Pits.burs, Pn.-Bnsiae.s, Prospects, &c
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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 3lst, l94S
Pittsburgh is dull place just Row. At the
very time when our pleasure-oving citizens ex-
pec,ed to be sleighing and skating, killing dull
care with glee, we are soaked with rain and slid
ing in mud. In the face Of universal expectation,
and prediction too, the winter thus far has proved
unusually open and soft. Navigation on the rivers
has hardly been interrupted but withou, much ad-
vantage to the carrying trade, except on the Mo-
nonaghela route to Baltimore. All the merchan-
die forwarded to this city on the eastern turn
pixies by wagons has been forwarded TO its desti-
nation, and little fear need be entertained Of any
delay during the remainder of the winter. A for
warding house has advertised to receipt for ba-
con, butter, lard, tallow, &c. to Baltimore, at 80
cents per l06 lbs, by way of Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, which, settled rate of charges, is
lower than has been offered heretofore.


Great preparations being made by mer-
chants for the spring trade. Some have gone and
others are about starting for the East, to make
purchases of stock. Stocks will be large, consid-
ering but the system of business here will be
improved for the substitution of the Cash for the
Credit And as an early opening of the Pena-
sylvania Canal is anticipated, (based on the pros
pect of an early spring-the frost is nearly all out
of the ground now,) the indications are strong for
revival of business. The tone Of the business
community is good, and confidence is gradually
though slowly returning.


Respectfully yours, ANON.