The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-03-10
Markets i'm st. Petersburg.

Not only is every thing brought in sledges
10 market, but the sledges serve at the same
time for shops and counters. The mats
which cover the goods are thrown back a
little, and the pieces of geese, fowls, and
calves, are ranged on the edge, and hung up
at the corners and on the tops OF the pos's.
The geese are cut up into hundred pieces;
the necks are sold separately, the legs sepa-
rately, the heads and rumps separately, each
in dozens and half dozens strung together.
Whoever is too poor to think Of the rump,
Ibuys a string Of frozen heads; and he who
finds the heads too dear, gives six copecks
/ for lot of necks; while he who cannot af
ford these makes shift with couple dozen
fleet, which he stews down on Sunday into
soup for his family. The sledges with
oxen, calves, and goats, have the most ex-
traordinary appearance. These animals are
brought to market perfectly frozen. OF
Icourse they are suffered TO freeze in an ex-
TENDED posture, because in this state they
are most manageable. There stand the tall
figures OF the oxen, like blood stained ghosts,
lifting up their long horns, around the sides
Of the sledge; while the goats, looking ex
acily as if they were alive, only with faint,
glazed, and frozen eyes, stand threatenngly
opposile to one another. Every part is hard
as stone. The carcases are cut up, like
trunks Of trees, with axe and saw. The
Russians are particularly fond of the suck.
ling pig, and whole trains of sledges laden
with infant swine come to the Market
The little starvelings, strung together like
thrushes, are sold by the dozen, and The
/ long-Iegged mothers keep watch over then
around the sledge. The anatomy OF tn,
! Russian butcher is a very simple science
: For, as every part, flesh or bone, is al'k
hard, they have no occasion TO pay regard L
. he natural divisions of the joints. Wit
: he saw they cut up hogs into number G
steaks, an inch or two inches thick, as we
, a rump OF beef. The flesh splits and shiver
Z during the operation like wood, and the lii
D tie beggar wenches are very busy 2ckin
: up the animal saWdust out of the snow
. You do not ask for a steak, chop, join
but for slice, block, lump, splinter
y meat. The same is the case with FISH; the
10 TOO are as if cut out of marble and wood
u Those of the diminutive species, like It
le sntki, are brought in sacks, and they are pu
10 into the scales with shovels. The larg
le pike, salmon, and sturgeon, every inch
10 which was once so 1.-THE and supple, are nc
IT. stiffened as if by magic. To protect the
>, Is from the warmth, in case Of sudden thaw
y for thawing would essentially deteriora
ne their havor-they are covered with sn,
raj and Jumps of ice, in which they lie CT
Ia enough. II is not uncommon for the Wit
cargo to be frozen into one mass, so Il
m crowbar and pincers are required to get
ny individual fish. So long as the cold in W
me ter keeps every fluid concealed, and
my snow covers every impurity with white c
IIeh pei, this Haymarket is tOlerably clean, a
1ur YOU cannot pick up much dirt that may
Ath easily be removed. All offal that is thro
nay away is instantly frozen to the ground
lhe Hence there is formed in the course of
OF winter such an accumulation Of sleeps el
OF fish tails, crabs shells, goats hair, hay. du
we fat, blood, &C., that when spring strips
Ter tho covering kindly lent by winter, the pl
not is like a real Angean stable.-Rohl's
son STA and the Russians.
~. We have two moons this mouth