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CORN MEAL.

CObN MEAL,
Owing to the increasing demand for this arti-
Gle the receipts steadily increased from 1866 un
til in 1894 they amounted to 1911 bbls. In
1B14-T5 they fell of to 146,2sg and in 1855 fur
however. the supplies have been more liberal,
and the years receipts amount to ,635 bbls /;
sh,G9Wfng an increase oyer last year. of 49, 14s.
The market opened In September at " Asa
80. reached its lowest point of " 4002 45 March
30. and Its highest Of % 25@3 81, and closed at
% 80.
In glancing at the years movement we find
that our receipts for the five months from Sep
tember to January inclusive amounted to 81 .4ss
bushels. against 196s in ls75.-76,. after which
tude until the nearly the close of July. since
which the arrivals have been more liberal, en-
bracing nearly l7.00o bushels for the fortnight
ending ON the 17th of August and 36.s47 since.
CORN.
In proceeding to review the market for this
important we find the gratifying fact that
while the receipts Of 1856 presented an in
srease the Rbrsv9as e year Of but e
eveess over 1876 of about 100000. The pre-
else agures are 5,02e,944 bushels this year.
before This shows q decidedly satisfactory
progress. The distribution of the increase has
been almost entirely for export the plantation
demand showing but little variation from last
year
The following table shows the distribution OF
our increased receipts for the past year:
1s76-77. bushels.
Stock on hand Sept. 1......s4t.. -........ 42,5W
Receipts since. Observation-Disclosures. -. 944
Total supply. y.........................5 &, 5,O69. .4A
Exported to Great Britain. 574 ,YB
Exported to the Continent. ...1, 7152
Exported to Cuba. .--...... 6a,568
Exported to other foreign ports,
mostly Gulf. ..............s.. 1887
Exported to Northern Atlantic
ports s..........,. ............. $4,000
Stock on hand August 81, 1877. 1876 500
- 2.p51, ,421
Left for Southern d stribution ........ 2118o2a
Shipped to neighboring Gulf ports.... 012. .432
Taken for cons mption. including
neigbboring plan alton supply -. 1tO5. .5g1
The following gives the fortnghtly 1uctua-
tiOns In prices for the yetr:
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The following compares the monthly receipts
ocl9ph
BRAN.

Tho receipts embrace 14O,5s4 sacks against
161 4s5 last year and 125,77o the, year be.
fore. This shows falling off from last year Of
20,9o1 sacks. but an ocrecse over the previous
year of 1854. The exports show but little va
Ration.
| The following gives the closing prices MONTH
| lv com mpared with last wear.
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Send fifty cents to Eyrich for That Husband CT
of Miueo
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If Claude Melnotte was not an ideal eharact'

Country merchants in want Of books and Sta
tionery, order from Eyrich.
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The following gives the monthly sales and re-
eeipts compared with last year and the year

t0lT7g 12I470 1420Os g767s HOIST 1a9o7g
From the Price Currents sugar crop book we
give the reeaptulation of the crop by parishes,
together with the yield of Molasses:
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VIth IMSt Wei


With the increased attention paid to raising
corn in the Southern States, the plantation de-
mand for that cereal has fallen Off but as yet
there has been but little surplus left for feeding
planters have made more meat than formerly
and with the necessity Of diversifyng Southern
Industry, and checking the cultivation o cotton.
lest an excessive supply should bear down
constant tendency to increase the number Of
hogs on plantation as well as extend the area Of
corn. Without an increase i a the latter. we can
not expect any In the former. After reaching
certain point, the two Industries must advance
together An abundant crop of corn points
70 larger supply Of, hogs. The cost OF
the latter depends upon the former 1t IL man
ltest then that Tor some years To come we shall
continue dependent upon the West for our pork.
1t does not follow, however, that the market
price Of corn. The price of corn regulates the
cost OF hogs to the farmer. but when placed
upon the market they become the stock in trade
OF speeuators,. who control the price often with
much more the case since dealing in futures has
been carried to such q remarkable extent In the
Western and Northern markets than formerly.
when the movement was confined to what are
now called spots.
The course of prices shows a material falling
9f IN the average price. as wei as more regu-
larity in the movement In making q retrospect
OF several years we find that the extremes Of
mess pork were SIS 25 and s22 in 1919: sl4 50
and s25 in 1874; SIT and s2e so in ts7475; and
s17 80 and s26 in 1s75-76 while In the past year
They have been S13 rs and SO 80. This Indicates
on important saving to the planter in the cost of
MS products. and ha prevented losses in cotton
which would have otherwise been inevitable
the markets mu have heen governed more by
the operations Of spectators than by the laws
OF trade.
For the twelve months ending March 1. the
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The following shows the monthly movemen
compared with last year:
RECEIPTS

The receipts show but little variation sum-
ming up 53,8O6 bales, against 675 last year.
and 141 S79 the year before. Prices have shown
a much narrower range than last year. the ex-
tremes Of the closing quotations monthly being
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Receipts. Sales.
RICE.

The steady progress of Rice planting In Lou
isiana has attracted general attention. The
area has been annually extended and upon the
in the Price Currents Sugar and Rice Crop Book
as follows:
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FLOUR.

We are still looking for revival of the trade
In this leading Western product, but SO far, in
stead Of progress, our market has shown q con
tnued retrogression. Our heaviest receipts
were in 1869-7O; in 1.7071 they were 1,541 .2s1 !;
during the next three years they averaged
1.o45.o3'; in the ensuing year. 1874-75. they
and for the past year sum up only G51 .Go2 A
considerable part Of this deficiency is repre-
sented by marked falling off to Great Britain
ments to Gulf ports. There. is no .escap-
ing the conclusion that. although the in
terror South and Southwest have drawn
production, yet that the decline in the trade is
owing to the tributary districts, Of Indianola,
directly by rail from the Western markets.
Under this successful competition of the rail
with the river aud of the other latitudnal lines
Is manifest that In order to recover the trade 1t
is essential that there should be no discrimina-
ton against our market by rail. and that river
mum point. by which We mean the point at
which produce can be carried with the least
river should undoubtedly be our chief objective
point, tor a reduction in river freights compels
the competing rail to reduce also.
The years receipts sum UP only G3l 602 bbls,
against 79l ,7o1 last year. showing a decrease Of
16o,099; and yet last years were the smallest on
record SINCE 1ss7-68. and 312so3 less than the
off was mainly caused by the shrnkage in our
local trade. the exports showing but lit varia-
u0n. put curing tne past year tne deHcleney Is
mostly in the shipments to Gulf ports. To Illus
trate the distribution and movement, we give
the following tables:
Stock on hand September /, 1876 ........ 1880
Received SINCE 631 ,602
Total supply. ....-..................... G5s,9S2
Cleared for transatlantic ports .... 9.2O1
Gle red for Atlantic ports ......... 1O,76s
On hand September |. 1876. 2.007
- 1876
Left for Southern distribution 615,O06
Taken for city consumption. 429.7c5
Taken for Gulf foreign Dol tS....- 25,207
Taken for Gulf domestic ports. ..16o.29i
- 5,OO6
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Up to the close of February the exports
summed UP 1929 hhds for the six months. against
only IgTs In 1876 76, and embraced 1879 TO Spanish
and Italian ports. against 155 In 1s75-76: last to
Bremen. etc, against 32S; 1888 to France, Bor-
dea1x and Marseilles, against 81 115 to Liver
pool. against 81: and ss4 coastwise. against $780,
The total for the year amounts to e4oB hhds
against 1852 in 1885, and embrace TIA to
Liverpool. against $685. 4753 to Havre, Bor-
deaux and Marseilles, against 477p: 2l64 to
Bremen, against 354p, and 2o1T to coastwise
ports, against 2sT4. These figures show the gen
real distributions.
The following gives the totals monthly. to-
gether with the receipts and sales. compared
With laaf upnr. y
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For the twelve months ending March 1. the
lumber of hogs packed in the West compares

These figures Indicate a remarkable revolu-
ton in this industry in the rise of the summer
parking. What was mere experiment q few
years since has now become a successful i'm
proyement Even in 1928, when summer
packing had assumed some Importance nearly
% per cent Of the product was packed In winter:
Ia 1675-76 but frac ion over 10 per cent; and in
makes the proportion Of summer to vi Hter
packing fraction over 9 per. cent In 1928,
Is per cent in 1s76-77. This remarkable success
Of summer packing Is highly suggestive to the
Southern planter, and indicates that when the
supply Of corn Is sufficient to make the hogs
the means will not be wanting to pack them,
The actual supply and distribution is exhibit
ed by the following table in which we give a
comparison with the two preeeding years:
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16T576.
1SB77.
Rpnnrfpf

Total .18.51O.625 100000 12,726365 4695, 900
BACON.
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The following gives the general monthly
compared with last year:
SALES. RECEIPTS. EXPORTS
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as 70 lows in barrels and sacks: ts7172. AZ 190: :
1928, 73.424 1874. 1B6.49s 1S7475 1O5. .865
1876, 159,761 1861, 167 80.
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In reviewing the movem ent Of the year it will
be observed that adding the receipts, (a3l7
khdsl to the stock on hand Mt the commence
ment tl ,osi hhds) gives a total supply of 30 1893
hhds, of which 1860 have been broken up for
baling. city consumption, ETC.. and 940s have
hhdu
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COLOR4DO'S ANTIQTE.

We have the stone giant from Colorado
among u.s. Oar readers are probably familiar
with the story of its alleged discoyery-how
its toes were first seen sticking out of the
ground. Their length gives plausibility to
that part of the account Next came the
unearthinc: the viewing by gaping crowds;
the general sensation. With great OppOltune-
ness, Mr. Barnum, Ithe Snowman. then ap-
reared upon the scene. That, of course, was
n streak of luck all around; and equally OF
course. Mr.. Barnum took deep interest.
He is good judge of curiosltles;
woolly horses, what-is-its, Feejee mermaids
and the like. One point in the trans
action as reported, il of noteworthy in
terest. Perhaps Mr.. Barnum was rejecting on
the circumstance that there was n Cardiff
giant discovered few years ago; he appears
to have been anxious to put an estoppel upon
future developments OF the same sort. " There
"may probably be n whole graveyard of them
lying around said the shrewd Snowman and
so he proposed to withhold part of the pur-
chase money for a time, till there was a little
less probability OF duplicates.
1t is not claimed for the Colorado giant, rs
for that of Cardiff, that it Is n work of an
Gent art. We are not sure that the new
departure is in this respect WISE though it
certainly is in avoiding the numerous mistakes
that were made with the earlier specimen
There Is 10 probability of finding modern
chiscl marks on the Colorado stone, as its
surface seems to be pitted with small cayi-
ties. We are not to conclude that the pre-
historic man was subject to q yiruleut small
p0X these are the marks of a corOsiOn Of the
stone. He had, however, TAIL flattened shns,
feet like those Of the gorilla, low forehead
and large hind-hcad. What more could any
body ask OF a missing link9 Still ii would be
we'll 10 hunt up the Cardiff gant-which must
be somewhere about-and put it alongside, for
the sake of comparative anatomy.
Wonderful fossils have been found in Col
orado, and also much gold-bcaring quartz.
This is evidently not a fossil perhaps, though,
il may prove to be cold-bcaring limestone.
We say tins is not a fossil, because hitherto
fossils have been confined to the bony and
hard parts of animas-but this Is novelty,
and is, perhaps, the exception. II Is oelleVed
by its fnders-to have been formed by
some such process az goodies have resulted
from. Petrifcd men are not sufficiently IRE
qucnt to enable us TO form judgment ON
this one. Several respectable Democrats have
been nearly pctrified with surprise recently Mt
the performances of their representatives in
Congress, but so far rs il yet known, they
have taken no such semi-slmian shape, what
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9nNer 10 A0rsrnaemenIs.

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BUSINESS NnIi.i -lh Iroc-lst column
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ConrOH tIffN NDTlrI~-Hf I0gc-bih column.
torNrut EDAun-Tu Ifgr-fd column.
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IINANDIu.~h fnIC-lth and olh columns
ItSI Alr--n'i IGJf-G'h column.
fInNITTHI- rit IrIf.l+t column.
IDF tUTkN- ..f faIf-0th column.
INsrHilIID>- nW T00f-ttl aud OH columns
In.T Asp IOt Nu-.d I0Je-0ih column.
nlAuuIr htn ~iATE Ih.ftf+.~H inGf-h'h c'luWh'
NAurfto.. AID Df Aut--th IVic-u'H column o.,
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Iffl.fuI. NUlItIe. sh iugf--d nud Ai columns.
s,tt. Dbl ti.tfuN-TI4 Idlf-1. $50 column.
hrfstN Nnr...-..fi IHIr .G.h column
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sIftWruIIs ANu RAILROADS t.I fn4c-lth ana 'iA
srr,v.r.. Orf,>.-H 1ge-ith column.
Tftrfius. Iurf.-fh column.
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THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE FOR 1878

4
THE TRIBUNE has long enjoyed the distinc-
ton of the largest circulation among the best
people. During the year 1873 it will spend more
labor and money than ever before to deserve
that prominence which it secured. and
means to retain, by becoming the medium Of
the best thought and the voice Of the
best conscience Of the time; by keeping abreast
of the highest progress, favOring the freest
discussion, hearing all sides, appealing always
to the best intelligence and the purest mOrali-
ty, and refusing to cater to the tastes of
the vile or the prejudices of the ignorant.
The continued popular approval, and the con-
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are the best proofs that it is still faithful to
these early secrets of its strength.
TIE TRIBUNE earnestly strOye for the
election of President Hayes and it gives
its heartiest support to the high pur-
poses Of his Administration. Doubling
the wisdom Of methods sometimes taken
by his subOrdinates, and criticising
with entire freedom his occasional mis-
takes, it still thinks it the duty of the hour to
hold together and strengthen the party that
elected and alone sustains him. 1t believes
the day of danger to the negro has passed,
and that of danger to the TaX-Payer
has come The Solid South Cat last in fuil con-
troll of every Rebel and Border State) sees its
chance to get at the National Treasury, and get
back what it lost by the war; Only ~ Northern
votes are needed. If Tammany Hall could fur
nish Newly rk, then Indiana, or COnnectcutand
New-Jersey, would suffice. The danger is upon
us; and against it the old party Of Freedom,
still the party Of the Churches and the School
Houses, is the only bulwark. 1t alone can keep
the Solid South from graspng the National
Government in 1880. 1t alone can save us
even now, from the threatened Democratic
abandonment Ofresumption and renewed debase-
ment OF the currency, which would needlessly
and most wickedly check the revival of bust
ness, and treble the countrys burdens. In be-
half of the old party, therefore, The TRIBUNE
renews the old appeal TO the National con-
science, the National honor, and the enlightened
self-interest of the Taxpayers.
TIE TRIBUNE asks those who sympathize
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ever may be supposed Of their Congressman
who are not petrifed.
1t is in the memoirs Of Sam Slick-if Nom.
DRY serves aright-that the story is told Of
ship-owner, not well grounded in the rudi-
ments, who had the name Of his new vessoI
painted on its stern, Asia" His friends
objected to the orhography, but no ds.
comlited his critics by the reply: "If
A-s-b-a doesn't spell Asia, what docs II
spell2o IL the ques is put to ma
{" If the Colorado stone is not n petrifed man
"what is itp we shall reply to the comm
drum, We give it up. That question, if if ho
question, could have been easily answered
H. when the specimen was broken across tho
neck, during the process of uneartbipo il
it had been left open to inspection. in.
stead oil being somewhat promptly cement
ed together. The question can be an
swored now, very readily, by saving
the specimen IN two. 1t is not such n work of
art that anybody would grieyc over the
sacrilege, as when the Portland vase was shat
tered; and if the saving was neatly done tho
parts could be rejoined by any mcnder of Old
china, with much greater neatness than tho
owner displayed in mending the broken neck.
But whether the result would pay for the
trouble, or in fact would pay at ALL is also
ouoetioD
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POLITIClL NOTES.

In place of unlimited silver We shall merely ha'o
season of unlimited wind.
There seems TO be about as much condensed foiiy
in the Senate as in the unreconclieu HOUSE,
The Pilgrim Fathers made mistake when they
settled in the same continent with the Mexican
people.
General Gordon's vote for silver initiation would
seem toiudicate, that asareconclatonollyeb r anch
EitZmmOas was failure
As Senator Booth knows better, his vote for tho
Bland Bin can be explained only rs desire 10 en-
courage home industry on the Pacific coast
Mr.. Thurman cautiously suggests that there IS
much intelligence and ability outside OF tins Sen"'e
II is in order now for some one to give an III
opinion OF the inside.
The Democrats have made a conspicuous ESQ
ob,,o Marty m the Colorado case Ih'y hau TO I''o
b,,, ipstico and decency at the same ume' Dut
that was a mere trile 10 tAeh'
Tho true theory Of Stanley Matthew's relations
will, ibe Administration seems 70 be that he shall
mako q furious defence OF its mistakes aud veto
unninchingly aGairst all It's wise measures.
The long recess of Congress will be an admirable
thing for the public credit. A little intercourse
with the people viii teach wayerng statesmen tnat
the way 10 popularity Is. as II always has Doo" '"0
way Of honesty and far dealing
The tempest in the Toledo Post once teapot n"S
boiled over again with tremendous szzlins' A"V
old charges of a bargain with Stanley Matthews ana
the President and the now Postmaster are all Como
over again for tho hundrodth time; the local press
is crammed with interviews and counter interviews,
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THE FLASHING TON IND LEE UNIVERSTTY
The Northern subscriptions toward the Cen
tennial Endowment Fund for Washington and
Lee University. at Lexington, Va, have been
quite large, considering the hard times, and
general interest seems to have been manifested
in the advancement OF the fortunes Of the in
stitution, which dates from colonial times, and
was endowed, while it was still only
an academy, by President Washington
and other soldiers Of the Revolution. Since
the war it has received several munincent do
nations; the centennial year brought It encour.
agement and money from almost all parts OF
the Union; and amOng other generous bene-
factors Of the university was Mr. l.. j. McCor-
mick Of Chicago, who offered 10 give bis mag
nifcent telescope, made by Avian Clark of
Cambridge, at a cost Of $50, 600, provided the
institution would raise the necessary funds to
equip and maintain it.
We believe that nothing has yet been done
toward the acceptance Of this proposal, the
trustees probably having all they could do TO
provide for the general expenses of the col
lege. Ii seems to be time to make a move
mcnt, and it has been suggested, privately,
By friends of the university. that ladies
IN various parts OF the States who are
interested in its prosperity might take
it upon themselves to collect what may he
required. The plan strikes us as n good one
Why cannot the ladies of different cities
arrange entertainments for the benefit of this
cause on the next birthday Of Washington
The character Of the festival might be adapted
in each place to the tastes and needs of the par
ticuar locality; society in one town may
be wild for fancy fairs, while in another it is
in want of nothing so much as private theat-
rcals, and in third it will notice nothing
lower than loan exhibition of pottery and
bric-a-brac. Whatever may be for the place
and the moment the most promising scheme Of
raising money, the women may be trusted to
discern it.
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with its views to interest themselves in ex-
tending It's circulation and it offers as special
reason the voluntary testimony from the
official heads of the Republican party to the
eupcrior influence its honest and self-respect-
ing course has given it over the most import
ant classes Of vOters-those who cast 'helr
ballots according to the dictates OF conscience
and Judgment, rather than the mere deihahuS
of marty disciplnc. Only by these votes can
the Republican party again triumph; and 1t Is
the official testimony of its leaders that no
other agency can reach these voters like HE
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" composed of the old associates OF Air. Greeley.
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