The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-23

az all events. we shouldahave atgood wheat
erop, ifoply the skies would allow 1t to 0a got
aR.i Thet harvest weather proven al sLnat
gould behiesired, get TIE untforanTeport from
al guarterS tsGuat thu yield otA 6eI80me2
Der lcent: 6eLoio the average. The stalk, they,
is thin and weak, and the ear, conse-
:uuently, not full. The crops OF apples and
other fruits have also generally failed. we
seem to hape O. dearth before us,and one that.
3oiu set in before the end of the year. To this
must be added the high price of coal. The
cost OF living cannot but keep high.
There issome reason for thinking that the
potato. crop will not turn out. as badly as
the Times expects; but the extent OF the
cattle disease is certainly moderated.
throughout Lancashire the farmers are
thoroughly alarmed at it's rapid progress.
In the Preston District, which includes nine
OF the most important agricultural sections
OF northeast and west Lancashire, there
we're, during the week ending the 9Th, 1872
fresh outbreaks OF the disease. The official
returns also announce that SAG farms are
affected by. it, and that BIO head OF cattle,
1854 sheep, and 80 swine are on the SICK
list. AS compared with the previous week.
these figures show an increase OF Al out
breaks, III farms, $40 cattle and 482 sheep
In the Stafford Hundred, which includes
seven Of the chief agricultural districts OF
south Lancashire. there were, during the
same period, 40 fresh outbreaks; the dis
ease prevails on 100 farms, the animals
affected being 46O cattle, 348 sheep and FL
swine; showing an Increase Of 80 in the
number OF farms affected by it, and Ill In
the cattle under treatment.
Following out the American idea that q
set of resolutions will heal every. trouble,
public meetings have been held 10 London
to protest against the ''exorbitant rates"
charged for meat. This will do as much
goods as some Of the legislation proposed BY
members OF the South Carolina General As
seembly, who wanted to establish the rate of
wages at two dollars a day, and to compel
every man to lend out all his money at six
per cent. a year. But Its IN i'll wind that
blows good to nobody. The American
farmers will find a ready and profitable
market for their surplus produce, and the
railways and shipping merchants will share
in the benefit. Ia is quite possible that the
dearness of coal in England is mainly due to
artificial causes. This, at all events, is the
inference drawn from the following letter,
which is published in the London Fnancier:
There is very little difference between the
position OF the collleries there and With us In
Lancashire. Everywhere / notice the same
~thing-the coliieries full. Of orders and old
contracts (many OF them still at very low
rates, y and everywhere the men more inclined
for recreation than work, and determined not
to allow any stocks TO be put upon The banks
of the pit. In fact, they seem to manage mat
tiers have pressing contracts they take care
that they are kept in arrear. Under such cir.
cumstances' there is not a c0lliery Epl oprle-
tor who will enter into any new contracts,
ever at the present greatly enhanced prices,
and the time is rapidly approaching when q
great many industrial Embellishments will be
stopped for. want Of coal-say, when theif
present coal contracts are at an end. In many
instances 1t has ceased to DO q question OF
price. In some localities coal is not to be had
in quantities at any price, and often, when 9
manufacturer wants one hundred or two hun
bred tons q week from a colliery, 1t Is only as
a great favor; and because he has been a good
customer for many years, that twenty;to fifty
tons a week are given him. Az to taking on
new customers, even II they come with cash
In hand, no coal proprietor thinks Of looking
at them. This Is about the real state of things
10 all the coal districts of England, and. be-
lieve, also of Scotland.