Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23
Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Ten

Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Ten.
nessee and Texas, giving the condition of the
cotton crop up to September II.
LoU1sIANA.-Returns from IL parishes re-
port unfavorable weather in all but one; 6
report rotting of the boil and decreased
yield in consequence; report labor sufficient
for cotton likely to open, and reports it
deficient; 2 estimate the yield at half bale
per acre, reports half as much as last year,
and no change since last report. The boil
worm has made its appearance in and the
caterpillar in /. In several places the wealth.
er has improved during the last two or three
days.
ARKANsAs.-Return from four districts re.
ceived show that the crop has been damaged
by rain in 3, and half crop is estimated in
|. Labor is scsrce in 2 and plenty in l.
The crop is opening we'll in |. Picking 60
ing ahead we'll in /. The yield is half a bale
to the acre in county, two-thirds in l, three
quarters in l, and one-third in /.
Observation-Disclosures from points re-
port fine weather since last report and re-
port unfavorable. Some reports complain of
losses from rain equal TO from 20 to 35 per
cent. One estimates the yield at 500 pounds
to the acre, at 1000, and at Lale to four
acres. Picking has progressed we'll in and
is retarded in by rain. Labor is in demand
in g. There is a report of forms shedding in
county.
Returns have been received
from districts Three report the condition
of the crop unchanged since last report, 5
report favorable weather, unfavorable and
2 bad weather early in the week, but improved
rince, estimated one third of a crop. ! two.
thirds, three fourths and one.half. Worms
have appeared at three points, in one of which
they have inflicted little or no damage. One
reports labor scarce, labor sufficient, 5 pick
ing good. damaged by storm ; in l cotton
opening we'll.
TExAs.-Reports have been received from
6 districts. Excessive rains are reported in
5, fair weather in /. Disasters by worms are
reported from 8 counties, and no worms in l..
Prospects not so good in and about the same
in as last week. One reports no change.
GEoRGIA-Reports from 2 districts have
been received, in both Of which worms have
inflicted serious damage; just half a crop in
|, 10 per cent in the other. One reports too
much rain, the other the crop opening rapidly
and twenty days earlier than last year. The
change is general in Northern Georgia and
Alabama.
FLoR1DA.-Returns from points show no
change in one aud more favorable weather in
the other section. The incoming cotton gen.
orally shows the effects Of the late storm.
TENNEssEE.-The reports indicate favora'
BILE weather and cotton opening rapidly with
sufficient labor. The estimated product is
four hundred pounds per acre.
Ben Buffers Speech at Pittsburg.
- Gen. Ben. Butler and Col. John W.
Forney arrived in Pittsburg, Pa, last Satur'
day afternoon. Paul j. Carson, ex.deputy
sheriff, together with number of other color
ed men, called upon Gen. Butler, who in re-
sponse to speeches by Mr.. Carson, said be
had done nothing, but what he conceived to
he his duty. The war was not begun for
the emancipation of the slaves, because, as
all would remember, at the first proclama-
tion of President Lincoln troops were called
out to retake and repossess the United States
in property which had been seized from them,
and to execute the laws. After reviewing
his career from 1860 to 1885,, he continued :
For the sixteen years>Since the war have
acted with the Republican party in the hope
that they would extend that protection to
the co}ofed men of the South that deemed
ought to be done. I tried to get it done in
Congress; but it was not done. fought the
campaign for Hayes in 1S7f under the prom
ise of the platform and party leaders that it
should he done, and what is the result? The
very first act of the Hayes administration
was to turn over the States of Louisiana and
South Carolina, where it was claimed that
there were Republican governors elected by
the negro voters, or else Hayes was moi
elected. He gave the governments so elec
ted over to the Democrats, and from that
hour, for four years, not one thing has been
attempted to be done in behalf of the colored
men, nor indeed anybody else. There has
been, it is true, little attempt to stop the
illicit distiling of whisky and brandy in the
South, and few men have been caught and
let 20, and some men have been killed by
lawless distllers, and their murderers have
not been punished, so that there has not been
proper protection for the men who live down
there; that being so, in the best interest of the
South and the best interests of the colored
men, propose to have change. If the Re-
publican party cannot provide this protection
in 16 years, I do not propose to allow them
20. Gen. Hancock has said that he will en-
force the 18th, 18th and 18th amendments in
their letter and spirit. and nobody who knows
him will doubt that he will stand by that prom
ise, if elected and given power, and nobody
doubts that the Democratic party will have the
power to protect the negro if they get into pow
er, and their leader has said he will do So
I propose to try this experiment for four years,
and then if the Democrats cannot do better
than Hayes has done, l shall turn round and
help kick them out at the end of four years.
One thing is certain, cannot be more pow
erless during the next a years to give the
colored men proper protection than [ and
every other man has been in the past.
NORTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The people of Rutherford county are
talking strongly Of voting tax to build a
railroad through the county.
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