Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, January 31, 1880, Page 13

THE CIICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, (880—SIXTLEN PAGES. SAN FRANOISCO. The Comstock Rising, Phenix- Like, from Its Ashes. acts Showing that the Groat Lode Ys Not Yot Played Ont, ——— Tho Proposal to Establish a Graln Exchange— Queer Movements of tho Legis a tative Solons. A Pow Tho Mining.Camps Near the Summit of the Blerrax ety WireRallrond—The Theatres, Spretat Correspondence of The Chteago Tribune, SAN Francisco, Jan, 19,—To persons at a distance, who notieed by tho telegraphicquo- tations tho apparent collapse of the San Francisco stock-market # tnonth since, the trong upward movement of the past fort- night must indeed have proved a surprise. ‘A portion of the Enstern ‘press has so per- aistently deelnred that the Comstock mines were played ont, that the Bonanza firm wero trotaferring thelr {uterests from thé otd lode {nto Colorado and Arizona propertica, aud that the new California Constitution would utterly crush ptock-board dealing out here, that quite 9 Inrge number of business-men, all through the Atlantic States, have imbibed thd idea that the Comstock and all connected therewith should be shunned as the plague. 1 uso tho expression business-men as ome bracing persons dealing in wheat, flour, pork, cotton, railroad ond gaa stocks, munielpal bonds, or any other article subject to constant flucttation In value, Theso men, therefore, do not object to specut- {ation on the high moral grownd tales by certain ethical teachers, but they have been taught to believe that, with the giving out of the Callfornin and Consolidated Virgiuln ore- feds, the Comstock lind become barren a8 a desert, and simply adrain on the pockets of nssessment-paying stockholders, Since tho recent $3.nssesamnent on Slerra Novada was levied, many Eastern holders have ordered their stock sold, believing that this assess- ment would be followed by a series of others, sueceeding cach other at the usualsixty days” Interval. ‘To those who have not yet disposed of their stock IT NAY BK A SATISFACTION TO KNOW tliat this te probably the last $3 aaseasmient that will be levtcd on any atock on the Com- stock lole,—nt all cvents, during 1880. With this assessment tho cost of all the expensive pumptng and other machinery necessitated by the condition of the Sierra Nevada will bo defrayed, and the prospects are in favor of tho mine henceforth having enough ore to erush to pay running expenses, if not divi- dends, With the ventifation and hotsting facllitles afforded by the Sutro Tunnel, tho era for heavy assessments on the Constock has passed away. Last year the demands mado upon stockholders wero, heavy,— frightfully heavy Sn some cases; but they wera not unitke the drafts made upon aman who fs building a row of houses for which he has already secured tenants. To speak platuly, after the 10th of March hext, when the Unton pumps will be run- ining, it is estimated that thnt mine will be ‘taking out 320 tons of ore per day, say 9,000 tons per month, which, at the low ayerage of $70, would yicld $690,000 gross, or say net over $400,000 monthly. On the two levels at present being opened up, the ore-body 1s not Tess than 92 feet long by 20 feet wide on the 2,200-foot, and 100 feat long by 83 feot wide on tho 2,800-foot, with an average depth of 104 feet. This, by the ordinary comp!|ation, would give, say, 45,000 tons in sight on these two levels alone. Now, these two levels form what may legitimately bo considered the commencement of a new fruitful zone, Which, according to the present favorable In- dications in the Belcher Mine, would seem to extend to the depth of 8,000 fect beneath the surface. In other words, the barren zono haying been passed, the probabilitics are, that tho ore-bodies beneath the 2,000- foot leyel will show the same widening tendencies towards the centre ns did those above that level, in which case tho 9,500-foot and 2,600-foot levels of the mine might not ‘unreasonably be expected to yleld double the quantity of ore of those above, ‘Thoso un- Bequalnted with tha lode may obj ect that the expense of holsting, ventilating, and pump- ing atsuch a depth must prove enormous, It Js n fact, however, that the average tem- perature on the 2,400 level of Union ia but TA dogrecs, while the distance for pumping water 1s but 600 feet, the Sutro Tunnel {nter- secting the mino at its 1,000-footlevel, This Sutro Tunnel is PRACTICALLY A SECOND BURFACE, and this is why it Is that tho Comstock can now be worked so much cheaper than ever before, Tho favorable prospecta on the 2,760-foot Jovel of Belcher hays emphatically aroused tho attention of enpitalists here to the fact that the stocks on the famots lode have been unduly depressed, and that, ag «a tivest- ment, they were not bad things to hold at rullng rates, Heneo the upward movement Which has futused fresh Hrenith and vigor into the market, and which prowmlses to make tho present one of the most noteworthy years in the history of the Comstock. Wiad per. haps ig special feature of this movement 1s, that it cmannates from the public, and not from Nevada Block, The magnates of that nstltution, having become sick and tired of ternally abused for seeking to protect stockholders igiinst the ralia of the bears, have for some thine past ceased to lend any Moral or materisl support whatever to the market, ‘Tho ‘one-man fifluence ” has been withdrawn, and the public Is left to make or mar the value of stocks at Its own pleasure, With all tho threats of hostile leglalation at Sacramento, It fs scarcely likely that any- thing will bo accomplished to Interfere se- rlously with the present system of apceuln- fon, “Ono clause of the proposed bill, {t Is truo, ennets that it slinll be the duty of ever: stockholder to conspicuously pout In his of flee @ record of his purctinses and immediately after euch session of th ward; but, us this record would be merely & transcript of the official record kept by the shorthand clerta, te may be doubted Shethine business would in any way he thereby diminished. Any person how desirous of obtalolug such information hos merely to cniploy a stenographer to take down thé transictions ag the clerk reads them out in the Bourds and, wills provisions of this sort sound very woll in theory, thoy aro practleally valueless. It certainly seems trange that tho President of the Committea on Mining in the Sonate should be that popu- lar, lawyer, Poul Nonmann, who got bust odin the last brenk, Netmann knows @ good deal about Inw; but his knowledge of Mining, Judging by hia own stock-transac- however oven ntlor his’ ita iouetoe, fen never hava written see Ney SUCH BTUFF AS THE VOLLOWING, Which Tout! from a weekly commercial pa- er alinply itullelaing what some of your oird-of-trade men may consider a gor tor breclous, be, lost: “It ls necessary tha stocks should boom every now and again, and ga down overy now and aguin, Sn how could the Wading speculators loge? Uppose & broker has sold stock for fulttre Hellvery nt 88, 4¢ te hia dnterest to boost It up fo $16, whether {t hag any real value or no. Uppuse a jong Iie of brokers and specu- Mors tobé In the samo condition, up goes ha inarket.”” After thia clear atatenient 1 trust that the chronle La Salle wireet bears, Who shorted wheat at Sl, will understand that it was to their Interest! to boost It up to Sr twas presupposing, what the writer of the above doubtless forgot to add, thut they bn gono long on treble the quantity Attracted bi the success of sald Ta Salle street Institut tony some of Our prominent fguln-men are d! weussluy the polley of open- wet graln-exchange wre, Men of large bie th, Hike WitHam't', Columan, aro opposed H eto—mal alntug hut 1E would lifuse uo much of tha gambling spirit Into the busl- hesss but It cannot be ontted that the coin- Peuaating advantages, both to farmers and ceitston-nen, would be enormous, be Slits catablishing a fixed syste of grading, piuullar to that governing the Chicago mut- atl. It may be, however, that, after. the rehome {9 startéd,. our Sacramente Sulons snles, way declile that i ought to bo Tegl-Inted out iF of existence, . Bealdes thelr proposed pateenal fitactplinig tobe ayplied to dha stock-brokers, thay hove ysfore then a bi making ita felony for any foreign resident of California to do bnsliess tn the State withowt tating atopa ta beeome naturalized,—the penalty tobe Imprisonment for from oneto five years. Another proposed Dill fixes the working hours of conductors and drivers of streetcars at ie t, and thelr (turnal wages ot 23.%,—contrnets to worl by the trip or hour being arilites! null and yoltl, A fist embryo legisiniive enactment proyides that, wherd a person having a clain fginst another for labor Is loo poor te yi; the conta of tigation, the county fo witel: the ease I tried shall pay fur tho neocssar papers, n& well as tho prosecuting attorney's ‘eva, —aitely expense, of course, to be refund. ed by the defendant ir the Intter logo the sult. After auch apeclinens of BUPENLATIVE WISDOS onthe part of some of our egtstatore, it {8 some satisfaction to know that the session Is jot Hkely to last more than six months, and that probably not one-third ae the hills in- troduced will become Inw, ‘The brokers, at tholr executive session, last Wednesdny, de- elded on doing nothing for their part to check the ardent zeal of the stock-reformers; and this ts probably ono reason why legislation anlagontatic to that body will be suffered to sink tito the Mimbo of tndilshed bistness, Tn any event, Jewistation of no: legislation, people will conthiue trading In alocks 60 long ts the inining outlook Is as favorable ns at resent. J Whatever the Belcher development nay he, ecortaln itis that the slock durlig the pas few days bay been bought up by heavy oper. ators. Who generally lovow wiint they are about. Tt was stated that the insiders were merely Duylng it up ns a menns of controlling the eleetion; but inst Saturday, after the transfer books were closed, salt stock nd- yaneed $3ashace. Thisis a decidedly aig- nifiennt fact to. those who know how deals bared on, election-contests have been mane aged in tlnes past, When tho mines were selling nt sy miteli v foot, $40,000 was offered for one foot of Hla & Noveross on tho day Tnnedtately precedjng the election, ‘The day after the election the stuck was offered nt $H,000 0 foot, It niny be that Beleher will advance to high figures. If tt does so, dt will alunost cerialily bo on netial merit, see~ jng that the mass of the public surrendered their stock at pices mitch Jower than those at present rul ne. . From otior mining districts the reports can- {inne exeellent, whieh, considering the wn- usually hard winter, Is'snying n great deal. TOVIE 18 COMING TO TIE FORE ‘ with the Standard, Bulwer, Mono, Noonday, Sonth Noonday, Queen Bee, and South Bul- wer mines, ‘The last-named, having been drufned by tha Standard pump, seems inv Detter position tian ever before to make de- velopments, Itseens wore than probable that the mflroad to Bodle will be commenced within a fety months: and this will not only help Bodle, but also the rich mineraliferous Lake Distrlet beyond, This Inst, about thirteen miles from Owen's Valley, near the sumiustof the Sierra Nevade amit 10,00 feut abovo the sen-lovel, Iy ndlstric densely timbered with pine, spruce, aud tamarack, having over half-a-dozen mount- nin-lakes In the immediate neighborhood, Nhe district abounds In voleanle productions, Ruch as basalt, trachytes, and lava granite, Siticcons slate and calcareous rocks aveur, J mineralized helt of quartzoso materint, of from 800 to 350 feet in width, traverses It In reneral northwert and southonst direction Which 18 exposed to view for over 1,000 fect along its course, and within if are found yelus ot ervatelting and erystallized quartz, hearin, 5 AO and silver, The chief mines of the district aro the Mammoth, Headlight, Clarendon, Don Quixote, Monte Christo, Crescent, Silveropolis, and True Blue, ‘The Mammoth 38 magniicent mite, but thus far hae been badly managed. ‘The Monto Christe Is steadily tunneling away, and by noxt spring will most certainly be a valuable roperty, TheTrie Blue, having encoun- Fora an ore-bady avernging $136 to the ton, * will pub up reduction-works about April, This ore, now nbout half free gold and half silver, contahia-n larger proportion of old as depth Is attalneds and, when the unnel—now in 355 feet—shall have attained Ht Serdical depth of 650 feet, itis expected et : Ct Fs THE SILVER WILL NAVE DISAPPEARED, At tho present depth the ledge 1s sixty-tive feet wide: and, as the ore can be rim from the mountain through the tunnel right on to the mill, no holsting works wilt be necessary, another tunnel, run in from the enst side o the: mountain, will strike the ledae some 1,850 feet deep; and, ng tha company possescs 120 neres of woodland, with fine water-frelll- ties, it sexpected thatore averaging all round $40 to the fon willbe mined and milled for about St perton, It is proposed to crush forty tons of ore adny by means of one of the Jncie Davis pulverizers, which, whilo only costing $1,000 apiece, are doing the work of a twenty-stamp inill on_quite a number of mines tn Californin and Novada, ‘Tho Char endon, to the castof tho True Blue, hins a tunnel run in some 250 feet, at which polnt it intersected n ledge six feet wide, showlng Ulack sulphuret ore, assaying $170 fo the ton, Another tunnel is at once to be run in from the base of the mountaln sonia 600 fret; and this Is also to bo done in tho neighboring Last Glimmor Mine,—a property: shawls up w ol Hl, considering the small amoun! rk done thereon, In the banda of “live” business-inen, all the mines named would certainly exhibitthelr valuein eonsid- erably quicker time than seems at present likely to bo the ease, It takes the energy and vim of a Chicagoan to hurry up dead work on mines gone distance from thy railroad; and were there n Uttle more of tliat cnoray to ho displayed at Lake, it would certainly hasten tho chances of abranch raltrand being pullf to that polnt, ‘The same remark ap- Hes to themines of Homer District, situated wenty-five miles from Bodle, With tho abundant wood and water facilities, the pos- session of ninill-site and other advantages, work on the Lake Viow, the Mineral Queen, and other good mines of that distrlet, ough fo bo far more advanced than itis. The tune nel system, omployed both at Lake and Homer, cuubles work to be pursned econo feally and conthiuously, so that this coming siuniner ought to witness important develop- ments in both, Tt is needless to remark that the great elevation of Lake {sso much in its favor, the most productive mines being found : AT THM GREATEST ALTITUDES, That of the mines of Toto, Melding an an nual Income of $2,500,000, 1s [2,000 fect, On the Comstock the lowest-grade oro that can he worked profitably iy probably 16 ore; but, in Lake, roel yielding less than one-halt that amount canbe worked % advantage, AS asthioln, the mining outlook, all through the outlying districts a} Nevada and Call- fornia, 1s good, When the snow clears away some Smportant developments may be ox- eeted in the Hureka District; as work 14 to he resumed on claims which had latn tdlo during the period In which the price of lend was so low a4 aea¥cely to pay for production and transportation. ‘The ‘same will une doubtedly be the ease with the quicksilver mines of this State, 80 innny of which had shut down owing to Inck of demand. Call fornia produced last year some 74,000 flnsks of quicksilver, as ogainst 63,000 flasks in 73, Now that tho price of mereury has ad- vanced in London, a healthy stimulus to production may be speedily looked for, During the past week the weatler has be come go inuch more springiike that the CHit Tlouse roud has again boen Mued with in 2 anes of parsons no longer kopt in by cold and general Inclament atmospherio conditlons, Tho Golden Gato Park fs now daily attracting more ant more visitors; and It fyagrent boon to the poor that the steam railroad Ine rune ping to {he park will next week connect with the lerminus of the GEARY STREET WME RAITOAD at Cemetery avenue, thus conveying pagsen- gers to the park from Market street—about four iniles altogether—for fiye cents. ‘Tho framework of this new Geary strect road ts of tron, with redwood foundation and red- Wood siding. Its two cablea—one made th New York dnd tho other in England—nre both made of steel wire, and seven-vighths of au tuch in diameter, The motive power 13 supplied from an elghteon-inch cyluder and torty-cight-lnch stroke double enginw of some horsepower, An artesian well 18 fect deep ia ablo to furnish up ' 8,000 fovilons of water per hour for the bollers, Tho cars have been bullt at Sechaneetady, but the dummies were constructed -in this elty, Runalug so far out, and connecting: clirectly with the steam ciuimmies, thisnew line will be uw xreat accommodation to businessmen and thelr families, Itis ta be hoped It may also do something to Sneourays theatre Bott » for, ‘during the past weok, tho audiences have been WHETCHEDLY THIN, so much sp that the California ‘Theatre had to close altogethur, wile the Patti concert troupe are leaving Frisco with salaries wn yald and attachments out against funds liken in ut the box-ofice, Wilhelm will (idee havo better luck hte "wee andl ndglag by the number of tlekets: gold, Char forris will have nn overtlow how lit Ot Baldwin's, to witicss her version of *dfan and Wife.” Recelving as she does $400 forevery performouce, her chgngement proves that Lanager Maguire hag determined on sparing no expenso Sn catering for, tho pabilis. Miss Louise Benndet has Juat Joined the Baldwin troupe, and will doubtiess mnkeas great auc- cess of the Ingenta roles there as at the Cull- forming ‘The Emelie Moelyiila oparn com. pany open to-night at the Bush Street Th tre, with © The Dragoons of Villars’? while! {a xy ob on opera that {t searcely semen nee. esnary, ng ong Of the papers did, te give an elaborate deseription of the plot, At the Btandard, Herrin fatshes wp his engage mont with some more piatol-ticlng aensattons, Tierrniatin fs too tlever a preatleltehtati its too entertalntigeinalelght-of-land tricks, to resort to.so many pop-gin devices, {lean only sat- ya morbid craving after the sensattonnl to. bullets dirceted ab the mugielan’s breast drop linrmiless inte a plate, or a acrobat os- tensibly fred from acannon shoot hentfore- most info n network, Such exhibitions as these enn do no possible goad, tnd ought to be discouraged. Herrin, however, his made nore money tn San Francisco than any: nitglefan who ever preceded: him, and this. not only by his performances at nbyelit, but also. by hfs purehases by: day of Belcher, As he conmienced bushtig when the stor wns £2.50, he la, howthat the price is 214, very comfortably ahead on Ils gamble, Git BLOODY WORK IN BRAZIL. Tho Street-Car iota in Rio do Janciro =<low tho Proplo Roslated a Wrong- ful fax—Dinordersund Bloodshed Kx- cited by Oftclal Decrec—Dom Pedro's Unpoputarity. . Correspondence New York Hrening Post. Nto be JANeHro, Brazil, Jun. 4.—Theo frat days of tho new yenr havo been eventful ones in this elty,—days of analety, and riot, und bloodshed; daya of 1 potitten! tralning which has been too long unknown in Hrazil, At this moment there fe quiet in the elty beentse of n therciful dowh- pour of rain, which fs. snferand more powerful aiturdtan of public order than any civil or military, force that could bo cmployed; but thore fs dla- content and indignition overywhere, the streets are guarded by military foree, men are forbid- den to assemble fi public places, travel is uncertain nnd at times wnynfe, busl- ness {6 {impeded and {a suffering grave losses, the knifo {8 fast assuming Adangorous prominence in public affairs, tho Govornment rofusea to grant the jitat demands of the people, and the country stands upon the verge of a revoltition whiet, If preeipitated, will not only overthrow an unpopulur Ministry, but wlll strike oven at the monurchy Itself, Thave before written of the growth of repub- Neantem in Brazil, and of the dlacoutent which exista In various parts of the Empire aginst the present Government. Ithen stated that "none Interference with the monarehy during the present Emperor's life" waa one of the princi. pies of tho Brazilian republieanisin of to-day, but from tho temper of reetnt events Jam Inefined to belleyve thal such a sentiment has lost all rent strength, and that the Bravilian monarchy ives through other considerations than that of iuny: perecual regart for the Emperor blinself or for is Government. Tho Immediute cause of the present outbreak Wns an attempt by-the Ministry to lovy an ex: ceralvo and arbitrary tix upon the traveling urblic of this elt: Inder a decree of Dee. is ist a titx af ono vinlem or 2 réls (nbout one cont) was to bu levied for overy strect-car fare Jn this elty, upon avery 200 réla of railroud fares: up tou fare of 98000 ‘Bnd upon every 28000 of eubasidized steamship fares up to i fare of . ‘Tho atreet-cur lines of Rio de Janeiro ulono were included in the tux. “As mostof tho atreet-car fares In this city tire 100 réis, the tax upon the grentor number of passengers amounted to 2) per cent, white on otbor fares of 200, 100, nnd 400 dis (tho lust two comparative! fow {n number) it varied from 10 toh por een On ratlrond and stenmship fares the tax waa respectively 10 and 1 per cent. Tho Ist of January was designited ug the day on whieh the tax should go into offect, It should be sald that this tax was anthurized by the General Assem- Diy, but it was Ko manned that it passed in the dudget with little comment, and without clear appreciation of Its real churnoter, ‘ho reguintions for tho collection of thty tax which avcompunted this deereo furntshed the first cuuse of complaint. It was provided tit tho tux should be cofluctad by the conductors, who shoutd give a coupon to tho pusseiger, that tho pussenyor should retain thia voupon for the ingfection of uny Uscal agent who should enll upen him for it, and that any refusal to comply with those regulations would be followed by ¢ pulsion fron the cars, Tho agents und conduct org were authorized to eall on tho police to enforce those reguintions. Thero wore sev. oral othor obnoxtous regulations, such 1s specifying tho right 0 fnyestizate any eompiny's books ut ‘will, but us these first give riso tothe popular agitation, it is un- nedcasiry to discuss the others. From’ the pub: Heation of thiadeeree down to the Ist inst. the presa of this city was unanimous in its opport- tion to the tax and Itaregulations, It was shown that. the tnx on those who travel on street curs youl averige about 158000 per enpltn a yeur; tit lurgoly Inoreused the number of public offivers, and gave them extra legal powers over the people; and that the expulsion of persons from tho street enrs with the ald of the police was unconstitutional, as siolntion of tax laws could be proceeded ugiuinst only through civil processes, Aa lt fs not permitted to turn a man outofa house by foree for non piston ot rent, It wae argued that a man could not bo forolbly expelled from a street car for non-pay- moutuf his tux, espeetally when he hid pur robnged bis right tou pasange by the pnymeut of ‘Are. On tho 28th ult. 2 mass-meoting was holdin tho nolyhborhood of tho palace, which waa nd dressed by Dr. Lopes 'Trovav, ons of the editors of an ovening puper culled the Gazela da Nolte, In antleipation of this ovent. the iilitary and poke force In thut part of the city were lurgcly udrensed,—a precaution which tho paulo intel tlons of the proplo did not warrint in tho allht- ext degree. After a bricf discussion of tho quos- tion tho mocting adopted a protest ugulnst tho tax, and nominuted u committes to present it to the Emperur, A police ofliver thon announecd that the Emperor would not recolys the Come mitte, and that the people would not be pormit- ted to ontor the puluco yrounda, ‘Tia was ufter- ward shown to ho truc, as tho mates to tho srounie were found strongly guarded by Bol- ers, The peoplo thon started on thalr return to the city, but were svon overtaken by an ofll- cor who snid that the Emperor would reeel vo the Conmmittoe, It wus pretended that his Majest was Jguorint of tho mecting and tho pcoplo’s wish until thoy were turned away frum the gates. The Committee thon refused to return, ‘Tho tax went into operation the morning of tho lat inxt.,—tho Bouts yery yonerally refusing topuy, Thut trouble was anticipated was showit \ py. wlarge Incrunse in the polleo force and by the irge number of soldiers ridiug ubout in tho atrect cars, At noon a second muss-inceting wis held fh the -Lurge do Fags which waa as inotl- erate und pacifiers a publica meeting well conkd bo, Abput this timo, however, thure were dis turbrnces tn yurlous purts of the clty, oveasioned by on impolitic attempt on the part of oll tho stroot-vur nos oxcept thit of tho Botunten Gardens Company (an American Ine) to rtgidly enforce the tux, In aahort timo the oxultet populate beenme ngyressive, and from that tine until evening the wob had itaown way. The tracks wore torn up, cam were overthrown and Bequantly. broken “Pp or burned, and the con- ductors wero compelled to tlea for thole ives, About J o'clock 4 Inob colleoted in Run Uraguas yen where several cars were overturned nuross © street fur burricudes, and tho truck and pavemiante were torn up. Boon after na Iarge forea of soldiers arrived in tho Largo do 8, ¥run- olseo, near by, and two small detachments were Btutioned near tho barricades. The streets were patrolled in all directions by cavilrys which rode about with the purposo of frighteulug tho peo plo into subnilsaton. ¥rom, aile tino until Baler pas Iwas 4 spec: tator of all tho proceedings In tha nelghborbond of Hua Urngnayanu. passed through tho wiled atreuts cverywheruy T saw the pooplo cheorlng tho milltary, chutting with thot, make Ing speeches to them, and tr ad to fratorilze with thom; and I saw un exolted mob of young fellowe—not over 200 in tll—cngaged in breaking up tho etreet-cars and building ridloutoud burri- cudes. Ido not bellove thoy hud w thought of Narhtingg. Lcortalnly did not seo a singlo platol or knife nor did 1 sau violence offered to 4 single person, Tt was aimply A Rood-nitured, unnmicd, unruly inmob, Mixed up with this crowd, hows ever, wos 8 force of secret polleu genta, u des verate and unpeinulpled body of men, whe were employed, under ordors, fn un endeavor to pro- yoko a contlict between the Pop jaca and the wilitary, ‘This charje 13 proved by the fact that an editor of the Gai + de Nilictas overhourd an Awont Hek @ police delequido for instructions, Atho'clock a dotuelmont was seut to cloar Bus Uraguayina. his foreo was ulso roocived. with cheers, and the people began to retire pood- naturedly, Beutng this the police byrne threw womea bottles and puylug-stonos at the soldicrs, whoin return and without tho slightest warns iug Ared futo the cmwd which filed tho strvat and windows, ‘Tho munber ot killod i¢ yartous- ly cathmated at from three to seven, but as the soldicrs took immodinta, possession of tho ground, romoved the bodies lute at night and seeretly buried thei the next diy, it fa impos. aitilu to got at the exuct (ruth, ‘ho number of (hose wounded {3 placod ut thirty. Frown that the upto tho present moment the patrolled by the eully under inare etrocta buve been constant iy inilitary, and the city ta practi thal law. Dleturbances are of frequent occur ce. On tho 2d wt conductor who called a po- evan to arrest a nun for not paying tho lux Wwasabotdead,und anothor ono was budly wtabbed for w slmilur reason, On the sume doy an ute tempt. wus made to fire a gun store for tho pure pose of getting arias, but tho thoiely arrival of ho military and fro cnylnes frustrated tha do- algn. ‘ ko etteot of these riotous proceed: upon the streot-car lines, excepting one, lus been disastrous, A lnrgo antount of property has been destroyud aud thelr service bua been it- terly domoralizod. Thy Dotuntgul Gardena ine, howvver, bas not been molosted in the slightest: degree, owlng to tho wise deelsion of its Buper- intundent to pay tho tax bimself rathor thus force it upon ‘an unwilling public, Under In atruotions tie conductors iid this ling wade uo chunge in thoir courteous monk of nrrteethy ai ae: molustod & rotuulng to pay the tax, The result fy that Une has ot aE & single tbs tty property bas trea not beon injured, tho dintricts through which it pusees have Witnessed ne disturbances, {thas collected more tintems than al} tho other nes combined, and ‘boy, except the Minister af Finaner, comments ta course In the highest forma, OF the other Lines one was elopped: " on tho ufternoon of tho 1st, and all were atopy before do'elock, They resinied operations on the 2d, but wre se demoralized that one has res fused to collect tho tax, and the others da not enforce It. The Minister of Finan Afonan Celso, has since endenvared to fet tho Batuniend Gardong Ine to rlenrously enforer the tix, but hoppity without avail. In his mad folly, this man would ruby the companies and {21 tho streets with: blood mther thin give way ie his MM-advieod effort to evllect this tax. Ifo hos been enuffonet, and rdviaed, and warned—bu alte no avall. He eatls the. people" benats," ant ewerra that bo will carry his pulnt, Aatothe Kinperor, there tre no words strong enough to express the contempt that 49 Felt for him. He first showed himeet! falas and vaell- lating by refusing to recety eommittee from the people nnd then sending for them on tho ground that le was Ignorant of the meeting. On News Yeur's Day, when his Miniatera wero turning hia troops tipon the people nnd fnnocent Wood was fewing In the streets of hie Capited, hewas fovistile and taiferent. On the morn ingot the 2d, althongh it ia customary to ane nounce his coming and golne fn tho pipers, ho Slipped rueay anannenneed to Santas Crag, thirty rallies distant, to visit the newmatadonre, Sinen that tine nothing has been henrd from him, Hievenns are sufforing winder unsiet exac his Capital Is overrun with troops the whole Is d@inunding tho resignation af Sr, Affonso’ and the kugpension of this obnoxfour tas, a re! olutlon is holng preelpltated upon the country, ‘but ho makes 10 nL Ag Yo the outlook to-day, it fs impoasihia to predict tho course of events. The worst cle ments of the elty have been aroused, and the knife will now bo ised to attain whatn popular upriging fafled te necomplish, A commitiees of citizens ylaited the Minister of War on the fd, and in a dignified and temperate address de- demanded the repeal elthor of the ebitem tax or its legal regulations, and the resignation of tho Minister of Finnnee, Sr. Affonae Colao, They wore repulsed, Yerterday a inceting of severtil nominent Liberal Senators Deputies was. held at the residenes of Senator Slvelea de Motta, and the hours Waent once placed under guned. Among those present were §! nto, Saldanha Marinho, und Joaquin They counsel moderation, but they pledge their serviers ft behalf of the people. “Tf remains to be xcon whether tho Emperor will notice the ptest a thesa men, or whether he will con- ine, a Ministry in power whose binds aro ataingd with inndoent blood. A, d, Le ———— DIED OF GRIEF, Crncinxatt, O., Jan. #0.—On the heels of the revival of speculation ns to the Baldwin honielde Inst March, comes the annowunce- ment of the death of Mrs, Iattle Baldwin, wife of Harry Baldwin, the victim of that inysterious tragedy, at an early bour this morning, Choy lad been married searcely (hree months when the husband was shot in the street by some one whose identity has not yet been discovered. ‘The grief at, the Joss of her husband was Increased by the re- port that bis kiiing was the restllof a lalson with a women of doubtful character, ‘This report has been diseredited by testimony, but the mystery of her husband's death preyed upon her se that she gradually sank untilshe fell an easy victim to typhold pneumonia, she leaves o posthumousehild only 3 months old, Octavi- vabucer, a ___ Bjornstjerne Bjurnson and tho King of Sweden. Vienna Neve Freie Presse, HMoxonep sits, Tha Bertier Horven Courter of tho 2ist of November contalns an nrticle to the etfect that King Osear I, of Bweden and Nor- way, on necount of ane of tny plitys, hed given utteranco to some disparaging reimirks concern: Ing the play ns well ms myself personally: that Tin consequence had wddressed communion: tlon to the King in which if demanded sntiaine: tlon, and bnd even ohuillonicen, his Majasty toa auel; that atrial for high trenton had been in siltuted against mo ie the Government, and that J was now in wild tight, whilst 1 in reaiity thotycht myself on n trip through Germany for study and reeroution. Tho truth of the matter Is much mare prosafo, nnd limits {teelf to the following: During the fag contest fin which the Norau folk were en- sued last wintor(n contest abuut the independ. ence of the Norse emblem), It erme to me from diferent quarters and at different thnes that King Oseir, keenly Irritated by this party strife, had at hia palace in Stoekholin, in the presence of a nuMoOroUs Company Of In “1 RHCRIR, MENON whom were several purty leaders, spoke in lout ani violent tongs about mevand Insuelia manner n§ to vampel me to feel a personal affront. ‘Theso romarks wounded me so much the deeper as y Wore in opposition to tho kind!y dispost- tion with which t! past had ihvays, till then, 1 Ienew, spoken of tc. therefore addressed a Kater to Mr, Stang, the Norse Minister of Stute, in Chelattin hich Caubmitted tho ease and poston Sly asked un explanation. 1 suggested tho possibilty: that an incorrect. version tnleht haye been given mo, nnd added that but ono wild, reconel ing word.qn tho King's part would content me, It wan Suet before [lett Christi- ania, and I went frum bome without having ro- celyed a reply to my communteation, ant now {i Germany, sug a be the nga nt a renettonury paper fn Copenhagen, tho Dayblad, his mado the tuatter: mbites and given an inimical version thoreof, It ls, thorefore, not who have in any way anticipated the decision ot his Majesty, aud not 1 who have prompted tho muking public of the matter, T bave but expresand my regret that this hns occurred be fore the affair wis aie for discussion; for I ‘ust stilt feel tho possibility that the King’s re- marks renohed ma Inn distorted form, fhonnstanink Bronngon, According to announcement, Tho Hn rupt” was given in tho Staudt Theatro, Vienna, on tho 18th of Novenber, the poct blmeelf being prescut. According to the Neve Prete Presse, tho picco was remarkubly well prepared, and ‘tho netors plaved with more thin thelr accustomed fire. Hach one did all in his power far a come picte presentation of tis splendid, phy “Tho great nudience followed tho ploce with cluge ut- tention, When theuppliuse at the close of tho gevond act was very demonstrative, Bjornson uppearod to oxpress his thanks, At tho ond of the third and fourth acts ho wns also obliged to yield to the repented and toud demands of the public and show himself on the seeno, According to private letter, the poct was called uo less than seven times that evening bor fore the curtain, Tho * Deutch-Ocsterrelchis- cher-Lesevorsin™ (an association of students, but to which not alone acudemfeal but also tech> nienl, chemical, and art students have nd mission) have elected Dornson an honontry tember, The week previous thissuctety hold i" komimerz? at which tho poet Sonenthal rend the poems and stories of Bjornson, ‘The Duke of Melningon, who had on DBjornson's provious viele invited him as. N guest to his custle, now so pressingly renewed his invitation that’ {t has been accepted by Jornson, who {a on his return from Austria. Kyerywhere In Vienny Bjornson fe received with oxpresstons of uttuchmeont and admiration. The local newspapers, even the Courter, have all Aven his portmilt and sald kind words concern fag his poctry and himsclt, i Women Dealing in Stocks. New York Tribune Inan unpretentious English-basement bhouso at No, 40 West Twenly-fourth street, a private Stock Exchanges for women bas been catabe Ushed, where, after proper introduction, thoy cnn trimmact bustness in stocks, with the advan- tago of direct, comimunication with Wall stroct, and yet in the most private manner, frep frou tho presence of the other sex. Tho two lower floors of the housy aro handsomely furnished for the necommolation of panne: whom % Btook-Indicatorkeeps Inforined as to quotations, A tolephone communicates with the oftico of a promtuentdown-town baniting houge, with which. all contracts nr mado and all accounts kopt. The monnger is Mra, Me B. Favor, in whose hottse the ollices are, Shetolda Tritune reporter that the Exchange had been revuntly oponed In that nefghborboad, although ane bad oxisted for somo thio furthor up-town on Nrondway, But anaecount of tha necessity of meetng gentlemon in tho gum oifices, her cus comes iifaed her to uecommodate them muro privatoly, “These Indica,” sntd she, “are all of the bet- tor cuss, and all those that come here now aro old By Some of us wore carry in 1,200 eharos nf stock when tho rocont break occurred, Onoludy got out and made $1,000 whiloothors did not fare, se woll” Bho added that tha numbor of Judiea who speculate in stocks Is very lurge. ————__—_. A Mare's Nest Eggs Tho Hrittsh Medical Journal says: “ It ts well Known that in Anicrien everything {9 ct feitod. 1 Wins and nutme The wooden: from tho Now Enylind States aro well remem bored. Eggs are also now counterfulted, and tholr manunfacture 1s carried out on a large senla, On one aldo of tlatge room tho reporter suw soveral Inrge copper vessels Mled with & thiuk, ghitinous, yellow mass, whieh a mun, was constantly etirring, ‘This was tho yellow of tha egg—the yelx. On tho opposit sido wero similar veusely, 10 whieh tho white was fabricated. Tho Cee-ehells were mado of 4 white substance, rv sembilng plaster of Parla, by means of a blows pipe: dust ag soup bubblos are blown, After log dried in un aven, the egg-shells were flied Arat with artificial albumen, then with somo ot tho artiftelul yelk, and, Justly, with y little of tho artificial albumen, The sionll opentng at the end of tho egg was closed with white coment, and the greatoat achievement of modern civil: gatlon-tho urtiticll egg—was ready. In ap pearance it tesembled Ww natural “ef ‘but, whethor couked or raw, it wag indigest lo nod injurious to houlth, Spreadlug Manure tn Wintor. Country Gentleman, We have frequently had occasion to urge the sconomy of this prictice, aud we aro glad to seo, Mt Indorged by go wuvecssful a fruit growor usd. B, Woodward, of Luels| or N, Y.,4n a communl- cation published In tha Aun Home, He feeds yuuny auluials, aud drawe out aud spreads the Rianure ae fast us itismude, He states that bis experience, without exception, has been juryely tn favor of the pructley, onullting the upplica- Yon only on those low places Hublu to be fuaded, Vetwappllod to ground Intended for orn, to orchat or on meado a would rather pave Hs toe sprvad as ae than ceive in ae nto say nothing 0 yrealer caso Teaco tho Holds when froxy, rr cy CHICAGO. Commercial and Transportation Interests of the City. The Documents Show How She Leaves Her Rivals far Behind, Policy of the Railroads West of This Polnt— Direct Shipments East. The Statistician Compelted to Admit the Manifest Creatness of the Garden City, Apectat Dispatch to The Chicago Tribune, Wasitnoron, Jan, 20—The following are allthe essential portions, that have not been printed, of the cliapter of Mr. Nino's ree port on fiternal commerce of the United States which relates to the commerce of Chi- engot F COMMERCIAL AND TRANSPORTATION INTEIC ERTS OF CHICAGO, The commercial linportauee of Chicago is mulnly dne to its geographicn] position and to the fart that itty the polut of convergence of the pilneipal railroads of the Western and Northwestern States, aud of ‘the trunk rail- roads connectiie them with the four prinelpal elttes of the Atlantic seaboard. colparative Btatisties are here presented, showing incertaln’ particilara the relative Importance of the citles of Chieazo, St. Louis, and Milwaukee, the three principal prinaty markets of the Northweat. ‘These statistics haye been collated and published by the local governments and the leading commercial boules of those cities respect ively. nth following table Indicates THE POPULATION, THE RECEIPTS, AND THE, SHIPMENTS of wheat, flour, corn, cattle, sheep, hors, hog products, minnufactures of floter, malt tigq- Wors, and hiich-wines of the tree cities men- stoned below; Afiliwau- Chicago, St. Toute, kre, Population ...... 400,000 603,08) (100,77 Receipts of Hour, tirls.. 3,000,502 1,005,008 2,288,003 Bhipments of Hour, bris...... 27D 2,070,740 2,090,022 Roeeipts of Whent, bite. 2ST 195,401 21,709,012 Shipments of whet, Dus. 211,709 6,000,802 17,2445 Rocetpts of COP, Duss... 09,051,618 9,000,723 OHH,3hH Shipments of corn, Wu vo, 09,044,200 6,882,712 460,104 Reoolpts of conte, Dit + 18,800,207 3,840 2,007,437 Bhipments of 10,404,513 1,702,801 1,654,578 6,704,059 1,617,202 3,409,710 3,620,083 «24,709 2,270,017 ran, Oy «+ 134,080,695 90,107,004 99,204,008 Ipments of Brain, bit....... 118,076,280 20,402,495 04,098,040 Receipts of ‘cat- Hey Novveseee. 1,083,008 100,535 06,786 Bhipmenta af cUttle, Now wees 690,108 201,023 49,080 Receipts of 10,420 | 108,005. 60,015, seetes 74,403 33,490 6,750,054 14516 600,081 swine, No. « 1,266,000 Ba8,027 118,273 Shipments of box products, Ibs. .1,060,800,007 188,620,503 4... Recelpts of but- Ler WB ress ssees 48,0722 8,077,058 6,704, H5 Shipments of Uutter, Iss.... 44507000 1,620,010 6,825,680 Reeelpts of idint ber, feet.......1/460,680,150 169,238,253 132,000,000 Shipmonts of lumber, fect... 020,735,118 100,483,000 con, Receipts of to : 1,803,083 91,093,409 230,007 conl, tons, 905,604 sees Manufnetu flour, Urls 308,284 1,910,200 655,019 Manufactures of malt tquors... seneee severe $58,H0 Manufactures of higuwines, guls 10,202,155 * Includes 1,070,780 bushols of coke, It ls unnecessary to pursue the foreroing comparlson further than to remurk that it ts innde with the speelal object of presenting the general course of the surplusagricuitural products of tho West with respect to the three prinelpal priinary markets. In| order to arrive at an expression of | tho relative fine Portanee, of the three elties above mentioned, ¢ woulil be necessary to ascertain the pepre- gate value of all tlie commercial and indus- trial activities of ench. P 'The facts relative to the growth of tha com- mereial and transportation interests of Chi- cago serve to throw ght upon the growth and the conditions of governing the ecom- ineres of the Western and Northwestern States, ‘The control! ing element of the com- mereint and Industrial tuterests of Chicago consists in the faet that that city 18 the princ! pal primary market for the purchase and sate of the agricultural produets of the Western and Northwestern States and for tho manu- facture of certain of these products Into the yorious forms lu which they appear In com- meree, (Here follows certain tables In regard to the receipts and shipments of | gratn, tour, hogs, ete, ete, ut Chiengo for a term of years. As these tables have nlready bean printed Inthe columns of this paper they may be here omitted.) THE GROWTH OF THE VANIOUR BRANCHES OF THE COMMENCE OF CHICAGO may bo hypreclater ata shinee by Inspecting the followlng table, showing the shipments: of someof the loading commodities uring: the yeurs 1800, 1870, nnd 1878, respectivel: Commuadittea, 480, 187! Flour, barrela... Wheat, bn Corn, Inishe Oats, bushels Tarley, bushels, Cattle, number,. Hogs, numer Pork, burrels, Reef, packnyes.. 18,063 Other cunned meats, pounds, 1 192,433,168 747,200,774 Tan, pounds. 1, i eae Ty f i Butter, pound BAT 44005, Wool, pound W209 5b 400,07 Hides, pound: VARGA BTSARO BL. Boeds; pounds... G055,50) 287,015 Lend, pounds, Bate OO | TBO ATL eT OMY Timber, feet.. 22572 010 883,400,634 2,705, 8 5, Nothing need be added by way of com- ment in order to convey the force of these statistics Indicative of the wonderful growth of the cy of Chicago, and of the develop- ment of the agricultural and commercial in- terests of the great Northwest, of which it Is the must consplenous representative, THUS FAN THE RAILNOADS extending west from Chieago have been kept separate In ownership and manizement from the railroads extending east from that elty. ‘The tratiic Interests of these two systems of roads differ {nan important partiedlar The rallroads extendiig westwardly gather up trante nt thousands of polits lo comparative: Ty small quantithes; wherens ot Chicago, the Enstern travis nes are enabled at all mea promptly to load ears and tralns whith. pass rectly to thelr destination at the Adantic seaport, or to Interior polnts in the Allantic seuboard States, ‘The railroads extending west from Chicago have thua tar generally puriued the polley of malntaining as thei Bhare of all through rates the rates eharied for the transportation of produets from tn- terlor points to Chieago or from Chicago to fnterlor polnts, Byso doing, these rands have been held moo? from the of-recurring, severe, and closely-contosted wars of rates: whieh have proyalled between the trunk roads ex- tending from Chicage to the senbosrdl. ho trafic fiterests of the rillroads ex- tending from Chicago towards the West are closely Identifed with the commercial Inter: osts of that elty, from tho fact Uint, ta the ex- tent to whieh the products of the West seek the Chicago market, thvy also seole truns- portatlon over those ronds, ‘the ndyantages afforded by the trade in- torests of Chicago. ta producers throughout the Northwestern Stites will, for the follow- Ing reasons, probably continue to secure to its mmarkets the principal share of the products of those States, A part of tho grain erops of the Northiwwe 1 States is mare keted soon after belug harvested, This arises Iu part from the necessity of realizing the proceeds of such craps Bs Buon as possthlo, and, In part, from the fagt that, during the autumn months, farmors have leliure for Vauling thelr surplua pradtcts to the rall- road depots, the wagon reads at that season of the yeur being usually in good condition, ‘Sho movement of the erops from the polats of production tewards points of consumption Is therefore quite Jrregulart Hence arises the Uvcessity fori the offices of cupital, and of reat Lrade reservoirs wt whieh grin muy’ be fet, In order to meet the demunds for con- sumption throughout the year, ‘The sapltal A the granarles, warehvuses of Chicago supily, such needs. in the competitive struggles between Operators, prices are. deteruiued by the probable future relations of supply, and de- mand, rather than by tho supply in the mar ket at any partlenlar time, ‘Thus the logitl- mate speculative elements of a great trade contre tend towards securing uniformity In recs, nnd, ab the same time, subserve the interests of those who are chenged in the arent work of agricultural prodietion. DIRECT TRADE NETWEEN POINTS WEBT OF CHICAGO AND POINTS RAAT OF THAT CITY. Notwittistanding the close relatlonship ex- tating between the interests of the raltronds extending west from Chicago aml the com- inerclal fnteresta of that city and the Impor tant relation which the eapltal employed In trade, the stornge facilities, and the commer. elal enterprise of that elty sustains to the agricultural tnterests of the Northwest, there ling, for several years, been a de mand for direct trade between — points west of Chk cao and points on the Athintle senhonrd. -For several years agricultural produets have also been shipped in consider able quantities directly frou polnts in the Bintes of Iowa and Minnesota to points In Europe. ft la stated upon reliable authority thot ulne-tenths of the shipments of cattle fron the States west of Lake Michigan nre mar. keted In Chicago and St. Louls, Within the last two years, however, live atock has, to a considerable extent, been shipped directly from points west of the Miusissippi River to European inarkets, the persons In charge of the cattle sometines necumpanying them froin the polnt of shipment in the West to the point of destination in Europe. gphis ts an Interesting fuct at the present {fine, ag the shipment of Hve cattle Is generally ie garded asa branch of commerce now in ite Infancy, and having the promise of a large tlevelopment, : Tt ia estimated by Mr. Charles Randolph, Seervtary of the Ciiicaga Board of Trade, that #3 percent of the grain, 34 per cent o} the flour, und 95 per cent of the provislons whieh reach that city by rail are marketed there, the remaling portions of, the several classes of commodities passing. Shruuel that Cy OB: orders or consignments to Eustern turkets, Mr, Randolph also says: Thero fs some movernent of Western products from Interior polnts west of Chicago, on through Wills of Inding, direct to Europe, a portion of sitch shipments paging through’ Chicayo, and a portion vin lines ruaning south of thls elty, From the best information € pm able to obtain, T do not think the ngeregate af euch shipments fru terior polits In linols and tnwa exceed- edd 10,000 tons ty 1878, The commodities ao ehip- ped dircetly to Europe ure miialy bog products, corn-menh ont-menl, ond wheateflour. ‘THE ADVANTAQES AFFORDED BY THE MAR- KET AT CHICAGO, as compared with the advantages afforded by the possibility of direct shipments from points west of Chiengn to the seabourd throtigh that elty, are clearly presented by at Randolph in reply to the following i- auirys tieation—Ta it truo that tho ndvantages which Chlengo porscaces naa inarket oftentiines cou- stitute len relutively better market for the ante of agricultural products thin New York or Live erpook? In other words, {4 ft true that, during i very considerable part af the yunr, producers of grulu throughout the States west of Chiewra can do.better by ecliing thelr graln tn the Chicago market than they could by shipping It directly to New York or Liverpool on through bills of Inding ? Or. to put the question in still nnothor form, In itonly oeensianally, or with respect to exerptional niovements, that tho direct shipment of grain and other product’ from points west of Chicago to the Atinntle senport, or to porta in Entrope, affords better results than could bo realized by the sale of the camo products In the Chicago market? In order that you may clearly appreciate the object whieh 1 inve in view, Jet me follow these queations by another of the dame linport, namely: does not the whole foree of tho commercial ‘enterprise of Chicago com- peto with the inducements, ta ship directly through Chicago or around’ Chicago to some point further cust? Anawer—The_ current prices of almost all aralns are unintly higher, relutively, in Chlengo than in New York, that Is to guy, a busbel of gealn shipped by a produeger from a point west of Chieago | will atmost ayaya net bim more, if shipped to Chieago for sule there, | than shipy through Chica- wo to New York for sulo there, with a view of saving Chicago charges, Todo this he must ship by all rail, As tlustruting this. 1 find thi at the average price of No, 2 spri nd wheat in Chi- caro during 1878, simply computing tho averngo of dally peices, without reference to quantities, was nbout 6 cents per bushel Ont of this, $f sold on. arrival, there would be but one cent commission. = The avernge price of the same whent in New York, necording to Mr. Walker's tables, was a shade under 11 conts, from which would be about #3 conta Now York churzes, makiow 1 dlffer- ence of, aay, Mig cents, ‘The averure freight by ull rail was about 16,8 cents ber bushel, ehowing nbout 13 cent per bushel tn faver of tho Chl- cago shipment for that year on wheat. Bailes this, ft {8 admitted that there fs more or lose joes, in weight, which the shipper must atand, on shipments to New York thin to Chicago. And, nnn, there {6 a difference f nbout ten to twelve daya in the time of getting fnnl returns in favor of the Chicago shipment. The spacu- lative character of the Chfouge market tonds to keep up prices to all they will bear as compared with other markets, and It not infrequently ace curs that prices nt Chiengoare materially highor, relatively, than those of tho seaboard efties, OF course, ft is felt to be the Interest of all Chien; merehonta to invite ns large a volume of trade to the city us fs practicable, During the year 1874, however, there was but a sinall proportion of the surplus hegre gate. products of the Northwest. shipped through or around Chicago and Milwaukee, without belng marketed at ejther one or the other of those cles; and It Is belleved, from the forey of circumstances plead ens tloned, that those cities will conthue, as primary markets, to contral by fur the larger partafthe surplus agricultural products of the Northwest, ‘This direct aiipment of the surplus protl- eta of tho States west of Chiongo to poluts tn Europe, without. being marketed either ab Chien: or at Atlantic seaports, is ns_yet tnsignifleant in comparison with the yoliune of such products whieh either passes through the primary niurkets of the West, or through the markets of tho Allnntic sea- onrd, Boxldes the eastward aliipmenta of com- moditles from points westof Chicago thraitgh that city, shipments are inde over ines which do not pass through that elty, but which compete sharply with the Hues tribu- tary to it, and) whose fiterests ure closely {dented with commercial cithes, rivals of Chlengo. ‘Thls fs espectally the case in re gird to the Wabash Raliroad and its numer- ous branches, ant the Sine neross Lake Mich- Igun from Milwaukeo from its Eastern con- ueetlons. The general subject of DIRECT WEST-HOUND RITIPHENTS: to points west of the Mississippi River ma, be Mfiustrated by the following special state- nents? Mit has been, ascertained that the total trattic shipped from tho four Piinelpal At: lantie seaboard cities, viz: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to the Missourt River polnts, namely: Kansas City, Atehison, Leayenworth, and 6t Jo- seph, constitutes only shout 8 per vent of tho total traMe eliipped by the Ohtena- go and St. Lots. allroad ron those elites, rer penthvelys to fssourl River points, Teshtes the allerhil shipments from Athintle senports Just alluded to, there are many alll. ments from mmanufactories at the East to pease west of Chicago and 8t, Louls, From ‘Httsbure are shipped, In laracr quan- titles tla from any other paint, Iron, steel, and plas, and manifactires thereof, on through bills to Missourt: River pointa, and to many other poluts west of Chicago aud St. Louls,” From ' Cleveland, the chief all- refintn, centre * of he = country, is shipped to all these — pointa, on through bis, « very Inrge proportion of the conf-olf constined throughout the States and ‘Territories weat of Clilengo and St, Louls, here are daria suautitlea af _freights slipped by Inke directly from Buffalo ond other manufacturing centres, at tho East, to Chicago, and thence on through bills Jesued at the onstern pont of silpment to the des- tination of such frelghta west of Chicago and woat of St, Louls, It is estimated by Mr, J. W. Midgley, Com- missioner of Southwestern Nallway Assoclation, that fully two-thirds of the eastern trate shipped weat from Chicago and St. Louls originates east of Uiase points, ‘This eathuiato includes both com- ‘moditles shipped on through-bills from tha East, and commodities purchased by the merchants of Chicago and St. Louls, and ence shipped a points further west, The subject of direct shipments from the Atlantic seaboard to Interlor points ig more fully treated of In another section of this ro- ort, ¥ Ax yet no provision of Jaw has been made tor tho direct Importation of forefgn mer- chandlso at Interlor polnts weat of Chirazo, no adequate demand having: et arisen for the establishment of such faclitties, LISTS OF THE COMMERCE OF CHICAGO, The growth of the commerce af Chicago has correapondad with aud closely Collowed the extenslon of {ts faciiltles for transporta- ton, In the yenr 18, the first rallwey line was completed fron that city to the Missia- sippl River, Prior ta that time its trade was contined to comparatively, harrow dmits, but, year after year, ouu Ine 4 tar another has Deen pushes Wweatward), watll the Missis- sippl River Ls eros y thirteen rall- rr ridges erat points tween St. Paul and St, u! Theso _rall- roads are now the highways of the moat jut Portant commercial movemont on this Cons |’ iu the year 1873, an wnbroken raflrond ling was coinpleted from Ciilgngd to San Prone,’ clyco by the completion of the bridga across’ : to Missour! River at Onalin. s pee ASO result of the various combinations &% which have been formed between’ railroads, and between railroads and ocean steamer Mines, the City of Chicago now enjoys tha ad- vantages of illrect trade with the Atlantic: seaports and all the fnportant potuta In the Atlantic seaboard Statea, with New Orleaus |! and the more hinportant points throughout {ty the South Atlante and Gulf States, with Sun. Francisco and tmpertant points Ih the States of the Pactic Slone, and all ceit- tres of trade between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Const, with the countries of Europe, and with China and Japan. The ultimate liinits of the direst commerce of Chicago are therefore world-vide, 14 Is algo the cuse with reapect to all the other principal commerclal cities of the country. Thus each commerclal city competes, efter # directly or indirectly, with’ every other com- merelal elty, the commerce of each belhg Indted by the fpmpetitive foreea of trans. ortation and of trade, Dutin the sense of eing a prindry market for the purchases and. sale of agricultural products, and for supply= ing general merchandise to tho Btates and Tertitorles In whieh such agricultural pratlucts are grown, the territorial Iimlts of the trade of Chiengo embrace the States of ‘isconain, Northern Michigan, Minneso| iowa, Northern Missouri, Kansas, Ne- raska, Dakota. Colorado, Indian 'Terti- tory, and the other Territories as far west as the eastern borders of the States of Call- fornin and Oregon,—an area conatitutin; inoro than one-half the territorial limits o} the United States, exclusive of Alaska, The agricultural and mineral develope : mentof the principal partof this ynst do main Is yet in Ite infancy, AMOUR these States and Territorics are directly tributary to the commercs of Chi- cago with respect to the snlo of the prod- ucts of agriculture and of mining, and the purchase of general merchandise, that elty exercises no ttndisputed rommerciil. contro over part of this rapidly developing seo- tlon of ‘the country, ith respect to the trade af Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North- em Afichigan, Chicago meets an active com- ctition In the commercial enterprise of Litwaitkeo, and with respect to the commerce of Southern Iowa, Northern Missourl, Suuth- ern Nebraska, the State of Kansas, and of all trade towards the Southwest, Chicago mects & sharp competition in the commercial enter- rises of St. Louis, Furthermore, at every hnportant point throughout this territory there ore afforded facilities for the direct shipment of produce to Atlantic senporta over lines of transport north of Chicago, south of Chicngo, and through Chicago. Besides, by means of the same facilities, the mereliants of tha great Atluntle seaports are continually, competing with the merchants of htvago for the wale of general merchandise at eve iinportant point throughout the same teri tory. lua word, the influence which Chie *- cago exercises over the commerce of the ter- ritory aboyedlegeribed ts Imited and reatrict- ed by all thuse competitive forces In trade which have made each commercial city an effective comp itor of every other comier- celal elty In the country,—forees which pre yent the merchants of any one city from ex- ercising an undue fnfluence aver prices, Beenre Vellanes in the prosecution of trade, and afford a guarantee for honorable deal- ing, These competitive forces of trade also {ndirectly but imperatively control the freight rates which may be eharged by the railroads tributary to, and chiefly dependent >”: upon, the commerce of the various clues. The completion of the Northern Pacific Rallrond and of the lines extending towards New Mexico, which will uldimately form a °-: connection with the Southern Paclfic Kall." ryad, and the rapid inerease of railroad con. struction in the States and Territories west of Chicago, promise to add greatly to the commercint prosperity of that city as well as to that of her commerctal rivals at the North and at the South. ¢ ‘The trate of the city, in almost every com: , modity, has. DI¥FERENT GEOGRAPHICAL LIMITS, Any cluborate treatise tpon the subject would, therefore, transcend the limits of this report. This subject inay be disinissed by resenting the answers furnished by Afr, sharles H, Randolph, Secretary of tha Board of Trade of Chicago, ta two general Inquiries subinitted to him by this office: Question—At about what points on the line ot tho Pacific Rallrond doca the general jobbing trade of Chlengo meet the Jobbing trade of San Francisco; and within what limits docs the’ {ebbiny trade of Chicago overlap that of San francisco? Answer—]Jj find some diMmculty in fixing an: one polnt in either direction that might be sald to bo the dividing ine of the trade of Chicago and otbor cities. Bomo linesaf our trade, for iustance that of bovta and shoes, ox- tend over a larger area of | territory than othors, From the best information I can get Iphoukl say that the supplies of neurly the whole of Utah ‘are drawn from the Eust, largely from Chicago, though, of course, Eustern ani other cities supply n portion. Nevada fs moro or less competitive ground for Enstern mere ebants and those on the Pacific Const, Crlengu has a lirgo trade os far weet as Keno, which takes in about all of Novada, This trade is forgest in mining machinery and supplicg, boots and sheer, and dry gouds, Question—Hax Chteozo any considernbto jobs Wing trade south of Calvo In-tho States cust of the Missisaipp! River? And, {f so, pleure to atato atabont whut point the Jobbing trade of Chien Incets that of New Orleans, and nbout bow far such trade of Chicago overlaps the similar trade of Now Orleans? Answor—The Chicago trade in boots and Fhoes extends to and beyond Nushville, Tenn, anddn Eastern Tennessce and Georgia. Dry gods and drugs go nenrly as far, but in loss volume, The Chicrzo trade in boots and whocs Line bly catends over a linger ares of toes hn BO oe be ai ther, Chienyo mannfucture of tht articlon ts I iy of the conrzor and medium qualities, ‘adap! to the Western aud Southorn trade, ——————————— AN AGRICULTURAL BALLAD. Onton-der bill thoro dwells a maid, And onte true un progehing, She has to rice at five o'clock, And barloy lives by teaching. Tier echojars love bor nll tho thyme; She yory seldom bocts thom; . To eln-cntary branches suo Continually trents thom, Tier ryo ts binck, and sparkling too; Abo tritns ber curt bo neatly; at She promptly draws her eelory, Aud taxes round sosweetly, Her brother cribs her chowing-gum, And teases hor tu try bor; Bhe does not pine nway bocause Bho sorgum in tho tlre, Sho's whoat as any mortal aatnt; Pous rest ind that dwelling, ‘Tho millet clattera all the day, A flowery stream compelling, CuanLeY Wriony, ——— A Pleasant Remedy for Toothachs “Our cook,” gays 'T, O, Osborn, M, D., Greens tore, Al Presented herself to me with wo awollon cheek, neking for Bommorn ing. to relieve the toothache, from which shu bad buen suffers {ng all night, and Tor which sho rufused to bave tho twoth extracted, Ag there wus uothlog of the ustial kind ut hand, I wea on the puotat of tolling ber to call later at my oflice, or xu tow dentist, when jt ovcurred to my mind that there was in the house a yinl of cunipounut Unacture uf benzoln, which Toad been using upon a young mothor as # protection ayainst eoru nipplva. “After clennslig the decayed tooth, I sat urated 4 pledgut of cotton lHnt with the tincturo and puckad it woll into tho cavity hoping this would sultice for the time, and bidding ber como back In twoor three hours if sho was not rm Hoved. J wae turuing away, when sho remarked” thut lt might not bo necessary, perhaps ps the pain was: trendy" Fone. supeestne hor falth bod | a jorge anny inthe rellef, I would not allow mys welt to think that the medicine had snythlng to do with the cure any wore than so much bot wae ter would have done. “Dut when f arrived at my office there were twoother pationts awalting ing with the sume affliction, and J determined, by way of expori- ment, to use tho sume remedy, To my agreo- able surprise both patients declared therosclves finmediately relloved, and begged @ vialof tho; « tneture for further use, - ae During thy wiiter a number of almilar cases | | applied, aud were Justautly relieved by the sano Kreittantiiss ull expresslug much satisfaction with: Jo remedy, “In Deerimber { told my druggist of the dis- covery, and recommended him to sell ittuany person w ply fa fgg. Soothche drops.’ ‘This, x4 report Hts tomo, every ono same solace with the modicing,”. Dailimore Brace juner. An Arkansas Episode, Col. Kobert Alexander and Col. Sinitoy, of Hot Springs, Ark, buying pawsed some wonls over a *% nilning-clains at Silver City, pullod out theft, y:, weapons. & day or two ayo, and let drive. Smiley * gs evidently meant to“ wing” bis antagonist, an {n auocesalvo Wate prada between thu thiketivke Of 4 watch, put a ball thro, cach of Alox- ander’s arma. The latter's pistol dropped frou bisband, His rightarm bud become parnlyact, but, selsing the pistol tn bis left hand, by ouuke t with bls foot, Av ho nilsed to tire, Sailloy*ebot wy through ce hints and In another atiit & crashed into and through Sunlley’s foraheud, Jodging {na sign-Lourd soven feet above tho parezent. Builoy was over elxfoutin bight ¢. tad by been uf We Use of an oniloary wan he would have pect pod for as Smiley fell the - death-ruttlesounded fu Aloxunder’s throw, }