Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-06-23
From Wnslllngtnn.


of Agriculture has received returns from
nearly 800 Counties, representing the mose
productive district Of each of the cotton
Statcs, showing the comparative average and
the condition of the crop in the first week Of
June. diminution in the area lanted in
cotton appears in every State except Florida.
The most c,rtful analysis Of the returns, with
due rcg'rd in making averages of the cotton
production in the respective Counties, gives
the following pr ccntage of reduction, in
comparison with last year: Virginia, 10 per
cent. North Carolina, III South Carolina,
l3; Gc"rgn, II; Alabama, l3 Mississippi,
10; Louisiana, s Texas, II; Arkansas, l6;
Tennessee ~ These State averages arc re-
duccI to general average. The assumed
arcage Of the respective States being an clc-
mcut in the calculation, will place the rcduc,
ton Of the cotton in 1871, us compared with
that Of 1870, between II and Is per cent
equivalent to ncarlya million and third of
acres. This would leave between seven and
q half and eight millions of acres us the pres
cnt area in the cotton. The average yield
has not in former years exceeded ! 80 pounds
per acre; that Of 1870 was more than 200
pounds The condition of the growing
plant Is below an average in nearly every
State. The spring has been unusually wes
anu CoIu, tHlAINiHS me growth ana causing
many Of the plants to turn yellow aud die,
an'l ub>trncting cultivation to II largo extent.
Rcplantins has relied The vacant spncca Of
imperfect stands. The weather has recently
been more favor,hIc and it is not impossible
that nn average condition may be attaincd by
the commencement Of the picking season. =
The condition Of cotton in June, Of 1860, q
year favored with an ubund,nt yield, was only
htllc better than the showing for juno Of tho
present ycrr. While the prospect is slightly
improving, there is nothing in it of dccs-
I've chaiactrr. The per ccuta.,c below an av.
craGc condition is respectively as follows in
! the respective States: North Carllinn. 10 per-
cent. %onLh Carolina, 8; Georgia., 10 Al.
ab,nia, ~; Mississippi, 16 Louisi,na, 10;
Texas, I j; Arkansas. II: Tennessee 10. lm
Florida the condition is 3 per cent. above an
average. An official estimate Of the ultimate
result SO carly in the season would be nu alb
surdity The influence If future rains, floods,
froSts and insect enemies cannot be calculated
in advance but in view Of the extremely ia
votablc circumstances attending the crop Of
last year, there cannot be expected, the pres.
ent year upon n reduced area, ~ crop exceed.
ing 1900 600 bales An carly frost, or the
prevalence Of insects, or very unprnpitous,
season, miyhi reduce the WELD tp 3 900 900,
b'cs; ana still further reduction is posi-
bic IN tao union or severity OF several of these,
causes of failure.
WAsuINGToN, June III. t. Johnson
has been restored TO the mnrshaIShip Of South
Carolina
Catholics throughout tho Christian
world, on Saturday, celebrated an event,
which to them was little less than miracle.
since it never occurred hut once before and,
its repetition had come to be regarded as next
to impossible. This was the completion of the
twenty fifth year of the reign Of the Pope
the only Que OF tho long Inc Of tlc Roman,
Pon,Is who, since ST. Potter, The founclcrof
tic Church, has occupied the paral cllair
f,r t'mt length Of tine.
= The Andersen Mtc'Mjcnccy says Tic
public meeting on Tuesday last resulted in
an almost unanimous recommendation that
the County Commissioners Submi, the r,ncs.
,ion to the voters If anderson county whcth-
or or not they Will subscribe the sum of $780,
0D0 to the capital stock Of The Atianta aud
Richmunl Air Line Hallway.
- Gen. i +. Bites, who WIS in Jail ut
%partanburS Court House for committing
homicide fortnight since, went to Anderson
On tie 18th instant in elarYr ,f 'lc sheriff,
to be admitted to bail, if possible, hy Judge
Orr. After a hcariE. he WIS released on his
own r'cNgnizancc in the sum Of $500
= The President hrs Gnally decided to
MAZE Il trip to tie Pacific coast the middle of
August. in company with Senator Nye Tie
will vis; Salt Lake City. Nevada, California,
aud probably 20 to Portland, Oregon, in
revenue cutter
- The cable announces that Communists
prisoners, to the number of twenty thousand,
are to be transported to New Caledonia, q
desola'c island in the South Pacific ocean,
belonging to France.
= The Wisconsin Democratic fsatc com
mitcc in their call for n State convention,
say iheir true mission is to deal with the prac.
tical questions Of the day, ignoring controvcr-
sizes settled by the progress of events
= The number of Cinnamon reported to
be burned to death in tho Don Jaun has
reached six hundred
- August Belmont, it ia said, has S26,-
/ 100000 in pictures, race horses and United
St,too J,,oJ,