Smyrna times., 1861-11-14
ISCELLA A N EOUS.
Good News for the Farmers

late article from the Boston Post contains
30 much practical good sense and encourage.
ment to the farmers Of the United States thai
we insert it at length:
BREAD VERSUS COTTON
VI tue English Imports duFIug the last eight
months, the United States have furnished 36A
per cent OF wheat, and 81 per cent of -four,
ano from the hgures gwen, 1t Is evident that
sas continent OF Europe IN general has ali it
can do TO take care ofitself 10 regard to bread.
Al the same time. it is a well-ascertoined fact
Tor the year to come, at all events, Europe will
take all the breadstuffs we can spare at good
price. AT thls moment there re in New York
~ to 30 large Vessels loading with grain for
Europe while the weekly figure of ports and
the kno"n conditIon OF the grain markets aud
grain supplies abroad fully sustain our general
position. Moreover, Europe will. take all we
can spare, and even then loiH hare no consider
able surplus 10 carry into next year. la all
probaslllty, therefore, we are sure of a large
foreign demand for grain for two years to
come.
And 1t we stop sending grain abroad, where
10 England to get the 3GI per cent. wheat, and
6l per cent. OF flour, Received this year from
The United States, and required iu 1862, and
perhaps In 1868! Grain : already quite high
IN Europe. Where would it stand if the Amer.
lesn supply OF three millions of bushels per
week were to be cut off or even if there toere
Hay reasonable fear Of such disGstert
We do net question that Great Britain, under
certain circumstances, could be drawn into war,
corr or no corn; but an English minister
once said to an American amba ssador, " The
United Statos can do almost anything with
England." Great Britain ueeds our bread more
than she needs our cotton.
Losing our cotton. and losing our trade, she
must have bread nevertheless and France
must have II even more than Great Britain
american affairs have already injured both
countries severely, and the worst, perhaps, has
not yet been experienced. But war would not
help them, either TO cotton or trade, and theu
knou u; while war would double the price Of
bresd to their work people, already needy and
dIscoBtented. Our position is, therefore, that
war with France or England is slmost i'm ms.
sible unless itbe declared by the United States.
whatever may be the feelings Of The Eurouean q
Governments and Newspapers,
hence, we are not alarmed by diplomatic
circulars or correspondence, and paw little re-
gard to what ignorance or credulty the Lon
don Fost may be pleased TO publish. Nay, it
seems to US that the want Of cheap bread, in
comoinatlOn with the confidence of foreign ca D.
hsilsts IN our loans and institutions, The evi.
dent sympathy OF the European people with
our national Cause, and the natural aud well
GROUNDED lear even among princes and POten-
taIes that, after all, our government is very
strong, lie growing strong, a nd may be stronges
IN this coBIest-Is quite sufficient TO preven,
even The heavy cargo OF Slidell aud Mason now
On lls way to Engl4nd from doing any sericu u.
lnjury to The county.
o. Had France and England acted as they should
nave dane, the rebellion would have been ended
hy, hhs tine, aud the rIngleaders would have
been out OF the way, either in Europe, jail
lnnailc asyl lum. OF The grave.