the Mississippi, the Red, the Upper Missouri and 
the Yellowstone, and their many tributaries. 
Crossing at right-angles the valleys of the 
Mississippi and the Red River of the North, the 
northern route traverses the rolling prairies of 
Dakota to the broad and fertile valleys of the 
Missouri and Yellowstone. The latter it follows 
nearly the entire length of Montana to the foot 
of the mountains. .Ascending t he eastern slope 
by an almost imperceptible grade, and sur¬ 
mounting the divide by a pass so remarkable 
that Jl almost.constitutes a gateway through the 
mountains, the Northern line enters the valley 
of a branch of the Columbia, and follows that 
noble river to tidewater on the Pacific. The 
leading advantages resulting to the Northern 
Pacific Railroad from the low altitude of the 
valley route along which it is building are:—1. 
A rnild climate and a sheltered position. 2. Ex¬ 
emption from deep and drifting snows, and 
hence, with ordinary precautions, entire free¬ 
dom from winter obstructions. 3. A productive 
and verdure-covered country flanking the road, 
resulting in rapid settlement, a large tributary 
population, and a profitable local truffle 
abundance of good water. 
originated from the use of this domestic imple¬ 
ment. 8ee the new Improvements and Woods’ 
Lock-Stitch Ripper. 
Special Fertilizer*—We notice that Mr. Geo. 
E. White of 1H0 Front St., New York, the well- 
known importer of German Potash, Phnspbatio 
Guanos, and the Soluble Pacific fjvann, j s press¬ 
ing upon the public the claims of the Soluble 
Pacific to be considered the best general fertil¬ 
izer without exception, having the exact and 
properly balanced proportions of ammonia, 
soluble phosphoric acid and potash, that is re¬ 
quired for nearly all crops, while It is. from the 
presence of the potash, specially adapted lo 
potatoes, clover and tobacco. Ne«rly all our 
light loams and sandy soils are greatly benefited 
by the application of a fertilizer with just these 
constituents, and we may safely recommend it 
for such land.— Ex. 
GENERAL REVIEW. 
Title English Parliament is very anxious about 
the Alabama Claims, but can got no satisfaction 
from Gladstone—The famous Dusaoldorf art- 
gallery bus been destroyed There has been a 
great rise In Erio stock The French arms in¬ 
vestigation thus far falls to implicate 1 he Gov¬ 
ernment Ex-Coilector Murphy has been ex¬ 
amined at length In Washington. He exoner¬ 
ates the President from all connection with 
Custom He use frauds ...Severe weather, great 
storms and serious fires are reported_Mayor 
Hall's trial makes no progress_St. Patrick’s 
day passed off quietly. 
man, aged 34, intemperate, shot his wife in Sixth 
street, N. Y a on the lkth, ’killing her •instantly 
Justus Dunn, aged 16, killed Ids keeper at 
Randall's Island on the 17th, by stabbing him 
wilii a shoe knil'e—A negro named John White, 
shot several negroes near Memphis on the 17th, 
killing two There Is a suicide mania at Scran¬ 
ton, with three attempts at self-deal ruction re¬ 
ported Marcus Keheuck committed suicide in 
Pittsburgh on the kith. 
Political. 
Tuk Republicans of Itbode Island endorse 
Grunt and Coll'ax, mul nominate Seth Padelford 
for Governor. It is denied that Senator Sum¬ 
ner will preside at the Cincinnati Convention_ 
A National Convention to nominate Judge Chase 
is talked of at Parkersburg, W. Va ..The Con¬ 
necticut campaign has opened_Ex-Collector 
Murphy has been giving Custom House testi¬ 
mony at Washington; he exonerates the Presi¬ 
dent. Purler, and Babcock Amnesty and Civil 
Rights are to be considered again in the Senate. 
.. - The Ku-Klux testimony makes ten volumes 
of 000 pages!. The Christian Union endorses 
Gen. Grant Ex-Collector Murphy's examina¬ 
tion a i Washington disclosed the fact that he 
knew very 111 lie about running a custom house. 
gov. Warinntli of Louisiana tins visited Wash¬ 
ington The Governor of New Jersey asks for 
a repeal of the Jersey City Charter . The 
kronen arms investigation has proved nothing 
.vet implicating the Government: It Is likely to 
collapse At the fiisi election in I lull. I he wo- 
me" voted v.n mange.. The 2:* tmr cent, tax levy 
bill has passed the N. Y. Senate... .The rapid- 
transit question excites much attention at Al¬ 
bany . It Is proposed to legislate Mayor Hall 
out of office . The Republican majority In New 
Hampshire was 1,127.. The Chicago Relief bill 
has passed the Senate . ..The China Mail Subsidy 
bill has been defeated... The New Jersey Assem¬ 
bly lias passed a bill for a now railroad from Jer¬ 
sey City to Philadelphia.. And now the Tri¬ 
bune calls Mr. Nust Harper’s pictorial black¬ 
guard 1 ” The Times supports Nust. 
DOMESTIC) NEWS, 
The Grand Revolution In Medical Treatment, 
which was commenced tn 1800. is still In progress! 
Nothing can stop it, for It is founded on the 
principle, now universally acknowledged, that 
physical vigor is the most formidable antagonist 
of all human ailments, and experience has shown 
that Plantation Bitters Is a perfect lnvlgorant, 
as well as the best possible safeguard against 
epidemic diseases. 
New York City and Vicinity. 
Mathias Clark, one of the jurymen in the 
trial of Mayor Hall, has died, and had a large 
funeral — Capt. John 0, Baker died In this city, 
aged iVl An exhibit of the Erie Railway shows 
a deficit of fSl,000,000... The unemployed have 
held a mass meeting. A lady Obligate from bun- 
don was present. There has been a great ad¬ 
vance in Erie Railway stocks ..Great election 
frauds have been discovered in Brooklyn .. 
Mrs. Fisk will carry on the suit against Miss 
Mansfield, in place of her husband_Officer 
Philip Lutnbroeht has died ol hie wounds, and 
Geo. Lavery, the murderer, is in prison The 
famous Jutnel en.se has ended with no verdict. 
The Miller investigation has taken n curious 
turn. The authors of the article!) In the Times 
have retracted their charges Ex-Judge Whit¬ 
ing died on the Kith. He wus worth #2.000,000 
20,000 Irishmen were In the procession on St. 
Patrick's 1 lay .. The Atlanta Boat Club sails for 
England April 12th —Tl e anniversary of the 
Commune was celebrated I y some 500 people on 
the Uih Sidle, the forger on the k’nrrners’ 
Bank in Marion, Ohio, has been arrested In this 
city. There wore 323 arrests on Bt. Patrick's 
Day Typhus fever rages in Brooklyn Tho 
workingmen hold a mass meeting fn Cooper 
Union on the 20lh, for the reduction of hours of 
labor ...A flower, nee, and bulb swindle has 
been exposed. It is tailed “The American 
Branch of the firm of Lafayette & Co„ Paris." 
• The Geneva Watch Company swindle has 
been further exposed, and orders of arrest for 
Hie Elias brothers have been issued_The 
painters of Brooklyn are on strike.. ..Mayor 
Hall's trial li,is come to an abrupt nmicHisfon, 
the jury having been discharged. Judge Daly 
withdraws The Ellas Geneva watch swindlers 
have boon in court, and been discharged for 
want of proof, 
Itllscellaneou* Home News. 
The Methodist women of St. Louis have held 
a mass meeting In favor of women's preaching 
The point and color manufacturers protest, 
against tile proposed tariff ami the free list 
A victim ol the Rev ere, Mass., Railroad disaster 
has obtained a verdict of $35,800. The. Hudson 
is partly opened, and a propeller has reached 
Poughkeepsie The Pacific Railroad bridge at 
Omaha hits l.ecn tested...Tim Asiatic Cornnter- 
4. An 
6. A saving of many 
millions in cost of construction 
portlonate reduction of interest, burden 
succession of natural and easy grades, which 
will greatly reduce the cost of operating the 
mid, and enable the same motive power to ac¬ 
complish far greater results, both In speed and 
truffle, than are possible on ail elevated or moun¬ 
tain route. 
Tho experience of the past winter, the severest 
since our territories were settled, and not. likely 
to be repeated for many years, has thoroughly 
justified the claim that the Northern Pacific 
Uoud, when completed, will not be at any time 
Obstructed by snow. Authentic reporta—official, 
unofficial and Incidental, from surveyors, engi¬ 
neers, United States military and signal officers, 
and settled*, representing all important, sections 
of the route—agree that during the past hard 
winter there has not boon a time when, with the 
precautions usually taken on roads tn North- 
era States, Northern Pacific trains could not 
have made regular trips. 
Chief-Engineer Roberts of the Northern Pacific 
Rond, who has no superior in ids profession in 
this country, and has carefully studied the 
Western snow problem during the past three 
years, ip a recent report, based on very full 
datu, sums up his conclusions in this sentence: 
“ With ordinary means of protection at ex¬ 
posed points, the Northern Pacific Railroad, 
when completed by the Yellowstone route, can, 
unquestionably, be kept open for regular traffic 
it* entire length across the Continent, even 
during winter* as severe os the present, should 
they occur.'' 
He further says, alluding to a mass of testi¬ 
mony from Montana: 
“ These very fa vorahloreports, during a winter 
of unprecedented severity, cover the most ele¬ 
vated and mountainous portion of our line, 
where obstructions from snow would occur, If 
anywhere on the route; and, when it is remem¬ 
bered that the obstructions on the Union Pacific 
have been virtually eon lined to a section of 180 
miles, every part of which Is at least 1.000 feet 
higher than the highest, summit on the Northern 
route, and most of which ts 2,500 to 3,000 feet 
higher t hnn the mountain section of equal length 
on the Northern Pacific line, it becomes perfect¬ 
ly safe to predict for the luttor as complete ex¬ 
emption from winter blockade as is enjoyed by 
railroad* in New York and New England," 
Intelligent Judges believe that the Union Pa¬ 
cific Company, taught by experience, will be able 
hereafter to prevent any serious blockade on 
their lino. Whether this shall prove true or not, 
it can bo considered settled that the Northern 
Pacific Road, following, as ft will, the ilmnnel- 
wayof the great rivers of the Continent, travers¬ 
ing the mild-winter bolt and runningat an eleva¬ 
tion 2.500 to 8,500 feet lower than its neighbor, 
will, from the day of its completion, furnish a 
reliable meaus of transit between the Atlautic 
and tho Pacific. It is particularly and vastly im¬ 
portant that this fact bo known and emphasised, 
now that we have among us an important em¬ 
bassy from Japan, whose report on the efficiency 
of our trans-continental thoroughfares will 
do much to haslen or retard the Increase of our 
direct trade with the Orient. 
The past .year's business on the Union and Cen¬ 
tral Hue, with its promise of rapid Increase, es¬ 
tablishes, beyond doubt, the success of the first 
trans-continental road; but it renders equally 
certain the profitableness of the Northern Pu- 
ci Re, which has radical ad vantages, with an ample 
field and future of Its own. The two fines are so 
fur apart as not to interfere with each other. As 
is the ease with the present Puefflc Road, the 
bulk of the earnings of each will doubtless come 
from local traffic; while the Asiatic and through 
carrying trade of both will be increased to an 
enormous volume by their joint efforts to turn 
the current of the world's commerce across the 
American Continent, and by their joint demon¬ 
stration that, the trans-continental route is equal 
to all commercial needs.— Independent. 
with a pro- 
fl. A 
Watch No. 2291, Stem Winder — bearing 
Trade Mark “ Fayette Stratton, Marion, N. J.” 
—manufactured by United States Watch Co., 
(Giles, Wales & Co.,) has been carried by mo 
eighteen months; its total variation from mean 
time five seconds per month.— E. O. Whipple, 
Con. U. & B. R. it. 
f Ivll Sorrier tlcfurm is the cry of politicians. 
No more traveling agents whose support doubles 
prices is our reform. The Jon es Scale Woiiks, 
Binghamton, N. Y. 
It will pay you to send to Porter Blanchard's 
Sons, Concord, N. H., or to any dealer in firnt- 
da*8 dairy machinery, for the circulars of their 
excellent churn. 
SPECIAL NOTICES 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
RUPTURE CAN BE CURED 
without Buffering. Elastic Trusses are supersed¬ 
ing all others. Before buying Metal Trusses or Sup¬ 
porters, send for a descriptive circular to the Elas¬ 
tic Truss Co.. No. 683 Broadway, New York. 
From limit Britain. 
Eleven people belonging to the Royal Navy 
have lost their lives off Gibraltar Five war 
vessels have been launched during the past two 
weeks... .The Ttehborne claimant can not obtain 
the required ball — Richard Pigott, the editor 
of Dublin, charged with libel, has been released 
and breakfasted_The American reply in rela¬ 
tion to the Alabama claims has produced a 
favorable impression_Friendly relation* with 
Uruguay bare ceased... .A great open air meet¬ 
ing at Drogheda, on the 12th, for noma rule_ 
No disturbance* fn Ireland St, Patrick's Day 
Mr. Gladstone ha* stated In the House of Com¬ 
mons that the American reply is courteous and 
friendly. The English views of the treaty are 
not adopted. England will reply. Tho corre¬ 
spondence will not yet be made public The 
assassin of the Earl of Mayo bus been executed 
— The Alabama question continues to disturb 
the English Parliament. Apprehension is felt 
throughout the country . Great excitement 
has taken place in the House of Common* over 
Sir Charles W, Dilke’s motion to inquire into the 
civil list Concerning the A lubiuna claims. ,M r. 
Gladstone has informed Parliament it will be 
impossible for the Government to allow that 
body tn make treaties The betting in England 
is 7 to4 in favor of the (am bridge crew_There 
has been a great snow storm in London....The 
Duke of A rgyil and the University nf Cambridge 
have made large donations of books to Chicago 
. England's second note on the Alabama claims 
has been given to Mr. Scbenck. 
From France. 
The Commercial Treaty'with England has 
been finally renounced.More. Communists 
have boon shot at So tor y Marshal Ba/alue is 
to be tried by donrHuartial The war esti¬ 
mates have been reduced 19, 000,Odd francs . 
Fears of disturbances upon rbe anniversary of 
the uprising of the Commune in Paris were 
groundless The canon of the Cathedral of 
Bordeaux protests against, infallibility... .A larlff 
on raw material ... Eight more communists are 
MONEY AND TRADE AFFAIRS 
THE VALLEY ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC. 
The Snow Problem. 
The four principal routes that have been sur¬ 
veyed to the Pacific, have the following mean 
elevation above the sea level1. The extreme 
Southern or Texas Pacjfie route, skirting the 
border of Mexico, has an average altitude of 
3,30(1 feet. 2. The 35th parallel route, 3,600 feet. 
3. The middle route, extending 1,771 miles, from 
Omaha to Sacramento, 5,000 feet. 4. The North¬ 
ern route, from Lake Superior and St. Paul to 
Puget Sound, 1,900 feet. 
The middle route (now occupied by the Union 
and Central Pacific Road) scales four principal 
summits, havjug the following elevations: 6,ICU 
feet, 7,043 feet, 7.463 feet, and 8,235 feet. The 
Northern route has, on its main line, but two 
summits, the highest of which has an altitude 
not much exceeding 6.000 feet. Nine hundred 
continuous miles on the middle route have a 
greater average elevation than the highest sum¬ 
mit on the Northern, and 460 continuous mile® 
on the former line are 1,000 feet above the highest 
point on the latter. 
The remarkably low altitude of the Northern 
line, fully entitles it to the designation it has re¬ 
ceived, of the Valley Route to the Pacific. From 
Lake Superior, for a distance of eight hundred 
miles, on this line, the country is a vast plain, 
partly timbered, but mainly prairie, gradually 
rising from 1,100 feet elevation above the sea. 
near Lake Superior, to 2,700 feet near the Rocky 
Mountains. This plain has a varied surface, and 
In its depressions flow the navigable waters of 
PRODUCE AND PROVISIONS, 
Receipt*. — lac receipt* of iho principal kinds of 
product! since our l:i*t embrace 13,(178 bide* ofimt- 
ton, 201 pkg*. dried fruits. 16.12a bbln. eg®*, as'$3 bj.i. 
flour. 19,830 bush, wheat,, 223.6SO bn cornTffl.iilw bu out*’ 
21900 do. barley 3 m sacks grass *ecd.:,n, bM*! bffi 
p bugs do 362 bales hops, 4.'*] pkg*. pork. l.OPJpkpa 
beet. 14.148 like*, cut meats, 1/5,364 pkg». lurrt 7319 
pkgs. butter, l\,ua pkge cheese. I.S08Fag* i.eamit* 
8$ bales wooi a<JC °' fifis,Vinskyi 
Butter.—The market l» Retire and higher, and ev¬ 
erything will be closed up clean beyond Question, it 
is again time for the annua), but too much unheeded 
objection, to fictitiously colored new butler. Much of 
what is hurried in at tills season, at the best is dub¬ 
bed " hog greaee," and the strong tint that is iiptto 
be Inartistlcally supplied, falls to delude purchaser*. 
State dairies, fine, 83C*®©.; State dairies, fair to good 
2lk3>82c.; State, half-tubs, good tn tine. 36®ago.; State" 
do., common to fair 2»i33e.; State, firkins. line yel¬ 
low, liloaae., state Welsh, good dairies, aiafec. ; State 
do., common to fair, '-’idWOo.; State do., fresh made 
3.V(W7e.; Buie, fancy aele« tubs, a- vitc-,,- rolls good 
Western. 2fi$23o.; common to fair. 12' lie.; grease but¬ 
ter. c. New white butter, <lia.iSc. 
Bean* uml Feu*.—The arrivals of beans have 
been small, and wltn a good home trade, prices ure 
very strong. especia.lv for mediums. Kidnov orlme 
*3.25@3..A; do. good. £>.6003.15; do. red, good to Erin » 
Facts for the Ladles.-Dr. A. K. Gardner of 
New York says there Is not the slightest founda¬ 
tion for the vague and interested statements that 
the light Wheeler & Wilson Lock Stitch 8ewing 
Machine is injurious to feminine health. We 
speak advisedly when we deny most positively 
that any form of disease is traceable to it* 
proper use by any woman In health. For t wenty 
years we have carefully watched the progress 
of the Sewing Machine, visited the large facto¬ 
ries where it Is used by the hundred, questioned 
the makers, the foremen in the workshops, the 
girls daily working them, and never yet haw 
been able to trace a single disease as having 
