The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-07
Fruit and Grain Prospects.

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Strawberries have been received from Vir-
ginia, and noware arriving from Delaware and
Maryland. In a very few days we shall have
them nom New Jersey. The amount plaated
and to be marketed is larger than in any other
year, not only in the vicinity of New York, but
Of all other cities and towns in the country.
Whether they will sell at reduced price re-
mains to 'be seen. TO the grower this is an
important question. He is expecting that
prices will keep up, because a taste for fruit
has been cultivated, and has only kept
pace with increased planting, Peaches will
be in full supply. Scarcely a peach orchard
will fail to bear. In localities where this
fruit has been Abandoned, the fruit trees
that here and there remain are seen
! loaded with fruit, and even old and ap-t
parently withered branches bear their tooth
| some burdens. AS everybody likes peaches,
so that a. cultivation ofrca taste for them was
impossible, prices. will not exceed those of or
binary years. though it must be, considered
that large supplies will be needed for canning,
as only very small stock was put up last
| season.. The first arrivals are expected from
| Virginia as the orchards further South during
the war went to decay. Raspberries and other
small fruits will be abundant. Doolittles
Black Cap is growing in favor, and this year
| Will first appear in many markets. A few Of
the new varieties of blackberries will be
| offered, and those interested will be enabled
| to compare them with the Lawton, which is
| not only late, but so sour that substitute is
| greatly needed. The prospect for wheat and
| other small grain still is good, and this not
only, through the Eastern, Middle, and West
| eTn States but also through the whole South.
In some Of the Cotton States where wheat
seldom was sown they have many nice fields,
| which form rare and beautiful sight.
| Regarding corn, the prospect at present, par
| ticularly in the West, is not very bright. In
the Eastern and Middle States all the uplands
intended for corn, and all the valleyssif suAi-
| GENTLY dry, have been planted within the last
ten days, and, as the weather is warm, the
shoots are rapidly appearing above ground.
| The weather is still wet. In the West large
| fields are unploughed because they lay low.
\ In other sections, where planting was done
7 early, so much cold weather followed that
/ great deal of seed rotted, and replanting is
unavoidable. Where ground was ploughed in
the fall and ridged up the seed is sound, and
these few days of warm weather are bringing
1t up. Still, large breadth remains un-
| planted, and only dry weather will permit the
farmer to work. AS the days now are long
and the sun very hot, ground will dry rapidly,
and If corn is planted any time within two
weeks, and an average season follow, we can
have good crop yet; for in the great corn
region the variety planted will mature in
from ninety to hundred days.
under Which Greeley, Republicans.
From The World
When the Constitutional Convention returrs
from burying Mr.. Hiscock and praising him to
its task of framing constitution for the State
ofNew York, its members the majority at any
rate, will have to consider whether they will
follow, in the discharge of their duties to their
party and their State, the example of the
author of a recent letter to the Union League
Club, or that of somewhat obstreperous and
forth-putting member from Westchester by
the name of Greeley. The vigorous epistola-
rian who rated his duty to his country, to the
laws, and to himself as a magnanimous patriot
so much more highly than his duty as a mem
Der of the Republican party and of the Loyal
League Club, sets up one standard of action.
The member at large from Westchester, who
admits with reluctance that half the people of
New York are Democrats, but is quite sure
that the Republicans have majority in the
Constitutional Convention, wants them to
''assume the job" and proposes himself to
boss it, sets up quite another standard of duty.
| 1t is for the Republican members to make
their choice. They cannot serve these two
masters. They must either be partisans or
they must be patriots Under which Greeley,
Republicans Greeley of Westchester, or
OGt6l6y VI OulOn pQudIt
Ii they prefer to be patriots they will refuse
again to 60 into a party caucus. They will
bring to the debates OF the Convention and of
the committee rooms their best attention and
intelligence, not surrendered, transferred,
concluded judgment. They will seek to make
the supreme law under which we must all
live the best law for all; and, since they them
selves are no more citizens than their bitterest
political opponents, they will seek to frame
law as acceptable to those opponents as to
themselves. They will not confound the
| struggles of the stump with the debates of
| law-tIaming convention, nor imagine that
| party platforms are to be the substructure of
| a constitution. They will welcome rather than
| repulse the suggestions of the minority, and
| prefer coneiiating their support of the final
! draft above enduring their defeat in a contest
| over its adoption. They will conclude
| nothing in caucus, hardly those things for
| which a caucus would vote unanimously
| They will debate everything freely and fairly,
| and with determination to make the minority
| morally as responsible for the Constitution as
| they themselves are to be. They will use
| their intellectual power first, their numerical
power last, esteeming a victory where votes
| are weighed rather than counted better suited
| to the character of a Constitutional COnven-
| tiou. They will esteem the duty which they
| owe to their party to be only that, in such a
| body, which they owe to their fellow citizens
| and the State and not as being more bounden
| duty to the men who voted for themselves
| than the men who voted for their opponents.
| because, in free Governments political con-
| tests ought to be waged upon and above their
| constitutions. ''Her Majesty's Government"
| and 'Her Majesty's Opposition," are not
| e,or ,,broeae than we can understand and