The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-15


Vile Banner of Saturday, as an indication
of the prevailing excitement at the South
regarding the supply of food, without stop
ping to examine the figures and conclusions
of our contemporary. There will be much
suffering at the South, unquestionably, con-
sequent upon the failure of the crops; but
the Western States are, fortunately, in po-
sition to furnish full supplies of the neces-
saries of life. There will be no famine, and
there Should be no famine prices.
q 1t is settled fact the corn and wheat
crops of the South are failures, and that the
cotton States will have to be purchasers of
corn from the more fortunate Northern
and Western divisions of the Union. OR
people are interested upon this subject as one
of much greater importance than the poIiti-
cal diUiSionS Of the North and South, and as
If to rebuke the minds and restrict the spirits
a0hich hare dared to a0hisper secession from
the Nortk,' an Almighty Poacer has made
the Southern divisions Of the country as de-
pendent upon the North for food as the
North has been on the South for cotton
Two such failures as the South experiences
this year in succession would ruin her
Happily for the South, the cotton never en-
tirely fails, and in an augmented crop of lit
is estimated) 100000 bales, she will find
the means to purchase her food. For once
''King Cotton" must abdicate his CONNER
cial throne, content to make one of a trim
uvirate that henceforth rules the world
That which would have been deemed impos-
sble few years since has now actually oc-
Cured, and Georgia, Mississippi and other
States are importing their food from Illinois
ard Indiana. During last season Missouri
supplied this demand, but she will be
unable this year, for her crops have in
great measure failed, while the demand,
then light, is now almost incalculable. The
completeness of the failure in the South it
is hard to contemplate. The tone of every
exchange is responding and almost despair
ing. The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail, of a late
date, says: Is We are satisfied, from reliable
sources, the crop of Eastern Alabama and
Western Georgia will fall far short of the
needs of home consumers, and if there
should not be heavy crop in South Alaea-
ma, backed by low prices in the West, there
cannot but be immense suffering for the
staff of life And this demand from the
South is made simultaneously with SINH
lar call from Europe. We notice in our
Western exchanges several items in regard
to purchases made by English firms, of
houses in the very interior of the States of
of 1000 bu wheat was lately purchased at
Newcastle in Indiana by Liverpool firm
at 81 05. In New York red Western is
selling at 81 22Gl %, while Western white
brought 81 35(GI 81, and Kentucky white
sold at 81 AZ. The exports from New
York have been very large since the new
crop was harvested. For the week ending
Saturday, July 28th, the exports from New
York to points in Great Britain amounted
to 385, 600 bushels of wheat, II 900 bush
els of corn, and $500 brls of flour. Many
startling indications of the absolute want
felt in Europe come to US daily. Bread
riots have occurred at Bologna and in the
North Of Italy. Paddington Green, Lon
don, was lately the scene of great open
air meeting of laboring men, demanding a
reduction in the price, and fuller supply
of the necessaries of life. Meetings of a
similar character have been held at Bir-
mingham and Sheffield, at which the per-
sons present pledged themselves to abstain
during the month of July from beef and
pork, mutton, lamb and veal.
"And what product has the North with
which to supply this increase demand? The
States which raise surplus of wheat and
export it, are Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ken
lucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin, in
all eleven States, which produced, in 1850,
an average year, IS, 500, 900 bushels, valued
at about S90,OO0,0O0. But it is said that
this year the product will far exceed this.
Illinois, which raised 9,4I4,575 bushels of
wheat in 1850, at an average of IL bushels
to the acre, will produce this year not less
than 100000 bushels. An intelligent
farmer, writing to a Chicago exchange from
the Southern portion of Illinois, SAYS of the
wheat and corn crops 4: If you intend to
store the grain that is coming to your city
this fall, you must roof Chicago all over and
make one grand store house of it. lndi-
ana in 1850 produced 6,2l4,4 58 bushels.
This year it will exceed 100000 The
crop of Ohio is estimated at %, 600, Oe0 bush
els, New York at 20, 600, 900, Virginia at s.
0OO 900, and the other States named above
have increased in like proportion. 1t is es-
limated that these eleven States will pro-
duce l25, 900, 600 bushels against IS, 500, 900
in 1850, and about 10000, 600 in 1859.
This sum of 25,OOo,O 600, at the prices paid
in St. Louis and Chicago, the home markets
for the crop, will be worth $3.50, 100000.
" The corn crop of the West will surpass,
it is said, any that has been harvested any
year during the last decade. In 1850 Hill
nois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio,
Tennessee, and Virginia, the corn export
ing States, raised 1852, 600, 600 bushels, which
was valued at about $4,000, 900. The
value of the product of the entire States
for the same year was 1926, 035, $50. Thus
it will be seen that the seven States named
raised very nearly two-thirds of the entire
crop of the Union. But the above figures
fall far short of giving the amount raised in
1860. Instead of raising 81, 100000 bush
els, as in 1850, at an average of % bush
els to the acre, Illinois will this year pro-
duce 100, 100000 bushels at an average of
nearly so bushels per acre. Indiana and
Ohio will raise 10000, 900 each. The crop
of Kentucky will be fully 100000
while Tennessee, Virginia, and all 9TH
ers named, except Missouri, will produce a
similarly augmented amount. The product
of Indian corn for 1860 in the exporting
States will amount to fully 500, 900, 900,
valued at S25OOOO,OOO, a sum nearly equal
to the value of the crop of the whole Union
in 1850. Well may the West be called the
"granary of the world
"Win high prices rule for these staples