New-York tribune., 1867-08-23
THE CROP PROSPECT.


A correspondent Of The Boston Journal gives
the following the result OF extensive oDSeNatlons
throughout the South;
"Thirteen hundred and thirty miles Of cotton and corn!
That what the traveller from NewOleaus 10 Baltimore
by railroad will and it is what your correspondents
saw i'm the % hours occupied in that journey Very dole
m accounts OF the failure OF the cotton crop had reached
the azness Of the negr@9es @ the a. aen nv 81 the cn
ton crop said to be in bad way aud tie man who
ss ssmI5Sa dd%n T an 'FSR enthusiast Bat fo% aS' Ns%
orleans to Knoxville, distance OF 7e2 miles.
| saw nothing but corn and cotton and scarcely
corn than cotton All day long M the rate Of twenty
miles hour passed plantations covered with these
som Although the plant is generally low, &c Is VIGOROUS
aud healthy have never seen better cctSH sa Th '
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and tennessee saw
ourneyed, and the residents along the route with whom
conversed, learned that throughout tie ehgth ana
width of these States might have seei the same picture
know that the bottom lands along the 9lss,ssppi and
Red Rivers have been so devastated By Hoods that
they cannot produce than haf thelr usual crop
this year. But throughout all the other portions of these
States can see or hear nothing that IN any way subsan
ates the doeul stories that have been so perssenty
told for the last few weeks; on tne contrary saw and
TO work with good WILL ana that Heaven had blessed
their efforts There corn enough growing IN these four
siSc' sye the people money FOR The supply OF ali their
other wants The corn Is In maghnceht cYhniuon'
Tbe 1s' country % in that portion Of Mississippi, Ala
baua and Tennessee through which / passed is very
var have nearly all disappeared The nanes OF the
places through which the road now historical.
little else TO remind one OF the great revolution IL
10 that the people Of these states have accepted the
work and TO make money and while saw endless lndi
cations OF prosperity saw none whatever OF poverty
In Virginia from Bristol to Iynchburg,
aud idle land than saw in al the other States
and the crop, which almost the only one grow
ing, poor, sickly, and backward Virginia farmers
are further behind the times than their agricultural bTeth
of tat
wealth in Virginia before the war was the breeding OF
now at an end and the farmers, with tnat peculiar slow
ness that 6haTacterzes Nirgnians have not YET got
fairly started in the new paths they must hehceiorth
tread"
THE CROPS IN GEORGIA AND ALABAMA.
From Our SPECIAL Correspondent
ATLANTA, Ca, Aug. 10. 1867.
The universal testimony of men with whom
converse from every county OF Southern Georgia. is to
the effect that in grain wheat fruits peaches, po-
tatoes and every thing cultivated, the State has never
had so fine a crop As write, fhe Athens Watciman of
the ith s handed me. It says We doubt whether, in
the memory OF the oldest mhahitant There have ever
been such crops this section those Of the present
vcar-,ve meas, the land I'm cultivation We know not
what proportion Of the hand is 1ng idle. There is no
doubt but that the present years line crops vi" greatly
SO much for Northeast Georgia Now for the South.
West. me Edriy County Aers tells us; " ,lhIoughoue
Miller, Baker, Clay, Calhoun, aud Eally the crops are
good and some sections that have heretofore been noted
for their serlty have produced abundaniy and there
will even be surplus for eAporlaton iehe last cOun-
ties named In the southwest corner OF Georgia. near
the Alabama and Florida lines.
streets Of Atlanta, and of a the northern Georgia
towns filed with wagons loaded with NUTS OF me
harvest which the country people exchange for articles
of prime necessity, and IN Of buying and
sorekcepers often hear the rcmnIk, First time we've
a deaf Georgia traders who talk about short col
lecti0ns aud poor crops"
The state railroad from here 20 Chattanooga has
short branch 10 Rome, over which, from Rome 10 the
shipped The shipments by tins small feeder arc expected
reach 10000 bushels Red wheat 2t Augusta Was yes
terday 81 75Gsl SO; white 81 SOQ 81 90
The same general report OF good crops comes also NUN
Alabama.
Coton-The omnipresent first bale Tor Georgia has
almost simultaneously appeared in savannah ahd IN Gay
Co Alabama Liue) The first was frolu the ldtdlou Oh
Mr. Charles A. Miller aud sold 10 the agent or Dennis
Perkins a Co. OF NeWlOrk Tor 1o ceita ne p"lG was
strict middlng and weighed So pounds Ihe second was
at 30 cents At Nout2uln ~ Ala the
first three bales were received on toe 3th; strict nddhng
o1 cents AT Macon Ca all OIictdut good du1y on the
Iifh INST was taken cents. Al Augusta, same day,
market firm with prices Of upward tendency; mid
dlings, 25ta26 cents
Any estimate OF the coming crop must necessarily DO
as uncertain as the elements, and would lie random
eueSs-wOrk For much dry or too much wet weather
would seriously damage the crop This year Is unusu
ally late in opening and is yet able 10 disaster from
rust the bOllwOm and other accidents In past years,
cotton has often been ready Tor picking ~ Mldde
Georgia and Alabama by the 10Th of August Tie army
worm or caterpillar is already reported having made
trous news from Henry County where the caterpillar mas
made its appearance in large numbers and nelis ta
few weeks ago promised important yields have been en-
tirey destroyed. The LiringSon tAla) JO"7idt also
serious complaints from Georgia, but will require
fully three weeks TO place our cotton crop mere OeIohu
danger. IL Is a most uncertain staple