Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1857-1858, 1857-06-10
High Price of Beef-What shall we
Eat7

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The New York Post in commenting upon the
high price of Beef in that city, asks the above
question, and says:-" By our report of the cattle
market 10 another column il will be that prices
have advanced one TO one and half cents per
pound for beef cattle, caused by a short supply
The inquiry, What shall we eatS ," is beginning
to reach the ears of butchers, for they finding
out that consumers will not at the present
exorbitant prices aud as they not anxious,
during the hot weather, to be employed exclusive
ly 10 bru hing away the flies from their spelling
beef, they standing aloof from the market and
are likely. by some combination among themselves,
to organize a scale of prices which, il specula-
tors and farmers do not choose to accept they can
keep their cattle until they eat their heads of.
The Philadepbians have tried it. and found that
sellers are not the only Independent people in the
world"
The prices to which the Post refers range from
IL to Is and Is cents per lb.-very choice cuts is
to 20 ce3ts The total offerings of Beeves for the
week amounted to SOL head.
1t is not only in New York where we see otjec-
tions made to tue high price of Beef In Phila-
deIphia, Boston, Baltimore, and indeed all large
cities and towns, similar complaints are heard
There is no good reason why, in these times Of
abundance, prices of so necessary article should
rule thus high. Let butchers and those who have
il in their power their faces against speculations
aud monopolies that tend towards oppression. Con-
sumers may also aid in remedyiog the evil.
BuToHERs verss DRovERs.-The Boston Bee
says:
Corporations at the Cambridge Market on We'd
nesday were completely parAy by the resolution
OF the butchers 10 buy cattle of the droveTs at
the prices. II claimed by the former that their
customers could not and would not purchase meat
st such prices; consequently, the droves
taken TO Brighton Market, where, We understand,
the drovers were obliged to submit to a consdera-
BILE loss on sale OF their stock"
CrOOker's millinery Embellishments.
We doubt whether the fair danes and bellies OF
Nashville have ever experienced so much difficulty
in the selection of a bonnet this season. Al tbil
establishment The cause is not to be found in the
increased iastdiousness or eaptiousness Of their
tastes, nor in the paucty OF toe stock iueegsnce
OF the styles. No; We must look for it in some
other quarter Their fancies, to tell the truth, have
been bewidered by the great variety and beauty Of
the assortment 10 choose from. They experience
such sensations while beholdiug il, as one feels
in rich conservatory surrSduded by the rarest eE
otics andlavedIn their delicious perfumes They have
such emotions as led the poet to wish that the
lips Of all womankind, especially the beauties, we're |
condensed into one pretty pOutng pair that he
might, 10 kissing them, kiss the whole race. Where
there is SO much elegance, so great variety, /
choice must be difficult The thiug's natural; and |
the dear creatures are not to blame. Bat not OF bon
nets alone does Crooker's congress consist Nearly
all descriptions of millinery goods are represented
tbere-lrom The highest and most ETHEREAL 10 the
heavier f4brics which art produces TO sdorn the
oveliess Of natures handiworks ASA