New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-09

il, that the ch,nges in the Tariff sanctioned
by the House. will not, in the average. sffec.
ipjurioosly the Manufactures OF this coustry,
except, possibly, BY increasing the sun total
Of our lmportAtions and thus, by draining away
our Specie, asgravating our commercial embsr-
easements, and diminishing our ability to purchase
ard consume Iron, Cloth, &c. II anybody con-
siders Mr. Letcher's project Free-xade one, he
cannot have studied it very deeply.
Still, the existing paralysis Of Manufactures 10
not likely to be wholly overcome daring tue cur
rent year-isi is, perhsps. as likely to Increase
and the rational hopes of better times rest mainly
on the exertions OF our Farmers. They can
double their Grain and Root crops if they will,
and in 30 doing may relieve their country from
sore embarrassments. And they have every in
ducemeht to attempt this seasonsbly, vigorously,
persstently. In the first place, the stock of Food
Ia abort, not only in country. but through
out the world. While our railroads have been
actively forwarding, through the winter, Grain.
&C., which have usually remained In the interior
Sill spring the vast armies and military re,ars-
lions of Europe have been devouring the hstyests
supply there Is as meager a. with us. Even If
peace should be made this spring, new and am
pie harvest will be required to restore 80 equi-
librium and reduce prices to reasonable stand
ard; while in the cMe (Which now seems the
more probable) of continuance of the great
war, on the immense scale now threatened, the
exorbitant prices now ruling are as likely to be
increased az 10 be diminished.
The depre, SIGN of Manufactures and the sus-
pension of Railroad snd Mildred enterprises, insure
large supply Of Cheap Labor, of which wetrast
our Farmers will thoroughly avail themselves.
Ters Of thousands of aole-bodied though ua-
skilled men may yet be hired In the cities at
prices ranging from $50 TO Sl2O per annum, &C
cordipg 10 their presumed efficiency respectively;
with Women at about half price-ths employers
as usual to furnish board lodging aud washing.
These men Of course require leading aud teach
irg; few Of them can even make good fence or
take first.rste care of team without oversight;
but they have the muscle, and are willing to exert
it under proper guidance for moderate recon- |
pense. Will not our farmers generally resolve |
to double their crops-or at least their surplus
left for ssle after abstracting what is needed for
their own use--in 1855 as compared with 1854 ?
But when Labor is needed beyond what the
neighborhood can supply, there is but one fit
mode as yet practicable of supplying the need.
That is by all who need help in township or
other locality uniting to send down one of their
own number to this or some other seaport to Sc
lect and hire so many and such az are required
q man for this farmer, woman for the next |
a boy or girl for another, one of each
for the next and so on. Let the agent be sup
piled with money to pay the charge for transpor-
tatos, and be need never go home unsupplied. !
We ihink DO great number Of men could, even |
now, be hired so low as they could have been /
one or two months ago; and the labor of such /
will be still scarcer and desrer a month hence;
but let those who want help act promptly and
and they will yet be supplied as
CD esply as any man of conscience can desire.