Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1875-05-20
EDITORIAL INkLINGS.
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The New Attorney General.

- Speaking of Attorney General Williams
successor, Washington letter says that it is
understood that there will be thorough and
general reorganization Of the Attorney Gen
erals office upon Judge Pierrepont's entrance,
and that the President has desired Judge
Pierrepont to reorganize it entirely upon his
own responsibility, without any Executive in
reference. 1t is stated that there are a large
number of prominent applicants for the posi-
ton made vacant by the resignation of Assis-
tsnt Attorney. General Hill, which takes ef-
feet on Saturday next. His successor, how
ever has not been designated, although the
vacancy will be filled up in a few days. The
new Attorney General is in entire sympathy
and accord with Secretary Bristow's financial
policy. He is opposed to certain features of
the past reconstruction policy in the Southern
States, which he has always maintained could
be productive of no good, either to the States
severally or to the country at large
Condition of the Crops.
- The condition of winter wheat in $50
western counties has been reported to the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washington.
About three hundred counties of the valleys
Of the Ohio and Missouri are represented,
which last year produced 70 million bushels
of winter wheat, or sixty per cent. Of the pro-
duct of seven States, from Ohio to Kansas.
The average in these States is 63 per cent,
indicating only fve,eights of full crop, if no
Improvement occurs. In Kentucky Is per
cent, Ohio 81, Michigan 81, Indiana 66,
Illinois 63, Missouri SO, Kansas SO, though
only 50 counties in the latter State are repre-
sented. The condition is better in Pennsyl-
vania, Maryland and Virginia, though below
an average A. few wheat counties in New
York make extremely unfavorable returns.
The proportion to be re-planted in other crops
averages ii per cent. in the West, or l 100000
acres in breadth of 9,000,0O0 acres seeded.
The largest proportion is q per cent. in Mis-
souri,, Illinois %, Kansas and Indiana II ,
Michigan and Ohio 10, Kentucky 4. Very
little replanting in the middle States except
in New York.
The Crops In the South.
- The Nashville (Tenn.) Union, which
has taken some trouble to learn the condition
of the crops in the South, reports the prospect
more hopeful for the cotton planters than they
have experienced since the war. The acreage
planted in cotton in Tennessee, Alabama
Georgia, Arkansas and Texas is reported to
be fully as large as that last year planted in
cotton, and with favorable seasons will pro
duce good average cotton crop. The best
indication that agriculture at the South is
reganing solid foundation, is contained in
the announcement that the acreage devoted
to grain this year in the States just named
will be increased by nearly seventy-6ve pei
cent. upon the areas last year devoted tc
grain. If the facts are correctly reported
this is clear gain to the agricultural re
sources of the South. Not a few agricultural
emigrants have, during the past year, come
to these States. The cotton planters since
the war have not raised as much corn as they
did formerly, and the cotton crops of late
years have by no means represented the mel
results of Southern planting. The South al
ways was, and probably always will be,
large purchaser of Western grain and meat
but before the war cotton planters endeavored
to raise food enough for their own use, lat
terly they have neglected their corn crops
and nearly all the profits on the cotton crop;
Of MANY of them have been consumed in the