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with such beef and with such amounts of beef as they may de- 

 sire. The drover generally waits for two or three days until he 

 gets the returned weight of his cattle after being slaughtered, 

 and receives his money. The butchers who come from a dis- 

 tance in order to get supplies for the small and remote villages 

 and towns, of course drive their cattle to their respective homes 

 to be slaughtered ; and large numbers go from hence to Lowell, 



farmer on receiving the returns of the weight of a yoke of oxen, which he 

 had entrusted to a drover for sale, was very much disappointed and dissat- 

 isfied. He had no reason to distrust the honor of the drover, and the drover 

 returned the weight of the full niunber of cattle sold. It seems after the 

 drover had delivered his herd of cattle to the purchaser, the purchaser se- 

 lected this yoke of cattle, and, instead of killing them, sold them at a high 

 price, putting another inferior pair in their stead, whose weight on being 

 killed was returned to the drover. In the mean time, the yoke in question, 

 which were sold to a farmer, broke out of his yard and returned to their first 

 owner, which led to the discovery of the fraud. 



It would be very desirable if several competent persons of established 

 character and responsibility, were resident at Brighton, who should not 

 themselves be buyers, but who should receive and sell cattle upon a fair 

 commission. This has been done to some extent ; but the irici*easing prac- 

 tice of having the droves picked of the best cattle, before their arrival at 

 market by forestallers, renders respectable dealers unwilling to engage in 

 disposing of the remainder, as the low prices which they must necessarily 

 get for what remains after the best are selected, fail to give satisfaction to 

 their employers, and tend to bring their own honor or competency into 

 doubt or suspicion. 



Business hitherto at Brighton has been very loosely conducted, though in 

 general without doubt, and quite as far as under the circumstances is to be 

 expected, with honor. The amount is immense and continually increasing. 

 The business is done almost exclusively in cash, as any desire of credit on 

 the part of the purchaser brings him at once under suspicion. The facilities 

 for intemperance and gambling, which have sometimes existed at JJrighton, 

 have been dreadfully prejudicial to the drovers and others, who visit there 

 and are obliged to remain there or in the capital some days without occupa- 

 tion for the return of the weight of their cattle. Young men coming from 

 the interior with cattle for sale, are often ruined by here being entrapped 

 and laying the foundations of fraud and drunkenness. If there is a place 

 in our community, Brighton is one, where the friends of sobriety should 

 combine their forces in this great cause of order and humanity; and where 

 the banner of Total Abstinence should throw its broad folds to the breeze. 



