the 1st of July. The following table shows the rate of this reduc President Vanderbilt refused to restore wages in the face of menaces, but held out good promises for the future, if order were preserved, which promises were amply redeemed afterward. Trains were stopped at Syracuse, Buffalo, and West Albany, but the strikers were dispersed without bloodshed or serious destruction of property. On the Erie road, a great meeting of firemen, brakemen, and trackmen was held at Hornellsville on the 20th of July, and a strike resolved upon, making known their demand for larger wages, which the company declined to comply with. Gangs of strikers took possession of the trains and tore up railway tracks, but militia arriving from Rochester, and Governor Robinson, of New York, issuing a proclamation offering a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of any one interfering with railway trains, the mob were speedily cowed. The firemen and brakemen agreed to go to work again at the 10 per cent reduction, while on the company's part it was stipulated that no men were to be discharged except those who had destroyed the company's property. In Ohio the Lake Shore road was visited with a strike at Cleveland; and on July 21st to the 25th, mobs gathered at Newark, Toledo, and Cincinnati, and elsewhere, mainly composed of roughs and tramps, striving to close up factories and rolling-mills. Governor Young ordered out the militia and issued a proclamation, and this, with public meetings of the citizens, soon put down all violence, limiting the evil accomplished to the stoppage of freight between the West and the East. Chicago was the centre of one of the most furious mob movements, mainly engineered by the most radical of Communists, and was only saved from pillage and conflagration by the prompt organization and vigorous handling of its police force. Yelling crowds patrolled the streets, seizing upon arms and ordering all the workmen in machineshops, factories, and elevators to quit labor. The mob was harangued by Communist orators with such words as these, "We know what we are fighting for and what we are doing: let us kill those d-d aristocrats." It was at one time feared that Chicago would be a scene of blood, and the Governor of Illinois telegraphed, like the Governors of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, for the aid of Federal troops, which, however, was not ultimately required. At St. Louis, the Working Men's Party, as it was called, almost put out of sight the railroad strikers by their high-handed movements, by closing mills and factories, and compelling laborers and mechanics to stop work. Numerous strikes occurred throughout Missouri, but these, as well as the St. Louis movement, were soon put down. The whole country by the second week of the strikes was aroused to such indignation at the arrogant despotism of the strikers, and the violence, destruction, and bloodshed they had been guilty of, that there is no doubt the rioters would ultimately have fared more hardly at the hands of the people than of the soldiery, had they not been promptly put down by the show of military power. The blockade of supplies put the strikers in the attitude of saying to the producers of the West and the consumers of the East, “You shall suffer, and if need be starve, until we get our wages advanced. No more food shall be taken to market until we grant permission." The press of the whole country, almost without exception, enforced the true view of the case, and the prompt and vigorous action of the general Government in placing the whole power of the military at the points where it was most needed, proved that our republican government, contrary to what is sometimes asserted, is not weak nor halting in the presence of popular violence and insurrection. No language, says a modern critic, supplies so many illustrations of the art of carrying things too far, as the German. That language has seven deadly sins, viz.: 1. Too many volumes in the language. 2. Too many sentences in a volume. 3. Too many words in a sentence. "As good almost kill a Man as kill a good Booke; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, God's Image; but he who destroys a good Booke kills reason itself. A good Booke is the precious life blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured on purpose to a life beyond life."-Milton's Areopagitica. TOM BROWN used to remark of bad wine (such as was ordinarily served at taverns in his day, as it still is in our own), that it was a better argument for sobriety than all the volumes of morality could afford." [From the (official) Statistical Abstract of the United Kingdom, 1877.] QUANTITIES OF WHEAT AND FLOUR IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM, 1861-1876. FROM WHAT Austrian Denmark 1865. 1866. 1867. 1868. Russia.. Sweden. United St's. 7,385,717 6,511,718 4,548,386 pendencies 3,734,751 2,241,368 5,880,430 4,311,795 3,697,848 5,372,873 1,030,968 4,027,131 11,008,607 11,821,280 5,548,271 2,588,028 4,053,564 1,529,765 4,448,555 9,290,280 294,263 1,766,305 6,953,811 4,799,385 4,009,770 1,354,844 23,063 7,319,246 16,980,683 10,762,353 13,454,617 12,058, 606 27,065,460 559,192 331,890 344,734 12,991 49,399 161,744 387,509 634,862 1,557,963 779,505 196,372 443,653 712,963 680,518 1,032,700 701,001 Total.... 13,244,366 11,694,818 12,736,594 6,285,938 7,096,033 14,322,863 8,540,429 11,472,226 17,664,113 16,756,783 16,825,023 24,582,670 18,823,431 17,693,625 20,438,480 39,963,369 [Condensed, with additions, from the Financial Review, 1877.J TABLE FOR INVESTORS. THE following table shows the rate per cent of annual income to be realized from stocks or bonds hearing any given rate of yearly dividends or interest, from 1 to 20 per cent, when purchased at various prices from 10 to 300 per cent. This table applies equally well to both stocks and bonds, and has nothing to do with the length of time which a bond has to run to maturity. For example: To ascertain what rate of annual interest will be realized on a bond or stock which bears 7 per cent per annum and can be purchased at 92 (i.e., at 92 per cent of its par value, whatever the par may be), find 92 in the column of "purchase price" and follow that line across to the column headed "7 per cent," which will show the correct figures-in the present instance, 7 per cent. 20. 15 3.65 60 13.63 16.59 18.18 20.45 22.72 27.27 31.81 33.18 36.36 40.90 11.53 14.03 15.38 17.30 19.23 23.07 26.92 28.07 30.76 34.61 12.16 13.33 15 16.66 20 23.33 24.33 26.66 30 5.88 7.15 7.84 8.82 9.80 11.76 13.72 14.31 15.68 17.64 19.60 23.52 29.41 71% 4 per 41p'r 5 per 6 per 7 per 8 per 9 per 10 per 12 per 15 per per cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. cent cent. cent. cent. cent. cent. 170 173 180 190 46.66 48.66 53.33 60 35 36.50 40 45 100 120 150 66.66 80 100 50 75 9.09 9.73 10.66 12 9.12 10 11.25 13.51 16.21 20.27 13.33 16 20 13.15 15 78 19.73 12.98 15.58 19.48 12.82 15.38 19.23 12.65 15.18 18.98 12 50 15 18 75 12.34 14.81 18.51 9.75 10.97 12.19 14.63 18.29 9.63 10.84 12.04 14.45 18.04 86... 3.48 4.24 4.65 5.23 5.81 6.97 8.13 8.48 9.30 10.46 11.62 13.95 17.44 87. 3.44 4.19 4.59 5.17 5.74 6.89 8.04 8.39 9.19 10.34 11.49 13.79 17.24 88... 3.40 4.14 4.54 5.11 5.68 6.81 7.94 8.29 9.09 10.22 11 36 13.63 17.04 89... 3.37 4.10 4.49 5.05 5.61 6.74 7.86 8.20 8.98 10.11 11.23 13.48 16.85 90... 3.331 4.051 4.44 5 5.55 6.66 7.77 8.11 8.88 10 11.11 13.33 16.66 91... 3.29 4.01 4.391 4.94 5.49, 6.59 7.691 8.02 8.79 9.89 10.98 1.318) 16.48 92.. 3.26 3 96 4.34 4.89 5.43 6.52 7.60 7.93 8.69 9.78 10.86 1.304 16.30 93... 3.22 3.92 4.30 4 83 5.37 6.45 7.52 7.84 8.60 9.67 10.75 1 290 16.12 94... 3.19 3.88 4.25 4.78 5.31 6.38 7.44 7.76 8.51 9.57 10.63 1.276 15.95 95.. 3.15 3.84 4.21 4.73 5.26 6.31 7.36 7.68 8.42 9.47 10.52 1.263 15.78 6 10 96... 3.10 3.80 4.16 4.68 5.20 6.25 7.29 7.60; 8.33 9.37 10.41 12.50 15.72 97... 3.09 3.76 4.12 4.63 5.15 6 18 7.21 7.52 8.24 9.27 10.30 12.37 15.46 98... 3.06 3.72 4.08 4.59 5.10 6.12 7.14 7.45 8.16 9.18 10.20 12 24 15.30 99... 3.03 3.68 4 04 4.54 5.05 6.06 7.07 7.37 8.08 9.09 10.10 12.12 15.15 100. 3 3 65 4 4.50 5 7 7.30 8. 9 101.. 2.97 3.61 3.96 4.45 4.95 5.94 6.93 7.22 7.92 8.91 102... 2.94 3.57 3.92 4.41 4.90 5.88 6.86 7.15 7.84 8.82 103 2.91 3.54 3.88 4.36 4.85 5.82 6.79 7.08 7.76 8 73 104... 2.88 3.50 3.84 4.32 4 80 5.76 6.72 7.01 7.69 8.65 2.85 3.47 3.80 4.28 4.76 5.71 6.66 6.95 7.61 8.57 105 106. 107.. 2.83 3.441 3.77 4.24 4.71 5.66 6.60 6.88 7.54 8.49 2.80 3.41 3.73 4.20 4.67 5.69 6.54 6.82 7.47 8.41 108. 2.77 3.37 3.70 4.16 4.62 5.55 6.48 6.75 7.40 8.33 109.. 2.75 3.34 3.66 4.12 4.58 5.50 6.42 6.69 7.33 8.25 110. 2.72 3.31 3.63 4.09 4.54 5.45 6.36 6.63 7.27 8.18 111... 2.70 3.28 3.60 4.05 4.50 5.40 6.30 6.57 7.20 8.10 112... 2.67 3.25 3.57 4.01 4.46 5.35 6.25 6.51 7.14 8.03 113.. 2.65 3.23 3.54 3.98 4.42 5.30 6.19 6.46 7.07 7.96 114.. 2.63 3.20 3.50 3.94 4.38 5.26 6.14 6.40 7.01 7.89 115. 2.60 3.17 3.47 3.91 4.35 5.21 6.08 6.34 6.95 7.82 116... 2.58 3.14 3.44 3.87 4.31 5.17 6.03 6.29 6.89 7.751 117.. 2.56 3.11 3.41 3.84 4.27 5.12 5.98 6.23 6.83 7.69 118.. 2.54 3.09 3.38 3.81 4.23 5.08 5.93 6.18 6.77 7.62 119.. 2.52 3.06 3.36 3.78 4.20 5.04 5.88 6.13 6.72 756 120... 2.50 3.04 3.33 3.75 4.16 5 5.83 6 08 6.66 7.50 5.78 6.03 6.61 7.43 121. 2.47 3.01 3.30 3.71 4.13 4 95 135 12 15 9.90 11.58 14.85 9.80 11.76 14.70 9.70 11.65 14.56 9.61 11.53 14.42 9.52 11.42 14.28 9.43 11.32 14.15 9.34 11.21 14.01 9.25 11.11 13.88 9.17 11 13.76 9.09 10.90 13.63 140.. 250.. 275.. 300. 145. 2.301 2.80 3.08 3.46 3.84 4.61 5.38 5.61 6.15 6.92 |