Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1860-08-02
THE NEWS

Ar HoME.-Some weeks ego the town of Dal
las, situated near the northern boundary of Tex
as, was almost completely destroyed by fire.
Investigations into the cause of this fire. 1t ap
pears. have revealed an extensive and well
organized plan to lay the whole of northeastern
Texas in ruins. The setting on foot Of this ne
farious scheme against life and property, ha
been attributed to two abolition preachers by th
name of Blunt and Mckinney, who were driver
from the State last year for preaching incendiar,
doctrines. The plan was first to PROSTATE tn
whole region by fire, render it defenceless b.
destroying all arms and ammunition, and then OF
election day in August, instant, to raise gener
al linsurrection. Two towns, Dallas and Melford
have been destroyed, and property besides, to tn
amount on Sl65, 600. Intense excitement was
prevailing at the latest accounts, and people
were arming in every direction to preserve lif'
and property, and suppress the projected revolt
We cannot say how much of this is true. If all
Harper's Ferry was holiday sport by the side oft
The Charleston Mercury of recent date has
culled from its exchanges more than two col
umns of carefully prepared" statements as te
the condition of the crops in all parts Of tbe
country. From this and numerous other sources
we gather our information The grain and fruit
crops of New England seem to be good; the
same in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio
The grass of Vermont and New Hampshire is
sorry; the grass of New Jersey, likewise the
corn, oats and potatoes, look remarkably we'll
In many places at the North West the wheat is
proving better, perhaps, than it has been for
twenty yesrs,-As soon as we strike the Southern
States accounts become less favorable. Della
ware, Maryland and Virginia promise an aver,
age crop. The rich valley Of the French Broad,
North Carolina, which indicated heavy harvest,
has been much injured by storms of rain and
hail. South Carolina has been exceedingly dry.
Recent rains brighten the prospects little.
"Old corn" is not much benefited by them ;
creek and river bottoms are doing well; and late
upland corn is indicative Of medium yield
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oats and corn, very good. In wheat, rye, oats,
grass and clover, Tennessee never promised
better than now. Georgia crops are under par.
In many places the farmers are cutting down the
green corn to make provender. A well-to do
planter, of Houston county, has sold forty acre
field of corn, which it is said ought to have made
1000 bushels, to citizen of Fort Valley, Geor-
gin, for S25 This is distressing On rivers
and .wet streaks" in Florida, cotton is from four
to six feet high and corn is good for seven bar
res per acre. On upland and "dry streaks, "
crops so promising, at one time, arenow nothing
but shriveled deso;ation. In Alabama corn is
"beyoud remedy; in Mississippi, ''burned up
in some places, looking up after the rains in
others-plenty of fruit in market. In Arkansas
corn is q complete failure in places; and the
people will have to suffer or leave. In Louisi-
ana corn is "a total loss'; cotton. ''better than
for years"-beginniug to open, and picking be-
gun in earnest 1.-THE accounts from nearly ev.
ery section of Texas are really distressing. -
Some of the people must suffer from want, if not
from actual famine. The grass is dead; writer
from San Antonio says: you could not pull
green blade of grass with pair of tweezers, be,
tween here and the coast The prairies look
like vast desert. Negroes can be hired for
their food and land and other property, had at
nominal price. "The crop prospects in Mis-
souri, are worse than they have been for ten years
past."-As we get North of Mason and Dickson's
line again, in the upper valley of the great
s'father of waters" the harvest becomes abun.
dant Corn looks we'll and wheat promises a
yield of twenty to thirty bushels per acre.
From the quarterly report of the Post Office
Department. it is ascertained that the number Of
orders for stamps during the second quarter of
1859 was 1860, of 1860, 12,4S0-making n
decrease in the number of orders of 2, ,l60, or
about II per cent. This diminuition has been
effected by furnishing each post office with full
supply of stamps quarterly, and forbidding pos,
masters to make several orders in the same
quarter Meanwhile. theactual value of stamps
and stamped envelopes has increased from 81.
366, 0S2 during the second quarter-April, May
and Juue-of 1859, to 81 l,673.959 for the same
quarter of 1861 sum of 1886, ,377 or nearly %
per cent. increase.
The cause Of direct trade between the South
ern States and Europe elicits our hearty concur
renee Not that we wish in this way to retail
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sential to the highest development OF our section
Commerce is n great highway-a "via Appia"-
where the nations meet and interchange thought
enterprise. improvement and progress. VII,
should we of the South be penned in, while al
the other leading nations of Christendom ar
feeling
| with gigantic throb across the seat"
We mentioned the step taken by Norfolk, Va.
to further this end in late number of the En-
ouIRER Now, Memphis and Baltimore ar
putting their hands to the plough not to lool
back, we hope, until complete victory has beer
achieved for direct trade. Mr.. J. NJ. Vernon
commissioned by the City-counci Of Memphi:
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steamers to ply between Baltimore and Europe
touching at some English port both coming ant
going, few days ago met the Council of Balti
more at an informal meeting, on the subject
A series of resolutions was adopted, sympathi
zing with the view of Memphis, recommending
the establishment of commercial fairs of foreign
and domestic goods in Baltimore, and authori'
ziup the Chair of the council to confer with 9th
er committees in Europe and America formed
to promote direct trade. Wake up, Charleston
A line of packets is to be run between New
York and Japan, as one of the happy results
accruinc from the visit of the japanese Embas
sy. The enterprise is meeting with great favor
in point both of passengers and merchandise