The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-07-12

is somewhat celebrated Tor oats, and though the
fields make poor show at present, think the crop
will be fair one; if the weather continues cool and
showery.
Grass also suffered a good deal by the early
drought, and through much of the frost region the
loss OF both hay and pasture is most serious. ThOus
ands of farmers must use up everything they have,
in order to keep their stock through the Summer
and Fall, and are without hope for the winter ex-
cept the orlorn of success in some of the expe
riments which the papers recommend. such as fod-
der corn. As to all these devices, buckwheat nclu-
died. is sufficient say that they are specialities
and not adapted to general cultivation. Even
where circumstances favorable it is very seldom
that success attends the first attempt. ,sl .'u -tt
As 10 wheat am almost afraid to write any,
thing, lest somebody should put me down a liar
On the one hand are farmers who declare that
wheat is totally destroyed, and have proved their
sincerity by driving post haste to the nearest viii
lage and purchasing years supply of -four.
suppose this has been done by several hundred far
mers; and it is not likely that one of them was mis-
taken as to the condition of his own fields Farmers
are not apt to make that sort off mistake On
the other hand the New York operators assert that
notwithstanding few slight frosts in some places
the wheat crop is the most beautiful ever KNOWN
Prices would not go down in your city, were there
any reasonable doubts upon this subject in the
minds of merchants. The merchants are unques-
tonably too attentive to their interests to be misn
formed upon so important matter. 70. -T.t aaia4
Now estimate the loss of wheat by the June
irosts at no less than twenty millions of bushels
! nearly equivalent to famine. But now such is the
exuberance ofthe West, so immense the breadth of
land cultivated secure the crops from other risks
that taking the country as whole, the loss may
be considered as OF no commercial consequences;
however severely it NAV fall upon some of the par
ties Immediately affected. Every man who has
wheat crust to his pumpkin pie next Thanksgiving
day, may be especially grateful that the United
States are not limited on one side by New England
and on the other by the Western Reserve = I'M
The country most injured by the frosts, includes
the tennessee valley above Avon, and the wheat dis
trict of which Akron in Ohio is the centre vs.
Take this State from Syracuse West Pennsvlva-
MIA from Pittsburg North, and the whole Western
Reserve in Ohio, and you will include about fifty
counties, which, taken altogether, city and couN-
try cannot be expec ed this year to produce crop
of any staple agricultural product sufficient to meet
its ordinary annual consumption .r ...f
once tins district constituted the main reliance
OF the East for flour. For twenty years its
rural population has increased but little and its
total of production has hardly been maintained
eanwhile, cities on its borders have grown
large, and its villages and manufacturing establish
ments increasing in number and size, least in
wealth, add many mouths to the consumers of its
surplus provisions With the exception of butter,
cheese, wool and apples, it is now of little or no
value as contributor of agricultural products to
the New York market; what it sends forward of the
cereals, being compensated for by what it takes out
| from the produce of the farther West.
inns year 1t must take more than it gives, and
the interior be liable to high prices and consider
| able suffering.
ga good deal of the corn which was killed by
frost, came up again; good deal was replanted; a
GOOD deal OF the ground was plowed up and sown
with buckwheat good deal is neglected or summer
tallowed. The loss the whole must be very
great; how great will depend upon the remainder
| of the season.
POTATOES in general grew up again after the
tops had been killed to the ground They have go
much Il the less growth, and must by much yield
the less but, if the rot does not supervene, they
may yield as well as usual.
There are very few crops that go through a
whole mole season without injury from some cause
! Inc farmers are very energetic in doing what
can be done TO repair losses Buckwheat for seed
mas peen sent from Boston to the interior of Penn
sylVanla ana Ohio ] heard of farmers who paid
three dollars bushe for it, and in a rural paper
the price was stated at five dollars. Some cold
hearted fippancy has been displayed in the news
| papers; but little reflection must convince every
one that it is impossible for farmer to make much
when he has to do his work second time begin
ming with the seventh of June.-The best he can
! expectls, to keep what he has, till another wear.
many VIII lall In this" r. H.
ALARMING PROGRESS OF BIOGRAPHY.
1t is just possible, even in these days, for man
of judgment and discretion to 90 thronpb life with
out being made night; he may, BY finesse and
unceasing vigilance, escape getting a public testi-
monlai OF his worth talents presented to him
while IN the flesh; but after death, the most pru-
| dent, no longer able to defend themselves are La
| Bile to be given over unto the Biographers This
as Lord Broughman observed-we have no doubt
with especial sensitiveness-addsa new terror to
| the Grislv King
The worst Of the matter is, that from this terri
Die tate no memory, however unpretending, is Sc
cure The birdie that twitters on bOugh and briar
Is as liable to have his little tunes to music and
published with illustrations, as that which carols
loud and long at the gates of heaven No matter
how nolseless the tenor of our life nor how seques-
cred Its way, it is just likely to be made public
| ehofoughfare after we are departed, as though we
mad led the van OF mankind upon the crowded
highway to the Temple of Fame We are not sure.
indeed, but that the being Famous is not often the
safer position of the two; for the Literary Coro-
ners who preside these mental most aaorfems
may then avoid us from the idea that there are
certain TO be many rivals in the burial ground, and
thereby we may altogether escape.
The distress of these gentlemen, when bappv
release ofths kind does occur is ludicrous in the
extreme; Gracious goodness we have forgotten
Percy Bysshe Shelly" was the tbouph5 that
flashed upon some half-dozen of them simultaneous
| y a lew months ago, and Immediately the ashes OF
that funereal pyre by the Italian sea were swept ur
ana garnered, to be showered upon us by those ir-
reverent pepper-casters anew. From the worst
form OF this persecution, however, the memory OF
poor Shelley was secure. They could motor some
OF them would certainly have attempted it-con-
struct Religious Biography out of those ma
terials. 1t is almost worth while to be unortho
dox to procure exemption from this tremendous
wrong.
Biographies of that particular kind seem to re-
qulre special description of Editor a man who
not only does not consider "faith and nrayar.
among the privatest of mems affairs" but who de-
lghts In exposing whatever his victim was accus
toned to hold peculiarly his own and sacred
Everything that bears beyond dispute the mora
mark of PriUne upon it, is culled with particnIa,
attention, and printed either in large type or ital
! les. He is commonly of the same religious sect a,
ms unfortunate Subject; and if there are any bitter
and uncharitable expressions concerning a riva
persuasion, to be found in the dead mans writing
! certain lose of inta 81
second hand. The opinions thus posthumously
! expressed, are always-for what reason we do not
know-denominated 'views," while the biograph
les themselves are commonly termed memoirs -
In the True Delta, of the 3rd, the retirement OF
John Burnside, of the firm of j. Burnside Co., i:
mentioned. The house originally Breme &
Burnside, in 1887. Mr.. Breme, the senior partner
went out of business with large fortune in 1S49
From that time until the present. the leading
business affairs of the house were under the immed
ate undivided direction and control of Mr.. Burn
side, his junior partners, Mr.. Nelson McStea, now
the capable senior of the firm, in this place
and Mr.. Jesse A. Value, of New York, both of whom
had been clerks with Mr.. B., taking charge of the
local details of its extensive operations, they
now do, after years of faithful, digent, and hon
orable service, his place. associating with then
Messrs. 5. X. Fowler and o. X. Dunnng, also lone
Identified as employees with Burnside & Co., as Nc
Stea, Value & Co. ...E.
NO mouse previously or since established in the
South has ever, in the same time-twenty-twc
years-established for itself higher or more hon
orable character, nor has any single merchant in
any strictly commercial business ever retired from
it accompanied with such general regret of the nu
merous body of citizens with whom he had for that
time, transacted business, with large private
fortune. Indeed, think we might safely cbal
lenge the Union to furnish an instance of any mer.
chant whose affairs were strictly and egitimately
those of commerce, having accumulated within 3
like period of time, or indeed any PERIOD the same
amount of fortune as John Burnside retires from
commercial pursuits with in actual available cash
means. We estimate him, from reliable data, as by
far the wealthest man in Louisiana, and there ara