Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1841-06-05
Editors of Erpress.



With Ghe exception Of tho narrow valley iertt
lied by the ovefAowine Of the Nile, oaIo, We bo
Iieve. produces more grain IN proportion to Del
/ population, than any other country.
Great Britain Is placed by MIR. DIX, III his
! NoRrnERN NIGHT before all other countries, III
agricultural doyeIopements. In l76''. Just before
our revolutionary war, her population was est
/ mated at seven millions ard half, and her pro
ductlon Of grain Of al! kinds, At one hundred ana
ses eHty millions Of bushels; being fraction less
( than % bushels for each iEhabitant She crop o!
gfaiA raised IN Ohio IN 1889, according TO the re-
turns of tho Marshal, which IS believed 70 fall
short Of the true amount, upwards Of &lrfy-
fire millions Of bushcls, being forty ttrce bn&hcis
for each person the State, In 1881, Great
Britain with a population of upwards al sixteen
miiIous grain OF all kinds was produced t. the
aglo4nt # three hundred aud forty millions, be-
In- a5ont twcniy-Cne bushels TO the individual.
Great Britain however, raises more bushels IN
proportion 10 !hc number engaged IN agriculture,
Than Oaio. In the former only about 30 per
cent. arc agricultural iaboreTs whereas, at last,
so per cent. Of the people OF Ohio are engaged IN
tilIng the soil. This Is a clear proof OF their SUI
pcrior skill for the soil OF OHIO IS decidedly
fertile than that OF the erage Of that island. 1t
should however DO remembered that Il great dea!
oil the time Of our farmers is taken up III clearing
and fencing new lands-oPenng new roade, and
IN porting the productions of their farms TO
market bad roads. BY the time the next
census taken, we believe Ohio viii not only
raise more grain than any ether Stale country
Of Europe III proportion to the number OF her peo
pie, but tha. the difficulties above nentioned-
being before that time mostly oyercome-hcr far
n1ers viii grow more in proportion TO their num-
Der,
Many people will be surprised to learn, that III
$50, she raised fourteen million bushels OF
grain than the self.narned Empire State. In
wheat, she exceeds Pennsylvania by more than
hree millions, and New York by nearly five mil
ions of bushels.
She raised nearly four times much grain Of
Ill kinds, and eight times as much wheat, the
six New England States. having an aggregate
population more than fifty per cent. greater than
.ers, and having agricultural population, 1t is
believed exceeding by several hundred thousand
hat Of OHIO,
With such facts before them, how our broth
2r farmers of New England, waste their ener-
yies their unvieldng soil-whcn the fertile
below the price which must be given TO purchase
heir barren hs.-Naumee Rircr Times.
Posr-OFFcE DEPARTnENr.--When Mr., Barry
vas Postmaster General, Committee APP
pointed by The United States Senate to inyesti-
ate the affairs of the Postoifico Department.
The invest cation resulted IN the very able report
made by Mr.. Ewing. IN which divers extra al
)wances, and other corruptions, were duly made
nown 10 the people of the country.
To parry the effects of that startling report,
IC. Barry, it may be remembered. published a
amphIet, vindicatlon so called of his conduct
This pamphlet was, of course, an individual and
OF an official document. Nevertheless he agreed /
pay the editors OF the Globe, Messrs Blair (.
lives, $500 for printing it, and charged the a.
'ount 10 the Government! 4
When Amos Kendall succeeded Mr.. Barry as +
ostmaster General, he glanced over the books ?
the department and this item Of 81 500
traid that another investigation would soon take
lace. and that this extraordinary item would !,
JUS be brought to light he made Blair s. Riyes u
fund the money; at least he entered i, as re $
nde6, on the books. Time the matter remain fr
tall the Sd of March. 1871, the very last dav b
Mr.. Van BIren's Administration, when Nj h
lies, the successor of Kendall as Postmaster ii
eneraI. paid back The 1900 20 Blair 4, Rires.
ut an entry actually made in the booLs to q
at eject! T
We have ell this from good authority. The CT
cts can be relied on; and may expect them m
be made known, in some shape. a, no distan, in
Y, by the department itself They constitute. pc
doubt, ml0dling specimen Of the doinrs of tn
. Pos;oiiire Department, which, for wears pnst NJ
: been one Of the darkest and foulesi deFs Ct Ii
Eruption ever heard of in 4 land Of religion aud PIT
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