The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-12-02
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.

Bricuitur Frcss-
what They Do-Western Journals
for Western men-The Prairie Far
mer-The Legal News-Amuse-
ments.
CHICAGO, Nov. 18th, 1s7O.-MiId weather
continues. This morning q few flakes OF
snow fell, bat it soon cleared of bright and
warm, and it seems more hke September
than November
THE ELECTION.
Since nv last letter we have had an excited
election, with bitter and disgraceful person
alities on the Congressional issue as the
main staples in the canvass. The Tribune
bolted the Republican candidate for Con-
gress, Chss. 3. Farwell, of the wholesale
dry goods house of John V. FarTel Il Co.,
and united with the Times and the Democ-
Iacy on John Wentworth as n reform candi-
date, and was beaten by over 5000 majority.
The Times ~repudiated Wentworth after the
election, declaring that his course had been
such through the canvass that it did not re-
greet his defeat. There is a very strong feel
ing among Republican business men against
the Tribune, for its course during the can
yass, and it has evidently lost cast among
strict party men. But as it took this course
of deliberate choice, ii doubtless anticipated
the consequence OF such q step at the out
set. The Re publicsns made q pretty clean
sweep in both city and county, but have fallen
off largely in the state. .
TIE WHEAT MARKET
is not very animated, No. 2 selling at S1.04@
1 05. Receipts the past week we're SS4, $40
bushels, and shipments 511, 289 bushels. The
probable encourages holders to hope for q
rise, but all such expectations are uncertain.
BUSINESS
is fair, but not unususlly active. The course
of trade is healthy-not speculative.
THE RELIGIOUS PRESS.
Chicago has become the rsdisting pointfor
religious, as well as secular, influences for
the great Northwest, and for ability, enter
prise, scholarship, breadth of views and a
vigorous piety, its 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 a distinct
i've literature, religious as well as secular,
adapted to the genius and wants of the West,
and the leading minds OF this central region
perceive this fact and accept the ~respensi-
billy which it imposes. 1t is not disrespect-
full to our Eastern brethren, or assuming to
be wiser or better b a they, to say that the
men who live in the Great West and are a
part Of it can better comprehend it's necessi-
ties and provide for them. Politicians and the
political press here long ago attained their
mElDIlIN u6Ie. hQQ IL Is IlIQ6 ludE IGl2lOuc
people at the west ceased to look to the east
for their supply of religious newspspers-
especially since they can now be supplied as
well, if not better, at home. And tits q duty
they Owe to themselves to sustain theil
home press.
In the front rank of religious papers in thit
city is
THE INTERIOR,
an ably edited and beautifully printed sever
column quarto weekly, the organ of the re.
united Presbyterian Church, numbering
among its contributors some of the ablesi
minds OF the country, and having well-in'
formed and sagacious correspondents at the
chief commercial, political and religious cen
tres of Europe ana America. 1t has receiv
ed the warmest Communications of the pres:
in all quarters, religious and secular, ano
meets admirably a want long felt by the
Presbyterians OF the west. 1t gives, in ad'
dition to religious intelligence, the market
reports, a full 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 6
circulation Of 12,000-a striking proof OF itc
excellence and popularity. 1t is publ he'd
by the Western Publishing Company for SIS
q year, and should have q place in ever
Presbyterian family in the northwest. Those
subscribing now for the next year will gei
the paper free till Jan. 1, 1871.
The organ of the Baptist denomination il
the west is.
Areligious family paper, in its eighteenth
year, With a circulation Of IS $50, published
in Chicago by Church & Goodman at s.
year. 1t is conducted with marked ability
and is creditable to the large religious body
it so efficiently represents. No Baptist fam
lily should be without it.
TIE A-GRIcULrURA PRESS.
Agricultural journalism, in this country, il
of but comparatively recent growth. Within
the last twenty years their number has beer
largely increased, and the leading ones have
been greatly improved. A few, located al
central points: by the enterprise and fore.
sight of their publishers, have attained {
large circulation and become almost indis.
penssble to the intelligent and thrifty
farmer.
WHAT THEY DO.
They employ able writer's and correspond.
ents. and gather and embody the results oil
the best experiments in farming, gardening
6nd stock-raisiDg, over q wide extent of coun.
try, and, for q mere plttance, transmit tc
each household the practical knowledge and
ripe experience OF the most skilled, scientific
and successful cultivators Of the soil.
WESTERN oURSALs FOR WESTERN MEN.
And as the soil and climate Of the west diff.
Ter materially from those OF the east, and
farming here requires peculiar meth
DDS, there are far stronger reasons
why farmers should prefer western
10 eastern agricultural journals, than why
they should prefer western to eastern politi
cal and religious journals. 1t is practical
knowledge of western farming that the west.
ern farmer needs, and no farmers journal
can aid him so much, other things being
equal, as one grown out Of western expert
ence on western sol. And as there is nc
point go favorable for the production of jusi
such q paper as the great agricultural por
ton of the countryineeds, as Chicago, It ID
but the naturallaw Of development that here
should be located the first. oldest, ablest an6
most widely circulated western journal o.
bis class,
TUE PRAIRIE FARMER.
Established in 1641, it has not only kept
pace with agricultural improvements, bui
with the n arvel0us growth of the Northwest
tbs zlarge susrto weekly, well printed OF
clear white paper and illustrated with fine
engrsyings, and published by the Prairie
Farmer Company-in q new building, con
structed especially for this purpose-at IL.
Monroe st., st the low price Of 81 q year. 1
| Civaa the earliest and fuiIaa& 1raoS,o.l ;,Eo.