The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1871-09-16
from Glasgow. panicked the passengers.
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the flames.
NIGHT DESPATCHES.


WAsHrNoToN, September 49, Revenue
Sutton are consulting with Douglass for
a more efficier. collection of the tobacco
tax.
The sentence of s5atanta and Big Tree
has been commuted to imprisonment for
life.
Probabilities-The barometer will pro-
badly continue to full, with Eusterly
wind and rain tonight in New England,
and cloudy weather is probable for Sa.
turdny over the Middle and Easte,n
States. The low barometer will proba-
bly, continue over the lakes Southward
to the gulf, with clearing and partially
cloudy weather, except from Lake Sn.
perior to Iowa, where Southerly wi:ds
and rain may probably prevail by Satur-
day night.
Bondsmen OF di-elect revenue officers
very generally ask continuation Of
suits, aud Commissioner Douglass do
cllnes to accede. The Govern ment is
determined to press suits in MI there
cases.
Official cotton statement-No cotton
crop reports purporting to have come
from the Department of Agriculture dur
ing the past month have been genuine.
The items in circulation, often contra
dictory in tenor, assumed to be olficiul,
have had no origin in the statistical data
of that Office. The returns of August
and September include reports from
about 400 cotton growing Counties,
representing very lurge proportion of
the cotton area. Those for August point
to an average condition of the crops,
almost identical with that of the preced-
ing report-the average for Alabama and
Mississippi being the same, those of
Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee being
higher, and those Of other cotton States
lower The State averages Of tho Sep
tember report are somewhat lower than
those Of August, though the principal
depreciation occurs in the Suites
which yield the smallest proportion
OF the cotton crops; while the
reduction is slight in the important dis
trict represented by the States Of Geor-
gia, Alabama, Mississippi aud Louisiana.
The per centaee of full condition in the
first week of September, as averaged
from all attainable data, is thus stated:
North Carolina 50, South Carolina so,
Georgia 7S, Florida rs, Alabama 80,
Mississippi 81, Louisiana IT, Texas 81,
Arkansas 95, and Tennessee sc. There
are reports of injuries by the boil worm
and caterpillar, mainly in Mississippi
and Louisiana, but no evidence that a
general or very serious loss from insects
is probable. Rust is common in the
Atlantic States, and to some extent on
the Gulf coast, drought has been ipinri-
Gus in the Carolinas and Texas, though
the reports of rain fall through the South
Indicate fair supply of moisture, the
distribution of which has been somewhat
more unequal than usual. At one point
in Georgia, the fall in August was nearly
fourteen inches, aud in parts of Florida
it amounted to twenty-three inches.
These variable atmospheric conditions
have increased tho prevalence of rust,
aud caused the destruction both of leaves
aud fruit. These drawbacks, though
greater thnn those reported in September
Of last year, are not sufficiently serious
to excite apprehensions of greatly de-
preciated yield. They are reported each
year III some portions of the cotton area.
In the record of last year, there was con-
siderable complaint of damage to cotton
crops from rust, worms and unfavornbIe
August weather. These fncts do not
point to an enlargement of the cxpecta-
ton hitherto indulged. If they are reli-
able, the most favorable season could
scarcely bring crop exceeding three and
one-third millions of bales. If the
growing season should be short or un-
favorable, 5000, 600 would be good re.
suit; nnd, with combination of unfa-
vorAble circumstances, the product
might be still further reduced.
LEWISTON, MAINE, September 15.-
The first killing frost fell this morning.
AUBURN, N. Y, September 15.-Rtv.
jacob Van Vechter is dead.
New York, September 15.-Jucob
Vanderbilt, President Of the Staten
Island Ferry Company, was nrruigned
for manslanghter. He plead not guilty.
Judge Bedford charged the grand jury
that considered tho conspiracy in Wall
street to lock up millions of gold.
Judge Bedford concluded by saying that
the cuIprits ought to bs brought to
speedy Justice. Many leading Wall
street brokers are implicated.
Roscnwcig has been indicted for abor-
tiun.
The proprietor of the torpedo cstn.
blishmcnt is held in $I0. 600 bull
lie ship st. Lawrence, from Bremen
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