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LAwREXcEvILLE, H., Aug. I6, 1859.
Editor Price Current Sir.-With regard to
hogs, opinions Of feeders are that prices must
rule much lower than last season, say from
$3.50 to $500, with which, 50 far as | can
Judge, the buyers coincide.
The quantity will be about equal to that OF
last season, with every probability Sf having a
good article as our corn crop Rerer acas eguaI
10 tie present. The supply of old corn has
been small during the whole year; prices about
80 cents. Our wheat crop is very abundant
and Of good qualify. Oats rather shorter than
last season. There being very few beef cattle
tlttened in this region, the supply cannot affect
any other market.
Commercial and Honey JEttieys-The New
York Day Book makes the following very sensi-
Bile remarks;
"fhe stringency Of the money market is the
topic Of general conversation, not only in Wall
street. bat among business men elsewhere; and
the reasons assigned for it are as various as
mems minds and opinions AL however, agree
/ that too much building and extravaganza in
/ living are among Ire CEief causes. 1t is not
in the nature Of things that the available capital
and labor Of the country should be employed in
! building railroads, houses, and digging canals,
/ for the space Of twelve months, and the conse-
quences not be felt i'll the money martct 1t is
an old maxim that bread must be earned by the
sweat of the brow and not less true is it that
labor must be productive to bring peace and
prosperity to the country.
! a large portion Of the people of this country
| have been engaged, during the last wear, in
speculations; of course their labor has not been
productive Of any good to the community, and
what they have obtained has been got from 9th
crs and not from the soil or operations of ma
chinery. The consequence or result must nev
/ itably be distress to some one. In proper
tion therefore, to the number Of spectators and
/ oilers there are in a country will be the hard
! ships and distress; and though they do not al
ways fall upon the oilers and spectators, they
are sure to come and be felt somewhere.
The letting out or dScounting by the banks,
and then suddenly calling in or curtailing, al
ways has bad effect and shows most conclusive
/ ly that whatever good these institutions arn-
I rsbio of doing, The evil they do more than coun-
terbalances all the benefit the merchants derive
from them. Better far would it be for the coun-
| try were no banks in existence. They are al
ways borrowers when they are needed as lend
crs, and lenders when no one wants money.
'from friend at Washington" the following in
formation:
~ think can assure you with perfect conf
dence, that Gen. Dix will not receive the ap-
p0intment of Minister to France, although it is
universally understood that it was promised
him. Who viii carry Off the prize l pretend
not to say, but l know it will not be given to
barnburner.
'The Pacific Railroad will not be Govern
ment measure The President says he never
meant to countenance any assertion that he
shouldrecommend The byas sumption ofthe work
Congress, though he hos not committed himself
against aiding the States or a Company char
tered by the States interested, which may I'M
dertake the enterprise, by grants of land or by
money.
"The administration is adopting means for Sc
curing the Sandwich Islands, as a station for
our Mail and trading ships in the commerce
about to be opened with China and Japan"
A private correspondent of one of the edi-
tors of the New York Courier, writes from New
Orleans under date of Aug. II, as follows:
"People begin to die here in way that does
not resemble the yellow fever Within few
days many have died in less than twentv-four
hours after being taken, and almost Immediate
ly after the breath has left the body it has turn
ed spotted, being covered all over with black
spots, so that it Is supposed that there is some
other pestilence among us besides the yellow fe-
yer. Some think it the plague-same as was
so fatal in Rio JanerO last year. 1t is enough
however, for rs to know that from $40 to $50
daily die by the prevailing epidemic. Our Gem
etery reports of internents by no means include
all; many are hurried out of the city and die
and are buried in the country. | have never
before seen so much alarm and confusion about
sickness in this city-all flee who can get away
1t rains every day, and a hot sun is stewing us
up when not raining"
TIE Dead ,Speak.-The best authenticated
instance of an oral communication from the !
dead through the lips of living medium re-
Gently tranpired ''down east" Few can doubt
this latest piece of evidence of Spiritual inter
course:'
1t has been diseoved that speech delivered |
in the Massachusetts State Convention, by Mr. |
A. Il. Strong delegate from the western part |
Of the State, was, by some mistake or other
printed almost verbatim thirty years ago. Some |
go so far as to charge the gentleman with plagi |
arism. He meets the charge, however, by say
ing that he did not steal the speech, that he in
herited l. from his father, by whom it was writ |
ten, spoken, and printed thirty years ogo, when
the, present Mr.. STRONG, was too young to at
tend to the matter personly.
Sickness az Upper Georgia.-The Cassyille
Standard, of the 18th says:
u - a. 10 "a s1-ort off ,u,,I,orc Of in