Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-29

lucky We were eonyesing yesterday with gentleman
Fredeickstown and informed that in that region OF couI
try the farmers would rot raise enough Odrn esd
with during the coming winter Throughout the whole southe
ure and parties In that region have been compelled
Hogs Indiana to atten The crop OF Corn IN prom
avery good one with favorable weather from tai
out, yield Will al one-LOuisUe Courier
Aug 98
MlssIssIPpI-The Lexington (yiss Advertiser, of the lit
inst says:
Since cur las. we have had several rains which have eectua
y laid the dusE but which late to be of benefit
The the said TO be excslentthoug
farmers in the hills will hardly realize Of averag
yield. friend writing from Emory states that the boil worn
have mads cir appearance in that and that the
destroying cotton faster than they
do before We hear similar complaints from other portions
the county.
In most Of the counties Of Mississippi our exchanges chronicle
the fall heavy The upon the Cotton viii
doubtless be favorable though they have suffered beyond perec
restoration.
TExAs-In many places general fallen, and thu
period of distressing drouth has closed. letter dated the 9Th
inst, San Antonio, addressed the Necs, says
There had heavy rains there for days. thorough
soaking the arched and cracked earth for miles around and re-
jocng farmers gardeners and sockraisers hear-to
nothing Of the merchants and citizens generally Many OF the
poor P-OPe were living on es4ut beans and -four was s
neghborhoOd Of Corpus Christi 1t much needed especially
BY the stock
The BasrOp Advertiser of the 18th nst says rain had been
falling daily the 9Th, with prospects for abundant
supply. On the 9Th tse fell The Advertiser
says:
rain country
incacuaOe The grass had bcOme perfectly crisped and all
by nds for and grass all tie Western
This rain will face the aspect Of affairs 1t will
cesny benefit the cotton planter and W be great advantage
those wish tunps grass We learn from
ers that have Of the most abundant masts
that has been witnessed in Western Texas for past
Heavy rains have fallen at IndianOa, followed by cold,
strong nOrher the Courier the 1h That
paper says
There doubt but the general
reports from nearly direction OF their refreshing vista
uon.
The crop reports good, glad
termination among farmers to what Corn
be raised. D. the planted Spring scarcely enough
will be harvested for home sumption though from what
hear now the reports hretoOre received greatly exaggerated the
extent OF the loss As to Cotton thought be certain that
but little half crop will be made with favorable picking
season.
DEoUTH SOUTHERN INDIANA ILLIzos-A correspondents
Of the Chicago ss and Tribune writes from DuquOn, Perry
county, Ill., under date Of the 18Th inst, as follows
been snmeWhat surprised ne mention made
In the Press and Tribune Ct the drouth with which
have attributed this silence wrong motives your issue
explains ALL and hasten to post" you
regard to the agricultural and political prospects of this
ton.
The prospect for heavy crop Of Corn
Southern Illinois than it ives months ago Farmers we're
calculating ory fifty, seventy bushels per
The great fear that there would be market for it.
change come spirit Of our dreams"
Since three showers that
could be called showers and only Of these wet the ground
than inches in depth And of this the
oppressvey hot there has been scarcely any
dew great deal Of Corn dead, especially tmpe
the little rain have had has good think that
in this Corn will average neen bushels per
In the counties lying north and south however the
gentlemen Travelled through St Clair washr gton
Williamson Jackson and Franklin counties, aud they say that
tbs Com almost entre cut off, Much of it il so burnt
that it will scarcely for fodder They have had
speak Of in few localities for months We have
have had no rain here since the 4h inst Last enng had
every prospect Of heavy rsn and for tEO hours did have
splendid display of electricity. The heavens
blaze but The clouds passed and only few drops Of rain
fell Scarcely ground yet poSed for winter Wheat
and wort he It'll it rains Peaches pretty we'll dried
The Tere Haute (Ia) EspreSs OF the 18th inst. says:
The drouh which prevailed in tn region for several
find by exchanges, extensive and
more injurious parts Of the than this locality
the timber the drouth is less severely felt
In Southern Illinois the drouh, regret learn has almost
50 burnt and dried that VIII for fodder.
From various other portions Of the country have distressing
accounts of the crops.
The C7oP AT HoME ABRoADThe accounts Of crops in
England all of the dscOuragng character private
letter from high authority by the last steamer says
1.-THE weather very and cold and far learn,
the Potatos within the last week. have seriously deoraed
have just heard Of in nexhborhOod offering to sell the
three bushels OF sound every twelve week they looked
We import 70 largely from somewhere
Europe"
We hear ass, that English orders American produce
Implicated, in some instances, by the las: mail.
1t is late says the New EUeRi0 Post hope
that England have anything like average CROP Up to the
5h August the Wheat only of the blooming and
thu nights then getn. longer and COLDER weeks at least
voui be required bring the grain maturity The farmers
not expecting begin harvest before TIE second
week September which from month five weeks later than
the Of years late harvestis always precaous
and writer in the Mark Lane Express expressed doubt
whether this year will be before The
writer calculates that England will require from -
eight million quarters of foreign Wheat take the deficiency
foreign Wheat into England about OOO1 GU res which is
little less than quarter OF the entire consumption Of the
United Kingdom 1t that besides the bad weather. there
about oneh less breadth Wheat year
ENGLAND.
side the Eceaing Post we unprece
iented from all accounts nsxhauIbe crop
But it distributed evenly country Southern
States will be largely dependent upon the Northwest for grain
their crop having proved almost entire failure On the other
hand they have put the largest crop Cotton upon market
that known The previous Except
perhaps, the last will be million.
abundance Of Cotton will help England and will
fer portion Of her loss to the South Those having credits
the South already begin to feel this
The demand Continent cannot yet
mated it likely considerable. The French BOsrse
fleets e anxiety among the produce Dealers while
many threatened with deficiency very
dent that everything have to will be wanted abroad
and that railways canals ships steamboats, will have
or. deal to do for the rest Of the year
THE PoTATO DIsELsE IN IRELANp-THE Corn TRADE.-The
London correspondent Of the Commercial Advertiser good
thority) writes by the Arabia:
actual point for anxiety at the consists in the
received during the past days from Ireland and else
regarding the Potato There little for doubt
the disease has suddenly and extensively resppese1 al
though perhaps not than majority Of previous
since S4 An increasing belief is entertained that he
plant owing it's constant reproduction from European stocks,
thorough degenera and that there will real mmuni
from these attacks products raised Of
If
cesnp Of the period the grain market shows quetness The
mail vised decline OF from to per bushe and
there has since bsen The steady
and that is all that ba said This peculiar condition
tirey owing to the character OF the arrivals,
coupled with the knowledge that the yield this year will be
large, not only from AMERICA but from Southern Russia the
Dsnube, Spain and other important regions.