The Western Democrat

Crop Prospects in the South.—A correspondent who travelled from Montgomery to Pensacola gives the following cheering account of the crops in that section:

On every hand, for miles upon miles, the fields of young corn and wheat spread out in rich panorama before the eye. Rich as is the soil of this wealthy State in every place, no part of it surpasses the section through which runs the Pensacola road. Ordinarily it is the great cotton growing region, but this year, be it heard with joy, nearly the entire tract is devoted to the culture of the staples of human subsistence, corn and wheat. If there is any cotton planted in occasional fields, it is invariably crossed with corn; so that, come what may, the Confederacy will not starve, nor even suffer want, for Alabama has become the granary of the country, like Egypt was to the rest of the world. Some of the fields average seventy-five bushels to the acre. All the farmers possess immense tracts, and in many instances the entire crop will be corn. Immense plains, extending as far as the eye can reach, in all directions, presented the same uninterrupted view—one grand field of waving young corn, already far advanced towards full height. In the grain growing States of the West, I have seen magnificent crops, but never have I imagined anything which equalled what bids fair to be the corn crop of Alabama this year.