The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1857-11-11

and our Editorial Corresponding" must
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Correspondence from Vermont.
CAvESpIsH, VI, Oct 25, 1857.
Messrs. Editors:-I have had the
pleasure of pcrusing the Journal since
June last and confess myself very much
pleased with it, insomuch that did not
some kind friend, possessed of true Chris
tian philanthropy, send it along, l should
be tempted to cash the subscription price
Gin specie of course) and receive the paper.
I suppose the great monetary crisis,
although it may not effect business at the
West to SO great an extent as it does here,
yet RACES sufficiently dominant to destroy
the activity Of business life, aud cause a
shade of murky blackness to oyershadoW
the various avenues of trade and mcchani-
cal industry. Banks here are in a general
commotion. The telegraphic wires have
brought near y every day the news of
one or more banks suspending specie pay
ment One director of the bank Of Black
River, last evening remarked that he
should not know what money to receive
in his exchange for foreign bills, on being
,,,f hot 1, ic1,
he held a large amount, and which was
considered perfectly good, had suspended
specie payment. Business at the East is
very much depressed. Factories, stores,
jobbers, produce-buyers &c, are " wind
ing up" and business men generally wear
q troubled look Of gloominess and despair.
| had the pleasure of meeting with the
worthy President of the River Falls AGA
denny, few days since, and was much
pleased with the glowing description which
he gave Of the West and Western scenery.
For the purposes Of farming no one could
truthfully assert that a man is better off
here than there, for the profit in proper
ton to the labor expended IS fully seventy
five scr cent. greater there than here, and
hvs.e to say even if u man owns a farm
q manages to squeeze along comfor-
tably," that he is better off here than he
could be there if he farms for the profit
of it, is mere assumption without common
sense Oh. reason to back up the assertion.
Perhaps it might not be uninteresting
to your readers to learn that so early as
October Goth, we have had two snow
storms, one Of which covered the Green
Mountains to the depth of two and a half
inches, and the surrounding hills and val
leys to the depth of one and a half inches
on the average. We are now enjoying a
Green Mountain "squalI," in comparison
of which Greenland's bleak winds and
chilling blasts would be bst-I had almost
said a cooling zephyr ..ora
Crops in Vermont are much better
than in the spring was expected TO be
grown. The potato crop is poor, the rot
having taken the largest share; while oats
and wheat were good at least in this VI
cinity. Grated fruit is scarce-good fair
quality selling at 81 to s1.15 per bushel.
Indian corn was rather poor, owing to
the early frost, and cold, wet, backward
spring.
We shall have to depend on the West
ern farmers to limited extent for sup
plies, with a cold winter before us, and
our grain cribs but half-filled, with hum
dreds of people trayersing the country
without employment or means for support
The prospect is enough to make the
strongest heart cover down III despair.
But trusting fortune, as the old lady said
who invested twenty five cents in a lottery,
we resign our fate to the decree of that
Power whose fiat spoke worlds into exist
encc, and endowed them with oil the no
bic and sublime works of Nature.
D. S. White.