Year: 1860

GtkE tOlaIN- Allsf5., duly ISs lSous


Dear G,eseeat-You will perceive from the head
ing of this that your old friend Crescenta has
once again left your sunny city in search of
cooler place; but. OH me, have so far sought in
vain. The extreme heat, combined with my usual
Incidence when in the country, has hitherto pre-
vented my writing to you. You can't imagine how
terribly lazy the country air makes me. Lolling
all day in hammock under the shade of some i'm
mense hickory trees, | sent to Homesville on the
4th, ult., to gather, by proxy, items for my first.
Bnt your graceful correspondent, Nux, was little
too fast for me, and, Aficaw wber-like, five been
waiting for something to turn up But alack and
alas, not even pig has been killed by the cars for
me 10 polish up into thrilling sketch, d la New
New York Ledger, for you.


The crops here have suffered from drouth until
lately-but for the past two weeks we have been
in seIni-wcekly reception Of thunder showers, that
have done right smart service to the corn and
cotton; washing away from the latter small in.
sect that in some sections completely covered the
whole plant, stalk, leaf and flower. A gentleman,
who has been through various parts of the State
lately told INC that he found both cotton and corn
in good condition, and that every farmer he had
seen would raise corn enough for his own use, and
many would have it to sell-so you see, the dry
weather has not ruined everybody after all. The
gardens have been the greatest sufferers and even
they have only been destroyed where not taken
care of. When people are too careless or lazy to
attend to their vegetable garden, they deserve
to want table necessares, let alone table luNuries
and we generally find that it is lazness and care
lesness at the foundation, where vegetables are
wanting, in the country.


Do you not think, Crescent it is bad policy
for Southern papers to give publicity to Abolition
letters, speeches, ETC.! You only swell the mum.
ber of their readers, initiate their authors vanity,
and draw forth more and more yrulent outrages
from them, when if no notice was taken of them,
and their insolent communications were suffered
to fall to the ground in silent contempt they would
soon weary of writing and uttering unnoticed
trash-we would have much less nonsense and
bombast, and more room for real merit. There is
one thing however, in which we will have to yield
the palm to the North, and that is enterprise and
industry; had the Northern farmers one-third of
the land that is here lying waste, they would pro-
duce more from it than our Southern planters do
from all they possess-simply because they culti-
vate and attend to the soil, turning every inch of
ground to some use, studying the proper mode of
culture, the food each plant needs to thrive, and
applying it to the soil; would wager almost any
thing that the extreme southern states do not pos
sess three real clover and cultivated grass mead.
ows in its whole extent; our farmers raising only
a few fancy cattle for fairs and agricultural shows
take no care Of their stock, letting them run at
large in the woods to feed on crab-grass, OF turn
ing them into old fields that have been thrown out
as too poor to raise crops upon. How can we ex-
pcct 10 compete with people who will produce
more butter and cheese from three COWS apeice
IL
shility for anything to produce we'll that is not
cared for well.


But enoughl Allmy preaching won'talter things,
and see your columns are crowded and therefore
will not compel you to curta my letter to give it
room. With many well wishes for your welfare,
| believe nle now as of old


10y Nnir fEinnd. .CRESCENIsA