The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1855-06-05
Correspondent of the New York Daily Times.
)istress from Drouth at the south--.R Railroads.
Progress Of the Know Nothings.
ALABAMA, Tuesday Nav 10, 1855

Correspondent of the New York Daily Times.
Distress from Drouth at the south--- Railroads.
Progress Of the Know Nothings.
ALABAMA, Tuesday May 10, 1855.
Had We not the testimony of our race TO
assure us of the "constancy of nature during
the entire historic period, we might easily per-
suaded ourselves that we are entering new,
epoch in the histoay Of our globe, scarcely less
important than the Eocono or Plocene. If
there was once deluge there is now drouth
which threatens to become almost as destruc-
tive In North Carolina and Georgia vegeta-
tion wac fret dried up, then burned up. The
dispatch from Lauth Carolina of May 2. pub
lished in the Times Of May z, was hardly true.
There may have been local rains, but the pa
pers bring US accounts offires still raging and
crops still dying. Alabama, from the time of
its settlement until now, never suffered in her
navigation and crops as 1t is suffering this year.
The rivers are not navigable for boats of the
smallest size, not even for flat boats l ought
perhaps to except the Alabama which will still
float the last mentioned craft below Selma
aid from the North and West: its own resour-
ces are becoming rapidly exhausted. Corn,
the great staff Of life, the hope of the rich as
| woll as of the poor is worth from one to two
dollars per bushel!
Meanwhile, rumor tells of starvation in the
Northwestern Counties of the State-of death
from hungerl Bad indeed is starvation any
where, but that il should have happened in
Slave State! The worst feature of the case is,
those who are suffering are the whites. The
selfcomplacent apologist for "the in n,titution,"
who looked SO coldly on your distress last Win
ter, and seized the occasion to magnify the hap
py condition of Negrodom, forgot, denied that
there was any poor white class in the Slave
States. Look, at the Tennessee papers, and
YOU will find accounts of families flying before
the famine There is, then, poor Glass in
tho South; make note of it for future refer
ence.
In Louisiana, il is said, the sugar crop is
ruined; apprehension is felt that there will not
be enough grown to plant another year. Pri-
vate advices represent Texas as desolated by
fires which follow in the footsteps of the drouth.
"Tho cattle are dying by thousands on the
black and blasted praries over which the fros
have swept" Over the whole South there is
a complaint that the seed planted has not sprou.
ted, or come badly. To Offset all this bad pros
pect there are few localities supplied abun.
dantly for agricultural purposes, with frequent
showers. In such places tho crops never look
cd more promising.
Cannot farmers through the North and West
DO persuaded 10 cultivate every foot of avail
ablo ground with corn and wheat: Southern
farmers have not yet learned wisdom; the al
mighty cotton field has eaten up the corn field.
Ce wise at the North.
desire to say something of railroads in the
South, but shall hardly have room at present
You can easily see that Alabama has lost enough
in this single year to build all the important
lines in tho State, all because her citizens
could not get their crops to market and their
provisions from the seaport granaries, and pay
~. -. i-..--i---- duo'
The ubiquitous Sam is in every town and
precinct in South, be sune oft. His last prank
was tho election Of Probate Judge in Mobile.
II is difficult to tell where he will next appear,
though the impression is in Virginia. Look
out for Know Nothing majorities in every State
in the South. One thing is certain, the 'un-
terrified are for once dreadfully frightened
The Wing Party died long ago, but tho old
Democracy is as tenacious of life as on eel.-
1t kicks and roars, threatens and beseeches, as
only tho Democracy can.
Some of the Virginia papers and the Mont
gomery .4dUertiser have dissolved tho Union
already several times within few months and
have finally resolved that our next Congress is
to be the last, all because Sam is thought to
have destroyed the balance of powor' in the
House of Representatives. So look upon II
and lament, as poor Antigono looked upon the
light of the sun as she went to wed Aoheron.--
Gov. Winston has "taken time by tho fore
top" in the coming canvass. He is marching
up and down the State doing his best TO ex-
tirpate the vicious estate aid doctrines, which
are taking root so rapidly; bad job for His
Excellenoy as time will show