The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1866-10-18
Crops in the South.

Crops in the South.
We give the following information from
Texas and Mississippi papers. The Houma
(Texas) Guard says:
Another rainy week has passed since our
last issue and the army worm continuing Its
depredations. We have never seen our cltl-
zens appear more dcsponding than at the
present time We have seen our people en-
1]ure the insults and robberies of hostile ar
mics and military governments; we have
seen their growing crops disappear as if by
magic, before the devastation of the army
worm or swept away by the floods of the
Mississippi; yet there was hope left in the
heart and men looked bravely forward for
"better luck next time" But there is point
beyond which even human endurance cannot
pass, and it would seem Give may judge by
the evident dependency of those we meet,)
that we are approaching that point. rms
dependency is the more apparent as 1t mas
been but few days since all were In
the finest spirits.
The season has been unusually favorable
for cotton, and many, who had Ventured
their last dollar on the present crop, felt that
the venture was a success, and the future
looked cheering indeed, compared with what
they had passed through. But alas just at
the moment when they were beginning to
gather the fruits of their years labor, once
with it the destructive rains, blasting all
their bright prospects, and destroying the
last hope of many brave hearts.
To add to the general gloom, creditors
seem to have steeled their hearts against eve
~ generous impulse; the utter rigor OF the
law is enforced in almost every instance, and
the "pound of f1esh'' is unblushngly de-
handed. Once fine plantations are seized,
and sold for a 1.-THE OF what they cost; crops
growing in the fields are attached and
the houses are stripped of every vestige of
furniture and sold under the pitiless ham
mer. And the end is not YETI
On the contrary the Texas Bulletin says:
'The present favorable weather is worth
hundreds Of thousands to us. If it contin-
ues we may hope to see one hundred and tif-
ty thousand bales of cotton brought to this
Market which would fully equal in price the
crop of any year previous to the war"
The Houston Journal says
GA gentleman just returned from tour
through Grimes, Montgomery, Walker. Mad
ison, Leon, Houston, Trinity, Polk and Fort
Bend counties reports the cotton crops in
those counties as cut off fully one-half by
the worms and rains. III the overlooked per-
ton of the Trinity bottom, which was re-
planted, it was almost an entire failure"
We copy the following from Mississippi
papers:
The weather still continues most beautiful
and delightful. There has been plenty of
rain to bring up the turnips and other vege-
tables, and it is to be hoped we shall now
have our long dry, autumnal cotton picking
season. With such weather it will take but
little while to save all the remnants of the
cotton crop in this section. The rot and the
worms have cut it very, very short. Great
numbers Of our planters will not pay expen
ses, we fear, and none will make fortunes, or
even pay much on their old debts.-Natchez
Democrat.
of sickness, but we believe, a general
thing, the country is much healthy than for
two or three months past.-Fdyette Chronicle.
For the past week, the weather has been
dry and pleasant. We believe the army
worm has pretty well played out."-Ibid.
Cotton rolled in yesterday i'll wagons
drawn by oxen, mules and otherwise. From |
two to six bales constituted the load. Cot
ton square at one time was rather crowded !
with the teams, that numbered from fifteen |
to twenty within one small space. The ar |
ticle is rising and is goingrlp at the rate of a |
picayune a dash. Fifty cents per pound is |
spoken OF, but it's not fetched yet
Ndtchez Courier.
The cotton crop is being rapidly gathered |
during this fine weather. Wesay rapidly" |
though we doubt if some OF the planting !
community will allow this word to express |
the action of freedmen. Almost the entire |
crop is open and all we want is a few weeks |
good weather to gather it in not much time !
is required it is wofully short.-6id.
Bishop Atkinson.
At meeting of the Standing Committee
of the Diocese of North Carolina, held in
Raleigh, on the 18th inst, the following ex-
tract of letter recently received from Bishop
Atkinson was read:
MY health has improved so much that l
no longer consider my case one contemplated
by the ranons which allow Bishop an as
sistant. 1 think, therefore, the choice of one
by the diocesan convention at its adjourned
meeting, if such choice were made, would
be imperative, and that consequently as the
meeting would be "a source OF trouble and
expense, it would be best to have it post
poned till the next annual convention"
Upon which it was,
Rsaozced, That in the opinion of the Stand
ing Committee it is advisable that the con-
templated convention of the diocese in No
vember be indefinitely postponed.
ResoIoed, That the Church LnteLligencer and
the secular newspapers of the State friendly