Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-10-13
The Hog Market

Tho St. Louis Evening News Of the l7th
ut says:
We We're informed last evening Of con.
tract by parties in this city for GOO corn led
hogs, delivered in November at point above
nee SD per 100 lbs nett. The hogs ~ aver
acc over 200 lbs This Is the Grst transaction
al any description that has reached Us, and We
give it as some indication Of the feeling that
prevails; SO above NAV nc considered cquiva>
lent 10 Sd rs TO So 80 here. 1t Is not the gen
eral Impression however, that the market for
No. corn fed hogs will open here under
thee dollars aud half Accounts from all
tho points heard from in Illinois and Iowa
eve 26 to 80 per ct. more in Number than
last year; and in particular localities as high
As 30 per cent. is calculated upon. For our
part, We place but hltlt reliance on any thing
&c hear at present in regard 10 numbers,
prices, &c. 1t Is too carly 10 know definitely
how many will goto the pens this season, or
how the average weight will compare with
previous years. These matters are sill In the
dark to grcaf extent, and 1t would require
more than Prophets ken to tell how laey
arc to result. Or one hing, hoW ever, there
ean be but little doubt, there is certainly a
larger number Of Hogs IN the country, and il
is equally evident there is. or i'll be- more
corn to feed them with. Bat should prices
open at an extreme low figure, say SO here,
and less IN the country above, the probability
s that fewer will be tattcd than the increased
nulnbor, and fine com crops would lead one
to suspect.
HoGs.-Ihe Cincinnati Price Current says:
With reference to the prospective price OF
Hogs, views Of dealers differ widely.
A SUNDAY NIGnr IN NEW YoRk.--The N
\. Times thus depicts Sunday night in n
y ork city
Last Sunday night, in walk from Nassau
street 10 South Ferry, We had ample food fol
Comment upon the fourth commandments
Broad way was periect he'll of drunkenness
\ bowling, staggering Pande OF brs>
tlalized men The sidewalks were traverscd
by men IN every stage of intoxication, reeliug
to and fro ike ships IN storm. The ali was
laden with snaches Of drunken songs, irag.
meus Of filthy language, or iucoherent shouts
from those who were too drunk to artculatc
Drunkenness in every dark lane aud alley, on
ly discoyerable 10y lis disgusting rawlings
Drunkenness in the wide, amp~ht streets
staggering along with swimming head, para'-
yzed limbs, and countenance Of imbecle sen
sualty. Drunkenness lying in kennel. steu,
f'i'''eiy iN0i'iiH'S Is 10 ''N"'i' i'lui
ness clnging to the lamp post. Drunkenness,
coied upon the door steps, waiting 10 he rob
bed or murdered Drunkenness screaming
on the roofs OF solitary omnibuses, or hanging
nall out oil The windows oil nelated hackney
cabs, and disturbing the night with iucoheren
melodies. Drunkenness walking apparently
steadily along, laughing idiotically to itself
and rhickly rehearsing the drunken jokes, III,
drunken songs, the drunken indecencies, that
adorned the cornwall meeting it has just left
Drunkenness waitn- at the ferries, snoring OF
branches. quarrelling with its drunken corn
pany or falling off the edge of the pier into the
water. and being fshed out half sober
"Tnisis no exaggeration of the panoram;
of iutoxlcalion, which we saw, free of charge
on the Sunday night in question We shud
dercd as we went along, aid The question ST. g
gesled itself to our mind, IL the entire city
drunkP On reaching The South Ferry, w
saw drunkenness in its collective form. gu
of twenty or thirty people there collected there
was beside the writer, only one sober person
land that was woman