The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-10-23
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EFsot u the War On ohio


The Cincinnati Gazette furnishes the
following evidences Of the undeyelbped
resources of the West as illustrated IN
the State Of Ohio alone. And this is one
Of the States which the leaders Of the
rebellion told US two years ago would be
ruined By tho war, and were dependent
on the Cotton States for market. Every
prediction of these false prophets has
resulted in their own shame:
In the year 1861 full 10000 men, able
bodied men, were taken from the State of
Ohio, and enrolled among the permanent
volunteers In the year 1862, we send
out 200 Exclusive Of three months men
and civil employees about the army
(Which also makes thoussnds,) Ohio has
sent 10000 men into the three years
service, a most enormous draft ON the
labor of the State. More than three
fourths Of these came from the agricul-
turaI population. Here, then, we have
near 100000 laborers taken from agricul-
ture and is adjunct arts yet We see that
The harvest of 1862 have been great
probably as great IS in any one year
and that a vast surplus will be sent from
this State to supply the wants of Europe
and the army The value of the surplus
produts of the State ioiH pay the interest on
Henational debt acc,inlulated IN tho years Of
acar. This is result which no Euro
pean statesman could have guessed at,
and which to him must appear scarcely
less remarkable than the performance Of
ALADIN's Lamp. A state not sixty years
old, sending into the field an army of
one hundred and thirty Thousand men,
and yet sending its surplus breed TO feed
the destitute population of England and
France, is an exhibition of industry and
fertility which Europe has not seen, and
no Slave State Of America has ever pro-
duceed Bot we admit that just at the
present tifoe it would hardly have. been
producnd bNt for new arts Of agriculture,
and to these we would give a moments
glance.
We need scarcely advert TO stimulus
which the war itself has given TO some
products of agriculture. Among these is
the demand for horses, and, with them,
for hay and oats. AS we do not send
these to Europe, the war demand is in
addition TO the previous export demand.
We shall speak within bounds when we
say that the war has taken horses and
mules from Ohio to the extent of three
millions of dollars in value, and feed for
them TO the amount of a million more.
Then there is the great demand for flour
! and provisions; but as we have market
/ for the latter in Europe, the war demand
for these is not so important The greet
aid to agriculture, however, lies in ano-
Their direction. An hundred thousand
agricultural labOrers are gone; how are
we 20 meet the deficiency? We have
met it chiefly by labor-saving machinery
A few years since, Mccormick came tC
Cincinnati to manufacture his reapers
The idea then was that they We're suita'
BILE only for the large prairie wheat fields
It was the only agricultural machine w
had and it was met as usual, by dOub
and hesitation. Soon after, this machine
and others appeared at the Worlds Fair
and il was pronounced a great success
Since then we have reRpers, mowers, sep
arators, sewers, drills, &c, making
great aggregate Of agricultural machin
cry, which does the work Of more thai
three told the number Of men, who with
out machinery would have been required
90 to do IT,