The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1840-01-14
From the Wesie,n ~ " STATE Journal.
LOCO FOCO TlMES-PROSPECTS FOF
FARMERS

Fifteen thousand bushels of wheat were sold
n few days since, AT Marshall, Calhoun County,
Michigan for 30 cents per bnshel.
4 contrac, recently made by miller, at
DAYTON, Ohio, to deliver 1000 barrels of -four
at So GO ~ per barrel
One Of our millers informed us on Monday,
that he was offered contracts tor any quantity
of wheat he delivered in the spring at rs cents
per bushel-ns the same can he purchased in
Ohio and shipped TO this place and afford Il pro-
fit mt thar price.
Throughout the western pnrt Of the state,
wheat has been selling for several weeks at from
81 to 81 cen,s-Barley brings but Al cents
Pork is al 81 hundred. AT the west this last
article, an important staple, is almost unsafe
able.
The Ohio and Michigan papers come to US
almost entirely filed with sales OF land for delin'
quent taxes.
Tbs, prices of agricultural productions hive
every Where fallen off about so per cent, since
last year.-the prices of farming lands must
speedily follow. The farmer who owned a hun.
dred acres of land, which ii year ago was
$4,000, will soon find himself 80 500 poorer than
he was, and if his property should chance 10 he
incunbered TO the amount Of So 900 he had bet.
ter never attempt to paysir. SO much for the.res
len,less warfare that has been carried on against
the currency and the business Interests OF the
country, which the farmer and working man
will ere long discover to have been waged IN
their name for their destruction. So much for
Loco -foco doctrines and measures, which have
arrested public and private Improvement, and
public and private prosperity, under the pretence
of euuazing the condition of all men, by redu'
cling the value OF property; and rendering all
classes poor alike For the advancement OF the
utopian scheme, the country has suffered, grea.
ter losses and embarrassments than three years
war with Great Britain would have inflicted.
But bad as affairs are at present, here IS no
prospect of immediate amendment, Our farm
ers are TO see worse times next year, than they
experience now. The suspension or abandon
ment of the public works in every part OF the
| country, will turn hosts Of laborers over 10 the
cultivation of Soils who have heretofore been
profitable consumers. The eastern factories
and workshops will also furnish their quotas OF
new cullivators, who will in future raise instead
of buying their bread. Over prediction on one
hand and curtail,nent on the market on the
other will make sad havoc with the farmers CAL
culations, based upon his experience during the
halcyon days when it was neither popular nor
republican to pull down our noned institutions
inst adj ofbuidng them up, or to make mem
objects of tlistrust and aversion. instead OF foster
jn9 and protecting Them What with the Sub
treasury and the specie clause, defanSihS mon
ey markets. commerce and trade at stand
mechanical and manufacturing establishments
closed, agricultural productions at less IMAM the
cost of production, and labor seeking employ
ment as a charity, the Grand Loco toco Mullen.
ium appears TO he at hand. Had we all taken
warning when the alarm WINS first sounded ny
the opponents Of the present administration, we
should have escaped intense suffer'ng' PfiVation