Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1855-10-13
Breadstuffs in New York


SATURDAY MoRNING,.....-ocT. IL, 1855
Breadstuffs in New York
The New York Express Of Tuesday last, be
fore the arrival of the last steamer, spoke rs fol-
lows:
Yesterday was another day of extraordinary
excitement.it will be seen.on Change. The sales
were enormous. aud
Conn on and medium grades, of Flour, odron
ocd 2 shilIings.
Canadian advanced Is cents.
Southern Advanced from IL 10 Il.
Wheat Advanced from 2 to 4 cents per bush
el.
Rye adrancedl Ia . cents per bush.
Corn Advanced | to ? cents.
The sales of the day sun up something as follows
s7,on bhis Flour at avcfase sat per bhl....'' sla1tro
30nn hus Wheat At say . per bus. ........... 0aeo
3.fhO bus, Rye Al Sllg per bus. ..ts........'" 9Iu9
a0D bus Corn ata0e Der bns......t......... &f~
Tetal...-. sl1It.uo
The heaviest operators. yesterday, refused 10
divulge for what countries they were purchasing
The bulk ofihe transactions, however, are asecr-
tained to he ON British aud French Government
account. 1t is beginning To be equally wei known
that n considerable proportion OF HOUR ana Wlfat
are purchased ON speculation, IN the confident
anticipation that prices will advance. But we
showed YESTERDAY that there was every rea
son to believe that the heaviest foreign orders had
been filed. aud that speculation, predicated upon
a contineanoe of shipnents. wo1id not be likely
to prove profitable. If there are parties buy
ing bresdstuffs now to 60 into store.--or tor future
delivery.-in that expectation that a scarcity IS
10 follow these Eropenn purchases. resulting IN
higher prices,-it is not venturing too much 10
predtc, a bitter dis appointment. The harvests
that have been Just gathered IN yielded toe gen.
erously net 10 enable Us To spare few hundred
thousand barrels of -four for foreign use, without
mountaineering ourselves at home.
Speculation. nevertheless. We are prepared to
see 90 ahead for a while,-and for n whit, we
must expect to pay for the bread we eai'-r,Sp"'
cially here in the cities.-twioe or THREE lines
the money il is ordinarily worth.-but, IN the
common course of events, there will be a reaction
by and by, in our fnyor.
The Journal Of Commerce If the same date
concludes an article. on the subject, by saying
These large sales are calculated TO create excite
ment throughout the interior, bat it appears to us
that those who refuse, in consequences 10 sell at
the present high rats, may bid ON longer and
fare worse
Hos. \, G.. WATKtNs. member ot Congress
elect from the first district of tennessee, has
published n card in which be ayaws himself n
national ran. He says:
II the American party, in its preliminary opc-
rations. preparatory 10 the next presidential cleo
ton, (which is,of course, the object of these mass
meetings) shall nationalize itself upon these
questions, SO as To exclude the abolition and free
soil factions Of the North, am with it; otherwise,
| am not. Heneeforth, | am against any party
that cultiyates and panders 10 those dangerous
elements in the government. shall not attend
this or any other mass meeting in the present at
titude of things. | cannot, without compromising
my self-fespeot AS IA gentleman, gloriiy IN popu
lar harangues a party that has 81 recently, with
out just cause, attempted to crush ms politically.
In conclusion, ! am for the doctrines of ie5o-
doctrines recognizing federal authority over ter
ritory aud other property of the United States
to the extent of executive superentendency lnlts
organic beginning, IN the absence OF local and
vested rights, and no further. All authority at
ter the ineipient organization Of II Territory by
Congress, and by executive appointment, Is YES
ted in the people settling said Territory. They
erect the State government, and local or state
institutions, subject only To- the constitution of
the United States when snch territorial or State
organization applies for admission into the Union.
When admitted, State rights or authority inter
venes. supersedes, and becomes paramount to,
all federal power.
Hon. MI. Etheridge, the only member return
ed TO Congress from Tennessee who voted against
the Nebraska Bill. has avowed his determination
TO oppose its repeal.
We think il questionable whether any serious
attempt will be made, in the coming Congress, To
restore the remarkable legislation of ls20. The
subject, will probably lie introduced for the pnr-
pose of keeping alive agitation-but if 50, the
South is now prepared TO speak with an united
voice. For whatever evil consequences may have
attended the discussion of the slavery question,
ii has resulted in giving the Southern people II
clearer aud more correct view of their own rights
than they seem at one time tohave eniertainel ,and
has made the re-enaetment of the Missouri Com
promise, or the passage of any law resembling it,
an impossibility the most impossible.
New DIRK PoLITlCs.-Old John Adams said
a great many years ago, that New York politics
was the DEVILS own incomprehensibility. Down
to our day the inoomprehensibility continues, and
we suspect that his satanic majesty's connection
with it has not ceased. OF the Democracy, we
have the hard shells, half-shells and soft-shells.
OF wings, fusionlsts, straight-outs and silver
greys. OF the nti-slavery party, free-soilers,
republicans and liberty men-tho latter having
two negroes ON their ticket for State officers. SO
we have temperance men of various stripes, and
liquor men in motley mixture. And Americans
on the Philadelphia platform and Americans off