The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-11-26

large they are likely to be. The latest
accounts from abroad, through that most
excellent and trustworthy journal, the
Mark Lane Express, show probably de-
fciency in Great Britain of at least g.,
100000 bushels of grain and English
grain buyers are exhorted to put their
orders into the markets of the world a;
the earliest opportunity, else it will be
too late, and the British working classes
will be subjected to the terrible possibil-
tiles Of a famine. In France, now that
the concealment is rendered impossible
from the receipt of immense orders for
breadstutfs in this markets, the most de-
| plorabld 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
half-starved, are now in far worse than
usual plight. With aprescience and good
sense that the English Government
would have done we'll to initiate, the
French authorities have taken the mat
ter into their own hands, and through
special agents and the usual official chan
nels, ordered immense quantities of food
at such prices as to shut English buyers
out of the European grain markets, a.
least for the present. France, it is said,
will require an importation Of 10000
900 bushels a quantity which, as the
Mark Lane Express truly observes, "is
enormous for country which has, for
the last two or three years, been an ex-
porter Of wheat and -four" This, with
the prospective requirement of the Eng
lish market, will amount to nine thou
sand cargoes of 10000 bushels each,
"an unheard-of and impossible quaint
ty, five are TO Judge o: the present ex-
porting power of the neighboring nations
by the past. Such, however, is the pres
ent state Of the two countries, without
taking into the 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 good cheer, and
use every exertion to save their crops IN
good condition, and get them to market :?
With all this foreign demand, however
there 10 no chance, il seems to Us, for
wheat to rise TO very unusual and ex
orbitant price but on the other hand,
there is no likelihood of its abating any
from lis present value.
Politically considered, the dependence
of France and England on foreign ma.
tions, especially ou US, for the actual
food Of their people, is our greatest safe,
guard against any violation of their neu.
trality. The greed Of gain might make
Manchester politicians disposed TO have
ade, and grasping ambition urge the
French Emperor TO take our rebellious
States under the wing of his eagle, but so
long as the two countries are in actual
want OF our Illinois corn, and Ohio wheat,
thele is small chance Of their rising in
arms against us. The mutual depen.
dence of America and England, always
apparent, was never so easy of demon.
station as at the present; and il is impos-
sible but that the people Of the two ma.
tions should have good fellowship with
and respect for each other. whatever de
signing English politicians and aris,o.
Gratis may assert. Let us rejoice that
there is something TO prevent a calamity
SD direful TO both as conflict would be
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