THE HBN FEVER. 135 



"Eds. Boston Daily Times: In a late number of 

 your journal you Avere pleased to allude to the sales of 

 live-stock made by me latterly. At the close of the pres- 

 ent year, I find upon my books the folio-wing aggregate of 

 sales for 1853, -which — to show how much has been done 

 by one dealer — may be interesting to some of your readers 

 who ' love pigs and chickens.' 



"I have sent into the Southern and Western States, 

 through Adams & Co.'s Express alone, from Jan. 1st to 

 Dec. 27th, 1853, a little rising f 1T,000 worth of Chinese 

 fowls and fancy pigs. By Edwards, Sanford & Co.'s Trans- 

 atlantic Express, in the same period, I have sent to Eng- 

 land and the continent about $2000 worth of my ' Grey 

 Shanghaes.' By Thompson and Co. and the American 

 Western Express Co., I have sent west and south-west, in 

 the same time, over $1200 worth ; and my minor cash sales 

 (directly at my yards in Melrose) have been over $1000; 

 making the entire sales from my establishment for the past 

 year nearly or quite twenty -two thousand dollars in value. 

 Of this amount, $7300 worth has 'been sold since the 10th 

 of Sept. last. 



"By the first steamer that leaves New York in January, 

 '54, I shall send to New Orleans (to a single customer) 

 between five and six hundred dollars' worth, ordered a few 

 days since. I have also now in hand three large orders to 

 fill for Liverpool and London, immediately ; and the present 



