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on hand, and the market is less active 
ever, remain the same. 
The prices, how. 
New-York Cattle Trade ofr 1854, 
We present below our annual statistics of the New- 
York Cattle Trade for the year just closed. New-Yorkis 
the most extensive cattle mart in America. The cattle 
brought to this market come to us from nearly all section s 
of the Union east of the Missississippi. Kentucky, Ten¬ 
nessee, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Virginia, and Pennsylva¬ 
nia, are our most liberal contributors, but western and 
northern New-York, with Connecticut, Massachusetts, 
and other of the Neiv-England States, likewise send us 
extensive supplies. 
All the lines of travel radiating from this city to the in¬ 
terior—the Harlem and Hudson and Erie Railroads, the 
iVew-York Central, the Lake Shore, the Great Michigan 
Central, and the Baltimore and Ohio, and some of the 
Eastern Railroads, find in the carriage of the live stock 
consumed here, one of their most profitable items of 
freight from Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, 
Virginia, Pennsylvania, New-England and northern and 
western New-York. A considerable proportion of the cat¬ 
tle driven to this market, however, come from districts 
not sojdistant. 
The counties on the Hudson River raise some of the 
finest cattle, while Long Island and New-Jersey occasion¬ 
ally are large contributors. 
In this City there are four principal places for the sale of 
beef cattle : The Washington Drove-yard, in Forty-fourth 
street, between the Fourth and Fifth avenues, of which 
A. M. Allerton, Esq., is the proprietor; the Lower or Hud¬ 
son River Bull's Head, kept by Messrs. Chamberlain; 
George Browning’s Central Bull’s Head, in Sixth-street; 
and the market kept by Mr. Morgan O’Brien, also in Sixth- 
street, near Third-avenue. Sheep and lambs are sold at 
all these places, except the last-mentioned—the largest 
number at Browning’s, and the next at Chamberlain’s. 
The largest business in cows and calves is done at Brown¬ 
ing’s and Chamberlain’s. 
The market-day hereafter will be Wednesday, but sales 
to a greater or less extent will doubtless be made every 
day. 
Independently of the regular transactions at the above- 
named markets, there are many cattle bought and sold on 
the boats at the wharves ; and many more slaughtered in 
the country are brought to market here, ready dressed; 
but these do not enter into the statistics below : 
Statistics of the several dascriptions of cattle sold weekly 
during the year 1854, as compiled from the published Re¬ 
ports : 
Beeves. Cows and Sh’p& 
January 4. 1,721 
11.4,092 
18.2,853 
34.2,276 
31.2,448 
February 7.3,223 
13.2,270 
21.2,729 
27.2,724 
March 7.2,457 
April 
May 
14. 
21 . 
27. 
5. 
11 . 
17. 
24. 
.2,611 
.2.314 
.2,412 
.3,652 
.2,994 
.2,664 
.2,633 
2.2,254 
8.3,437 
15 .2,730 
22 . 2,136 
29 .2,892 
June 6.3,229 
13 .3,532 
19 .2,424 
26 .3,693 
July 4.3,711 
10 .3,484 
17 .2,927 
24 .2,662 
31.. .. .3,289 
August 7.3,006 
M-.5,007 
21 .4,000 
28.3,519 
Sept. 4.3,046 
11 .3,056 
18 .3,635 
25 . 3,820 
October 2.4,568 
6.3.669 
16 .4,517 
23 .4,487 
30 .5,621 
Novem. 0.3,870 
* 13.1,263 
20 .3.403 
27 .3,320 
December 4.2,850 
14 .2,334 
21.. .,. 2,446 
28 . 1,937 
Calves 
359 
373 
248 
297 
333 
125 
444 
521 
441 
330 
877 
882 
978 
932 
1,254 
1,127 
1,409 
1,989 
728 
1,489 
1,584 
1,418 
1,730 
1,426 
1,130 
1.100 
1,000 
1,593 
1,441 
911 
800 
770 
800 
560 
570 
580 
514 
879 
740 
576 
870 
715 
657 
550 
480 
500 
079 
587 
020 
666 
532 
238 
La’bs. 
9,254 
7,837 
7,404 
4,611 
7.433 
9,541‘ 
6,581 
8,828 
7,348 
5,981 
6,284 
3,144 
4,992 
4,495 
4,128 
2,603 
3,703 
7,232 
3,429 
4.434 
5,062 
5,608 
8,240 
8,157 
7,980 
9,706 
13,676 
7,194 
11,448 
11,177 
12,273 
12,942 
14,931 
15,856 
14,545 
10,088 
8,392 
10,553 
12,220 
15,108 
14.900 
14,010 
16,924 
10,221 
13,566 
12,079 
14,332 
12,291 
11,295 
12,832 
11,754 
10,094 
Average prices of Cattle sold during 
piled from the weekly 
Beeves. 
the year 1854, as corn* 
reports: 
Cows & Sheep and 
Calves. Lambs. 
January 4. 
$30a60 
$2|a 8 
11. 
25a65 
3 a 5 
18. 
35a60 
2ia 7 
24. 
.. 8 alO 
30a60 
3 alO 
31. 
. 8 alO 
30a60 
2f a 6 
February 7. 
30a65 
2! a 9 
14. 
... 8 all 
25a60 
3 a 8 
21.... • . 
... 8)al01 
25a60 
3 a 7 
28. 
30a55 
4 alO 
March 7. 
30a65 
4 alO 
14. 
... 8jal0i 
30a55 
3}al0 
21. 
30a65 
4 a 5| 
28 . 
... 9 alii 
30a60 
4 a 7 
April 5. 
9.all 
30a60 
4 all) 
12 . 
... 7 a 9 
30a60 
3 a 7 
17. 
... 8 alO 
30a40 
4 a 8 
24. 
8 alO 
30a70 
5 a 9 
May 2. 
... 9 all 
30a40 
5 alO 
8. 
... 9)alH 
38a55 
5 al2 
15. 
9 all 
20a~0 
4 alO 
22 . 
11 al3 
30a50 
3 alO 
29 29. 
.. 11 al3 
35a50 
4 a 8 
June 5. 
.. 10 al3 
30a60 
5 a 7 
12. 
9 alO 
30a65 
3 a 7 
19. 
9 alO 
30a70 
4 a 9 
26. 
8 a 91 
30a65 
5 a 9 
July 4. 
.. 8 alO 
30a65 
31a 8 
10. 
30a70 
4 a 8 
17. 
30aG0 
4 a 6f 
24. 
30a45 
2 a 7 
31. 
.. 8 alOi 
30a75 
2 a 61 
August 7. 
.. 8 alOl 
25a50 
3 a 7 
14 . 
.. 7 a 91 
30a50 
3 a 8 
21. 
.. 8 alO 
25a60 
2? a 6 
26. 
.. 6 a 9 
30a60 
2 a 7 
Sept. 4. 
.. 7 a 9s 
25a50 
If a 6 
11. 
.. 6 a 91- 
20a50 
2Ja 6 
18. 
.. 8 alOi 
30a70 
2 a 61 
25. 
.. 8 all 
30a65 
3 a 7 
October 2. 
20a50 
2ja 6 
8 . 
.. 8ia 9 
22a50 
2 a 51 
16 . 
.. Gi-a 91 
30a45 
1 Ja 6j 
23. 
.. 6 a 9 
(50a65 
2J a 9 
30. 
30a00 
2 a 6 
Novem. 6. 
.. 7|al0 
30a60 
2 a 61 
13 . 
30a65 
2 a 51 
20. 
.. 9 alO 
30a75 
lia 7 
27. 
.. 8ial0 
35a65 
2 a 8 
December 4. 
.. 9 alO 
30a60 
21a 7 
14. 
.. 91al0 
25u75 
2 a 7 
21. 
.. 9)alu 
30a75 
21a 7 
28. . 
.. 71al 1 
30a75 
21a 9 
Average . 
.. $8 87c. 
$43.48c. 
$5.43c, 
Comparative Monthly Statement of Cattle on Sale in the 
New-York Market during the Years 1853 and 1854. 
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January. 
. 13,550 
355 
44.700.. 
...13,390 
1,599 
36,359 
February 
. 8,950 
315 
22,000. . 
... 10,946 
1,521 
32,208 
March.. . 
. 9,600 
620 
16,350.. 
... 9,904 
3,057 
20,401 
April.... 
.16,200 
605 
11,050.. 
.11,743 
4,722 
14,910 
May .... 
.12.103 
900 
12,900.. 
... 13,649 
7,128 
25,808 
June. 
.11,250 
477 
26,750.. 
. . . 12,878 
6.286 
34,083 
July . 
.10,600 
550 
34,220.. 
. . .16,098 
5,465 
65,826 
mtigust.. 
.13,250 
710 
48,835.. 
.15,592 
2,700 
58,274 
September 15,022 
1,247 
45,532. 
13,557 
2,736 
11,353 
October.. 
.21,812 
1,917 
60,209... 
. . .22,661 
3,368 
79,153 
November 15.461 
1,569 
45,261.. 
. . .12,356 
2,246 
52,168 
December.15,622 
1,305 
46,776.. 
... 9,567 
2,047 
46,975 
Totals.. 
157,420 10,720 412,989.. 
. 162,426 
42,895 
507,698 
Total. 
.154,796 41,086 470,817 
These results and comparisons enable us to see the 
general advance there lias been in the prices of all kinds 
of cattle during the year. Comparing the monthly average 
of 1854 with that of the previous year, the differences are 
as follows: 
1854.897 
1853.839 
Increase.$0.58 $6.58 $0.23 
This very material increase in value is referable to the 
now apparantfact of an actual scarcity of cattle during the 
year, owing mainly to the immense quantity of stock sent 
to California from the western States, across the Plains, 
which otherwise would have found their way to the mar¬ 
kets on the Atlantic sea-board. The financial troubles 
which have embarrassed aboutevery otherbranch ofbusi- 
ness, during the latter half of the year, have also had an 
undoubted influence on the grazing and agricultural in¬ 
terests. It will be seen by the following comparison, that 
there were but a few thousand more beeves sold during 
1854 than in the preceding year. The excess in favor of 
1854 is not at all in proportion to the increase of the city 
wants, superinduced by the rapid increase of our popula¬ 
tion. Cows and calves show a substantial increase; sheep 
and lambs a falling off: 
Cows & Ca’s. Sli’p & La’bs. 
40,842 412,989 
10,720 407,698 
Beeves. 
1854.162,425 
1853.157,420 
Increase. 5,005 . 30,122 Dec 5,291 
The total value of Cattle sold at the several City Mar¬ 
kets above mentioned—accepting the average prices as 
given above—during the year, is seen below. (We have 
ut $45 as the average of each head of beef cattle,) Some 
P 
dealers consider this a rather low figure, but, as the more 
general opinion seems to be that this is about right, we 
have concluded to adopt it: 
1854. 1853. 
Beeves.$7,306,170 $6,769,969 
Cows and Calves. 1,864,074 335,243 
Sheep and Lambs_ 2,213.790 2,151,662 
$11,387,034 
9,245,965 
$9,255,965 
Increase.$2,072,069 
These figures show at a glance the magnitude of the 
cattle trade of this City. If we include the occasional 
sales at the docks, of which no authentic record can be 
kept, it is probable that the aggregate value of cattle sold 
for the year does not fall short of eleven and a half 
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. 
The bulk of the cattle brought to the city for sale are 
consumed here, but a large and lucrative business is done 
by the packers for shipment. Frequent shipments of live 
cattle are made to Bermuda, on British government ac¬ 
count. 
In closing, due acknowledgment ought to be made to 
Messrs. Allerton, Chamberlain, and Browning, for the 
facilities afforded our Reporter, during the past year. 
PRICES CURRENT 
Produce, Groceries, Provisions, <jc., <^c 
Ashes__ 
Pot, 1st sort, 1853.p 100 ft.- (a) 7 — 
Pearl, 1st sort, 1852 . 7 00®- 
Beeswax— 
American Yellow. _ 28®— 30 
Bristles— 
American, Gray and White. — 15 (S3 —50 
Flour and Meal- 
State, common brands. .. 8 37 fa) 8 62f 
State, straight brands. 8 50 (a) - 
State, favorite brands...,... 0 12 (S3 — — 
Western, mixed do. 8 12j®- 
Michigan and Indiana, straight do. 9 25 (a) 9 37i 
Michigan, fancy brands. 9 50 (S3 — — 
Ohio, common to good brands. 9 121® 9 37i 
Ohio, fancy brands.— — ® 9 62 
Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, extra do...-®10 25 
Genesee, fancy brands. 9 50 ® 9 75 
Genesee, extra brands. 10 62®] 1 50 
Canada, (in bond,). . 0 — ® 8 75 
Brandywine . 9 — ®— — 
Georgetown. 9 — (S3 9 25 
9 25 (S3 - 
-® 9 25 
-® 9 25 
-® 9 25 
6 75 (S3- 
Petersburg City. 
Richmond Country . 
Alexandria . 
Baltimore, Howard-Street . 
Rye Flour. 
Corn Meal, Jersey . 4 25 fa 3 - 
Corn Meal, Brandywine. 4 75 (S3 - 
CornMeal,Brandywine.ppunch. - ®19 95 
Grain- 
Wheat, White Genesee.p bush. 2 45 (S3 2 48 
Wheat, do. Canada, (in bond, .. ® 2 00 
Wheat,Southern, White . 1 95 (S3 2 — 
Wheat, Ohio, White .. (S3 - 
Wheat, Michigan, White. 2 22 ® 2 32 
Wheat, Western and Mixed. 1 80 ® 2 — 
Rye, Northern . 1 42 (S3 — — 
Corn, Round Yellow. 97 ®— 99 
Corn, Round White ... (S3 — 95 
Corn, Southern White .. (S3— 96 
Com, Southern Yellow .— 93 ®— 95 
Corn, Southern Mixed .. (S3— — 
Corn, Western Mixed .— 97 (S3 —98 
Corn, Western Yellow. .. <®- - 
Barley . 1 25 (S3- - 
Oats, River and Canal .— 55 ®— 57 
Oats, New-Jersey .— 48 ®— 52 
Oats, Western .— 55 ®— 57 
Peas, Black-Eyed . pbush. 2 12 ®— — 
Provisions— 
Beef, Mess, Country,. ... p bbl . 9 — ®li — 
Beef, Mess, City.10 — ® - 
Beef, Mess, extra . 16 — ® - 
Beef, Prime, Country, . . ®7 — 
Beef, Prime, City .. ®- 
Beef, Prime Mess. . p tee.23 — ®24 — 
Pork, Prime . 12 25 (S> - 
Pork, Clear . 14 — (S3 —_ 
Pork, Prime Mess .. ® - 
Lard, Ohio, prime, in barrels... .. .p lb. — 10 ® - 
Mams. Pickled. — — (S3 - - 
Shoulders, Pickled .. ® - 
Beef Hams, in Pickle . pbbl.- - ® - 
Beef, Smoked.p lb. - ®— — 
Butter, Orange County .— 24 ® — 26 
Cheese, fair to prime .— 9j®— 104 
Tobacco— 
Virginia. 
....p ft 
(S3— 
Si 
Kentucky. 
7 
(S3— 
10 
Maryland . 
St. Domingo . 
— 
(S3— 
— 
12 
(S3— 
18 
Cuba. 
17 
®— 
20 
Y ara. 
. . —• 
40 
®— 
45 
Havana, Fillers and Wrappers... 
Florida Wrappers. 
.. 
25 
® 1 
— 
. . 
15 
(S3— 
60 
Connecticut, Seed Leaf,. 
6 
(S3— 
lb 
Pennsylvania, Seed Leef. 
— 
— 
Wool- 
American, Saxony Fleece. 
...p lb.- 
38 
(S3— 
42 
American, Full Blood Merino.. .. 
36 
(a)— 
37 
American, i and l Merino. 
30 
(S3— 
33 
American, Native and f Merino.. 
Superfine, Pulled, Country . 
25 
(S3— 
28 
30 
(S3— 
32 
No‘. 1, Pulled, Country . 
20 
(S3- 
28 
