Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-02-17

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PROVISION MARKETs.-In or issue Of Saturday
bst noticing the prevailing b. prices OF pork, lard
and bacon, We expressed It as our conviction that
shCuld they continue two months longer, by cur
failing consumption, although the deficiency in the
present hog crop be as great IS estimated there
would be left on hand larger supply for DISPOSE,
ton during the remaining nine months than was
on the market during the same period last year,
and the effect OF that state Of things would neces-
sarily be to bring down prices to a more moderate
figure, So fully convinced are we of the correct
ness Of our views, that we cannot refrain to-day
from Offering some additional suggestions UPON the
subject. Who cannot see the eject already being
made nantes. by the initiation Of prices The re
ports every rom the provision markets are,
that the demand although great, is speculative in
rs character, and tIGt there is a very small inquiry
for the purposes Of consumption And so the re-
cord must continue to be.
The great masses, who are the consumers, are
not RUle to pay the eXoTbItsut prices nov prevail.
ing for their dsily meats, and the unprecedented
prices of twelve and half to thirteen and lalf
cents per pound for lard. The article Of -four is
now twenty-five per cent lower than it was twelve
months ago, while pork and bsc0n are at Iesst
sumeTs are using much more of the former and
quietly substituting for the latter other articles
OF food which are less expensive.
But 1t should likewise be borne in mind that
C0rrespOndi1gLy high prices do not now exist in
Europe Earlier IL tie seas N it Wss the teation
of dealers 10 SHIP more largely than usual u those
marke-s and accordingly great quantities Of the
hog pr05uct were prepared especially for that
trade, which last season proved 10 be very rgmun-
Roe ErA .Er-t 49, IL
sOoutl Already France has sent pork and bacon
to New York, to meet the high prices there. Great
Britain is no ouger, IS last year, a buyer IN our
markets, and .Bta Liverpool circulars publish the
lac. that the continued government aes deprCss
the trade that fer American pork and bacon there
are no pure asers slthOugh offered at lower gures,
aud that the Irish is preftrrel, of which there
seems TO be On the marks, g0odly quantity. Lard
has also declined IN The past few weeks about nine
teen shIl iUgs per hundred weight and at chat de.
cine there were but lew buyers
The influence Of these facts has already appear
ed upon cur eXPOrauols. Tie official figures OF
the expectation OF these articles from New Ork,
Tor the week ending the 22d ut show falling Of,
IS compared with the same week last year, of more
tBan three-touFlhs, and Other weeks Of t4ls wear
show correspond & results; 50 it would seem evil
dent that the large quantities Of pork and lard
which were designed tor these foreign markets
But in the consideration OF this subject this fur
Their fact must not be lost sight Of tuat it is es-
mated, by these best able to judge that there Is
present 10 tie country a sufficient amount If old
pork and bacon for at least TWO months supply
Nor will the argument We 60 often hear used by
those who differ with US avail yJaiGg, that the
increase Of our own population val, by Increasing
consumption, tend to keep up prices. There Is 10
TACT more certain than that win the Increase of
4 "a % al,
OF production. The settlers OF the tresl lands of
cur new States AID Territories, where tue increase
of population is most PerCeptible, do not often be-
come purchasers OF pork, lard and bacon when
prepared for mercantile purposes. Their hgste f-
forts, which are directed to supply their own
moderate wants, are not often unsuccessful, and
they very soon bsc0me contributors to the general
stock that fills our warehouses aud supplies cur
markets We were lorColy struck with this
truth 10 reading an article IRON late number o.
the ST. Louis i8'eil.geHCsr on the business Of the
Pacific Railroad leading out OF that city In uolic-
ing the new trade which has b,ea opened 10 to the
farmers adj scent to the line of the road the editor
remarks that zone day lsst week thirty carloads
Of hogs were received, containing one thousand six
hundred animals, all splendid e. ami one weigh
ing eight hundred pounds And so 1t Is, and
vii. ever be, that as OUv railroads, from year to
yesr pierce further into those b0undess regiors of
not TO convey to them such sugpiss from the der
States, but to bri1g to cur markets the surplus
products Of fheir rev and thriving populations -
Cincinnati Enquirer Feb. I.
RIsSG TFA-CAsHMsRE GoAT-A coTespon.
dent of the Western Rooorier, writing from Green.
vile, = C., says:
q am witlIn few miles of the place where
the experiment was made Of raising ten It has
proved a failure The plant viii grow well enough.
but wages are to- high in tits country. We can
not afford to pick, 10 roll up and dry any sort Of
leaves here for hsIfs dolOr a pound. In China,
where a man Is hired for 81 month and boards
bjusef IL may be done
Is AN g.aa to learn that the Cashmere goat,
in.ryoucel by II J B. Davis does well here
The goa. is lady, prolific, ard produces a heavy
fleece ofw5oI, SO fine ,h4t The finest Frecch Meri-
no is coarse in comparison, and then it is rom six
10 niue iuCLe5 long
"a son OF hls--Mr. Scott Dlvis-has cargo of
fresh A CORA or Cshmere goats on their wsy to
Gslatu, Tenn, where be Intends to establish