Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1863-03-26
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The Northern papers aud politicians have been
considerably alarmed at the grumbling of the
West, as viii be seen by the following from q
late nuruber Of the New York Herald. Bat
the. paper gives very good reasons for the
grumbing:
Already tlIe patriotism of the States of the
Northwest has been severely tested. We Of the
Atlantic States can hsrdly appreciate their situ-
alton Taey are purely agricultural popula-
ton. We are 2 commercial, trading and man.
ufaetHriag people. We a-e making money by
the war This is particularly true Of the New
England States. The people Of the Northwest
have no present compensation whatever for their
loss of bloed and treasure. On the contrary.
they are loosiug money SO rapidly that if the
war cOntinues long they will be beggsred
Those States, bordering as they do, upon
the upper Mississippi or its tributaries, sent
agricultural produce down the Father of Waters
10 the plantations bordering on the lower Mis-
sissippi and is tributsries-corn, wheat, -four,
hogs. bacon, hams, beeyes, butter, eggs, horses
and mules. for which in return they received
either sugar or nolasses, or the gold poured into
the planters Golfers from every nation Of Eu-
rome Not that the Southern States in the valley
of the Mississippi could not have raised them
selves, as they DO now, the products sold them
by The Northwest but that i was more prot able
10 grow cotton. and that the transportation
down the Mississippi of ceresls and animals
was 20 cheap and convenient, tie navigation
berg open at ali seasons OF the year. Thus the
Dasuie Of the Northwest fed and supplied with
mules, three millions cf negroes employed in
raj ing the great Southern staPles-sugar, rice,
tobacco and cotton, bat particularly the last
named product Before the war the price Of q
mule ~ illinois was one hundred aud twenty
five dollars in gold. At present, notwithBtand-
ing the greGt demand foT the animal in our army,
the price is only sixty dollars in deprecated
currency. The same is true Of other sgricultu-
raj products. A late number Of a Minnesota
journal quotes prices there as fjllows: Flour,
four dollsrs per barrel; corn forty five cents per
bushel hogs three dollars and twenty-five cents
per bundled; hams four cents per pound; butter,
len cents per pound; eggs, eight cents per dozen,
and other articles equity low. In the river
counties Of lows beef Is only two dollars and
fffy cents per hundred, OF at the rate Of two
snd half cents per pound, and in the same
State last winter, not hundred miles from the
Mississippi, pork was sold dressed at less than
a dollar per hundred. 1t is certainly not
cheaper now What is the cause Of this while
the same articles are 50 high in New York Il
Is the increased cost of Taiiroed transportation
0wing to the closing of the Mississippi by the
blockade, the fTeigbts offered to the railroads ex
eeed their capacity, and the directors have
enormously increased Il cir rates. Flour, which
used to be transported from ths towns on the
Mississippi BY railroad through to New York at
ninety cents per barrel, now costs to move it
moEa than thrice the sum and as for corn it
costs the price of Eve bushels to send one to
market
i wiz be impossible for tie Western farmers
to stand this very longs for, hard as is their
case, how much harder would it hsvs been had
rot the demand for our bresdssufs In Europe
been so gfest during the last two years. But as
this arose from the accident Of short crops, It Is
not TO be depended on hereafter, and the pros-
pects for the agricHtugal interest of the North
west, in the event Of the continuance Of the war,
are gloomy in the extrems. This ac-
counts for the vehsmence with which the
mismanaeement Of the war is sssailed by
nearly sii sections Of politicians in that region.
il also explains the b0ldness Of the copperheads
here, who are growing more numerous snd more
dangerous every hour, and are loudly calling
for The stoppsge Of the wsr These men are
not in q majoIi.y at presents but, like the radi.
cals u the Republican party, they may soon
force forward with them men Of mors moderate
coansels, and the consequences may be most
J depleIable.