Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-25

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Review - 60 Dasiingssa market.
yoa fHE WEEK EsDISG xosDAr, =. 7.
Good time has been made in repairing the d
mage done By the late iood upon cur easter
road. Although very Scsiouriy injured an
many cuivests and several bridges washed Out
/ yet they hare al but one been replaced, and y
hope soon TO hear that they are running throug
to Chicago without changing caS After
week Of disagreeable, stormy and muddy wealth
er, the sun shines out warm and bright to-day
Tho ice had ali gone out to point opposite thi
city some days ago, leaving it Ill clear below
but al an expanse Of ice above. This morn
/ ing il commenced moving from above. A yer,
few days and the boats will be with US.
The last Independent has the following re
marks upon the Dry Goods trade:
DRY GooDs-The demand for goods anon,
the jobbers is not yet pressing, but is fair for thu
season, considering the state Of the railroads
The quantity Of goods entered for consumption
already Is much in advance Of any preceding
spring. The thaw will soon give an impetus tt
trade, and set in circulation. some portion of the
heavy importatiOns The views Of the impor
tiers are large. The continual advance of prices
| in Europe renders the importations cheap. Silk
goods have undergone some advance. Many
importers have put on 70 10 per cent. on their
prices of staple and other desirable articles
The importations are all to order, and not on for
eign account. The usual auction sales of French
goods will commence in a fortnight, when trade
will be fully active. The weather has also be-
come more favorable to travelling, and buyers
will soon flock to New York. Cloths are in
good supply and held at moderate prices. Bonn
bazines are rather heavy. Domestic goods are
in good assortment, but supplies are somewhat
hindered by the ice in the sound. Ali cotton
goods are tending up in price, but American
woolens are in superabundance ut easy prices.
The following just remarks are from Circu-
lar of the house of Straight, Deming & Co.,
Cincinnati
"Faues throughout the country and in the
Eastern cities are becoming sufficiently numer-
GUS to induce an inquiry into the causes which
lead to such DISASTROUS results, and extreme eau
ton in giving credit. Having no sympathy with
the mistaken policy which would cripple we'll
conducted banking institutions and destroy their
usefulness, we at the same time believe the per-
manency of the Cincinnati merchants is directly
traceable to the sodnt of such institutions in
this city. Merchants doing business in Eastern
cities that are favored with banking capital, in
proportion to their commerce tenfold what we
enjoy, largely increase their sales by selling on
long time, and borrowing money to meet all
DEFICIENCIES in collection Country merchants
are thus induced to purchase much more largely,
and in their turn, urge customers to purchase
freely on q liberal credit. To all parties this
is temptation to overtrading not likely to be
successfully resisted. A ''short crop" produces
a stringency, the farmers and other consumers
do not pay, the country merchants cannot pay,
and merchants, mot tarmers,) all 60 down
together. The Cincinnati merchants being
forced to depend mostly upon their own re.
sources, sell for cash or on short time, and COL
lect promptly; hence the meagre list Of failures
recorded Of this city. The truth is, the 'credit
system" is extended beyond mere temporary
accommodation, is fruitful source of embar-
rassment to all classes of society.
Every business man in the country, rich or
poor, who desires permanent success should
base all his operations on the shortest system of
credit possible, and then both make himself, and
require of others, prompt paynaent-for "punc.
tuality is the life of business.
Every business man ought to be fully insured,
unless he is beyond the reach of misfortunes of
this kind-unless he is out of debt and mil
lionaire-so says the Indcpendent-so teaches
prudence and common sense.
People complain Of high rents in this city
That they are not quite up to New York is APP
parent from the following which are quoted as
the current rates in that city:
Marble, % K 100 $1,000 to $4,000
Brown stone, 25 100 1000 5000
Marble, % $50 $4,000 10000
Brown stone, 25 $50 10000 $4,000
We have no changes to make in prices.
Wheat-spring 7o@75 Fall 9O@s5.
Corn-SO@A
oats-so@SS:
Butter-20@25.
Chickens-l,5O per dozen.
Turkeys-lOc per h..
Hay-$1e,oo@ls,oo.
Potatoes-S0@9Oc.
Eggs-l5c.
New York, Feb. I'll T. NJ.
Flour-Market rather easier and more doing. Sales
700 bbs at 25@56 40 super state, Sc 20D6 60 extra
do; IS 2506 40 super western; ~ 601 w extra DO
Canadian more active. Sales 1900 Dbl at 4O07 60.
Nothing doing in wheat and prices are unchan geo.
Rye-steady ut 90095
Barley-heid at 81 15D1 40. Sales 5000 bush barley
malt at 81 5O@1 50.
Corn-better. Sales TO- 600 bush mixed western at 72S
in store.
Oats-unchanged.
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