Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 21, 1880, Page 12

Is : THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1880—TWENTY PAGES. “JOSTORICAL SOCIETY. Ohicago's Growth and Importance— ' Interesting Paper by ' Mr. Bross, A-Complote History of the Grant Me- coption Presented to the Society. The Chicago Historleal Society met Inst evening in the Soclety's hall, cornor of Onta- rio street and Dearborn avenue, Presient Arnold in the chair, The Secretary read a long Ist of donatlons recvlverl hy the Society since its Inst mect- ing, and the donors received a vote of thanks. Mr. S.11, Kerfoot, on behalf of the Citizens’ Committes who had charge of the reception to’ Gen. Grant, presented the Society with all the records of the Committea from the first meeting to the — last, together with all the correspondence, letters from distinguished - personnges, badges worn by the different organizations laking part, ete,, ali neatly arranged and hand- wmely bound in two large wbuns, Tho newspapers of the eventful “boom? were also fneluded tu the gift A vote of thanks was tendered the Committee for the accepta- ble contribution, President Arnold then introduced Mr, Willinin Bross, who read tho follwing paper: CHICAGO AND Tir KOURCES OF IF PAST AND FUTURE GROWTH Changing the Innguage of Wobster slightly to mult the purposo of this article, °T shall enter on no encomlum upon Chicago. She needs none. Hero she ls, und here she will remain forever, The pat is nt least secure,” und of this every eltizen of Chicago is justly pea und whataho is now and what she Is likely to become as tine Tolls onward, cnn only be understood by # carc- ful survey of the extent and the character of the country in which are the sources of her pastand future growth, Her site was not, aclected by some great conqueror, Hke thatoft Constanting- ple, Palmyra, and Alexandria, with reference to the channels of commerce then extating, and which tho capricious changes of the currents of trade have reduced to comparativo Jnsignh- eines. Instend of being merely on one of those channels, linble fo bo diverted dy. political revulsiona and ever-changing natural cntses, the chunnels of trade for the North Amerieah Continent all point to and con- Verge inafocus at Chicago. Her commanding ,commerelal position at the head of the great lakes was known to the Indians centuries before tho brayeold French explorers found it. Nature, tls beloved, or, to sneak more reverently, He who ts tho Author of Nature selected the site of thls great elty, not UL next Muy forty-three ears old, and hence her future will not be snb- leat to those cunses which have parnlyzed or des itroyed inuny of the eltles of past a ‘Let us trace somoof tho lines of her trafic, espeetally those from the Westward, and note the chir- actor of the country from which and through which they come. In what follows reliance fs had mainly on onal observation, nnd hence I trust I shall forgiven for the frequent use of the personal pronotn. Whatever ot the country 1 have not sven myself I huve rcen through the eyes of othors “who fn the aggregate had explored almost every square mile of tt. ‘On tho 28th of Muy lust I suurted'for a trip to tho Northwest, and, after visiting Winnipes, the Capital of tho thrifty tittle Dominion Province of Manitoba, I arrived ut Fort Renton, im Mon- tann, on tho 20th of June. ‘This town da nt the head of steumbont nuvimntion on tho Missourl River. _ On tho Bth of September J Jeft for n trip tothe Southwest, nnd, ufter visiting Donver, Lendville, and Silver. Ctl, spent Feiduy, Scot, BH, nt Lns Vegas, New Mexico. ‘Thus Lhud trav- cled over two aides of an Immense triangle, of whose sides, one to Fort Renton, in adirect tne, and not as traveled, {8 1.180 infics long, and that to Las Vegus fy 1,040, and the base line, #kirting: along tho castorn feot-hills and at some points: over the Rocky Mountains, 1s 000 miles. ‘What {s the churieter of {ho country contained + within this vast trlangie, and what fire ita relu- tons to the prosperity and the growth of Chi- eago ‘ FIRST, AS TO 178 KXTENT, Tn 1855, after carefully studying the map, T bo- camo convinved thore Were nbout 100,008 quire miles of territory between Luko Michigan and tho Rocky Mountiins, whose trinde would surely como to Chicago. 1 sostated before the conven- Uon of delegates from tho lending Inke cities to primate the bullding of the Huron & Ontario. hip-Canni, held in ‘Toronto on the Hth of Sep- tember, 1K5. Tho estimate has never been dls- puted, and it agrees very nenrly with the figures of tho United States Census, ‘To be sure of my facts, Ldsked my friend, Prof, Colbert, to exam- ine the peas and, by taking in Wisconsin and running weat aioe the boundary between the United States and the Hritish possessions to A vpoint say 100 miles west of Fort Menton, und thenco south to Ins Vegus, making instend of n triunylo {ruperium or irregular geometrical figure, Prof, Colbert found that {ts aren is undoubtedly tho flyures T thrst ml no one, clther in astronomical or sublun enlculations, Lng over questioned the Proterso! SECHEAEY) this mattor may be considered ns sct- led. Now mark tho magnificont results, As the Btute of Oho contains Httle Jess than 10,000 squaro miles, hore fs suuco enous to form pie SEVENTEEN STATES 08 Jargo ns Ohio; and I nin willing to risk my” reputution for the future hy predicting that be- fore the parting Knell shall ring out tho list hour of the yeur of gmico 1076 they Will, on nn aver- age, bo far more populons, and vial aud moro productive. T have traveled through Ohio In various directions, and between [a Ke Michigan and. the Lower Missouri River In eer tainly as many; und west of that up the Valloy o€ the Missouri, tho Platte, the Kansas, and tho Arkansas, to the Rocky Mountalos, nnd, thore- fore, L assume to spoak with aome confidenco “upon this subjcot, ‘But lot us ba moro specific, though bricily so, and seo what tho climate, tho soll, the topo (graphical character, and the resources of those ‘tates, or of the territory. that imight be so divided, ara now known to be. Ant! tirat, what Js most Important as to thelr elitnate and agri- pultural resources, CLASATE has much todo with the productiveness of an country, and there is scarcely any topic on whie! the great public aro more at fauit than fn regurd to the temperature of tho northorn sectlons of ourcountry, No greuter mistake can bo mude thin to suppose that tho lines of lutitude indl- eato the degree of cold tit provalls under A The Guit Stream carrica w warm, delightful elinate to England and -to Western Europe, whlle Labrador, in tho same Jatitude in North Ammerles, has an Aretie atmoss hhere — the qene round, For tho Kaine renyon, fhe winds from tho warm Jupan current in the Pacltic Ocean, erossing ‘the lower northern tinges of the Kocky Mount- - nina,’ give an averayo tomperatine not nnich different from that of St. Paul to the great: Val Iny of the Saskatchewan, from 400 to fa) mites north of the Amerlean boundiry, This fet was, Tecontly proved by Incontestablo tures, taken for several years, at different, stutions, by the Hon, James W. Taylor, United states Consul at Winni ‘fru, they have bilzzurds thero and, intensely cold weather, and fo they do at Bt. Paul, and, nt times, go do we wt Chicago, bo. muh for the climato of the northorn belt of our triangle. and south of it, of course, It ani wally Decouue warmer down to tho Arkans ‘Vall z ARTICULARS. ee W3 vo... © this country. by Btatos aud Piru. ‘Tho grent agrleuitueal riches of Wisconsin and her lmmense iminoral wealth are too well known to need extended nott y ‘Tho southern bull of the State hua a very rleh soil dod produces most of the cereuls and other Tirm products in the xrentest abudwuce. The northern half hng a Mahter ¢ofl, but da rich tin Jaincrals and lumber, Minnesota within tho fst twenty years has taken her place among the Jeuding’ wheut-produclig States of the Unlon, The southern half of the State hus q goll of great depth and richness, and, ike tho northern wectlons of Wisvonsin, thoganie sections In Mine esola ure yory Yuluable for their forests of pine and olher important woods. Tho stite 3 aplendidiy watered by rivers and bewutiful Jukes, and [a too well known to need furthor re- wnark. It will sustuln a large and very prospere fae, popuietiog, and Je sesttned to gees a exuding plice among tho great ant wing Btates of the Union, ae : DAKOTA, dying directly west of Minnesota and north of Nebrnsku (exeept the northeastern and south- western aections), fa comparatively waknown, When f went down the Red Ulver Valley ta lsh ta Winnipeg there were only three or four tittle hinnlots north of Morris, tho terminus of tho rallway, for somy 2m) iniles or gore, all the way Ue the British line, In Mttte more thun elyht 70 the valley, both in Stinnesota and Pakota, bus been brought lurgely under cultiva- ‘Hon, Beored af tho Tatnesty be it UAL Inost productive whout-farms in the States are now to be found tn uals yall Bi Jooked last June ike an old-settled country, Binal farms, us well us those of one ve, ten uid oven Alty thousand acres, with oul Buttes foe tho superintendents, Inrxe burns and outhouses Tor overy thousand ucres, dotted the Jundscupa an every sidu, ‘Teuins, redpery, and thrashers by deur, with a sul wEMy of mon, are FeH quired on these priucoly faring, and even the wolegraph bus been callid inte requisition to nunege thew, ‘Tako us un Ce the Cis. 18, It hus been opened urs. Buch year new hind ds broken, Is senso 8,170 weres Were cultivated, produce 139,023 bushels of wheat, 1877 hushela of 4,619 bushels of burley, ‘The wheut coat teas tban 40 cents por bushel ‘to raise, aud suld for cents, ‘The swek und implements used bonsisted of 158 rules, 81 wagons, = gung-plows, $8 bas outers, 9 separators, @ sovders, and 10f wrrO WB, chew fucts Ihave from Col. Janes B. Power, Land-Comimissioner of thy Northern Paciiic * Rgllway, who bus thousands of ucres of male left. Ho udds that the Counties of i ani B Ete, ‘Trail, Richland, Marnes, Stutstuun, Kidder, ad ‘Hurlelgh, extending from the od to thé i isxouri Wiyor In Dakota Territory, show as fol- ows? Population in 1870...... Nuwuber of farms in 187,66 Titled urea in 1849, neres,... 466). New breaking in 187, reres...... Arent fn whent In 1879, neres.... Increase in 1879 over 1878: Population, 36,000; muniber of farms, S018; titled aren, 800M neress area In wheat, 70,200 acres, OF tho tilled area holt, yield weres are on what are known na tho "Iles farms.” The Government survey reports that Dakota Territory containa 157,000 square miles, from which nearly four of the auventeen States: might re Hy be enrved out, It nil Hes in the al ent-helt whieh extends from Towa to the Pence River Villey in Britleh America, somo 3 Iniles, For the cultivation of this most yaluable cereal a Jarge mujority of the Innds inthe Territory fs most, admirably adapted, and the balance of ft affords the Nnest turnge, Even the Coutentt de Missouri, the long, hal dividing ridge between the Dakota and the Missouri Ivers, an extensive district, {1 about ten yours ago waa supposed to be fit only for the reatdence of wild bensta and more suvage mien. Tt fs now certain that it enn all be mite yaliolilo for farming purposes. Theeastern qturrter. of the ‘Territory {8 drained by the Red, the Cheyenne, and the Dakota or James Livers; tho Missourt runs through the centre, and the Tittle Missaurl, the Knife, tha Heart, the Can- hon Bill, the Grand, tha Moreau, tho Choyenne, and the White Hivers drain the western halt of the Territory Inte the Missourl. The sufi of all these valloya is exceedingly fertile, and the whole of the Dakota and the Red Itiver Valleys are rapidly filing up with an energetto and ine dustrios’ people, ‘The sume is truc of the southeastern section of tho Territory. It is found that there fs, with the oxception of somo stripsof the Itnd Lands, comparatively very 'tilo waste innd tn It. 3 At lonst three-fourths‘of the ‘Territory of MONTANA ie enst of the Rocky Mountains. The ridges gradually rise higher as you upproach them, and the river valleys ure deeper. but tho general de~ scriptions of Dakota will apply to more thin. Wwe of it. ‘There nre hero iso some sec~ Hons of the Hud Lands; but, they occupy com- paratively but a snail part of tho Tersltory. Whore [saw them they are composed of bhick,, felnble shale, probably the debrisaf vust cont: beds burning up in tho carly history of the pluncton topof them. tt is dificult to form na just estimute of the extent of these two Terri- wrica, It takes al day to ride from the Red ta the Missourt River at Bismarck by the Northern Pacitic Rullway, nd then you nro but half way across Dakota, About two-thirds of tt lic south of the railway. Sturting from Bismarck on the morning of Jung 6, it took us till about 10 o'clock of the Mth more than five days—to rench Fort Uuford, at the mouth of the Yellowstone, and It required ven divs more of nlmost constant steaming h Fort Benton, ‘The Juno rise gave us 0 eof water, nud our delays were very fow. These eleven days were all in Montana, 13 the north and south boundary ris: eae a mille or two west of the mouth of the Yellowstone, And yet 10 ull the 800 miles above Hstmarck, till near Fort Renton, ther Is nota single town ov hainict wiong the entire river; forts and wood- Yards are all the niurks of civilization one sees, tnd the latter certainly do not. furnish very conraging specimens of Western clyliization; but. they nro probably quite ns good as could be ex- fected. A fow miles—cleven by Iind—below Fort Renton, on the 20th of June, the steamer stopped ut the rancho of Mr. Charles Rowe. Hs fields of wheat, potatoes, und other vegeta- bles were in splendid condition, A week before he had new potatoes and gooseberry und ple- plant plea for dinner. On our retrn-trip we took on board 170 Montane cattle, whose large size and fine condition would have at. once Btirred up active competition at our Stock- Yards, and which Government. contractors took down below Bismarck ta feed splendidly the worthless vagabond Indians in that fertile aud Hoautiful seation of Dakota. ‘These cattle hud never hud a pound of hay to winter them, and, In fact, did not Know what ft is, for they would not ent it till after Auving been starved to ft for Ove or three duys on board the steamer, These facts aro com mended to tho epeeinl attention of those who think this a barren, inhospitable country, Mon- tana (8 also splendidly watered east of tho mountatng by the Powder, the ‘Tongue, and tho: Al Horn running north into the Yeltowstone, by that river and the Missourl, and from the arent the White’ Enrth, tho Milk, and the Marlus. . Thave been thus particular in describing tho topographical and the ugrleultural churactor of Dakota and Montana hie order, a5 far na may he, to dissipate the false that theyre too fur north for suc develop- nenit. asf With the swelling, tide of emigration now begtnining to roll over them, the next dec- gd will ahow tho most maryclous results, As 0 IOWA, and that portion of IMinols and Northern Mis- sour lying within our triangle, all the workd naw knows them tobe the very’ munden of the siialesinp! Valleys Thoy nro passed by, there- fore, without further natice, NEMASKA has rightly assitmed the ptaco of ono of the most prosperous States in the Union within the Inst fifteen yen Her progress his been & amurvel ~ of energy and = suc~ cesa. When tho Colfax party went, up the Phitte Vatloy in uw stage-conch fn Te, thers were a few senttered settlements ani eitles on paper along tho Missourl River, and Port Kearney, with a few houses surrounding it. with stage stations at regular intervals, were alt tho signs of life wo faund to the west lino of tha State, and, tu fact, all the way to Denver. For 200 tniles or nero there were new-made graves, to mark the slaughter of white men, and women, and childron by the murderous redsklny the year before, The Union Paefite Hallway hus changed wl thla, and now, farms, and hamlets, and thriving towns dot the Valley of the Platte a the wuy tho mountains. And it should be known tht this gre valloy Prosperous and = growing vanity tate, ne tt Tx, 18 by no means the best pe of the The country on either side beyond the bhilte that bound’ it ds richer by fur (Quin what the tourlst, Rees na he dashes by on tho ours in the Platte Valloy, It ianrich, rolling pruiric, well watered, and $8 etl rans. poltlitig by an ener- weue, thrifty: ye wation. ‘Tho Valleys of the Niobrara, tho Elkhorn, and the Loup Fork drat the northorn balft of the State. Tha Plitte sweeps verily through its vontre from cust to west, whilo the Republican aud other streams druin the eithern sections, Notice the fures of this year’s census Ifyou want to Bee how ig norant’ the old) geographers wero wher they tnurked u large portion of Nebraska nnd Kunsis ua the Great Anierican Desert, KANSAS is. adinitted to bo one of tho best aud host pros- perots States in thy Union. Its rich refit pruirics were the buttlesazround between slavery und its opponents in IRs '6. Preedom won in, tho contest, and honce followed tho War of tho elton, Slavery wis crushed out and 4 hlb- erly why estates, throughout all the hand unto ull tho inbabltunts thereof.” ‘Tho raph settlament of Kansas and Its wonderful progress in population and wealth have auiply proved that tho Stuto was well worth all the efforts each aldo mide to win ft. Perhaps more thin half of tho Stute 1s now wellvettiod, aud the next decade will bring tho western laf under cultivation. The Arkunsas and the wad Hivers, with their scored of tributaries, furnish nbundant drains wae. [tb i4 concerto uray ty be ono of tho fending States of the Mississippl Valloy, ‘Tho enstern corner of wyosttnd and tho hal of Colorado and the corner of Now Mexico coming within our hase Hne Ho within whut is cuffed tho © ratniess belt; but the soff of the high-rolling ridges ls good, and {6 covered with an atundance of bultito grass Ike nearly all of Ensternt Montana, Nebraska, and Kana, They were tho home of the butfule for untold iiges, Hers thoy roumed by tens of millions, furnishing tho fulkins with plenty of food, aud where so farge and ao powerfal an antinal in Buch vast numbers ean live, surely the most extenalys hordy of cattle can fourlsh and grow fate Lwrote home tn 1805, when T irat saw this wonderful country, that It must beeama the reut meut-producing svetion of the Union, but. iitte expected to nee this predict(on veritied, before tho year of gruco 1880, Now of thia RARNLESS HRLT this may bo sald, Whuitever may bo tho cause, it ts wenorally admitted that tho Hno of 8u rulnfall tor ordinary farniliyg purposes fa stendily though gradually moving westward, Wacethor it bo the telegraph and rallway line, or the settlement of the country, or all these, Wih perhaps other causes couibined, the future selentist will probutly bo ublo to determine, Cortalnly i riled think af the thine list June when f wus on Upper Missouri, and tt wis abundant for all farmlyg purposes, The ox- perlence of 2,000 yours in Haly and elsewhere hus Shown that (rrigation frou’ mountaln streams is a anter and a better reliance for successful bid: bandry then te depend upon. the ralus of Heavens aid so It hus boon proved in Colorado, Jn winter the snow Salla in vast quantities on, tha lotty mountala rages; lt melts in the spring dnd early summer, und the water comes down In wbundines, charged with ammo aia and various munonl stimulants just when they are most needed by the growing a1 ature fugeraps, Colorado now produces nearly allie anluing districts, Hor food consumed in be! whont is umong the very tavst grown upon tho continent, A bolt af ferritury perhaps from twenty ta forty miles wide eust of the mount. nine Ot now regarded us amang tho best farining: dhitricts In tho country. Whutever territery les between the irrigating belt and tho Ine of sult: cient rulufall ly covered with buifulo grass, furnishing the must nutritious for ecnttle known to the grizier, But within the inst year a species of millet called WICH ON EGYPTIAN COUN has beon introduced, which inay materially sist Co solve (he problem of this rainicss belt, ‘Tho fucts in remand to tt Learned on my vip to New Blexico Inst September, from Jumes Hole iingsworth, Eaq., of this city, His ranch ts elt: unted near Klnaley, 3t6 miles. west af Kansas Ei du the dry belt, From the facts given mo byl hin 1 wrote home to ‘THe (utbuNe iu ful JOwss “ He bud forty acres of sud turned over hist spring, and, having procurud several quurte of tho seed, with an ordinary sced-piunter be de. posited two or three grains a foobor two upart nihe scl, Thore bad nut been a drop of ral wr the previous elght months, and tt did not 1 for tive weeks after the planting; yet the weed gerininated, The curt caine Mp and grew anely. After it ot fuir- na suirted, tho hot blasts came up from the Kane Batacade Staked Pliins), buraing up ‘tho grugy and every green thing ju the gurdens, scorching Hko tho binata from a furnace, yet It | value ts told by did not affect the new-comer from Egypt a pure tele. Tt erew right along in epite of the heat. ‘Then the ratns came on, and the sturdy grain wis sells, indifferent to that. It greiv right fipened whout the tat of September, yielding, Mr. Hollingaworth thought, samo sixty bushels to thenere, welhing sixty pounds to tho bushel. From the top of theatalk ntuftaomething Ike that of sorghum fasues; this soon droups over, and the whole buneh isong mags of the grain. The Kernel fa about the size of a grain of whont, pers haps a little sniller, and more nearly round, Eneh onc fs tnelosed inn shut or independent capa, The grautn can be ground Into an ex. cellent flour, front which bread and other food can be made; It ean be boiled and eaten as rive or cracked whent, and in faet can bo nscd for any purpose for which our pruning cereals are cinployed. A nelghbor of Mr, TTollings- worth, who raised a xmall crop Inst year, neat iim that it fattened plys faster than he hid ever Anown common vorn or any other feed to do it, “Now, the only thing about this story fs that it aceme almost ton good to be true, Mail not so relinble a gentloman ns T know 8 Hollings. worth to be, given me the above faets, 1 should not hive. dlured to have given this account to tho publie Men yet" Mri, adds tn a clreutar, tho article ns written by Gov, Bross is substantially neeurnte. ‘The stalk is about the consistency of corn, and mukes precisely as zoml fodder na the corn stalk. For sheep or entile, and especially lamhs, no better feed can be valved, Thy ylelt is nearer 70 than 60 bushels to the were, aud, with: pe per culture, Fim satisiled te will ylokt 100 bushels. Indeed, U think f hve some sections on imy ranch that will sictd 100 bushels.” (Soine of the corn, with ong of the hends, were presented to the Soelety, What miltlons on millions of vale fs in this edreal, now tous. Uf itonly fullills the promiro nade by Mr, Hollfngsworth's experience, Rent description of the to rath of the country between the lakes and the Hocky Mountalne would represcut it asa vast PRATEAU extending from our northern boundary, and, in fuet, from far north in tho British Possessions, down to the Gulf af Mexico. Tho little ocky at the Bene fiw Mountains in Montunaand (ho: Tack Tits, and the Ozirks of Missouri, are mere epecks upon it, scarcely notlecablo on its immensity, Tho land between the Lukes aud tho Mis alppi, aud between that river and tho Missuutr thea ton very considerable hight, with a gen- oral trend of itt long aweeplig thiges to tho aouth, and from tho Hovky Mountatos cast aul routhenst to the Miszouri. “Searcely any of this wonderful plate is level. Neurly all of tt is drained by such sracdunt: slopes that its hmense rlyers are nuvigahle for steamers for thousands of miles, On the Mississippl and the Missourl— taken togetlicr the: longest water-course {tho world—steaniers ply between the Gulf of Mexico: and Fort Benton, rthe base of the Hoek Monntalna, a distanee of S055 miles. Thole nv= {gublo tributaries are fold) in scores und hundreds, und thoy branch off from the main arteries in all directions, Naw, when tt ts re- membored that tu all tls fmmense platen thora Ja probably not as muct waste land by, mountitn and morass, all told, as there Iain the single State ot New York; when ono bids his mind's eye minge over these hundreds of thou eands of square tniles of rich, rolling pralriewith nothing to vex the plow as It files onward and turns over the teeming mold, can he fall to see. In tho not distant future at red millions of intelligent, happy, prosperous freemen dwettliy Inpeaco and in wealth In this broad, God- Dlessed land? And does it need any doubtful atreteh of fact or fancy to seo its chief com- moereial enpital, one of tho largest and the rich- est and most powerful cities tho sun has over beheld In all his course ¢ ‘Yo mueh for the agricultural resonrees of this great country, and now for a paragraph on [ts MINERAL NICHES. To supply the want of fuel on our prafetes, Providence hus Kludly provided Cor the nulllions who tre to live upon thom an abundant supply of coal for ull domestic aid manntn poses. ‘Tho deposits are pr in Tiitrofs nud Lown, ard tt & we the tmse af the Rne the Raskatchewan to Mox underlikt with coal, the scores of mnllecure of surpriaityy depth cutd rich- ness, No natlon an cucth. fs so well supplied ith this essential element of our modern civil aatton. in it the polltieal ceonomlst sees tho: possibilities of mnllinited growth fn werlth wad all that is desirrble fu our modern prosperity and progress, : This abundance of coal fs supplemented by whut Is perhaps equally essenttal,—tron deposits: of the very best quality and "in untimnited quantities,” The mines aloug the southern shore: of Lake Superior, both for richness and extent, cannot bo excelled, and glye prowulse of an une Ihnited supply. bounds ext be placed upor tho output. from tho Lake Superior Uy ns y Mountalng, teom eo, the conutry 14 yelns of which for cop; pt the wemund whieh the markets of ay chose ta mike. Lend about elsewhere Js found In the greatest abundance, Inreyurd to the pre Uke the language of fable nits cl to give nn adequate Recatnt of the richness of the coun along: tuso ine of » for our ttlungle fall with mountulns whise rock-ribbed vaults are Mled with ores of wurpassing extent and value, Only twenty yeurs igo gold was dls covered un Clonr Creek, in the district then ayy called Pike's Penk, and now Col- Is fast Hoprwmch ing tho hest results, ada evor yielded. Last yeur she pave try over $19,001,000 tog silver, nue the product of the whole ¢ sy bout '13,= OW,00 of which wis produced fu the Leadville Tho Paelite Coust still tends Inrely ta the yleld of gold; but California and the coun- tries ndjucent thereto must look te their juurels, or Montuna, Colorado, and New Mexien wilh alt funce them i the value of the prectous metals produced yearly before the next decade shall ve passed away, What effect tho pouring down of such “in viaat oamomit of colt mmong the millions af people now and soon to aivell upon tho rich ngriculuuval States botween Luke Michigan and the Rocky Mountains let him esthinate who hina the ability and the courage to dogo. COMMERCIAL BACILITIES, Without wlequite means for the Interchange of tholr industries and tho export of thelr sur plus products to foreign mations, the people of 2 country however rleh cannot achleye wn ens Jared und 0 permanent brsperlty. Far this the enterprise, the wealth of tho Natton, and the ene ergy of our people have furalsted the Centrat States with the most umple fueiltties. Mesides tho thousands of mites of steamboat navigutlon on our rivers, scores of rallways. hiye gow our treoping "aver tho country in all directions, bridging tho Missisalppt nnd the Missourl © ag 1 it were oy inere pustine, wid sll they go pressing onward to the mountains, Tholr dark, gloomy, tad ag {twas dupposed fmpassublo ‘ons Echo tho wild xeream of the Jocomotive, ind the snucy Iittle baby engine, powerful 3 It th suucy, has leaped over thetr latty, jmgses innre than hine andeloven thousand fect above tho dea. Cho Bt Poul and the Northwestern tire menniug a rico through Dakota to the Back Hills; the Northern Pacitic and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Po ure driving rapidly onwitrd to tha Pas cite Ocenn; white the Contra! Puclite Ine bus for ten years been pouring the tea, the allks, and the spices of Asin Into aur warehouses for dine trlbution all through the Masissippl Valley, 1t fisanfo to gay that no country dv tho world of equal extent fs so wbunduntly supplied with fuciilties for transport and travel ae that be- tweon Lake Michigun and the ltocky Mountains, Parenthetically it may bo here #it{d that in the old Roman Enipire not only upon the conqueror of nations, but upon him who built the most rondy and the best, Urldyes, waa conferred the highest honors, He wan Pontifex Maxhnua-- tho greatest bridge-bullder,—a title the Pope is proud to retain tothe preacntalay. Whats noblo moment should therefore be reared to tho memory of John F, Tracy, who Wullt the Mlssis- sippl bridge at itook island, and, flratofall othors gntinet the money and the power of St. Lows. aud the entire river iiterest couitined, fought the butte through the United Stites courts, und seeured the riRDt to keep It there. Heneo every river In tho Nation ean now bo bridged, And what # high position will bistory give to the munes of Willian 1B. Oxden, John is ‘Turner, Heory Farnum, and a score or more of their compecors, who dirvcted and gaye onergy to that publig ophiten which bis enubled: thoir siteces- gon, Gov, Stanford and Thomas C. Durant, w push their lines over the mountuind and” entirely neross the Continent! And how come Frederick Billings with H, B. Sargent, and William 8. Strong with bis Boston crowd, determined soon to ive us two other Hnes to tho Ba Ovean. Has not cach ano of then already becoine In reality, on hls own line, and Not tn more mune, & Pontifex Maximus? ‘Theat lies to the weatward are supplemented by water transit custwanl through our miguills cent lnkes and the Erie and Canudlan Canals, and by five or six grent nidlway nes to the Atiantiy seabird, Jt muy as well bo added in thls con= retion thit the trulle of our merchants extends: om the sonth side of our trlungle, through ay, Blong the Atantio neutioun, all the way round ta the = Darainion Gf | Casta. Iinmense shipments of and ras providione aro zande on through bilfvof lading 10 all the ports In Weatorn Eumpe, Our wholesale merebints have buyers in all the Eustorn Stated, and in all tho leading cities and manufacturing dlatricts of Europe, with cash in hund to buy at bottom prices whutevor goods thig inurket sy require, so that Now York dealers—as Stewart & to, and others, have found Indispensuble—bave heen forced to establiah branch bowses in tis ety, Beyond a doubt the brunch will, Jn avery few years, become the mul central establish went, Chicago manuticturers of ake 8 aup> Wies und agricultural and other Implo- ments make frequent shipments to both sides of thu content; to Kurpe and fo thy filands of tho Pucific Qveun, Heuce whilo the country west of us must be ros Pea on anilily for the ‘growth of tho city, {t should be added that ber lake and canal navi- gutlon,—the Llinula & Siehtinn must not be fore oltre har. Eastern raiiway syatem, and her wouthers, Eastern, and Buropean trie aru al Tumense fuctors tn determlulng the aluments Of her past and future prosperity, : STATISTICS. A paragraph on ber post growth and present busjuess is uppropriute here. Let ua take a period of twenty-Aye years, In 1X, one your ufter the city wis organized, the frat) Bbipuent ot wheat, goventy-elyht bushels, wa de custward by the lukes. In loi, twenty-tyo yours. ugo, tho receipts of wheat bad Tisen to 3,108,055 busbels; last year they were SA 0H—a wontlerful increase, “wurely, Tho reeelpts of corn for 1KH were 7,400.7 Yeur they wero 62,1642 bushels, receipts Of cereals for 1 were” L1,902uH10 Dushels; lust your they were 107,001,80, aad their $78,090,000, ‘The mimber of hogs was T4hh; Juat year the receipts OF entlle the” stutisth MA IAG; last year the nu tay TRS Hef 21801 receis bor Wi tn 13414.072, and the total valio of the live at Wanndled WAR. eee sree UFO) 259,000,000 214,000,000 Manufacture! oo 230,500,000 $17,810,000 : Whi iL eelitoy ates ducts 28 per cent for probnble diplivatlons, leay- ing tho netunt value of the (ride of tho ety Cor tho Inat. your 000,000, These results Boom almost falitous, aril gould not be credited wero they not gathered hy experts with tho grentost: caro from authentic kources. ‘The poyuintion of tho city Gi wie G58iz; everybody now be. eves that the censits ubout to be taken will [i Cus at lonat 450,000, Aa another tidex of Western growth {t muy bo stated that Tlinois was admitted inte the Unton fn 188, only sixty. two sens ago, taking her phice at the foot of the States. Since then her muireh bias boon one wind and tipwittd, til the consis of this year will place her ahead of Oho and next to Peiinsylyn- nige the third State in the Uno, Dowdtless Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kunsas, Nebrmiskity and Cofornlo would show equally marvelous has were hot fhis article alremly too tong: to present tho auihdits, the statistles to prove ft, Thit however great tho extent, the iigeleturnd and the mineral resourres 01 any country imag be, iv strong, at tnduasteiatis, free, wn infellectuat, nud a moral people must live upon and devetop tt in ordor that st may ake and hold a command pasion tt the cur rent wifaira and in the history of tho world, Now, whery elo upon enrth, if may be asked, ean you Hrd a people. whoso ebanteter Is tall respeets better fited to work out all tine fa feat and grent Someta In our Christian otvil- ation? ‘They are tho men and the wonen sifted ont, 18 [E were, from the must enterpelaing xonsand daughters of the oll Stules and fear nearly all the nations of Amon 1. Kind, ag elgewhere fn Native, * blood will tell, It Is the mixture of the powerful mees of West. ern Europe that hus wrought out for the En- gilsh the prowl distinction of being the Homans of the nineteenth century, Now, whero or when was there over such ainiugling of the Dloot of so many powerful races st cat be found among the sellers of the country west of and around Luke Michigin? They uct bam eres onthe good old Puritan principle of planting ehirehes and schools in every town and hamlet in’ tha lund, and colleges in suiliciont: mumber to ‘o on liberal ciduention to wl who have’ tho energy and: tho | intelli- enee to seek It. It 44 helleved that in these Central States the problem of whut Wo whole pees eduented, {ndustrious, and with the highest moral retinas can tieeomplish is to bo wronght out for the fest the Inthe history of the Worlds het Ah pli pit and the sateninan estimnte If they can the benelleent effect it will surety hive ipon the welfare of the race. Tbave spoken of the country and its character and resources that fs tributary ta Chicago, and of the people who Inimbit tf, But St. Louls, Milwaukee, Omatn, Kanvus City, Denver, and t bundred other zrawlng elties may exelatm, Do you leayo nothing for us? Cert aia wl that Foe noaltton and your energy enn achlove; but, bless you, trients, the more yor prosper, the more Fou nll will contribute to tho wealth and TIPE, mins prosperity of Chicago, She hug nota particle of Jenlausy in her nature, Now, In regard to tho eountry west of nnd surrounding Chiengo, with sutult nit encrotle, intelligent, Christian peopl to develop It, gad alse it regard fo such progress asshe his made in the past, | pubinit that o havo stated only tho fue: have “entered on no encomjun stent Chicago. She needs none. Her pust fs nt Teast secure, Hero she is and hero she will remuin, forever.” At the coneluston’ of Mr, Bross’ paper, ho was tendered the thanks of the Society. Mr. Arnold made uv few remarks on the necessity of Chieaza's becotlng moreof a Hterary centre than ut present. Tb was a well-known fact that the elty’s growth wis murvelous as na commercial and agricultural entecpaty wt it lacked the Iterary ©: whieh was erlatie of Boston; Woped fn thy Thith,. for’ when the > settled FE would be able to boast of a iibrary unescelfed in the United States, and to which scholars from all parts of the country would belug’ a preaney: in the oflea of Treasurer, MY, A. 1b Burley was elected to that afle The Society then adjourned] pei cai bai ae COUNTRY ROADS, Laitar of The Chleaga Telouane, WAGELANDS, NEAR Quincy, UL, dun, 20— Mm your we of Wednesilay, Mth of Jan airy, agaln comes up in walling ery from your Bloomington correspondent of “a mud embargo,” saying, “A complete and effectual go hag been placed on all traltie tween efly and: farsn,—nota pound of grata Iscoming tng nota hoof nora hora.’. Not only Tloomlngton, but ever one-half the Stato was in the same tix, . Now what do the peopte of town and country “propose todo about it? Do they hitend to forget all about it ag soon ne the next freeze makes the country rondy and elty streets passable? Do they propose to sen some more town-meet- Ing demngugs to tho next Legisinture fo enact std more antediuylan road law. At tho thine of the Introductlon by the Hon. J,N, Citrter (of Adams) of “A DIL for an act fo provide for the collectton of statistics "relating to tho improvement of highways ti tha Stnto of {lnols,? the town-mecting Ta the demayogs made themselyes as busy (to ous an oold sailor's” phrase) as the d—l in on gale of win to defent ity and succeeded. ‘That law received the hearty, and smiqualified Indorgement of the press ofthe State, Jt was sueli a hii as would have given the “people of the State n vostamount of fiformution of great practl- eal value and ata nominal cost. “Thint tw would have beer carried out through the Tudlraad and Warehouse Comnissioners, and ave syved ta the local roud authorittes in fees now pilil to lawyers five tines the whole cost lo earry Ht out. Tho passage and approval of the present Road Ly and the defeat of Carter's bUL were very unfortunate for the Stute, ‘The Road fasy pit us baek ton want of system that has been condenmed long ago. ‘The Carter hn qwould baive Inaigurated a system that would have been of yast and far-reaching utility. Louls Napoleon, fia an adress made at the owning of some new Hneof rillway, was Puputinl us saying In that address that’ France was to by congratulated upon the completion of this new through tne, Frenchmen had: reason to be thinktus that all the trond and through lines of rallway really needed were now fnisheds and’ that now the thing most needed to add to the prosperity, comfort, and: soelat appli ss of the French people were goad country roads from every farm, vingyard, and gatden in France to tho railway stations, Juouls Napo- leon gave tho Intluciice of the Government In that dlrectlon, and that speech and his subsequent nets Yn tho direction of good z country ronds wlll be longer remembered by the “plain people” ‘of France than any other avt of that really great man, We hive lots and to spare of great men (2) who are busy settlng up things to be Congressmen, Gov- ernors, and Senators, who, when they get elected, spent most of the tine of exch term fixing things for another, Thus country ronds and other questions of public utility are neglected, ‘The people of Illinofs slways paid thoir Smill tax cheerfully, beeause thoy knew the mony went ta pay the State debt, ‘Uhe people of Minols will cheerfully pay any Tensonnble tax to build higlwayss under an eficlent system and such laws and mannage- ment us demonstrate they are getting their money's worth, As matters now are, rond taxes aro in- creasing and the country roads gotting worse every year, Under the present Road Inw thore will be in Dilnols wbout 16,000 Highway Comuitsstoners and Overseers of Roads, every “feller? working on his. own hook, Eyen if this vast ary of tax-eatess were all honest and public-spirited, nine-tenths of them will einen of no experience In road-making, al poral away without any cotcertof action and Intelligent general direction, fo show the folly and. absurdity of this “town-meoting deniagog’s fool Rond law,” seo See, 10 of the law, which reads as follows: “Suc, 10, Lhe Commissioners of Mighways {n the several towns of this State shall have the care and superintendence of highways and bridges therein, and it, shall by thelr duty: First, to give directions for the re pairing of roads and bridges In thelr re- spectlye lowns, and to ranse the buliding of bridges when the public Interests or necessity require It,” ete, Now turn to Sec, 34 of the law and you find the fallowing morsel of wisdom: "Sec, 24, Itahall be the Huey of Overseers ofitighixn 1] iu ench town: First, to repair and keop fn order the highwnys within their several dis- tiles fue whieh” they shall haye been elected,’ Here you see are three Commissioners in each town to “give directions ” to from five toa dozen Overseers “to repair and keep Iu order," ete. In the name of common sense, Mr, ‘Town- Meeting Demagog, why not fet the Commis- siuners do both, and thus save one set of tax. eaters, As arule, Commissioners of High ways Will he far more eapablo than the O ver- seer, and selected with tore care, and by common consent are generally selected fron different parts of the town, so thi all Joval fnterests are ‘thus protected, ‘The only reason urged by the towne meeting “demagogs for abandoning tho contract system of the old Inw and restorng system that allows' “me my teams ntl boys” to work ont road taxes was, thnes are dinrd, money searee, and tho farmer hag teams and boys. a “To show what denmngoay tht oll i "See, 1, ‘Tho Commissioners of Highways of each town. shall anmediy ascertain, ts near og practicable, how mutel money must be ralsed y tax on real and personal property, for the niaking snd repairing of roads ony, to any AMON thoy aay deam necessary, not ex- cecding 40 cents on enclt $100 worth, us vale uetlon the assessment-roll of the previous b "This is what igealled the Inbor tax. ‘That fs, the “ loot” of the lown-meoting demagog for "his teams and boys.” Now tari with me ta See. W0o0f the law, which reads: See. 19, Tho Highway Com- missioners of each town, shall annually ns- certain, as dear as practicable, how much money must be raised by tex on real and per- sonal property for the making and repairing of bridges, tie payment of damages by rea- son of the opening, altering, and Iaying ont of new ronds, the purchase of the necessary tools, implements, and machinery for work- ing roads, {he purchase of the necessary ite ferial for buildiyg or repalring roads and Dridges, the pay of the Overseers of Highways tlurlig tho ensuing yents commenelig on ‘Tuestay next preceding the snnnal town meeting, whieh tax shall he extended on the tax books, according to the assessinent of the provious years, and shalllevy a tax on all tite real and personal property. in salt town, not exceeding 40 cents on the $100,” Here you find the Jaw compels tho levy of tax payable In mouey, and thot it Is in’ the Uiseretion of the Cominissioners to levy the largest proportion of the tax th money or the reverse, * "The best {ime for plowing, scraping, and ling, our dirt roads is May and dune, Ro what enterprising farmer Js Tikely to neglect hls crops at this ‘busy thine of the Year to work outa $10 road tax when a ne glect of his growing corn WH! cost hint 202 Experts in rord-ninking, with teams used to the work, will do more and better work In one doy thin the average green hand and fenm will accomplish in three, | Under this Inhor clause a day’s work is, efght, hours, wn der tho contract system ten hovrs,—n gadn fn Hing of 20 and in work dished 300 per cent, Unfortunately, working out the rond tax 1s looked upon by the averae man asi ‘dead horse,” and much shirking §s the conse «quence, Js not this sort of road work the most atupid sort of economy? asks yours respicl- fully, KK. K. Jones, ANDREW JACKSON'S WIFE. Ter Dovotion to Hor Husband, A Letter, Just printed for the firat time, (u the Cine ati Commerelat, t Fen, 8, 1813.—My Dear Husband: Your letter of the 18th January from the mouth of the Cumberland River came safe to hand. It was everything to me. I rejoteed, I was happy to hear you were in health, It was iny nightly prayer to the Almighty God. My thoughts ave forever on thee. Where'er Igo, where’er [ turn, my thoughts, my fears, my doubts distress me, ‘Then a litte my hope revives again, and that keeps ine alive. Were It not for that, L must sinks I should dic in my present siatation. But my blessed. Redeemer ix maklug intercession with the Father for us to nivet again, to restore you to my bosom, where every. vein, avery pulse heats high for your health, your safety, & all your wishes crowned, Do not, my be loved husband, let the Jove of country, fame, &honor make you forget you have one, Without: you, T would think thom all empty slindows. You will say this ts not the Innguage of 2 patriot, bubiv’s the Innguage of n faithful wife, one L know you esteem & love sincerely, but Olt how many pangs, how many heart- rending sighs las your absence cost me. My {ine passes heavily, & Tam not in gootl henith, but £ hope to see you once more on this globe, & after this fralf liteends, be with you in happler -elimes, where L shall exper: ence no nore panful sepiration, & then shall beat rest. 1 feel a foretaste of the Joys that are to the virtuons souls, Graclous God, help me to pray fee your happin I was delighted to learn that you were pleased with Mr. Blackman & the, other two clergymen, & the society In genera. Our litthy Andrew ss well, the most affec: (onnte Hite darling cn earth, Often does ho ask me in bed notte ery, sweet pips will come home to you ngain, and [feel my cheeks to know if Lain sheddiug tears, One of the extreme cold ntglits he gotn Witte yext, and gal he wondered bis papa dit not come home and sleep with line dn tis ble hed. On Thursday Last, mtmmna, sald he, let's go to Nashville & see if hie is thore, LT told him where you were gone, Ile sald, don’t ery, sweet mami: you eny’t Uhnink how that has supported me ty my trials, 1 wish Twas with you—vain wish, : Pray, ny dear, write to me often, It’sa cord, it's s balm to my mind tn lonesome hours, [Ctreastire them up og a iuiser does his gold. Leould write more toyour satisfaction could L refraln from tears, bub youk now how to make wtlowance forme. Catherine Calfery returned inn few days after y rt out. Pho stock wants thelr imuster’s ¢: your household regrets your absent Wishing & praying youn return, Lf pal Flelds every cent that Tdld not send you tn my letter.” [lo wos not satisfied. 1 then borrowed thirty dollars & paid him. Ife was going about tr¥ing to. sell yout note. Dhave made nearly chough lo pay iin off, Sister [hiyes, Mrs. MeKeane, Mrs, Jnck- son, Mr. Small, & Cathorine sends thelr best wishes to you. Please to present amine to Mr, Blackmun & Mr, Hines Carrot, & niy the Almighty God of {feaven shower down, Tis blessings, 11fs meres on you, assist you in the ways of fife, In tho ways of righteaus- ness, be your shield in the ile of changer, Alt ppt you in all things, & keep you fn the mt ns of wisdom,—tha ways thoreot Is peaca. afar. Well, think on me, yourdearest friend on carth, Racin Jacksox. Mr. A. Jack: HUMOR, Tho Bostun Post thinks that King Alfonso possesses a charmed life. He has been mare ried tive and shut at twice, and yet he hives. Tho worst case of “stage frizht’' Is that of the man who thinks he has passed up a two- doltar-aud-n-hall gold piece Instead of n dine to the driver.—Boston Commercial Bulletin, *Johnet sald ‘a ‘doting parent to hor gor mandizing son, “do you really think that you, can eat the whole of that pudding with mn- punity?* “I don’t know, mar,” replied the young hopetul, "but I can with a apoon.” It was ot. 8 temperance meoting. The spenker increased in eloquence and nolse, and he erled; “Yes, my frends, we'll lift ‘our tempernnco vessol out of the mire and mud onto hard, dry ground, and then sail beautifully along.” Ata smull country town there Intely died a inlddle-nged man, leaving a widow of M5, At the funeral the deacon of the villagu alluded tothe good qualities of the deceased, and among others his generosity, Ie said the deeensed had Lent ita some money once, Upon which the weeping widow raised her head and Inuured, how much, and whether ho had paid 1¢ back or not, A Very Difforent Matter: Southern, Lord (staying at Highland Castiey—" Thank you sonnich, I—ah—weally enjoy your music, Lthink of haying 9 piper at niy own, place,” Sandy the Plpor— An! fat khy o’ oa piper would your Lordshtp be needy?" Southern Lord—" Oh, certainly o good piper like your self, Bandy.” Gandy ‘sifling)—" Och! in- toot! Yo might easily tin’ a Lord ike your “Lordship, but it's nag sae easy to fin’ a piper ks me whatever.” —Punch “Alonso,” sald Christine, thoughtfully, as she let dowa her back finir that evening, “Is this simply a sporadic casey or do yott expect all youravives to take naturally to being shot at? Because, dear, D don’t want to be disugreable; but, you know, I shall really have to go back to mamma before Pm ulte perforated Ske a colander, if you don’t eugnge a better style of assnsin. hy arew’t you able to afford 5 dynnmit explo sion Uke the Czar? ‘This fs not atull like what Ahad been led to expect "—Puck, It was a Women's Rights meeting. ‘The speaker was. saying, * Let us tke our stone shat here, and firmly resolve that nelther the votes nor the argunfents of the Sppuslt sex, hur any power on this earth, shall turn us ‘aside Or move us an finch from this posi—""_ Just: here a wicked bat Hew into the room, and the meeting adjourned with so much quickness that nome of the mumbers lost their back hair. ‘The speaker, who could not bs "turned aside,” was seventeenth from, the Inst In Rott y uut at the front door, And it{y not certain that the bat was onv of the “opposlt sex,” either, ——————— If thig should meet tho eyo of any ono suffore ing from bronebitly, ‘vousuimption, asthma, or any pulmonury affection, wo would rofor then tebe Juyne’é Expectorant, whieh will, in all cases, alford spoody relicf, and in moat effect a wpeudy cuzo. [ JOWA. ‘What: ths Hawkeye State Produced in the Year 1879. : Annsal Neport of the Seeretary of the Bate Agrt- cultnral Society, = * “s Bpevlat Correspondence of The Chleago Tribune. Des Moines, In, dan. t—At_ tho annual ses- sion ot’ tho Stato Agricultural Society, held hore this week, Seerctary John kt. Schaffer presented hisannttal report, which as usualis a tengthy: document, comprising a vast amount of valine bie info tmation respecting tho agricultural re- sources af Lown, wnd her products for tho past. pnst year, Tho following isn bricf synopsis of the most ssnportant toples trented: RTATE ENTOMOLOGIST. Nearly owery crovplng and flying thing is galled a 4 buys," to be loathed and destroyed, ‘Thore aro tivo kinds,—one benefelul, the othor injurtous, Tho Stnta cannot — expend money in ! any better | way than to tench tho people that thera aro Insects which should ba carefully preserved, and othors de- atroyed. ,Tothis ond a State Entomologist ts necessary, with whom tho peoploand agriculture aland horticultural societtoscan confer, ; DIRDH, ‘Tho In for the protection of bl ts Inndo- quate to the needs, All birds of proy shotld bo protected, So aldo birds of plumage, Tho bar- barous practice of sktuulng birds ullye toxceire tholr plumuye for fuahlouable adornment should bo stopped by statutory Inws, Tho English spnrrow—n plogue scarcely less formidable than tho griashopper—shauld not hentlowed to get it foothold on tho pralries of own. Thoy should bo prohibited by law. IMNGRATION. Town Is the mitden-spot of the world, Thoro are 10,000,000 nerea yet. untouched by the plow. Ita taxes are but $7.68 per cupita; its debt a mere bagatelle; its climate healthful; nll whtoh offer unprecedented inducements to immlara- ton from overcrowded cltics, An agent should: ba located at New York, supplied with the necessary informntion to Induco forelgn emi- grants to come ta Iowa. Show thom the products of 1870 Iarvested. $ 98,159,000 O70 Rye, bu... "40% 000 Hatloy, bn. 2251, Flux, tu. Foon Potatoes, bu 3,210,000 Cou, ba... 15,000,000 Grass-seud, bi 2,000,000 lay, tons... 18,000'000 $129,018.84 Cnittle, No, 2,100,000 42,000,000 Hogs, No. 3,500,000 : 10,500,000 Shuep, No “On 1,200,000, Torso, No. 00,000 15,000,000 Mules, No. 50,000 ee) $11,450,000 TENOR oo SH0A08 026 Total produet.....ccssesesseee Tho tveruge produot of corn per nore in Mi- nots, fowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, ond Minnesota combined fs 35 kashels, In Towa tt ts 2 bushels, ornenrly double that of Missouri, which State Is twenty-five years older thin Iowa, NATIONAL SOCIETY. ANationnl Agricultural Soclety ont recommended. ub Boeledy tape TAME GRASSES. The grass-crop of the Uuitert States te af mare yahie thin cotton and corn combined, Tn 1878 504,000 tons of hay were produced from 1,930,« OW) deroR,—viliied nt $L2KhA00s In TAD, 4,000,000 tons, from 2,000,030 neres, valued at $14,000,000, which ly not one-tenth the yaluo of the ‘crop, Deuaury from it eames nine-tenths of our beet, sheep, butter, cheese, and milk, The yield fs three and a ball ton: i TISHEN-CULTUIE, he forests ure dlsappearing rapidly, under tho denund for wood in tho various meehuntenL operations, America consumes annuntly 100,000 cords of wood. for, shoc-pugss 300,000 atibie feet, of best pine for’ matghex; 600,00 cards of the beet Por Jaats and boot-trees; 500,000 cards tor tonl-handless 2,000,000 to. bake brick.—equul tu 4,000 neress 1,100,000 trees for telograph-poles: thirty yeurs' growth of 75,000 neres for railroad Hess $12,000,000 in value for pneking-boxes; $15,000,000 in value for riallrond-fences: S100),00, In value for wagons and agricultural finploments, Let. treu- planting he encouraged, and the people informed of the necessity of protecting and preserving our tim- her, and ndding to ita wren by all the “skill and modnd to be obtained. . conn, , ‘ Fow people knol Whit a fara hiss of jiros- perlty corn brings annually to the American people, consimption ns hunun food ine erenses etch at home and wbroud. Ten ‘enrango the export ws 7,000,000 -bushels por + 1t Je now 0,000,000 bushels; and itwillsoon necotne Tt Of Conimerce, | It forms, ‘tho basis ofan Atel etinehy D Of ut lonst 111,000,000 hogs. An the United States the production was: IR. asec — suabaetins eee «eee eeeee DRS SIR TT , Uikb 4 189; cme ey Tnicrense...,....+e+2 150,080,250 139,090,595, the years nomad was eratue. 4,750,000 + 625,000 169,000,000 i 4,886,000 S041, 024 er nL rt 49,088,000 ‘Tho nverage yield per nvre for 1870 was forty bushels; average price, = conts,—making n totil valuo of $40,08,000,—nn Increase over 18) 1,057,870. a ‘Tho product of fowa for ns follows: WiteAT, 4 Tho curly part of the season Have promiso of a good crop, hut the heat and drought proved det- rimental,' The principal cuuse of the fullure of the crop was tho ravages of tho chinch-bug, which was general over the Stite, destroying thousands of neres, and reducing the State from tho first to the third position In the whent-yrow- ing Status for 1870, to-wits Indiana, Minots, Jown, Minnesota. Nebruskttees sees Wisvonsin.. “ i ‘Thy veres In cultivation in lown for 1670, wore 255,00; averngo yield, twelve bushels per nero; {herons over 18678, 10,000,000 bushols; Increase 1 value, $25,000,000, Kesurving two bushels. por nero for seed, und twelve bushels por caplin of the State population, tere is auly surplua at 16,000,000 bushels for export, If, as estlnatod, Greut Beltatn will require, from Nov. 1, 1870, te the close of the next harvest, 140,000,000 bush- els, of which 118,000,000 bushels must go from Italia or tho United States, und Russia van gout only 11,000,000, and the United States hus sent up to Nov, 7 U2 KK),000 ueross | the eeu, only | 42. r cent of whloh ‘wont to Great Hiritain; and if the same pur cent contin- cs of our estimated exportation of 195,000,000 bushels,—we have therefore now unly 49,160,000) hushels to supply the 113,000,000 bushels required. ‘Tho inference is, thut farmers would bo wise to hold tholr wheat. fe oars. ‘Tho increased demand:for this grain for hu- mun food warrants an iierease In its production, ‘The prev in this State for 1879 waa In 1878, though there was a decrease in average Yield per. nveo was i product 36,070,000 bushels—a deerease froin 1878 of 5,003,000 bushels, The avery fe price is conts, mnking n total yntue of #80 C=—tho fucreuge In peice causing nearly $1,000,000 Itt crease over tho valuo of the crop uf 1878, RYE, The aren for 1879 was 40,000 acres, or loss than fifteen yeurs azo. Average: yiotd 0 bush- ola por nerus total product, a bushels avor- ago prico, cents por bushcl,—represonting @ total value of Feo. oer tee BAULEY. ‘Tho aro is decreasing euch yenr, despite tho offorts of brewers and othors. | It isn crop ol. ways in domand, and commands remunorative paecey but lt cannot be relied upou in this tate, othorwise it would be one of tho moat vale 4 unblo farm products of fowa. An estimate of tho crop gives 200,000 avrog In cultivation, with i total product of 4,000,000 bushols, which, nt 46 cents per bushel, produces vile of §2,274,000, ‘Tho yleld varics from {to 40 bushels por acre, and the price from 20 to 8 cents per bushel, 4 YLAX. Thereased attention ts belng glyon to the cultl- vation of flax, Forty-ono counties report, ‘Tho estimated urea 48 100,000 ae ieee ten bushols Por were oF seo prico, 81; Lota prodiet, 1,000,000 wets; valuo, $4,000,000, "No uso is mgdo'of the x straw, - Gi POTATOES. o arcs isincrensing. Asa food-production tho crop ranks next to wheat and Yorn. ‘The orca plunted was 107,000; yleld, 10,700,000 bushels, iin Increase of 90,000 bushels over 1878, Avorage prico per bushel, 20 cents,—roproscuting w total gab ae Of $),210,000,—nn inurease over 1878 of é AMBER sORATUM, The Secretary recommends tho cultlyation of Amber sorghuin as a vuro and profitable oro from which a firat-clias quality, of sugar can choaply sudo, which will compare with the boat producod from corn. ‘Thore is nu increased aren Teported of sorghing for the State. It" ty estl- cultivation, giving a product of 2,500 allons oof alrup, valued wt $1,000,000. : OATTLE. Facts and figures aro telling rapidly jn tho charactor of cuttlo received 111 Yown for raurket Pedigree tolls, and tho fmproyoment ts wits- spread, Seventy-uine countics report thorough bred vhort-horis, These will soon: tell among tho native cattle, Tbhirty-cight report Jerseys; twenty-yo report Devons; ten report Hole steins; ofgbt report Horefords; four’ report Ayrotlres, Tho catimated uumnber of cattle £y a; total pig etal: {s 2,100,000. Thero fs no dinonse emong ia noae. . mproved breeds are iucrensing, 7 three munt{es rennet Poiadl-Chinn gad Weg: Bhires tho favorit: fortyettireo counties nang Chestor White, ‘Tho Strffolk, Basex, ant tones Heil are named by a fow eountios, ‘The here, shires are oneal for enely nad packing. Disease” appencs aa vely abating. Albert “Duniap, ono of aye United States Comminstuners, insjicctod aveg t disenxed hogs: fy different. parts of Town, nnide aveted nearly 100," Ho reports throo disearce— diphtheria, typhus, and typhoid foyors.—nil enn. tagions. ‘Tho entses are’ foul ale, bad food filtn, unumal exercise, ete. ‘Tho cure Is hyglenle ar Heinul, fresh ate and water, rensonablo oxer, Rol steeving quarters, and proper food, The number of hogs, nt the date of nxtcasment for taxation, over ax months old, was 2223 14. and on this baste the total number of all age wis hot leas than 3,500,000 nt that dnte, muta of hogs ipncked for tho Eenecn of was 609,70.—an Increase over tho provlous sea. gon of 82,882, bs aes BEEP, Tho number of sheep Is increasing In tho There are all the conditions wero heceseany produce the finest mutton. ‘Tho nttinber grr a ta HY ekh—ain Incrensn for the your af Ty ixty-soven eountics report fifty woolen miif an annual consumption ench of from 15,0) to 25,000 paunds of woul Prices, ft tos cents per pound, or in ayorngo of 2 cents. i HOUSES, levonty comnties report the presence of Nor. mam Clydesdnie, PorcherouNorimnan, ania tonlan, ‘and other recognized fine breeds horses, which indlentes that a better class gp horses fs coming. The demand for shipmeny and the local demand nce in oxcess of tho ay Diy ‘Tho avorn rive fs $80, Numbers tiysou. ed for tuxation in 1879, 072,808; extimuted total number, 900,000,—valued at $54,000,000. i boas, ‘Tho Secretary Is sllent on dogs this yenr, entines have Conquered tho Hoctetys Te isoet dent that the poople yalic purps more thay jainbs, ItAWKeyy, DR. HATFIELD. A Chicago Proncher Gno of tho Next Bishops of tho Methodint Eplscopal Churelt. S Clnetnnatt Commercial, Jan, 1, Evanstos, Ill, Jan, 15.—The probable ele. vatlons to the Episcopacy atthe next General Conference of the Methodist Eptscopal Chureh in Cinclinati is a spbject of no sinall speculation, ‘There fs no longer a doubt tha Evanston, the centre of American Method Ism, Is to be represented by a Blshop, and that he isno tess than.Dr. Robert Hatfield, pastor of the First Methodist Eplscopal Chnreh here, Lt will be remembered that Dr, ntileld is particularly strong in Cincinnati, where he Inbored formerly with so much sus cess, ‘There aren great: many reasons why Dr, Hattield may be regarded as one of the strongest men in the field. For thirty years he lins aceupied the very finest pulpits west of the Mississippi, and has invariably left his churches ina strong con ditlon.. Ho has been sent from one great city to another, his presence always giving a pe ctliar satisfaction, Its well known that he wits the Ifelong and, in fact, the most inll- mate friend of tha Inte Bishop Haven, and op, ha will confer great credit on the pair were undoubtedly tho most powerful antagonists of slavery In the Methodist put- pit. Indeed, it is intimated that Bishop Haven gave some expression of preference for Dr, Hntflelit ng his successor at one tlme, As tho majority of the Bishops havo been Eastern men, it is thought that the West will Ansist on having one of the next additions to the quota. Already the name of Dr. Hatfield is prominontly spoken of, not only in this State, but Lowa. Tho Boone (Ia.) Repu eq has learned that the entire delegation from that State {s very favorable to hin, ‘This paper, which t4 one of the most reliable In tho State, feels impelled to give quite a sketch of the man, in view of his probable election. It says, editorially: jZinoug those clergymen of modern times who stand ont conspicuously bofote the peo ple for rare. jutegrity, purity of character, and eminent ability, few aro more prominent than Dr. Robert Intileld. “Great epnehs and great men are said to moyo Inpairs, In this respect, Dr. Intlield has cortainly been represented In some te inarkable epochs of history in. the Church, not to say the political past of tho Nation. Called in ently ife to n prominent place in the nlnistry, fo bas moved at Intervals across the continent to take lending, churches In the great citles of the land, which he lins invarl ably built np where the ditculties of the oo entslon and the exigencies of the time seemed to require more than human power. Aman whose action the Church never questioned, or whose sineerlty the people never doubted, he has held aloot from suspleton of cant hypocrisy, laxity In doctrine, and tins avoldt those shoals of extreme Iberalism which have wrecked many of the foremost minlk ters of the ae. “During the trying times of the late usurpation of Natlonal power in the South, no more Invincible Abolitionist .cver eri down treason in the pulpit, or urged on men to arins, than this most original of born ora: tors. Ifts preac! Ani ty exceptional from that ofany inan before the public. Never hay: Ing been ground {na college machine, bis education ty purely his own, acautred as raj idly as his needs ealled for ft, and admirably adapted ta the demands of the times. Ie spenks on ull topics with the air of one who has mastered his subject, and rarely fails t convince his audicnce of the currectiess of his views, Few have so happy a knack 0! Keeping an audience ina high state of ex- peclation, and of so fully satisfying their de sire, Like the jets ‘of water thrown from the wheol “of 1 mill, the terse sentences of the man and his wonderful ex presstons are sprung upon. iis hearers ins manner Interesting In the extreme. He ls & man who never wonded a worn-out barrel of sermons on his hearers, bit who invarl ably hus something new and fresh wherever he may preach, or whatever the condition of his henrors, oubtless few cle ‘gymen ever net with so much favor from the secular religlous press, ar experiencei sa Iittlo erltl- clan. A man of every resource, 9 fertile imagination, he Is rishig higher and higher in the senle ‘of human success, though past the prime of life.” ‘This sketch iy nota whit too strong, and renlly expresses tho characteristics of the man, Heisn great favorit among the stu dents of the University in Evanston, who are out 500 Atrong to hear him cach Sunday. The Doctor telly a ulory of his early days inthe ministry, with much onfoyment, When he went to Pawtneket to study with acelebrated Doctor of Divinity for the min istry, to his astonishment hie wis set pretching by his Instructor the first Sunday efory the pastor’s own chureh, ‘Chat night In bed he heard two young Indies iy an ad Jotning Apartment conversing. “Dlid vou hear that young follow preach olny ; “The ideal No} I heard him try real hard, ‘This {den so impressed him that ho com tinued to try “real hard” until he ‘achtoved lusting sticcess and renown, Di, [Hatfietd 1859 years old, Ho ts ns fe miliar with human nature In all Its phases 3s a Professor of Greok ora gardener fs will roots, I1u ia an ensy, fluent speaker, a fe worker, and, nboye ‘all, 13 blessed with the most practlenl uncommon sonse. © As a Bist the oftles and Eplscopavy, TO-A GOAT, ‘Toll mo, sweot gont, with eyes so florce and red Before whose wrath strong men in terror flcey And, whon thoy see thon lowor thy: awful head, Make hnate to mount a post or climb a treo— Why dost it fll thy soul with rapture swect .: ‘Yo butt u mun, or chase hima through tho streat Ang toll me, gentle goat, tf ask 1 may—~ For ‘tly un awful mystery to man— O how duat thou contrive to got away With nn old stove-pipe or an oyster-can?, And, when thou ewallowest wholo, an old hoop wktrt, Does {t not tanylo up in thoe, and burt? Ogont, thou ever art alort for proy!: * Turn but thy noble houd and thou wilt see Avson of Chinn walking o'er the way: He would look ove, awarming up a tree, Go, glorious SUT ‘with bim buye sone fut and, meunwhile, TU got Of this Centos aud ru —Bouton Pot. * . —<————— Weat Virginia Against a Third Tero Dispatch to Cineinnat Commercial, Wueetina, W, Va. Jan, 14,—Tho Hepat State Contril Committee’ mot at tha Met aed Hous Instevening. Tho conyention to ap eenis delegiltes to Chicago was callod to moet {1 this elty on Wednosday, May 12, There will not le 8 Grunt mun in the delegation from this sats und carotul inyutry by your correspondent hat falled to turn up a Grint man tn Wheellng. delegates will be divided between Shera Hinine, ‘and Washburne, but will bo solid ugales rant. One peculiar characteristio of Fellows’ Com und Byrup of Hypaphosphites is ita power jecompoeing the food in the stomach, renderg digestion wud ssstmilution jore pertcct, ‘Tb! uirtly accounts fur tho rapidity with which PY ents take on flesh willo usiliy tho urticlo.