Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1854-11-01


tlemen were appointed committee to prepare a
charter for Mutual Marine Insurance Company in
the town of Washington, with a clause empowering
said Company to purchase and hold steam tug or
steam tugs for the of the Company, and to pro-
cure the passage Of the same by the Legislature Jo
seph Potts. w. H. Willard, B. F. Havcns, George
II. Brown, ". Shaw, Jr., Jas. L. Fowle and Isaiah
Respass
The reading of the reports of committees hereto
fore appointed was dispensed WITH and it was order
ed that they be handed to the Secretary for publ
cation with the proceedings of this Convention, and
referred to the several committees now appointed
The Convention addressed by II. a Gillian,
r. l.. Myers, and w. Il. Rodrnan Esqrs.
On motion ofJon Myers, Esq., the proceedings of
this meeting ordered to be forwarded to the
different papers of the State with request that they
publish the same.
After vote of thanks to the President and Secre-
tary the Convention adjourned sine die.
JOHN BLACKWELL, Prcs't.
E. j. WARREN, Sect.
TIE CoTToS Crop. A "Merchant' has furnished
the Mobile Register the following remarks of lone
Of the closest observers of the crops the country
THE opinions which have several times express
ed to you in respect to the forthcoming cotton crop
of Alabama, still unchanged. | understand there
are few very good crops the Black Warrior,
ten fifteen miles from this place. but it is gencr
ally conceded that the crop the low lands will
not exceed two-thirds that Of 1852 or 1858. On tn
sandy uplands am sure it will not turn. off above
onc-half
THE crops on the black, or lime lands, as they
are Familiarity called, are said to be more unequal
than unusual Some, very good, others very indif
erentthe average falling quite below the crops of
1852 and 1858.
"A friend mine, of reliable Judgment, now plan
ting in Marengo, has just returned from North Ala
bama, where he is we'll acquainted, reports the Cot
ton crop in the Tennessee Valley to be about two
thirds of last year, and says the crop is in pro-
portion short.
''In Middle Alabama the forward corn has yield
ed fair average, while that planted late has pro-
duced but little.
hogs in Alabama at this time. The most of them
will be slaughtered though perhaps the scarcity of
will prevent them from being iatted we'll
they should be-
as it impossible that the incoming crop of the
United States exceed twenty-fiv hundred thou
sand bales? The loss from storms and heavy rains
has been very great yet it is impossible to estimate
this with any degree of cXactncss.
1.-The cotton would be less affected by frost at
this time than any previous year remember to have
observed In 1851 the drought partial, while
contiguous districts and even plantations were Wis
tied by plentiful showers. In 1882 the spring and
summer were unusually favorable-neither too wet
too dry and all the crops unusually adj
vanced and promising when the showers ceased
about the middle of August The remainder of the
summer not oeing unusually warm, and the nights
and days approXimating equality of duration, the
evaporation of the day did not greatly exceed
what returned in the night. But the drought of
this year serious in the Spring as to cause
the crops to be about three weeks more backward
than usual 1t again commenced about the 10th of
July and the summer has been about the warmest
have ever felt throughout the United States, and
the drought extenning almost over the entire
of our country If an average crop is made this
year. you may set down that cotton is proof against
heat and dry weather, rather counting both"