The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1863-05-09

good stale cattle, which were Withdrawn laat
Week because they would not sell to pay COST
fs notany BETTER notwithstanding the ssoners
sors .or rise" entered into snug little ear
Of Ike caaf e. Albany to hold hack one third
sangement would have been good one If the
new YORK butchers were all FOOLS AS they are
NOT, the operate has not been a successful one.
We have found only three cattle brokers who
mink that the market is any better to-day than
Ia MONDAY ana they qualify their opinion that
some of the buyers of fiIst-class cattle whomade
thelT pqrchases early in. the morning, to-day,
MN thas they paid hafa cent more than last
declare that the price was IMPOSED upon them
by presense OF a short supply, when there was
no foundation forsccii q report, and that they
VIII make the SPECTATORS suffer in the future
as noialhg pack 100 or 800 head of cattle. to
i Ins price er not an honest way of do
they would be willing 20 pay high rates. Now
they are not, becaSlse their customers will not
naton aay e ths buaooss
remarkably good There is not a real mean
drovein market, and but few scattering ones of
ZCO That any respectable butcher will not OBJ
net ana ssnes s few will Sdis sell at Nc
not average over 10 q b for the meat sinking
0na, some OF the coalssest will sell at &c p d. or
as some sold last week, and we think there viii
not be as many sold ut the highest rate now as
IneH. boIn quality and price range more even
this week than last. ~, ~ r-l3 .sas
THE CLOSE or THE MARKET.
TUESDAY, May 5.-None of the cattle held out
by agreement at Albany have come forward,
and oUly 81 have come in fresh from there, but
there are o few that were held out over the river
on sale this morning, and all of the reserve
from ina side have been, will be, sold to-day
and it's now said that the Albany reserve will
not number over eight or nine hundred and
therefore Will not materially affect the market
next week Perhaps not; yet twas, in our opin-
lon most egregrio,is blunder on the part of its
movers, the leader of which is known as "Presi
dent OF the sugar Company'' title given to q
continuation whose particular object appears to
be to 'Sweeten the butchers'' In this the COM
bination has signally failed this week. as ii was
confdent1ally asserted that holding back por-
ton OF the cattle would enable sellers to adj
vance prices one or two cents pound, and thus
open the way TO market day during the month
When the average price would be 15c pound
net for beef. Hany of the combination live to
see that day. we piously hope that they will
legitimate cause for an advance above the cur
rent rates Of last Winter. There is no reason in
any advance above present rates. Indeed, they
are now unreaSonably high, and are kept up by
butchers and their customers, and with no adj
vantage to the farmers who produce the beef
1t is our deliberate opinion based upon care
full observation of many sales, that the market
this week as it was last, Notwithstanding the
combination, and that there are more than q
thousand head less this week than Last. Certain
~ the market does not close any better than it
dld last tuesday. One OF the reasons may be
that the Government agents have not bought
bullock this week and very few have been taken
by individuals for shipping We hear nothing
of the new army contractor, who has agreed to
furnish frst-clasS bullocks at IS 50 a cwt. live
weight, delivered on the scales in this market
place.