New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-02-03
FINES IN rdE NORTHWEST
.fTha X. Y. Trfbupr.


Messsges tbat 'rrOvideace has b'essed "a VITA
9 Asunti al earvests, &c. DO. DO they suppose
sAat moderate, or even m.eger, hsryests are not
tssly prsofs OF Gods eenguty are the more boun-
seeusi 1t 5oes seem ~ that it were better
skber to tell the truth or cay nothing.
TIE simple fact 10 that the harvest Of 1859 was
below an average throughout the Free Satss.
There are local exceptions, but only local erase
b BY far the most important and valuable STAPLE VI
tAOse States, aud the yield of 1859 was Nat two
thirds Of full CROP the general saer fee Of Lean
cattle especially 10 own State, ought Of itself
70 prove. I estimate teat there ls NOT to-day
throughout the Free States t~o-thlrds tAe Quantity
81 Hay there WAS in those States one year ago, and
that their stock of Cattle will have been reduced
isly twenty five per cent on the LIST OF May Oext
below the number ore year before. Thus serious
reduction will tell sadly our exhibit OF Wealto 10
the Census of 1860. And, unless am sorely MIS-
tnl.n. The Germ crop Of the Free States III 1859
WAS ct least twenty per cent below al average
yield; while Wheat produced moderately, and
BsekWhest suffered badly by toe early frosts of An
tenn. Oats and Potatoes yielded generously; so,
presume, did sost Vegetables, though considerably
1wsrfed by severe drouth 10 Midsummer. Bat the
total product of the Agriculture cf the Free States
In 1859 was worth certainly One Hundred NJ lons
rss than an average crop would have been, and yet
the pr.ces that rule ore bat middlIDg. Those who
have been confidently looking for speedy lqulda.
boA of Western indebtedness, and a revv val IN Rail
read earnings and values, will judge how far this
fact sboold modify their expectations.
"a h.. NJ .K,o oft Wisconsin was "A full nvpraOe.
90 was that of EOrthern Indiana aud Ohio.
NoItbern indiana bad slsO good Corn crop,
wAIcb WISCONSIN bad not while NorShera ILLINOIS
had d very pOsf WOest crop, while her Corn wAs
badly injured by early fres 8. Lean Cattle wOnd
not be iorced on disgosted market at the prices
pO~ ruling, aud POrk would not M selling eli over
TIE West at such nigh prices as 50 so 10 SIS %
FER hundred, if there were an average Com crop
in the county.
OF curse, the West is poor. The collapse Of
tAe Railroad bubble, whereby maIy people have
been Invested # their property, and perhaps still
more Of their reputation ior honesty, has spread
assolaton over the lsod. There are City Loss
enough duly survey I'd and staked out 10 the West
erp Free States to furnish hou~erOom for ali
tAs people Of the United States; aud eigbths
Of them are not to-day really worth tue Cost
Of surveying OF course, the usurers EbO have lent
nilhops at two or three per cent per month
and taken morigag these lots as security, W
have nee time IN getting toe pay, aod IL will b.
perfectly good money when they getlf. Those VITO
have invested sbelr ueaUs 10 Land Warrauts, and
located whole Couutles in this and adjoiuiIg
Ssates viii get tier money hack # they have VT
enough la sdy.rise their lsud, and sell il ~
tss highest ca bidder, if they undertake to oOld
en- for Eve, ten, OF twenty dollars per acre, tae
taIss Will 9, orally eat them up. TIE art of tax
as'on- especially the tsx4tioo of ,e.idents-
seeu to be pretty well understood by the setasrs
Of tire West; aud what they don't already know
they are fast IearOiDe. They Eill have good
reads and scbOOl-bOases withi0 few years if tue
sp.c uiatOrs bold 90 20 their land
OF couIse, the times hard here. They
sAskt Ia be hzfd--eou6n't well DO otherwise. If
people won't ieaIo the most obvious truths other
vice than through suffering they must suffer.
When farmer. who basn't TIE Requisite capital
wheIeSitb 10 sUbdoe and cultivate qasrter-sec.
eoD 81 0ild land, inslsis On buying two or three
quarter sect,eDs aud morgagng all be has IN order
To secure them, pushing the schoOl-hOase fron
hie children and the mill and store away from hi-
DeisbbOIb0Od, IN the hope OF making u big profit
cut OF the future purchasers and oceupa0ts OF his
extra quarter sections he must buy bis experience;
and, il he should In duo tune write me for counsel
and aid IN borro~lDg few huodreds or thousands
h eatficate him from bis embarrassments, shall
nst have tine even 10 write him 40 answer.
But a. this sickness is not unto death" Ga every
Eide, men are turning from Speculation Iodus
tJ. Tn Sc Who are over bead in debt are giving
up their property to their creditors, aud preparing
10 kreu anew. The bankrupt merchants and
eOrsrr-lOt operStOrs OF 1856 are being gradually
transformed into frugal, thrifty farmers and Qn a
moderate way) manufacturers. There Will be
more acres broken, more grain sOwei or planted
Dore calves reared, and (f the be fur) more
pork nude, in The Free West in 1860 than in any
former YEAR am assured that more Lead Ia
being dug this Winter heresbout than for many
ysars past those Who have put money into West
sxD Railroads must lOse good part oft; but the
Country profits by their mistakes; aud even the
Gay Its, now so dead drug, will in good part be
wanted about the year 1900 aud it Is al excellent
tang for all bat the lOt-OwOen TO have oar future
citiss 60 well laid out aud mapped that they Can
never grow UP mere huddIes Of dwellings, like Bos-
ton some Of the older portions OF NeT-York, aud
(nOIe enphaticslly) the smaller cities Of Europe
Ia spite Of present d'soOurasements, matters are
working right The Free West Ii producing many
fhtnss adau,aA ,o tie oSyn nepdg that 10 would have