The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-08-29
cookr TO GEN. BLARNEr.

81. GEORGE cooKY.
cookY TO GEN. BLARNEY.
FoRr reilly, July n, 1857.
To Gen. Blarney, at Fort Rely, Com
n,anding:
GENERAL have just received authen-
tic intelligence of the approach of seven
hundred millions Of Cheyenne Indians, who
40 laying the prairie waste, killing the buff
faloes in defiance Of the organic act, and,
without regard to our blessed constitution,
remorseless by shedding the blood Of the
wild deer and antelopes.
These insurrectionary movements must
be quelled, or our hlessed Union may be
dismembered. appeal to you therefore,
General, by your hatred Of the Indians,
from whom and whose friends you have
won the honored title of butcher appeal
to you in the name of the stars and stripes
and our blessed commissions, to send me
forthwith detachment Of cavalry.
In haste,
ST. GEORGE 0OOKY, Commander.
The authenticity Of these dispatches may
be relied on for saw them written myself
within the past ten minutes. =.
Commercial Prospects.
The business community are now prepa-
ring for, and in some respects, it may be
said, they are entering upon that period
of the season in which, what is known as
the Fall trade, is transacted. 1t is, there
fore, proper time to glance at the COM
mercial prospects of the country generally,
and Of our section particularly.
Generally speaking, it may be sale, the coun-
try has suffered to very considerable extent
from two or three short crops, which have
been experienced in succession. These dis
asters operated to the disadvantage Of eve
ry classic those engaged in Commercial
pursuits, as well as to those in other occu-
pations.
But the unfayorable result Of the harvest
in the years referred to, did not produce
any serious reyulsion in trade. Fortunate
ly for the United States, crops were also
deficient in Europe, which circumstance se-
cured heavy foreign demand for our do
nestle produce, at comparatively high
prices. Thus, the export trade of the
country was sustained, and American pro-
ducers, made up, in part, ut least, from the
high prices realized, the loss sustained in
consequence Of deficient crops. We have
thus passed through the years of short sup
pies without serious embarrassment.
The trade Of the country is in the main
healthy-decidedly SO. Trouble had been
predicted, but the apprehensions entertain
ed having, by cautious movements, been
guarded against, were not realized. Mer-
camille credit has been well sustained, tho
country merchants have, to a considerable
extent, fallen somewhat short with their
payments. These deficits, however, have
not seriously embarrassed city merchants,
and being in most cases represented by debts
due by farmers, and the latter being now in
condition to discharge their liabilities, the
over due accounts will most generally be
liquidated within the ensuing six weeks.
As regards stocks of old produce in the
country, it may be said that supplies are
almost entirely exhausted. We shall not
stop to look at the disasters that have been
averted by the bountiful harvest that is be-
ing secured. Suffice it to say that we should
feel grateful to the kind Providence that
favored the nation with the propitious seed
time, the genial sunshine and the timely
rains which caused tine earth to yield its
fruits abundantly, thus amply rewarding
the labors Of the husbaudman, and supply
ing the people with the necessaries, and fur
nishing the means to secure, the luxuries
Of life:
With depleted store-houses, and without
stocks Of produce, the farmer and the
merchant looked forward anxiously to the
growing crops; and now the latter having
proved about all that could be desired, fears
of famine and distress, entertained when
everything depended upon the season, are
almost forgotten; and the future is looked
forward to with well founded hopes of I'M
exampled prosperity. That We are to ex-
perience season Of low prices for pro-
duce is not probable, even if it were, under
the circumstances, desirable.
As already remarked, the country has but
little remaining FROM old stocks. Bread
stutfs and provisions are everywhere scarce,
and the new products, must therefore, at
once, enter largely into consumption, and
this demand with the amounts that will be
taken towards supplying the vacuum in the
stocks, usually held in reserve, must insure
full prices-such as will prove amply remu-
nerative to producers. This will operate to
the advantage Of the West. If it does not
secure to the latter the balance of trade, it
will greatly diminish the balance against
it.-Cincinnati GaSette-