New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-18

BESIDES, they nad sOWed thifu hoio '""u '"""
usual, 80 that even if all had remained at home,
fresh help would have been required. The abb
sentees were mostly farming hands, and the
scarcity of help was such that laborers were
getting 80 so day. Some refused to pay such
extortionate prices, while others had deter
mined to lose fourth of their crops, gather
ing only what they could with the help
they had, and letting the rest go. August
closes up the wheat harvest, but then fol-
lows the blowing for the next crop, and cut
ting and huskDg a corn crop of hundreds OF
millions of bushels. Those who planted it will
still be in the army, and more are going daily.
1t cannot he otherwise throughout Ohio. Indiana,
and other States. Farmers are willing to buy
at 81 so day, the labor which thousands in
this city cannot sell for shilling.
In all tho West there must be permanent
demand for just such labor as is now idle here.
Agriculture has made no pause there. The
Children's Aid Society can find homes in the
West for more children than it has means to
send away from the reekiDg tenant-houses OF
this city. This is amply because the children 60
after the homea, instead Of waiting for the
homes TO come to them. What a lesson this
fact ought 10 be to those of strong arms among
us who are now unhappiy without work. 1t
moy 60 hard with many of them to part with
old associations here, and to establish new ones
among strangers But the times are Omnous,
and a bleak Winter will soon be upon US. They
have but the single commodity of labor to sell,
which they offer in market hopelessly over
stocked They should carry it to one where no
such oyerstock exists. by starting now, while
labor is in most urgent demand, they will secure
homes FOR the Winter. Can they do half as well
by remaining here, Taking the balfprice cars
to Pittsburgh or Chicago, they can reach the
heart Of tho labor-needing region with only
few of their remaining dollars, and thence spread
ing themselves out through the country among
the farmers, they will find that a fair days
wages for a fair days work can even now be
had for thoussnds of them. Most Of them will
there establish permanent homes acquiring farms
of their own, aid will live to bless the seeming
calamity which drove them hence from idleness
and poverty to work and independence.
But ne grant that there are muItitudes who
cannot readily pack up their goods aud emigrate.
The single men should no. hesitate day, but
with those having families it may be otherwise.
Even to them, the future will be as bright with
hope as the present may be cloudcd with gloom
A most inconsderable capital will secure eighty
acres Of land, build n temporary house. and
stock the farm. Once fairly clear Of city trials
prief., temptations, and influences, there will be
no hankerings for the privilege OF paying high
rent in a mean street, and Of closing each year
as poor a. at the beginning. Such courageous
man will feel that he occupies bis own land,
lives in mia own house, aud is really monarch OF
oil no surveys. The West is crowded with
churches, schools, and highly cultivated people.
Az regards society, he loses nothing, but gains
much. The morning paper it is true, may not
reach him until day old, but still be finds it
as regular there as here. When crash like
tbs present one ovcrtskes the country. or even
minor convulsiOn sueh as we have twice wit
messed within ten years, where is he No hor-
ror of the notary to-day; no apprehension Of the
landlord Tomorrow Out Of business, he may be
said to be ont OF danger. II any one fact can
DC moro apparent thhu auolucli IL hiusb W 'HaI
Of the superior condition Of the farming interest,
not only in average times, but more particularly
now. Agriculture alone will go unsca.hed
through this disastrous ordeal. Though in multi.
tudes OF cases too humble to feed its cattle on a
thousand hills ye. it fears neither notary nor
landlord; neither do sherfs grow rich upon the
meager spoil it affords them. To break of thus,
we know, will render necessary the sundering Of
many tender ties. But weigh the present; cal.
culate the future; take courage from tho robust
fifth Of those legons Of brave foreigners who
leave ALL country ITSELF to come among us.
Not II 1.-THE Of them regret the change.
Our cities are as oyercrowded theirs. If it
were not so, why this widespread anxiety and
suffering