Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-09-19
NATIONAL 1NTELLIGENCER
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND THEIR PRICES.

and experienced merchant Ii concusively expo
SEES the perversions by which the Union and il.
kindred journals attempt to deceive the agricultural
class in regard to the effect of the new tariff on
breadstufs Iii fact Notwithstanding the boosted
advance in the price of breadstuffs) that wheat and
-four are lower now than they have been, on the
average, for ten years past
DROWNING MEN CATCH AT STRAWs"
The truth Of the above adage is strongly illustrated IN
late article in the Unon in which an attempt Is gravey
made TO convince our farmers the advance in beasu
the arrival Of the Britannia the consequence
Of the passage Of the tariff act.
The editors Of the % Union must have short memories
must believe their readers have SUCH that they read
other paper and 5eEepe all th they read in the " Union
The tariff passed the Housof Representatives early in
July The intelligence reached England the 3Oh of the
month, and the first response to it by the
Caledonia which LEFT Liverpool the 4th August The sub
of that response that the had cheering in
fuence the manufacturing districts but the corn mar
kes very lowI believe lower for g free grain than
they have been for twelve months at least
In the interval Of the departure Of the Of the 4h
and 9th August information received in England that
the tariff bill passed by the House had become
land and since the arrival Of the latter, the Unon
'bngs intelligence from Europe the receipt there
news that tariff had become the law Of the land,
brings intelligence that raises the price of breastu all of
sour Atlantic ports"
The above is literally true but at the time, from
the in which it is stated it conveysa contempt
bic alsehood and the editors Of the Union must place
very low estimate the understandings Of their readers
they suppose that they be gued by such humbuggey
Who that is capable of reading and has read the journals
Of the country since the arrival of the Britannia does
knoc that the advance in beadtu in England and by
sequence that in the United States caused entirely the
of very unvorabe weather for the incoming har-
vest in England, and by the far important fact that
the 4th and 18th August, asceaned that the
potato crop would be almost entirely lost Yet these facts
the only having any influence whatever carefully
kept out of by the Uion, and the advance bread
sus attributed having little influence the reso-
utions of 9s-99
But has the Union word of comfort for any body the
farmers-Q mean the growers of wheat and y Can
nothing be said to revive the doopng spirits the toJaceo
planter And above ALL what has the Union TO say to the
COTTON planter, who is generally buyer than seller
breadsuf and whose hopes much excited by the
passage of the tariff bill into law of the land What is
the response, far this great interest concerned the
that this bill law Let the Union answer that ques
ton and if the answer be one, be that pri-
slightly depressed and this in the face of the fact
of very deficient crop last year, and better prospect for
that in the ground And, in addition this the Man
chester spnnes threatening resort to working but four
days in the week. the inevitable consequences Of which would
be to enhance the rae Of goods and prevent Advance COT
ton in spite of and in the face Of large defacaon in the
supply MERCATOR.