The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-07

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tracts from newspapers to show their des-
perate condition:
Throughout the Gulf States the drouth
which prevailed during the latter part of
June and the greater portion of July, cut
off the corn crop irredeemably. Those
States, or the most of them, are now pur-
chasing supplies from the great granary of
the West; and will be necessarily COM
PEELED TO keep it up next year until they can
make a crop, if they shall be SO fortunate.
The first of July the prospects of a most
bountiful crop in Tennessee were unusually
cheering. The smiles of the planter when he
spoke of them were pleasant to contemplate,
but to-day, the 1st of August, the glowing
prospects and bright smiles are gone
Parched fields and gloomy countenances
have taken their places. Tennessee will
not have a dollars worth of corn to SELL
She has scarcely enough wheat for home
consumption. She has no hay-her clover
fields are burnt up-and her stock Of oats is
being fed to stock already. She will, there
fore, be buyer for another season depend
ent upon the more fortunate Western States.
This is unfortunate. Already in debt, far
too deeply in debt it win require the prac-
tiee of real economy amongst her people to
keep them from realizing the hardest times
seen here for many years. Begin the work
of retrenchment now, keep it up until the
evil day is past, and You will feel all the
better for your self-denial when the better
day comes.-NashedIe Patriot, AUgust l.
The long and destructive drouth of this
month has made sad havoc of the hopes
and prospects of the farmer The ruinous
prices ruling for the past nine months, for
corn, -four and bacon, must be improved
greatly within the next nine months, and if
SO what is to be the fate of the poor? What
is to become of the stock cattle and hogs
now in the country? If our stock perishes
for the want of food, how are the people to
be fed? And if food is to be purchased by
all classes, from whence viii come the
money to pay for it? This is unquestiona-
bly, the most gloomy year ever experienced
in the upper District of South Carolina-in
truth, want, vergng upon famine, stares las
in the face, and we must prepare to meet it.
anderson IS. g. Gazette.
Gloomy forebodings of a very short crop,
or a failnre Of provisions, still come to us
from many portions of other States. We
sincerely hope that results will agreeably
disappoint some of these expectations but
it may be considered certain that in some
verified. There is, however, a natural ten
dency towards exaggera1ion in such re-
ports; and some reports show too large an
inference from local failures.
Charleston IS. c. Courier, July 28
From private letter dated Joaesboro, Ca,
July 24l
The prospect here in this section for the
coming crop has been very gloomy We
had rain yesterday, which will help cotton,
but corn on upland is too far spent to do
any good. There are a good many fields of
corn that will not make a bushel TO the
acre. Cotton is injured some, but not so
much so as corn. Corn is now scarce, and
worth 81 o per bushel. Business is very
dull, and has been so for some time.
Our exchanges received this morning from
Barbour, Wilcox, Dallas, Perry, Tuscaloosa, |
Jefferson and Blount counties, in this State, |
give distressing accounts of the drouth. Such |
widely extended destruction of the corn
crop hes not, we believe, before occurred in |
the Southern country. Cotton, too, makes |
but little promise in this State, and, so far |
as we can learn, the drouth is quite as ex-
tensve in Georgia.
Corn must be purchased for this section |
in the Northwest, until next years crop !
ean be gathered, and our people should be |
ievsing ways and means for having it de-
ivered at the lowest possible cost.-Mont-
7Omery (4la.) Mail
If the corn crop turns out as badly South !
IS now seems probable, there will be a large
market for our surplus there at high prices
The hard times we have had seem likely to
AXE speedy turn for the better