The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-06-13
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OUR CHICAGO LETTER.
CHICAGO, June s, 1867.

| EDS TRIBUNE - tB
The past two dayJss have been so op
pressiyely hot and the precedent thus
established SO well maintained to-day that
| | feel very little Ike an effort at letter
writing 1t seems as if We had leaped
all at once, from the horrors OF rawest
and earliestspring time TO theripe heat of
midsummer While everybody proclaim $
The discomfort of such a sudden change.
there is really a very general feeling of
| satisfaction, for the results of harvest are
now looked forward to as the only hope
1--WE have to avoid general bankruptcy and
rum. The prospect OF a good wheat
! crop has now for some time STAYED off a
crisis and as yet nothing threatens to
! blight our hopes Farmers even begin
to talk of the possibility of moderate
corn crop, but it is to be feared that that
is past praying for
| The most generally important event OF
the past week, here, one in which the
! whole North west Is directly or Indirect
| ly interested, has been the annual election
of officers Of the great Northwestern r.
X. Go. Ordinarily, it is to the general
public a matter Of sublime indifference
who are the officers Of rail ROAD compa-
mes, but in this instance. the election Of
one set OF men meant extension OF rail
| way facilities in the North West, increase
and cheapening OF transportation. in short
the very policy which every North West
ern man wants, while the election of the
| opposition would have utterly defeated
this policy. There were three elements
| IN the opposition: The Eastern stock
| holders who were disgusted with the svs-
TEN pursued of applying the earnings to
! the extension of the road and its stock
Instead OF paying them dividends; the
spectators of Wall Street. who as long
us this po!lcy is pursued do not find the
stock of this road suitable for their one.
ratlons; lastly the Michigan Southern
ana New York Central r. r. Cos, which
are deslrouS OF dlVerting that through
trailc, tronl the East to the Union Pacific
Line, so as to make it pass over these
over the Pittsburgh, Fort WAYNE and
(! Chicago and the Pennsylvania U.ntrs.ii
/ roatIs. The Opposition It is said had
! succeeGso i'll so-tln5 control u some fl
I ccen millions, tout Of the entire forty) o.
stock, with a view to controlling thI
election, before the old board even stss
pected he big trap. But with energetic
work since then and the throwing out of
votes representing some eight millions OF
borrowed stock, the old Board came out
! triumphant by an Overwhelming maiori-
ty. The erection of the proposed Union
depot, connecting the, Northwasterf.
Road with the 2. T. W. & c. r. r. WI
no doubt now be proceeded with at once.
Since the election, {; large excursion par
| ty composed OF stock holders and invited
guests has gone out to Omaha, intendinA
there to take the Union Pacific cars, ou,
to the extreme end of that road Such
quantity of these excursion parties are
now going out in that direction that it
pretty hard to keep track OF lhen They
are all however in great measure due to
Mr.. I. G. Durant, Vice President of the
u. Z. 4. r., who is thoroughly live
and energetic man who would not go into
such enterprises if they didn' somehow
pay.
That word enterprise by the force
| OF natural association calls up in my mem
ory the name ofa firm which | shall take
this occasion to commend to your mer-
chant readers as one of the best in Chi
cago, that of Messrs. Bowen, Whitman
& Winslow. dry goods jobbers and COM
mission merchants, No. S I5 II, l9, and
Il hdnuOipn street, successors TO the
well and favorably known firm of Berven
Bros. They keep on hand full stock of
all kinds of dry goods, equal to any even
in the New York and Boston markets in
variety, excellence and cheapness and are
at this time Offering unusual advantages
| to merchants. Thorough believers in the
| maxim that "a lively penny is better
than a sluggish pound" they put down
to the very lowest figures practicable
every article which they have for sale.
Their store is without exception the best
lighted in Chicago, for showing goods an
advantage which merchants will not fail
to appreciate.
The principal scandal now agitating the
scandal lovers Of our city is the Groen-
dycke divorce case,in which wife chang
es her husband with extreme cruelty.
adultry, etc. 1t is still OF, in the courts
and the daily papers derote much space
to it.
COMMERCIAL.
Flour quiet but firm. SI4, ,75915, 90 for
white winter, SlO,4O(1l2. 50 for spring
extras. Wheat, sudden rise to-day Of
SOLO Cts, S2,17@2, 20 for No. l, 81, 81
@2,0O for No. 2. Corn, still declining,
now down to S59S7f cts, for No. I, 80
9S14 cus.,- for No. 2, 65(@69 cts for
rejected. Oats, 564(06O for 2. Rye, un-
settled, $l,099l,D for No. !. Mess