Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1855-05-23
THE wEATHER-rHE CROPS.

SoBrH CARoLrNA.-The Cheraw Gazette of May
9 says: r
TIE SPRING PRospEcrs.-Under the above head,
the Charleston Mercury details intelligence Of the
most gratifying character, in regard to- the coming
crop. We wish we could speak as cheeringly Of
the prospect in this section, but that cannot do
Indeed the prospects of our planters at this
of the year, were never more gloomy. We have not
had rain enough, at any one time, since September
last to make good season. This unprecedented
drought is telling .fearfllly upon the coming CROP
Wheat and oats are rreparably injured. Cotton has
not yet come up sufficient for half stand, nor will
it until there is rain. Corn is generally more prom
ising but far from good. Gardens look almos
have rain soon, of which there is but little prospect
now, the most dismal forebodings will become fear.
full realities.
The Abbevle Banner says:
Since last issue this District has been blessed
with copious rans ewe believe in every portion Of
SO large or so driven by wind as to damage much
the young crops few neighborhoods, however,
did not escape the injury Of being badly washed
This season has come in the nick of time to save
large amount Of wheat, much larger quantity, we
trust, than some of our Respondent farmers are will
ling to hope for At all events it will secure heavy
crops Of this valuable article in the upper Districts
where they are not much advanced and with
the prospect there, and the magnificent one in the
whole grain region of the West, We need scarcely
think of suicide before the phantom of coming
famine
ALABAMA.-we cut the following paragraphs
from the Dallas Herald:
Never since the sediment of this country has there
been SO dry a season the present. There has been
but rain since the first week in January, and in
many places none at all In addition to this, the
spring has been unusually backward, and the growth
Of everything retarded by the succession Of North
ers, with which we have been visited But now that
warm weather has set in, vegetation OF all kinds is
putting forth rapidly, and Notwithstanding there
has been little rain, the corn crops, We learn,
growing, though not rapidly. From gentle
man who has recently travelled through the coun-
tries below this we learn that below Ellis the pros
pect for crops is gloomy indeed. In those counties
they have had no rans and have planted their corn
two three times in vain, the ground being dry
that it will not come up. He says they have now
abandoned NIL further efforts until it rnins If they
are favored with rain soon they yet plant their
corn and make good crops.
The wheat crop is injured by the frosts in places
in this country to greater extent than suppos-
cd. Some fields heading out close to the ground
the consequence is that the heads small and tri
fling There will however be average yield on
this side Of the river.
Our neighbors in some Of the Eastern counties
said to be in woful plight forthe staff of life.
On the road from Shreveport 20 this place, we are
told there is almost at all to be had for any
price. large surplus was made in this country,
but it is now gone to supply the wants of our fam
ishing neghbors.
LoUIsIANA.-Wc learn from the Alexandria Re-
publican of the 9th inst, that the drought in that
section Of the country is not only seriously affecting
commerce, trade and the planting interests but is
epsratns severely on animal life L. s. sc6s4e Lsns
dry, and aoJoning parisnes, the great sacner,e
portion of the State the cattle suffering terribly
for water; springs, water holes and even riru.ets
that have never been known to fail before in fur
nishing an abundant supply Of water, have, some
very nearly and some altogether, gone dry In
Paquemine Brule, to get at water, the cattle have
to 60 some distance through quagmire and few
that succeed in reaching the water ever get back
We understand that the loss Of cattle in one place
can be told only by hundreds. The planters in the
vicinity have been compelled to take their hands
from the fields and set them to guard those bogSy
holes to keep the cattle away from them.
The Richmond Penny Post, the leading Know
Nothing payer of Virginia, appears to be much dis
trcssed because Mr.. Wise canvasscd the State. 1t
speaks of the ndelcacy" of such acoursc; and says
",he people of Virginia, keeny alive to the dignity
of the State Of the opinion that it is wounded by
- on5 v;ll never elect n man who has touched their