The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-10-16
tbs LEADING srApLr,-The state

ment made by Senator Douglass OF lHl'
nois, in recent speech at the agricul
tural fair. in New York, that cotton
was, the leading staple Of the United
States" has excited considerable atten'
ton. The following facts, asto the guam
tity and value, taken from the census sta
tistics of 1s4O. with regard to the COM
paritivo results of Agriculture, will be
read with interest:
articles. Pounds. 3 Value.
Indian Corn29, ,s5l, ,9l2. 500 Sls5,s4S,ooo
Wheat -. 5.OS9396, 200 67.s5s,s6l
Hay. :. 2O.596,216,0 900 1O2, ,4S1 900
Cotton. -. 700 O,479.275 62,2S9,462
From this it appears that tie weight of
the cotton cropis is less than twenty,fifth
part ofthe corn crop, and about one hall
the value. 1t is, therefore, pretty evident
that cotton is not the "leading staple" in
either of these respects. On comparing
the value of the cotton crop of Mississip.
pi, the largest producer of that article,
with the hay crop of the State of New
York, we find that hay counts the higher
of the two
New York Hay. .-.. .$3l 100000
Mississippi-Cotton. -. 23,120,O00
MOVEMENTS OF JENNY LIND, The
Nightingale is again on the wing! Hav'
ing spent the summer days in the shade'
as nightlnsales are wont, she is now plu
ming her rested pinions preparatory for
another fight-a farewell flight The
New York Express says:--
She will next alight at Detroit, thence
wing her way to Chicago, Milwaukee,
Cincinnati, Cleveland, and so on hither-
ward again, arriving in New York city
about the middle Of December, to give a
few farewell warblings here. Her last
concerts in the country are to be given
where her first were given, in this me
tropolis. The first ofthis series will be
given at Buffalo on the 10th inst.
WILD CAT AND THE RUNAWAY Ne
GRoEs.-The Houston { Texas Telegraph
has the following:
"M- W. Secrest, who has recently Wis
tied tue Mexican towns in the vicinity o
Eagle Pass. has informed US that the state
ment in regard to the runaway negroe,
that have been collected in those towns
is entirely correct He says that he wa
informed that no less than two hundred
and seventy runaways crossed the ferrie
at Eagle Pass and Loredo last year
Several hundred also crossed the furds a
bove Eagle Pass. Ii is estimated tha
there are not less tnan 800 runaways a
the town that has lately been built b,
Wild Cat, near the mouth of Log Moras
g"rhe greater part of these runaway
have escaped from Arkansas, but at leas
five hundred are, it is said, fugitives from
Texas Wild Cat has large number o
negroes armed, and they often accom-
pany him ON his expeditions against th
Camanches He has made two success
full forays into the Camanche countly y
On one Of these forays he had two hun
dred Indian and one hundred negro war
riors. He attacted large Camanch
lodge, killed one hundred and fifty war
riors, and captured over six hundred hor
ses aud mules, On his second expedi
tion against the Camanches, he was aC
companied by one hundred Mexican
and large party of Kickapoos.
Several hundred horses and mule
were captured. but the Mexicans elaine
the lions share of the spoil, and this 8
enraged the Kickapoos that they stole a
the captured property aud went back t
Red River, 1t is thought that Wild Ca
advised his Indian allies to rob the Mex
leans, and that he will share the spoil
His forces appear to be daily augmen
ing, and it is feared that he will soon COT
centtate several thousand Indian war;
.ors from Arkansas at his new settlemen
REMEDY For ANIMAL, PpIsoN- III
Editor The shocking death which latel
occurred in this city from the bite of
rattle snake, has reminded me of sill
which was cut some time since from
Western paper and which | send for il
sertion in the Ledger The statemel
has the air of truthfuluess; if reliable
is valuable, aud should be universal
known.
NT ,/I,,. f,,. H,,JrnnLo6, u Mr. Tapao