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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
To Correspondents. —We have several com¬ 
munications on hand which we will look over 
as soon as we have time, and some of them will 
be published. It is no trifling labor to prepare 
for the printer many communications which we 
receive. Some are written so closely that there 
is not room to put in corrections, without re¬ 
writing the whole. We cheerfully prepare ar¬ 
ticles, unless there is manifest want of care on 
the part of the writer. If he does as well as he 
can, we make all needful changes and correc¬ 
tions. 
As most writers doubtless wish to improve 
their own style, we suggest to them to keep an 
exact copy of their communications, and then 
compare this copy with the printed sheet. They 
may often learn something in this way. 
We are not anxious to receive original poetry. 
We have little space for rhyme, and we have 
good selections enough to last us a year at least. 
Good poetry, however, will not be rejected ; but 
we advise all who attempt to write in verse to 
remember, that good rhyme does not constitute 
good poetry; on the contrary, some of the best 
poetry we have ever seen does not “ rhyme ” at 
all, while some of the best rhyme contains not a 
single poetic sentiment. 
They Were Never Children. —A corres¬ 
pondent says: “We talk [of Adam and Eve as 
having been, before the fall, in a very happy 
condition, but one thing they missed—they 
were never children.” 
True. We never thought of that. Adam 
never played marbles. He never played “hokey.” 
He never drove a tandem of boys with a string. 
He never skated on a pond, or played “ ball,” 
or rode down hill on a hand-sleigh. And Eve, 
she never made a play-house; she never took tea 
with another little girl from the little tea-table 
set out with the toy tea things; she never rolled 
a hoop, or jumped a rope, or pieced a baby- 
quilt, or dressed a doll. They never played 
“ blind man’s bluff,” or “ pussy wants a corner,” 
or “ hurly burly,” or any of the games with 
which childhood disports itself. How blank 
their age must have been, wherein no memories 
of early youth came welling up in their hearts, 
no visions of childhood floating back from the 
long past, no mother’s voice chanting a lullaby 
to the ear of fancy in the still hours of the night, 
no father’s words of kindness speaking from the 
church-yard where he sleeps. Adam and Eve, 
and they alone of all the countless millions of 
men and women that have ever lived, had no 
childhood .—Albany Register. 
Queer Shirt buttons. —“Whaton’arth ails 
these ere shirt buttons, I wonder. Jest the 
minit I put the needle through ’em to sew ’em 
on, they splits and flies all to bits.” “Why, 
Grandmother, them isn’t shirt buttons, tliey’s 
my peppermints, and you’ve been spilin’ ’em.” 
Necessity is great for making things serve all 
round. In California a warning-pan is used as 
an umbrella, fruit-dish, bean-pot, and-contribu- 
tion-box. 
Rlarte. 
Remarks. —Our advices from Europe are to 
the 25th March. Grain and Flour have fallen 
there considerably, but this decline has not 
affected our market in the least, owing to the 
small quantity on hand. At the opening of the 
canals, when large quantities will be continually 
coming to market, the prices will then be gov¬ 
erned more by those prevailing in Europe. 
Flour remains nearly as per our last; Corn has 
fallen 3 to 4 cents per bushel. 
Cotton has given way from -} to f cts. per lb., 
Sugar i of a cent. 
Money is just as high as ever, and Stocks a 
little lower. 
The weather has now become quite mild and 
spring like; but the season is at least twelve 
days later thon that of last year. 
From tho Mark Lane Express, March 20th. 
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. 
The depression in the Wheat trade has in no 
degree abated since our last, and a further im¬ 
portant decline has taken place in prices at most 
of the leading provincial markets. Holders ap¬ 
pear to have been seized by a kind of panic; 
whilst buyers, finding it to their advantage to 
hold off, have refused to take beyond what they 
have needed for immediate use. In proportion 
as the anxiety to realize has increased, so has 
the caution of purchasers, and so far from any 
improvement in the demand having been caused 
by the fall which has taken place in prices, the 
effect has been just the reverse ; for with each 
concession made by sellers, the millers have 
contracted their operations. How long this 
state of affairs may continue, no one can forsee; 
but it is an undoubted fact that stocks in the 
hands of the millers and bakers have been ma¬ 
terially reduced, and, whenever the turn may 
come, the reaction is likely to be sudden. That 
the existing position of affairs has been in a 
great measure brought about by the increasing 
tightness in the money market, cannot be ques¬ 
tioned ; and, though there has been no great 
extent of speculation, still purchases were, it 
would now appear, made during the time that 
prices were on the advance, by parties not in a 
position to hold what they bought for any 
lengthened period; hence the late forced sales. 
Circumstances have, it must be confessed, been 
all against speculators for an advance. We 
have, in the first place, been favored with the 
most auspicious weather. The autumn seed¬ 
time was all that could be desired; the winter 
sharp, but not protracted; and the weather for 
getting in the Lent crops as propitious as possi¬ 
ble. There has, consequently, been nothing to 
create uneasiness in respect to the future, and, 
though it may not be veiy rational to conclude 
that because the first step has been favorable 
the result must also be so, still it has encouraged 
hopes of future abundance. 
The prospect of war with Russia, which 
greatly assisted the upward movement, has, 
now that it has become almost certain, had the 
opposite effect, inasmuch as it has caused the 
Baltic merchants to make unusual efforts to ship 
off all they could as early as possible; with this 
view vessels have been loaded over the ice, and 
the latter cut away, so as to allow the ships to 
proceed to sea before the winter broke up. The 
pressure for money, to which we have already 
alluded, may also be attributed to the extraor¬ 
dinary expenditure caused by the preparations 
of war; and though there can be no doubt that 
we shall hereafter feel the effect of the withhold¬ 
ing of supplies from Russia, thus far the warlike 
aspect of affairs has been to depress, instead of 
raising, prices. Last, but not least in impor¬ 
tance, has been the extent of the arrivals of 
breadstuff's from America. These had certainly 
exceeded what we were led to expect, from the 
character of the advices from thence; for we 
were told months ago that stocks at the ports 
on the sea-board had been reduced into a very 
narrow compass, and that the receipts from the 
interior would be comparatively unimportant. 
The question now is, will America continue to 
ship as largely as she has done ; will the prohi¬ 
bition of exports from the Black Sea, and the 
interference with supplies from the Upper Bal¬ 
tic, have no effect; and will the consumption, 
which was certainly checked by the high prices 
which prevailed during the winter, undergo no 
increase after a fall of 10s. per qr. on Wheat ? 
The answer we must leave to our readers. Dur¬ 
ing the last month there has hardly been a day 
in which out-door labor could not be favorably 
prosecuted; farmers have, consequently, been 
enabled to make rapid progress, and the sowing 
of Lent Corn is now drawing to a close; indeed 
in many districts the work has been finished. 
Still the deliveries from the growers have not 
increased materially. 
CONTINENTAL CORN TRADE. 
We learn from the Baltic that the different 
rivers and harbors had been freed from ice, 
and that the greatest activity prevailed to ship 
off what had been bought during thfc winter for 
English account. The very dull reports from 
hence had had the effect of checking all incli¬ 
nation to enter into fresh engagements, and 
what was being done was in fulfilment of con¬ 
tracts previously entered into. 
By the most recent advices from France, it 
appears that the pressure for money had not 
diminished, and the downward movement in 
prices of Wheat and Flour had consequently 
continued. The dull accounts from hence, and 
the favorable character of the season, had all 
assisted to discourage holders, and the anxiety 
to realise at almost any price had amounted to 
a panic. At Paris on Wednesday, sellers 
would have submitted to materially reduced 
rates; notwithstanding which, it was impossible 
to induce buyers to act. We have similiar 
advices from Havre, but at Marseilles a rally 
seems to have taken place on receipt of the in¬ 
formation of the prohibition of exports from 
Southern Russia; subsequently, however, busi¬ 
ness had again become dull. 
From Odessa we learn that the time allowed 
for vessels to complete their loading had been 
extended to the 13th March. So soon as this 
had become known, a very active demand for 
Wheat had set in, and over 70,000 qrs. had 
been bought for immediate shipment. 
PRODUCE MARKETS. 
Wholesale prices of the more important Vegetables, 
Fruits, &c., at the principle New-York Markets. 
April 8, 1854. 
Vegetables. —Potatoes, Western Reds, $ bbl., $2 37^ ; 
Junes, $2 25 ; Merinos, $2 25 ; Carters, S3 50 ; Mercers, 
$3 25@.$3 50 ; Onions red, bbl., $1 75 ; yellow, $1 75 ; 
white, $3 ; Parsneps, $ bbl., $1 50; Beets, bbl., $2 50 ; 
Carrots, tp bbl., $2 50; Turnips, white, ^1 bbl., $1 75; 
yellow, $1 50; Spinach $ bbl., $4 ; Celery, $ doz. bunches, 
$2 ; I,ettuce, $ doz., 25c.@$l; Vegetable Oysters, $1© 
$1 25; Cabbage, $ hundred, $8@$14. 
Fruits. —Apples, Greenings, ip bbl., $3 50 ; Spitzenburgs, 
$ bbl., S3 50; Russets, $ bbl., $3 50 ; Northern Spy, 
bbl., $4, a very few in market. Second quality of the 
kinds above mentioned are worth $2@$2 50 ; Cranberries, 
tp bbl., $9@$10,; Maple Sugar, per lb., 10@J2%c. ; Eggs, $1 
doz., 15c. ; Butter, I8@22c. per pound. 
The markets arc poorly supplied, and produce is com¬ 
manding good prices at present. 
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NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. , 
Monday, April 10,1854. 
The number of cattle in market to-day is not as large as 
one week since, but they arc of a superior quality, about 
equal to those of last week. The prices range about the 
same as last week. 
Lowest price, 8c.; Middling, 9c.; Best, 10c. 
Washington Yards, Forty-fourth street. 
A. M. Allerton, Proprietor. 
RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK. IN MARKET TO-DAY 
Beeves, 
2,187 
Cows, 
29 
Sheep, 
476 
Swine, 
1,095 
Veals, 
907 
Of these there were forwarded by the Harlem Railroad, 
beeves, 88 ; cows, 27; sheep, 405. 
By the Hudson River railroad, beeves, 700 ; sheep, 71. 
By the Erie railroad, beeves, 1100 ; swine, 1095. 
New-York State, furnished by cars, 393. 
Ohio, by cars, 1090. 
Pennsylvania, on foot, 328. 
Kentucky, by cars, 288. 
Connecticut, on foot, 4. 
Mr. Allerton gives the following prices; Cows from 
$30®$65 : Sheep, $3 50@$7 ; Extra, $10©$14 ; Swine, 
corn fed, 5^c.; Mast, 4>k©5K- 
RECEIVED DURING THE WEEK. IN MARKET TO-DAY. 
Browning’s, Sixth street. 
Beeves, 297 
Cows, 88 
Sheep, 1,852 400 
O’Brien’s, Sixth street. 
Beeves, 40 
Cows, 100 
Mr. Chamberlin being sick, we were unable to obtain 
our usual reports from his yards. 
