The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1855-03-27
MiHrRHanrutl6 Nst15.
Cost Of War.

COSt OF war; s.
That war-butcheriug men by Wholesale,
sending the agony Of sorrow into thousands OF
households, drawing rnenrfron, the e'pnrsuits OF
peace, infctiug an enormous increase OF taxa
ton, and imefrupting the pursuits of trade
that such game is most expensive one to
play is evident. England is counting its cost:
erBourbon i,,snlifty cost her five th"uSaud
millions Of dollars in diTec, expenses, to- SAY,
nothing Of the indirect taxes, in High prices
and accommodating distress; and already Pne of
the clearest headed merchants "' England,
Mr.. Bright, has figured up the Yenr's cost '"i
the present. struggle. T"ke,ihe matter OF crops;
The harvest of 1853 was the most deficient Of
any since 1877; aud then wheat 72s,2d. a
quarter was higher than it had. BEEN Simc
1910; but the harvest Of ls54-~as the most
productive ever known, "filIing every barn,
every storehouse," and yet wheat is 73s 3d.,
or Is. Sd. higher than the highest before known
since 1910! He goes on and calculates that
the British are paying one hundred and fifty
millions of dollars more for food on account
Of the war, while the government are spending
one hundred millions of dollars extra on the
same account aud what is there obtained IN
returns He is net sanguine of anything
appearing on the other side OF the ledger. He
goes on to show how six millions of quarters
Of corn are kept out of the country and after
stating that three ulnns of laborers in York.
shire and Lancashire must have cheap food,
he uses this remarkable language:
From whatever cause it happens, if you
have the supplies of food in the country for
any longer period at rs. per quarter. it is not
in changes of cabinets and prime MINISTER; it is
not in dreams of glory in foreign wars; it is
moi in any contrivance of human statesman.
ship or human imposture, THAT the population
can be prevented from sinking deeper and
deeper into suffering, and ifinto Suffering. then
into dscontent, and if into discomfort, then at
length into INSTRUMENTATION. (Cheers.) My
solemn belief is that # these sic million guar:
ters of corn are to be, by The effects Of "ur for
eign policy, kept OIL Of this country before taoo
gears are over, go" wiH shoot your ow" tetioD
ciazenS in your oaom Streets ...-. -. .-
The London Times devotes a column to this
remarkable speech, but does not deny its
positions, although it regards them extrava.
giant. 1t states that a large proportion Of the
six millions of quarters Of corn has been
shut up by our blockade Of the Danube, a
mere folly Of war, done in the exuberance Of
maritime pewer, and all the more absurd as
we have never efiectuaIly stopped the trade
ofOdessa and the Sea OF Azof. This blockade
has been now Withdrawn, and We trust tnat
Mr.. Bright will Shorll, be enabled to reduce
by good many millions, his estimate OF the
annual cost OF war.
But British commerce has been checked.
Hundreds of sailing vessels and sixty or seven.
ty of the largest steamers, instead OF carrying
passengers and manufactures to all parts of
the world, are now emi'oyed most unproduc.
lively in carrying soidie horses stores, shot
and,shel tu the Crinva, So much for British
estimates of the cost Of war. The French
Constitutional has the following: d. -
"A comparison has been made Of the mum
ber of vessels which passed the Sound in 1853
and 1854, conveying TO the Baltic the produc.
tions of the industry Of the western nations,
for carrying to them the articles furnished by
Russia. In the cnurse of last year there was
q failin of of 5000 vessels about so per cent
in the English and nearly 80 per cent. in the
Russian. The vessels of the other states have
Ase Suuereu piop'"ti"HdIe utiii"ut'oH' i '"s'
sis has suffered slightly; Sweden fnrms the on
y~ exception Her trade has increased, and
it is supposed that this consideration may have
contributed to maintain Sweden in hes neutral.
ity.! This falling of Of 5000 vessels gives an
idea of what Russian commerce has suffered
BY the block de Of the Baltic ports.
Here is another estimate:
The. total of vessels entered at Russian ports
in 1852 was 6, s,6l5, "f ar aggregate burden
pof l, sac, ,654 TONS, more than half of which
were to the ports in. the Black Sea and the
SEA of Azoff. The total clearances were SAW
vessels of $50 100 tons. Of this trade fully
fourth was carried "n in British ships, Turk.
ish, Greek, Dutch, Swedish Sardiniau, Aus
trian, Prnssia,, a"d Danish coming next in
order. The most important of any single point
is Odessa, where the arrivals in 1853 amount
ed to 5S9,l75 tnns while. the. value of the
cargoes shipped aud which cousisted principal
ly Of grain wa f5,627 800, or about lao per
cent above their amonn, in 1852 y
,y&GE&s. so Beston Post
A CASE or Cossc1ENcE.-- u old farmer-
one who feared neither God nor ma1-had
hired devout negro ;and to get some Sunday