Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-05-21
WEATHER, CROPS, &c.


WEATHER, CROPS, &c.
We clip from various sources the following
items about the calamties and prospects of the
country generally:
...... There was a very severe rain storm expe-
renced in New Hampshire and Vermont on Mon.
day and Tuesday, lasting some thirty-six hours
The rivers were all rising rapidly, and some dam
age by freshets was anticipated.
...... In Harrison county, we learn from the Tex
MS Republican, of the 18th of April, that frost af-
ter frost had occurred until not only the cotton
corn md fruit was killed, but large sapings
and hickories.
...... The Un;onvle Journal says that from Sat-
urday week to the following Monday, very heavy
rains fell in the District, causing the water eour-
ses to overflow their banks, and doing consider
able injury to bottom lands.
..... We learn from the Weldon (N C.) Patriot
that The low lands of the Roanake river are bu-
ried under water to the depth of from three to
twenty feet Crops, fences, and everything are
swept away by the current. There is rise in the
river of :hirty or forty feet above ordinary tides
..... There has been q rise In the Cape Fear Riy
er, above Fayetteville, N. c., of forty feet. Along
the Roanoke River, in North Carolina, the low
lands are covered with water to the depth Of twcn-
ty feet in some places. Crops, fences, &C., have
been swept away by the food.
The papers in Michigan complain of great
scarcity of provisions. Instances of great suffer-
ing. and almost starvation, in particular neighbor
hoods IRE reported. Property has been sacrificed
at ruinous prices, and farms Mortgaged to obtain
the means of subsistence.
We learn, says the Raleigh Standard, that
the wheat crop in this and the surrounding Coun-
ties looks well, as q general thing, though in
some localities, it is being injured by the chinch
bug. The crop put in is larger than any previous
year. The late warm and cQpious rains which we
have had in this section have impaired new life to
vegetation Of oil kinda
The Caddo Gazette, of the 2d, says During
the week the weather has been quite balmy and
spring-lkc. On Thursday we had here very heavy
showers, and though the rains are warm we have
had rather too much. The planters with whom
we have convcrsed seem to think they will be able
to obtain pretty fair stands of both and cot
ton Some predict that 1857 will be an abundant
crop year.
:..:.: The Concordia Intcllgencer of Friday last
publishes the following paragraphs: The SECOND
and third days Of May were distinguished by al-
most constant rain, turning off quite cold with
some frost on Sunday night. The waAther hos
now become somewhat warmer. We hear that
the chilled and stinted stand of cotton many of
the principal plantations is fast disappearing un.
der the ravages Of the cut worm.
".... TIE Baton Rouge Sugar Planter of Satur-
dGy, Gays. One of the storms of wind and rain
you haze often real about but seldom seen, visted
rs on Friday and for while threatened demo-
ltion of everything resisting its progress. The
rain was very welcome, md the effect is already
viaiblo in the improved appearance Of vegetation
We were quite content to take the wind so long as
it brought rain with it. No damage has been done
so far ms we could learn.
After long continuance Of the coolest and
most disagreeable weather that we have ever ex-
percncel, We now have beautiful Spring weather
the growing vegetation all looks refreshed and
improving, and everything wears vigorous and
lively aspect. We learn from several of our coun-
try frieIils that the cottop and corn crops are
looking remarkably well within the iGst few days,
and if this weather continues, we may look for q
good crop, considering the backward season.-Or-
angcbury SoUthron.
..." An intelligent planter in Macon county, Ga,
one Of the best cotton growing regions of that
State, in n letter to his commission house in Co.
lumbus, Ga, dated April 9th, says: "Most of
the planters in this neighborhood have p!owed up
their cotton and planted over, and the second
planting is just coming up. The crop is three
weeks later than usual. Nearly everybody has
powed up their carn qnd planted over Wheat is
somewhat, injured but not Seriously
...... by the steamer Il. L. Cobb, which arrived
from Tuscaloosa on Thursday evening, we learn
that the river at that place was rising rapidly
when she left-and the opinion Of good judges in
that section seemed to be that there would be n
greater freshet during the present month than has
been known for many years. The bottom lands
on the river are even now nearly oil covered with
water, and the probability is that many thousand
ACRES of growing cotton and corn will be destroy
ed by subniSrs:on.-d Mobile Daily FridHns.
...." The rise III our river, says the Cheraw Ga
zee, noticed Inst week, continued until the water
was in less than three feet Of the highest water
mark. The damage to the crops is considerable,
but not to the extent we feared. The oats in
many places are uninjured. The wheat, perhaps,
did not fare so well. Much corn will have to be
planted over, and in low places the cotton is des-
trqy2l tbs not too late, however, to plant the
low bottoms where the cotton has been destroy
ed, in corn. So We hope, upon the whole (shough
the cotton may be lcssened in some deg. ee) the
corn crop will be extended so Us to fully counter
balance the loss in that staple. We need scarce.
ly add, that many planters who are now buying
corn (yca sending to Egypt for it) at 81 00to ST.,
60 per bashel, will fars better by the freshet.