The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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An admonition.

--The recent drought which pervaded a large portion of the South has been relieved in many localities by copious showers. Was it not intended as an admonition against any, the least, misuse of our incoming crops ? The whole country had just been blessed with a plentiful crop of wheat and oats. In ordinary times such a circumstance has generally been the signal for profuse dealing in the articles harvested. As if to check the spirit at a time like this, the clouds were made to hold back their influences and a drought of considerable severity came on. The certain effect was to cause every man to keep up the rigid economy of the previous part of the year. However abundant the small grain, it was no time to be slack in its use when corn and cotton might be cut short. The people were at once brought back to their sense of thrift. And now, although the rains have partially come, let us be as careful as we are thankful. Corn is not made yet. And if it were, the exigencies of war are still before the country. Make as much as we may and save it as best we can, hard times are still ahead of us.--Edgefield Advertiser.