Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-09-25
THE RICHMOND TINES.
THURSDAY MORNING. SEP. rs. 1850.
SENATOR DOUGLAS.

Senator Douglas, of Illinois, has spent the lar.
ger portion of the past summer in the Northern
Substituting golden opinions from all sorts
of men," He is generally regarded as promi-
nent candidate for the Presidency; and unless
Gen. Houston speedily stakes charge of the
wires" he will probably supplant the hero of San
Jacinto in the affections of the Democracy. and
thus secure the nomination of the Democratic
National Convention, for that important Office
But these are matters with which we have, strict
ly speaking, no concern. They belong exclu-
sively to Messrs. Greer and Donaldson, the
great embodiments of Democratic sentiment
The Wings, with Willard Fillmore or some 9TH
er good and true man as their candidate, will
find it an easy task to defeat the Democratic
nominee in the coming contest, be he who he
may. AS Senator Douglas movements, howev-
er, possess some interest, from the promi-
nence of his position, we may mention that he
was present at the commencement exercises of
MddIebury College, Vermont, week before last,
and at the conclusion of the Alumni Anniversary,
addressed the audience for half an hour or more
in very pleasing and impressive manner. He
was received with much appreciation, and his eu-
logiums upon Vermont, Vermont character, her
institutions, and her men, repeatedly brought
down the house. Last week he attended the
Agricultural Fair in Rochester, N. Y, and de-
livered an address in which he discussed the ex-
portation of Breadstuffs at considerable length
His views on this subject are interesting. and
will be found below:
At time, in the history of our country re-.
neral impression prevailed that we should never be
abba TO export wheat and flour 10 Europe. The dis
tauce from European markets. he OF Transports
uon interest on capital Insurance, all figured Up
against US to show that competition with the wheat
growers OF Europe was entirely out of the question,
and that we must conhne our expor OF brcadstufs TO
the Brit sh North American Colonies the West In
dies and South America. This error however has
been corrected by experience Without including our
large exports during the famine year, when we were
almost the only Sc lers in the markets OF Europe our
exports show respectable increase in ordinary wears:
means OF transportation have improved; production
has become cheaper; distances have been shortened by
the saving OF lime, and in spite OF all the ugubrious
prophesies OF our croakers We find our farmers compe-
ing with the principal wheat growers OF Europe in
lheN own markets. American Dreadsfufs have gained
permanent ioothod ~ The principal markets OF the
world, ana Our wheat flour i, quite great favore
IN MARX Lane as any other species OF the same ar-
ceimpored nlo England. Occasional fluctuations in
prices-in paeuaryears Of large crops-mus OF course
be submitted 70 IN the trade of all agricultural staples
Dut mes WIZ oe met and their Influences guarded
against, by a frugal, industrious people
But while IN the trade Of wheat and hour we meet
with powerful rivals IN the North and South OF Gu.
rope-smong The people on the Baltic and those bor-
derng on the Black Sea-the trade in Indian corn and
meal, and in provisions is to great extent left
almost without competition save that which n ocseds
from the offer of cheaper and inferior substitutes We
can furnish good provisions lower rates t6an anv
other county the globe; and Indian corn has
no longer any other real competitor in British markets
than the now uncertain crops OF potatoes With this
view Of the subject you will pardon me il once pro-
e,sd to the consideration OF that important American
staple.
Indian Corn is, no doubt, an indigenous plant OF
Nofsn and South America, having been cultivated by
ne INDIANS many centuries before the discovery OF this
eoaInshl antiquarian researches and architectural
IIS s NOV mat Indian Corn must have been grown
anu ~ - " lSn esteem the ch eff article of TODD by
tle ]A%eps, ana lms supposit,n becomrs the more
probable as the principal other grains nov. cultivated
"a Anes,ca nave osen since introduced from Europe
II eonsluies elnrf article OF TODD Tor man and he
animals subject To his dominion on tbi1 rnntiosa d
an important article Of export to Europe aithon,I,
many parts OF southern Europe have been found we'll