Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-01-28

| Secretary, pro tena., 81 me 0OdF0.
| December "a, 1858.
Pork BUSINESS or IowA-Messrs. Har.
bough 4 Co., Of this city, closed up their
seasons business on Saturday. We presume
that no house in the west have done business
in q more neat and satisfactory manner than
they have They may not have done so much
as some of our neighbors below, but frequently
little we'll done is better than a good deal
poorly done. We are informed by them that
their agents, and those with whom they have
had contracts. have fulfilled their agreements
to the letter, with only one exception, and
that party will be dealt with in a summary
manner. Wear pleased to lerrn that MesSrs.
H. & Co. intend to erect an extensive pack
ing establishment, and make this a permanent
point We hope they may do so !; they are
good business men, and can command any
amount of capital necessary to do large
business. They have already assisted in
giving our farmers and stock growers a good
currency-Plttsburg money, and all know
that is as good as gold.
We understand that some of the large deal
ers of Louisville and st. Louis (who have
been packing at points below us) will likely
meet with serious losses by the reckless man.
ner in which they have been doing business
through interior agents. As these matters
are undergoing legal investigation, we will
drop the subject at present, by saying that it
is to the interest of the citizens of the State
generally to encourage men of capi al to
engage in doing a legitimate packing business,
and to discourage the transaction of the busi-
ness through agents and contractors.
We clip the above from the Davenport
Gazette. 1t is amusing to see what shifts
our Davenport friends resort to, to console
themselves for the slim business which they
haye done the past winter.
We are not able to see what bearing the
operations there have upon the s'Pork bust
ness of Iowa" 1t would be pretty small, if
Davenport was fair representation.
The most interesting part of the article is
the reference to ''heavy losses by the reckless
manner in which the Louisville and St. Louis
buyers who have been purchasing at points
below have operated" And in the same
article they acknowledge that the Messrs.
Harbough, who have done business $50 neat"
have one agent who did not fill his agreement
to the letter, and che will be dealt with in
summary manner" Now, at all the houses
in this city there are but two agents who are
in arrears, although we might hav> eighteen,
and still not exceed our sister city in proper
ton to the number of hogs cut at the rcspcctiv
points.
However, it will be all right in the future,
for they are to have IAN extensive packing
establishment" and become permanent
point two things which they stand in great
need of at the present time.
THs New YORK TRIBUNE ON THE PREs1-
DEScY.-The New York Tribune has two
column leader on the Presidency, chiefly con-
tradicting the report that it is opposed to
Seward. 1t takes no decided ground for or
against any candidate, but intimates that
Seward would not be likely to suit Pennsyl.
vania. 1t regards Seward as right on all
leading questions except national expcndi-
lures Next to him is Chase, whom it regards
as right on all leading questions except the
tariff, but would cheerfully support either,
notwithstanding these differences - would
even support a STAKEHOLDER of the John Bell
stamp, if right on the main question. 1t
closes with the following: "When the time
shall have arrived for selecting our standard
bearer for 1860, we shall make choice and
indicate it. Until then all the reports that
the Tribune or its editor is doing this or that
to favor one possible Republican nominee, or
disparage another, will be mistaken and
groundless. Our immediate effort will be to
induce such an understanding and state of
feeling among the various camps of the Oppo-
sition, as will render the success of some can
didate from our side not merely possible, but
morally certain"