The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-05-21

Anu'lhe DAek wafer OF tne SWampS and
low hands Is falling quite rapidly. We
have only 10 wait q little while longer
10 hear better udings from the country
now flooded. Crops will not be so large
as last year, but sensible planters who are
not 0YerSe 10 "home manufacture" Of
bread and meat will make enough TO live
on and probably have little over.
From the Yazoo and TSllAhatchie val
leys, ehAye the most encouraging re-
ports Of the crop prospects. The Yazoc
and the Tallahatchie rivers have fallen
FIVE feet, the back water had receded
from the swamps, the farms were nc
longer oVeffowed, the submerged fleldG
have been ploWed up and replanted with
cotton and grain. The merchants O.
Greenwood, Lexington, Yazoo CITY and
other points along the valley are pfepar-
Ing 10 lay in their usual spring and sum-
mer stocks, which have been delayed by
the high water and the uncertainty Of The
iulure.
As Of Mississippi, SO Of Louisiana; the
Shreveport Times Of the 9th says:
We yesterday interviewed several
friends from the country on the condi-
ton Of their crops. The universal opin.
ion is that the crops OF both cotton and
corn are in anything but desirable con.
dltioa, Though some Of them admit that
they might possibly be worse. They are
certainly two or three weeks behind those
Of last year al this date. On very
many plantations the cotton Is not yet up,
and on those where 1t has come up ii
locks decidedly sickly and most emphst-
icllly grassy. The corn too is backward
though, under the adverse circumstances,
might be said TO be doing as well as
could be expected, IS the doctors say.
The above rumors apply to the hill crops,
30 far RS the bottom lands ars concerned
we learn that on some Of those places
which have not been overlooked, the
cotton is dying out This Is accounted
Tor by an intelligent planter upon the
theory that the surface OF the ground has
been so thoroughly baked around the
plant that circulation is checked. Some
are blowing up and planting over, while
Others are having the crust broken BY
hoeing outand replanting in the missing
places,
Now. this shows that things, bad al
they are, are not halt as dismal as they
were al first represented-and as the sea.
son progresses, with a complete subsi-
dence Of the waters, we may reasonably
expect thst the prospect will grow better
and better,
As to exsggetauons, among the parish.
Is set down by the New Orleans Tines,
a few days ago, was ST. Charles. The
overflow, it was said, extended over one
fourth Of the entire parish, and that the
rice crop there would certainly be short
1880 barrels. Now, ut in a.t contra
diction Of all this, the ST. Charles herald
oil the 9th tells Us
The weather Of the past week was
quite pleasant. The roads are dry and
dusty; vegetation Is vigorous; crops look
well; people no longer fear and watch
levees, and everything looks lovely.
: There has been no crevasse or inunda.
ton In St. Charles parish on our side Of
the river; we are high and dry and all the
crops are In excellent condition.
The rice planters have finished sowing,
and most Of the seed is already up.
Throughout the parish the crop looks
splendtdly, and there Is no lack OF water.
St Charles parish will this year produce
not less than thirty.ffve thousand barrels,
Had 1t not been for the Bonnet Care Gre.
vase, there would have been ten thousand
barrels more.
Lafourche was another parish that was
well.nigh ruined. Two.thirds Of the rice
crops there were reported as hopelessly
gone, but the Thibadsux Sentinel, OF the
9lh, tells a different story. It says:
Takingit all in all, Lafourche has c.
capped from the disasters Of 1874 with q
comparative small loss Of crops. Whilst
come have severely suffered, q large por-
don Of the best cultivated lands on both
sides OF the bayou are uniDjured.
Corroboratory Of these statements, we
have the following from a New Orleans
correspondent Of the New York Times,
under date Of sth inst:
Now that the waters have passed off Il
Is iound that, In the main, the CROPS have
not been materially injured, and that
Wltna favorable season from this time
forward, there will not be q greater loss
than ten per cent Of the crops. The cot-
Ton and sugar crops, the PRINCIPAL stanIes
OF the State, have not lost vitality hnt are
looking well. It Is asserted that he irnr.
dalton, instead Of being an ininrv viil
prove 70 be q blessing, as the se3;r, ~"
which passed with the water Nvsr ~
oyeIaoWed lands will add greatly 10 their
richness, and, for two or three years ~
come, will add largely 10 the increSse NJ
the crops. = TWAS EXPECTED ,bS;
the watetH nom the overflow would have
remained upon the land In the places
whore the inundation occurred, but liz
rapid subsistence will enable many Of the
people In those districts 70 replant their
crop, II such course should be found
necessary. The principal injury sus-
tanned by them Is the loss OF their stock
and agricultural implements, which loss,
no doubt has been very great.
It affords US much satisfaction to place
these statements on record. They are,in
double sense, valuable, first, as showing
The incutable tendency OF people to ex.
asgerate oalaniuss before The real dam.
age can DO definitely ascertained. and
second, Is removing the annrehpnsior
that ugE, cotton, rice and tobacco Vould
be slhottn 70 an extent that won1 ~
seriously felt IN the home and fors;s -
markets for these great Rtaples,