The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-03-22

PROSPECTS FOR THE WHEAT CROP

PROSPECTS FOR THE WHEAT CROP
The wheat crop is thus noticed in some of the
Western exchanges:
We have lately made inquiry of many of our
friends in the country, concerning the coming
wheat crop; and with but few exceptions, they
agree in saying that within the last few DAYS the
prospect has materially improved, owing doubtless
to the gentle rains and pleasant weather that we
have thus far had in the month of March. The win
ter was not as favorable for the protection of the
tender plant it usually is, yet it is to be hoped
that the mild and growing weather which are
now enjoying will make up for the lack of steady
laying snow during the winter, and amply reward
our farmer friends with excellent crop of wheat
Carroll (O.) Free Press.
We continue to receive more favorable reports of
the growing wheat crop. The late warm rains and
spring like weather have had the effect of giving
root to the weak plants which were thrown to the
surface of the earth by the winter fosts and must
have persisted had cold, dry weather ensued, ga few
weeks ago, where the fields looked unpromising,
they generally bid fair to yield abundant crop
especially wheat that has been drilled in. Should
the present propitious season continue, shall not
only have early wheat harvest but an abundant
one Wheeling Tipes.
Another account states that the wheat crop of
southwestern Ohio never looked better. There was
last fall. Fields not only generally look well, but
particular fields which it feared were ruinously
winter killed, have, within the last three weeks, so
revived as to promise an average yield. Prospects
late humber of the Peoria Transcript says:
We have encouraging accounts of the wheat
crop from most of the counties around. A gentle
| man from Knox county informs us that the wheat
looks well throughout that section, much of it bet
ter than at this in former years. Another
person who arrived in this city last evening from
Wnolford county brings US the same flattering in
telgence from that portion of the country. 1t is
truly good news betokening that the business sky
is brightening and whenever the roads shall have
become settled, we think heavy trade may be an
ticipated in the Central City.
The Du Quoin Perry county, H. Herald, pub |
| fishes the following extracts from a letter:
| A letter from Carbonate, Jackson county, says
| that the wheat never looked better that it now
does at this of the year. A large quantity
sown in this and adjoining countless which now
bids fair to richly repay the farmer for his toll
The Prairie State (Jerseyville, Ill., of the 18th,
| says:
"The mild weather of the past month has done |
much toward giving the growing wheat stand in
| this county, and, though large amount was win
ter-kiled, STILL if nothing retards it materially be-
tween now and harvest time there will be heavy
crop gathered In many localities the prospect was
never finer than now, and Jersey county brags on
her wheat raising, both for quality and quantity
The Champaign (Ill.) Gazette gives the following
good news:
awe are informed by our friend, J. B. Potterfeld,
who has OF late Travelled extensively in the southern
part of the State, that the prospects for full and
abundant wheat crop exceedingly favorable
The fields are, as general thing, looking remarka-
bly, well, and without some unexpected turn for the
worse, may expect to have good news from |
Egypt next harvest"
THE POSTAL AND TRADING MARINE OF ENGLAND |
COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE UNITED STATEs.-If |
there should be any persons of opinion that the pa
cfc transactions of this country are dwarfed or |
lost in the parade of warlike ornaments, we can
correct the impression by a very remarkable fact
Sir John Pakington's extraordinary requsition on
behalf of the royal navy amounts to f9S5 7O7, with
which sum he proposes to effect such an improve
ment in the constitution of the fleet as will amount |
in ministerial ideas, to its complete reconstruction
Whether the design has not been expressed with |
some little hyperbole is another question: but |
what we have now to say is, that the amount
of this vote is actually less than that which will |
be made for the single department of the Post
office, known as the "Packet Service" For the |
mere hire of vessels, not in the way of abso-
lutte engagement, but simply to Carry the mails by
contract, Parliament will be asked to provide |
f9s6,734 Considering the magnitude and extent
of our commercial operations the charge may pos
sibly be moderate. country which annually dis
trlbutesas our columns recently showed, nearly one
hundred and twenty millions worth of manufac-
lures and produce over the regions the habitable
globe may, perhaps, reasonably enough spend a
single million in keeping up its communications
with its customers; but for all that the outlay GER
tainly seems extraordinary, and its details give
more impressive idea of our national greatness than
even the enumeration of the territories dependent
on our empire. Other countries, such as Spain,
have had mighty dominons; but Spain communi-
Gated with ''the Indies only some half dozen times
year. There is nothing like our present system
to be seen in all history, ancient modern. Rome
did wonders in the way of communication; but
Rome had only subject provnces-no distant colo
mics, no ocean routes, no steam, word-embrac-
ing commerce.
A curious contrast to this immense development
of communication is presented by the United States
system, delineated lately in our American CORES
pondence. The Americans could not succeed
against us in the ocean race, do they maintain
anything resembling our network of lines with the
remote regions Of the world Notwithstanding
this, however, their Post-ofiice service actually
costs more than ours, if add the cost of the
ocean contracts to that of the service at home. The
charge is estimated at upwards of SIT 900 0O0 or
some f3 900, and the explanation of the fact is
to be found in the magnitude of their territory and
the youth of their State. There are towns in
America almost distant from each other as Iiv-
erpool from New York, and until the Great Pacific
Railroad is constructed these distances only be
traversed IN many cases, by the most toilsome and
protracted Journeys. As illustration of these
conditions We may remark that the troops of the
federal government at Utah are less accessible from
New York than the British army in the Crimea was
from London, though in the former case the war
was purely civil war, and in the latter war /
maintained 5000 miles from home The embar-
rassments indeed of the Americans in this respect
would be extreme were it not for the extent to
which they have pushed the system of railway COM
munication, and the use they have made of the |
electric telegraph.
Whatever may be said of the navy in approach
ing debates, it is evident that all branches of our
mercantile marine have been marvelousy devel- |
oped. We never had so many ships or so much |
commerce-never such magnificent specimens of |
vessels. The Americans are constantly comparing |
our merchant navy with their own and at the Cher
bourg fetes it was the fleet of yachts and private
steamers which filled people with astonishment-
The old East lndiamen, of which much used to
be thought in times past sink into nothing compar-
ed with the clippers of the present day. Perhaps
upon the WHOLE it might be maintained that the |
Royal Navy has not quite kept pace with the de-
velopment of the merchant service; but the chez
was only partial and transient. France overlook
us, or nearly So in the construction of screw line
ofbatte ships, just any other State might over
take us at this moment in the manufacture of rihed
ordnance. But in other respects of scarcely less
Importance we preserved our position, in some we
improved it, and with the of which this
country possessed it is but the work of very brief
period to launch exactly what ships we please
Much, indeed of the work has been done already
and the First Lord of the Admiralty, while detail
ing his views for the completion of his plans gave
respectable account of performances actually &C
compished.