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horse railroads which averaged an annual carrying
trade Of IL 900 900 passengers each These horse
roads had averaged passengers than 900 miles
Of steam roads in the state The speaker proceeded
10 contrast the work daily by the Third avenue horse
road with that accomplished by the steam
Fourth avenue. and endeavored to produce showing
which the face Of it seemed very unavorablc to the
steam
The proceedings at four O'Clock adjourned until
eleven o'clock to-day.
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NEW YORK CATTLE MARKETS.
MONDAY. Feb. IA, 1870.

Fresh to-day -. 2.47s II 100 4565 5.37i
coarse quality cattle the herds hand sold of by
SS8 s4 f% s E@a % so
Tor sell 10y Illinois steers al 9e per ID with 81 on
strong; Illinois steers a. os lie Per b. weights Ss
no sners ew iean nor ss s sSd Tor SELF ~
Captain Cornell IA State oxen at lie lSc weight
at ne Hl2c isc perb weight ewt Burehard Mer,
o Ss1 IL wsc hen5Se 1 nSs fHE bulls and ee At
i2he per lb with 81 per head, weight 81 cwt; for
wish 81 head weight ewt scant held sale 50
~ Illinois b So IN Tor T. Allen Il Kansas ma steers at s per
a Kansas steers at io1c per To- weight
ross MospPy il Kansas ka Ss at Sc
per H. weight wei "a cyl for Shaw Bremen 70 Kansas
Uiory Cary sold for Con Brothers 55 Kentucky steers at
ec WEIGHT per strong o gAs5 S Hasbar isw Gen
Illinois steers at oc lie per 10, with 81 o per head
lie e. S owf - c~t S''s ssgs
tanned At Harsinas Cows q Kahn sold for H. Kahn SO
Kentucky steers a. &C. 1915 per ib weight e cwt for
Sois6t for ! Brown, q keH;asty per
nois steer: oc per ID weight cw : y H0
steers e. o1e per d. weight sws ooaey MCPHERSON
9'f iI 4 per Weighs So % sTt tes
H. N ssis. z s 1'f' aU s. k snu5 GsS
steers at loc. re lb. weight IA cwt for p Duly
Sv' isST y Sais,s g Ohio a iSs
81 o psn S % Il 81 @ISs PERI 1es
cwt; SO Illinois steers at lo%c per b. with 81 off per
"a
at ios. lie per b., WEIGHTS e. cyt ga ~
nois steers at 1876 ioc per h. with $40 Of the herd,
weight, "a cwt Waxe sold 20 Illinois steers at o1ac
lie d. weight 6A cwt 81 Illinois steers at lie
held on sale.
VRAIs AND CALvEs-Trade small. Grass calves sold at
Sill S16 so per head also at &C. per ID. Smooth quality
veals sold at Sc. lO1fc per ID.
SHEEP LAMRS-Trade sheep extremely dull az SC
T1c per ID. The quality OF these hocks from
choice. Lambs not quoted Kase Pdcock sold 173
Ohio sheep weight 1880 lbs, at 5c per ID 165 Ohio
sheep weight 49, $50 lbs at eye per H. 100 ohio sheep
weight IL 10 lbs 6z H.; 2ef Ohio sheep weight
81 TIC per h. 25 Ohio sheep weight $50 lbs
7c h. Sales for the week 1894 sheep
Sc 40 per head Judd Buckingham sold for this
past week 1865 Sheep average 50 SO per head j. Kirby
sold 27e Ohio sheep weight "a 5io lbs per ID 100
Ohio sheep weight 10 $50 lbs. 6hc per h. 1856 Ohio
sheep weight IL 40 lbs 65c per l72 Ohio sheep,
weight 10 470 lbs at SO 55l per cwt r. Davis sold s
Illinois sheep. weight 1910 lbs, SIZE per H. I;
ISL state sheep, weight o7o lbs at SIC per 10 !;
I76 State sheep weight 1880 lbs, at 6&c.
lbs at ec H. 80 Ohio sheep, weight el2o lbs. at
lb Ss9 Indiana sheep weight 3 400 lbs a. 5c per ID
Ohio sheep weigh, Y oso lbs at 6 per 10 sold for this
and calves; average Si2 "a per head
HoGsTrsde small 1879 choice quality Ohio pigs gross
weight 81. $50 lbs, sold at IS 564 per cwt
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ADvANcz $50 DEcLINE

ADVANCE AND DECLINE
The changes closing prices since those Of Saturday
arc "a follows
ADVANCE New York Central, l; Michigan Central,
AZ Hannibal and ST. Joseph, il Harlem, 2; North
west common, - do. preferred. Il Ohio and Mssis
elppL 4 Panama, = Rock Island, a ST. Paul COM
uon ~ Union Pacific, x New Jersey Central, q ;
Ere Ia London, \ gold, u
DECLINE District OF Columbia LES bonds, ~
Western Union. = Pacific Mail a.
STATIONARY Delaware, Iackawanna and western,
Erie Lake shore Quicksilver and Wabash.
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PRINTING CLOTHS MARKET.
BRAZIL COFFEE MARKET.

PR0vIpEScK. r. l.. Feb IL 1875
Printing cloths dull but steady 4e cash 70 Ike 30
days. for best standard and extra goods.
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COMMERCIAL REPORT.

COTTON ON TIE SPOT oUIET-FUTUREs QUIET
FLOUR DULL-wHEAT DULL AND NORMALLY
IOWER-COEN DULL AND LOwER--OATs
DULL AND LowER-PoRK QuIET-LARD UN-
CHANGED - wHIsKEY QUIET - PETROLEUM
DUIL-sPurrs TURPRNTIsE sTEADY-EosIN
DULL-oILs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. STEADY
COFFEE QUIET-sUGAR STEADY.
MONDAY, Feb. 14-6P. N.
AT the Produce Exchange about the most important
thing done was the reconsideration by the Board Of
Managers Of The December resolution taxing the repre-
sentatves Of the press $50 per annum which gained
for them such immense notorety In reconsider
ing their previous action the Board evidently en-
deavored to let itself drop from its untenabe position
very tenderly, throwing the responsibility OF their
action upon those members of the Exchange who were
opposed to their action. Inasmuch as these
comprise nearly the entire membership, while
they in the right, they will probably
very willingly accept Of the responsibility thrust upon
them There very little business transacted to-
day. either on Change. Flour dull Wheat
dun and nomnally lower. Corn also dull and lower
Oats likewise dull and lower Whiskoy quiet
unchanged Pork quiet Lard without decided change
Freights steady Cotton quiet Coffee quiet.
Oils quiet aud unchanged Petroleum dali Naval
stores stoady. Sugar steady.
CoFFEE-Tho market for Rio quiet. The stock Of Rio
at this port tonight is 25l56o bags at Galveston 5000
do at New Orleans, l7T3 do at Mobile, $3.50 do at
Savannah 800 do at Baltimore, SC $50 Total 37l 2S3
bags We quOte:-ordinary cargoes, 14slc. 15c.;
fair do. 164c 16Sc.; good do. lie IKE; prime
do. 17 lsc Santos, fair to good l61<c IKE, gold,
1sc ninety days. Java, government bags. 23c 24c do
grass mats 23c 25c Singapore, do. 19c. zoe. Ceyon
1sLc 1870. Maracaibo. lie. Ice. Laguayra, IKE
loc Jamaica, lie lsc st. Domingo 15c 155c Porto
Rico lsc Ice Rica lsc. l9c Macassar Iec.
zoe Mexican, lie. Ishc Manila, tic 49, Argos
tura lie lsc Sayana. lie l9c Curacao. 16ca l5c.
COrToN.rhe market for spot cotton quiet but
changed Futures were quiet. The closing prices to-day
compare with Saturdays closing prices follows
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RIO JAsKIRO, Feb ~ 1916.
The coffee market II animated and prices hrm al
81 lOJ 5soO rcs per ten kiiogrammes for good hrss
Exchange on London. Z6t4
AZ santos quiet and unchanged Superior Is
quoted At 5I7OO 59OO refs per ten kiogrannes
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PHILADELPHIA STOCKS.
PHILADELPHIA STOCKS
The following the Philadelphia stock quotations
at three O'Clock this day.
THE UNITED STATES TREASURY.


The Assistant Treasurer paid out to-day $4,000 gold
for interest and $4,000 redemption OF nve-twenty
bonds The following the Treasury baances:--
Currency ST. 700 OOO coin $4,000 OOo less coin GER
thcates S34 600; bank notes received for redemp-
ton to-day, $4,000; customs, $1,000 revenue,
$500, 900
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EUROPEAN MARKETS.

LfvEnPooL PRODUCE MARKEr-LtvrRrooL Feb. a.
Evening-Linseed Oil 2fs pa 3D. per cwt
LONDON PRODUCE hARKKr-LosD0s. Feb. if-Evening. -
Lnsoed oil, 25s 3D. a IA. percwt
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OF the Union Pacific Railroad Company for the years
ending December 81, 1874 aud 1876

Surplus earnings. $5,9O7565 7,oll,7Si s11O4,2lS
Tho percentage OF operating expenses in 1875 was
Il 54-lOO per cent against a o51oo 1874 decrease
in 1875 OF 51-100 per cent
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SILVER on HAND.

Washington despatch states that the Secretary Of
the Treasury has $4,000 600 In silver on hand, and
reportsOn the supposition that fully Sl4 600 900 has
been lost destroyed and be presented for
redemption it is estimated that the substitution OF
$4,000 600 in silver will be s12 OOO 900 excess OF the
actual demand for small change Treasurer News
notice that parties forwarding good currency for re-
demption would have the Of handling printing
such good notes deducted from the amount RENTED
has had this result Banks and others forwarding
notes for redemption have sent only such as the law
contemplates may be received at government expense
and the work IN the redemption division is far
duced that twenty-five employees we're furoughed and
more are to follow a few days"
COAL ITEMS.
The Maryland Coal Company has issued a report OF
its business for the year 1875, as loliows:--
Gross profits for 1873. Sill, 162
Deduct interest on bonds. taxes Office
penses, salaries, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 30,0B
Net prOub.. botilot
Out Of which the company January 81 paid a divi-
dcnd Of cent its capital stock OF g. 600
1t also during the year, retired and cancelled S1l 900
of It's sinking fund bonds making paid on with
in three years OF $4,000, and reducing the entire
bonded Of the company TO Sill, oOo having
years 10 run before maturity
TUE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.
Tho following the reported earnings and EXPENSES
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future delivery tho sales follows Saturday
after r. M.-Febuary, 300 - 1-32c March. 400
ID 532c, 100 AZ 10 81 April 400 at Is 7l6c May,
Total 1000 bales To-day up to two p M7Fepraary 200
- 81 SIC. March. 500 at l3c, 1000 10 S-32c
600 ae 10 l-32c. 900 at 10 32c, 200 ID Lice !;
April 200 at ID 332c 2O0 at 1885, 100 at 10 1885, 500
IS5 1000 at ls 1885, 800 at 10 e-l6c June, 500 At
IS 2732c 400 at IL 1886, 200 at ID 2532c July 800
l4c. 200 at Is 15-l6c Total. 1900 bales Grand
total 1850 bales The receipts the follows
Galveston, 26JO New Orleans 6455 Mobile. 700; Savan
nah ls63; Charleston, 1888; Wilmington, 1870; Norfolk
Total 27o97 This day last week, Is, ia; this day
last year. 1880 Total since September l. 3,97.sl6
steam, &c To Hamburg. by steam 10. compressed To
Bremen by steam, lc., compressed by sail. 1l-16c To
inaL
FLOUR GRArN-Receipts-Flou e,469 bblS !;
wheat. l6O bushels meal 1910 bbls and / Ats
sacks oats 30 04o bushels; 3447S do. barley $500
do. The -four market dull but there change in
prices The sales including State Western and Southern
O5OO bills at prices within the of the xed
quotations. Corn mea active. The sales loo
nndhl ancla q q AM q xnu finna =
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NEW YORK. PEB. 10. 1876
IN so EXCHANGE PLACE.
The undersigned this day formed copartue rhp
der the firm OF Ileidelbach Ickehener Co for the
general banking business Foreign
IN ostc). PHILIP HEIDELBACH
ISAAC ICKELHEIMEt
ALFRED s. HEIDELBACH-
ESPY HElDELBACH d CO.
American citizen., 1876-02-26

give UP the contest for superiority in
growth so easy and surely as the black
walnut, but at the same time | know of
no tree that will outstrip it when every
thing is in its favor. | have Il tree grow
ing on "A river flat from the stump seven
teen years, which is now sixteen inches
in diameter few inches from the ground
1t has borne nuts for ten years.
l have another one that grew the
and six inches, and this one
came up among the other young timber
without any cultivation. l have one over
eighty feet high, and not two feet through
at the ground. / wish to say to such as
have favorable soil and location for wal
nuts, put them IN, plow thoroughly and
very deep, cultivate well the first two or
three years, and within seven or eight
years you will have the satisfaction of
seeing trees laden with rich nuts and rap
idly forming valuable timber for posts and
costly furniture; but for fuel there is
many kinds of timber much more desira-
Bile. / have planted over twenty five
bushels of walnuts. Some have grown
very well, while others have grown re-
markably slow. Butternuts / have often
planted with success, and removed trees
quite large with scarcely failure.
never have succeeded in removing the
walnut, unless very small. l once set an
evergreen hedge just under the limbs of a
walnut tree, and the three trees that were
just under the drippings of the walnut
perished, while all the others grew finely.
have tried to get apple trees to grow
near them, but have always failed. From
these observations have been led to cut
out all the walnuts from my fruit fields.
have found potatoes to be the best crop to
grow under the walnut.-Edson Gaylord
(Fzoyd County, Iosca), in ". Y. Tribune.
American citizen., 1876-02-26

The Rev. Smith II. Plat is telling
the public again how prayer and faith
cured him Of rheumatism, in reply to
some criticisms of the matter fact Rev.
J. NJ. Buckley. 1t was in a sermon in
Brooklyn on a recent Sunday. Mr.. Plat
said that he had not urged that ne was the
subject of a miracle. He knew only that
he had been lame for twenty years, and
then he became convinced that the prom
Use of the text would be fulfilled to him in
answer to special prayers. For this abid-
ing faith he gave the credit to Miss Nose
man, but he explained that the result was
an answer to his prayers, and not, as gen.
orally believed, to hers. Her announce
ment to him was that his lameness was to
be cured in answer to his prayers. g
then made up my mind" continued Mr..
Plat, 2" that l would believe was cured,
and would act as though l was cured,
leaving consequences to God and taking
performances for evidences. now walk
and know that shall continue to walk so
long as God wants me to-" Mr.. Plat be-
lieves that God intended that the church
should possess healing power through all
ages.
American citizen., 1876-02-26
A Little Girls Extravaganza.

The attention of Detectives Swan and
Waldron was recently called to the fact
that very young girl, apparently not
more that ten years of age, and of n very
bright appearance and richly dressed, had
engaged a private box at the theater for
four successive nights this week which
she paid for herself and occupied with
young companions. She was shadowed,"
and her ways of life ascertained. They
revealed an extravaganza and independ-
ence unparalleled in one SO young. She
engaged hacks continually, sometimes
paying rs much as fifteen and twenty
dollars per day for their hire alone,
purchased furs, dress goods, diamonds and
other jewelry with IA lavish hand and was
equally extravagant in other ways. There
is an absolute knowledge that within a
few months she has squandered upward of
81, 200. She is an heiress in her own
right, and the moneys she obtained from
her mother, who was her guardian, on
various pretenses-One that she was the
favOrite ofa wellknown wealthy gentleman
who invested it for her, and others that
she needed it for books al school, contri-
buttons at Sunday school, and the like
She accounted for the articles of her
purchase by saying that they were given
to her by the gentleman above alluded to-
The precocity OF her powers of deceit and
the plausibility of her representations
were very wonderful for one so young,
and her mother and grandfather were
completely deceived. When the facts
were made known by the confession of the
girl in the presence of the detectives they
were utterly a>tounded. d.-PIoctdeaee (H.
~ JOurnat.
American citizen., 1876-02-26
Rheumatism n symptom OF other Dis

The alarming extent of chronic rheuma-
tism in the country has led to persistent in
vestigation. 1t has lately been ascertained
that the disease is the result of other com
plicatcd diseases of the liver, kidneys, pan
crcas, blood, absorbcnts, etc In other
words, that rheumatism is a symptom. 1t is
also found that, by the removal of the com
plicatcd disease, the rheumatism disappears,
a result which seems to substantiate
the theory. We all know, to our sorrow,
how fruitless the ordinary treatment of this
disease has been, and we now hail with joy
the dawn of this new discovery. We all
know that the symptoms of these diseases
are generally present in cases of chronic
rheumatism, but few have supposed the
disease to be an effect
To remove these diseases the surest rem
edy can be found in the SHAKER EXTRACT
OF RooTs OR CURATIVE SYRUP; it appears
to be working many cures. We refer to
the article solG bv Druggists and A. J..
White. New York.
American citizen., 1876-02-26
The Fashion OF Failing.

The list of commercial failures is in
creasing daily, and each week seems to
brings larger number than the last. There
is no doubt that large majority Of these
bankruptcies have been inevitable for
long time, and the houses that now sue
cumb to their sad fate are acting wisely in
declining longer to continue struggle
which could at last terminate in only one
way-by suspension. But there is a grow
ing impression that not all the recent fail
urcs can be thus accounted for There
is room for more than a suspicion that
tile expenses of legal bankruptcy pro-
cess have made creditors too willing to
accept less than a fair percentage of the
debts due them by suspended concerns,
and this unusually favorable disposition
on the part of creditors has in turn led
many who might have continued to meet
their obligations, to take advantage Of the
times and scale down their debts. 1t is
becoming common for houses that have
enjoyed a fair credit, and that, for all any
body has been able to ascertain, are still
solvent, to permit their paper to go to pro-
test, and call meeting of their creditors.
So far as such bankruptcies are merely
schemes to evade the payment of just OBJ
legations, which might be met If there
was proper disposition on the part OF
the debtor firms, they are evidences
of sad decentralization in the busi-
ness community, and a sign of the
times that should excite the most
serious alarm on the part of those who be-
lIeve that commercial integrity is quite
as important necessity or the time as
financial soundness. There Is but lone
way that we know of to prevent this fash
ion of failing, if we may SO speak, from
becoming still more general and still
more injurious. TO the good name of
American merchants as body. That is,
by making the penalty of unnecessary
bankruptcies much more severe. This
remedy is, of course, to be applied only by
creditors themselves, for we already have
a sufficiency Of law on the subject. Cred
itors must see TO it that they protect their
own interests and the good reputation of
American merchants, which, fortunately,
| in this case concur in indicstlng the
proper course to be pursued. Bankruptcy
proceedings are ne more to tho taste of
debtors than of creditors, and committees
of the latter should be both more careful
and thorough in examining the state oil
| the accounts they are set to investigate,
and more resolute in requiring every firm
to pay as large a percentage of its debts a,
the result of the examination shows to be
possible. This, not for the purpose of Sc
curing the pound of flesh," but to de-
stroy the temptation to fail when it is pos
siole to avoid the final catasfrophe.-Bos
ton Adrertiser.
American citizen., 1876-02-26
pimples, Eruptions. Rough skin.

The system being put under the influence
of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for
q few weeks, the skin becomes smooth, j,
clear, soft and velvety, and being illuminated
with the glow of perfect health from within,
true beauty stands forth in all its glory.
The effects of all medicines which operate
upon the system through the medium of the
blood are necessarily somewhat slow, no
matter how good the. remedy employed:
While one to three bottles clear the skin OF
pimples, blotches, eruptions, yellow spots,
come doncs, or "grubs, - dozen may possibly
be required to cure some cases where the
system is rotten with scrofuIous or yirulent
blood poisons The cure of all these dis
eases, however, from the common pimple to
the worst scrofula is, with the use OF this
most potent agent, only a matter Of time.
Sold by dealers in medicines.
American citizen., 1876-02-26
Treatment of the Soil.

THE soil is the farmers bank. If he
would keep his accounts good and have
his drafts honored, he must take care that
his farming operations do not impoverish
his land, for that will inevitably impover-
ish him.
There are those accounted good farm
ers, because in the main, they are reason
ably successful in their management, yet
who nevertheless blindly pursue methods
that are futile in accomplishing desired
results. There is much working in the
dark, and sometimes great waste of
labor. There are some things that are
hard to be unlearned after they have been
long practiced with apparently beneficial
effects, but which really had little agency
in producing those effects.
A hundred years and more ago Jethro
Tull believed and taught that by sufficient
culture the soil would produce crops year
after year, without manure. His theory
brought disaster upon him ultimately, but
there was great lesson in his experience
which farmers failed to apply, to wit: the
value of tillage in aerating the soil. Cul-
tivation, frequent stirring, admits the air,
and when it is recollected that vegetable
and mineral manures are useless until de-
composed into their original elements,
and that decomposition can only go on by
the direct agency of the atmosphere, the
importance of the knowledge is at once
recognized. Organic matter possesses
highly fertilizing properties, but these lie
dormant and useless until decomposed,
and rendered fit for plant food, by aeration
of the soil to which this matter has been
applied. Pulverize the soil and keep it
mellow, for then it can breathe freely, so
to speak, and the more productive it will
be rendered. Herein lies the benefit OF
repeated stirring-of fall blowing, which
insures additional pulverization by the
action of frost, insuring finer tilth. And
hence, too, the beneficial effects of drain
ing the soil, carrying off stagnant water
and permitting the air to take its place.
We must not lose sight of the fact thai
with properly aerating the soil, the con
stituents removed from it must be returned
and that in the use of manures it is wei
to consider not only what is desired fo
an immediate crop. hut also the condition
in which the soil will be left for succeed
ing crops. Judicious culture and proper
rotations will insure good crops, and a
the same time the land will not dcterioratt
in fertility Western Rurat.
American citizen., 1876-02-26

EcoSoMY.-You will save money by using
Proctor d; Candles Original 1nottted German
Soap. 1t will not waste nor become soft
like ordinary yellow soap when used in warm
water, hor is it cheapened with articles inju
rious to clothes. Remcnl6er, you obtain full
pound bar if you purchase their brand.
To project their brand from imitators
Proctor e. Gamble patented it, and the patent
was sustained in the United States Courts.
E1anaine rte stamp on the ba,s achen gov
buy. Take their Soap 0rslu.
American citizen., 1876-02-26

He came home very late one night, and
after tumbling with his latch key good
while, muttered to himself as he at length
opened the door, Z" L mushhmakeny
noish, caush tholoman's ashleep." He
divestcd himself of his garments with
some trouble, and was congratulating
himself ON his success as he was getting
into bed, when calm, clear, cold voice sent
II chill down his spinal column: "Why,
my dear, you amt going to sleep in your
hat, are you?"
American citizen., 1876-02-26

-Conceited to the last was the wealthy
citizen of Savannah, Ga, who closed his
will with the remark that never in his life
had he done a thing necessary to be atoned
fer or Iprretted
American citizen., 1876-02-26

IT Is SAID 10 be extremely vulgar TO shake
hands with any one you know, and any
one you don't know won't shake with
you if you want To-.