, 1859-05-28

| RIVAL TO AFRO 1ESMITH.

4 RIVAL TO AFRO WSMITH.
:snnlcbnlr WHO is cyidcutlv interested against
t1c Grund Trunk Railroad Of Canada, is wiring
IL series .f 2r:;clrs for " Tie Vark LAac Efprtt'
under the l4ral oi ~ Productions 4nd pcculiari~
ti.i pr t!.> North American Watercoursc." Ills
obj"ct being 70 i :.nA:e tl'c Canadian interest
t,f: T::cr s:s:.s to prove that tl,e commerce
~ the lasscs-;ow greater than the entirc foreign
commerce Of the United St4tcS--is an cllc.nr-
ri affair, soon to BIZ wiprd out along with the
General failure al western railroads mud that i:s
entire ve:i1E,c will Scrk an otiict to the markets
ri the wuriI by way of tile Mississippi kircr.-
lie lu5urs wi!.1 especial zeal tp prove that the
grain anil Lumber trade Of Chicago will very
si,nrtly ,,ass into tic hands Of the merchants Of
st. Lou;s-tic l4:tcr city procuring its supplies
Of Lu.n5er f.o:,, :!e tributaries Of The upper
Mississippi, nnl drawing By the samc channel
and ty the Illinois I:ivcr, I'LL nearly all Of tlsc
grain products Of Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Minucsotu. lie lirst argues tue case wit1lout
regard to the little circumstance. tlat st. Louis
nuw derives her csiei supply af luru''cr frtm
Chicago, and that more than three. c.fourth> Of
the grain pruAuct Of thc country bordering the
Illinois ard si,c Upper Mississippi Rivers, i:
marketed i'll Chicayo. Having satisfactorily
provcd hi, nsro.:.csi. to be correct, lie ccntc-
eccnds ~ notice NIL uljcctimn which certain
mat.cr~of-faci people will probably urgc ayaus'
h;< arsnu,cat. namely: that the facts are nll
against it--wilic:s objection he sutnnaariy dis
poses Of ty the following remarkable statement
i man may bc asked why trade las taken tic
Chicago route. iussend of thnt By the Mississip
ri, when the iatter IL the best: Happily. t!1n
.,ucstion cau bc answered. st. LpHts hitherto
i.us lnuiutaiucd d iigh standard fur every Kind
of cereal product aud Chcat, has pructca(lv
lad no standard Ut anr kind. As consequence
Chicago has Lr:u ] ready market for ever.
kind Of produce, good ur bad, while 81. Louis
has RESTRICTED ts receipts to special kinds. That
il the secret Of tue Of trade being in the
uther way. Western farmers and country mcr-
chants were, 10 j large extent. debarred frnm
st. Louis even thuugu adjaccnt to it and IN
sending stuff II Chirago, they c"n,d no, help
themselves. Here is plain illustration Of tlir
case, and Of the point involved. The produce OF
tue Sculh herring tsl,cries dnes not find its ut,
to Lon,lon is Lonfnncrs prefer hcrrings cn,-cd
in different war, If not different hcrriucs alto
Ect!lcr; and although Scoicll fishing station~
are nearer u Lonsun than to the {:cr1nan or til:
Russian ports, still &l,r hcsrings lind their w.:
tn the lulter. Surely from snch q circumstance
it could Lcv.r he inferred thai Stcttin or kss
is nc.r,r 1etcrcad Il,un Londn:1 il, or that the
Scotch herring trade could not: '; under any cir
,s;;i. W!e .e .r.I "'1T Tsa us' .
Niesi,s;nvi route Las been uniformly ixnorrd !.
and If ever ssnken Of. tic most discnurarin.
terms Of unsnitnblcness and infrriority har..
been used: uud NJ man uas vet h.cn lul,t
enough t" call III question the universally re-
ceired opini"n tnnt no change whatever is 10
be unprecedented jn tic course OF Westrrn 1rade.
CIit4l0 il vuir+r.Q{4 r+furd<I * liz tnfr-n,. ).
IT, arFat Nor:Itpfek a1uI neonte nre only tns;r,(
helping forward The ,n"st stupcnduns scheme { I
storte e,.ias distance between Chicago and th,.
Atlantic acaboard.
r,. .s.,,,.,oa eo,,. tn-. ... ,,;..
tae .e''''a 'A~.' ae4e a's qu'1e Us hs"s
rs the illustration derived from the Scotch her
ring fisheries. Neither ST. Louis nor Clicae,
In. cver cs,a,,,;sbr3 = STANDARD for cor.., 49,
'A04s .o' ecacA P's'
ducts that Ill anyw'sc excluded the roorcs'
quality from market. There has not been .
dnr within tho ]os+ fcn veara that +hn ...-u,
...,,.n.,,.;,,, Wiz. ~. f.... ... .As 'oHe'
s4o1'pS4. 4'''"o's " ~" "@s ever tafne
out ~on'd nut have fonnd ready sale in tls
market Of either civ. Each las bought n, ,hc,
h,s hccn offered in In u,arlst ma a.;t,a- H."
49, ~, 49, -. W ~, =, A"o Ae''''er 'ls
discouraged the ouer'ng OF the poorest quail;
ties. Such nrc the facts IN that point.
lIaving thus shown Aoso the produce trade :,
chicago was oo't up INC writer proceeds Il
demonstrate thai Lie action Of the Board Il
Trade, in establishing grades of wheat, must it;
es,.ao', ueslfos H. ae1r n'm
But strange I" say tAat policy to which C!l.
eago owes " growth Of IT'S produce trade is b.
ing departed from fos the past rear OF moro
repeated efforts hnse been made to establi<
grades o. wheaf' ma Germ; md Hour; but eve
r Effort hitherto hs* failed no sooner *ss
determined that wheat and corn Of particuta
quality should iorm .'aandard: than dissatis
faction va: Expressed. aud modification Of so1n
k,na or o.'er speedily introduced The las
change provides tor the measured bushel bein
weighed, and standard wheat is classcd 1t sixs