Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-06-28

From the Republic.
The TarifEs--The Farmers and
two Markets.

From the hepuDllc.
The Taril1s--The Farmers and
two Markets.
The leading idea by aid of which the
farmers Of the Union were prevailed up
on to lend their aid towards the extirpa-
ton Of some of the principal branches
Of manufacture having been that of the
advantage of having two markets, we
feel that we would be wanting in our du-
~ were we to omit placing before them
all the information required to enable
them 10 Judge Of the probable future val
ue of the grea: foreign market, whose
demand for ..breadstuffs and provisions"
was to .go on augmenting" with such
rapidity, from the time when it had at
tanned, in the season of sgood harvests
abroad" the point of thirty-seyen mil
lions of dollars. Therefore it is that we
lay before our readers the following ex-
tract, just now received, from letter to
the editor of the London Times, by Mr..
Sandars, member of Parliament, him
self largely engaged in the import Of
grain:
"The house to which | belong has re-
Gently made some expensive purchases OF
wheat in Pomerania, equal to fine Stettin
or Rostock, at 33s. to 34s. per quarter,
including freight to this country. The
last post brought me an invoice and bill
of lading 1900 quarters of fine yellow
Stcttin wheat, 81 ID. TO go ID. per bushel,
at 34s. cost and freight to Hull, including
commission for buying. My correspon-
dent writes me on the 18th inst: Fine
(6l h. yellow wheats are now 33s. cost
and freight He again writes on the
22d inst: ] thank you for your further
order for 1000 quarters yellow wheat,
81 lb.. if at 32s. cost on board and freight
to England; but from present aspect there
is little chance of its execution, as 34s.
cost and freight is the figure to-day, and
reports from the British market firm.''-
He further adds: With ar average crop
there is no doubt our farmers can afford
TO sell at prices to ship at 30s. per quar-
ter put on board ship here, and, it is my
belief, even at less. Some years back
they sold at lbs. TO 20s. per quarter, first
cost !"
Thirty-lhree shillings cost and freight
for wheat that weighs sixty-one pounds a
bushel! SeUen dollars and ninety -fUo
cents for nine and third bushels of SUI
perior northern wheat, or eighfy-eighf
cents a bushel, delivered in England.
In reply to this, our neighbors of the
Onion will probably reprint their account
of the exports Of last year, in relation
10 which we now invite the attention OF
our readers to the following extract from
the speech of Mr.. Sandars, in the House
of Commons, some days previous to the
date of the above letter, in reply to state
ments made by Sir Robert Peel, tending
to prove that consumption had increased
by the whole amount of importation, and
therefore that the condition Of the peo-
pie must have improved:
"Why, sir" said Mr.. Sandars, "was
there ever more fallacious statement
made TO this house! The right honora-
BILE gentleman must know, or ought TO
have known, that the crop was most
deficient one. / have the authority oi
the honorable member for Westbury to
this fact, who admitted in this house that
in many districts of the country the def
cheney was from 80 to 40 per cent
Hear, hear, from Mr.. Wilson. Well,
then, sir. it required some 100000 oi
qrs. Of wheat to make up this deficiency;
then, sir, we exported to Ireland upwards
Of 100000 qrs. of wheat and flour. In
place of the imports from that country
being some 100000 or 100000 qrs.
they were rather over 10000 qrs., ma
king difference of another million. In
addition to these three millions, il requi-
red at least one million to make up for
the deficiency and dearness of potatoes
Thus, sir, the extra consumption which
the right honorable baronet boasts oil
showing the improved condition Of the
people, in place Of being 5,60O,O0 qrs.,
sinks down to the comparatively insig-
niicant amour. Of the odd 6OO, ,OOO."
The deficient crop Of lS4S gave us a
market in the early part Of l649 for a
small quantity Of wheat and Indian corn;
but with the better crop Of l649, the ex-
port fell almost to nothing as we have
shown. What will be the promises oi
our free-trade friends for the present
year, with good crop on hand through
out Europe-with favorable prospects
for the crop now in the ground, and with
Ireland fast becoming vast potatoe-feld
I've are impatient 10 see. Still more
impatient, we think, will be the farmers
OF Virginia and Pennsylvania to see any
approach to the performance of the OBJ
legation assumed by our opponents in
Congress, when courting their assistance
in aid Of measures that are now rapidly
closing all the furnaces of those States,
and converting consumers Of food into
producers of food.
The politico-economical creed Of the
Wing party may be briefly stated as fol-
lows:
The more coal we mine, the more iron
ore. we smelt, and the more cloth we
make, the greater will be the demand fol
labor, and the higher will be its reward.
The greater the demand for labor and