The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1867-09-19
Chicago correspondence.
CHICAGO. Sept. IL. 1867.

chicago correspondence.
CHICAGO, Sept. II, 1867.
Editors Democrat:
A drive through some of the highway.
and by-ways of our fast city, has suggest
ed to me the idea that nothing marks oul
peculiarly transitory condition to greater
degree than the almost infinite varieties o.
pavements to be seen in our thoroughfares
In walk of half dozen blocks one pass
es through as many successive stages Of
progressive development of roadway, from
positive barbarsm up to complete civiza
tion
The principal portions of our city are
certainly the best paved in the United
States, but one does not have to 60 far to
experience all other gradations This will
no doubt be the case for many years to
come, for Chicago, with its tireless &C.
tivity, extends its boundaries much faster
than tax payers are willing to stand the
cost of the best modes of paving 1t is
pleasant to observe, however, that the work
Of Improvement is going on steadily and
constantly, even if slowly.
Speaking of Improvements, we have
now a cheerful one before us, nothing less
than the filling up our court house park or
square with a huge block OF buildings, the
upper portions of which shall be used for
county and city purposes and the lower
for store rooms and Offices. The fact is
undeniable that Chicago is worse supplied
with public Offices than any other city in
the Union. All our records are liable to
destruction by fire any moment Poor ac-
commodation is furnished for the several
necessary Offices. Our Board of Health is
in one part of the city, orr Board of Pub
lie Works in another, our Board of Police
Commissioners in third, and all the 9TH
ers similarly scattered about. The fact
is that our cheifest want is city hail.
The county officials generously permit the
city, to use, by sufferance, certain portions
of the county's edifces, but that is all.
The mechanics fair opened yesterday
at the west side rink, and bids fair to be
quite as successful as could have been ex-
pected of such an enterprise, inaugurated
by a new and comparatively unknown as
ISOLATION, especially when every resource
has been taxed to produce contributors to
the Paris Exposition
The fall trade has so many branches
that when one says that it is nourishing
one almost says that everything is pros
porous. Not half the people understand
however, what is really meant by the fall
trade. For Instance, candy; who ever
looked on that as an autumn specially p
Yet SO it is. From the first of this month
to the first of January next, one factory in
this city, that Of c. W. Sanford at No. SO
Randolph street, makes three tons per d.
EN- of candies and confectionaries. One
wod think such a stock as this wo'd COW
err the ground SO far as the requirements of
the northwest are concerned, for months to
come, yet the capabilities Of this extensive
house, one of the largest of this branch
of manufacture in the United States, are
constantly taxed to their utmost. There
are, of course, many other factories, but
this is the principal and most highly fam
al 90" IL - cooae GRO IN rnr4nest nverv-
where.
The establishment Of new independ-
ent telegraph line to Milwaukee and nor
thern Wisconsin, has forced the cid COM
pany to reduce their tariffs. They have
therefore, charged 60 cents for the first ten
words and cents for each additional word
of dispatch. Now, the charge Is but 90
cents for the first ten words, and 2 cents
for each word additional. Rough on the
telegraphers, but jolly for the public.
Quotations on Change to-day are as fol
lows: Flour l2.00@l2.50 for white win
ter; $1,000 for red winter; sS,25@l0,50
for spring ex.; $500 for rye. Wheat
81 ,SS@ 80 for No. spring; 81 ,79W "a
for No. 2 do. Corn 81 ,03Ml ,05 for Mol
Oats 47@4S. Rye s1,11@1,12. Mess
pork S24G24,5 so. Lard II. Shoulders IL
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