Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1859-08-11

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Now that the world is apparently about
to take leave, Of its tranquility for some
time to come, at least We are to be made
more sensible Of the loss We sustain,
through having, by way Of parting gift
from the goodness Of peace, the largest
harvest On record-the largest wheat hsr
vest thst was ever produced upon this
earth. There has certainly been great>
er breadth Of wheat laid out, and nearly
all seems turning out unusually well. In
all the old countries of Europe about the
usual crop seems to have been sown, and
the harvest promised extraordinarily we'll
tat last accounts. Wirhin tho @aes tea
years dreland has multiplied its produc-
tons Of wheat amazingly, and 50 has
France under its more scientific modes Of
agriculture-so much 40 indeed, that
within but short period quite q quanti-
ty Of the very finest wheat arrived in New
York, which was really sold at FIVE cents
per bushol more than our best. on ac-
count Of its quality and cleanliness. In
Canada, as in this country, every year
adds to the quantityof land cultivated,
and this year, with the exception of sim
gle night of frost, injuring the crops in q
few counties in New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio, the ground sown in whea, has
yielded most abundantly. From New
York to Arkansas and North Alabama,
and from California through to the Allan
tic, more land has thus been cultivated.
by far, than ever before. The season has
beea early, no weevil, nor rust, nor smut
seems to have marred the prospects Of the
farmer. and this State certainly has expe
rienced such q return for the labor of the
husbandman rs it hardly has received
since 1850.
The immediate effect of this all over
the world will be in q measure to coun-
,eract the effects of the war now raging
in Italy. These effects would have been
felt most severely not by the men engaged
in war. They are provided with food by
their COVER rnrnen,s. But the poor masses
Of women aud children and families at a
distance, who feel the effects Of war in the
augmented price Of every loaf Of bread
price they are less than ever able to af-
ford, and who waste and wither and die
from the thousand diseases caused by in
sufficient tood-these are the persons who
really feel most the evils and the curse of
war, and these are going to be most etfec-
tually relieved by the abundant crops OF
the present year.
In this state the imnense wealth added
to US all by this harvest will not so imme.
diately as it will steadily appear. Our
farmers are not spectators they are by
far the most forehanded class Of 0en in
the country. They have some Of the very
largest aud best barns probably in the
world, and can afford to wait to sell until
the prices sui. them.
There will then, by all these crops, be
q siler, but general and steady expansion
produced, and one beginning at the right
end. Not = speculative expansion this,
from usual facilities Of European cred it.
but from the augmented wealth of the
producer, leading him to desire a large,
amount Of goods from the merchant, en-
abling him to cultivate broader acres tol
the next season and raising the price of
all the land he possesses. The operation
of tkis throughout the whole West as vel
as our own State, will tend to counterac
the light money market and depressions
of ali securities, owing to the Europea,
war; and put merchants in an easy ant
solid position. Many Of the oldest debt l.
out West, given up as worthless, will nov
be collected. If the war continues, pr
ces will and must rise next spring, how.
, ever, they may fall just now. lu Europ'
the labor Of million and half Of abl
bodied men will be taken from the field
to destroy instead Of producing, and tn
longer the war continues, the greater mus
be that demand on us-,he greater stimu
, lus to enlarge our wheat fields.
In this State, where the climate is mild
, and labor free, where railroads and canal
facilitate the producer in finding the bes
market, where towns, and churches An
school houses and colleges render goods
! and all social, religious and edncations
j, advantages easily attainable, farms ar,
oil things considered, really far cheape
than they are out in the far West. {
course, land may be bought at less pric
out West, but it will cost fifty to sevent,
Eve cents to get bushel Of wheat to .
equal market, while equal social advanta
ges are not to be had for any amount {
, money. No laud is really cheaper in Ii
whole Union than much that may b
bought along our extended railroads, ,
from Fifty to seven.y ,6vo dollars an acr
These lands must and will rise in the es
timation Of experienced farmers.-Phild
Ledger.
u ~A Frazer river letter write
: speaking Of the suuptuous fare in ths
region, gives the following bill Of fare 4
the last New Years dinner First cours,
bean soup !; second, boiled beans thir,
. baked beans entrees, fried beans deser
r coffee aud beans. After dinner the
q wound up by playing for sack Of beans
It D~ Pat do you love your countryf' p