Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1817-06-03

Oh THIS state plOIAiiSGs ID 0S haSs@
this year than ii las been for many years
before. In some few instances the growth
has been ssintcd, not as has been reported,
by the Hessian Fly, but owing 10 Us having
been sown 50 late in the season as TO De
pre- vented by the frost, from taking root Ct
fectualIy. We mention this upon informa-
ZION, which ii IL be correct, must, IN great
measure, remove he apprehensions OF
short crops, excited by the reported appear
ance of the Hessian Ely.
The Harvest-On this subject our &C.
counts have until few days been very un'
promising. But we have no hesitation in
declaring it as our opinion, that IN some
cases those particulars were exaggerated. Ii
has not been unfrequent that complaints OF
the certain deficiency Of the ensuing crops
have been made Immediately preceding
seasons most abundanIy productive. Il
was last year said, that the spots on the sun
were sure evidence of an approaching fam
inc but Notwithstanding these unfavorabIe
prognostics the harvest was plentiful, wheat
particularly 50, and the coun,enances OF our
fellow citizens bespeak that their necessities
have been we'll supplied.
We now state wiki pleasure, that the har-
vest generally, if present appearances be
allowed full weight, will be uncommonty
nroducaTe. In consequence OF this belief,
the price Of grain is falling. Accounts
from Pennsylvania, the western part in par
ticular are very flattering ; and the papers
in Georgia mention the reduction in the
price of corn, which is attributed to the
prospect of very abundant crops
Stockblidges( mass.) paper says, ",he
season was neuer finer in this section ofthe
country, than i; is at present" On the
whole, it is believed that grain will be cheap.
err the approaching season than it has been
Tor several preceding years.
After the above asin type, we received
accounts from the state of Newyork on the
subject of the approaching harvest, which
are also peculiarly hattering -Baif. Par.
WASHINGTON, MAY IL.
WHEAT-It is with much pleasure we
learn that the price of flour has fallen from
fourteen to ten dollars per barrel, In
country so abundantly supplied with bread
stuffs as thiss fourteen dollars barrel for
-four was an extraordinary price, and one
that but very few could afford to give. We
are happy, therefore, that the price is re.
duced, because now the poorer classes can
enjoy the luxury of good wheat bread, of
which, we fear, many have been deprived.
The Boston Yankee says, 6 Gov. VOL
colt, it is true, was tedcralist of the old
school of &C.," but he has since come
over 10 our party, because roe atone act on
the principles (Which he originally MAINTAIN:
ed''
Il was hardly anticipated, sixteen years
ago, that democrats would so soon profess
10 act on The PRINCIPLES which were maintain
ed by federat5sta Of The oil school of'e6 Ev-
cry man knows that they have adopted, one
after another, the leading measures ofthe
old ~hool policy that wherever they have
deyiated from the course marked out by the
federalisss of'96, they have involved the
country in difficulties and themselves in
disgrace and that whatever wisdom has
been manifested in their administration.
was the consequence of acting upon the
maxims of their predecessors. II surely
was "praise and boast enough" for the dis
ciples OF the old school, that democrats were
forced to adopt their measures. They lit.
tie expected to hear that democrats &C. so
exclusively on he frtnclhies Of 90, that
federalist of that day, if he sdheres to his
principles, must of course now belong to
their party. Such tribute as that, to the
federalism q go they never expected to
hear from democracy.
Ii democrats have short memories, Gov.
Wolcott, probably, has not, He has not,
like certain other of his compeers, reached
his dotage He hasnot so soon FORGOT
what these same democrats, twenty wears
since, said Of him and of all the feLeralists
OF 90; nor the means to which they re-
sorted IN order TO render him and them obi
Gus to the people. While he listens to the
encomiums which democrats lavish upon
him as federahst Of he old school of he
will, one would suspect, be very likely To
remember who charged him with burning
the Treasury office in order 70 conceal his
feeuLafaon offhe faubhck money and if he
possesses that selfrespect which as a feder-
Gl'st 81 ne old school he may well cherish,
we ieel little apprehension that he will ey
er disgrace himself, or dishonour the prin-
ciples OF that shool, by becoming tool in
the hads OF democracy.-IForcester Sav.
The democrats have long clamouree for
reform In the government of Connection,