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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-10-16
MARKETS By TELEGRAPH.
New York Money and Stocks,

Nav YORK, October 15.-MoNBY-Ac-
tive, loaning during the afternoon at 4 per
cent, closing at Q per cent, The cause Of
the temporary fury was the payment Of
a large amount in dividends, which neces.
STATED the calling in of loans. Prime
mercantile paper 6A7 per cent long time,
and Gao per cent short
STERLING ExCHANaE-Firmer at 81 81
for 90 days, and $4s7f Tor sight.
GoLD-Quiet and firm at 11Oa11Of. Dor,
rowing rates 1a2 per cent and t4t. The
Assistant Treasurer discussed 1888 900
Clearings $19.oOOOOO. Customs receipts
$2GS,OOO.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-10-16

CINCINNATI, October 10. - Cotton =
Quiet at 14ia144c. Flour and Wheat
Unchanged. Corn-Steady; old 89s70c
OAts-5ls55c. Rye-stesdy at Csc Bar.
ley-Unchanged. Linseed Oil-Firm at
Soc. Lsrd Oil-Unchanged. Eggs Firm
at 2Oa2lc. Pork-None here. Lard
Steady; moderate demand at 12sa13c,
Bulk Meats-Dull and nominal. Bacon
Doll and unsettled; shoulders 79asc;
clear rib 1910; clear sides scarce at la
l4tc, Whisky-Demsnd fair and mar
ket firm at CSC.
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NEW YORK, October 15.-Buslneal
moderately active and lair iobbing trade
Brown cotton and cotton 1Innels in good
demand at unchanged prices Fancy
madder prints in fair request, and side
bands rather more active. Wooden goods
for mems wear quiet, but lInnels and
blankets IN steady demand. The Ddils
Bulletin says Mygstt, HaVilsnd s. Co
have suspended payment.
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Wheeling Stock Marker.

The following are the arrivals OF stock at the
Christman House yards during last week, aud
the ruling figures paid by purchasers:
CATTLS-ArrivAls during the week, 1877 head.
sold at $204 per cWt.
HOGs-AEIvSlI, 267 head; sold at 80 Gc07 IS
per cwt,
sHREP-4rrIvAls, lShcad; sold at 81 OoG3 rs
per cwt.
CALVEs-ArtIyAls, II head; sold at q eco
000
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FBATHsB Dull; live goose, CSC.
RAGs-Dull, 81 &c per ID.

RAGs-Dull, 81 &c per 10.
GIEsEEO-Sl 90.
GRAIR-Thsru was rather more INQUIRY FOL
Rhsat, mostly from county mllls; We quote No
red At 81 O53i 10, and 81 IS Ior No. / white
The Odt market 10 steady at bSA zoe. Old Corn
remains without QuotAblo chIngO-sOc, RV.
continues quiet, NJ 4gc. THERE'S but little dol q
In Barley, and 1t is ciilluIt 10 glVe quota
iOIs.
GRoCERIEs-WG quote: Cote Good Rio ID
quoted At@lX922Xc: prime TO choice 2S133Xc;
Java at SSc; best roasted at 0Ge; old yellow Rio,
none In tho market. SuupS-Common at Soc;
prime at 6:07Oc; New Orleans molasles,
none IN tho market. SHgarI-Redncd Hards,
Crushed, Powdered and Gtanulated, axe;
A Coffee, ike; u Coffee, IlHe; Extra G Coffee
llhc; Commercial A sugar llKe; o Yellow 9h1
lO%c; New Orleans sugar, none IN market; Porto
Rico, fully fair to strictly prime 9H0iCc.
HAT-The market Is dull, with STOCK accumu.
lAting, ranging In price from S5 90 TO {9j co
per ton.
NAns-lOdtO SOD, 8 rs; Sd to %, 500; 81
TO I'd, $t25; ID to Sd, $50; Sd, 50 IS,
OHs, &c-Lard OIL, extra No. J winter strain
ed $40; spring strained Sl05. Carbon OIL,
jobbing lots l9Hc, no charge fJr packages. Liz.
seed Oil, 81 O5. Turpent,ne 7Sc.
PRoyIIoNs-Marklt active Following are
tho current rates: Noes Pork $9S 20.
Sugar cured hams liK0l5XH; sugar cured
shoulders, none; clear sides l5e; shoulders &C.;
LArd-In kega tic; choice leaf in tlorces lGXc
Dried beef, l6e,
PoTAToEs-ThO market has stIEoaed up coz.
sdarsbly slrcc the date OF our last report, and
prices are higher, W0new quote al 95c1kl co.
SWEET PoTAToEs- New Jerseys 81 81 pei
barrel.
RoE-ChOIeO Carolina, sX09Hci RAngoon, 20
7&c. ....
sNUTP-7Oc; do In boxes OF SIX doEon, $500
WOOL Unchanged; 4!0SCc. co.,
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RAILROAD BONDs-Quiet,


STocKs-0pened weak at decline oil
TO I per cent from the clOseing prices
yesterday. Later the market advanced
t TO ct per cent, the greatest improve
ment being in Erie, the next in point Of
interest were Pacific Mail, Western
Union, Lake Shore, Rock Island, Wabash,
Panama, Northwestern and St. Paul
common. The Ohio and Union Pacific
market closed firm at a traction below
the higest point Of the day, The stock
sales were 10000 shares, OF which
10000 were Western Union, $4,000
Pacific Mail, 10000 Erie, $4,000 Lake
Shore, 1900 Union Pacific, 1900 ST.
Paul, GOOO Wabash and 0 600 Ohios.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-10-16

PTTiBURGH, October 15.-Wheat-
Quiet and prices unchanged. COrr-New
ear 6Oa65c; old SSa9Oc. Petroleum
Crude quiet, 9Os05c at PaEkeS's; refined
drmer, III &c prompt Philadelphia delivery.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-10-16

TOLEDO, October 15-Flour-Steady
and in moderate demand. Whe8t-Dull
No 2 white Wabash 81 16i; No 3 dc
81 II; No l white Michigan 81 l2; extra
do 81 II; amber Fl 90. COrn-Quiet; high
mixed 70iC; seller October 793c; Mich
gan 7Sc October. Oats-Dull and lower
No 2and Michigan SOC; white 5lfc.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-10-16

CLEVELAND. October Wheat
Dull and weak, 81 04a1 90. Corn
Steady, SAC. Oats-Duu, 59a55C. Petro.
leum-Unchsnged.
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past week, and while, II anything, under the In
aaenco Of increased receipt, the feeling IL
easier, prices have undergone but little change
We quote tiSe
FHH-QuotAtious arc for packages containing
i0opounGs round Ash, light wei hts and inferior
quality at prIcCS to correspond, No. =, half bbs,
90 Is; No. 3 do. large IS rs; No do. medium
Is 80. Goldfish Is 80. Lake white Och q rs
Lake herring $500.
FLorR-TrAde In this important article, 80 fat
as our market Ia concerned ,CoRunus quist, aud
there Is but little tina. 10 new or important TO
which reie'ctC. has not Rltcady been made
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NELL & ELLINGHAM,
Wholesale GEocers,
1905 MAIN STREET.

Have now in store and for sale:
e0O B6ls Flour, embracing White Rose, Edcl.
Hel.s, Keystone, Howard and other standard
go Half Bbls Lake Herring,
100 White Fish.
S0 No. ) MAckercl.
t0 No 2 MRckerel,
barrels and kits
g Tterces choice Carolina Rice.
l0 B6Is choice N. o. MOlasSOs.
SO ahds choice N. o. sugar.
10 Bols 6yrups.
100 Bills Standards A, B, Bxtra G, GranulAtod.
PoWdetsd, Crushed, franklin and UC Sugar,
l09 bAgs prime to choice Coffee.
y Hall Chests prime To choice q, P. Teas
% Gadoies prime 70 choice @. r. Teas,
~ Hal! chests prime 10 choice Black Teas,
Onf Tobacco embraces HAlbsook's, ], K, MIN.
ners, PAGES and other good reliable brsnds
among the best In the country. Our stock IL
Inli and complete, and will DO offered 70 the
UAde q tho lowest market price. We invite
e eD ooyeIs 70 CAL and examine our stock be.
tore purchAslnH elsewhere.
mario MILL q BLLnisHAM,
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-22

Certified to dy the best 2oKtysicians as con- tai'i'lg nothirg Injurious to the system. N relieres aOhen aU else taits. Blood Purifier and Liver Lnvigorator, being C pleasant 2'aryotire needed dy old and yo"ng. H cures Ja,aadice, Ferer and Agse, Pai,s in the Bones, Attenuation, JVorpas. Fsnalc tDiseases, Nerroaes dis orc'e''s, Ksdneey complatat &c., dc. '@
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Litchfield enquirer., 1874-10-22
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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26

THE following is ex-Gov. Seymour's
letter, declining in advance, after his
manner, an election to the United
States Senate:
SATURDAY, Nov. IA, 1S74.-I learn
on my return home that you have
brought forward my name IN connec-
ton with the Office of United States
Senator. Other journals have also
spoken favorably of my selection for
that place. l, therefore, feel that it is
due to myself to say publicly through
your columns what l have uniformly
said IN private conversation, "that |
am not a candidate for that or for any
other official position" The kind way
with which the journals of both parties
have treated the suggestion that l
should be elected to place so honora-
bic and important is very gratifying to
me, but for personal reasons prefer to
do my duty as a citizen In the walks Of
private life. l am truly yours, etc,
HORATIO SEYMOUR.
A number of leading Democratic
journals II the interior of New York
do not consider this letter a positive re-
fusal on the part of ex Gov. Seymour
to accept the Senatorship, and they
are still advocating his election to that
position.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26
ASUoSEST EyEHYrsPRATsE.

The Ne10 York Nation, one Of the
ablest Republican journals in the coun-
try, pays this tribute to the moderation
of the Democratic party in its day of
triumph:
The most notable and most hopeful
fact of the uprising is that the Demo
cratic leaders seem to comprehend the
reality of the situation, and TO under
stand that their party is really placed
in a situation more critical than that
which it occupied before. Hitherto
with every tritling success they have
lost their heads. Now, with a very
great and almost unlooked-for triumph,
they have kept the balance of their
Judgment. They have carried the
three great States esteemed decisive in
Presidential elections, yet have re-
manned calm enough to recognize the
fact that their party is not invested
with power, but is merely awarded a
trial. In other words, they compre-
bend the temper of those Republicans
who have given them the victory,
and understand that there Is a decisive
balance of power among the people
which is determined to have response
bility somewhere. A party which has
never possessed moderation of speech
heretofore, and whose managers have
repealed moderate Republicans by the
extravaganza of their blatant utter
anees, now seems imbued with the very
spiIik of moderation from New Orleans
to New York. 1t is a notable fact, too,
that at this particular juneture Of
events race prejudice, which has always
been characteristic of the Democratic
party, and cause of distrust to those
who were inclined to Join it, has so far
yielded to iberality and moderation
that colored men IN Louisiana have
been cooperating with Democrats, and
Democrats have been voting for
Senator Of "African descent" But
the general acknowledgment of politi-
cal accountability on the part Of the
leaders, since this new responsibility
has fallen upon them, is the augury
that most strongly bodies danger to the
Republican party.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26
I" REBEL CLAIMS. !"

The cry of Ku-Klux having ceased
to serve its turn, from being worn
threadbare, the Radical postofice or.
gans Of high and low degree are plying
around in search of some available
substitute as a party ShibbOleth. 1t
would seem from various outgivings
that the new scare-crow is to be
Rebel" claims for war damages and
Rebel" raids on the Treasury. The
Chicago Tribune, under its new master,
sounds the tOcsin, and figures up such
claims into the hundreds of millions.
We doubt that this newcry of imagined
danger will have any more influence
with the Northern people than the
"outrage-mill'' SO recently in full blast.
Sprung thus early, it must die of imam.
ity. Many Will 60 so far as to say
that they would as soon pay
"Rebel'' claims as Credit Mobilier
swindlers. The masses, however, viii
boot at the suggestion, saying there is
no immediate danger, if a Radical
President and Senate do their duty.
The recent revolution cannot be re-
versed with such clap-trap. All "a
n1iiar with their country's history
know that Southern statesmen were
never characterized with greed, and it
is not likely that Northern Democrats
would jeopardize their own standing at
home to pull chestnuts out of the fire
for others. As matter of fact. the
expectation of getting from Govern.
ment anything beyond an equitable ad-
justment of existing burdens, does not
enter into the feeling of hopefulness
and gratitude engendered in the South
by the ecent political upheaval. This
section prizes freedom and home-ruIe
too highly 70 hazard them for money
claims, and the popular feeling in the
South against such a course will
be as strong as In the North
Now, that the ice Is broken. We
have reason to anticipate that our
views on these matters will be better
understood, and a rational credenca
given to the utterances of representa-
tive men and journals.
Whatever danger there may really
be of Southern claims on various
grounds, will not come from the South
but from Northern manipulators-not
from Northern Democrats, but from
those hangers-on and lobbyists who
were Republicans while Republicanism
ruled, and will want to be Democrats
when Democracy comes into power.
Whenever we hear of Southern claim.
outside OF those of Unionists for stores
taken during the war, we shall expect
to find Northern manipulators at the
bottom of it, and the whole thing in
such shape that they viii profit by it
ten times as much as any Southern
beneficiary. Let our friends, South
and North, subject all such claims to
The seyerest scrutiny,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26
RADICALIsM sELF-CONBEnNED.

Among the conspicuous failures Of
Radicalism has been its management
of the District of Columbia. For
three-quarters of a century the District
had been governed by Democratic Con.
crosses in cheap, republican and salts
factory manner. The Radicals could
not let wen enough alone, ndhave made
Washington and its environs the first
field for every mischievous experiment.
Nothing less would do than territorial
Legislature at the very head of Cow
eminent, with Governor and a Board
of Public Works which seems to have
been organized expressly for peculation.
The Cincinnati Commercial does not
hesitate to say that this short-lived
government proved itself at once the
most expensive, the most corrupt, and
the most extravaganza, all things con-
sidered, which ever afflicted any city
within the limits Of the United States.''
In less than four years it has saddled
an area of eight miles square
and less than 10000 population, with
a debt nearly as large as that of Ten
nessee with a million and a quarter
Prominent Republican taxpayers have
recently been starting various petitions
all urging the restriction of universal
suffrage by the requirement of addi-
tional qualifications, which would vir-
tually disfranchise the negro masses. To
avoid doing this directly, which would
be rather awkward in the party that
processes to monopolize all concern for
the negro's welfare, it is understood
that the joint committee appointed at
the last session of Congress viii report
In favor of a return to something like
the old Democratic plan, namely, that
all the functions of local government
shall be performed through various de-
partments IN pursuance of laws made
by Congress alone. This return to the
ways of the fathers of the republic is
good enough, so far as it goes, but the
debt of twenty millions remains, her.
itage for posterity.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26

WASHINGTON dispatches indicate
that a desperate effort viii be made in
Congress, this winter, to secure Gov
eminent subsidy Of fifty millions, or
such matter, for the railroad that burst
Jay Cooke and inflicted panic on the
whole countryside Northern Pacific to
Tue Aurora Borealis. The programme
is to tack it on as rider to the Texas
Pacific, and We are assured by expert
enced Congressman that 20 aid can be
secured for the latter road without In
GLIDING the former. We doubt that
either South or North will tolerate any
such programme. Let each enterprise
stand or fall on its own merits.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26


there has been wonderful change Of
opinion and a sudden conversion among
the oficeholders and the professional
plunderers. 1t is notorious that the
whole press Of this city, without ex-
ception or condition, has been run in
the interest Of the ring, and with mon
ey stolen from the taxpayers. Not a
word of criticism on Shepherd and his
crew was permitted in these subsidized
sheets. They applauded every act,
defended every outrage, nddenounced
every ontspoken opponent
With conspicuous efrontery some Of
these same papers are now claiming to
be among the most faithful of oppo-
nents, and it is well known that plans
have been formed to convert one of
the Sunday journals into secular or
gan with capital TO be furnished by
the Ring, with view to the control OF
patronage and favor hereafter. An
other scheme is TO buy out the Repub-
blican, which cannot survive the with
drawal IF public pap, and establish on
that basis a Democratic newspaper.
Aid has been solicited for this object
in New York, but the response is not
encouraging.
Secor Robson Is the most melan-.
choly man Of the Presidents staff. He
had arranged everything to his own
satisfaction for being Stockton's sue
cessor in the Senate. By way of dis
posing of competition, A. G.. CatteI
was provided with the profitable agen-
cy of the Treasury In London in ad-
vance of the election, and he almost
alone has pro6ted IN a defeat which
brushes all his friends. Still Robson
is consoled by the spoils already ac-
quired and the run of contracts for two
years to come.
Mr.. Jewell discovers that his ex-
change from St. Petersburg to Wash
ington was ill-6med, and he wishes
himself well back to diplomacy, with
ST., 500 year and nothing to do. As
a reformer he is not a success, and his
new broom, which swept SO zealously
for few weeks, has been consigned to
the garnet as worthless.
The Secretary of the Treasury, too,
who was getting a lucrative practice
when tempted to take this office, per-
ceives how great mistake he made In
linking bis fortunes with a decaying
and doomed administration. More
than that, he has had to surrender to
demands from the White House much
of the policy with which he started out
so eagerly, and to yield convictions
without which no real reform can be
carried ont.
Williams, Shepherd, Babcock, and
Mosby are more influential with the
President, closer in his confidence, and
nearer to intimacy than the entire
Cabinet and all the leaders in Con-
gress combined. They may be
said without the least exaggeration
to be the keepers of his official
conscience and the advisers OF his So
called policy. Their habits and tastes
are similar, and hence they are drawn
together by sympathies and inclination
which are not common to the others,
who have striven hard to establish ike
relations and are jealous Of the Presi-
dents Partially.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26

UNDER the amended Constitution of
New York, after the LIST of January
next, all members of the Legislature
and all officers, executive and judicial,
except such inferior officers as may be
by law exempt, viii be required, in ad-
dition to the usual oath of Office, to
subscribe to the following:
And I do further solemnly swear Tor
affirm that | have not directly or indi-
rectly paid, offered or promised to pay,
contributed or offered or promised to
contribute, any money or other valu
able thing as consideration or reward
for the giving or withholding a vote at
the election at which was elected to
said Office, and have not made any
promise to influence the giving or with
holding any such vote, and no other
oath, declaration or test, shall be re-
quired as a qualification for any Office
of public trust.
Some of the newspapers are asking,
"Can they take it P"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-11-26


For the last forty-nine years, horses
have been used to draw freight boats
through the Erie canal. When the
hauling was done in wagons, trans
portation from Albany to Buffalo cost
500 ton. The canal saved $50 Of
this expense, and added five fold to the
value Of Western lands. But the
world moves, and the Legislature of
New York had the good sense to offer a
bounty Of one hundred thousand dol
lars to the man, or company, who
should find out a cheaper power than
that of horses to tow canal boats, and
not injure the canal by washing its
banks, or in any other way. An able
Commission has awarded the 100000
to Mr.. Baxter, and steam does about
twice the transportation per month,
and at half the cost of horse power.
Practically, the improvement doubles
the business capacity of the Erie canal,
and of all others in the United States,
of which there are many, while it
diminishes the expense of Transports
ton one half.
No class of citizens are so much
interested in the cost of moving pro-
ducts cheaply as farmers. The COM
missioners who tested the matter for
Baxter say that one cent'sworth of coal
moved ton of freight sixty miles on
the Erie canal. Compare the work
done by this cheap fuel with that of a
Tennessee farmer who puts ton of
wheat on his wagon and drives sixty
miles over a common pike to market,
and pays toll every five milesl He
must eat, his horses must be fed, the
road toll must be paid. Our agricul-
tural class, whether they move a pillow
or wagon, or change common air and
earth into plants and animals, have yet
to learn to move things with true
economy.
Less than fifteen pounds of coal will
propel canal boat carrying 200 tons
of freight.
Turnpike gates have been abolished
in New York and most of the other
Eastern States about fifty years, and
they have outlived their usefulness in
Tennessee. One hundred years ago,
when John Gilpin" was written by
Cowper, and turnpike men their gates
wide open threw" such roads had
their uses for the public. Now, they
are highway monopolies, which make
great deal more than half of the bar
gain when they take a mans money.
Farms can never rise in value in our
State till the people depend less on
monopolIes and more on their efforts,
and common sense.
Instead of talking SO much about
bringing more settlers into Tennessee,
why not do a little to keep and satisfy
those immigrants who are already
here, as well as the landholders who
are now waiting for a chance to sell
their farms at half the price paid for
them? All reasonable cause for dis
satisfaction should be removed; and
bad roads, with no disposition to i'm
prove them as free public highways,
are not the least subjects of complaint.