Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-05-08
'RENssELRR. jasper county,
Indiana. April -. 1857.

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Our stock of provisions and feed is entirely
gone in this vicinity, aud runous advance has
followed in consequence. Indian corn sells 10.
day at dollar per hushel, Goldfish ten dollars per
cwt.. smoked hams twenty cents pound, aud
money scarce mt two per cent 1t month Many
cattle have starved. aud vegetation is backward
&c. &c. Sugar is worth from fifteen to twenty
cents pound according 10 quality
The Chicago Democrat of the eth a journal
publ she'd at the great grain depot of the West
inlinates that the talk about scarcity of grain
is mere device to ruise the price 1t wa. IN
derstaod, last fall, that more than average crop
of wheat aud corn had been secured Aud the
foreign demand has been limited during the Year,
the question arises us tn what has become of ii!
AT the same time" remarks tho Democrats
1--WE have promulgated the impression OF pretty
general failure of the growing crop Of winter grain
in the western states. This, coupled with the
cold, wet and backward spring, which renders
the growing and planting of spring grain contin
gent. has caused prices to stifen throughout the
country. 1t noy be TINT the country is short
of grain. but if high prices do not cause an abun
dant supply To leap forth from the granaries 81.
the farmers and the warehouses of the middle
men, are greatly mistaken: a great deal
an unusual quantity Of corn, it is irue--ha. been
destroyed by the disillers during the past year;
bat this would scarcely affect the aggregate suf-
icienily to cause II scarcity.
I'VE advise the consumers, at least, to wit
awhile aud what is 10 come of the supposed
scarcity. We have always noticed that these re-
ports of II shoriness in gram do not get pubic-
~ until the crop has mainly passed out Of the
hands of the producers aud has ben hoaf ted
by the middle men. \ few weeks will test the
truth af tho reports Which have been recently st
aileat."
\ correspondent writes to the Austin In
Rn
Texas. under date of March 30, 10 the elect
that there number OF familias that hnye
not had morsel of bread for weeks, and de not
know VIXEN they will get any, rs they have spent
the last cent months ago. He calls upon the
Governor aud the liberal people of the state for
relief.
\ letter from In iianola. Texas, April sth'
says:
.fwo frosts-the last two DAYS ago-have cut
down the corn, cotton, vegetables, and nil the
fruit For the want Of rain the ground is now
too dry to- plant. Unless IT rains in two weeks,
there Is danger of famine. No grass is up for
pasture; the small streams are dry; the cattle
are. some of them. starving, and have To be
thrown out to save the calves, So that we shall
soon be without milk; while butter is already
forty cents per pound. aud rising.
Similar reports are given in the journals of
South Carolina and other southern ports.
The Hour market in this CITY has not suffered
from the rumored scarcity of supplyin the West
and South. On the contrary, it haS not varied
much for some time, prices rising or falling, moro
in accordance with the rise or fan at Liverpool.
The atcst adyices thence nave rather strength
cned prices here; which have an upward tenden-
cy. especially rs the receipts have not yet be-
come large from the interior. as they ATE expec
ted 10 do then the Erie Canal now just opened
for navigation duling the season, brings forward
sunnlies-N. \. Ereuinp Post.