The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1875-05-01

Conn AND COTTON PLANTING IN THE
SoUTH.-The st. Louis Democrat, which
is especially pains-taking in collecting
information for its commercial eSolumns,
has boon ssarching Its Southern ex-
changes, andlfeels prepared to Htate that
not only aretplanting opeIntiohs in the
South quite o. forward us could be ex-
peetedg but q greatly increased ssarea will
be devoted to corn this year, without di-
minishing the area devoted to cotton.
Accounts from Tennessee, Alabama,
Georgia, Arkansas and Texas NIL agree in
the statement TINT the acreage of cotton
will be fully up to that Of last year, while
tho acreage "f corn, wheat aH; cats will
be increased from so to rs per cent.
corn planting The price of corn has
been 30 high during the pnst season, that
Southern people have been compelled to
pnrt with all the money, they could get
from their cotton crop in the purchase Of
corn and meat. Unless the ..Vesuvian
equinox" OF June intlicts nm extended
frost upon the country, there will be har-
vested in 1875 tho largest corn crop ever
raised on earth. Already corn is we'll up
in Texas and Southern Arkansas. Emf
grafton to both these localities has been
large during the lust winter and fall, and
the emigrants are mainly ngriculturists,
and will either work farms of their own
or hire to other planters and farmers
Beyond doubt, the South, the South
west, and, in fuct, the entire country,
will experience better times from this
year forward until the next great panic
occurs; for which untoward event the
prudent will always be upon the watch
manufacturing industries are resuming
tull operations; furnaces are going into
blast; work is rcsuming in mines, and
tho country begins to exhibit in every
department of activity renewal of it's
wonted life and vivacity.
ANOTHER ALICE BowIsBY C,sE.--
Among the articles sent over the Twenty
third street ferry, New York, Tuesday
morning. for transportation to the West
by the Erie Railway, WAS an ordinary
soap box, about two feet in length, ten
inches in depth and fourteen inches
wide. 1t WIS directed to Mrs M. w.
Wondford, Van Vert, Van Vert County,
Ohio, ria A. Il G. ". II. r., and was la
brled, i'll addition, ''H0," which was
supposed to designate the weight The
box WAS so light, however, that suspi-
clon WAS aroused, and it was broken
open, and IL horrible spectcble was pre-
sented. A human body, chopped up,
was packed into the box, interininxled
with charcoal The skull, the hands,
the feet. the spinal columns, with ribs
attached, the humeral bones, legs and
arms, all lenuded Of the flesh, were
packed in, and the fresh, red flesh por-
tions that adhered to the bones indicated
very plainly that the carving process had
been only recently performed. The re-
mains were apparently those Of female.
The box was consigned by n man giving
his name as "Dr. Wethies," of New
York, but the city directory contains no
such name. It was decided to have the
box and its contents forwarded to Ohio,
where detectives will be plnced on the
alert. In addition to the suspicious
lightness of the box, the 3tdripping of
blood through the joints led to the exn-
mination. How many such articles Of
freight pass along the railroads unde-
tected liz now serious question. "F
The WAR OvEH.-The row in Dame
Europn's school appears TO have spbsided
for the present. The German papers
have suddenly become "conciliatory and
peaceful" ns u cable despatch expresses
it: the Government has given up its idea
Of an international conference to. .tregu-
late the Pope, and we ore told that it is
now generally accepted in Berlin that
Russia, Austria and Germany are far'
vornble to q continuance Of peace in
Europe" This is certainly very satis-
factory, but it must be little embarrass-
ing to Prince Bismarck after his recent
| warlike demonstration. Nobody Yould