Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1868-12-30
Provision Market.

3 PROVISIONS market remains the
same as last quoted. Business, notwith-
standing the holidays, is good in this
branch of trade, and stuff is moving of in
liberal quantities. About 200 head of hogs
is the aggregate killing of Messrs. Hart
& Hensley thus far in the week, and by
the first of the year their "packing" will
have closed. As an item of interest to the
trade, we copy the following from the st.
Louis Journal Of Commerce:
From appearances, as they are developed
from day to day, it seems that we are to
have a short amount Of hog products. Two
parties are contending about this point
one the long crop, and the other the short
crop; and the arguments of both are now
undergoing practical test, to which every
body is paying the strictest attention. SO
far, the short crop advocates have the de-
cided advantage. Hog receipts are be-
coming less, not here only, but on Lake
Michigan and on the Ohio, points of con-
centration, and the grand distributing CEN
tiers of the West. In localities of less note,
as we'll, a proportionate or corresponding
scarcity is manifestation the Illinois, the
Mississippi above, and the Missouri. Nor
are numbers alone defective, but lighter
weights are general also. These positive
demonstrations are influencing operators
everywhere, as the quick advance ofprices
sufficiently testify, and the long crop party
is changing its tone very perceptlbly.
II is really to be apprehended that we
shall have to endure another year Of meat
scarcity, and be compelled to pay high fig
ures for those articles in this line which
are of absolute necessity. 1t is a matter
most deeply TO be regretted, especially at
this time when strong efforts must be made
to reduce expenditures in individual as
we'll az national life 10 a standard which is
requisite 10 insure the appreciation of our
currency and return to specie payments.
After all the learned disquisitions on
| finance, the simple plan for restoring the
country to a sound financial condition is
economy. We must import less and de-
pend more upon domestic resources, and
give to labor better and cheaper field Of
| exercise.
But long crop parties cling to the belief
that heavy number of hogs are awaiting
| q higher market. They express confidence
| in .he opinion that feeders are wise enough
to turn their cheap corn into dear pork, to
| utilize their frost-bitten grain advanta-
geously, and to come upon the market
| with their heavy animals when quotations
| have reached their maximum. 1t is pos.
| sibe that such reserve is in existence
but it is only barely possible. We could
| wish that such possibility We're more APP
| parent-more to be relied upon. The small
| and lean hogs coming forward, however
| opposes the belief strongly, while the fall
| ing off of supplies everywhere, even with
| the powerful Inducements held out BY IN
precedented prices, render The acceptance
| of the superstition an act in violation OF lAt
| judgment and the plainest duties Of obser-
walton. The truth is, all of the summer
consumption of hog meats-and it was
| Iarge-and all Of the consumption Of the
| new products, which is also large, are to be
deducted from this years slaughter.
BULK MEATs.-Clear sides I5!c; shoul,
ders lie; hams I54@I6c.
BACoN.-Clear sides 17@173e; shout
| ders 13Ic; Hart & Hensley's country
cured hams 179@lSc.
MESS PoRK.-Full weight $50 per Dbl
LARD.-Hart & Hensley's choice leaf IN
tierces lSc cans 18!c; caddies 184c.
HoMrnY.-Choice new 81 so and 81 75
per Dbl.
Buck WHEAT FLoUR.-Extra Sll@ll
80 per barrel, bags included.