Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-23

day. Every one IL more nopeiui, auu Ca'Ao
cheerfully about the future. We are glad
to see the "bone and sinew" CT the land re.
covering from the dsspondency which uni
versally prevailed in the spring and early
part of the summer. The encouraging hope
of realizing good cotton crop has produced
this change in the spirits Of our people. The
prospect Of this crop seems to improve every
day, and some confidently assert that it will
bring more money into the district than any
ever made. Our usual crop before the war
was about $4,000 bales, and the hopeis that
there will be 5000 made this year, which
at present prices will be very valuable
BennettsviNe (S. o. Journal.
The Pickens Courier says: "The
drought continues With high winds. Corn
on bottom land, now our chief hope for
bread, is suffering badly"
The WEATHER, CROPS, &c.-It is again
very dry and warm with US. Fodder is
burning up-potatoes, grouudpeas and corn.
field peas sre suffering greatly. 1t is too
dry to plant turnips, and the last end Of
our gardens has been burnt to crisp -
Corn in this section will not bring more than
q third of the crop which it promised in the
latter part of May. Cotton is also losing
every day. Oh, for one of those 6Sg rains
that takes all the starch ont of the ROSTERS
tail.-Fsdera1 (Ga Uniom
LANCASTER, 8. C.-Tbe Ledger says !:
We have had no opportunity of seeing the
disastrous effects of the drought upon crops
until few days ago, when trip South as
far as Hanging Rock, showed Us that the
reports of parched aud ruined crops have in
no degree been exaggerated. For eight or
nine miles South of this place, We have
never seen the prospect for provision crop
so utterly hopeless as it is. The cotton is
not much better. The droughtis no doubt
the main cause of the failure, but the want
of work and proper culture has had some
thing to do with ii.
The CRoPs.-We are sorry We cannot
chronicle anything favorable with regard to
the crop soon to be harvested. So far as
we have beard from the various portions of
the district, the highland crops are nearly
burnt up, the drought almost unprecedent.
ed Those who have been able to procure
good stands of rice report favorably of its
condition, but the rivers are 80 low that the
water is salt for several miles up, and the
planters in many cases are unable to turn
off the old water with a view of renovsting
the plant. We feel decidedly gloomy about
our prospects for bread, and We are at
loss to know how the large population of
emanoipsted negroes is TO subsist. - George
to0n Is. CO. Times.
NORTH CARoLINA.-We are forced to
believe that the corn crop, from the Viii.
mington and Weldon Railroad West, to the
Tennessee line, will scarcely exceed the
third of crop. From many portions of
the State, we learn thas the crop has been
literally burned up by the drought and
heat Here and there on the low grounds
of water courses, there is an exception but
the crop generally is seriously cut off Iu
Hyde and other Eastern Counties the coro
crop, we judge, will be very large.
With this view, if it be correct, it is all
important that the corn and wheat in the
State should be economically used. All
who will be compelled to buy, should make
arrangements to purchase early or unite with
others in importing corn from the North
western States. This can be done cheaper
than buying at home.-Raleigh Sentinel.
BAD NEWS FROM GEoRa1A.-It is pain
full to read the accounts in our Georgia ex-
changes from North of Atlanta in regard to
the almost entire failure of the crops in that
region, in consequence of protracted
drought. 1t is stated that in many Couu-
ties there had been no rain for several
weeks, and under blazing sun and sum-
mer, the last hope of corn crop bad disap.
peared. The Rome Courier, of last week,
says: ssThe drought continues, with no
immediate prospect of abatement In many
places, the early corn is ruined Through
this aud the adjoining Counties, it now
seems impossible that there will be half Il
crop raised The cotton cror is also obliged
to be short, and apprrhenSions are n'w hc
ing felt that it will be s!a:0a, entirely Out
off,"
The GRAIN Crop The New York Eu-
press says that the indications are that the
cereal crops of the West and the Middle
States, soon about to be, if not already in
good par., harvested, will be the most abund.
ant on record. That is the substance of the
reports which are coming in to US from all
quarters. With but limited demand for
expectation, we do not see how lower prices
can be avoided-a contingency which con.
sumers now compelled to pay Sl4 and SIS
per barrel for -four in the sea board markets
must contemplate with delight.
PLANTING IN NORTH CAROLINA A
gentleman just arrived in this city from the
extensive cotton plantations on Tar River,
North Carolina, speaks Of the crops as
promising exceedingly we'll. The planters
are Northern men, who have hired the land
from the old proprietors, and pay the ne
groes certain amount in cash, besides ra-
tious Some of them, if there is 20 dissp-
pointnent, will realize at least $4,000 on
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