Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1870-12-01
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

0A4OAUV WITT - 49,
Mid Weather-The EleetIon-The
wheat msrket Business-The Re-
ligous PressLThe Interior-The
sssndard-Ths Agricultural Press :
for WesseSn Men.Ths Prairie Far
mer-The Legal Sews-Amuse-
ments.
CHICAGO. Nov. 18th, 1s7o.-Mi,d weather
continues. This morning a few flakes of
snow fell, bat it soon cleared off bright and
warm. and it seems more like September
thar November.
THE ELECTION.
Since my last letter we have had ar excited
election, with bitter and disgracetul person
alities on the Congressional issue as the
main staples in the canvass. The Tribune
bolted the Republican candidate for Con-
gress, Chas- b. Fsrwen, of the Wholesale
dr. goods house of John v. Earwell Il Co.,
AMI united with the Times and the Dsmoc-
Ia " on John Wentworth as reform candi-
dste, and was beaten BY over 5000 majority.
Thu, Times repudiated Wentworth after the
elec ion, declaring that HE course had been
such through the canvass that it did not re-
greet his defeat. There Is very strong feel
ing among Republican business men against
the Tribune, for it's course during the can
vass, and it has evidently lost cast among
strict party men. But as it took this course
of deliberate choice, it doubtless anticipated
the consequences OF such q step at the out
set. The Re publicans made pretty clean
sweep in both city and county, but Rave iallen
of largely III the state.
THE WHEAT MARKET
is not very animated, No. 2 selling at S1.0i@
05. Receipts the past week we're S34 $40
bushels, and shipments 511 ,2S9 bushels. The
European news rendering a general war
probable encourages holders to hope for 3
rise. but all such expectations are uncertain.
il fair, but not unusually active. The course
of trade is healthy-not speculative
THE RELIGIOUS PRESS.
Chicago has become the radiating point for
religious, az well as secular, Influences for
the great Northwest, and for ability, enter
prise, scholarship, breadth OF views and a
vigoruu piety, it's religious press Will bear
favorable comparison with that of Boston or
New York. The centre of population and
empire has passed from the seaboard to the
Mississippi Valley, and the people living in
the Mississippi basin are henceforth to give
law to this continent We need q distinct
i've literature, religious as well as secu. ar,
adapted to tho genius and wants Of the West,
and the leading minds Of this central region
perceive THE fact and accept the respensi-
billy which it imposes. Ii is not disrespect-
ful to our Eastern brethren, or assuming to
men who live in the Great West and are a
part of it can better comprehend it's nocessl-
ties and provide for them. Politicians and the
political press here long ago attained their
majority here, and it Is time that religious
people at the west ceased to look to the east
for their supply OF religious newspaper
especially since they can now be supplied as
well, if not better, at home. And tits duty
they owe to themselves to sustain their
home press.
In the front rank of religious papers in this
city is
THE INTERIOR,
an ably edited and beautifully printed seven
column quartz weekly, the organ OF the re-
united Presbyterian Church, numbering
among its con ributors some of the ablest
minds OF the country, and having well-in-
chief commerce al, political and religious cen
tres of Europe ana Americs. 1t has receiv-
ed the warmest Communications of the press
in all quarters, religious and secular, and
meets admirably a want long felt by the
Presbyterians Of the west. 1t gives, in adj
dition to religious intelligence, the market
reports, a fnll synopsis of home and foreign
news, fresh and Interesting reading matter
for all classes and is a living exponent of So
cial, civil and moral progress, and of the best
hopes and aspirations of the times In which
we live. In eight months it has reached a
circulation of II, O00-a striking proof OF its
excellence aud popularity. 1t Is publ he'd
by the Western Publishing Company for 81 80
year, and should have q place in every
Presbyterian family in the northwest. Those
subscribing now for the next year will get
the paper free till Jan. 1, 1871.
The organ Of the Baptist denomination il
the west is.
THE Standard.
A religious family paper, in its eighteenth
year. With circulation of Is $780, published
in Chicago by Church Goodman at So a
year. 1t is conducted with marked ability,
and Is credit.ble to the large religious body
it 40 efficiently represents No Baptist fam
lily should be without it.
THE AGRICULTURAL PRESS.
Agricultural journalism, in this country, is
OF but comparatively recent growth Within
the last twenty years their number has been
largely increased, and the leading ones have
been greatly improved. A few, located at
central points, by the enterprise and fore
sight OF their publishers, have attained a
large circulation and become almost indis-
pensabIe to the intelligent and thrifty
farmer.
WHAT THEY DO.
They employ able writer's and correspond
ents. and gather and embody the results of
the best experiments in farming, gardening
try, and, for mere pittance, transmit to
each household the practical knowledge and
ripe experience of the most skilled, scientific
and successful cultiyators of the soil.
WESTERN JOURNALS FOR WESTERN MEN.
And as the soil and climate of the west diff
fer materially from those of the east, and
farming here requires peculiar meth
why farmers should prefer western
to eastern agricultural journals, than why
they should prefer western to eastern politl-
cal and religious journals. 1t is practical
knowledge of western farming that the west
ern farmer needs, and no farmers journal
can aid him 80 much, other things being
equal, as one grown out Of western expert
ence on western soil. And as there is no
point SO favorable for the production of Just
such paper as the great agricultural por-
ton of the country-peeds, as Chicago, II lie
but the nstursllaw of development that here
should be located the first. Oldest, ablest and
most widely circulated western journal OF
his class,
THE PRAIRIE FARMER.
Established In lS41 il has not only kept
pace with agricultural improvements, but
with the arvel''us growth of the Northwest.
Ii Is n large guar 20 weekly, well printed on
clear white paper, and illustrated with fine
engrayings, and published by the Prairie
Farmer Compans-in q new building, con.
etructed especially for this purposeSat liz
Monroe St., at the low price of 50 year. II
gives The earliest and fullest practical infor.
NATION on all that pertains to the Farm, the
Garden and the Household, wide-awake edi-
torials, and great variety of well prepared
reading matter for the family circle. Nc
farmer eau read it for year, without being
many times it's price the richer. Subscriber
for 1871 get it free to the first of january
And all yearly subscribers will receive free
the Annual for 1871, q complete Hand Boob
of 159 pages, for the farm and fireside for the
whole year. The publishers offer $50 differ.
ent premiums to canvassers for subscribers
ranging in value from dollar gold pen TO !
first class piano, beside special prizes fol
post-masters, school teachers, stofe-keepers
aod for boys and girls. But, aside from ia
splendid prizes, the Prairie Farmer will car
~ gladness to many thousand families, the
coming year.
THE LEGAL NEWS.
The only weekly law paper in the West has
entered upon it's third year. 1t is the efficia
paper of the state for publishing the laws o.
Illinois, II publishes in advance of the re
ports, the most important decisions of the
Supreme Court OF this state, and of the Dis
trict and Circuit Courts Of the United States
head notes from the reports of the variou.
Supreme Courts in advance of the regular
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