The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-11-19

for the arrest Of the persons who recently I
robbed the Treasury Of Beaver County,
Pennsylvania.
Adviccs from Colorado represent war
with Che ute Indians as imminent, uotwith- !
standing the denial Of Gov CrMNNGs.
The ionrncymeu cigar makers of Bich-
mond, Indiana, have established protect
i've puion.
AIabama-Failure Of ,he Orops--
sad Condition of Affairs.
gentleman from q Northern State, who
has spent several months in North Ala
bama, presents the following rather gloomy
account Of the condition of things ir ,hat
part of the south:
This country seems accursed of heaven.
Last year and the present the almost inn
| poverished planters have called To produce
any but The most meagrr returns for the
| seed sown and the labor expended
! Continuous rains in the spring drought
IN the summer and heavy frOsts in October,
together with bad seed and new system
loflabor. are amoug the difficulties contend
ed against. and all combined have rendered
the present the most disastrous season to
I he planting interests on record.
As an average less than oHe-iiith of n
crop of cotton has beei. made.
| From plantations where less shan half q
bale per acre was q shori crop. the pickcrs
are cleaning less than oue-siNth Of that
lamount. Blt very few of the many North
ern men who have en- gagged in the business
Of cot:on-raisng. will clelr their expenses,
In many eases the rent is paid mt the alb
surd rate of one hundred pounds OF seed
cotton, or thirty pounds OF marketable cot
ION, per acre. instead OF prOportionallv, oi
on p cash basis. In such cases the reuter-
has spent his whole time and money main
w 10 enrich the laudholder, Generally the
landowner pctnaciously Insists on his tul
d amount of rent, hut there are some honor
able exceptions when the renter secures an
abatement IN consideration OF the shortncs'
OF the crop and the conscoucnt increase IN
, price.
ON account of the scarcity of worl, foi
= the pickers. many of them are going from
here to plantations on the Missi ssippi aEC
10 some locations in Tennessee. where th'
crops are more abundant.
1 Corn. rs well rs cotton, was III exceed
: ingly short crop. Not enough has beer
produced to subsisi the mhabitsnt
ill tho spring. L. IS selling NV
at 81 40 and meal at 81 75 TO 50 pc Dushel
Il Pork viii be correspopdingly scarce. aus
= from all the signs that present themselves
the coming winter win bcouc of great suf
ierng and want.
T. The state and General Government
= nave made partial provision for the de,ti
tute. Int their supplies will soon be cN
haustcd after cold weather commences. anC
e fiminc will ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in manycascs
G hope such gloomy forcbodings may prov,
uniounded; but. from all can learn, they
are only what will shortly be dread reality
In somc portions of the country enough
j mas been raised to sustain the immedia
h localities but none have surplus. aEt
generally the people. already twice i'm
povcrishcd. by war and last years failure
+ must look abroad for aid, Many from tn
G mountains are moving away from thi
@ famiue-stricken region to the more fertil
and highly favored land beyond The Mis-
sissippi. But, alas. the majority. and til
: poorest, are unable 20 go.