Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-06-17

The heavy rain of Thursday, with its
preceding and following drizzle, cold,
calmmy, aud persevering, has pretty nearly
given the corn crop of this State its coup de-
grace There was barely time left for
planting before, and now by the time the
ground dries sufficiently to permit il, the,
season will be SO far gone that the crop will
be a mere experiment. A very late fall,
with lazy frosts, may give room enough to
ripen it, but such an accommodation can
hardly be expected. Still, matters will,
be no worse for trying. If the season
favor, sort of crop may be raised.
If it don't, the unripened stalks will make
good cattle and hog feed while they last So
we hope everybody concerned Will try and
plant any how.
From our exchanges and other sources of
information, we learn that in those sections
of the State where corn has hitherto been the
staple crop, and where the heaviest yield is
usually realized, there has been so far but
little done, and but little prospect of doing
anything. Throughout the whole extent of
the Wabash and White river bottoms" the
ground has either been kept too wet to pillow
or plant, or the planting has rotted in the
ground. or been washed out by the constantly
recurring freshets. In some better situated
localities an occasional field is found grow
ing and promising fairly. and in the eastern
part of the State there is good hope OF crop;
but. taking the State over, we think we are
not going too far in saying that not more
than one-fourth or one-third, at most, of the
corn land is planted, and we doubt If there is
fully one-fourth of it still unplowed. In
some sections we know that blowing has not
vet been completed The papers along the
lower half of the Wabash gives us very little
hope of anything being done there. Many
persons consider corn. hopeless, and talk of
planting turnips and potatoes in its place.
In the upper portion of the Wabash region
the prospect is but little better. The Peru
Republican of this week says that men are
blowing tbe-Dlud, and that but few have
planted yet, and it adds:
'On tour to Perrysburg last Friday, we
did not see spear of corn above the ground,
although we were told in Mexico that Judge
Wilkinson and a few others in the vicinity
had corn high enough to distinguish the
rows across the field. Many on the stiff clay
uplands had not plowed a furrOw.
AT Perrysburg, and north, on the sandy
barrens, quicksands had made their appear
ance so near the surface as to prevent plow-
ing altogether in many places One or two
burrows only could be made. A horse would
swamp down in quicksands by stepping into
the new burrows"
This, we have good reason to believe, is
not an ever colored picture of a large portion
of our State, and it is certainly gloomy
enough. But as we said in the outset moth
ing will be lost by trying, and corn planting
even in the middle of June will be much
better than doing nothing or what is worse
than nothing, repining and fretting.
The wheat, though damaged in a good
many places by the rain, washed out by the
floods, and starved by trust" in the main,
promises well, and if not ruined hearafter, or
by the bad weather we are now having, will
do quite Indianapolis Journal, June II.