The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-09-16

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M cssapa and corn IN this Parish. win not. -
~ aaseteds Yield 00fs than uns.half crop. Thl
long ccniinued droush, and the lass rains hav'
Gused the cotton 70 shed and The corn was TOO ~
aava1ced 70 recover. We arc now having rain Il
A correspondent Of the Baton Rouge Gazette
speaks ef terrible storm which visited the lowe
part Of that Parish, on the Slh instant. He SAP
vast damage was done 70 the crops in shs inuasdi
ate vicinity. He also reets to the prevalence Of
disease called greasy 70, that tho editor say
AWsW disease to him. ~ -
OF the sugar crop the same paper has the fol
lowing:
The recent rains, that have done 70 much injury
70 cotton. have had emo efIect on the sugar cane
and It y growing finely but The drouth in the early
situated character Of the cane everywhere. for i
was 70 late before it took . vigorous growth, the
ls WILL IN hardly any case, reach the height com
mon in favorable seasons.
Mississ;ppi.--A rain storm in De Soto and
Marshall counties had damaged the crops very ~.
riously. The Woodville Republican says:
We hear much complaint Of The army and boil
worm In this region II 10 said that the caterpillar
has Appeared to great extent on the plantations
adjoining Pinckneyville.
We make the following extract from letter 70
the Memphis Enquirer. from Woodland, Miss. The
editor Of that paper says it 10 from high and au-
| thentic source. and entirely reliable:
~ have travelled extensively through Manhall
and what have seen and learned from planters.
produces the conviction in my mind that the pres.
enf will be the shortest crop, both Of corn and cot
TON, that has ever teen grown in this State. In
this neghborhood, and with few slight excep
lions, throughout the region referred to above, we
have had no rain since some time in May until the
| second week in August, and then only few light
showers, and too late 10 do any or much good, and
now we are as dry as we have been at any period
OF the season. Ihave never witnessed such gen.
eial and destructive drouth, and such ruined and
bfiGhied prospect Of crops before in all my life.
do not believe North Mississippi will make corn
enough to last till March, and many not 70 Christ
mas, nor will there, in my opinion, be cotton
enough grown to produce bread and meat for next
year, for with the failure of our corn CROP 70 our
every thing else for the support of man and beast
this is, indeed, very gloomy picture, but . true
one.
az do not believe that North Mississippi will
average more than 300 pounds of seed cotton to
the acre, and our ridge land will not make more
than $50 or 200, except in a few favored neigh
borhoods where they have had rain.''-
Fovida-The Tallahassee Sentinel says:
Cotton shows unmistakeable signs Of having
suffered great injury. The leaves are dying-the
blooms were destroyed, and it will mot probably
put out more, and great deal Of the fruit was
destroyed. The yield, we are forced to believe,
planters all say at least fifty"
Arkansas.-The Helena Shield says: "Cot.on
has been gradusily losing the good appearance i.
presented earlier in the season. and from the best
Of information, we think nothing like an average
crop will begathered.
AE0b0mS.-A correspondent Of the Mobile Tri-
bune states that not more than half crop will be
gathered in Sumpter, and the third Of a crop in
Pickens. Accounts from Shelby, and other DOR
tons Of the State, speak very unfavorably Of the
prospect.
Isras.-The Galveston Journal, Of the 4th.
says:
From what information we can gather from
different parts Of the State, we are forced to the
conclusion that not more than half crop of cotton
will be gathered in Texas this season. MANY nor.
for three OF four months, in quantities sufficient to
benefit the crops and it Is generally acknow-
lodged that the dsouth this season has NOT been
equaled for many years. past. A gentleman who
has Just returned from tour through the princi-
pal Eastern and Northeastern counties, informs us
that the prospect in those counties through which
he travelled. with few exceptions, was wofally dis
couraging"
The Lone Star, of August 80, contains . sad
account Of the drouth in several counties IN that
section it says that
In the upper part Of Washington county, and
through paris Of Burleson, Austin, Fayette and
Milam rain has not fallen in sufficient Gus mites
to wet the ground an inch in depth in four months.'
The earth in many places is cracked open two
ieet In width and hundred feet in length. One
gentleman in the northern part of the State has
lost over five hundred sheep for want Of water,
We should think that this might be remedied by
digging wells and placing in them the chain pump.
The drouth has been quite severe in this section.
but mot TO the extent that the more northern coun
lies complain Of. sq.s 81 &. -
we fear that the potato crop will fall short, but
hope that II will NOT entirely fail Should ahe fall
rains set in soon, the crop may still BE- an average
one. Houston Telegraph. 9Th.