Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-11-19
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Indiana. s1.
Crops -Prices-Ty Times Money-Food
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EvAssx,1tE Ind, Oct. 81, 1857.
The panic has but little enect N 'ni'
quarter. Our banks, both State and Stock
continue TO pay specie, and say that they
will continue to do so. They are well for
t;6ed In the way of discounts and loans,
thew are however doing nothing. Oul
harms and graneries are full to overfowing
Never were there such crops; but as the
farmers are ont of debt as general thing,
they will not sell, except at their own pri-
ces, and these they eaRnot get. Corn is
hawked about the streets at 20 to 80 cts.
a abushel; potatoes 80 cents; apples drug;
and everything but bacon at prices never
lower for many years. So You Sc We shall
not starve. wish the operatives in your
manufactures and workshops who have
been discharged for want of work, could
come out here. They would be Hospitality
received, and find employment, and be
made, snug and comfortable for TIE Winter
with their families. Servant girls readily
command $3.50 per week, and believe
places could be found for at least five hun
dred in respectable families, where they
would live well and do well; there is a
great dearth at present. So in all the me-
chanical arts; men are wanted at good
prices. Not one twentieth of the wheat
crop of Indiana or Illinois has gone for
ward as yet, and there is no prospect of its
doing so for some time TO come, for two
reasons; ist. The farmers will not accept
the price offered; and I'd. They will not
take ''currency" in payment. The highest
price offered for pork is 81 net. and but
few purchasers at that. Some gentlemen,
with myself, were making calculation of
the surplus on hand for sale on the 1st
January next in the six Counties of Van
derburgh, Warrcck, Pike, Daviess, Gibson
and Knox-all south of the Ohio and
Mississippi Railroad; and the estimate was
that there would be upward of 100000
at the lowest prices-nnd the question is,
where is the money to come from Be
tween the mouth of the Ohio and the
mouth Of the Miami from Cairo to Law
renceburgb south of the Ohio and Missis-
sippi Railroad, there are sixty-eight Coun-
ties in Indiana and Illinois. The six be-
fore mentioned are not more than an ave
rage in the calculation of the agricultural
products, thus making fully surpls of
S25,000,00O for sale in Southern Indiana
and Southern Illinois, to say nothing of
the balance of these two States: and in
making this calculation of all that can be
spared and sold, we gave TO every man,
woman and child in the Territory enumer-
ated, a loaf of bread three times day
and bacon "adliberatum." Large as this
estimate may seem, it is rather belov and
above the reality.
There are in this country dozens of
farmers who have harvested forty bushels
of uheat to the acre, and at our State Fair
there were nine entries of five acres of corn
for the prize IA silver pitcher), to be given
to the one who produced the most corn to
the acre on FIVE acres-the quantity to be
determined by actual measurement, made
by three disinterested farmers under oath;
and sample of corn and stalks, not less
than one and one half bushels of corn each
to be produced at the Fair. What do you
think was the lowest aud the highest9
the latter the one to whom the premium
was awarded. No New England man
could guess. The lowest was los bushels
TO the acre. The highest to whom the
premium was awarded, from the County of
Sullivan, was I7l4 bushels to the acre for
for five acres, and this was sworu to by
three disinterested and respectable men,
from actual measurement.
Send out your starving population to us,
and we will at least give them corn bread
until they cry enough.