Pitisbnrsh-Times,R ,R usIness, H Haryests,ac.
Correspondence OF The Tribune.


PfrrsgupGB .June o.
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Yoa NAV feel DESTROYS, in these times of general
embarrassment, to learn how the 'Iron City is
able to weather the storm. Badly The gale of
Bankruptcy has nearly laid her on her beams end,
and think it will be long before she is rghted
and her bows pointed direct for the port of Pros
peritv again. We have had Mass Meeting, and
the general opinion is in favor of Protective
Tariff in this reighborhood. The river is in good
navgable erder but freight is and prices low.


The Iron Frigate is not yet commenced. There
has been some diiiicultyin adjusting the rollers,
they are required to be large, and welding is re-
quiste 10 make tho planks of proper thickness.
They commence very shortly.


The Crops in this part of the country very
promsing-tiere will be an abundance of Wheat
and Indian Corn. The Fruit also is very plentiful.
and at low rates. AS regards business in general,
think it can hardly be mach worse. The prices
of Real Estate have fallen about eighty per cent
withiR the last few years. Steamboats, are fire.
quently sold by the Sheriff on wharf at about
one-sixth their value. The drygoods merchants
have little else to do than to sit on the boxes in
front of their stores, whiting with jack-kniyes.-
As for the srog-shop keepers, why they are out of
the books all together. Building churches is all
the rage, and the only business that appears to
prosper. The city enjoys good health-ths only
offset against all these evils Bird, the murderer
of his wife, has been found guilty of murder in the
second degrce-the most cruel murder in the
nal, of crime. Yours, &C., VIC.