The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-07-12

Edisto, Is. Co. writes u.s.
The crops hereabouts continue good and highly
promising, both corn and cotton, and the present
prospect is that the crops will prove in both sta
pies, considerable increase on that of the pasl
year. In my immediate precinct such is the case
But hear that the begins suffer in certain
parts from lack OF rain. One or two good rain:
will now make the corn crop, and the south winds
will probably bring them. The louise has been
busy with the cotton, which also is little back.
ward, but a few hot days will probably settle their
hash. The nights cool and pleasant the days
bright with glare, and as hot as the cotton could
desire.
We are eating here, spite of the starvation times
any quantity of Irish potatoes, squashes, green
corn, green peas, snap beans artichokes and cucum
bers. We have fed fail upon strawberries. The
high bush blackberry is now of large size and very
abundant, as well as very sweet. Huckeberi les are
plenty enough to shake stick at. Cherries are
coming on; May apples, the black walnut, &c
Peaches and plums nowhere the frost has
knocked them into cooked hat. Grape cutting
OF the prlcAs current, are IIveIy, tumfIO Is
already putting on all its golden aspect. Cabbages
looking up and curling over. Okra is stalking
it largely in bottom lands. The tanya is already
waving a broad banner, and, britfy, all that we
require is that our troops IN Virginia shall give the
Yankees dreadful drubbing, when shall GER
tarly have plenty Charleston Nercuy.
We clip the following from the CiagksVe (Ten-
nesse) Chronicle of the 2lst
The harvesting of the wheat crops in our State
is now nea.ly over, and certainly such crop was
crop was s0wn, aud no accident or injury whatever
has befalIen it; but, the contrary, the seasons
have been propitous, the growth full and healthy,
and the yield per acre is immense. The young
corn, too, looks very well, but it is too early vet
for anything more than speculation about this
crop,
With even a moderate yield of corn, though we
will be clean out of the woods A very large crop
has been planted Our farmers have glorious
season for harvesting, and glorious crop to har-
vest. Never in the memory of man has there been
crop OF wheat in this section-embracng Southern
kYntucky-so universally superior in quality and
abundant in Weld; not failure have we heard o
in our locality and the only differences to be OBJ
served are attributable solely to the capacity o
the soil, and as the land is all good, so is the
yield.
Middle Georgia is just now beginning to suffer
severely from the druuth. The corn crop is in a
critical condition, and will be seriously in ured
unless we have rain in few days.
la Lower Georgia and Florida, are happy ia
hear, rains have been abundant, and a large corn
crop has been produced. They tell seventy i've
boast of. Suc- corn crop was never thought o.
before in Texas.
We have noticed elsewhere that recent heavy
rains reported in North and South Carolina
and we hope SOON to chronicle them here-WacOr
telegraph.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
The following is from the California Herald.
THE CURSE OF FAN FRANCISCO.
The present is the most disagreeabe season o
the wear which Sar Franciscans experience &C
count of the strong winds which prevail ing tht
afternoons. and the sand and dust which are there
by driven through the streets, rendering pedeS
trisnism ANYTHING but agreeable exercise, par
ticulafly to the ladies', who do not wingy
venture out on foot after midday. In the upper
part of the city the sand NUISANCE is at times in
toerable, the fine particles driving into the eyes
of persons co Dpelled to face the wind with rainiu
II, nnht hal mis- W q arU
is a prev lent complaint. We observed yesterday
several gentlemen whose faces were protected frou
the sand by sort Of mask, composed of Il wir
frame, over which was drawn vail OF green o
brown gauze.
GREAT DISCOVERY OF CINNABAR.
The Napa county Reporter SAYS:
At a point on the Clear Lake Canon, about tel
! miles from the head of Berryessa Valley, we hav
| found what may literally be called a mountai q
the mineral in question. The is of great rict
| ness Welding, even bv ordinary and slovenly re
tortiug, eighty per cent. of quicksilver. la exten
no estimate yet be formed of its limits. Ever
| from the yet untouched surface of the hill mil
| lion of tons of the ore might be taken withou
| blasting or tunneiDg The mine is in an air-lin
| about twenty. five miles from the tide-water an
probably forty from Napa City.
THE SUEz CANAL--It is perfectly true tha
accounts have been received" by ourselves
! if not by the foreign office, "that NJ. Lessep
| has induced the Viceroy Of Egypt to emplo
! large numbers of natives by forced labor i
the construction of the SueZ Caual-' No one a
all acquainted with the history of the great public
works of Egypt failed to see that 1t must come
| this at last. Our correspondent speaks OF "me
brought up in gangs from their villages and mad
| over to the agents of the company, and this a
the very season when their crops are ripening, an
| the task of uniting the Red Sea to the Mediterra
| mean uncougenial to them that "a numoe
of men contrived to escape from the train, but wer
| 10 a few days recap,ured and sent back to thel
taskmasters." Whether this subject OF impress
! ment can be carried on long enough, or RELENTLESS
! ly enough to keep down the accumulatious OF SAN
in Lake Menzaeh, and to defeat the inveterate ter
dency of the Isthmus of Suez to widen itself, re
mains to be proved. What is certain is that To
scheme is being pushed unscrupulously and pufe
uDbIushingv and that the tactics fOreseen at th
outset and against which we have so often warne
our readers are now being actively practised. Tn
results actually achieved may be learnt from
Lessons own report "sur Petat actuel de8 rardu
dams PIstbme." They consist in the erection of
wooded iettv and tramwavs at Port Said, we
as of workshops and dwelling houses for the wOrl
men, in the introduction of dredging machines an
other apparatus, in the construction OF sma
aqueduct, and a system of earthenware pipes !,
the supply of fresh water. As for the more su u
stantial works alluded to in the report as on u
point of being executed, it is only oy an lhgehio'
infusion of the past and future lenses that the
, could he made to serve NJ. Lesseps' purpose. On
sixth of the total estimated expense VI sle uuue
the physical obstacles has been encounter tn
led Robert Stephenson to pronounce the schen
not absolutely impracticable (as has been insinu
ted), but ruinOus an inyestment.-LondonI Tune
June "a.
Some of the wealthy Southerners wh>have be-
used to sueudinp the summer at Saratoga an 9th
Northern watering places, being debarred iro
ANYTHING of this sort. have gore to Europe.
Mr. Russell, the London Times correspondsr
| was in New York on the 4th of July and heard
Eyerett's GRAFTON.
} Mr.. Theodore 5. Fay, late U. s. Minister to Sw
,, zerland, will remain abroad. His second wife is
native of Berne.
The citizens OF New York presented a medal
. Major Anderson, through Mr.. j. B. Murray,
Wednesday last
, The new Sultan will! not be q till next 81
tember.