The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-11-09
TIE CROPS.

ers either to hold out for high prices. or TO
sell at any price for fear of fall, We can
not refrain from showing the actual state OF
things abroad. Last year, in the face of an
une xampled harvest, prices of bresdstutfs
in this country remained high. and such
quantities as were within tolerably easy
reach of the seaboard found ready market
all throughout the season. True, there re-
NAMED at the opening OF this Spring, in
spite of the enormous exports. large sur
plus from the old crop, in many districts
of country amounting TO one half of the
WELD; but in ordinary times the supeifluous
stores would have been fabulously great.
England had in 1850. perhaps. the most
deplorabiy bad harvest ever known. certain
IL The worst of the past 50 years. Her
usual importation of foreign grain for actu
al home consumption, beyond what she can
possibly raise with all the aids of modern
agricultural science, is about DC. 0CO00O OF
bushels; but from September l., 1869. to
August 81, 1861, they amounted 90 the
ehorm Gus sum of "a 600 600 bushels, or
about three bushels for every inhabitant of
Great Britain. For this supply of the staff
of life she has exported gold, or its equiva-
lent, to the amount of So 900, 600 or $780,
0O0, 900, of which nearly or quite $780,,
0OO, 900 have come TO this country. Since
the first of January our exports of bread
stuffs have been st or about The rate of So
COZ. 900 worth week; they sometimes
reaching as high as So. 900. 900, and some
times falling trifs short Meanwhile We
are importing not more than one-third of
our usual quantity of foreign wares and
meI chandise, and the fouS anomalous state
of things has arrived of an uninterrupted
accumulation of wealth in the midst of an
extensive war. We are now upon the threSh-
Old Of 1869, and what are the prospects of
our farmers? Our Wheat crop, taking the
whole country through. is good; perhaps
quite to the average; the Dat harvest has
been fine; and the Indian COIN crop won
derfulIy SO. Sppposing that our usual as
gregate crop Of Indian Corn Is 900. 00O.-
600 bushels, we could not have harvested
less than 100, 900, 600 bushels in 1869,
and must have at least 600, 100000 in
1861. That a considerable portion Of this
is in the rebellous States and hence cut off
from the great markets of Europe, is true;
but TIE South was never an exporter to a
tlthe to the extent of the North, and all that
she has raised will be wanted to feed the
vast armies she has levied for her traitor
Gus war upon the General Government. To
the loyal farmers of the North. then, the
profit of foreign orders will accrue, and it
is we'll worth our while TO estimate how
large they are likely to be. The latest &C
counts from abroad, through the most ex-
cellent and trustworthy journal The Marx
Lane Express, show probable deficiency
in Great Britain of ut least 81 OOO, 900 hush
els of grain; and English grain buyers are
vho laip arHor- init ho
kets of tie world at the earliest opportunity.
else it will be too late, and the British work
ing classes will be subjected to the terrible
possibilities of famine. In France, now
that the concealment is rendered impossible
from the receipt of immense orders for
breadslufs in this market, the most deplor-
able condition of things is manifested. The
crops have been so very short that there
are grave apprehensions of famine. and the
peasants and curriers', always Lalf-sarved,
are now in far worse than their usual plight.
With prescience and good sense that the
English Government would have done well
to initiate. the French authorities have taken
the matter into their own hands and,
through special agents and the usual official
channels, ordered immense quantities of
food at such prices as 10 shut English buy
us tut VI the EulOpcdu hCto, Ct
least for the present. France, it is said
will require an importation of 10000, COO
bushels; quantity which, as Tie Mark
Lane Express truly observes, "is enormous
for country which has, for the last two or
three years, been an exporter of wheat and
-four" This. with the prospective require
ments of the English market. will amount
to nine thousand c0rgOes 1000 bushels
each, ''an unheard-of and impossible guam
tity. if We are 10 judge of the present ex-
porting power of the neighboring nations
by the past. Such. however, is the present
state of the two countries, without taking
into account Spain, Belgium and Holland,
which will all be buyers, as well as France
and England"
Under this wonderful state of circum
stances, why should not the farmers of the
loyal North be of COOL cheer, aud use eve
ry exertion to save their crops in good con-
dition. and get them to market? With all
this foreign demand, however. there is no
chance, it seems to US. for wheat to rise to
a very unusual aud exorbitant price but
on the other hand, there is no likelihood of
its abating any from its present value.
Politically considered, the dependence of
France and England on foreign nations, es-
pecIally upon u.s. Tor The actual iood oil their
people, is our greatest safeguard against
any violation of their neutrality. The
greed of grain might make Manchester pol
iticians disposed TO have the British Govern
ment break our blockade, and grasping am
bilion urge the French Emperor TO take our
rebellious States under the wing Of his ea-
gle; but so long as the two countries ara in
actual want Of our Illinois corn, and Ohio
wheat, there is small chance of their rising
in arms against US. The mutual dependence
of America and England. always apparent,
was never SO easy of demonstration as at
the present; and il is impossible but that
the people Of the two nations should have
good fellowship with aad respect for each
other, whatever designing English. politi
clans and aristocrats may assert. Let u
rejoice that there is something to prevent a
calamity so direfui to both as conflict
would be.-E T. Tribune
Coop BIscUIT OR SHORT CAKE.-To one