The New York Herald

The Crops.

The Abbeville (S. C.) Banner of the 21st, says: "The prospect for an abundant wheat crop was the finest we have seen in the district—the more forward crop is certainly destroyed—the cotton was generally up throughout the country, and has been completely killed; and what renders it more serious is, that many farmers have not enough seed to replant their crop. The fruit has all been destroyed, and the leaves upon the trees everywhere around, present a blasted and dreary aspect."

The Albany (Geo.) Patriot of the 21st, says:—"The cotton on many plantations is so greatly damaged, that already the owners are having large fields plowed up for replanting, and others are denied even this forlorn hope of a crop, by the want of seed to replant their ground. We have heard from the centre of the State, and we regret to say the accounts from every quarter are gloomy in the extreme. Snow fell in many of the middle counties on Sunday last, and the cars running from Macon to Savannah passed through a snow storm of many miles in extent. The wheat and cotton crops are thought to be ruined in a large portion of the State. The corn, fruit, and gardens are much injured. It is hardly possible to imagine the amount of damage which the State has sustained in one night."

A writer in the Montgomery (Ala.) Journal says:

The late freeze has done more damage than was at first supposed. Three-fourths of the cotton will have to be planted over; the other fourth is hardly reliable, but will do to risk by chopping in seed in the missing places. The corn will have to be planted over; some planters are leaving it, in hopes that it will come out; but no doubt all the oldest would be best to be ploughed up and planted over. The dry weather and the high winds are all dead against the planter in his present bad fix. What will be the result no one can tell. But take the best feature, and the chances for a cotton crop are bad. Early planting, from positive experience, is best; now we shall be more than a month behind. The growing season is near at hand, and grass, corn and cotton will have a fair start together.

The Mobile Register says'—" As we anticipated, the severe frost with which we were visited on the night of the 16th inst., was seriously injurious to the planting interest in the interior. From a number of the counties we have advices of its effect on the young corn and cotton plants, both of which have been generally destroyed. In Baldwin, Clarke, Wilcox, Dallas, &c., we learn that many of the planters are ploughing up their field for the purpose of replanting. The lands throughout south Alabama are suffering for the want of rain, and while the drought continues no newly planted seed will germinate. There is danger, therefore, of a deficiency in the coming crop, the extent of which will depend upon the contingencies that cannot at present be estimated."

The New Orleans Picayune, of Thursday, says:—" We learn from the clerk of the steamboat Saladin, arrived last night, that a severe frost occurred above Vicksburg on the night of the 15th inst, and it was reported that the cotton crop was totally destroyed."

The Chickasaw Patriot, of the 17th, says:—"On Sabbath last, the 15th day of April, we were visited with a severe snow storm, it having snowed thick and heavy for near an hour. In the evening the clouds were all blown off with severe northern winds, and, in the morning of the 16th, we had as severe a frost as was witnessed during the past winter; and at the present writing the trees of the forest are all clad in deep mourning, and all vegetation is literally used up. Such universal destruction of nature's blessings to man and beast has not been witnessed, perhaps, within the last century. Our present opinion is, that the seed of wheat, and many other articles essential to the well being of man and beast, will scarcely be saved. It cannot be doubted that all the growth of the present season, as well of the trees as of herbs, grain, &c., has been entirely killed."