The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-15

freight, not being able to take on any
at Augusta, or at any of the land
! inps along the river on account
| of the freshet There is a heevy freight
! awaiting her at this end of the line, which
was the main reason for her coming down.
Capt. Ward SAYS that this is the greatest
treshet since the Harrison freshet. On both
sides of the river all the low lands are COW
cred as far as the eye can reach
and the river presents the appearance of a
vast lake. There is perfect eddy from
| Purysburg TO Augusta.
EVERYTHING UNDER WATER
All the landings are covered with water
except Stokes. Stoney Bluff and Griffin and
| Johnsons landings The Progress was uu-
| able b make landing anywhere.
! The warehouses at the landings are
! flooded out. The Progress passed through
/ the heaviest body of water l25 miles above
! the city and she ran ahead of the freshet at
| Hudson's Ferry, about ninety miles west.
| Capt. Ward thinks that the freshet will
| reach here by tomorrow night. 1t is an
immense volume Of water, and he says
that there is no doubt about its
covering everything above the city. The
whole Of Beach island is under water, and
the splendid corn crop is total loss. Capt.
Ward says that there is considerable rice
above here which has not been cut yet, and
WulCl VIII Do eHGiISiJ uosIlO1eA lie
Progress will leave for Augusta to-day at
II o'clock.
EFFECTS OF THE RAINS ON COTTON.
The Vet weather is being severely felt in
the cotton belt tributary to Savannah, and
both sea island and upland show discolora-
ton The wet weather prevailed through
out Georgia and affected probably one
fourth of the cotton. A rust succeeded the
drought, and rust followed the extreme wet
weather Then the open bolls were affected
by the rain, which caused the discoloration.
Cotton planters have embarrassments not
SO damaging but as exasperating as those
of the rice planters. At the very outset
they were put back by the high prices AMI
scarcity of bagging, and then came the
rains, which retarded picking as well as re-
ducing the quality Of the staple, and after
the rams came the freshets, washing
out gaps III the railroads so that
the cotton they had prepared for the mar
ket could not be shipped. The factors, buy
ers and exporters OF course have felt all this,
and they too have the added expense of in
creased marine insurance, and greater
restrictions in fire and marine policies,
which mean an indirect increase of rates.
The fever in Florida has checked cotton
shipments in one direction, and floods have
prevented the receipts of cotton in another
direction.
PREVAILING DULLNESs ON THE BAY.
This was painfully noticeable ON the Bay
yesterday. There was little or no cotton
being handled. IL was a holiday for cotton
men, who had nothing to do because no cot
ton was coming in. Cotton men were look
ing blue for this reason, and rice men felt
the same way because there is very little
rice coming to market, and when it does
come, the hurried manner in which
it has been harvested will show
in the deteriorated quality Of the rice with
out it is much better than either planters or
rice factors now hope
The heavy falling off in the receipts of
cotton for the first five days of the week
will better appear by the following COM
parative table of receipts: