Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1866-03-12
THE CROPS.

All our Eastern city exchanges come to
us jubilant with promise and assurance Of
lively business times the present Spring
and coming Summer. Their calculations,
based on an increased number Of laborers,
afforded through the cessation Of the civil
war, seem reasonable and certain, so for
Is farm products are concerned. The
wheat crop, alone, is counted at not less
than two million OF bushels over the har-
vest of Go. A. large section of the every
West" as Chicago papers term it, is to be
opened to quick and comparatively cheap
access and transportation, during the next
few months. The latest approved modes
of harvesting the cereals will be adopted
this year by thousands of husbandmen
who las, year had not the means or dis
position to procure the grain-saving and
speedily working machinery for cultivated
field and for barn service. And in the
estimate for increased yield in the Union
Of the staples. the stats" of life, there
might and should be considered the pro-
duct of Southern lands. now devoted in a
much greater ratio than ever before to
corn and oat seeding. We do not under
stand directly, or infer, that the Southern
States crop is summed in the arithmetic
of expectation. set up by our Atlantic ex-
changes.
The question of protective tariff bids fair
to come up as al agi,ated and main ques-
ton in party politics. Indeed, if Con-
gress and the President had not disagreed
on the Reconstruction plan, the tariff
topic would have become by this time the
grand subjec, of discussion in the House
of Representatives. The New York Tf-
5wne il out as furious as ever before, on
this matter Of protection /; - and now the
Western men are alternately appealed to
favor protection. and assumed to be in
anxious desire for u heavy deal o. importa-
ton duties on foreign manufactures. Cot
ton and wooden factories are springing up
all over the great West and citizens Of
Ohio, Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Wisconsin.
Michigan and Missouri are represented as
jealous for the permanent and successful
operation of these establishments Of or
ganized. finishing industry. There can be
little doubt Of the ability Of each one Of
the States mentioned. within a short time
in the future. to provide their inhabitants
with &" store clothes" by the skill OF work.
men in home factories; and thus the need
for n circle transportation and barter to
Eastern States or Europe will be largely
lessened. The bushel of wheat raised in
Illinois will not only there be ground to
nutritious powder, but the -four itself will
be sold TO n near neighbor consumer, for
satinet. shee,ing and calico. All these are
tending toward the constituting of thor
oughly independent-commercially speak
ing-communities, in each OF the North
ern Mississippi. and the Lake States. L,
seems to US that. in the manner indicated,
the protective tariff" will presently be
put in practical operation by the adjacent
supplies Of domestic mills.
While grains are being raised 10 a con
siderably increased extent in the South,
what have heretofore been considered al.
most exclusively Southern crops, are put
in by Northern tillers with confidence Of
handsome returns. Tobacco, which was
experimenta)ly planted in some Of the
New England States ten years ago. is now
a "staple" OF Northern commerce, and is a
weed of common growth and nurturein the
section OF country heretofore designated.
Every farmer, Of enterprise, and attached
to the vice of the narcotic" fills his own
pipe, and treats TO cheroots, as well as
peach brandy, Of personal manufacture.
No, merely the necc,saries, but also the
luxuries of life, are being gathered and
made in a majority of rural homesteads,
above Mason s Dixon's line.
The ruinous rates Of freight charges on
Railroads have long since inaugura,cd the
plan Of home-supply Of all articles we
have enumerated. Especially il this fact
noted, in connection with the sale Of
wheat. But by whatever causes as prin-
cipal. or secondary, the results announced
have been or are being hastily arrived at,
the consequences are worthy of all con-
graduation for positive benefits at n c
realized by our brethren east of the Rocky
Mountains, and for example and ~counsel's
sake to US. on the Pacific side of the conti-
nen,. True Sta,rs-right feeling is mani
tested properly enough in this way the
endcavor Of citizens Of each Common
wealth to gather directly, within their own
boundaries, 30 much of the grand physi-
cal needs from the soil as can be economic
cally obtained. The material indepen-
dence" such a course, systematically and
VIGOROUSLY adopted, will ensure. will not
interfere with the closeness or intimacy Of
our social or political relations. On the
contrary, i, is obvious we might proceed
to argue, such a determined and pursued
plan would tend to greater harmony
among the Federal Representatives Of the
Nation, and among the people Of the
Union, generally, as well.
MoDrFYISG.-The Virginia Enterprise
appears to think that the President has
heard how it has abused him and modified
his position. 1, says "if he is sorry for