The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-09-25
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER


WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. IL. 1873.
The weather is delightfully."- cool. Sara
toga trunks are finding their way to our
city rapidly. The streets are again being
filled by the gay and festive. Business
of all kinds is looking up, and soon, it is
hoped. the New York creditors, who are
SO gen erous in trusting our business men
will receive their anticipated stamps.
Rents are still high, althouh very much
less than in New Y ork or even Phil
adelphia. This being the long session of
Congress, it is reported that several
members have written for houses. with
the view of bringing their families to
Washington.
While the grangers are fighting the
railroad monopolies and working UP a
great and important problem in civil
lization. it would be we'll for them to
consider some important facts in regard
to their own status of production. The
census shows that one fifth of the popu-
lation Of the great corn and wheat region
of the Northwest are engaged in agri-
culture, yet their industry is mostly con-
fined to those in cereals, ard to the
production of beef and pork. There
fore they are unburdened with food
products, the money value of which
depends upon the dem ands of
distant market. The railroad monop-
olies find both temptation and oppor-
tunity in the necessities of trans
portation However, nature, accor-
ding to its present principles, can scarcely
Would it not be far better to engage a
portion of the capital and labor employed
in this great surplurs cereal production in
the production of other agricultural stap-
les-sugar beets, for instance?
The revolution In the words production
and exchanges is indicated by some
significant facts lately transpiring. Among
these is the order of Liverpool firm
upon Pennsylvania iron establishment
for one hundredtons of merchant bar iron.
We have hitherto been dependent upon
England for our supplies of this metal so
important to our industrial and COM
mercial interests. That dependence is
now thing of the past, and the case is
being rapidly reversed. When once an
iron interest is thoroughly organized we
can dispense with a protective tariff, and
that question will be at rest.
The railroad war is waxing sharp.
King Tom Scott. Of the great Penn
sylvania combination, has attempted to
capture the Philadelphia, Wilmington
and Baltimore line, and to interrupt its
connection with the Baltimore and Ohio
between Washington and New York. If
this move should prove successful, the
latter will be thrown back upon the New
Jersey Sothern for its eastern connection
"a new line which will be completed to
Baltimore the middle of October Thecom-
pletion of this new road has already cut
down fare from New York to Philadelphia
from So. 25 to 81. 25. The public Of
course, are benefited by this competition.
Garret, the Baltimore and Ohio king, is
In Europe, In i'll health. 1t is intimated
the management will soon devolve on a
more healthy and vigorous man.
The Republic, published here, is daily
growing inimportance. Subscriptions are
coming in rapidly. Its efforts and aims
certainly are most laudadle Its virtues
aie becoming more apparent with the
issuing of each number. 1t is becom-
ing household companion to thousands
Of families more especially is it priced
| by farmers and mechanics
The genuine and spurious five hundred
dollar notes are being photographed at
the expense of the Treasury Department
A copy of each will be sent to all the
United States repositories and national
banks in the United States, so that the
Banks will have no excuse for being
imposed upon
There will soon be awarded the contract
for supplying head stone for two hundred
and sixty thousand soldiers inferred in
| the different cemeteries of the country.
There are only fourteen, out of the one
hundred bids, which aggregate within
| the one million appropriated for that
purpose The Secretary has concluded
/ to award to several of the bidders, due
regard being had to the location of those
marble works which are in proximity to
| cemeteries.
Mr VIM. Saunders, one of the foun-
ders of the Patrons Of Husbaudry is
stricken down with the typhoid fever aud
his recover is very doubtful. Mr.. Saun-
derS IS Scotehman by birth. and served
several years as garden in his native
country. He is now chief garden of the
Agricultural Department. He, appear
emily, is not ambitious for Office or hon
ors, and opposed any attempt of mem
| Der of the Patrons of Husbandry be-