The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-04-28
THE CROPS.

Ck1OES. &
A correspondent writes from High Point.
Guilford county, to the Fayetteville Observer as
follows:
outstanding the late spring; and in almost every
house is to be heard the sound of loom You
know that my "roving disposition" has carried me
over the State often at this of the year and
my experience is that the wheat crop so far PROM
Uses well, and further there is much more provis-
Ions In the country than supposed. People do
not care to sell till they see how the growing crop
turns out.
The WHEAT Crop South From every quar-
ter we hear the most favorable reports of the grow
Ing wheat crop. In some parts of Alabama there
viii probably be more wheat made than for the
last ten years together The breadth of land put
In is much greater than ever known before and
the crop is uncomtnonly promising. The recent
cool dry weather, is said to favor it, and unless
| some disaster oyertakes it, the harvest will be a
bountiful one Nothing but the fell spirit fspec-
uiation can keep the price of -four up to its pre-
sent rates. At much less than half the present
| rates for wheat, the farmers will make abundant
profits on his wheat crop if it should turn out as it
now promises. In Florida hundreds of acres of cot
ton have been plowed up and are being planted in
corn
CoRN.-This indispensable cereal is selling
freely near Macon, Georgia, at 81 so per bushel,
and there is an abundance of it to be bad
Quincy, FLA, April 18th, 1S63-Asa matter
OF national interest, | am happy to be able to
inform you that, so far as Florida is concerned,
there is no cause for the apprehension of even an
| approach to famine" With corn at one dollar
per bushel, salt pork at thirty cents per pound
sugar at thirty five cents, and syrup at from one
dollar thirty to one dollar fifty per gallon, our
people will not starye, need the brave defenders
OF our soil have any apprehension about enough
to eat With propitious season, the present year
COTTON to the contrary Notwithstanding will
duplicate our supplies for the army that may be
located in our Ssate,-Cor. Of Rich Enquirer.
VERY TRUE The Charleston Mercury says
that 'men who in crisis like this, hold back grain
or provisions from the market, in hope of hereaf
ter reaping larger money profits are inficting up
on their country blow more deadly than any the
traitors hand could give. While the Govern
ment is exerting all its energies in the great emer-
gency, the people should see to it that the whole
existing resources Of the land are brought out. "
Major Samuel B. Marks, Of Montgomery, Ala,
has sold ten thousand pounds of bacon to the
poor at 70 cents per pound.
Y- The Richmond Wing concludes long article
on the currency follows:
This war has disclosed to us the important fact
that Europe must have our cotton, and tobacco and
naval stores, at any price, and it certainly is our
policy to make Europe pay for these their full aue,
including fair export duty. Let avail ourselves
of the lesson have learned, and cause those
nations which have turned deaf to our just
demands for recognition. to pay tribute in aid of
struggle for independence.
Let this policy be adopted, and the following
results will soon be realized:
l. We shall have sound currency.
2. The credit of the Confederate States will be
established on O firm basis.
3. The cost of supplies will be reduced to one
fourth of the present cost.
4. The necessity for raising salaries will be
obviated.
S. The burthens of our own people will be
diminished
g. Foreign nations will be made to bear share
of the cost of our struggle for liberty.
Z. strong motive will be presented to Europe
to aid in stopping the war.