Litchfield enquirer., 1862-12-04
THE MARKET IN ST. PETERSBURG

Not only is every thing brought in sedges to market, but the sedges serve at the same
 time for shops and counters. The mats which
 cover the goods are thrown back a little, and
 the pieces of geese, towls and calves, arc
 ranged on the edge, and hung up at the cor
 ners and on the tops ot the posts. The geese cut up into hundred pieces the necks are sold separately, each in dozens and half dozens strung together Whoever is too poor
 to think ot the trump, bnys a string of frozen heads; and he who finds the heads too dear,
 gives six copecks for lot of necks while Ee who cannot afford these, makes shift with Il | coupe dozen feet, which he stews down on sunday into a soup for his family. Tho
 sledges with oxen, calves, and goats, have the l most extraordinary appearance. Ihese animals
 are brought to marNet in perfectly frozen
 state. Of course, they are suffered to freeze ill extended posture. because in this state they are most manageable. There stand the tlll figures of the oxen like iood stained ghosts, l,rting up their long horns, around the sides of 1 the sedge while the goats, looking exactly as 1 if they were alive. only with faint, glazed and
 frozeh eyes, stand threaenipgy opposite to one another. Every part is as hard as stone. The
 carcases are cut up, like trunks of trees, with
 aya and The Russians particularly | fond of sucking pigs, nd whole trams of sledg- es laden with infant swine, come to market. The
 little StarveingS, strung together like thrushes, | are sold by the dozen, and the long lecoed moth- | CTS keep watch over th m around the sledges. The anatomy of the Russian butcher is d very 1 simple science. For as every part, flesh or | bone, is all alike hard. they have no occasion te
 pay regard to the natural divisions of the joints. | With the saw they cut the hogs into number of | steaks an inch two thick, as We do rump of | bcef ILc flesh splits and shvers during the l operation like wood and the little heggar wench- | es are Very busy picking up the animal Sawdust | out of the snow. You do not ask for a steak, | chop joint but for slice, a block, lump, a
 splinter of meal. The same is the case with | fish ; they too are as if cut out of marble and
 wood. Those of diminutive species, like the I shitki, are brought in sacks, and e put into
 scales with shoves. The large pike, salmon
 and sturgt oA. every inch of which was once
 so 1.-the and supple. are now stifiened as if by
 magic. To protect them from the warmth in
 ca>e of sndden 1haw--for thawing would essep- ! italy deteroratc their ftvor-they are covered with snow and lunp@ of ice in which they lie 1 cool enough. 1t is not uncommon for the l whole cargo 10 he frozen in mass. so that
 crow,ar and pi!ccrs are required to get az individual lish 50 long as the co!L in winter
 keeps every fluid congcaled. and the snow cov- 1 CTS every lmpuriiy with white carpet, this 1 Haymarket is toerably clean. and you cannot i sec much dirt that may not be easily removed.
 All ofal that is thrown away, is instantly frozen
 on the ground. Hence there is formed in the
 course of the winter such an accumulation of
 shocps eyes, fsh-taiiS crabs shells goats hair.
 hay dung fat. blood. tSr., that wien spring strips
 o.l the covering kindly lent by winter, the place is like real Augpan stable.--KyhES RUSSt0.