Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-08-30
NEW PORK CORRESPONDENTS.


NEW YoRx, Aususr e. 1881
Amer bright but very day, the heat continn;n M
vi r. or later, sit to blow" (ss the s,;o,s
say and before morning had such touch Of ctohs,
weather as makes the feathers fly This quite an
morning, clear and nvgoating, yet bad the doctors
Tor summer complaints OF these latter have enough IN,
MOI 20 DC wondered at considering the cords Of peaches
which are consumed here. If people will stow in the ui,
win the consistency and dispatch with which steamboat
soker feeds his fire, when racing down the Mississippi thew
must expect to get little racked by such hard usage.
Peaches sold yesterday for dollar bushe fifty cents
per basket To-day the price will probably continue about
the same la the latter part of the week they arc usually
higher, but the trade in them is very Auciuating The sup
ply from day to day is very unequal and consequently
though ihey sell at fifty cents per basket to-day,
the price may be three dollars At rough guess the con-
sumption OF them this week will average less than two
thousand bushels in New York alone The peach market is
full Of SPECTATORS Many Of these are men Who leave other
enPioyments temporarily, in hopes to make spec"
specsed peaches their usual reward. On Friday fruit
will be scarce they reckon and II they can light on lot of
Jersey peaches at the Of $40 per hundred baskets they
calculate that they may sell them off like hot cakes at
20 cents per basketpossby double that who knows So
they fracture their SAUNDERS o'clock in the morning
and having rubbed the glue out of their eyes, and washed
The cobwebs out of their throas with stiff glass of stone
fence to the foot Of Fulton street. the North river
Were the of peaches arrive Perchance the specu
ator, "backing bis judgment" will purchase three hundred
baskets instead Of one hundred Half Of them be will sell,
may be, at advance but in the afternoon the market
gutted and nightfa finds him with very ruefu face be-
seeding people to take them shngs per basket If
lucky and the arrival Of fruit should be small he may make
two or three hundred dollars in single day. Large blue
plums OF the re of hens egg retail penny EACH
Excuse this small talk but need something relieve
the sombre effect Of the Cuba topic the massacre &C. This
IS the great staple Of conversation at the table, in the reading
ROOM on change, and in the counting house. The sgtatos
exagseate to the the msdeeds of the Cuban function
aries, IN order to excite citizens to retaliation.
The tales of Spanish bsrbany which led the violent
monstratons in New Orleans undoubtedly untrue An
vsfroou IF kao
that their dead bodies not nsuted dragged through the
cutters, &C. but were Immediately placed in goodookng
hearses and deceny buried
Seventy-fve men. eghy-one women, hundred and
sixty eight boys and hundred and nineteen girls died in
this city last week. Cholera nfantum, consumption, and
dysentery carried off the majority Of them.
The steamships "Wnfeld Scott" and Cherokee leave
to-day with Adams & Co.'S New Orleans Express freight
The Cherokee will via Havana and it lie unlikely may
meet with some trouble there especially any other passengers
90 ashore On one occasion captain Of American steamer
landed passenger (who wouldn't pay desert beach Of
Cuba, and was fined $500 for putting him ashore without
pa sport