The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-07-29
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENTS.

Wet WeatheI-War RumOrs-Wheat
and GOId-Enect of War ON Prices-
BusIness--MusioaI Instrunents--l
Musical Headcentre-ROOt & Cady-
Medical Colleges
CHICAGO, July 15.-The heated and dry
term has passed, and the wet season begins.
We have had eopious rains for a few days
past. with much lightning and thunder, so
that the ground is thoroughly saturated, and
the streets excessively muddy. The rain will
modify the effects of the long drouth but will
not fully remedy it. The rumOrs of
AN EUROPEAN WAR
have mad the effect to derange business plans
and produce an unsettled state OF affairs.
Men hesitate to embark in new en-
terprises, with the prospect of a
far when the dispatch came announcing the
declaration of war by Napoleon against Prus-
sia and the alliance of Russia with Prussia.
OF course Austria will side with Franco, per-
haps Italy. Spain should side with Prussla-
Fnpland will scarcely be taken into the &C.
connt. She has lost the place she held in the
time of the first Napoleon, her last great ieat
in preserving peace being the aid and COM
tort she gave to the southern rebellion, and
her moral power sharing the fate OF the
lost cause.
EFFECT ON PRICES.
The effect of war will be to enhance the
price OF breadstuffs and gold, and make live
" times for awhile. But it will also increase
the price of imported goods, dImln-
minish the prOductiYeness of halt the
civilized world destroy thousands OF millions
of property, and when the equilibrium Is
finally restored, we shall suffer part OF the
loss. 1t will put money in our pockets while
the fighting goes on, but when the reaction
comes-as was the case after the Crimean war
we shall have to pay our share OF the loss
of the human Brotherhood. Let those who
doubt remember tEls statement. There can
mol be a great and pTOhdcted isdT an ONE hem
isphere, I1ithOUt affecting seriously and agu-
riOuSly the Interests OF Ae OTHER.
here is very quiet. Merchants generally have
been taking account of stock, footing up
profits and losses, and getting ready
Tor the fall trade. The progress OF
war and the unexpectedly favorable ac-
ton of Congress, will tend to make
trade very active this fall: And THE
our great commercial centres, and in none
more than in Chicago. Passing from war to
music let me say, Chicago is not more famous
for her grain, beef and pork markets, and her
general merchandise, than for her immense
sales of
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
and general musical merchandise, of her own,
and foreign, manufacture. The trade Ill
! pisn0s alone exoeeda a million dollars annu-
ally. while the sales of other musical instru-
ments-Mason & Hamlin organs, melodeons,
guitars, %viOlins, cellos, double basses, brass
and German silver b ;ndinstruments. drums,
flutes, flsgeOlets, clarinets, plccolOs, and
a nameless list-reaeh a larger sum-
As a musical publishing centre it Is
becoming famous, and the amount OF
: music books, Of all kinds, and sheet mu'
sic sold here is very great. Many
thousands of music books published here
.-such as the Triumph, the Curriculum, the
Pri g, &c.-find a maj ket in the East, and Tho
musical abilities of Gro. T. Roof has given
Chicago q wide reputation as the
MUSICAL HEAD CENTRE
of the Union. Eastern manufacturers o
musical instruments are obliged TO establish
headquarters for the sale of their instru
ments in Chicago, Just as the Eastern manu-
lecturers of cotton and wooden goods hayt
central depots in New York. One not famll
: lar with the magnitude of the music trade
: here, would be surprised by a visit to thu
a music stores OF
> CT and 20 Washington street, the largest mu
] sic dealers here, and the second largest mu
sic publishing house IN the world. The,
: have recently gone extensively into the sale Q
5 miscellaneous musical instruments, import
ing largely from the best European manufac
Z tuners, and cent a well qualified specla
. agent-ths head of that department., Nj
: William Lewis-to carefully select the cholc
b est stock, so that the goods they sell sha
be 8 constantreeommendatiOn OF their house
They are general agents. for all the styles
the Sleek Piano, which, for sweetness of tone
durability and every feature of a PerteC
n Disno. is unedualled. The firm name of Roo
liz CADY. is familiar as 'household words,
: wherever Joy or sorrow is expressed by mus
= cal signs, and is a synonym for enterpris.
integrity and progress toward THE good TIM
comng.n when the brotherhood of the rae
shall be recognized in the legislation, jurii
j. prudence, customs, speech and songs OF a
/ mankind. None, who consult their own int,
ests, will fail to visit this house, in purchas
Z ing their musical supplies.
i MEDICAL COLLEGES.
We have two medical colleges in progrel
of erection here. The Chicago medic
college fold SCHOOL,, GO by lGO feet, on Il
J. corner IF Prairie Avenue a Twenty-siX