The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-06-10
THE UNION.
Prospect. or the Harvest.

Except the operations of army, the prospect OF the
next harvest is the most exciting topic in the public mind
Every eye anxously turned TO the newspapers to note
if Frost blight, worms, other destructive agents are at
work among the crops; and with every uctuahon OF the
Market the pulse OF millions beats quicker il the chances
Tor livelihood look cheaper and more hopeful The me-
chanic and day labore feel the slightest rise in flour,
grain, or other provisions keenly for it requires, with
every ADVANCE more cautious disposition of their earn
ngs The wages of labor though strikes may here and
there occur seldom keep pace with the market, where
the craftsman and hand worker purchase their food gene
rally in the most uneconomsng quantities There Is no
wonder them that the prospects OF the harvest at such
time this, excite the deepest attention With Europe,
both Britain and the continent, exhausted OF their sur
plus, and sure of but mdding harvest this season-a
portion OF which will be eaten before harvest-day-and
own country drained unusually the whole temporal
veal of the poorer classes who must eat whether they
get good not hangs suspended on the character
of the harvest,
We believe from all that we can gather-and we have
taken particular pans nquiretha the country never
promised abundantly From one-sixth to one-fourth
more ground than usual has been broken up, and fully
that quantity more OF seed put IN the soil Winter wheat
has been slightly hurt in sections OF the west fruit has
suffered in Maryland, and cotton and tobacco are
partially injured in the south but take the aggregate OF
the country and the fields fairly goan with their young
load We shall produce-beyond supplying our own
wants-more than sufficient to feed Europe, if her har
vest were half destroyed But there is such prospect
Egypt and Russia the shores of the Baltic and Germany,
are uxurlant with grains and promise immense supplies
but while they to aay apprehension they will
not interfere with our market. For many months to
come our granares will hold the current of specie and
exchanges in favor and animate the whole trade and
business of the country But little faith should be placed
in the dearh and famine paragraphs going the rounds
SPECTATORS understand operating the public mind and
these stories look like their banngs For our part, we
believe -four grain and provisions generally have reach
ed their eliminating point and will recede in prices
NeW York Sun.
Chops AT THE NoRTHw EsT.-So far Wisconsin is
concerned we are persuaded that the yield of wheat will
be abundant, unless something shall occur between this
and harvest to injury the crop In Illinois has been
stated that the crop almost entirely cut OIL; but
would appear from the eAurora Beacon" Kane county,
this is an exaggeration. Within the last few weeks,
wheat in that region has forward asonishingy, and
many farmers who supposed that their crops had been
almost wholly destroyed, now anticipate an average
Weld Indeed, the deacon" thinks that good deal
more wheat has been editoriaHy killed than 'wnter
killed"
From Michigan on the east, and Iowa the west of
u.s. we have good accounts of the wheat crop The sur
plus exported from this Territory during the last
in wheat and -four was, as we can get at the ig-
ures $4,000 bushels There be little doubt that the
exports of wheat and flour from Wisconsin, for the pres
sent wear, will reach million of bushels This does
not include the amount sent down the Mississippi from
the western portion of the Territory.
lDflruaukie Sentinel.
THE cRops-The refreshing rains OF the past ten or
twelve days have entirely changed the face of nature,
and very much altered the prospects OF the farmers
few weeks since, everybody was anticipating general
failure OF the crops, but we now near from every
that they promise an abundant yield This fact cannot
fail to affect prices Butter has fallen some seven or
eight cents already and grain must necessarily soon FOL
low We learn from every part OF New Jersey that the
earth will be taxed to its utmos-that every inch oil
ground has been put under contrbuton-tha the farm
es laborng day and night to get IN as large crops as
possible One man who usually plants five acres OF po-
aoes has put in sixteen another has doubled his usual
quantity of wheat and third has improved four or hve
times the usual quantity OF corn ground
Trenton Daily Ne,cs June s.
Crops IN THE VIRGINIA vAILEy-The Rockingham
Va Register of Saturday says that from what Its editor
has seen and heard, the farmers will not realize more
than half crop Many fields in the western part OF
Rockingham, it says will hardly be worth gathering.
Caops-From all the information we can collect, the
crops in this neghborhood present very favorable APP
pearance The fruit crops Columbia county, Pennsyl-
vania give promise of bountfu yield the present sea-
son-York (Pa.) Press.
The caops-It appears from the Bayou Sara Ledger,
that the plantations which had been overlooked by the
high stage of water in the Mississippi had been eseeded
but vegeation in consequence of dry weather. was very
backward and crops of every description were suffering
Missouri wHEAT-A gentleman living about ten miles
in the country informed us yesterday that the prospect
for an abundant harvest is very fine Wheat is as good
as he ever saw at this time of the year and corn not
whsandng the backwardness of the planting season, is
quite promsng--St. Louis Union. May 81.
Democratic Meeting.
AT meeting OF the party of Richmond county, held at
Augusta on Tuesday last learn from the Constu
tonalist John Phnizy, esq in the chair and Samuel M
THOMPSON secretary Messrs @. Shrine, James Gardner
ir G. w Lamar and E. Starnes, appointed dele
gates TO the democratic convention the 4h Monday IN
June at Mlledgeve, to make nomination for governor
E. Starnes esq, after few preliminary remarks, Oh
,ho HE and solutions which were