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not blamed. But where one may have them, 
rejects them for field excursions as unbecoming 
and ridiculous, let me assure such foolish per¬ 
sons, that.it is the only dress that is really de¬ 
cant. I should think less of one’s judgment 
and delicacy who, after a fair trial of either 
dress, in an excursion requiring much field 
walking, was not heartily converted to the 
theory of Bloomerism, and to its practice in the 
country.— Rev. IT. W. Reedier. 
KIND WORDS.—USE THEM. 
Bbcause they fall pleasantly on the ear of all 
to whom they are addressed, and it is therefore 
one of the ways of promoting human happiness. 
Because they leave an impression in your 
favor and thus prepare the way for your greater 
influence over others for good. 
Because kind words powerfully contribute to 
soothe and quiet your own spirit when ruffled by 
the unkindness of others. 
Because they show the difference between you 
and the rude, malicious, or revengeful, and are 
suited to show them their wrong. 
Because they are suited to stir up the kind af¬ 
fections of your own heart. There is sweet mu¬ 
sic in such a voice rightly to affect the soul. 
Because they are so common, use them that 
there may be more of such bright stars in our 
dark firmament. 
Because they aid in carrying out the divine in¬ 
junctions, “ be courteous,” “ be kindly affectioned 
one to another.” 
Because you cannot conceive of any truly be¬ 
nevolent being who would not use them. 
Because you have heard such words from your 
God, and hope to hear such forever .—American 
Messenger. 
Pre-payment of Postage. —All correspondents 
are requested to -pre-pay their postage on letters to 
us, as they thereby secure pre-payment in return. 
The saving of two cents for each letter may seem a 
small matter to such as seldom write, but the gen¬ 
eral omission to pre-pay would make a difference of 
hundreds of dollars per annum in our own postage 
bills. 
. We also suggest the propriety, where correspond¬ 
ents write us expressly on their own business, re¬ 
questing a favor which causes us some trouble, and 
with no corresponding benefit, that they not only 
pre-pay their postage, but also enclose a stamp, to 
pre-pay the answer they solicit in return. 
Marks! ♦ 
Remarks. —Northern Flour is 6£ cents better 
than last week ; Southern Flour remains unchanged. 
Wheat is a trifle lower. The same with Indian 
Cora and other grain. Pork has given way again 
50 to 75 cents per bbl. Wool, four large sales of 
foreign took place in this city the past week. 
Prices were well sustained. 
Cotton has fallen the past week fully one quarter 
of a cent per lb. Other Southern products, no 
change. 
Money is still difficult to be had here on good 
paper outside of the banks for less than 10 to 12 
per cent, interest. 
Stocks are a little firmer; but so many are desi¬ 
rous to sell they continue to rule low. 
The Hog Market and our Packers. —The open¬ 
ing of the packing season finds the market ex¬ 
tremely unsettled. The reported abundance of the 
hog crop this year, the high prices last winter, with 
widely different results to producer and purchaser 
still fresh in the minds of both, and the late strin¬ 
gency in the money market, all tend to create a 
want of confidence, and to destroy unanimity be¬ 
tween the buyer and seller. 
It is very certain that the high prices of last sea¬ 
son had no sufficient basis, but were the result of a 
brisk competition among the buyers, and the great 
bouyancy in the market in jthe early part of the 
season. It is equally certain that the present crop 
of hogs is large, though most probably exaggerated, 
as the largeness or shortness of crops in this country 
invariably is. How much larger, if any, than of the 
last year, or whether the crop is greater than can be 
marketed safely and profitably at fair prices, are 
questions which time alone can determine. The 
point, however, is universally conceded, that nothing 
like the prices of last year will be approximated ; in 
fact, they were fully fifty per cent, above those now 
respectively offered or asked by either buyer or sel¬ 
ler. From a similarity of views even to this extent, 
a better understanding must soon be effected; es¬ 
pecially when it is remembered that the lowest fig¬ 
ures named by the purchaser will amply remune¬ 
rate the producer, and, indeed, are rates that a few 
seasons since the seller would have been delighted 
to obtain .—Louisville Journal of Nov. 28. 
From the Mark Lane Express, Nov. 14th. 
REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE. 
Tiie downward movement in prices of Wheat, 
which commenced in the beginning of the month, 
has continued during the present week, and at sev¬ 
eral of the leading provincial markets a further fall 
of about 2s. per qr. has taken place, making the to¬ 
tal decline from the highest point 8s. to 4s. per qr. 
This reaction, after so rapid an advance, may be 
viewed as quite in accordance with the usual laws 
of trade ; at each step upwards sellers come forward 
to realize profits, whilst buyers naturally exercise 
greater caution. We have experienced similar in¬ 
tervals of depression on several occasions since the 
first commencement of the rise, but they have 
proved of short duration, and we are of opinion that 
this will again be found the case in the present in¬ 
stance. 
The reports in regard to the yield of the last crop 
become worse rather than better as the thrashing is 
proceeded with, and it is quite certain that the de¬ 
ficiency has not been exaggerated, there i3 conse¬ 
quently reason to conclude that we shall require to 
import very largely in order to keep prices down at 
their present level; indeed there appears to us to 
be much more danger of supplies falling short of the 
demand, than of an excess of imports. 
The weather has during the last fortnight been 
auspicious for out-door labors, and considerable pro¬ 
gress has been made with the preparation of the 
land, and Wheat sowing is now being proceeded 
with as rapidly as possible. Should the weather 
continue favorable, a somewhat larger breadth of 
laud than usual would probably be cultivated with 
Wheat, and we expect that farmers will be too 
busily engaged in the fields for some weeks to bring 
supplies to market very freely. Thus far the de¬ 
liveries have been very small, and a large portion ot 
what has appeared at the markets in the agricultu¬ 
ral districts has been taken for seed. 
a large scale were in progress, and vessels had been 
in great request; hence freights had advanced. 
From Riga we learn that the supplies of Wheat and 
Rye from the growers had barely sufficed for the 
local requirements, and that both these articles had 
commanded very high terms. For Oats, deliverable 
next spring, prices varying from 16s. up to 17s. Cd, 
per qr. free on board had been demanded. 
Letters from Stettin of Tuesday’s date inform us 
that sellers of Wheat had become more anxious to 
to realize, and though the supplies had not been by 
any means large, prices had slightly receded. 
The accounts from Rostock are likewise of rather 
a more subdued tone this week ; still it would hardly 
pay to import from thence with the present rates of 
freight and insurance. 
At the near continental ports very little Wheat is 
held in granary, and new appears to have come for¬ 
ward in small cotcbels. Hamburg letters of Tues¬ 
day’s date describe the Wheat trade as firm, and an 
opinion prevailed there that prices were likely to be 
higher. Quotations from Wheat on the spot were 
then 68s. 6d. for 58lbs. Upland, 69s. 6d. to 70s. per 
qr. for 59lbs. ditto, and 70s. per qr. free on board for 
60lbs. Mecklenburg. For Wheat from outports, 
equally high rates had been asked. Barley had not 
been in quite such active request as before, but good 
531bs. Danish had not been offered below 35s. per 
qr. Oats of 39lbs. weight were quoted 22s., and 
tick Beans 49s. per qr. free on board. 
At Rotterdam, on Monday, there was a small 
supply of Wheat, and a rise of Is. to 2s. per qr. was 
consequently established. Several buyers from 
France made their appearance at that market, which 
assisted to give confidence to holders. 
From Frauce the advices are not quite so encour¬ 
aging to shippers as before, but that there is a 
very -great scarcity of Wheat in that country 
does not admit of doubt. At Paris the Wheat trade 
—probably influenced to some extent by the Mark 
Lane advices—was quieter on Wednesday, and flour 
was about 1 fr. per sack cheaper. At Marseilles, 
immense supplies of Wheat had been received, 
chiefly from the Black Sea ; and it having been diffi¬ 
cult to find the means for conveying such large 
quantities intp the interior, stocks in warehouse had 
accumulated. Meanwhile there had been no falling 
off in the country demand, and after a temporary 
decline of 1-J to 2 fr., a reaction to fully the same 
extent had taken place. 
Advices from Leghorn of the 2d. inst. report a 
further rise in prices there, and as much as 69s. per 
qr. had been paid for new Marianople for local con¬ 
sumption. The dearness of bread was occasioning 
great distress among the poorer classes, and the 
Government were doing all they could to keep down 
prices. 
From the Black Sea we learn that vessels were 
being loaded and despatched as quickly as possible, 
and that a very large business fur export had been 
done in wheat and Indian Corn, principally, however, 
for Fiance and the Mediterranean. Wheat was, on 
the 28th October, old style, quoted from 32s. 8d. up 
to 36s. 6d. per qr. free on board, and the freight to 
the United Kingdom was 22s. 3d. to 23s. 3d. per qr. 
PRODUCE MARKETS. 
Wholesale prices of the more important Vegetables 
THE CONTINENTAL CORN TRADE. 
Fruits, &c. 
Washington Market, Dec. 3,1853. 
The dull tone of the English advices during the 
past fortnight appears to have had some influence 
on the Wheat trade in the Baltic, and the most 
recently-received accounts from thence inform us 
that prices had rather receded. Meanwhile we con¬ 
tinue to receive but indifferent reports in regard to 
the quality of the new Wheat, and the yield is at 
the same time said to have proved short. This is 
certainly the case in the neighborhood of Danzig 
and in Lower Poland; but in the upper districts, 
quality as well as quantity is better spoken of. The 
shipments of Wheat from Danzig had been on a very 
liberal scale during the month of October, viz., 92,085 
qrs., of which 65,037 qrs. had been despatched to 
British ports. Stocks had been reduced into a small 
compass, and of the supplies of new only a trifling 
proportion was coming to band in fit condition to 
admit of it being shipped. Fine Polish Wheat, old, 
had realized prices equal to 69s. to 70s., and fine 
mixed, 64s. to 65s. per qr. free o:i board. For new, 
quotations were very irregular. 
By the latest advice from Russia, it appears that 
considerable activity prevailed in the Wheat trade. 
At St. Petersburg!], shipments for England on rather 
Vegetables.— Potatoes, Mercers $ bbl., $2 25 ; Junes, 
$2 ; Western Reds, $1 75 ; Sweet Potatoes, $2 50@.j$2 75 ; 
Cabbages, IP 100, §3 50@§4 ; Red do., $4@.$4 50; Savoys, 
*2 50@$3 ; German Greens, $1 75 ; Cauliltowers, p dozen, 
$l@sd 50 ; Broccoli, 75c.; Onions, white, Ip bbl , $2 12% ; 
do. yellow, §1 75 ; do. red. St 50 ; Parsnips IP bushel, 50c. ; 
Carrots, ip bushel, 44c. ; Beets, tp bushel, 37Xc.; Turnips, 
Ruta Baga, IP bbl., $1 25; white, IP bush., 37J4 ; yellow 
stone. Ip bush., 44c. ; Spinach, Ip bbl., 87>£c.; Lettuce, !p 
100, 50c.; Endive, Ip 100,62><>; Leeks, Ip doz. bunches, 31c. ; 
Parsley, Ip doz. bunches, 18%e.; Celery, Ip doz. bunches, 
75c.@,$1; Salsafy, ip doz. bunches, 75c. 
Fruits. —Apples, Newton Pippins, Ip bbl.. $4@,4 50 ; R. I. 
Greenings, $2 50@$3 50 ; Baldwins, §2 25@$2 50; Van- 
dervere, $2 25@.j>2 50 ; Spitzenburg, $2@$2 50 ; Pound 
Sweets, $2 25; Twenty ounce Pippins $2 25@.«2 50 ; Gilli- 
flower, $2 ; Russets. $2 ; Quinces, <p bbl., $2 50 ; Cranber¬ 
ries tp bbl., $5 @$7 50; Hickory nuts, tp bush., $2 25; 
Chestnuts, §2 25@§2 50. 
The prices of the different vegetables have risen a little 
during the past week, and potatoes especially have increased. 
Sweet potatoes are not quite as high as when we made our 
last quotation, but there aro some of very inferior quality 
offered. Cabbages are in large lots, and are generally of 
good quality ; the price has advanced a little. 
Apples are a little higher in price ; we saw to-day very 
few of the Newtown jpippins in market, and the general 
opinion is that there will not be any forwarded. 
