Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-08
The Late Frost.

We. compile from our exchanges tho sub
joined items concerning the effects Of the re-
cent frost: .tes
The Chronicle 6 iSeatNseb of Augusta says
that planter writing from Govington to his
factor in that city, dating his lettor Wcdnos-
day, says: ES
am Just about starting with allmy hands
for my plantation, aIyoyerseer tells me it
will be necessary. to re-pant two hundred
acres of cotton, the whole of which has boon
| cut down by the frost.
| a planter residing in Savannah, fearing
| that the frost had Injured his crop, sent a
messenger to his plantation, in Beaufort dis
trict South Carolina, to learn the result. He
returned with the gratifying intelligence that
nothing was Injured.
In lower and middle Georgia the injury has
not been SO great. but in upper Georgia there
car be no doubt that the cotton andi fruit have
been very much injured, and ia some sections
! the wheat.
In the low grounds the damage has been
the greatest.
| Throughout Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Tonnessee and Arkansas, the frost on
the high lands and the floods in the valleys
have caused incalculablc injury.
/ For moro than amonth past tho fertile val
1 Icy lands of the West have been Inundated
and the waters continue high.
| The Montgomery papers report +" heavy
frost" in the neighborhood ofthat city, on
the 28th ult.
The Rutherford, N. C, Enquirer of the 27 tn
says:
| We were greeted yesterday with % fall of
snow, which continued for several hours, but
being accompanied with rain 1t melted as fast
as it fell This is rather late in tho season
for a visit of this Kind. We have not seen
,ll Il
I that he does not remember snow so late as
this
FRosT.-On Monday and Tuesday nights
our section was visited by frost, which we
regrctto learn, has materially damaged wheat
Dalton Th,es, 28th hh.
TnE CoLD-FRosT,-A -Apprchensions were
| entertained yesterday that much damage had
| been done by the frost. Tho frost had been
seen in many sections of tho city, and some
even spoke Of ice.S One gentleman assured
/ us that he had seen ice the thickness of usil-
yer dollar at Mount Pleasant. We were at
| pains, however. to look into The effects upon
l>the farms in this vicinity, aud were pleased
to find that no damage has been sustained
| Some slight effect is to be noticed upon soup.
| pefnong grape vines, but the fruit has not
| been-iajurcd, More damage has been done
/ upon plantations in the, district, aud from
several sections the report is that tho cotton
has been killed. Several stalkswere cSlaibi-
ted upon the streets which were quito dead
I In the upper Districts of the State.tltc cold
has been more severe. Dispatches to gentle-
mei in this city from Augusta and Columbia;
| state that at both places there was h killing
frost. There certainly was snow in the re-
gion above the latitude 0f;Columbin, and it
/ is to he Feared that much damage has been
| done. Gentlemen whose statements are re-
| liable who arrived by tho cars Yesterday
| from Greenwood and C0kesbury. Abbcvillo
| district, report that the cnttou in that neigh
bprhood has been oil killed. A messenger
ornyed in post haste yesterday from a plan
tanon.in ST. Johns Berkley for c1ttSn seed.
as that in the ground was considered dead.
: Charleston Standard, 29M.
THE FRosT.-The weather in this vicinity
has been mild since Wednesday morning, and
all future apprehcnsions of frost in this sec
tion are dispollcd. A gentleman from Marl-
! b0ro' district himsolfa large planter, called
at our officc yesterday and informed us that
| in Marlboro and Darlington districts the cot
ton has been all killed. lie left Marlboro
on Wednesday a. ihreo o'clock, and his fine
fields of cotton, which but IL few DAYS before
were healthy, and green, were all Shriveled
and black His object in coming to the city
was to procure seed to re-plant, there being
none i'll his neighborhood; The ground was
! troHen hard, and Zoe formed an eighth of an
inch in thickness. Cotton seed was in dc
| mand yesterday, as we have heard of several
/ other parties who came or sent 10 town on
( the same important errand. At Rantowles
! n plantation of seventy acres has been plow.
ed up to re1plaut,-- Char. Standard, 30th
The CROPS. The extent of the damage
by the late frost does not seem to be so great
in our District as in other PORTIONS of tht
State. We convessed on Menlay viii
farmers of various sections, and they in
formed us that the crops have not suffered
materially, except in the upper portion o.
the District, where the injury is much
greater than elsewhere. The cotton il
many places will have to be re-planted, bu
Judging from what our exchanges in tn,
up-oountry say, we conclude that Our sec
tion is more highly-favored. We hope tha
! the tmfavorable accounts from, other Dis
tricts may bo erroneous, as, time was not al
4 lowed to tell the precise condition of thu
1 crops before the publication OF these re
ports. Gozette. ~
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GREAT. BREsHEF IN MIssIssIppI. THE
Aberdeen Sunny South, of the 22d ult.
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