Jasper Banner, Volume 2, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1855 — Spring Crops. [ARTICLE]

Spring Crops.

Wo find the following timely and sensible remarks on Spring Crops in the Pittsburg Gazette, and earnestly recommend them to the attentive perusal oTour numerous country reax The papers, cast and west, are calling on foe farmer to put in large crops of breadstuffs this spring. We joia in tie call. The wheat crop may bo a good and a large one, although much less is growing in Ohio than usual, and the intelligence, from Maryland, Virginia and Eastern Pennsylvania is not favorable, but even if it should be the greatest crop ever grown, that should not deter any one from covering the ground With spring crops to the fullest extent possible. The country Is fast draining of its breadstuff’s, and by harvest time there will be nothing left. This is an event of whioh we have no precedent.— Year after year we have had the enjoyment of a surplus left over, and we have not known what it is to have every nook and corner overhauled for supplies, and hungry eyes turned forward to the growing grain. An ordinary crop will not suffice to meet our own wants, much less those of other nations. We must therefore take advantage of the opening spring and appropriate every available acre to the growing of spring wheat (where seed can be obtained,) potatoes, corn, and whatever else may serve as a substitute for wheat. Coro is the great stand-by of the west, when other grains fail, and there is no lack of seed for that crop. It ought to be plarfted Fanners need not fear Jpw prices. The next year will furnish abundant demand for all that the soil can produce.— It is famine and starvation prices that we have to fear, and not a glutted market. Our country readers will hardly i need to be argued with bn this score. They have endured a winter too terrible in its experiences to warrant them in running the risk of another,, if they can av bid it. The only remedy before them is to put in plenteous spring crops. The dry fall prevented them from getting in tvheat freely, and they must not rely upon what the far west may produce to make up for their lack. Let them edver every spot they can occupy with something that will do for the sustenance of man or beast, or both. Babnum After Burns.—Barnum, with his eye ever on notabilities, from the Feejee mermaid to the Swedish Nightingale, is now after Burns, the fugitive slave, who is on his way, under escort, to Boston.— The Boston Transcript says that, in a letter, to Han..D. K. Hitchcock, of the State Senate, received onThursday mornin,. Mr. Barnum say J: •I see that Bums, the fugitive, slave, is bought and on his way to Boston. I’ll give him SSOO to go into my museum five weeks, and there tell his tale to our visitors, provided he don’t appeal elsewhere in New York, and provided that he will com*' mence in New York by the 13th of March, and as much sooner as may be.’ ---<>--- INDIAN WAR.—The St. Louis Republican, of the 18th, says that the Indians in the neighborhood of Fort Laramie appear determined to give the whites a <big fight> this spring.— They have, been unusually impudent in their stock stealing operations, and the Republican learns from private correspondence that they are certainly preparing for a fierce contest with the force which our government may send to chastise them for their thefts and murders. ---<>--- ----->The decline of Quakerism in Boston is the topic of an interesting letter in a late number of the Christian Inquirer of New York City.— The writer says that “the anomaly exists in Boston of a church without a single worshipper, residing in the city, of the faith of those who built it. It is believed that not a single Quaker now resides in Boston. Diljgent inquiry of the Friends and of others, has failed to bring to light a <living> Quaker as a resident of Boston; for several years.” ----- ----->The “Bank of Albany" at New Albany in this State, has advertised that business at that institution has closed. Outstanding notes will be redeemed at the Auditor's office.