The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-02-05
Our Illinois Correspondcnce.
BEARpsrowN, I'll } Jan q, 1852.
Tile E'inta-Ihe E'eothr~--Ihe Pork Business

BEARpsrowN, I'll } Jan. %, 1852.
Tile Einte-Ihe Weoth~r1he Pork Business
KoSsRh-Ide NQls.
This is not only great country, but decidedly q
cold ore-the weather for the las. month, has been
colder than before known for many years. The
thermometer ranging from to % degrees belo v
zero. The Illinois river is closed from its source
to its mouth, and must remain 50 for some time,
Judging from present appearances This river Is
SELDOM closed for more than two or thres weeks at
time. but it is now more than month since it
shut UP.
We have little snow, enough for fine sleighing,
thing unusual il this prairie country.
Business is dull Corn IS worth 25c o30c. wheat,
55c to Coo. AT these prices, the farmers are too in
dependent to sell, ana hold on.
This is great point for pork packing. More
hogs are packed here than in any place in the
this year, ag ainss $1,000 last year Price, ruled
high during the season. opening at L., then fell
of to 3sc, to ic. afterwards it made rally and
finally closed at 4ac tho average price for the
season being about 81 20. Every man, woman,
and child that had one pig, was sure to bring him
in at these high prices The consequence will be,
the came parties will have to buy bacon before the
spring is out, at higher rates than they sold at,
The crop ofhogs, in the West, this year. is much
short from last year-say, west Of the Wabash,
100000. The accounts from Ohio and Indiana corr
firm short crops in those States This being the
case, with stock Of cd pork on hand IN tho Eas.
or West, prices for tie coming season must rule
high. In former years, the West had little or no
home demand for her products, and her market
was New York and New Orleans, where the factors
n ade prices to suit themselves; but now the tide
has changed; the great and mighty West, with her
miliens Of people, are to to fed, and, instead Of
the East and South making prices for US, we OF the
West, can dictate prices to them Our farmers
are all growing rich and independent. Many raise
from seventyhye to one hundred and fifty hogs a
year, and corn and who by the thousands la this
county, (Cass,) land that could have been pur-
chased five years ago at FIVE dollars an aao, is now
worth fifteen.
see the people at the East arc all making them
selves famous in reference 70 kossuth. How much
better of would this man be, if he would quietly
settle down on eur beautiful praires, and enjoy
liberty and independence in rational way. All
this fuss he is kicking up will amount 10 nothing in
the end unless ii be to get his head 10 the same
urploasant fix that poor Lopez was carght in Il
is al delufion. lie can do nothing | hope our
government st Washington has too much good
sense left, to be o party to such ridiculous folly.
One word about the mails Cur letters from
New York average from twelve to eighteen days,
and newspapers longer. take the daily HERALD,
and sometimes do not get copy for ten da7s-then
cozen or more come together. OF course the
news is oil Anticipated by the st. Louis papers,
which we get in two days. What does it all mean
Certainly, the Post Office Department is behind the
times, A. b.