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High old Times for farmers.
--The St Louis Republican, speaking of the depressing effects of the war, says: "In this market potatoes cannot be given away at 6 per bushel; new corn will go down to 10c, if it can be sold at all; oats will be worth nothing; hay will be a drug, and wheat will not, in all probability, command over 35"
In Northern Illinois last year's potatoes, sound and nice, are given away.
One farmer in Whiteside county has thrown five hundred bushels of fine potatoes out to the weather, as no one would take them for cost of transportation.
An lowa paper quotes potatoes at 2; wheat, 30c; corn, 8 per bushel; butter, 7 per pound; eggs, 2 per dozen; cheese, 6 per pound; markets cull at that.
The inference from the above is, that the West feels the pressure of the blockade in a far greater ratio than the South.
The farmers have no market, and the small consumers no money to buy even at such prices.
Sale of negroes in the North.
--The annexed paragraph, which is extracted from an Illinois paper, shows what sort of sympathy is extended to free negroes in Mr. Lincoln's own State.
If the Yankees were to free all the negroes in the South, it is proba they would signalize their philanthropy by preventing their residence in the "free" North:
The Whiteside (Illinois) Sentinel publishes an official notice, under date of February 2, 1863, signed by C M. Child, J. P, to the effect that, whereas certain negroes named were, on the 5th and 6th ult., tried on "a charge of high misdemeanor, having come into this State and county, and remaining therein for ten days or more, with the evident intention of residing in this State, and were found guilty by a jury, and were each severally fined in the sum of $50," and whereas the fines and costs of suit not having been paid, the said negroes will be sold at auction, on the 19th day of February, 1863, at the Court-House of Carthage, for the