The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-01-11


ro.Ai. .:."..... ................ Is 400 900
This estimate, from the nature of the sources
whence ~ 10 derived must be below the actual
amount bnt making every allowance for this omis-
sion, we may conclude that inconsdera ole uuanti-
W o. gram most D imported from abroad 10 addition
70 our own crop In order to supply the usual allow
aDce OF bread TO he Sritish community Cur i'm
ports OF the article, are indeed always respectable
in amount. For seven years past we have onv once
drawn less than four mi hon quarters of wheat and
wheat four-to say nothing Of coarser descriptions.
of grain-frOm other countries During this oeriod.
VIZ, from 40 10 '65, both years inclusive, We re-
ceived from ABROAD 33 mil ion quarters or at the
rate of nearly Al millions per annum. Whenever
the Gazette average price of wheat rose above COS
quarter for he year, we have been accustomed to.
expect largely increased supplies of foreign Rrain
This has been the result even when the high price
arose from serious deficiency IN our domestic har-
vests. accompanied by severe distress among our
industrial population, end general paralysis of
commerce and manufactures, At the present
moment we again see hiah average ruling in the
corn markets Importation has therefore the
stimulus Of profitable return, from the price
obtainabIe for the commodity while that price, on
The other hand has not been Occasioned by scarcity
and sustained in the face OF groat impovershment,
ut is rather attributable to the fact that we are
upon the whole, uncommonly rich and prosperous.
It is clear, At all events, that England is quite
able and willing to pay highly for large supplies of
corn. The only question Is, whether other countries
bave any, or enough, to sell. On this point We find
the following results given in the report to which
we have already alluded. Over nearly half Europe
the late harvest has not produced sufficient to sup.
In France the utmost that be said of the recent
crop is that it somewhat exceeds the yield Of So
The country, we are told may be divided into three
zones" In the South of France the yield has been
good;" in the central zone "toerable;" and "b ad"
in the northern nd eastern departments, es pc
cially those bordering on Belgium and the
knlne. These are, in average years, the
cnlei compromising districts OF the eosln-
w Wa rpuet ynok
minds to see our ally still competing with 0urselv ee
for breadstuffs in the general market Matters ar e
worse elsewhere. Switzerland has enjoyed mode
rately productive harvest but under ordinary circu
stances does not raise more than oneourth her con-
sumption, and imports the remainder from Germany.
In Italy, the product this year has been less than
" middling," and The population will not have
Odessa or Egypt. Spain and Portugal are worst of
OF al. The harvest has proved so deficient that
panic is appreheDded for want of food and foreign
wheat IS already selling at a profit, in spite 81 an
import duty of As francs per hectolitre In Turkey,
though the wheat crop is abundant, 6 computed
upon the surface cultivated, the disturbed political
and social state Of the country interfered much
with the labors OF husbandry and the total yield il
expected to leave considerable deficiency. Tha
Prlce OF corn In Syria is also at this moment exc en-
tionably high 30 as to render any shipments irIncS
sible with q chance of profit.
States Of America, are thus left as the ,nss UnaIea
mes upon which we can draw to any .ony YIa.s
he next few months The Egypt c,o Ss' Sot5 a
# excellent quality. In 'gPO ed abundant, aad
throughout the Baltic prov' -assis ING corn crops
ept as regards wheat nJes nave oeeh ,srgs' sn
.lIesdv arrived fro derabic cargoes Of grain have
low at an end "A that quarter, but shipments are
n May next. a the Baltic until the ice breaks up
ii. ", ID Of gram in the interior provinces of Rus
,or. .>ence the markets of Odessa and the other
.S GA the Euxipe are supplied, has been tolerabe;
chile the southern distIicts-once so productive-d
Emerson, Bessarabia, and Ekaternosaf were left al
most fallow last spring On account of the war. II
was comFuted by well informed merchants, that the
entire quantity of corn which could be shipped from
Odessa out If the harvest Of 1856, would be le@
than 100000 chetwerts, or about 100000 quarters.
Aessre. Surge, in the circular already cited state
that the grain stocks at that great outport
ly exhausted, while the prices there and elsewhere
nearly, II not quite, high as in England, without
leaving anything for freight or insurance.
The Cotton Crop OF the United statcs-How
II EDslsves the Negro.
IRON the Liverpool Times, Dec 2s]
gold fields The yellow metal can be increased at
pleasure, but the black man cannot be propagated
with equal rapidty. The latter only be increased
at the rate OF three per cent per anDum. This il
TOO slow an affair for those who viii have cotton
The power Of consumption Of slave-grown cotton in
the old and new world is to be equal TO 6 1000 900
bales within ten years, and a. the States can
on produce one bale year rom c each no slave
grcts in 1850, II win be necessary TO import no
less than 100000 more slaves from Africa
within the next ten years. In order TO give US
the 100000 bales Of cotton il is said we shall
require and cannot procure from free lsborl
To obtain this ocean Of human blood from
Africa would require-a'loving for the waste OF
e IN ,s internal war; mortality in the
ten million Of negroes to supply the growing de-
mand for slaves What portion of the African con-
tinent would be capable Of furnishing this number
in the American papers have not informed their
readers. Ii there he n shadow Of truth IN their
figures, they must find fully three million of extra
slaves to give US the additional three million bales
OF cotton they say we mrst have. And II we only
estimate the cost OF each negro which reaches the
States alive at two hundred dollars, find that the
rum required to carry out the brutal design would
amount to six hundred million of dollars. This
would be q formidable sum 10 draw on the bullion
resources of the world for within the next tea
years.
Another view may be taken Of this portion Of the
subject, which viii give the iesder still better idea
OF the immensely Of the siaver's proposition. The
New York journals state that the cotton crop
amounted TO 900 bales only in ls202l, and that
i reached 3,227s45 ba'es IN 1856. The ratio q
increase here shown Is coo per cent 10 IS years.
should cottonsaton continue therefore, 10 progress
as It has zone within this latter period, we should
require 100000 bales Il 600 900 slaves capable
oi producing one Dale Leed 70 meet tne Oemand q
1890. Now, we have always admitted the CONNER
cial omnipotence OF cett1n-its fabulous importance
and untrng activity; but We are not prepared 10 say
that 1t is destined 20 enslave 40 large number of the
human race. We will no. sanction the thought that
all the good has done for mankind s 10 be attributed
10 the growth Of an institution" which II at once
a scourge and a disgrace 10 our species. There II
an iufabiiy about heinous sins but II adds nothing
10 the stability Of nations crimes. Nothing IN
holy last" Is the mmutablc law which the ortho
dox criminal never attempts TO deny. He coniesses
his weakness to 90 further when be is aroused 70
sense Of the burden Of guilt he has already taken
upon his head. But time does not appear 70 nave
made the STAKEHOLDER conscious Of bis transgressions
against the unalterable DEGREES OF God and MAJ.
That arithmetic 10 which he pins his faith cannot
teach him TO beware Of the follies and dangers Of
his ways He does net zee that great and grevous
wrongs cannot be mnpnea o sae gains na a y, pro
will.