The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-06-19

ti'ls CITY. from correspondents who reside
near Grand Gulf, Miss. The writer says:
The river viii keep up too late to allow
anything 10 be done on the rich low lands;
and in hillAands in placesthe crops are
truly bad In some districts they seem to
be doing pretty well. The report OF great
instruction to the crops Though true in
Particular Instances, arc generally purtial;
u it were not SO, tho cotton crop would be
40 crop at all. heard to-day from Copi-
ah county, the crops are better. One gon-
tleman's oyerseer writes him that he has to
plough up a ninety. acre field, which the
s@ser saw about a week before. and it was
den, looking wcll. II s now all dead
Another planter talks seriously. of plough
ing up his entire crop and putting it. all in
TORN. Another planter was telling me
list week of d field Of very fine cotton
which he had nearly knee hi gh. no day
he isplonghing it up and replanting. The
cat-worrRs are eating up the, replanted
cotton as fast as It comcsSup. Tho ac-
couats are all unfavorable, but the above
are specimens Of the worst ~
\ The CoTToN CRop.-We have conycrs-
el with several OF our farmers lately, who
pform us that lice arc rapidly completing
he destruction Of their cotton plants. We
Row of a number who aresploughing up
tlbir fields at this late day for the purpose
oireplanting. Kosiusko (Miss) Chroni-
cls 3lst ult.
The Fort Gaines, (Ga.) Enterprise of
thdsth inst, says:
The accounts from all parts of the
colh'ry in relation to the growing crops
continue to be unfavorable. We have
latey been in'Alabama and have seen some
cotbn over there that will not without
greet change make 100 pounds to the
acre.
1hc Albany (Ga.) Patriot of the 7th
inst says:
The cotton and corn crops in this coun-
ire generally some three weeks later
th;h usual, and we now hear much COM
plant OF injuries to the cotton plant from
| lice"
IHE CoTroN CRor.-The Natchez
Co!rier Of tho lst inst says:
Nf have accounts from East Tcnncs-
see ipd North Mississippi of the 3O,h, from
Northeast Mississippi of the 26th, from
Centnl Alabama OF the 2!5lh ult., all pic
turlnf the same gloomy prospect for the
crops{-that they were much less promis.
ing tht0 last years, and perhaps the worst
Tor ten years back.
~ Visf last week TO Amite and Wilkin-
son cotnties enabled us to gather the opin-
IONS OF planters who uniformly made the
same declarations. We saw very little
cotton six inches high, and great deal not
not over three inches
Extract Of a letter received in Charles
ton. dated Beaufort (S c. June IL:
Great Complaints are made in this
neghborhood about tho prospect of this
years crop. Those have seen are very
backward, and the Cotton still dying from
the cod nights and excessive rains. The
pilarlets are still supplying the broken
Piaces,but wo cannot expect much from it.
Nly cros is as good as any have seen, but
no greaS things"
THE GHors.- TheMllelgevillc Federal
unlon OF the l1th inst. says: "From
every quarter we hear that the Cotton crop
( is backward ARd4 inferior, "A late visit 10
several Counties IN southwestern Geor-
gin, athrms tho correctness OF these re-.
ports. Every planter that we heard speak
OF the subject, admitted that his cotton was
less advanced than at the same time last
year The corn generally is middling fair.
In most OF the lower and middle counties
OF ,h's Stntc, the wheat crop is DESTROYED
or seriously injured by the rust; in the up
per counties 1t is said, it will Weld an
average harvest"
TIE CE0ps.-it would seem from tho
following extract OF letter received in
'hs city yesterday. from planter on Eds
TO island, dated the 3d inst, that the pros
poets of the growing crop Of cotton are far
from being promlsing.-.iIercdry.
The weather is much against the crops
On Friday there fell here the heaviest rain
] ever saw descend from the clouds; in n
hail hour only the tops OF the cotton plants
we're visible. in my salt lands Bugs, cold
nights, and extreme wctncss are doing us
Incalcu!ahle Injury"
Extract OF letter to tho Southern Cul.
tiva,or dated Glenn Springs SO. Ca, May
20, 1850
1T is impossible that full crop of cot.
ton can he made in this State, even should
the fall he the most favorable for its matu-
rty. The plant is too late and sickIy in
the first place, and the earth seems to hive
lost too large portion of ita vitality by the
excessive :ains and baking winds, to slim
niatc the plan, into such n rapid growth in
time to secure the usual product"
Correspondence Of Savannah Republican
MACON, JUNE 1850.
For the last three weeks I have been
travelling through the various counties of
what may be strictly termed South West
crn Georgia. and, as promised you, pro.
cccd 10 give the rcsnlt OF my observations
IN regard to the prospects Of the next cot
tnu crop.
You may rest assured that there is no
contingency, however favorable, which can
now arise, which will swell the production
OF cotton beyond the figures of the past
year.
have travelled through and conversed
freely with planters residing in Houston,
Macon, Marion, Dooly, Sumter, Lee, Stew
art, Randolph, Ea!y, Baker, and Decatur,
during the past two weeks. and find the
complaints OF bad seasons and unpromisinG
crops more universal than | have ever
known them before. In Decatur county
The weed IS more thrifty and promising
than III any other portion ofthe South West
aud even there on the first day of June.
the plant would not measure on tho rirbes,