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Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-04-11

has been exceedingly variable ranging from 22s, 400 to
zs'9iii 100 bushels Nor is this all. In 1885 and 1886,
se actually exported large amount to this and other cou
tes In price, too, there has been great fuctuaton la
1885, the average price of wheat in Great Britain was 81 O1
and In 1882 Sl 81 per bushe But not 10 rely upon single
years In 1929, 80, and 81 she imported on an average
TOO bushels in 1884, 49, and &c. an average oil only
329,9OO andn $780, Al and 42 average OF ,434 O0O
From this view of the subject win be that but little de-
pendence can be placed upon that market AT one time she
requires considerable supply Of foreign grain at another she
raises than she la 1885, 37, and 3S, she
supplied with average Of AS, bushels year, d.
rect and obtained nearly half much more from her
Canadian possessions The demand Of the English markets.
not only uctuatng but general truth, may say that
her supply at home gaining upon her demand rather than
otherwise In 1923, 80 and 81 with population OF about
900, she consumed have already SEEM
rage OF IL 49, 700 bushels and in S43 with population
of about 27000000, she consumed 954O300 bushels Of
foreign wheat
Tooke, experienced English writer informs that from
1882 to 1885, the crops in Great Britain and Ireland
abundant that wheat was fed out to CATTLE sheep and swine,
and even used for dlstaon This induced the farmer
less and for several succeeding years. the winters
uniavorabe for the crops and the of harvest
poptous, to increase the demand for foreign grain
Every acquainted with English agriculture knows that
great improvements constantly taking place her mode OF
cultivation. Boys and swamps being reclaimed barren
hsides being converted into fruitful fields and her
places being made to blossom like the She has also
adopted an improved mode of seeding Until quite recently
the wheat growersere in the habit of sowing about three
bushels OF grain to The But Drummond, late Eng
sh writer says that, by the introduction of machine
for sowing wheat which distributes the grain equally the
whole surface Of the ground they have found that less guam
y of seed will answer equally well and that this improve
ment alone will to the United Kingdom five six mil
lions of bushels and thus supply least onehd of her de-
hcency Under these circumstances, not probable hut
her demand for foreign grain will materially increase Her
own supply will increase with her demand The Of
the of her people limited and cannot expect
that under any circumstances, she will take quantity Of for
egn grain much, any, larger than she does present
But suppose that her demand increases where will she OBJ
tain her supply Where has she obtained it years past
In 1884, ls42 and ls43 when she made her largest mpoa
TONS averaging 3O0 900 bushels about OOO 900
three years. her supply obtained from the following
tons in the proportion @
Importation of tUheat into Great Britain from the principal
Wheat countries for ls4l, ls42, and ls43, IN bushels,
together cth the sum total from each country.
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the laborng classes to purchase This may operate to the
full amount Of the reduction and prevent any increased
consumption Amy thing which promotes general prosperity
will increase the ability Of the people purchase, and what
ever paayzes business necessarily produces diminished
sumption The price owheat depends upon many ohe
than the operation OF enacnen In 1912 Sir r. Peel adopted
an important change the corn laws OF the kingdom change
by which the duties reduced about half
This law took effect in April ls42 and yet in the first entire
year after this change had taken place, (vz in 843 the
import OF wheat fell off than oneha the import of S4S
being only $40 900 bushels while the average importation
for the three years preceding this change of the law wa
20 692 900 bushels do suppose that this falling off in
ls43 produced by the reduction of duties but this
pie clearly shows that the quantity of foreign grain
in Great Britain is controlled by laws efficient than the
corn laws Judging from this experiment. have
to believe that the opening Of her ports would have any
siderable effect upon the demand for foreign grain.
have trust clearly shown that the eastern continent ha
the physical ability Of supplying the English market with
breads,lfis And what is their financial ability Can the
nations upon the Baltic afford their grain in the English mar
ke low the United States This the great question
to be decided have taken pains satisfy myself upon th
subject and have to the conclusion that they
derse us in that market In the first place. that they
do present. when the laws operate equally upon
and upon So long the laws equally applicable
them and matters not whether the duty is high low
whether there any duty ALL say that they undese
now, appears by the fact that they supply fourteen
as much as the United States
The following table will show the prices Of wheat per bushe
in the principal Of trade the continent from 1880
to ls43, inclusive
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Here we have the authority of the commercial document
made up at the Treasury Department showing the direction
OF the trade in question. And what does prove Why
s that the total average Of the export Of wheat for the last
fourteen years. 5,505,00O bushels and that the average
export to Great Britain is only s44 000 being about one
sirh OF the whole. Our trade with Great Britain in this ar
cle greatly oveated For the last fourteen wears I'VE
have sent to England only eight per than to Bra
I'll and for the last three years Brazil has taken sixty Der
cent more than England. Our trade with Canada for a
number Of past has been greater than with England
ITSELF For the last seven years have into the British
North American colonies IL 900 bushels and to Eng
land, at the same time 800 bushels showing greater
demand IN Canada than in England by per cent
am aware that viii be said that Of the wheat which
sent into Canada finds its way into Great Britain admit
1t and shall endeavor to show hereafter that in this indirect
trade, we now enjoy sort Of monopoly by the operation Of
the present laws Of Great Britain but of which we
should be deprived by repeal Of those laws This is in fact
the point to which wish TO call aenonhe great question
for the committee and the country TO consider
Bot let inquire into the capacity Of the English
market What amount of wheat, Of foreign growth does
she annually have compiled the following table
from the Parliamentary reports Of Great Britain:
Amount Of wheat and ,oheaf flour, in bushels imported
into Great Britain, for home-consuuption from 1929
10 ls4a inclusive, distinguishing reign from colonial
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Here sir have view Of the demand and supply of the
English market for three successive years And does
pear that that market is to be regarded And is the
United States the only country which Great Britain is to
depend for her breadsu glance this table will show
at that supply when compared with that of the
tinen dwindles almost to insgnifcance Russia supplies
nearly much the United States; Denmark e more
Prussia than times much Germany and Holland
nearly three times much France and Italy each nearly
twice much and British North American colonies more
than twice much this boosted ganay of the world To
show the relative importance of trade Great Britain
barely necessary that Of every hundred bushels
to the English market, we supply only five.
We have that the importaons of wheat into Great B
tain have been exceedingly ucuang ranging from 22s 900
to %, 900 bushels fair estimate of the English de-
mand for term Of years come may, think, be put down
900 bushels annually And where will she obtain
her supply From the United States Why have they
supplied that market years past Will be said that the
corn laws have operated against But those laws have
been general in their operation Why have these
tons operated against the nations the continent The
thirty millions Of bushels brought from the north during
the three years and the twelve millions from the south Of
Europe, have been subjected the duty as the three
millions from the United States And if they supply
than nnetenths of the wheat under the present law
they do the under less restricted dspensation or
system of perfect free-rade.
say, sir for years to come may fairly estimate the de-
mand Great Britain at Is 000 900 of bushels annually
and judging from the past may that the United States
will supply 000 000 and the the other IL OOO 600
And there be doubt but that the continent can furnish
that supply, and if it required In ls40 the
British Government called upon their Consus Of the
principal mas Of the trade inform them what amount
Of grain could be the English in case the Eng
sh duty reduced TO nominal The substance OF
their replies will be in the following table, submitted
with their report. TO Parliament in lS4I
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here SIR will be that average export of wheat
10 m foreign countries for the last fourteen years.
only ooOo 62 bushels Or if deduct the average Imports
WIZ amount to only about s, 000, 900 bushels II will also
oe seen mat our exports do keep pace with popua-
uon IN ioo we sent abroad, with population Of g. 000,
ooo oushe being twenty three quarts per head
upon OUT population but in 1884, with population OF
isooo,ooo we sent abroad ISL 900 bushels being only
nrteen quarts per head Here falling of in our surplus
o. nearly my per cent But is unfair from
single year. and 1881 being Of an unusually large crop
we VIII take an average Of theeyea Take the wears
1882 and 1885, and we have average export Of 300 600
bushels while the years ls4 ls42 and 1874 give an
age 900 bushels being increase of eleven nor
while population has increased about ne,
cent For the last ten years surplus for crno has No,
increased in the ratio Of population and Inc same
which have operated for the last years will be key n
rate for years We have had il peace con,;n
shall be likely have large food OF foreign emigration r.,
the country But these cmgrants generally settle
new lands they do not for the first year two add h, the
wheat product Of the country On the contrary while clear
ing Their lands and building their cabins they
and constitute considerable arket for the grain the
And while The new wheat lands being brought into The
market the old wheat lands the Atlantic States becoming
exhausted ana SO yield less crop II is also true that
population Increases in the West and settlements become more
dense, larger per cent Of the people leave the pursuit
agriculture and engage in other caIngs and hence the de-
mand VIII increase as rapidly the supply We must also
expect deficient crops from time to time The past year
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an example of this In parts Of the country the drought
OF the past has greatly reduced the wheat crop and the
disease OF the potato will increase the demand for wheat
home well as abroad
have disposition undevsue the wheat trade Of the
country. Il furnishes important item in exports. But
at the time, must be permitted say that mpor-
lance frequently exaggerated. From language which is
frequently employed should be led conclude that wheat
next cotton, the great export from the country
that these with perhaps tobacco constituted nearly our whole
export But by reference to the commercial document from
year year. it will be that for fifteen years. our wheat
and flour have not amounted to than about
teh Of export That the committee may see the relative
importance of the wheat trade, have prepared table from
the commercial documents, which will read
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CorrEH Mrsrs.-The following synopdcal statement re-
ang to the copper mines of England by Captain HueHEs
United States Typographical Corps is interesting at the pre-
me when copper region Of Lake Superior open
ing such wide field to American enterprise
Elevation Of the surface above the level of the sea- from
200 to 300 feet depth below the sea, about l370 total
depth Of mne 800 to 900 feet Oreschiefy yellow cop
per occasionally native "copper" varegaed "copper" red
oxide Of "copper" blue and green carbonate Of copper Tin
oxide Of TIM also occurs but not in very great abundance
Produce Of the oes9a per centum Of fine copper, average
produce in 100 parts Of Depth of the principal shafts
Woof's engine SHAFT 24s fathoms Pearces engine shaft
275 fathoms Quantity of water raised from 1000 to 5000
gallons per minute Power employed in drainage steam
engines Average annual expense of drainage, El2,7eo,
s63, 5O0) Quantity Of annually Produced 49, tons
Of copper and few tons Of tin ore Produce IN metal
l,5l7 of fine copper and little tin. Total returns or
value Of the produce in metal 9ll9s0 $3.50 Total
Of Mines eos $780, (s492,5OO Clear profit toe pro-
petors Ell 600 (Sl05,OO0) per annum Amount Of capital
invested (S375 0o0) Interest ON capital invested
$50 per centum after paying back the original capital NUM-
Der Of men employed about O. $780, Of whom ,4oo are en-
poyed under ground Manner in which the ores are
o-sod the smelling companies, and sme'ted ny hem al
Swansea, in South Wales.
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INTERESTING FROM EcUADoR.-The following is ex-
tract from letter received by SAMUEL SwEETzER, Esq,
Consul of the Republic Of Ecuador dated Quito, April
9th, ls45
yesterday there arrived in this capital young gentle
man, American Of Philadelphia, by the Of John s.
Kausse from Lima, Cleft 18th September last via the head
Of the Amazon Maranon, the Spanards call it.
very interesting and, may add, important voyage for he
their rivers be made navgable, and
abound with cocoa, COTE, cotton ce Cloves cinnamon, bal
sans and valuable woods of all kinds and that there have
arrived four steamboats, in the river and that he actually
board Of two of them What important thing for the
Ecuador that within three days ride Of Quito you may embark
in American steamboat for any part Of the world"
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Tux Fron,p. BourpAHr The Tallahassee Fiorfdidn Of
the 2sth uItmo has the following The Commissioners APP
pointed by the State Georgia and this State to determine
and settle the boundary between ,he Two states nave met
or nearly two weeks and, far learn
have come to no definite conclusion We have not been dis
tncy informed the difficulty, but hope to obtain the
correspondence in time for next paper. We presume
however that the Florida Commissioners will agree to nothing
short OF tho line fixed by the treaty between the United States
SPAIN long since ratified by the United States as wen
by the State Of Georgia. and acquesced IN BY oil parties or
many years, and disputed by the two former view
light has however, learn been discovered and georgia
claims large amount Of territory south Of the true line fixed
and defined by the treaty To this we trust FLORIDA never
will agree"
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The general average of the aforenamed prices 25 be-
mentioned ports the Black Sea and Baltic. This shows
demonstraivey that in the first cost of the grain,
able to into fair competition with transatlantic wheat
growers And how is it with reference to freight BY Off
the highest calculation cannot exceed average, Is
cents per bushel BY the report of the Hon. Mr. Ellsworth
Commissioner of Patents laid before Congress in ls43 where
he examines this subject somewhat minuey appears that
the average freight from New York to Liverpool 35 SO
cents per cwt We cannot estimate wheat less than So
pounds per bushe and hence the freight must amount to II
Is per bushe The difference in the freight and first
But the year 1887 of uncommonly high prices
this country, will omit that year in my estimate which will
reduce this balance down to about SO cents and from this
will deduct for the difference of exchange, 10 CENTS which
will bring the difference down to 26 cents per bushel
The English Consul writing from Odessa, the close Of
1912, Under present circumstances extraordinary
low freight and favorable exchange, shipment of the best
wheat could be made and delivered in England the
"a lt,.,,rx~ .u;1 n
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Here have the prices of wheat five great Of the
wheat trade for fourteen years. showing general average
SO cents per bushel.
The prices at seaports during the period
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This summary view of certain articles of export shows that
the value of wheat and flour all foreign countries for
the last fourteen years will average &c. 233 900 year. Du
ring the period beef and pork including all the
avas and product of cattle and swne have amounted to
0OO and the product Of the fisheries to ST. 900
each OF these articles being nearly half much as our entire
export OF wheat And even cotton piece goods the product
of despsed manufactures which as being
injurious to commerce. have amounted on an average to
81 00O nearly half much the wheat sent from the
country But If we add to cotton piece goods all other ma
nufacures exported, have total Of ST. 900 annually
being more than the value of wheat exported.
But sir this ALL have followed the classification
of the commercial document but every gentleman acquan
ed with the subject knows that there are articles. some Of
which are strictly and others substantially manufactured art
ce which in that document placed under the head
of manufactures In the commercial document of the last
year find the following articles with their values placed un
der other heads:
Spermaceti candles. Observation-Disclosures. $40 400
Slaves, shingles, boards, hewn timber, masts,
spaIs, &C. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 2,022, 49S
All manufactures of wood. ............. GIG 100
Naval stores tar, PITCH rosn and tupentine sls
Ashes, pot and pearl ................. LAO, 1884
Total. .......... .................. SIS, Osl, 6e6
Here have total Of than five millions of manu-
featured articles which the commercial document are placed
under the head Of products of the forest and OF the fisheries
Add these the articles down manufactures and we
have export of than thirteen millions the product of
our infant manufactures.
have disposition disparage the wheat trade of the
country; it is an important trade and which should be
cherished with the greatest But devotion any cause
should never lead to overlook important fact rejoice
that able TO export wheat the average rate OF six
millions of dollars year and rejoice also that our infant
manufactures able send forth foreign countries fabrics
twice that in favor Of the corn trade Of the
country and for that very wish inform the wheat
that the proposed change the British corn laws will
probably operate against hem and may prove highly detr-
mental to their interest
am confident Mr. Chairman, that there is a great mis-
obpnaI hiatt If
to take it for granted that Great Britain is the principal and
almost the only market for breadstu But nothing can
be more false. have data, drawn from the official docu.
mens of the Government which confue any such hypothesis
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Foreign. Colonial.

Here VIII be that, for the last fifteen years. the
rage import into Great Britain is TO- 064 s96 bushels II will
also be seem BY inspection Of the table, that her demand
Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1846-09-24

ERISNPELAS is only one among many of the MINER
Gus ailments which originate in impurities of The blood
AVA experience has shown that few II sny are more diff
hcut Ia overcome. But tho CIekener Sugar Coated We
seaoie iis have granpled successfully with in every
FORM MIS- Jones, Of Albany. upwards Of 80 wears
Of age, had teen subject periodic al returns of this
pshi 'm her earliest infancy; and a''erIy had tecn
violently affected a. To finnish indications deranged
intellect Recourse a. bad, formerly the family
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inward, a. usual, TO ttt renew ei violence rh.
nootor hnelly recommended hoN OF Lrr.s Pals hut,
.'"nsh some mistake OF tho Apothecarys clerk tov
OF Shokencts sugar Coated Vegetable PuTgative Pills
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ny description aud being rather suTers;iOus wiihai
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~ lew doses lett them regret their Enpersti.
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hgy delighted al the supposed success OF his peseric
uon nut was 50 compile ely astonished when he disco.
Ncicd ms error that DE resolved from that forward
10 prescribe nothing else ~ Of Erisypeas hut Clio
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July A. O. FAIRCIIILDf
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