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Show groceries there is a dismal lack of speculation, but tea mores more largely than last year. New wool is selling a decline, in some grades 2 cts., and while the worsted trade is contracting and carpets have small margins, business, in shawls and knit goods is larger than usual. At Hartford Hart-ford trade in any goods is dull, but in hardware and groceries very fair; at New Haven business is satisfactory, satisfac-tory, and though a little smaller than last year, healthy and confident; at Albany business is satisfactory with a very good outlook; at Rochester and Syracuse the same though injury to fruit and drought caui some alarm, and at Buffalo business is ac tive, though less than a year ago, because be-cause of last year's failure of crop . Pittsburgh reports no change in iron, except that Bessemer steel is stronger. At Cleveland, dry goods, groceries and hardware are moving fairly, and manufactured iron is in fair demand, huf mal sml inactive. At Cincinnati trade in groceries is smaller, but profits better bet-ter than lastyear.and at Detroit wool is moving at a decline of 4 to 5 ctffi to meet the needs of manufacturers" with other trade unchanged Chicago Chi-cago reports increase of too per cent, in movement of wjo!, and some increase in flour, wheat, cheese and butter, but decrease in hides, in in lard a third, and in cured meats one half, with the dry goods and shoe trade larger than a year ago, plenty of money for legimate business, busi-ness, and nothing for speculators. At Milwaukee good reports stimulate manufacturers and jobbers, and at St. Paul rains have made the crop : prospects excellent. St. Louis finds j the decrease in general trade about , equal to the increase last year, though it is up to the averge for this season and while small fruits have suffered some, the yield of of grain promises ( to be phenomenal. Memphis notes that recent rains have much improv- -ed the prospects, and at other South ' ern points trade is seasonably uuiu These and other accounts, foi which there is not space, show that the capable business men in all parts of the country look upon the moderate mod-erate shrinkage in present trade as a natural result of last year's short crops, and count with great confidence confi-dence upon large business with the full yield promised this yer. Ihe iron industry, for months exceeding others in decrease of production, reports re-ports a weekly output of 146, ;8i tons against 115,590 last month, with REVIEW OF TRADE. New York, Saturday, June 13, i8qi. There is noth ing rose-colored in our reports, as respects the chances of speculators and gamblers. Those who consider the gambling end of business, and no other, may we'll be uccrcasing nocss unsold, wnicn n evidence that heavy demand hereafter here-after expected. In bar, plate and structural iron the demand is already larger. Wool sales are also larger here, at Boston and Philadelphia, with the moderate concessions by holders, and the manufacturers show greater confidence by their buying. In all parts cf the country the money markets show suprising strengts, notwithstanding the loss cf gold to Enrope, and while closeness is reported at Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati St. Louis, Nashville and Savannah, reports from nearly all cities indicate that nobody is suffering suffer-ing except speculators. In brief. the Kltliatinn ia nnt- rrnn v.,, disheartened. Prices are lower, with prospects of futher decline! The exposures and losses of those Who have - emptied " their own funds and the funds of others into Wall Street are not rose-colored. But the legitimate business of the country, coun-try, though not as large as it was a year ago, when crops had not failed, fail-ed, and trade was far greater than ever before at this season, is never theless large, well-maintained and generally heaithy. Very rarely has such a strain been put upon productive produc-tive industry and legitimate business, busi-ness, as by the enormous exports of gold in May. It is a most significant signifi-cant fact that after this severe test the stata of trade is beetter for the lui UUt gamblers, but for producers and legttimate traders decidedly hopeful. hope-ful. R. G.Dun, & Co. season and more hopeful than it was in April, when the great movement of gold had not begun. Within thirty days the hrgest crop of wheat ever grown, it is probable, prob-able, will be moving to market. The goverment report and other information put down the price 3 cts. last week, whlie the official report re-port was not so favorable regarding oats, the price dropped 2cts., thon-gh thon-gh corn rose nearly 1 cts. The rL i- , .1 1 Chronicle and the department agree that the outlook for cotton is good, though a somewhat smaller yield than that of last year is desirable and probable, and the price dropped dropp-ed an eight to the lowest point touched touch-ed for nearly forty years. Lard declined, de-clined, and petroleum i4 cts., and j coffee three quarters of a cent, and oirthe whole the week was not a good one for the people who bet on higher prices. But money was easier in spite of previous exports, silver was lower, and the rate of foreign exchange declined so far that bankers admit gold can now be sent abroad only at a loss to those who order it. The Treasury has added about $2,400,000 to the circulation during the week, and the receipts of currency from the interior in-terior have Deen heavy. ) Reports from other cities show that trade, while moderate in vol. ume, as is to be expected at this season, is fairly large, undisturbed, and exceedingly confident as to the future, At Boston stocks are dull and other speculation, but boots and shoes are recovering from the depression de-pression caused by failures, dry goods are more active, wool sales are larger, and transactions give the idea that leather has touched bottom. At Philadelphia manufac turediron is strengthened by orders from Chicago, hides are quiet with cheering prospects through the shoe trade is but fairly satisfactory; the paper trade is fair and hopeful, tobacco to-bacco and drugs unchanged, paints dull, and the liquor trade good. In |