The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-17

prosperity. May she still go and progress untii
all her resources are developed, which, when
done, will secure to her n position very nr above
any of the manufacturing States Of the North.
Yours, &C., 4s1 s r. G. 5.
TIE CorroN Cnor-We have during the week,
been publishing condensed extracts from the An
nual Circulars Of some of principal factors and
Annual Reviews, from different sources, of the
general trade and commerce of this city and Mo-
bile, which are usually issued on the close OF the
commercial year, which ended on the 3lst ult.,-
The whole of these will be embodied in our Week
ly of to-day and will form large mass of mos
valuable and interesting information on the sub
ject.
AS regards the prospects and probable produc-
ton Of the growing crop, opinions are very vari-
GUS, and we have heard estimates made with great
confidence, ranging down as low of 900 900, and
up as high as 2,400 900 bales. We consider all
Of them, however, mere estimates, for 1t is be-
yond the wit of man to predict, at this time, with
any degree Of correctness, what the result will be,
as it will depend upon contingencies, which can
neither be forseen, promoted nor prevented
& There is, however, one circumstance connected
with the growing crop, which may have an unfa-
vorable effect on the production, and that Is, the
admitted fact by all parties, that the crop is sew
eral weeks later than last season. The loss OF TWO
or three weeks of the best portion OF the picking
season is matter Of much Importance, as 1t ma
terialy increases the dangers Of the crop, and is
on the present occasion one of the principal rea-
sons why confidence cannot be placed IN the esti-
mates which has been made on the subject. The
low crop party place much dependence on this cir
cumstance, and the probable greater injury from
early frosts, whilst the opposite side are lookiDg
forward and basing their estimates on good pick
ing season. II LOB
The saying that "we cannot tell who will be
Governor until after the election, = we think nigh
very properly be changed into Hwe cannot tel
what the crops will be until after it is picked, I" fol
the result Of the latter is much more uncertain
than that Of the ballot box.-N. 0. Bulletin
REPoRTERs LOOKING UP-For the informa-
ton of our American reporters we ought t.
state, that three of the judges now on the En-
glish bench, commenced life as reporters for the
public press--Lord Chief Justice Campbell, who
was long engaged on the Morning Chronicle;
Mr. Justice Talfourd, who was reporter for the
Times and Mr. Baron Anderson, whose ready
wit and keen discrimination were asconspicuous
i'm the gallery of the House of Commons as they
now are on the bench We hope this encourag-
ing prospect will animate our reporters to new
efforts in their useful vocation.-NoaRs Times.
EPIsToLARY FoRGERy.-The letter which has
gone the round of the newspapers, purporting
to be addressed by Kossuth to General Cass,
turns out to be another fabrication. We be-
leve this to be the third forgery in the name of
the Hungarian patriot that has gained an ex-
tensive circulation. Such miserable hoaxers de-
serve chastsement Kossuth's poetical style
appears-as is usual with orignality-to have
awakened the initiative faculties OF literary aspi-
rants, but very little discrimination was want
ing to detect the imposition in the case of this
letter published in the Washington @Union,'' as
received by General Cass.-N Y. Times.
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SOUTHERN RIcHrs ASSOCIATIONS ichland Dis
triet.-We, the people of Richland district, Go
now solemnly declare that we are ready, with all
the means the God of nature has given us, to re-
sist all encroachments by the Government of the
United States upon the rights, the interests, or
the honor of the slaveholding States of this
Union and to the full effect of this declaration
we pledge ourselves, whenever the constituted au-
thorities Of South Carolina may deem it proper
and expedient to demand it's execution-ETfrdct
from resolutions adopted th
Prssident-Col. WADE HAMPTON.
Wee Presidenis--Christisn p. Bookter, Joel
Adams, sr, w. G.. Preston, K. III. GOODWIN,
VIM. Hopkins, John English
z Recording Secretay--W. B. Johnston.
Corresponding Secrstaries--W b. Carlisle, A.
III. Porcher.
rovnc;, If Safsfu. -Colu,n5ia-- F. DeSaus-
s,re a RI GLADDEN., Jas. v. Lyles, John ,.
Scott. DIR w Reynolds, Msxcy Gregg, A. y
TsyE Peter Gaffney, James u Adams, John
N'' Garner, Miil-wm. Seal, Howell Edmonds,
Davi,' Bor-F. Lykes, Matthew R. Howell,
TSrds JNA-Jsmes Douglas, Harmon Coon,
Bookter'.-Dr. Thomas r. Center, Daniel d.
F.nlsy, Adam F. DuBard.