Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-09-28

Inc newspapers In the east as well as in
the west all agree that there has been g.
marked and healthy improvement in the
various branches OF trade during the past
two weeks The ". Y. World OF Sunday, In
noting this revival, says that "the average
crops throughout the country exceed any
thing known during the last ten years."
while "the receipts at all the shipping ports
since September I, 1875, have been larger
than they were during the corresponding
time last year" The ". Y. Herald of yester-
day says that enquiries thus made within
a few days show an extremely satisfactory
condition of trade. The fall business doing
by the wholesale dry goods merchants is I'M
expectedly large. Several OF the leading
houses express their surprise at it's extent,
and say that trade ha5 rot been so good
for five years past. There is livelier
demand and buyers are more numerous
A letter from St Louis makes the claim that
most of the branches OF trade are better in
that city than in any other city in the coun-
try, and dispatch from Chicago states that
s'the dry goods jo5bers there report larger
business for the past week than has ever be-
fore been transacted in tEat branch of trade
in the same length of time" The fall trade
is proving TO be very heavy, the country
merchants throughout the northwest buying
freely, and the outlook IN business is very
j
flying fer a healthy revival of trade through
out the cOuntry-not such forced activity "a
would lead to wild speculation over-trading
and eXtrava gance-put a regular, steady,
legitimate and growing business.
Representative Kelley. of Pennsylvania,
who arrogates TO himself the honor of being
one of the champions AMI leaiers of the in
dustrial classes, has been wounded in the
of a. fri lie no
tee of the Industrial League of the United
States, from their headquarters in Philadel-
Ihis, have issued a circular letter to their
associates and the public, saying that since
their silence might be regarded acquies-
cence liz the financial projects advocated by
Mr.. Kelley, whose course upon industrial
questions they have generally approved,
They deem 1t proper to state that in their
opinion any revolutionary policy IN none
tary affairs, or the prospect OF such policy,
must Inevitably be destructive rot only of
many vested interests, but also of that con
hdence In the future which was lost IN the
panic of 1873, which has not yet been recov-
cred, and which is the main element of pros
perity now lacking in this country. The
committee then go on to denOunce Judge
kelley's imitation scheme not merely re-
evolutionary, but intrinsically and in the
highest degree unsound, and assert that it is
devoid or that hold upon common sense
without which no financial structure has
ever long endured, no matter by what fnge-
nuity Introduced or by what authority en-
forced. The committee close by saying that
sooner or later the country must necessarily
return TO the standard OF value which no
legislation can change, and that all schemes
which promise relief by pOstponing the in
evitable. are worse than futile, and must
render the restoration destructive which
otherwise sholld be beneficial. They cOln-
sci their friends not to be Geluled by vague
promises which cannot be iulfillei. and not
10 venture upon a campaign in the air under
leaders who have shown no fitness for the
great task they would undertake.
1t will be seen by the report in our local
columns that the horse disease, which has
prevailed in the northern cities Tor some time
past, has reached Washington. Abo1t one
hundred horses belonging tn ono Of oT,r STRAIT