, 1873-12-11

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Withdrawn from store yatterday for city con.
sumption: 1901 bu wheat 1858 bu com; 1850
bu oats 2,0ss bu ryo; 747 bu barley.
The efollowing grain has bccn inspected intostors
this morning mp to 10 O'Clock: 219 cars wheat;
50 cars corn; cars oats; cars ryo; so cars
barley. Total, 219 cars, or 70,0oo bu.
Dispatches received this morning say that tho
Erie Canal is being filed, aud boats will go
through. Tho Hudson River ts free from leo,
md the woather baimy as . summer morning.
This will be good news to the WoHtern owners OF
the grniu afoat on tho canal The water will be
let in On Thursday.
Our Chief Inspector Of Grain having assumed
il to be- his duty to prosecute men who certify
that they hayo examined mot inspected) grain
which has boon pasaed upon by bis subordinnses.
it may bo we'll to remind that functiouary that 3
considerable portion Of the grain-dea1ing COM
munity regard the official inspection rs Of lttlo
value. Among prominent shippors We might
namo ". T.. Daker l. Co.; q. II. d G. Il. Walker;
]. B. Dutch l. Co.; George Ellison Eggloston,
Hcnnessy l. Co.; Cooley L Dwight D. ". r.
win l. Co.; Dugan Case i Spears J. D. Lyon
t. Co.; Phil Armour i Co., and o score more OF
firms, a!l Of whom show by their acts, Il not in
words, that they cannot depend upon tho out
inspection. They all pay tho State Inspectors
feos because they hud that to be required by
tho Inv ; but pay under mental protest that the
eorvico is not worth the money.
The idea TINT q busnesB man. hftor having
complied with the law to tue utmost Of his abli-
ty, md paid all the fees demanded Of him,
though for service Which he does not wiul to
he performed, should bo afterwards debarred
from employing thousand persons to pass on
the quality or yaluo Of his property, ii simply
preposteroua. It IS such bareiacod absurdiity
that no law could DO construed to mean that,
however it might bo wosded. It mould DO quite
another matter Il tho ah,ppets OF grain should
refuse to pay tho State fees but no better way
| living fnct, than Tho course taken by tho Chief
| Inspector. II he wants to MAKO the law al wcll
| as himself appear ridiculous In tho eyes Of tho
business community. ho will keep on insisting
that the Law be interpreted ~ it was Yesterday.
| Such course will only hnsten the time when
politics will bo kicked out OF the whcst bin, never
mora TO return.
We need only rotor to the cnae of the Erastus
Corning loaded about the middle Of October,
aa proof OF the absolute necessity Of Bomo
supervision on the pa.t Of grain-ownors. eithor
i'll person or by deputy. The order was for q
cargo Of oats, aud tho grain attempted to bo
spoctor mado no objection to 1t ; and it was only
when the agent OF the shipper interposod that
the bin was "Bhut OF, " and the vessel loadod
with real oats.
on grain and other tourth-class freight was
nomnnlly established, mixing the rato to New
Yotk 60o, Or 3Cc per bu. It is now rumored that
the freight agents arc not ouly unable to OBJ
tho old rato. Hiuta are thrown ont apout
300 per bu being considered satisfactory
to tho carriers, under tho present lesseued
moyemont for grain and provisions towards tho
OF materially, aB English buyers claim thoy can
not take meata at present pricoB, and some lots
havO been roAoll, while tho nced for grain ia
very much loss than il tho frost had continued
into tbs middle Of the winter soaYon.
/ THE MARKETS..
Tho leading produce markets wero active to-
day, but generally lower. with a decided weak
ness ingram in tile former part Of the eession,
Of tho Eric Canal. That event would allow tho
grain hithorto supposed to bo Locked up thore for
tho winter to bo Hont forward to New York, Ill
lniniBhing by 30 much the amount required to
DO drawn from tho Woat by rail dining, tho win.
naturally caused . wcakoning in prices.
Tho receipts Of grain continue small they
wore even icss to-day than tho recent plcayunlsh
average, which il reducing the teen OF the In
spactors to q very Rtnall amount. Only in hogs
DO tho receipts keep up, and they come In AZ 1t
tho line would "at1otoh out until tho crack Of
doon,." Tho shipments aro also ANAL, and,
woro II not for speculation, our markots on
Change would bo almost litoeaa.
III the markot for domestic dry goods, good
degree Of activity was noticeable. urtlors from
tue country trado 81 we'll ~ from locnl rotaiora
being ot more liberal character than at any
previous period since before the panic. Prices
nre now undergoing hardening process, aud
although. aa yet only fow articles have actually
advanced, the general teudenoyn staple scaaoli-
*ble fabrics lH to hlghor values. rho grocery
trado was reported reasonably active At un-
changed aud ganoraliy firm ratoa. Just now the
demand In etlehy centerel iu ooIfees, augara and
arups, bMt there IL also fur activity In rlco, spi
!. COS, candles, and soape, and thora Ia decided
llrmnaBs IN oil the aboyo nrticloH Irlcos ranged
tho same aa GU yesterday. nattor was In good
local and EaHtora demand ut l4GD20c for common
TO meaiuna, and at 22@3oo for good to choice.
Choose remains quiet and firm aa previously quo
ted. No changes wora developed in tho Isl, aud
CANNED RQuaa InarkNtR. Qria,i frlIia xaro "a nx.