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Show Business) Mlacuatlon. New York, 8. The clearing house exchanges for the week ending the 2d, show a great and general decline in business compared with the corresponding corres-ponding week last year. The only cities s.iowin'i guins are New Orleans 1 6, Milwaukee 71 9, Louisville 1.4, Milwaukee's1 prosperity indicates a treer movement iu the wheat crop of that section. The loaaes noted are New York, 25 8, Boston 15 6, Ptiila-delphia Ptiila-delphia ii-i, Cnicago 6 1 Cincinnati 10.6, Baltimore 11.9, St. Louie, 13, Providence 11 6, Pittsbuigh 9.2, Cleveland, 32.2. The loss here is largely attributable to tbe dull stock market, the number of shares sold being lets than half the sales a year ago. Comparison at nineteen cities foi five weekB shows an average aggregate loss of 5.3 per cent. The Publia presenting these figures, Bays: "It cannot be said that tbia collapse of trade is due to the approach of peace in Europe, because Milwaukee is the city of all others which sbowa by its exchanges tbe enact of any event upon tbe grain trade and it is the only city which gains largely. Wb"" ver opiiii .u men may have as to to v iedum of remonetizing silver, they must agree tli it the uucertamity as to the pawse of the silver bill has 'aimed extraordinary stagnation in liiiBicienc. Niuiiier its passage nor dt'.liiat could te "xpuded to produce a more euddun change iu hucio.-ba, I n n tne indecmive vote iu the senate which ehoWed thiit il vetoed a single voto might pass or defeat it. The const quence bus beeu that nobody has purchased, paid or borrowtd where he could weil avoid it, and busiaesa has halted almot as if stricken with paralysis. This stagnation stag-nation can't be expected to pass away until the fate of the silver bill is deoided, either by a final vote after the veto, or by Buch action of banks as will limit its power to aflect com- . merce and industry. It is estimated; that over $60,000,000 bonds have! ', already returned to New York alone I lrom Europe during the last quarter, in consequence of the financial j agitations in congress. j |