Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-18
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of Judge Robertson, of Louisiana, has re-
Gently made an elaborate report upon, the
resources OF that State. Its most interest
Ing feature. Is Che expressed conviction that
louisiana Is peculiarly adapted 10 the cul-
tivatioh of wheat. He says that care should
be taken in the selection Of seeds, and adds
"Our seed should come frGn Missouri,
Tennessee or Texas. The Mediterranean
varieties would suit us best, perhaps. Wheat
with as should be planted In September,
October or November. It is a beautiful
season for preparing the ground. - It may
then be reaped in the last half of April and
May, time usually selected for making
brick, on account of its fair weather. The
daily quotations show that Southern flour,
raised in Missouri, Tennessee and Virginia
brings from three TO five dollars more per
barrel tiian the best New York Genesee
flour. Louisiana and Texas -four is far SUI
perior TO the Tennessee, Virginia or Mis-
souri,, owing to the superior dryness, and
the fact that it contains, more gluten and
does not ferment so easily. Southern flour
makes better dough and maccaroni than
Northern or Western flour; it is better
adapted for transportation over the sea, and
keeps better in the tropics. 1t is, therefore
the flour that is sought after for Brazil
Central America. Mexico and the West In
dia markets, which are at our doors.
IA barrel of strictly Southern -four will
make twenty pounds more bread than Illi-
nOis flour, because, being so much drier, it
takes up more water in making up. In
addition to this vast superiority OF our
grain, we have other advantages over the
Western States in grain growing, Our eli-
mate advances the crop so rapidly that we
| can cut our wheat six weeks before a scythe
is put into the fields of illinois,; and being
so near the gulf, we avoid the delays in
shipping and the long transportation, the
cost of which consumes nearly one-half of
1t e.
tages, the superior quality of the -four, the
earlier harvest, and the cheap and easy
shipment, enable us absolutely to fOrestall
| the West in the foreign demand, which is
now about 40 100000 of bushels annually,
and is rapidly increasing, and also in the
Atlantic seaboard trade. 80 -.....,. 80
Massachusetts, it is calculated, raises
1 not more than one months supply of flour
for her vast population. New York not
six months supply, for her population,
| and the other Atlantic States in like pro-
portion. This vast deficit is now supplied
| by the Western States, and the trade has
enriched the West, and has built railroads
in every direction to carry toward the East
the gold producing grain. We can, If we
choose, have monopoly of this immense
trade, and the time may not be far distant
| When. in the dispensatiOn of Providence,
the West, which contributed, so largely tc
the uprooting of our .servile system and
the destruction of our property, will finG
that she has forced US into rivalry agains
which she canDot compete, and that SHE
will have to draw not only for supplies o.
cotton, sugar and rice. but even her bread
stnffs from the South" ff.,
Drifting Towards RePudiatiOD
General Halpine, of the Neu York Citizen
has recently put forth a lei ter, purpOrtins
to give conversations of the President or
the subject of the national debt, in which
Mr.. johnson is said to have ventilated hi:
ideas on the probability of an antago
nistie feeling ultimately growing up in th'
West and other parts of the country agains
q mOneyed aristocracy in the North. owner
of the national untaxed bonds. What wa
recognized as the slave aristocracy having
been overthrOwn, the idea is that the spiri
which repudiated that may yet repudiat'
the national debt. or great part of it. a
while it was being negotiated gold general.
ruled at 100 per cent? premium at least
The President is made to say that. . tn
very men whose interests are most jeop.
ardized are so blind that they are epracticallI
helping to accelerate, not check. our course
in this downward direction How far Mr.
Halpine is correct in his report of the Pres
ident's views it is impossible to say, but /
Is understood that the Judiciary COMMITTEES
in the eager spirit of inquiry which nov
aetuates them, have summoned MIR. HalpiD
to testify, in the hope of getting crumi
of comfort out of the matter for the pur
1poses of impeachment. 1t is understood
Jthat the President declines, very properly
| to be held responsible for language thus at
tributed to him and published without hi
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