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The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24

dated two p. m. at Milwaukee, read
thus:
Wheat-N othing doing. No. l at
$l.l6h; extra at $1.l6; hard at 81 %;
No. 2 at $l.09, No. 3 at &c.,: June
$l.0S; July $l.0725. Gold closed at
$l.l2%.
The Lake City Sentinel gives the
quotations there for Tuesday at Csc. for
No. l, soc for Nc. ?, and 85c for No. 3.
The prices at Hastings on same day we
are Informed were about &c. lower, and
reports from Cannon Falls, Mortified
Faribault are a shade more favorable to
sellers than those in the river towns.
We do not know how worthy Of conf
dence these reports are, but a good
deal Of wheat that ought to come to
this market is being hauled to North
field. This morning the market here
was not changed from yesterdays fig
ures.
Groceries are pretty firm at the prices
which have prevailed for the past six
months, but occasionally there is a
slight weakening on the part of some
staple article, without any quotable de:
duction. The tendency is downward.
Beef Cattle are selling at from to
4c. per lb. live weight. Sheep 7c., and
hogs SC. Dressed Pork 7c. and declin-
ing.
Green Hides Sc per h.; Dry at
l2Mc.
Bacon is the same as last week.
Mess Pork $24@25 per bbl.
Butter is selling at l5@20c wholesale
and 20@25c retail, with a tendency to
decline: Eggs are plenty and sell at
SC wholesale and l0c retail. Lord, by
the crock, &c.,, retail at l8c per lb.
Corn in the ear 45@50c per bus:
Oats 36@40c.
At the time of writing this the indi-
cations are shat revival of business
will be experienced here right away,
and continue until harvest commences.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24
Plymouth church in Brooklv,

Plymouth church in Brooklyn
has at last turned out Mr.. Bowen,
who was one of the founders of
the church and contributed more
money and labor to that object than
any OF her man, probably, in the con-
gregatlon: At the meeting which
expelled him a communication from
Mr.. Bowen, protesting against the
act, was read amid jeers, Kisses and
taunts that seem sadly out of place
in a professedly religious meeting.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24
Financial and Commercial.

On last Wednesday Red Wing was
experiencing a dearth of business, which
had been continued, with but little in
terruption, since seeding time commence
ed. Wheat was noninally quoted at
90c. for No. l, S5c for No. 2 and SOC.
for No. 3, but there was very little ar
irving and the operations were exceed
ingly light. The roads were so bad in
consequence of the recent heavy rains,
that farmers could hardly have got to
market with their wheat had prices
been attractive, and they would not
have come on good roads to sell at
the rates offered, especially when Mil
waukee and Eastern quotations were
advancing gradually. This condition
continued until Friday afternoon, when,
notwithstanding that Milwaukee quota
tions had fallen of fully l1scents from
the figures of Tuesday, an advance be-
gan to be made here and, on Saturday,
the street prices here were 85c. for No.
3, 9Oc. for No. 2, and Csc. for No. /.
On Monday, the market opened at
the same figures which were firmly
maintained, and an advance above this
was obtained for choice lots for milling.
On Tuesday the receipts reached about
$4,000 bushels, and sales were made
freely at the same rates, but in mum.
Der of instances cent or two more was
paid, and it was reported that a con-
tract had been made for good No. at
$l.OO, but as we could not ascertain
the names Of either buyer or seller, we
are not willing to vouch for the truth of
the statement. The Milwaukee figures
for No. 2, during the week have been
as follows, according to the associated
nress ron0rtS.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24

the people are quiet, and disinclined
to follow the lead Of pseudo reform
ers and selfish agitators, is no sign
that they are not terribly in earnest
in demanding true reform and wide
awake to the intrigues Of political
schemers, who seek only to promote
their own interests at the public ex-
penSe.
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24

June options have been quoted gen.
orally at the same figures with cash
sales, or about midway between these
and July options, The full dispatch
received here on Tuesday afternoon,
The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1876-05-24
Sewing Machine Sales for 1875.

Below you will find the sworn returns
of the various companies made in that
year, under the licenses granted them
by owners of the sewing machine
patents:
MACHINES.
The SINGER MANUFACTURING
COMPANY sold 2Ao. QSo
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg Co. sold 103, ,740
Remington Sewing Machine Co.
sold 25,llO
Howe Machine Co. (est.) sold $4,000
Weed Sewing Machine Co. sold 81 1898
Domestic Sewing Machine Co.
sold 2l,452
Grover & Baker Sewing Ma
chine Co. (est.) sold $4,000
Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Ma
chine Co. sold 1852
American B. II. &C., Sewing
Machine Co. sold l4,4O6
Gold Medal Sewing Machine
Co. sold l4,262
Wilson Sewing Machine Co. sold 9,5O8
Victor Sewing Machine Co. sold 5,lO3
31w3
National Republican., 1876-01-20
WASHINGTON AS COMMERCIAL CENTRE.

IL was very pleasant to see by the long
report in our local columns q few days
ago that certain of our earnest and capable
business men were seriously thinking of
inaugurating some measures for the i'm
provement OF our harbor. For years, now,
We have been so accustomed to find long
disquisitions in our city papers about the
advantages of the Norfolk harbor, or the
navigability of the James and divers others
Of the noble rivers of Virginia, or the i'm
portance of the James River and kanawha
canal, or the value of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad, that We had almost come to
think that some way our city lad no claims
to commerce, and no occasion or right.
perhaps, to consider, even for little space,
whether or no we had any chance in CON-
petition with such magnificent possibilities
We do not doubt, however, that all the
plans above named are very proper and
very important in their several ways. We
have only wondered that they have had
apparently so large space in our thoughts
as TO have diverted, as it were, frequent
and thoughtful consideration of our own
needs and advantages.
So that under these circumstances, or from
our standpoint, the meeting in question
seemed to foreshadow the beginning of a
more locally loyal and healthtul public
sentiment here, and gave, indeed, assur
ances that this feeling was not eugendcrcd
of speculation or desire for notoriety, but
that ii came from the sober and solid C m
clusions of business men based on the
practical necessities of the case.
We do not intend in the above to indorsc
the plan or the particular measures which
came before that meeting. for any method
which looks at less than the whole question
at issue appears to us to be temporary, and.
of ITSELF ultimately useless. The gentle
men present at that meeting. and those
very many others not present, but interest,"
ed in its doings, want, 10 fnct. our harbor
to be permanently improved. Now that
certainly cannot be done 10 any way that
shall have real value unless upon plan
that shall be founded on full understand
ing of all the conditions Of the case. A
little dredging here, or few piles there, or
bulkbead at one or another spot amounts
merely to details and temporary expedients,
and really not generally important ones at
that.
But we hail this meeting, because We
desire that as soon as may be fair and
thorough discussion Of all the aspects and
facts in the case may be had. We have no
doubt but that il viii be speedily found
there is SIS much to lie said about the
commercial advantages of this point AS Of
those of any point in Virginia or Maryland.
and of the national importance of develop
ing our resources and natural capabilities
National Republican., 1876-01-20
The New third Auditor.

CFrom the Bismarck Tri-weekly Tribune!
Wemust congratulate the President upon the ap-
pointment OF an honest man. Ell Governor Horace
Austin has been appointed and confirmed Third
Auditor of the Treasury. Ho is a man whom gold
cannot buy, nor the pleadings Of friends move to
do a wrong act, while the lash of his eaemy's
tongue or pen has no terrors for him. He is not a
great man, but ne is Just man, a hard-wo-king
man, true to himself his country aud his party.
He is q lawyer, and for many years was judge Of
the District Court In the district where the writer
resided, and he had the homer to first suggest hts
name for the position of Governor OF Mime sofa
TO which position he was elected by the people,
throug the help OF the press 10 spite OF the poll
ticisns and the railroad people, who bitterly op-
posed. They tried to defeat him, but be was
elected by majority Of a few hundred only; but
he received reward for his upright conduct. In a
reelection by over twenty thousand ma ority, and
could have been elected to a third term hai be
been a candidate. Though the country nssds
Just such men as Horace Austin in the Treasury
Department We trust, in case OF a division of Da-
kota Territory, that President Grant will send
Horace Austin to Pembina, either as Governor or
judge. New communities need men OF sterling
integrity to guard their interests and Horace
Austin Is one Of that stamp.
National Republican., 1876-01-20
as of those of any point or portion of our

as of those of any point or portion of our
neighbor States.
1t may sound strange to our readers, if
notrhapsodical when we say say that. SO
far as mere natural advantages, there are
few cities in all this land that surpass our
own in opportunities for material growth.
Nor do we by any means assume any pecu-
liar wisdom or originality in making such
an assertion, for we simply repeat what
has been said again and again in legislative
reports, in Congressional debates and count
less newspaper articles. beginning in those
days, more than one hundred years ago,
when the great Washington commenced
his advocacy of harbor hereabouts, which
should make an outlet port for the western
commerce by its shortest and best course to
the sea.
As interesting chapter of local history
as can be written ofany place can be made
up from the records of the youthful enthu-
siasm of Washington upon this subject, Of
the devotion Of years of his mature life to
its accomplishment, and of the dying testi-
mony in favor of it in his last will and tes-
lament. He, in his turn, communicated
his faith in all this to his fellow citizens, as
the records of the Virginia and Maryland
Legislatures attest in their acts granting
subsidies or privileges to those engaged in
developing the grand and national plan.
And all this belief came down to their
successors when, in after years, the Chest
peake and Ohio canal engrossed so much
attention in Congress, in the Legislatures
of Virginia and Maryland, and called into
its treasury such vast sums, for those days,
of the public and private funds of these
whereabouts.
1t must be admitted that the suggestion
we make above cannot be called ours
of right, nor Can it be styled rhspsodical.
1t is rather an honored and sacred tradi-
ton here; 1t is a theory that our fathers
fully believed would. in time, become a
splendid fact. 1t is thus that we of this
city have inherited the tradition and fully
adopted it as our belief
National Republican., 1876-01-20
AN FxcEP rIoNAL SOUTHERN DEMO ;RAr.

During the Centennial debate in the
House on Tuesday last Mr.. Waddell, of
North Carolina, an ex- Confederate general,
made a speech which attracted no little
attention on account of the true patriotism
of its sentiments and the earnestness with
which he acknowledged the maguanimity
of the Government. Speaking of and for
the Southern people who participated in the
rebellion, he said:
There is one subject upon which can speak
for them. 1t is a subject in regard to which
they have not always received justice, and
ask the House to listen to my words. This is
not the first time have uttered them either in
private or in public. They and l recognize
fully, we appreciate to its utmost extent, the
fact that in no other country but our own could
there be or has there ever been such a sight
possible as that of men who, within five years
of the time when they were arrayed in battle
against government, have been restored under
the benefcepce of free institutions not only to
the rights Of citizenship, but to equal repre-
sentation and participation in the control of
that government. They not only fully realize
that, they not only appreciate it to its utmost
extent, but they have an abiding sense Of the
sublimity Of such a spectacle, and they are
proud of their country for having presented
that spectacle to the astonished gaze of man
kind
This is, we believe, the first expression
of feeling of gratitude to the Government
by an ex- Confederate for his restoration to
the rights and privileges of citizenship that
has ever been heard on the floor Of the
House Mr. Waddell was Whig at the
breaking out of the war, and Union man
until he felt compelled to ego with his
State" When the war ended, however, he
returned TO peaceful pursuits with deter
mination to Danish all sectional feeling from
his breast. and succeeded in dong so so far
as TO make him an exceptional Southern
Democrat 1t is to be regretted that his
example has found very few imitators.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

The eloquent and truthful speech of
Senator Morton yesterday deserves the
careful consideration Of every true lover of
his country. 1t comprises very accurate
history of political events in the South
since the war. The statements 1t contains
are susceptible of the -ullest verifcAtion.
1t is to be expected that the Democrats and
the Detective Press will reply to them by
the exclamation of 'bloody Shirt" but
that will not refute them. The Southern
Democrats may deny them, but they will
at the same time acknowledge that they
have frightened the negroes and whites so
that they are leaving their country for that
lack Of protection TO person and property
which is their due, and that their cry for
foreign immigration meets no response.
They will say that they see themselves in
the near future without labor and their
lands going under the hammer for taxes.
Untitled soil will yield la returns adequate
TO the payment 0! taxes. The blood of
slaughtered laborcrs will curse the land
upon which it is shed, and that curse will
adhere to Southern lands until its present
owners shall have passed away. Southern
landowners may as well look this matter
in the face sqUarely now as later. NJ
National Republican., 1876-01-20

REFERRING to the charge that money
was offered to induce members of the Ken
tucky Legislature to support Mr.. Beck S
aspirations to be Senator, the New York
Tribune says:
"Once upon a time an accusation like this
would have imperiled any candidates election;
hut it has become SO common of late years to
lie about honorable men and bespatter good
characters that the only result seems to have
been a determination of all the Democratic
members to vindicate the distinguished Ken
lucky politician without an hours delay"
There is one truth ia this statement. Il
has become common of late years to lie
"about honorable men and bcspatter good
" Characters. For proof of this see the
files of the Tribune itself
National Republican., 1876-01-20

A AELPoRT is afoat that Mr. Llmtr, Of
Mississippi. elected to both the House
and the Senate by the intimidation and
murder OF innocent American citizens, has
been selected TO deliver the Centennial
Fourth of July address at Philadelphis.
1t is enough to kill the Centennial appro-
priation bill. Some friend of the measure
should contradict it without delay.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

Morton will conclude his remarks to day.
1t will be well if Southern Senators will
heed them in time. If they are legislating
for the future, they will be wise to do some
thing which will effectually stay the bloody
hands of the mob and the assassin now.
If they are simply seeking temporary
power for personal or selfish qualification,
IL is a different matter.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

AND NOW it is charged that the only
blood shed by Ben Hill enduring of the
war was on his own side. In other
words, he is held responsible for having
caused the death of Yancey, one of his
fellow. confederate Senators. OF course,
this was an accidental murder, and IN that
respect Mr.. Hill has the advantage over
Others who are guilty Of having committed
intentional murders.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

SENATOR VESTS bills to compe! Jay
Gould 10 disgorge the money wrongfully
withheld from the Government by the
Union Pacific railroad should not be al
lowed TO slumber in committee a single
day. They involve in the aggregate about
$1,000, 900, and the amount is constantly
increasing. The country understands this,
and regards Jay Gould as nothing more nor
less than public robber. By all means
let us have action on this question without
1n1a1-
National Republican., 1876-01-20

'N!:HE newspaper testimony at the best, l"
is the way the Democratic Senator from
Alabama, Mr. Goldthwaite, characterizes
the testimony referred to the Committee on
Privileges and Elections in the Spencer
case" Will the Opposition press make a
nntr of fhiSS
National Republican., 1876-01-20

SOMETHING is rotten in the State of
Denmark when the three cent gen
ticmen in Congress cxclaim, 60. my pro
phclic soul mine uncle :" as the Centen-
NAL bill comes up. What, by the way,
have they to pawn to raise the three cents:
Honor? That "pricks" them. What is
that word honor" "Air a trim reckon
ing Who hath it among the opposers
of the bill: Those whose capital in trade
is clap-trap? Yea, those whom the
people will spew out of their mouths.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

THE New York Tribune still shrieks for
Senator Spencer's political scalp. The
knife with which it proposes to take it,
however, is rather dull, and the "news-
paper evidence furnished by the special
committee of the Alabama Legislature
will not serve to sharpen it. The truth is,
and the Tribune knows it, that all the
charges against Senator Spencer are based
upon htarsay or er parts statements. 1t,
nevertheless, repeats them as substau,iated
truths, and in so doing is guilty of ma
licious falsehOod and gross libel.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

MR. FRYE, of Maine, gave in a single
sentence proper rebuke to the twaddle
about the unconstitutionality of the Cen
tennial bill when he said ''it was not for
chin TO question it when the records of
"Co1gress show the fact that jefferson and
madison voted for precisely similar bills"
National Republican., 1876-01-20

MR. PHILLIPS, of Kansas, had 'thappy
thought" yesterday when he said "a ma
ton which could pay four millions of dol
Glars day to sustain war could we'll afford
1880, 600 to make war impossible. !"
The idea is capable of great amplifcation.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

SoUND PATRIOTISM, something little
like craftsmanship, fell from Mr.. Reagan's
lips ycsu rday during the Centennial de-
bate. He referred in eloquent and appre-
ciatiye terms to the great work of the faith
crs of the Republic and said, 'this is a fit
time for rc-embalming their memories
National Republican., 1876-01-20

Will. Mr.. Beck be investigated when he
comes 10 the Senate: The charge has been
made by a member of his own party that
corrupt means were used to procure his
nomination. Perhaps Mr.. Beck will seek
TO Ice indicated, and perhaps not.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

IT Is proposed to call that portion of the
official reports of the debates in the House
which embraces the leading Democratic am
nesty speeches, the Congressional Amended
Pecr1i
National Republican., 1876-01-20

THE caucus of the Republican members
Of both Houses of Congress, to be held in
the Senate Chamber next Saturday night,
should receive general attention. No
member of the party who has its interest at
heaIt should tail to attend.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

Mn. CoCHRANE, of Pennsylvania, thinks
the Centennial bill an unconstitutional
measure, and yet
Tranquil Hope still trims her lamp
At the eternal years"
National Republican., 1876-01-20

Senator Morton is true friend of the South
ern Republicans, and the confidence they repose
in him is equaled only by the faithfulness with
which he holds it.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

Whenever you see man with book under
his arm you have perfect right to suspect
him. 4 patent has just-bsen issued for q
whisky flask in book form.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

The next time the Congressional Record fails
to print speeches as they are delivered, a Every
voluminous volume" of smoke will be raised.
So says the Northern press.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

Tie Cuban lamb is still bleating in the savage
maws of the Spanish lion, and no nation on
earth has the courage to stretch forth a hand
TO save.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

"WHAT, all my pretty chickens, and
their dam at one fell swoop ?"-Coluna5ia,
to the OpposerS Of the Centennial Biz
National Republican., 1876-01-20

Mcssrs. Members of Bourbonistic proclivities I!
iii is rot large enough make it two millions.
National Republican., 1876-01-20
EDITORIAL GOSSIP.

The arc Of circlc-the yacht OF the Tweed
Ring.
National Republican., 1876-01-20

Senator Morton's speech on the Mississippi
frauds strikes telling blow at the white-line
element, which carried the State for the De-
mocracy by force and intimidation.