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is State, have heretofore manufactured about three hundred thousand bushels a year. Owing to the high freights on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, this supply has nearly all gone off in wagons through the country, and upon boats down the Holston river. Several hundred thousand additional bushels would have been manufactured for the Eastern market, but for the railroad freights, which brought the price in Petersburg and Richmond up to a figure too high for competition with the foreign arti The blockade may remove this difficulty and preparations have been completed for increasing the annual supply produced at those works by about three hundred thousand bushels, which will all come East, unless the cheaper transportation on the Holsten river than on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, and the strength of the demand in the West, shall direct it all in the opposite direction. At all events, from this source alone will 300,000 bushels of the 778,000 deficiency be supplied to the S