The Daily Nashville true Whig. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1851-1855, 1855-08-27


receive the prospects Of the cotton and tobac-
CO crops in this State and its immediate vicini-
ty are very fair. There is some tendency to
rank growth in cotton, especially where the
rains have been heaviest, but we calculate the
evil will not prove an extensive one.
letter to the Savannah Republican dated
Stewart County, Ga, the 10th inst, says:
The late rains have injured the cotton crop in
this section of the country yet with the diminished
quantity of land planted in cotton, we will make
more than we did last year. The corn crop Will be
twice as much as last year, but some of the plan
tiers are already drawing Oh the present crop for
supplies, and all must soon follow suit"
The Marion, Ala, Commonwealth of Saturday
week says:
''The late rains have done serious damage to
the cotton crop in this section of the State For
the last few days it has rained almost incessantly
and if it continues much longer the cotton crop will
be entirely cut off.
The Claiborne Souherner of the same day says:
"The continuous wet weather and recent heavy
rains have injured the crops seriously The forms
on cotton fall of and fear of the under bOlls
will be caused to decay. 1t is impossible for farmers
to cure fodder, and they must have lost a great
deal"
A Commercial house in New Orleans has placed
tract of letter from one of the most reliable of its
correspondents:
Nafehez dug. IL, 1851 wrote you a few days
ago relative to turn cotton prospects had Ia
ken, which have now more emphatcaly to con-
firm, by stating the hill crops more especially have
and are suffering much from the combined effects
of both rust and rot
81 have seen lately stalks of cotton with from
fifty to one hundred bolls upon them, othirds of
L. Al I H.
weeks.
81 have not only heard, but seen much of the
rust 1t kills the plant but opens most of the full
grown bolls; but there is no vitality in the plant,
and no futher putting forth of second growth even
sufficiently to mature half grown bolls.
''The spots of ground which called ''rusted
cotton" have the appearance of trees in autumn,
with leaves Drowned, witwered and falling off.
&c consider the prospect as being decidedly
fifteen to twenty per cent worse than it was two
weeks ago"
The Galveston Civlidn, in its commercial articles
dated 9th inst, says:
eve have reports ofheavy rains in most sections
Of the country, and if the crop OF cotton has not,
as far as we have learned, been injured materially,
picking has been prevented and retarded.
"From both the Brazos and the Trinity we have
advices of rise, and it is supposed that several Of
the steamers moving now. But little benefit
can at this late season be derived from it.
weather at this point has been stormy, and we
have had daily heavy showers of rain. A success.
sion of such weather in the country must be disas
trous to the cotton crops. The state of health in
Galveston is perfectly satisfactory. There is no fe.
yer of any kind prevalent here at present"
The Montgomery Journal of Monday week says:
We have just returned from the country, and
regret to hear che dOleful accounts of our farming
friends Of the destruction to the growing cotton CROP
no heavy for tha akS bay in
great measure, produced overgrowth of the cot
ton weed, causing il to lock in the rows, thereby
shading the early bos and producing the rot. This,
together with the worm, has cut short the crop.
The entire prairie portion of our county has been
peculiarly the favore region for the ravage of this
most destructive worm, and from all parts of this
section of our county we daily learn of their des-
tructiveness. Many crops which bid fair before
the rains set in, to make abundant yield, are
now almost bare of fruit Sad indeed is this state
OF affairs We also learn that the sandy lands are
shedding, and much injury has been done them.
We are confident, from the statements of the most
reliable men, that the crop of cotton in county
must be short. Our grain crop is good; corn never
better"
The New Orleans Crescent of Saturday week
says:
The unexpected receipts of cotton of this years
growth, to an extent which has never been exceed
iety which pervaded moned circles some weeks
since in regard to the growing crop and impaired
confidence which otherwise would not have been
attained. Although the early receipts are, in the
estimation of many, taken as the precursor of
heavy yield, there is nothing as yet apparent to
warrant sustain the belief that the present crop
will be anything more than average one; yet if
there are any fully wound up in long crops as
to entertain the thought that there is any proba-
bility OF an increase beyond 8, 1901 900 bales, we
have yet to learn the fact. However as it is pre-
mature to commence with figures for the season,
we will postpone further remarks for the present
and only adj that serious complaints are being
made of the "rot," which in some sections has
caused great devastation. II, however, We take
the weather (which at this juncture is everything
such as we have had for ten days past, as a start.
ing point, il will prove to have been Of the most
encouraging kind for the gathering and drying the
early pickings; and finally, nous verroHs.'"