The Messenger. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1858-18??, 1858-12-30

The fault may be in the mails or it
may be in the managers Of the pa
per, or, as in most cases of delinqu-
ency, perhaps nobody is to blame;
be that as it may, as often as it shows
its face here it meets hearty well
come, and all other papers are laid
aside until it has been thoroughly
examined. A friend said to me to-
day, while looking over the Messen-
ger, are there no merchants in
Georgetown? If there are, they
must do poor business. as they Go
not advertise" The writer has sold
goods for thirty years in succession,
without having been out Of the bu-
siness one day in that time, and he
has had a knowledge of the advan-
tages of advertising his goods, and
he here assures all concerned, that it
''pays well," at least FIVE hundred
per cent on the amount it costs, and
if he sold goods in your town, or any
other in your County, he would rent
one column of your paper by the
year, and feel well assured it would
ray Him much better than it would
you, and the smaller the business,
the larger should be the type, and
the more room should be taken up
by the advertisement, on the same
principal that you find small men
to talk bigger and louder than large
men do.
Almost all our crops IN the west
this year have proved failure.
The wheat crop was much below ar
average, and the quality inferior,
but the large quantity of old wheat
left over in the hands of farmers anC
millers, and there being no demand
for breadstuffs abroad, prices have
ruled. comparatively low. Flour
sells here to-day at $4,65 at whole
sale, and wheat at the mills at s!
cents for so pounds.
The spring was wet and cold, an,
the summer dry and hot, consequent
| ly the corn crop was very poor. i
the Miami bottom lands, where GU
farmers expect 100 bushels from tn
) acre, not over 40 bushels was real
, lied.
4 Corn is selling here to-day at z
: cents, aud in demand.
#The crop of pork is also shor
This, however, has been moro tn
effect of a disease known in the wet
t as "nog cholera" than from othe
causes. 1t is safe to say, that witt
in the last six months, in this Stat
d alone, hundreds of thousands of hog
s have died from this disease. III
! writer of this, in the month of Sci
n tcuItacr last, QUE Of pen of sever
Z hundred head, lest two hundred an
d twenty hogs within the space of
few weeks, all by hog cholera, ar
L the disease has spread through ii
) whole west. Doctor Adam Clar
has said that the hog was curse
e under the old law, and had new
: been blessed under the new. Thr,
J hundred thousand have been packt
this season in Cincinnati, at pric
y ranging from six to seven dolla
: per 100 lbs nett.
: The potato crop in some sectiol
t. of the country, is said to be an ave
II age, but as a general matter we In;
e set it down also as failure. III
i cat and fruit crop was an entire fai
e ure. Hay is the only crop tn
II yielded an average. Your farme
will discover from what ! have {
ready written, that but little weste
l. produce, pork and flour excepte
lie will reach the sea-board markets u
d til another crop is produced, al
is they may make their colculatio
is accordingly.
10 Money is abundant, and all go,
1t paper is cheerfully discounted by t
n Banks at ueh per cent. Our Ban
IL however, deal almost exclusively
bills of exchange based upon t
purchase and shipment of produce
The weather for the last f,
:, weeks | shall not attempt to descrit
. Like the man who was in the hal
of swearing on all occasions, but |
fused to utter word when his ca
;. load Of ashes tilted up, from the ia
~ as he said, he was not able to
i. Justice to the subject-so will
n the weather pass, believing VIC ma