Year: 1859

unsettled. steady.


RAILROAD MATTERS.


Under this head the Cincinnati Commercial of the 18th,
announces the unexpected arrival Of townsmen W.
Prescott Smith and L. NJ Cole Esq's Of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad. at the Burnett House Under the
same head appears the following article which we give
entire in order that the provision trade of Baltimore
NAV know what is said of in the Queen city, and
also generally to show how western editor "fees his
spare ribs" at this season of the year.


1.-THE PIG NOT APPRECIATED IN BALTIMORE


The City of Baltimore is of the most desirable cities
on the Continent whether proposes to himself trade
or the surroundings of desirable residence Her people
are healthy, wealthy and, most subjects, wise But
there point in which Baltimore is, as Tom Corwin
said Daniel Webster the other day, "a little weak "
We refer to her appreciation of the Hog Now it may
well be announced that no city can expect to thrive
apace and to keep up with the march Of civilization whose
unversed in all the niceties Of the hog product.


One of the strongest claims of Charles Lamb to immor
tav is based on his dissertation on Roast PigD That
the people the Monumental City are behind the in
bulk fried roas ted with beans-is evidenced by the
that the dealers there do not pay cash for his swine
ship as they coffee tobacco and other narcot
les but in the habit of offering sixty days paper
Then, again, the worthy plugs VINO follow the occu-
patton Of butchers in Baltimore, pay nothing for the priv
ilegs of killing pigs, but expect some pecunlary grahca
ton for the performances OF tha duty as they would IN
the case of mere and sheep How different the
in Porkopos Here the drover sells directly to pack
without the intervention Of the ~ per cent" commits
sion merchant, Baltimore So his hogs
weighed the gold therefor couned out and urged upon
his Immediate acceptance. For the privilege killing
the butcher boys Cincinnati qyhof dollar each
and Owe the drover one' in addition for his patronage
Now we appeal to the sensible portion of Christian
least antJewish-publc, if Baltimore that forces
all hogs pass through the commission merchants ~
per cent sweating process that imposes regular yard
ing charges, that pays nothing absolutely mary red
for the awful the butchers spell od privilege of kill
ing and that caps the climax Of commercial absury by
paying in $50 days paper, instead of hard cash, how
can baltimore look an average how in the face, and in
vte him the mountains The hogs of the West
times have the cholera but they not possessed of
devils that they should run down the steep Aeghenes
into the Chesapeake No wonder that Baltimore has
Opera House, Steam Fire Engines, and no rights of
suffrage Better destroy your sites of stay laes and
plug uglies for the Legitimate quadrupedal hog, brst
ling as he is with good qualities and everywhere ncreas
ing the fatness of the land favored by his presence


We have been melted to these reflections by the ap
pearance in the Baltimore Exchange Of stupid attack
the administration of Baltimore Ohio Rail
road which is charged with hostility tue best interests
of Baltimore because forsooth it has brought the
hog crop of the West Baltimore to be up and cured
1t would he reasonable to ask Mr. Garrett the
Potomac back the Aeghanies One of the heaviest
hog dealers in the Scoto Valley informs that between
the Cincinnati and Baltimore markcts-supposng the
freight to the latter down to so cens-there is differ
ence of more than dollar in favor of Cincinnati
There is difference of fifty cents head in the single
item Of privilege of killing" and the is made up
against Baltimore by commissions yarding charges and
interest capital where siXtyday notes legal ten
der for tender oins. We believe that the article
which the Baltimore paper bases its call upon the Bal
timore and Ohio Road for pOrcine avalanche, was
copied from Western exchange Every business man
in the West knows the folly of attempting a Railway
freight tariff that could persuade hogs-proverbialy
contrary acknowledgements Baltimore


As to our special share in the above notice for which,
We presume we are indebted having repubisheda
paragraph from Cincinnati Gazet e few days ago
we say that if there be any doubt about the stu
pditv of the attack the management of the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad there can be whatever about that
of the defence, and they Cincinnati productions
that city will have to take the entire responsibility of
both The iudcious however, will not wonder so much
at the amencss the defence that any defence at all
should come that quarter. 1t is certainly some
what suspicious circumstance, that point where the
question is of direct anagonism between Baltimore
and Cincinnati, the defence of the policy of road
should appear in the columns of the press of the rival
city But let that pass Truth is welcome from any
quarter and to this test propose to bring our contem
porary's allegations.


That Cincinnati people should conscentously believe
contemporary to do that the single alternative
presented communities and men OF business is root
hog die " is be wondered at norris it improbable
that the entire and enthusiastic devotion to the one pur
suit, of receiving and entertaining pigs should have
produced degree perfection in the intercourse between
bpeds and quadrupeds in that city, which does not exist
elsewhere If could arise between hog and hui
being do not suppose Cincinnaan would be al
lowed sit the jury the ground OF prejudice, but
any abstract question of pork and bacon Cincinnati
editor ought be good authority We therefore graft





disabilities which such eXpert has been abletodrum
up against Batmores pretensons packing point.
We shall consider them separately.


1st We charged with Offering sixty days paper in
stead of cash for "hi swineship To this reply thai
Baltimore is compelled send much of her gold"
Cincinnati be ''urged the immediate acceptance o
drovers who taught by sad experience in that mar
ket to take nothing else that houses do occasionally
their credit at home where it is equal to gold 1t t.
hot iS has hons
fde transactions and is not of the quality denominatet
kits which is drawn against future expectations
ceped sold heavy shaves to raise money for thu
direct trade 1t is further be said, that Of this
paper goes into the hands the drovers unless they pre-
fer it. but freely discounted at legal rates for the
mission houses who receive it, at Banks. Ther
never time when hogs could not be sold here fo
cash and the whole effect Of the of credit sometime
taken here to improve the market and keep up prices
ID We subject the drover to unnecessary charge fo
commissions sales Does the Commercial say
that there commission men, brokers, for th
sale of hcgs Cincinnati If so, suggest that ther
is rstrate opening for legitimate business in tina
citv The commission rates here fixed by usage
competition and market presents this advantage
drovcrs: that they either with their stool
and sell it person for cash, they may stay at hom
and forward it to a commission house here, who viii
make quicker sales and larger net proceeds thai
they would probably effect for themselves Is there
division Of employment in Cincinnat7 Is every maj
there his own washer r-woman? Do the packers, VIII
make such point Of buying direct from drovers
consen their provisions commission houses here an
elsewhere?


Sd But the worthy plugs" who follow the occupa
on of butchers, it seems expect pecuniary gratifca
tom for killing in Baltimore while in Cincinnati the
are willing to pay fifty cents head for the privilege
Here our contemporary is wrong in the facts" owing
bisD l;-;t,- pirs wit
pigs first. Our ''pugs do their "killing' the
terms which strictly private" but they nc
butchers in the Cincinnati sense and do not operate
the animal which worshipped by Cincinnati ancer
Egypt wcrshpped the bull. To contemporaries il
snuation that those who perform the sacrfcal ritz
US are unreasonahy high priests reply, tn;
here the of slaughterng as well as selling
hogs there options presented to the Judgment of I'll
operator. Our butchers perfectly willing to kill an
take their pay out Of the pickings and stealngsn
they do in Western villages they will render to the
employer his entire animal in the forms of carcass
rails fat blood hair hoos and tail with reasonabl
charge for 'work and labor laid out and expended"
are happy believe that in passing the peaks of tt
Auc0anies clearer views OF morality and business
on the Western mind and that the practices of advance
civilization are usually adopted under the better
huenoes which prevail here.


But our contemporary thinks ait would be just
reasonable to ask Mr Garrett to turn the Potomac ba

the Alleganies" to expect him ito bring the h
crop to Baltimore to be cut up and cured" We on
heard words" between a live Yankee and a steambo
captain, who had his craft aground and had left
sticking IN the mud to go to the town, where we 50
him. after assistance II wouldn't have left her." said
Yankee. why, what would you have done ~ asked t
Captain. Why I'd have got her off myself" "How
roared the other Il don't know hut I be darned if
hadn't got her off somehow" Now if the Potomac hi
to be taken over the Alleganies which for selfish re
sons we protest against a permanent arranpemer
though we should like to lend it to our friends to he
ont the Ohio in dry weather. have just that opinion
the ability energy, administrative capacity and per
verance of Mr. John W Garrett as to believe he would


t"someheown-if 1t any man could. We have thereto
the greater confidence Mr. CARROTS ability to per


the lesser miracle of producing what our Sir Percy Sh
ton, of the Commercial calls 'Porcne avalanche


our benefit 1t is barely possible that the "contrar
disposition Of the animal, his tendencies to hang ba
and go the other way, may be the reason why it
necessary to charge almost double freight FRI
the river to this end, on the live porker


fnll possession of his ungovernable will a
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