The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1860-08-16
CROPS IN THE sOUUH,
Unprecedented Scarcity Pre-
dScfeG.
From the Mobile Mercury

From the Mobile Mercury.1
The crop question has come to be
one Of equal Importance with the Pres
ldential, in the South, and as worthy of
the calm, serious consideration of the
patriot and philanthropist.
It is now ascertained, beyond a
doubt, that the prevalence of an I'M
precedented doubt, occurring and run
ming through nearly the whole length
of the food crop making season, all
through the states of South Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Lousia-
ma and Texas, including a portion of
Arkansas, has produced the most disas-
trous effects ever known. 1t is true
that through all this region some loca-
tons have been blessed with rains to
make fair crops, and some, even to
spare, which somewhat relieves the
gloomy prospects for food for another
year. But these GASES in the desert
the drouth has made, bear q proper
ton to the whole area, scearcly more
than as one to FIVE or six Rains have
fallen within the week, in South Car
Dina, Georgia, Alabama and Mississ-
ippi, and we suspect, more generally
than since the occasion of the spring
rains. All accounts concur, though, that
these rains have come and are coming,
too late to benefit to any noticeable ex-
tent, the great breadth of the corn
crop.
Happily, the great West and North
west have never been so fruitful OF
breadstufs, and have produced enough
to furnish the drouth stricken districts
ofthe South. But it has to be brought
to these districts and distributed.
Means must be devised to protect the
needy against the rapacity of remorse-
less spectators, or the great West will
TEEN in vain with food to appease gaunt
famine in the poorer districts of the
South. How best to accomplish this,
is as iteresting question as can en-
gage Ethe attention of rejecting and
good men-not excepting the Presi-
dental question.
The De Soto Eagle OF the % ult.,
has the following.
The Corn crop in louisiana, off the
river will not reach one>third of the
usual yield of q seasonabIe year-and in
fact we know not single planter on
the hills that will make more than a
sufficiency Of corn to supply his own de-
mands, while there are many Nho will
scarcely make a bushel to the acre.
| We understand that there are families
in De Soto parish actually suffering for
bread, not being able to procure it for
love or money: for the very reason that
it is not to be had in the country, 1t
is awfully distressing, with the most
gloomy prospects ahead.
A correspondent of the New York
Herald says;
From Louisville, Ky. to Nashville,
Tenn.-a distance of $50 miles-the
fields present one continual aspect of
blight and devastation.-Th corn
fields for miles Of acres appear as if a
confagration had swept through them,
burning and shrivelling the leaves and
killing the stalks. For many weeks
there has not been a drop Of rain, and
the thermometer in the shade at 106
deg, for days together. Millions of
bushels of corn are thus lost to the
wealth of this section the coming sea-
/ son.
The Galveston Neacs, Of the Cd inst,
says:
A private letter from San Antonio,
TO us, says that in consequence of the
lack Of feed for stock the cartmen have
stopped hauling from the coast;the mer-
chants have in consequence put up the
prices Of all supplies: and the drouth
is so severe that it is dangerous, in rid
ing out in the country, to leave the
road, As the cracks in the ground are
so lar and numerous as to make the
horses to stumble repeatedly.
The Nacogdoches (Texas) Chronicle
says
"a drought like the present in East
ern Texas is not within The remem-
brance Of man. For over two months
have we looked and prophesied for
rain, but in vain. During the past
week the mercury stood at from one
! hundl ed to one hundred and ten de-
grees. Such intensely hot weather
was never known here before. So
parched has all vegetation become,
and so barren the surface OF the earth,
and the temperature Of everything so
great, that tie strong summer breeze
which we have always heretofore court
ed for its GOODNESS and nerve bracing
effects, now SWEEPS over the country
with the dryness and whitening effect
OF sirocco, and we seek to avoid its
evil, as much as we heretofore sought
its good effects. The consequence is
most disastrous; the people find it
difficult to procure the necessary sup
ply Of water, cattle and horses suffer;
and in some instances perish from want
of it; fields of corn have withered and
become blighted without producing an
ear, while thou sands Of acres will not
yield the amount Of seed that was re-
CURED to plant them.
In Louisiana the drought has been
severe, but seasonable rains have res
paired much of its ravages. The sug-
arcane crop viii probably be indifer-
ent, In the Mississippi and Yazoo
valleys the corn crop is failure, and
the cotton exceedingly unpromis-
ing.
In Tennessee the wheat crop is a
failure. at least one-half the farmers
will not gather as much as was sown.
None have full crop.
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