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The Crop in Alabama. The accounts Of the
growing crop that have come to hand since our
last are of q gloomy character Theheavy rains
with which We have been visited here have ex.
tended to she Interior, and the effects upon the
crops have excited very great alarm among the
planters We have seen letters from the counties
Of Greene, Sumter, Marengo, Wilcox, Monroe,
aud other counties, comprising the best cotton
growing region Of this S!ate and they are OF uni
form tenor, representing the prospects as gloomy
in the extreme Many plantations are completely
submerged, while in others the weed is growing
too luxuriantly, and the squares and bots already
beginning to drop profusely. In some places, too;
there is complaint of the worm, though we doubt
whether on this point there is yet any serious
cause for alarm Certain it is, however, the pros
poets in this State at present. are discouragiug.
Nothing but the most favorable weather during
the remainder Of the season, aud an entire free.
dom from the casualty that proved so fatal last
year. can give rs even an average crop this sea-
son. From other portions of the cotton growing
country accounts are anything but tavoTble, as
NAV be seen by reference to the copious extracts
which we have given in another part of our sheet
In conclusion give the following extract of let
ter received in this city from intelligent planter
in Sumter country, dated, Livingston, July 18th ::
{" have Just returned from Nashville, Tennessee,
and, mark what tell you the cotton crop of this
wear will not be as large as that of last. The
further you go north the more rain has fallen,
and the cotton is growing entirely to weed. We
are completely flooded here, and if the rain con-
tinues we shall have the worm again"


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