rotten old scene that, formed the platform for their promenading, the canvas parted, and, in the midst of the most pathetic scene in ¢ Fanchon,” they were precipi- tated upon the stize. I¢ literally rained cats, The wstouishment of the sudience, who, of course, Were ignorant of the casc of the catas- trophe, may well be imagined, as wellas the up- roarious merriment ‘whici: greeted such & novel incident. The actors did not escape unscathed, More than one of theny was severely scratched, and that night there was an extraordinary run on the property-mau for flesh-colored court- plaster. The Lotos Club used to bave a remarkably handsome gray cat. Every member knew **Tow,” and respected him. On the occasion of onc of the Club’s Saturday evening reanions, howerver, *Tom was_the innocent cause of a 200d deal of trouble. The parlors were crowded Wwith members and guests who were listening Wwith much jnterest to a duet which was being sung by two well-known artists. Suadenly at- tention was diverted from the slprers by the entry of *Tom,” who walked calmly up to them . the absorbing and looked up at them, evidently much aston- jshed at their vocal gymnastics. There was somethivg indescribably amusing in the serious manner of the cat, and a gencral titter went around the room. The singers bad their backs turned to * Tom,” and could only suppose that the company were laughing at them. hlevlool;:’- ed uncomfortadle and much arnoyed. * Tom raintained his listenine attitude for a miaute orso, and then, evideutly getting more and more interested in the performance, got upon his hauuches, and, with ears erect, stared at_the artists more steadfastly tban before. ~The titter now broke into a jangh, and the duet came cuddeuly to an end. The sinzers were decply offended. and were oniy partly mollified when the cause of the untimely hilarity was mmflx:. kpown to them. Soon after this Incident * Tom’ came to grief. He was absent from the Club for two or three davs, and justas thedirectory were about to advertise for bim he returned, but 1o a woful plight. His beautiful coat was torn Fud scarred, his appearance was that of miseri and dejection. Egs haudsome collar, on which was engraved his pame aud address, Wwas, gone. “Tom? had evidently been badly dealt with. He seemed to feel his position keenly, lgr he never rallied, and a few weeks later be sickened and died. It was long, however, before his lace was filled. One winrer morning J. H. ?)Olnh, the animal painter, brought to the Club 'in his overcoat pocket the pret- tiest little tortoisc-shell kirten imagina- ble. The new comer was christened “Dick,” was elected an hoporary member on the spot, and at once became a general favorite. He ie now {ull grown and as pretty as a picture. Indeed, he hus sat for his portrait’ probably wmore frequently than any cat of his age in America. Mr. Dolph has made studics of him in almost every conceivable attitude, and has presented to thie Lotos Club alife-llke picture of himy it oceupies the place of honor(:ver lhfi fireplace in the principal sittinz-room. “Dick is thoroughly well behaved, and enjoys the priv- iteges of the Club with the dignity and repose of a cat who has always been accusiomed to live in good society and on the fat of the Iand, aud who knows thiut, asa_thing of beauty, he con- fers a favor on the world by liviogi nit. ~ He gen- erally enscontes himself Iuxuriously fn the best ‘easy chair or-in the cosicst_corner near the fire, and no member would think of disturbing him. The sacred catof the Egyptians, indecd, was not regarded with greater resgect por more ten- derly cared for by the priests of Isis than is the sacrad cat of the Lotos. OLD ROMAN SOCIETY. Lectnre by Dr. John Lord~Brilliant Pictare of the Corruption that Caused the Down- fall of the Koman Empire. New Yerk Tribune. Dr. Lora’s lecture on * Soclety in the 01d Ro- man World ” was delivered yesterday morning at Chickeriog Hail. Dr. Lord held rather ex- treme views, and was frequently applauded. He ascribed the downfall of the Roman Empire to official and social corruptions, to the outgrowth of Materialism and Epicurcanism as the auni- mating principles of Roman soclety, and held his picture up as a type of what modern socicty may bezome if certain tendencies are ot checked. . It pleased, safd the speaker, God Almighty— who, it is conceded by some, rules the world— to sweep away the old Roman Empire and to give it to new and barbaric races; because, as I think, moral evils obscured the brightness of its civilization and poisoned society in its very heart. He did the same thing to Assyrian and Persian empires. Egyptians, Babylonians, and Grecks we know possessed great culture and power, vet their civilization did not save them from inglorious conauest by ruder races. It is probablé that no civilization among ancient races ever equaled that of the Greeks, and no material life| was ever 50 splendid as that of the Romavs. Gibbon sees in it the culmination of the glories of antiquity. Every one exulted in the cultivated face of mature, in pgardens, villas, olive groves, vine- vards, und cornfields. Grand palaces filled with pictures and statues and vessels of silver gnd gold showed how favored were the rich, how diversified was art, how proud its triumphs, The theatres and amphitheatres and circus, altogethicr capable of accommodating 400,000 speciators, revealed the sports .and amusements of a pleasure-seeking zeneration, in comparison with which all scenic perform- ances are tame. Art showed its hizhest charm in splendid temples that kept up the show of relizion, and within them were the gizaotic statues of the gods in Olympian repose; and with all the materfal forms of unbounded walth and artistic culture and imperial power, we cannct but feel that civilization unever glit- tered with prouder glories. Behold a world of Iaw, of yleasure, or art, of luxury, of pomp, of pride. Why should not such gloriss be eternal? 5 This tplendid external was deceptive. Be- neath th sculptured monuments of Imperial Rome were the dens of cancerous vice, evils which are sure to sap, sooner or later, all sys- tems, all iostitutions, the States, all empires, unless counteracted by all power of God. Im- perial despotism was doubtless called for to crush the greater evils of Communism and an- archy, and 1 wish that Josept Cook would write about Communism in ancient Rome. I donot condemp imperial rule #hen it becomes neces- sary; and Ceesar, who founded it, looms up on the scroil of Providence as one of His soootnted agents. But at last Roman despotism crushed all noble aspiration, and extinguished the latent fires of freedom. No great orators arose, no true poets werc born, no philosophers uttered their indfznant protests, for they dared not. . A coid and sullen gloom overspread the empire. The world pever knew more able and patriotic rulers than were in the declining days of Roman greatuess, but most of them were either jealons tyrants or degraded scnsualists. Some’ were mousters like Nero. The military power was undermised, and when yon destroy military power you also destroy imperialism: on which it rests. Oueof the uuderminiog vices was the excessive luxary and indolence of the upper classes, produced by wealth and an Epicurcan philosophy, ending in a degrading materialism. Disrruuomonnzc fortunes are incident to all civilizations and all agres. They sre 3 great evil, but they are the patural result of intellect, in-~ dustry, and energy. You canoot destroy human incaualities. If you destroy them in one year they will reappear in the next. Communism may cut off the hcad of the hydra, but imme- diately another heagd appes Dispropor- tionate fortumes, made by uwequal laws or monopolies, require a change of laws; but il luws are equal, sud if mononolies are cut off, then there is no remedy. But at Rome the great fortunes were made by for- tunate Generals and Provincfal Governors. So, practically, great fortunes rested on injustice and privilege, and what monopolies are with us. These fortunes were enormous. It took about $50,000 a year to support the dignity of a Sen- ator. Any Roman General could make a gizan- tic fortune in one year. Offices and wealth were in the bands of the ancient aud powerful fami- lies. A Vunderbilt or a Stewart springive from the ranks would bave becn nearly an impossi- bility at Rome. Tieir enormons fortunes. lnstead of beine speot judiciously, were lavished on chariot races, gladiatorial shows, and_degrading sensu- mlities. The nobles gradually attachbed less value to rank than to the means of purchasing oleasure. Usury was practiced to sa incredible exteut. Rich old bachelors were held io su- preme reverence. - Money becume the ultimate end of all matrimouinl alliances, and provided the bride was wealthy neither bridegroom nor novle parent was fastidious as to age, deformi- ties, meanness of family, or vulgarity of person. The needy descendants of the old patrician fam. ilies yoked themseives to fortunate plebelans, aud coervated ladies of rank sold themselves without shame to those bloated and mouty sensualists Who could give them palaces and diamonds. A person was rezarded as a fool who made presents except to the rich. Charity was un- known. Evca hospitals did not exist for the poor. 'The wretched were left to die unnoticed, ‘Therich killed themselses when their mouey took wings. Those who were really poor ted & precarious life und died like brutes,” Half the population of the whole Enipire cousisted of slaves—some fifty or sixty millious—white and black. Sometimes they were physicians and schooluasters, und were more intclligent. than their masters. War broke up Roman slavery. guwslnn;.g would v ll\)nvelh taken to cmancipate ¢ Southern slaves eir ma war cat the knot! Siep ot _The same influences that robbed man of his rights degradea woman. The poets represented her s inferior to man aud even more viclous in natural inclination. Women were not well ed- ucated, they were amused by frivolties, they toil d‘ror the plcasurie olr convenience of men, were comparatively secluded, thes be casily divorced. Wornan had no 'd.izn!v:;,? w happiness was in costly dresses, a retique of slaves, exciting banquets, and gorzeons trink- ets. She was”sought in marriage for what she bad, und not for what she was. Feminine vir- tue was reverenced in the abstract; as when the Virtue of women was held at the Iowest point in Athens the Parthenon arose, the most beautiful temple of antiquity, dedicated to female wisdom andvirtue. The degradation of women under Pagapism was owing to circumstances more than uvatural weakness The darkest Déclufi to med of Roman life was levotion to demorallzing sports. The horrid butcheries of the nmphltheatgrel:ield‘ ened the moral sense. At no period can we call &: Romaus a refined and intellectnal people, so 2 sentiment is concerned, They Were in- tensely practical and material. Their pleasyr, Were exclting, but. coarse. Why dld not g with its civilizing influence, coniribute to sags the crumbling Empire! We forzer that ar; . self bad dezenerated since the days of Phidiay, and was prostituted to sult the tiste of a gross people without a lofty ideal. Nothinz is betrer attested than the gradual decline of art from Augustus_to Diocletian. Literature made no serions effort_tor the’ intellectual elevation of the people. But pbilosophy, you say, divige hilosophy, that certainly was™ a conservative E:flnence. But the philosophy of the Romaps was not that of Plato, longing after lofty and eternal ideas. \Yhy, phiiosophy wag duller toa Roman than theolozy 10 a dandy with parted hair and drawling voice. Eplcurean philosophy alone wus popular with the {omans, teaching pleasure as the end of life, denyiug g future life. snd rigiculing all spiritual teach- ings. fi‘hns every influence at Rome failed to saye and tended to destroy. There was Christisnity, but it came too late, and even Christianity wag corrupted. It had not attacked skavery, nar cler vated woman, nor destroyed the amphitheatre, Those who have observed the resistless tide of fashion und infidelity amoug us,—among the higher and intellizent classes, when we hayg books, and orators, and colleges, and stern pul. pits—can conceive how powerless was the inflg- ence of an unpopular relicion at Rome when the leading pecorle were Pagaps. The Fathers of the Ciiirch did _not dream of saving the Empire; perhiaps they scarccly wanted to save it. Christianity was not sent to save a rog- ten Ewpire, but to save mankiud [applanse]; und it was peedful first for the old races and empires to be swept away. An entirely new civilization was to arise on the ruins of the old, framed from the beautitul union of Teutonte strength with Ciristian trutb. The Roman world ust reap the natural penalty of its vices and perish. It was the fiat of Etcraoal Justice, And what is the lesson to us? It is that ma- terialism. will always bear such fruits,—that when dominant and wide-spread it will always eud in such a ruin. Materialism is_the cause and sequence of a godless philosoohy, and isa moral poison to society. I don’t care how brijliant vou make =n external civilization, 1 don’t -care what form it assume, butldo kaow that it couceals ‘the poisonous asps of sensuality, and that jv will destroy, sooner or later, if not counteracted; any Empire, or State, or nation on the face of the earth. [Annlaun.[ No Empire is strong cnough to resist the as- sauits of au infidel materialism when it bas be- come triumphant as the roling indueoce of so- ciety, unless a still stronger force is sentto counteractit, and scourge it, und hissit, and force it into the shadows of eternal darkuess. Beware of the entrance of this jnsidious fiend in your homes and minds. Cling rather to the truths, if ever so homely, which bave saved eo- ciety and have survived the proudest monu- ments of "the boasted civilization of the Pagan world. —— SAFE. The snow lay deep o'er close and kee, “The deer fled to his hold: Swept keen and fast the biling blast ‘Amongst my tender fold; My lampies wee were spatched from me ‘And buried in the cold. ‘When hastened Spriag his love to sing Unto each op'ning bloom, ZLow on the ground, in sorrow drowned, . 1 Jaid me by thelr towb: Thoueh sun shone bright, I saw no light« My soul was steeped in gloom. Summer skics, sad Autuma dyes, And Winter caill and drear, With breaking heart [ watched you pstt, And joun tae year on year. O weafs life, with sorrows rife, Awake—thy end is near! Figroe blows the gale. loud tempests wail, he clouds by storm are riven: - But, safe and fast, iny soul at last Is'in Goa's Hazbor driven. All foy is mine. all praise 15 Thine, For lambies safe in Heaven? CHICAGO, Jan. 24, 1570, ELLzY GRat. THE SIREN. She clasps me =0 tight m her clinging. white arms, ‘That I gasp with my durninz-hot oreath; She has lured e g0 far with her dark, fashing eyes . That I5cem near the portals of Death. In rflin. in despair, and coafusion I lie, Held 0 close in her fervid embrace: And [ shiver aud stari 10 my fear and remorse, s 1100k on her pitiless face. 3 How swittly the visions of Youth's sunny @hurs Rise unsouzht and uabidden (o view! - .. How swiftly long-cherlshcd and passionate hopes Fade away as the snadows paraue So quickly. alas! has the glance from her brow Drawn me on from toe pathway of Rizhy, . Till I Xcl’t)ll\:h at the threshold of dariness and gloom, Till I peer throngh a limitiess night. ———— Romance of Pearls. London Land and Water. L 1 will tell you a circumstance that happeneh twenty-ive or thirty years ago, when I was re- sidiog fa Calcutta. ~One morving our friend, the late Dr. Vass, Surgeon of tne Royal Army, brought to my husband, Dr. John Grant, a box containing twelve or thirteen pearls of varions sizes, saying: **Grant, you area well-known man in Calcutts, and I want you to hear the curious account of these pearls, aud to take charge of the box, and let me know any change you may see in them. Their history is as follows: About forty vears azo 8 lady at Amboypn eave a pearl to each of two sisters, sayinz: ““These are breed- ingx pearls; take good care of them; never' touch them with the hand, as heat. injures them, and feed them on rice.’ One of these sisters has Jjust come to Caleutia, and she has lent the box to me to show yon. In the forty vears she has had it this is the resnlt—iwelve or thirteen younz ones.” ‘The box was opened, and there Iay on cotion the mother pearl, a rather large bus ill-shaped individnal. The eldest daughter as Lralled it was a lovely pearl about the size that jewelers generally set three ju 2 ring. The others were perfect in shape but graduatly de- creased in size; two very small I called tbe twins, as thev stuck together, and the Jast was s very wee seed pearl. Accortling to instructions; rice was put into the box, which was locked in a8 secret drawer in the cabinet, of which my hus- band alane kept the key. After some days we opened the box, and to our astooishmeént we found that every erain of ricc had been nibbled. I canoot think of a better word. How nibbled, I canpot imagine, but that one fact T can vouch for. A few weeks after we bad to leave Cal- cutta. The box was returned to Dr. Vass, and what became of it I koow not. I have often mentioned it to my friends, and some years Isaw in a book that Jav upon my friend’s table th:\tl people in the East believe in breeding pearls. ‘A.8. K. —— The Question* of Precedence. Torontn Natfonar. - * You look sad and thoughtful, Loraie dear,” said the Princess, after they had got domeat Ridean Hall. “What is it? Do you pine for the beath-clad hills of—" . 2 ““No, Louie dear,” said the Marquis. “Not that, but my mind misgives me ss to the ulti- mate effect of this preccdence busimess. If, by virtue of your Royal rank, you are ever to prée- cedc‘ fle-—]: " h ** Why, Lorne, I declare, I never,—thoug| I'd beard of Highland pride,—I never thought sou'd presume 1o desire me to zive up the right which my birth coufers upon me.” - “No, no,” said the Marquis, *“it’s mot that; thiok of tite rigor of a Cavadian winter; think . of your feclings, on a_bitter biting morning, With the thermometer down among the thirties; think—oli! it makes my marrow treezc—of my dear, darling Louie being compelicd by that recedence rule to get up first and build the itehen-fire.”? ——— , Photographing by the Electric Light. “ Portraits by the electric light" is the latest navelty. Go to! there is nothing new under the sun. Fifteen vears ago I recollect going laté at nignt into a very shady place on the Surry side, becauee I saw a'staring placard inscribed, * Por- traits by clectric light in 4 minute, only one-and- sixpence.” I weutin, paid my eighteen peoce toaruffian who looked like a ticket-of-feave maa, but combined the offices of doorinan, cash- ier, and photozrapier. 1 was locked in & room with this sinister-looking gentleman and a cam- era and a thinge that Jooked like a lichthouse io reduced circumstaces. He focused me by means of a farthing dip. He blew it out; he said, ** Now, sir, quite steady.” I thought my time wascome; but he exploded something 1o the lighthouse that pearly blinded me. I escap- ed with my lifc and a scared, pallid, spectre-Like ggm—m of myself, which I have to the presoné v. —— Not Insane. A miner in Austin, Nev, on going home fordin_ ner, found neither meal nor wife. A nelgbbor told him tbat his wife had gope awayin the morniug across the fields. There was hereditary insanity in her family as he well knew, aud hs surmised that she hiad wandered off while de- mented, although he had never derected in her any symptoms of brain disease. He found her footorints in the snow, and, mountiug 2 horse, be bastily set out on her trail. He followed the track easily fora mile. Then he came tO a spot where the footorints ceased and the traces of a borse and sleigh began. He wents mile further, and atoppef at a taverp. There he was told that bis wife and a strange man bad eaten dinner. In short she had elopeds The miver sbandoned the trait