Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-03-25

The Agricultural IQtereSt-Whatever affects
the prosperity ofthe commercial part of the COM
munity, must sooner or later, bear with proper
Tomato force on every other avocation of life
The agricultural interest, it is true, may be I'M
affected by it. even for weeks and months after
the tornado has swept over the cities and towns
prostratng in its course thousands OF honest, in
dustrious and valuable citizens. The causes of
this are apparent. The planter and farmer send
their produce to market only once or twice a
year and having sold it, and received the mo-
ney, they cannot be affected by the subsequent
fluctuations in its value, until the crop again ri
pens and is thrown into market Then comes
their turn "The golden stream of commerce, !"
which poured its treasures into their lap not less
than into that of the merchant who is the inter-
mediate agent between the producer and the
consumer, is choked up. Enterprise is checked.
"Credit and public trust 'twiXt man and man."
are gone-the value of money alone is enhanc-
ed while every thing else which money buys is
lessened in value-the rich become richer, and
the poor poorer. 1t is the harvest, the saturnd-
ha of brokers and Shavers-while the merchant
first, and then the mechanic and last of all the
agriculturalist, feel the shock. This natural
course of things is exempli6ed and Illustrated by
passing events. In our cities and towns, credit
has been superceded by distrust-and bankrupt
CIV has followed bankruptcy with fearful rapid
ty. All classes Of the community, who are i'm
mediately dependent upon towns for their sup
port, are writing under It's effects, being
thrown out Of employment, starvation staring
them and their families in the face and even
hope extinguished. Presently when the planter
comes to market with his tobacco, and gets So
per hundred for quality for which the state of
the foreign demand would, under other circum-
stances, justify the purchaser IN giving So; and
when the farmer obtains 60 and 20 instead of
90 and 100 cents per bushel for his wheat, he
too will feel the curse of those evil counses
which have hurled the country thus suddenly
from an uneXampled state of prosperity to a
condition of almost unprecedented Distress
Let not the agricultural part of our readers flat
ter themselves with the hope that they will es
cane the evils which have fallen with such fear
full force upon other classes OF the community.
AS well might man plunge the steel into his
heart and expect that his head and hand would
escape the consequences ofhis rashness. Com
merce is the main artery OF the moneyed sys-
tenn. Obstruct its free circulation, and paraly-
sis and ruin are the inevitable consequences.
Lynch5urg Kirginian.
lit with pleasure we have it in our power to
state, that the Corporation notes of this town
will be redeemed by bankable paper" at any
time between the hours of9 and o'clock eve
ny day; or they will be received in payment for
notes due at the Farmers and Mechanics Bank
of this town.-GeOrgetown Cd. CO. Gazette.
NisSissippi.-The Natchez Courier and Jour-
nal contains letter from the Hon. Harvey
Cage, in which he declares his determination to
disregard party trammels, and, on the great
question now before the country, faithfully re-
present his constituents, and We are grati6ed to
learn. that Judge Black has authorized the an
nunciation of the same determination.
T'eleornob