The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1858-05-11
Chicago. Saturday EVENING Nov

Chicago, Saturday Evening, May 8.
The market TO day was by far the mast mac
tive OF any day during The week. 1t has bee
decidedly "blue day" The attendance O
Change was lieht, and no disposition to onerat
was manifested. 10000 bushels will probabl
cover the entire transactions of the day. Flou
Is drug on the market and quotations are mere
ly nominal. In wheat, decline during the weeI
OF !a2 cts may be considered as established
Corn is still held at about the same figures
though sales are few. Ia other gains there il
little doing.
Freights-There is to day decidedly firmel
ieeting in freishts, and 5 cents was asked TO,
wheat to Buffalo. One charter was taken al
that figure.
Flour--Quotations are merely nominal. One
lot OF 10 bbls "Hellers sold at So 20. We
quote ezra Spring at 50 lOas3 90, superfine ut
81 s0a3.
Wheat-Opcned at trifing reduction from
Yesterdays prices, and 6oa62c may be consider.
ed as the quotations of the day. Sales were
mostly small parcels in store, at figures ranging
from Gle in the morning to Coo in the aftern oon
1000 blu at Gle early in the day was the only
sale We heard OF. No cargoes were sold that
we could learn. Milling wheat is without much
inquiry as city mills are doing little except retail
| trade.
Corn--Sales Of 5000 bushels in store at 45c
winch is about the standing figure Of the
market.
oats-Buyels only offering 25c in store.
Sales of some parcels in bags at 27c Some
| holders are asking 2Sc on board.
Provisions-Mess Pork Sl7alS, Mess Beef
Sllal2, Hams SO, Bacon $l0all.
Lard-l0alolc.
Tailow-9Js loo.
Hdes-Are slightly declined 100 dry salt
| sold at l39 and 100 dry flint at lac
Hishwines-l7c.
Live Stock-Th rainy, muddy weather has
combined to render business in the stock mark
ct dull, and prices nominal. Cattle are held at
2sa4. Sheep are dull at 50 So Hogs are &C.
tive at S4a4 30.
Potatoes-2oaS0c per bush.
Beans-40caSGc.
Butter-144al6c.
Eggs-6a64c.
Salt-Finc 81 pr Dbl; coarse 81, 80 by the car
load; dairy SO IS pr Dbl of 800 lbs
Chpese-Dull at S3alOc for Western Reserve,
and l04allc for New York.
Fruits-Dried Apples 64a73, Green do $3a4.
White Fish-No. halves at s4,25a4, so; No.
rs Sfa4,25; No. 3's $3a3,25.
ARTEsIAN WILL AT LoUlsvILLE-SALT WATER
FoUND.-Our enterprising fellow citizens, G. /.
& A. V. Dupont who have for some months
been boring al artesian well to supply their pa
per mill with water, have now reached the
depth Of 100 feet They have penetrated
reservoir of salt water, which from this great
depth will send up stream TO the top of the
mill. about Fifty feet above the surface of the
earth. The sabterranean pressure of this col
umn Of water may be said to be strong enough
to throw itup !26 feet, since the present stream
is borne through bed OF sand IS feet deep, af.
ter it leaves the oriice in the stone, before it
reaches the surface Of the EARTH and is then
forced so feet above the surface Of the earth.
1t is possible that the stream of water now run
ming from the well might be borne much higher
il none OF its force were lost. The tube through
which it passes is only one inch in diameter,
while the bore of the well is three and half
inches. This small tube, with one end wrap
ped round so as to enlarge it, is inserted in the
bore. OF course the insertion cannot be water
proof, and much Of the force which bears up
the stream is lost. With . tube the size Of the
bore, closely inserted, larger volume Of water
might be borne much higher. The water now
thrown out Is decidedly salty. The tempera-
ture was 81 deg. Fahrenheit, while that of the
air was So ga difference of deg. The
Messrs Dupo..t have not yet determined what
they will DO, but the probability is that they
will 60 deeper. Mr.. Kellogg their superip-
tendent, thinks there is another reservoir 1t
the depth Of 2, 800 feet, fed by the drain from
the Benson Hills, that will suit much better.
They will decide in day or tive whether they
will bore into this deeper reservoir.-Louisviile
Courier.