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rather sharply. Wool has been in fair demand, mostly 
ou manufacturing account, at stronger rates. The finer 
grades of Fleece have been scarce. Hemp, Seeds, Hay, 
and Tobacco have been moderately sought after at the 
ruling prices. Naval Store* and Petroleum held higher, 
and in more demand. A very moderate business baa 
been reported in Hops, at essentially unaltered rates. 
Groceries have been sought after— Coffee and Sugars 
lower. The Cotton movement has been comparatively 
brisk: but with free offerings of stock prices have 
declined. 
Wew York litre-Stock Markets. 
RECEIPTS. 
wkek kndixo Ileeves. Cows. Valves. Sheep. Swine. Tot'?. 
January 19 7,314 r. HUs -u.'.tfW 37,571 6tf,506 
January 26 9,509 50 603 28,136 81,652 60.949 
Februarys ...7.109 5i 590 I9.i<i7 'j:3,:>.3 50,211 
February 9 9,022 42 5GG 28,0S1 31,112 72,423 
Total for \ Weeks.. 32,954 1S9- 2.426 96,322 127,288 259,179 
a\o.forprevASWeekg35£19 310 3,233 101,096 171,942 311,803 
Beeves. Cows. Calves. Sheep. Sioine. 
Average per Week 8,238 47 coo 21.omj ai. ■■■ 
do. So, last 3f0?lth... 7,042 62 647 20,219 S4,3SS 
do. Ho.prev's Month.. 6,513 78 1,136 22,647 53,9S) 
Beeves.— After the dull close of last month's buBi- 
aiess Hie usual reaction took place, and a firm and up- 
ward feeling was manifested. The receipts during the 
mouth were irregular, and prices worked back and forth 
exactly according to receipts. Ou the whole, the past 
month has not been satisfactory to dealers, and some 
have lost money. At the close the market was dull, and 
prices were easier for ordinary and medium cattle, }-..q. 
$ lb. having been lost from the top rates of the day. 
Cherokee and Texan cattle brought 9'. t c. @10Xc. $ lb. 
to dress 56 lbs. $ gross cwt.; prime native brought 8>£c. 
I2',,c. on 54 (a\ 58 lbs. ; and a few of the best reached 
12V- @13c. 
Prices for the past four weeks were : 
week ending Jtange. Large Sales. Aver. 
January 19 8 @13Kc 10H@H c. 1<H'C 
January 26... 8<-@12Xc. 10K@10^c. 10KC. 
February 2 7^@13 c. 10^@11 c. :ov- 
February 9 7 '@13 c. lO&tgilO^c. lOJ^c. 
JYIileU Cows.— The market for cows has been quiet. 
All that came to hand have been sold at steady prices, 
and a moderate demand is reported at $40 © $80 <£ head. 
Calves.— A steady demand exists for all that ar- 
rive, and good veals are taken readily at highest quota- 
tion*. At the close, Sc. @ lie. $ lb. was paid for veals, 
and $8 @ $12 $ head for grass calves. Hog-dressed 
veals we re firm at lie. @. 14c. $ lb Sheep and 
Lambs.- An increase in receipts, although trifling, 
has disturbed the market for sheep, and along with the 
weakness therehasbeenafalliugoffof \ic. "# IK Choice 
lots bring high prices, and 8&e. $ 5>. was paid at the 
close for this clas-s of stock. The range was 6j£c. @ 
BUc. *# ft> Swlae.— The market has gradually 
crept up, and, with lighter receipts, quotations are con- 
siderably advanced. Live hogs sold at the close at 6c. 
@ 6&C. y tb. Dressed hogs were in fair demand, at 7c. 
@. 7^'c. ty lb. for Western, and 7c. @ 8c. $ lb. for City. 
containing a rtreat variety of liems. including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which we throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
Remitting' Honey : — Checks on 
New York City ISauks or Dankers are best 
for large sums ; make payable to the order of Orange 
Jud<l Company. Post-office Money Orders 
for $50 or less, are cheap and sale also. When these are not 
obtainable, register letters, affixing stamps for post- 
age and registry ; put in the money and seal the letter in 
the presence of the postmaster, and take his receipt for it. 
Money sent in the above three methods is safe against loss. 
I*«sts».jce ; Ou American Ayricultur ist, 12 cents 
a year, and on Hearth and Home. 20 cents a year, in ad- 
vance. Double rates if not paid in advance at the 
office where the papers are received. For subscribers in 
British America, the postage, as above, must be Bent 
to this office, with Vie subscription* for prepayment here. 
Also 20 cents fur delivery of Hearth and Home and 12 
cents for delivery of American, Agriculturist in New 
Tori: City. 
The National Lire-Stock: Journal, 
which is a monthly journal published at Chicago, con- 
tinues very worthily to represent the interests of stock 
breeders ; it is thoroughly trustworthy, and is edited 
with great judgment and skill. It now comes forward 
as the defender of stock interests, being engaged in re- 
pelling an attack in the shape of a suit for damages for 
an expression of opinion upon matters of great moment 
to honest breeders. 
Clubs can at any time bo increased by remitting' 
for each addition the price paid by the original members: 
or a small club may be increased to a larger one; thus; 
a person having sent 10 subscribers and $12, may after- 
ward send 10 more subscribers with only $8 ; making a 
club of 20 at $1 each ; and so of the other club rates. 
Mr. ,B u<l<!% Health.— A ponograph has 
been going the rounds of the papers to the effect that Mr. 
Judd is seriously ill. This was news to us, who are quite 
as likely as other papers to know, ami we can only say 
that his last and very recent letter was very cheerful, 
without any reference at all to his being ill. 
Our Fine t'hrouiott. — Road all about 
them ou third cover page. It is easy to secure one or 
both. 
;\ow tor tHe Senate!— The House has 
passed a much needed amendment to the Postal law, 
which interests all who send books, plant!*, and other 
matters by mail. "When it becomes a law we shall en- 
deavor to publish it in full. 
Take IfiotU Papers.— If beth the 
American, Agriculturist and Hearth and Home are 
taken together they may be had for only $->, and $4.50 
pays for both papers and a Chromo with each. 
tjiraAiug- the Hickory. — " C. R.," 
Locktown, N. J. The hickory is among what the French 
gardener calls "svjets rebe&es," or hard cases; and to 
graft it successfully requires great care on the part, of the 
operator. At best it only succeeds on very young stocks, 
and the grafts when set have to be covered with a bell- 
glass to keep them from drying out, and a shade to pre- 
vent burning. Grafting the hickory may be considered, 
so far as people in general are concerned, as impractic- 
able. A few years ago we published a communication 
from a gentleman who succeeded by drawing the earth 
away from small stocks, grafting in the collar by the 
usual cleft-graft, tying firmly, replacing the earth, and 
making n mound of earth to half cover the cion. 
Ikeath of a JJCeror Hampshire Hor- 
ticulturist.— Mr. Calvin Eaton, of Concord, N. II., 
died suddenly Of disease of the heart on January 14th. 
Mr. E. was prominent in the horticulture of bis State, 
and was especially successful as a grape-grower. 
Walks in a Lawn.— "J. T. P.," Chester 
Co., Pa. The walks in Central Park are made of various 
materials. The best, except on hill-sides where they 
will wash, are made of gravel, and if good gravel can be 
had and properly laid nothing can be better. The cement 
walks, so far as we know of them, are hampered with 
patents. One of our neighbors made his walks by melt- 
ing three parts of coal-tar and one of pitch, mixing sand 
with this material to make a thick mortar, and spread- 
ing and rolling. This makes a good walk; but we do not 
know whether it interferes with any one's patent or not. 
Triumph Sweet Corn. — A single triai 
of this variety convinced us of its great excellence, and 
we regard it as "tip-top 11 in every respect. Mr. D. C. 
Voorhes, Blawenburg, rT. J., who brought this corn to its 
present perfection, has furnished us enough for a mere 
extended planting this year, and we shall make another 
trial of it. 
A Camellia with Two Centers.— 
Mr. David Foulis, Florist, 146G Broadway, N. Y., brought 
us a camellia which had two distinct centers in the mid- 
dle of the flower, while the exterior shows no indication 
that it was formed by the union of two flowers. 
The English "Farmer"-n#t the 
tiller of the soil, but the paper absurdly so-called — con- 
tinues to act out its natural instincts, and tin such a case 
it is not necessary to be very choice of words) steal from 
the Agriculturist and other papers with its accustomed 
freedom. If the articles thus stolen went no further 
than the obscure columns of the ''Farmer, 1 ' it would 
matter but little, but other English as well as American 
papers, seeing a good article in the Farmer, quote it and 
credit it to that sheet, and thus a double wrong is done- 
it steals articles and gets credit for publishing something 
readable under the false pretense of its being original. 
Our friend Robinson, of the "Garden," recently pub- 
lished, with credit to the Farmer, an article on ""Carpet- 
ing Beneath Shrubs," copied from the Agriculturist word 
for word. The Garden should know that if anything ap- 
pears in the Farmer worth quoting, it is quite sure to be 
stolen bodily from the Agriculturist or some other Ameri- 
can paper, for nothing short of a stroke of lightning 
would ever arouse it from its profound stupidity and in- 
duce it to perpetrate a readable article of its own. ii 
burglar shows some daring in his crime, the pickpocket 
displays great skill, but the fellow who steals the coatz 
from the hall while the family are at supper shows, 
neither daring nor skill, and we call him a " sneak thief.' 9 
A paper that persistently and continually takes others 
articles without credit does not belong to the first two 
classes, as his exploits are not marked by either of the 
qualities that we have attributed to them. 
SUNDRY Hl';URITG@. — Import 
ant Decision. — Many years ago, Mr. Judd foruafi, 
from his correspondence, that quacks and charlatans tif 
all kinds were fleecing the people, especially the agricw.'- 
tural community, at a rate that was perfectly astound- 
ing, lie, at a great expenditure of time and at the ritfir 
of both person and pocket, began to investigate the com- 
plaints tliat came to him, and, when well founded, the 
evil-doers were exposed. Soon the humbug column be- 
came a regular thing, and it became necessary to employ 
assistants to look: np the cases as they occurred. F«r 
a long time he fought the army of humbugs single- 
handed, though of late other papers have given more or 
less efficient aid ; and it U satisfactory to kuov. that the 
Agriculturist, has been the means of saving to the peo- 
ple a sum that may safely be reckoned by millions. 
Whoever has had the editorial charge, the manifesto 
against fraud has regularly appeared, and it is intend*! 
it shall appear until the rogues find the business hat- 1 
grown unprofitable from their being unable to fln,o 
dupes. A great help to our labors has come in tin 
recent United States law against improper use of the 
mails; and we are by this enabled to squelch some veij? 
mischievous things in the bud. It is not poiicy to ; teJj 
how this is done, as we do not care to put rogues <<m 
their guard. Suffice it to say it is through the officers-.** 
the law. In exposing the designs of quacks and impof. 
tors of all kinds we may sometimes make a mistake, usS 
do injustice to an innocent person, notwithstanding jgB 
the care we take in investigating and considering encl 
case. The cases in which this has happened haw 
been very rare, and we have hastened, when coir 
vinced we were wrong, to make the fullest repara- 
tion. Wcwouldnot inany manner injure any one engag- 
ed in a fair and legitimate business, but, on the othe? 
hand, we wil not allow those iu unfair and illegitimate 
business to fleece confiding and unsuspecting people i 1 
any warning on our part can prevent it. Of course, in de- 
fending thousands from the designs of quacks and in* 
poetors, we must offend those who get np the swindling 
schemes, and some of these have money enough to en- 
ter a suit at law against us. We get li hauled up "to 
often that we have become quite used to It ; and though 
these fellows have it in their power to cause us to ex- 
pend time and money to respond to their suits, wc ac- 
cept these as legitimate accompaniments of our posi- 
tion. Some prosecute us with the hope that the fact 
may be widely announced, and thus give them a capita* 
advertisement gratis ; others enter suits with the ex- 
pectation of recovering damages. When we are sued 
we do not publish the fact, as we do not care to do that 
kind of advertising. Very few of these suits ever come 
to trial, and in the few that have been fairly brought be- 
fore the courts, wc have in no caBe been defeated. The 
last suit that was brought against us called forth such a 
positive opinion from Judge Davis of the Supreme 
Court of New York, that we are induced to print it ia 
full. It is, indeed, a valuable contribution to medico- 
legal literature, and is of interest not only to the people 
at large, but to every publisher of a journal and every 
lawyer and physician. Nor is it without importance to 
makers and venders of various nostrums ; and this very 
calm bit of judicial wisdom is commended to their con- 
sideration. This opinion, copied from the court record., 
gives such a full and clear history of the case, that Dj© 
further comment is needed. 
SUPREME COURT.— FrasT Department. 
Januaby General Term. 
D^Yin Richard*, 
Pltf. andAppt., I Davis, P. J. 
vs. V Donohue and Daniels,, 
Change Judd and others, I ■/, J, ti 
Deft, and liespt. } 
Appeal from order of Special Term, striking out the 
complaint iu this action, and dismissing the same with 
costs, for plaintiffs refusal to answer certain questions 
propounded to him as a witness pursuant to the order of 
the Court. 
Jorr'T L. Walker for plaintiff; Amos O. Hull far 
respondent. 
Davis, P. J. : 
The plaintiff alleges iu his complaint, in substance, 
that he is and has for many years been the sole propri- 
etor, owner, aud manufacturer of articles of medicines 
and merchandise generally and publicly known as Dr. 
Richau's Golden Remedies, which he has for ten years 
last pwt manufactured and put up and offered for sale 
