True Democrat. (Paulding, Miss.) 1845-18??, 1846-10-14

/ m tne FT9cc o. all descriptions q AIMS
rican Produce.
From the Washington Union, Oct. l.
The Great Western arrived at New
York at one o'clock this morning. On the
Goth and 21st inst, experienced trench
dous gales; lost wheel.house, quarter boats
in house, and suffered much other damage.
There is no positive news of importance.
The market for all descriptions of Ameri-
can produce was advancing.
The news from India is of rather unex-
| pected interest. The victories which the
British army chieved on the banks of the
/ Sutlege have not resulted in that amicabe
arrangement and profitable settlement
which was hoped for, and prematureIy
boasted Of Ghoolab Singh finds himself
besetby pecuniary difficulties; and he Ell
Their cannot or is unwilling to pay his
debts.
All such emergencies in India will lead
to the finest development of resistance of
the British claims. Conseeaenslv :.,e war
will have to be renewed in the Pnnianb
END .ne province Of Lahore; and the terri
tory condi:ionally assigned to Ghoolab
Singh reposseSsed and attached to the Bri-
fish territory.
CoMMERcIAL.-The Improvement in.
business which we noticed at the sailing
of the last steamer continues, and matters
are nearlyin the same relative position as
when we last addressed our readers. The.
failure of the potato cropinfluences the
price ofprovisions of every kind Bacon
and hamare raising rapidly, as a glance at
our market returns will show.
Indian corn is also increasing in value,
as in fact is almost every kind of grain.
That the failure of the potato crop in every
part of the world greatly multiply the
wants Of the laboring classes in Great Bri-
tain isundeniabIe. The advance to which
we have alluded may be traced 10 the in
creased demand for other descriptions of
food, and there is every reason to believe
that the present prices may be maintainscd,
if indeed they do not advance. As an
article of human food, the use of the potato
seems likely to become extinct. The in
jury may be temporarily pressing, and pro-
ductive, no doubt, ofsufering, bJdL Ultimate
consequences can hSe7f,y fail to raise the
condition of the IrisG peasant and to inn
prove his social het6lts. He will be raised
in the Scale of civilization by having a
higher and IAOre nutritious kind of food
There are those who contend that the po-
tato has been a curse, not blessing to
Ireland. The cotton market continues
steady, and although we cannot fix higher
quotation, yet on some descriptions there
has been an upward inclination. Consid-
cradle anxiety prevails respecting the new
e-~F.- --s-Rff-4soAnnaa arc aaaarl.,
looked for, aud prices will probably take
their complexion from the advices by the
incoming and the succeeding packets.
The liberal way in which the govern
ment is acting in Ireland diSarmS all ferr
of national starvation. The first duty of
a government is to feed the people, and
what is now regarded as a calamity may
prove in the end substantial benefit, by
the introduction of improvements which
would not otherwise have been made. The |
employment of the people on public works
in Ireland will, it is clear, be carried out
on large scale.
The present popular lord lieutenant has
already issued nearly fifty commissions for
the holding Of colonial sessions in different |
parts OF Ireland, and upon the investigation
and decision Of the majorilieS in session, as
to their respective districts, he will act
with the confidence which exists at pre-
sent in the money market, and the cncour.
aging prospects that are before us.
The grain markets with us, as with our
continental neighbors, are on the rise.
Whatever affects England, influences the
whole commercial world II will be per-
ceived that every where animation prevails,
and that the new theory of free trade will
have plenty OF scope for the development
Of its alleged benefits, or, as some contend,
is injuries.
The news from India is calculated 10
produce a feeling Of WEAKNESS in politi.
cSl as well as in a commercial sense Sir
Henry Hardinge, Il seems now 10 be uni
versally admitted, Notwithstanding his
skill and bravery, evinced in the war with
he Sikhs, has made bunging bushes Of
4, and IN ell probability the work will
have to be done over again. Mistaken
in the case Of semi-barbarians is
otlentimes positive cruelty.
The ravagss Of the cholera have dimin-
shed in Scinde; and il appears they have
been exaggerated.
The failure ofthe potato crop Is uuiveT-
al The reports from every part e the
United Kingdom are appalling, whilst let
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