The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-03-07
Correspondence Of the News.
Letter from Illinois.
BARDOLpH, MUDONOuGH Co., til. :
Feb goth, 1861.

hlEND bOANDMAN-- w ll you 0ll0W
a former resident Of old Highland q
small space in your valuable paper to-
say few words concerning the interest
he has taken in pcrusing the numerous
and excellent communications which
have appeared in your columns during
the past winter Although a resident
Of remote part Of Illinois, have peru
sed with much pleasure and profit the
various articles from the pen Of "Unclo
! Ben ," "Noah, "Aunt Siss," Farmers
| Wife, ""Flora, and others whose names
do not now remember 1 have fre-
quently wished myself resident Of your
county, as I once was, that I might par
tioipato with your contributors in the
discussion of those subjects which rem
der your columns so interesting to every
farmer But this cannot be. am des-
tined to make my future home on ar
almost boundless prairie, where "Soli-
tudo is Monarch, and where the winds
beat against and howl around my home
with impetuous ferocity.
We have county papers here, to be
sure; but no Uncle Ben" "Noah, 3"
"Aunt Siss, Farmers Wife, or "Flo-
ra" to adorn their columns, from week
to week, with the rich illusions Of their
pens. How I wish in my heart I could
induce them all to "sell out their pos
sessions in Highland and come TO Nc
Donough, the boosted land Of "milk and
honey" Tn my opinion our county
could then boast Of having as good a
corps of correspondents as any other
county in the United States, if not the
very best in the whole country.
The people of this country do not
seem to realize the necessity of writing
for their county papers as "Unclo Ben,
p "Noah" and the rest of your valuable
correspondents do. They think more
about raising large crops of Corn and
Wheat, large Hogs and Cattle, than they
t do about writing or reading. They don't
seem to understand that good county
: paper adds much to the wealth and
prosperity of its readers, besides spak-
o ing volumes Of praise for the county
All come West with the determination
to get rich, and all are striving to gain
that end and hence all think they have
no time to write.
Perhaps a few items relative to the
price of grain, &c., in this part Of the
country, might prove interesting to your
readers. You are aware, I presume, of
the immense Corn crops raised in the
Sucker State" the last season. This
county had an unprecedented crop and
it is now selling at IA aud Is cents per
{ bushel, cash Farmers are indsposod
to sell at these prices Wheat is worth
from G5 to zoe. This is for Spring.
The "Secession" question is talked of
great deal here, this being the native
] Stat, If tbo PrcsiJoDt oloot S,mo oF
the Democrats hero-a-bouts are raving
like wild beast of the forest, and threat.
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; ov0'" - 'y"P","'10 more VIII" oou,
o''o,-"' ina" v"'y 10 WIN '"e NOr,n'
q" ''''''' "0 .ePoC..o""S O' 'u's
cou"'y ''""','S' a u''P"S'I,o" 10 s'D"u
~ y '"' o"'oIEo ''''O''"' "a
Dl7,I ss'7 y, '',J Do''o""T 40 o "y'O a,
which II was
nm r,..
tion of To Dan,oor., a, " 0VS 81, ,, ',o az.
5 ton, recently held at Springfield, as
lending aid and comfort to traitors, and
that their Willingness to give up all and
o'e'y ',t,us ~ s''o ooul", 9n uo,Ianu' Is
= a., = .S-l;-. a.. =,
g cratic party
! 9th. That we arc firmly opposed to
the Douglas, Cri!tenden or Kellogg com
PROMISES Ool,oy.n4 5o !,. .uIn 70 DC SuoyeT-
, Of the Frea Statos on5 im,nipcnIIg @ Jb5-
} gcrous to our future prosperity as a