Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-10-18


cred, and is reported very backwa by 81
wet weather interfering. The estimates of
the yield vary from 100 to 25O pounds Of lint
to the acre, the average being 156 pounds.
Nine report the yield as more than last year,
and IA from to so per cent. less. The av-
erage of the State is reported as being 13 per
cent. below last year.
Louisiana reports much damage from
storms, rust and rot. The weather during
the month of September was universally un.
favorable. The yield as compared with last
year, will be about 25 per cent. less.
Mississippi reports too much rain during
the month of September, and considerable
damage in large portion of the State from
rust, worms and storms, while in few Sec
tions no damage has been done. In compar'
ison with last year, the crop will fall short
about 10 per cent.
Tennessee reports favorably. All reports
from this State give better yield than last
year; from some sections one-third, and from
others double last years crop.
Alabama reports the season about the same
as last year. In some portions of the State
the yield is not so good, while in others the
yield is from Is to % per cent. more than
last year.
From another source We obtain the follow.
ing in reference to the condition of the crop
in Texas:
The character of the weather since Sep
tember 1st has been favorable in 81 counties
and unfavorable in 7. The effect of the
weather has been good in 81 counties, bad in
7. There has been no additional damage to
the crop by worms since last report Picking
is progressing rapidly; half crop is already
picked. The yield, as compared with last
year, points to decrease of at least % per
cent.
Mr.. Stephens Views.
- Hon. A. H. Stephens, Of Georgia, ar
rived in Washington last week from New
York, where he had been sojourning for sew.
eral days. On his arrival in Washington he
was waited upon by reporter for the No.
tional Union, and spoke quite freely and frank
ly on the different political topics now before
the people. On the paci6cation policy of
President Hayes and the return of better
state of feeling between the North and South,
Mr.. Stephens is quoted as follows:
He says that during his sojourn in New
York, be conversed with nearly a thousand
persons of business, religious and political
note, and not one among them all uttered ex-
pressions other than of the heartiest endorse.
ment of the Presidents administration. The
business men like it because it is harbinger
of the restoration of prosperous commercial
relations between the South and North, and
a re.establishment of that business confidence
which has been wanting for twenty years.
The religious leaders sympathize with it be-
cause it is the embodiment Of justice, the re-
newal of national fraternity, and makes the
friends fthe nation one in purpose, that pur-
pose being to dispel internecine discord. and
establish good will throughout the land. In
answer to question as to whether the elec-
ton of Mr.. Hayes to the Presidency was not
better for the South than the election of Mr.
Tilden would have been, the venerable states
man said that the policy pursued by Presi-
dent Hayes had not only endeared him to the
heart of every true man, woman and child in
the South, but had made him respected and
admired in the North and throughout the
world. This wonderful condition of things
Mr.. Tilden could never have accomplished.
Had Mr.. Tilden been elected, the North
would to-day have been looking at the South
over the points of bayonets, and the South
would have returned the unfriendly glance
with eyes full of the same fiery sectional feel
ing which has characterized the condition of
things since the war. All the old war hates
would probably have been renewed and con-
tinued, and partisan rancor would have be-
come more and more embittered, because the
acts of Mr.. Tilden would have been miscon-
strued and assailed at every point. But Pres
ident Hayes, by his justice, moderation and
good will to all, has disarmed bitter opposi-
ton, and given cause only for admiration and
applause. I consider him, said Mr.. Stephens.
a man of great prudence, politician possess
ed of hig sense of honor and integrity, and
statesman whose name will 60 down in his.
tory as one of the greatest and best public Of
fcers of the nineteenth century.
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THE OHIO ELECTION.
The election in Ohio, last week, resulted in
the success of the Democratic State ticket by