New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-11
THE HORSE MARKET.

Several cores pondenls have wien to us 10 inquire
why We do not report the Horse market. Simply De-
cause there is none to report We did PROMISE IN the
Sumner. TO renew our remarks as soon as the r oil
trade opered We abide the promise. we have
watched in vain for an opening of trade or show OF
bust, ess worth reporting. To gratif, our friends who
write for information, we visited Twentyourth street
on Monday 10 make note of q few sales that we
hop4d 20 witness We might as well have gone to an
Agricultural Fair" to anything but " uiai OF
speed as 10 this once great maIke,-place OF Horses
TO see ANYTHING in the way of business The first stable
we entered was Chamberlain Old Bulls Head stable,
whore we have fen reported over two hundred horses
for SALE We counted D. all told, and did not see nor
hear any inquiry for of the number The most OF
those on hand were Canadians, and Frenchman was
gesticulating and talking sacre at pace that none
of his horses could 90, because he was crowded
out of the stall ext the door; evidently thinking that
finding customer depended upon being where he
would be the first one seem Then we crossed over
and looked into the fine handsome brick stables kept
by Post, where we have in times past counted 2i0
horses comprising perfect assortment OF all Srades.
We could not now count 40 by nearly half, to say
rothing Of the 200. Business reported every fiat
used up by election" One man had just made
swap and exulted over il as the only trade that had
been made that day.
At the other great stsble-Sherif McCaueys-we
found little more appearance OF business, though
several of his stable, were entirely empty He had
Just got in about thirty mostly Canadian horses, which
are low priced at all times and selling slowly at about
the usual rates. The class of good work horses are
s25 to $50 head lower than last Spring, and sell ex-
tremely slow. at from 4l25 to 900 each We do not
believe that onefourth the number will be sold this
season that were last Autumn Other owners had
about as many as Mr. McCauey, say sixty or seventy,
instead of three hundred the number that his stables
hold There was small lot of mules in the yard, but
we fancy the owner will wish them in some other
locality ~ the rage for mule teams IL slower than the
animals Large quick feeted mules are salable and
valuable in the city, but ordinary small animals that
cannot be urged to quick trot with an empty cart
have lost favor and sell only to go in the country at
rates much lower than they were two years ago.
Mspess stable is pretty well filed with Ohio horses,
but while the price remains 80 high in the West, II IS
very slow work selling that class of stock in such de-
pressed market prevails at the present time in New
Yok. There is dsputpg the fact that the cause OF
the few horses in market and the prevailing duness is
because the price of horses in the country is too high
to warrant drovers in buying, paying transportation,
and 81 a week keeping, while waiting for a city Gus
toner.
We have another speculation touching the horse
market in this city-that it never viii recover its
former position because parties who want horses, from
single TO score, have got in the way of going
out by railroad to the country and making their pur-
chases and returning with them on the cars Before
railroads had become 30 well established, and trans
potaon so easy, quick and cheap, horse markets in
cities were necessity and large stock on hand con-
stsntly required. That day has gone by, and tie
business has fallen to suit the changed condition of
,hipgs.