The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-10-26

course Of the Tribune 70 advise farmers either Z,
hold out for high prices or to cell At any price 70
fear Of . fall, We cannot refrain from showing tn,
actual state Of things abroad. Last year, in sh,
face Of an unexampled harvest, prices Of bread
stuiis in this country remained high, and sucl
quanstties a. were Within toleraSle easy reach o
the scabosrd found q ready market all throughou
the season. True, there remained as the opening
OF this Spring, in spite ,of the enormous ex
ports, large surplus fron the old crop. in man,
dissrcts OF country, amounting 10 one. half oftht
yield; but inordinary times the super6uous store,
would have been fabulously great England had
in 1884, perhaps, the most deplorably bad bar
vest ever known, certainly the worst of the
past fifty years. Her usual importation Of for
eign grain for actual home consumption, beyond
what she can possibly raise with all the aids Of
modern agricultural science, is about 40, 600 600
OF bushels; but from September l, 1855 IA An
gust u, 1851, they amounted to the enormous
sum OF "a 900. 900 bushels, or abou; three bush.
els for every inhabitant of Great Britain. For
this supply Of the staff of lite she has exported
gold, or its equivalent, to the amount Of &6O..
900, 600 or $50. O0O, 900. of which nearly or
quite $50. 100000 have come to this country
Since the first Of January our exports Of bread.
studs have been at about the rate of d. OOO. 900
worth week; they sometimes reaching 40 high
a. eS,OOO,O 900, and sometimes falling trifle
short. Meanwhile We are importing not more
than one third OF our usual quantity Of foreign
wares aud merchandise. and the tons anomalous
state OF things has arrived, Of an uninterrupted
accumulation Of wealth in the midst of an ex.
tensive internecine war. We are now upon the
threshold Of 1869, and what are the prospects
OF our farmers! Our Wheat crop, taking the
whole country through, is good; perhaps quite
up to the average; the O,t harvest has been fine;
and the Indian Corn crop wonderfully so. Sup
posing that our usual aggregate crop Of Indian
Corn 10 9OO, 0OO, 900 bushels, we could not have
harvested less than /, 100 OOO, 900 bushels in
1850, and must have at least LOCO, 600, 400 in
1851. That considerable portion of this is in
the rebeilious States and hence cut off from the
great market OF Europe, is true; but the South
was never an exporter to a 1.-THE of the extent
OF the North, and all that she has raised will be
wanted 80 feed the vast armies she has levied for
her traitorOus war upon the General Govern.
ment. 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 accounts from abroad,
through that most excellent and Trustworthy
journal, the Mark Lane Express, show probable
deficiency in Great Britain Of at least g. OOO, 900
bushels of grain; and English grain buyers are
exhorted to put their orders into the markets Of
the world at the earliest opportunity, else it will
be too late, and the British working classes will
be subjected to the terrible possibilities of a
famine. In France, now that concealment is
rendered impossible from the receipt of immense
orders for breadstuffs in this market, the most
deplorable condition Of things is manifested
The crops have been so very short that there are
grave apprehensions of famine, and the peasants
and so,uriers. always half starved, are now in
far worse than their usual plight. With
prescience and good sense that the English Gov
eminent would have done well tc initiate the
French authorities have taken the matter into
their hands, aud, through special agents and the
usual official channels, ordered immense Quanti-
ties OF food at such prices as to shut English
buyers out of the European grain markets, at
least TOR the present France it is said, will
require an Importation of $4,000, 900 bushels;
quantity which, as the Mark Lane Express truly
observes, lis enormous for country which has,
for the last two or three years, been an exporter
of wheat and -four" This, with the prospective
requirements OF the English market, will amount
to ni,e thousand cdrgoes Of $1,000 bushels each,
an unheard Of and impossible quantity, if We are
to judge of the present exporting power iths
neighborng nations by the past. Such, fowev.
er Is the present state of the two countries,
without taking into account Spain, Belgium and
which will all be buyers, ss well as
France and England"
Under this wonderful state of circumstances,
why should not the farmers of the loyal North
DC of good cheer, and Use every exertion to save
their crops in good condition, and get them to
market. With all this foreign demand, howev
er, there is no chance, il seems to ns for wheat
10 rise to 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, especial.
y upon US, for the actual food of their
peoples, is our greatest safe guard against any
violation of their neutrality. The greed of gain
might make Manchester politicians disposed to
have the British Government break our block.
ade, and grasping ambition urge the French EN-.
peror to take our rebellious States under the
wing Of his eagle; but SO long as the two coun-
tries are in actual want of our Illinois corn AMI
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 present.
and it is impossible but that the people of the
two nations should have good fellowship with
and respect for each other, whatever designing
English politicians and aristocrats may assert
Let US rejoice that there is something to prevent
calamity so direful to both as conflict would
be- New York Tribune