The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-19

In another part Of the same article il is said ha
the quantity Of provisions will be about the
ast year; but, should that prove to be the Gaze il
VIII be consequence OF still further decrease in
the supplies to New Orleans.
The facts already given will probably account
for the further fact mentioned in the concludin q
paragraph Of the Buffalo editor, which is fol
lowe:
collections have been difficult TO make, and tn
consequence will be, that few goods will come to
illinois and Wisconsin this spring.
The Chicago Democrat Informs us that "there is
no demand for land at the prices of the past
SON. that the farmers are everywhere trying to
borrow money, and "can hardly pay the INTEREST,""
that this year "they can scarcely make their ordi-
nary expenses balance, ana have nothing to
pend on lumber - and that nothing but the nego-
tiation of foreign loan avert Tie storm rhich
'lom threatens that uhoie region Of country
In confirmation of this learn from Wis
consin Democratic paper that
"The low price of grain, and the partial failure
OF crops has thrown the State almost entirely upon
the mines for cash resources, showing the import
ant fact that Wisconsin depends almost entirely
upon her mineral resources for cash capital;" and
the editor expresses the opinion that cit would be
but following the dictates of self interest TO pay
little attention to the further and more rapid de-
velopment OF our mineral wealth"
Unhappily. however, the policy Of the country ia
adverse to the working Of the lead mines of Illinois
or Wisconsin, or the coal and iron mines OF Ohio
and Indiana; and the effect ia in the fact that
men are everywhere cutting the throats of their
hogs, their cattle, and their sheep, and abandon
ing their lands to fly TO seek elsewhere the pros.
perity denied them at home, as we see by the fol-
lowing paragraph. which is furnished by another
western journal:
"This great exodus begins to affect business
riously. Rents are falling, and abor advancing.
Landlords are now looking for tenants instead Of
tenants for farms, as heretofore Farms on the
great LawrenCeburg bottoms, that last year were
leased at rent Of four thousand FIVE hundred bush
es OF CORN are this year offered for three thousand
six hundred bushels; and well-stocked farms are
for sale in all parts OF the country, at great sacri
hces, by persons who arc preparing for California"
The more corn men obliged to send abroad,
the poorer they grow. The more corn that is
ufactursd into pork, beef, lard, butter, cheese,
hemp. lead, iron, and cioth the richer they grow;
and they do in full accordance with the doctrine
of Adam Smith. who taught that the natural place
for the artisan by the side of the producer of
the food and other raw notwithstanding the
while iashionng the other for cheap transportation
TO distant markets. England" says MIR. Will
liam Brown, a free trade member Of the British
Parliament sis the greatest exporter Of food in the
world because che passes il all through that great
machine the human stomach; and thus economises
transportation by sending it abroad in The forms of
cloth and iron" The people Of the West
not only ceasng to pass the food through their own
stoma achs, that 1t may come out in the compact
forms of lead or hemp; but they ceasing to pass
it through the stoinachs OF the hog the OK, that
1t may come out in the somewhat compact forms
OF pork or beef; through that Of the sheep, that
it may come out in the form Of wool, the export of
which from the West diminishes from year to year.
TO BE coSrISUED.1