, 1870-08-25

Ihe following grain has bceu received IN to
~ O'Clock THIS morning: 118 cars wheat, 1O9
cars re, los cars barley. Total (651 ,,5es,sj.
5000 bu.
Withdrawn yesterday for city consumption:
5.S64 bu wheat, 5,623 bu corn, 6,792 bn oats.
1,195 bu rye, ,449 bu barley.
Thero was large attendance On Change
Today; more active sot Of markets, aud a
general tendency to better p1ices, which vas
The result OF var news, or the absence Of It.
rs may be preferred by the reader. The great
question in the mouths, and At the eais OF
everybody was, "What is tho latest news
from the seat Of WARP" and the universal
answer WAS Nothing" But The people
for some time for more definite advices, ba,
could restrain themselves no longer To-day,
the same active inquiry prevailed, but there
we1e aleo numerous sellers, and this prevent
ed any considerable up-rush OF prices
ham, yesterday, was tabled to-day. The board
evidently wants the periodical s,a1es OF the
Fast two years with their attendant losses
Eut 1t is no wonder. Formerly outsiders we're
litten most g1ieyouely, ss when the grain in
snyparticulaI house got out Of condition there
we're able to get nd of the receipts held By
them, and then the condition OF the grain was
truited abroad. the tcorld being wetcoms 10
tho intelligence. That little game was blocked.
hut another WAS invented, like the amusement
Of tenrins IN New England, which became
hihited BY statute. We venture to suggest
that, go long a. they allow the wazehousemen
to manipulate both the thimhfes and the pea,
they will never be able to tell under which one
the Little joker can be found. There is only
ono thing to be done to put the whole business
en- an even keel, aud obyiate the necessity for
complaints In the failure, that ie to insist on
having good grain delivered where good grain
has been reeeirted for
The injustice which the posting of g,ain,
and the subsequent determinations OF the
Warehousemen in the d,te Of receipts, msv
work to individuals, is easily seen. It Is known
to be the warehousetusn's policy to keep his
grain as fresh as possible. That is, he ships
out tue grim which has been in store the
longest, whatever may he tho date Of the re-
ceirt presented BY the shipper Let us see
where this landa Us: A sends on carload of
wheat in Febru:ry, aad takes out = receipt
therefor. The receipt is handed round from
one to another, and not carried to the ware
house till Z presents it in September. Mean
while the identical ca1-load Of wheat Is deliv-
cred ont in april to c, who presents a receipt
dated (perhaps) in March, and, br tne time
has been ground and eatau in England, while
| the grain remaining to his account in the ele-
| yator WAS received from in July. The
| last-naned wheat Is hot, peshaps; per-
is saddled with the loss, when he ought not
to ba held responsible for it. His own gram, ,
IS brought in BY a, was ali right. bat because
tsnos1e1 mans grain WAS spoiled. he tX} must
stand the loss. Now r7e venture to assert that
there is no other interest in the whole OF this
broad land which could tsa1ely submit to such
monstrous wrong as the grim dealers OF thus
city have for years past While scarcely dar-
ing 10 complain OF the swindla above whia-
Per, VIC can only account for it IN one way,