The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-11-18

when the boats arrived Win the kltleu ana
wounded.
THE AVALANCHE ON THE slULATTO HANLGN.
The Avalanche has an article upon Han
nibal Hamlin, the mulatto Vice President
Of the North" and his sympathy with his
Southern negro brethren. We extract the
following rich item from the article re-
ferred to:
We have only been able to account for
the remarkable lukewarmness of HANNIBAL
HAML1N in regard to this abolition war by
attributing it TO the general distrust of
Abolition sincerity entertained by bis race.
18th a decided infusion of African blood
in bis veins fact never yet successfully
controverted, we may suppose that he shares
the sentiments and feelings OF his African
kin. Neither is it improbable that in
stinctive sense of the incongruity and inn
propriety of an individual of negro ex-
traction ruling over white people induces
his retcence and modesty. Every well-bred
negro or muiatto would shrink from sucn
an anomalous position as unoecoming and
HAKNIBAL may be supposed to be well-bred,
having received an education superior to
that usually bestowed on free mu.attoes.
COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS.
In the Avalanche, we find IN article from
the New Orleans Crescent Of the 9th inst.
1t shows whittier the confederacy is drifting
and we publish 1t In full
Passing by the talk on battles and dis
ruptions in the army, We coae to the stead
lily Increasing scarcity OF 0readstuffs aud
other necessaries of life Even the art Gle
of rice, which is selling in Charleston aud
Savannah at p to 3 cents per pound, is
now retsiling here at II cents per pound
Ii has been ths current opinion that this
nonrishing ny.lc.e would least have been
restrained IRON advancing to famine prices.
1t would be supported that an interchange
of commodities would follow the political
changes; that is, the sugar of Louisiana
! would be exchanged for the rice of CARROLL
ma. Possibly such may attend the course
| of trade. The system of credit, which bas
| been in vogue for years, appears to have
/ been struck down, wholly repudiated-
| Therefore, unless rice is forwarded hither
on Carolina account, we may not have q
| fierce this season. According to returns
| before us, the crop of rice of LOuIslanR for
! 1860 was 29, 502 barrels. The Charleston
/ able Of exports says there we're shipped
! from that port for New Orleans, between
the LIST September, 81, and the 3Ist Octo-
! Der, 1861, 1.-TWO months) one thousand and
tweuty-siz tierces of rice. Has this guam
tity been received here2 Qta sa6es We
have merely to say that II cents for rice
for family use, and at the corner groceries
say about / cents which the public pay,
are rather high prices. Irish potatoes Tex
cuse the bully which might be raised in
almost any quantity on our prolific soil, are
selling at one cent. b, or about 81 so
per busbel. Corn has now advanced to
81 rs 10 ST. 35 per bushel, and We have
for months past been reading ot the great
est crop Of corn and wheat ever known
| We Judge the country ia Roundantly sup
piled, and that farmers and rasers intend to
! hold on and starve US out here 10 the Crese
cent City. If planters have these heavy
yields secured, we urge them to send a
share to market Flour "a advancing to
famine figures. Each succeeding day is
attended with an advante q! 25 cents or
more per barrel.
Other articles-such as soap, candles,
starch--are advancing from day to day
/ Soap, candle and starch factories could be
made profitable Soap which could be
made for to cents pei lb., is held at 30
to 30 cents. Starch, another necessary ar
ticle, commands 40 cents per h.; in fact,
the supply of this article is running 80 short
that shirt collars viii have to follow a wilt
ed cabbage leaf. For candles the poor
folks have TO pay Is to 20 cents each at the
corner grocery. Is it not time that some of
our leading citizens should take action and
move in the establishment of manufactures
for these and other articles 1t requires
but very little capital, IF dealers in scrip,
stocks, and paper ever expect to confer any
good on the country, nov is the accepted
time. But we fancy if the war should be
! brought to close, many of our mOneyed
citizens would leave as and go northward,
or to Europe, and our good city would be a
secondary thought among them.
1t is asked what has forced up the price
of cotton seed oil. Six or seven months
ago it was selling at from SO to e5 cents
per gsllon-now it is held at from 81 80 to
So and So so. There is no scarcity of cot
ton seed in the country-in fact, it is g drug
where planters have ginned their cotton
Are there any solid reason for an advance
Of 200 per cent, simply for the cost of trans
muting the seed into oilP
The prices current ia Memphis are al
most fabulous in the land of plenty. We
quote as follows; Corn 81 90; Rye 81 As
Hay s42 per ton; Flour $40 80 and ad.
vancing, as the Avalanche says, from "25Gd
6oc per barrel" whenever spectators choose
to tighten the screw; Potatoes So 90 pei
bushel; Whiskey 81 per gallon; Candles 81
@e5c per pound; Salt $40 so a sack,
Bacon 2ot925c per pound; Mess pork S45
per barrel; Lard zee; Coffee, none in market
Nails Sll a keg; Soap 22c per pound. Wood
is S6@e cord. How the poor people maj.
age to liveis problem which We confess our
selves unable to solve
The Avalanche publishes portion OF
. Adjutant Thomas report, aud is apparently
delighted with bis admission that ''uo troops
can be raised in Kentucky
The Union men, arrested in Memphis, are
not placed in comfortable prisons, or fed by
dainty hands, as has been the case with