The national Republican., 1861-10-25
TuADE, CROPS, &c.

4 Since the middle Of August, the exports al
New York city have been gaining upon the
imports, the gain during the month of Sep
tember amounting to upwards Of four millions
Of dollars. On the 18th instant, the exports
{ for the year had at length come to exceed the
imports, the aggregates being lin round num-
bers) one hundred and three millions Of ex-
ports against one hundred and two millions Of
imports. The appearances are, that, at the end
of the year, this balance Of imports will be
come large one.
The sale of breadstuffs TO foreigners seems
to be limited only by our means of bringing
them to the seaboard, and of shipping them
across the Atlantic.
Great Britain, which ordinarily imports forty
millions of bushels of cereals, imported eighty.
four millions during the year ending on the
3l-t Of last August, and will need, 1t is said,
sixty-four millions (hfty per cent more than
the ordinary demand) during the year to end
on the 3lst of August next.
But We have now new customer, France
ordinarily raising her own breadstutfs and fre
quently an exporter, but it is believed, needing
the enormous amount of eighty millions o
bushels to meet the deficiency Of this year
harvest. Here is an aggregate expected de
mand from France and Great Britain Of IA.
millions, equal, as an English paper expresse
it, TO " nine thousand cargoes of 16 900 bushe
each,' to be supplied, and chiefly from Russia
and America
What the course Of prices may be in ouI
markets, is. of course, uncertain but Il Is clear
that our farmers must yield large proper
tional share Of the profits, TO the forwarding
lines from the interior to the seabo ard, for the
benefit of ireighters and railroads. A Chicago
paper said recently, that the cost Of getting q
bushel of corn to Liverpool, was seven timei
the price paid for it to the Illinois farmer. The
proportion is not so bad, with wheat and -four
bu, rates have naturally been raised, with tn,
rush OF breadstuffs to the seaboard. We hav,
had II stated to US, for example, that the in
crease from the lowest rates, between Chcag,
and this city, has been thirty. one cents OF
every hundred pounds If corn, and en- fpu
10 cents per barrel, the present rate being l6t
cents per barrel.
Ii happens most inopportunely at this periOt
Of extraordinary movement of breadstuffs from
the West, that the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road remains closed Nearly the whole line o
it is already in our possession. The part tha
is not so, between Harper's Ferry and Cum
berlaud, may now easily be taken possession
of, and the indications are that the Govern
ment Is moving with that object in view. Tn
cros. ing of the Potomac by General Banks /
decisive step in that direction. With Lee.
burg and Loudoun county n the hands of tb
national troops, the enemy cannot remain Ion,
in the northern part of the Valley Of Virginia
The great export of breadstuffs will recon
pense to the shipping interest the loss of cottol
freights. Vessels navigating the Atlantic will
be fully employed during the winter in NOV
ing grain, even il not single bale of cottol
reaches our seaports. And in the end, if tn
export Of two crops Of cotton is thrown into
single year, the probabilities are that freight
will run up to figure, which will ndemnif
the owners of navigation for all their losses b
this war.