Phenix Gazette

Demand for Wheat.—We learn from the "Steubenville Herald," that, at the flourishing town of Massillon, on the Ohio canal, 68 miles from Steubenville, wheat is worth 18 cents per bushel more than it bears on the Ohio river!—

This is an important difference, indeed, and shows the new current of trade. The editor of the Herald well accounts for this advanced price at Massillon. The grain passes to Rochester, by the lake and by the canals, where it is manufactured, and the flour is sent to Canada; from thence it passes, in British vessels, to the British West India Islands, free of duty: but if forwarded to New York, and thence shipped in American vessels to the said Islands, it would pay a duty of $1 33 per barrel—or, in other words, says the editor, "flour shipped at Montreal, for the British West Indies, has an advantage of $1 33 per brl over flour shipped at New Orleans for the same place. The object of the British is to give employment to their own shipping, to the exclusion of ours. This is the result of the late arrangement, about which so much has been said. And it being "an ill wind that blows no where," this wind, that blows our shipping merchants out of the trade, will blow something into the pockets of such of our farmers as can reach the canal with their wheat. It is thought by some that Congress will adopt countervailing measures.

[Niles' Reg.]