Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-11-21
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From the Richmond Examiner.
GA BLOODY WAR ANDsWHEAT. AT
- ArGUINEAiA BUSHEL.'' -

from tho H1CnmOna4 EXAMINER
"ABLooDY WAR ANDsWHEAT.. AT
-" A GUINEAiA BUSHEL.'' 4
Really it would seem that the old Eng
lish farmers toast is about to be realized.
There is not q country of Europe from
which tidings are not pouring in upon us
of the shortness of crops. Bread riots
and bread panics are rife in what have
been regarded as the granaries Of Europe.
In Sweden, in Prussia, in France, the
people are stirred up with alarms of fam
me and in Spain. in Italy, and along the
grain>bearing borders of the Mediterran.
can, the cry is for bread. The usual
stocks of never failing supply, if existing
now at all, are blockaded in the Black
and Baltic Seas and restitution in the
consuming countries is aggravated by
news Of The utter emptiness Of the pro-
ducing and exporting regions of England.
2 When the agricultural press of Virgin
ia first announced the coming Of this state
Of things which is now SO literally realized.
and pointed out the inevitable failure of
supplies from the Baltic and Black Sea
ports, they were answered with sneering
incredulity by the commercial press of
New York. The most absurd estimates
were published of the American wheat
production for the year, and the columns
of the commercial journals teemed with
paragraphs, Purporting to be extracted
from European journals, announcing en-
ormous furLive shipments from the princi
palities down the Danube. But time has
falsi6ed these fabrications; and the ano~
malous fact now frowns in the face of
alarmed Europe that grain must be SHIPPED
to the Black Sea instead Of being IMPORTED
from thence. Paragraphs like the follow
ing are occasionally discovered in the
bulletins of foreign news. which escape
the vigilant eyes of the commercial edi-
tors of Liverpool aud New York, in spite
Of their keen assiduity in detecting and
suppressing them. A Sebastopol writer
says:
"With all our huge accumulation of
stores, such ravenous devouring animal
is an army that there are some fears that
we shall run short of fuel and Of flour du
ring the winter. 1t is astounding to hear
that not sack of flour fit for our pur-
poses can be found in the East, and Sir
George MCLEAN, the interchangeable Com
missioner General, has been obliged to
send by telegraph to England for 1000
bags Of that necessary. In few days
the issue of bread will probably cease and
the soldiers will lie obliged to go back to
biscuit till fresh supplies are forthcoming.
At the present moment the quantity of
corn issued daily for horses, mules and
ponies in the English army is not less
than 10000 lbs"
This is the condition of things in sight
& 4 i IL. a,
which have heretofore supplied half the
wheat imported into Western Europe
They are sending to England for -four
from the very doors of the granaries,
whence are exported in ordinary years no
less than a, I65.OOO quarters or 33, $780,
900 bushels of wheat alone.
In Great Britain, where the annual i'm
portation upon average crops is 5000, 900
quarters or 49, 600, 900 bushels of wheat,
it is conceded that the crop will be at
least one-ffth below the average figure
fact which places the wants of that king
dom beyond the range of any possible
supplies, and renders it question with
England, not what amount she will res
quire to import, but that amount she will
be able 10 procure for Importation from
the outside world.
The Paris correspondent of the New
York Commercial writes, on the 18th ult
" Flour, after temporary considerable
fall, is again firm, and tends toward a rise.
The government is noiselessly making
immense efforts and sacrifices in order to
carry the working classes comfortably
through a season now universally felt to
be threatening one"
At Brussels the price of bread has aug
mented, and is already considerably dear
err than at Paris. At Madrid a similar
rise has taken place, and one Of the pa
pers calls upon the authorities to inquire
whether the bakers ore not imposing upon
the public by coalition. The exporta-
ton of grain is not allowed from Italy,
and, with the exception of some wheat
left over in the NeapoIitan States, there
would be little surplus there to spare,
even if the prohibitions were removed
From the Danubian Principalities we hear
that the wheat crop in Moldavia and
Wallachia is decidedly inferior both in
quality and quantity Upper Moldavia
and Upper and Little Wallachia will have
an average but supplies from all these
are cut off by the war.
KEEPING SWEET PorAToEs.-The boxes