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from all parts of the State, is, that the production of the grain crop of the State will not support the residents beyond the 1st of January ensuing.

Nor can a more flattering picture be drawn of the yield of the Cotton Crop.- During the month of August, the worm, the most fearful of all the enemies of the greatest of single staples,- Cotton, had made its appearance but partially in this State:- Since then it has made it's appearance in more than myriad numbers, and accomplished its besom ravages.

To this cause of fatal destruction may be added the occurrence in the late days of August and throughout much of September of rains which prevented the picking of the residue of the cotton which the rapacity of the worm had not destroyed.- The effect of these inopportune rains has been not only to prevent the picking