, 1864-01-25

rnfEes. and the total suspension OF trA!nR On
the PtttbuFE and Fort WnJEe Railway has bcso
aeonsidcEAble decline IN shc demand for Afppns
this together With tho comparatively small nHu1bet
Of Hogs required Tor packing has tended to deesa
the market very curslderably, and VIC note dcc1n
during the week Of &c fer prime to extra grades and
Sc on common to medium from our quotations OF
Saturday last.
SATURDAY Ey1H1Ea, JAZZ. 2s.-Tne total recetpt or
Live Stock during tho week ending t1s evening looks
exceedingly tmall BY the side Of tho receipts OF thu
corresponding week Of last year. showing decrease
Of about a115 per cent We arc. however. Receiving
= conslderably larger proportion Of dressed HOES
this year than last; during the present week We
received less than GO 5 dresscd against s91 for
! tho corresponding week Of last year. Comparing
the total receipts Of Live and dressed Hoes for the
present with the corresponding week Of 1865 the,o
balaEce in favor Of tho present week OF
2.cA Hogs. or about ~ per cent. Why this
year the preference should be given to sending Hogs
dressed rather thanalive into the market can ready
understood when VIC consider the inter impossibtlty
OF shipping STOCK which c1iatcd during the extreme
severity OF tho weather for several weeks past md
the consequent accumulation Of business In the sht
departments OF all railNaSs which has resulted in
an unusual detention In the transit Of freight. In
Addition to thts there has been for tlc past on
so1e Of the connecting lines Of railway less than enc
third Of the accommodation provided In the way OF
cars that WAS required to transport the increasing hog
products OF the districts connected with them
into this market as intended, In ono caae alona m
wards Of twenty thousand hoe5 the property OF one
rm nlone. In the district through which tho Hannibal
and st. Joseph railway runs had to be Slaughtered
there Tor the simple reason that the railway cond not
send them on a'lre With the hog tradezro sing year
by with the growth OF cur population and com.
uesoisl relations 1t Is quite evident rhat some early
movement must be nade to countcrsct the evil tius
referred to.
During she week vhicn has now closed there nas
been more than usual to test the patience and sabii
tv Of the market. for though the oue hundred ami
enc difficulties already In existence not enough
-the Fort Wayne and Fttsburs Railway, lire OF
immense importance to shippers to Philadelphia Bal.
tmorn and Ptttsbrrg. With number OF other good
markets. has been entirely closed; thus compelinga
largo 1umher Of buyers 10 suspend thet1 operations
In consequence Of packers doing mora largely than
customary in Dressed Hogs, there has been much less
than no ordinary demand with gtntEa1 depression
and dulness In the market, to which We have At all
events during the preaent season, been wholly
unaccustoned to. We have, however, somehow or
ether, got through seven Gays Of unysryiDg auncss
80 strictly resembling each other In ali their leailnz
% occasionally to lead to the upres
SION that 1t WAS ono long day. aud not the ordinary
seven days that 60 to make whole week. To sun
up the results Of the whole, nd that with recelnts
amounting to less than twenty.eight thousand hogs,
there are Of that number In the yards ,bss evening
fomc IoIr i've thousand unsold and that mon tbe
talcs which have been effected there has been de-
cline tfem the quotations Of the previous week Of a!c
en- prime to extra qualities and OF SOC on all lower
grader.
This morning there vcrcl1n the various yaras be-
tween feven and eight thousand hogs, ont Of which
numbers the dai1y 1oceIpts amount to about 1850.
Throughout the tay there has been change In the
du1neas Of yesterday excepting for short lime this
afternoon. when Information was brought that the
Pittsburgh and Fart Wayne railway would be open for
general tzalc perhaps Monday, but certainly be.
f1e Wednesday ne1t. the effect Of which threw such
ray Of ftunshne overall faces, as we have OCCASION
ally cast through the intersces Of dark thunder
cloud. We hope, however, that the Information
will turn out to be correct. The uttered sales todsy
amounted to 2e hogs, st prices ranging from saala
e<5, the bulk OF which wero ut $520@5so. At these
rates. however, we note decline ftom yesterday's
quotations upon a except. extra grades Of 15c per
1CQ Ms.