Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-06-18

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From the Cincinnati Price Current, Jane Is
We devote all our available spsce in the present
number Of our paper 70 extracts rsn cur exchanges,
and from letters, regarding The crops aud macy
letters from cur correspondents in varieus paris
Of the country as we can print the present week.
We have 10 leave over several for cur next number
We regard the injury done By the frost u the crops
in certain sections Of the West serious aud Of grave
importance and hence we have used all the means
in power to obtain reliable information ir men
who understand The matter thoroughly, by mail;
and not only this, but have made careful inquiry
from all those with whom have met during tie
week, from this and the adjoining States, believing
this frost question Of great importance 10 tae
whole country From the letters published in our
paper to-day, and those still in possession, but
which We have no room for this week, and the in
formation we have reee. we'd orally we have arrived
at the following conclusions regarding the extent of
the injury done By the frOsts The wheat and rye
crops, in ell Western PenRsy ylvanis and Virginis, in
the Eastern counties of Ohio ten miles or back
from the Ohio river and from Like Erie and east Of
a line drawn, say from Portsmouth the Ohio riv-
er, to Saudusky City on Lake EEie, badly iTjur
ed, fully TO the extent Of one third Of the CROP in
places the injury is half, and eYsn more in
Western Penasy ylvania, but tae average less is we
think not over ORe-third The barley has been in
juTed slightly, and tie sr1in viii be light. Ia the
remaining portion Of this State the Injury to the
wheat is but slight, aud is confined to the low
grounds on the ''Tidg' - Potatoes and csrn have
been frozen to grester or less extent throughOut
all this region, bat this need not and viii pre-
vent good crop of both being secured, should the
remainder Of the season prove favorable In IHdiaB,
Illinois, Iowa, Missouri Wisconsin,, Michigan, am
Kentucky, the frost has done serious injury ex-
cept in few localities, and The wheat is safe from
its effects in all that vast region Garden vegetables
have suffered badly, aud fruit has been killed ex-
tensively in this Stats and Western Pennsylvania
and Virginia. In New York, Eastern PenEsylVs-
MIA and Virginia, there was serious damage done,
and only in few places Wss there any frost. Is
far, then regsrds the rjury done the wheat crop
by frost it is comparatively not large tight be
at first supposed, andi the crop maturs well where
not injured, the loss Of that killed will be hardly
felt, and will il itself hare but small influence
upon prices -
In Indians the crop is light bat the heads will be
large and the grain good. In Kentucky the crop il
good, and the prospects favorable The Iisy crop
promises bad, in m-ny places, and We have heard
general complaints regarding it, the past week
or so.
There is no doubt that this frost hiss produced
greater alarm than the facts justify Similar frostJ
have occurred in other years. On the night Of May
29 1915, frost occurred which cut down the wheat
and corn pretty generally according to reports, pre-
dueing great sensation throughout the country in
both financial and commercial circles. Farmers
rushed into market and purchased wheat and haul
ed il off in their wagons TO provide sgsibst the
peeted famine, aud prices Of both wheat and -four
advanced fifty PEE ceui. The weather during Jube
was very dry, which added to the alarm, but the
sumner passed over and the harvest came, and by
turning over files 20 the 22d Of August Of the
same ye1r, we find -four abundant and drug in
this market at tagO dollars and slrfy-fcs per
barrel, and choice brands WO dollars and seveny
Eve cents, and the complaints about the ravagss Of
the frost disappeared. Now we do not mean By
this to intimate that hlur will sell as low these
rates. the coming fall, but simply to show that hu
msnity iEstnctivey exsggerstes its troubles, and
this is OF the peculiar features CT nature in
all ages.