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THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1869.
~Wx learn Out six bales of new cotton were re
ceived at Bafcmton on the 2r.th insb
FiEsTbal© of cotton recieved at Griffin sold at
35 cents to 81ms A Threllard—raised by Manly
& Mitchell V~ : : ; *
Thxrewss a heavy storm on Saturday last
near Ballard’s Station. Fenoes blown down,
bouses demolished, and cotton-screw blown tip
on Dr. Daniel’s place.
Ora first page contains an artiole foil of in
struction, upon “East India Cotton.” It is
long, bnt will repay perusal.
Fourth page, “Letter from Texas”—“What
m« be done in South Carolina ?”
West Gzobgia Gazette.—This paper has an
article on Macon as the capital of Georgia. The
Gazette is one of the best of our country ex
changes, and is published in a section of country
which trades largely with this city.
A Gentleman from Twiggs tells us many
fields of cotton in that county will not make
more than a bale to twenty acres—thinks the
crop of the county will be a half crop or one
bale to six acres.
7 COETD." W. BESBUj tu urn -jtrumiy itewu, ic»
turned to Macon, from Atlanta, on his way
homeward from the Press Convention. Sorry
he is complaining of not being well. Hope he
will escape fever, and enter vigorously upon a
fall and winter campaign of success and pros
perity.
Providence High School.—This school is
located near Pleasant Hill, in Talbot county-
one of the healthiest localities in Georgia. The
population all about the school is of the best
type of Georgians—the solid men and women
of worth and character. Major G. W. Maxson
and Mr. W. H Woodall are the Principals. The
reputation of these gentlemen as teachers)
earned by close attention to their pupils, is a
sufficient guaranty of their fitness to take
charge of the moral and mental training of
yontb. We wish them great success. See
their card. The references are of the best.
Beware of Impostors.
We leam from Putnam and Jasper counties,
that a person representing himself as connected
with the Telegraph,not only receives courtesies,
bnt obtains loans of money upon such represen
tations. We have no paid traveling correspon
dent, and no persons authorized to do business
for us except those who are so announced in our
paper or regularly authorized in writing. We
do not ask and hope our friends will not extend
courtesies to others than those mentioned. We
regret this imposition and hope you will not suf
fer any more.
Norwood School, Virginia.
We have received a catalogue of this Institu
tion. It is located in Nelson county, Virginia,
and is designed for preparing students for ad
mission to the University of Virginia, or for ac
tive business pursuits in life. Mr. Wm. D.
Cabell is still Principal; L. M. Blackford, M. A.,
Associate Principal, Walter Holladay, F. Key
Meade, Dr. F. L. Galt and Wm. Laken, Instruc
tors. Fifty-seven students for 1868 and 1869.
Course of instruction is very thorough. Partic
ular attention given to English branches, Latin
and Greek, French and German Languages.
Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Penmanship,
Book-keeping, eta Certificates of distinction
are given. W. Colquitt Carter, of Murray coun
ty, received this certificate in Orthography,
Reading, Second Class of Geography, Sixth
Class of Arithmetic, Fifth Class of Latin; Far-
ish Carter, of Georgia, received it in First Class
in History, Second Class in Elocution; John
Black, Jr., of Murray county, Ga., Third Class
in French and First Class in Book-keeping.
The School possesses numerous advantages
and we wish it success.
From Henry County.
■ . • McDonough, August 24, 1869.
. Editors Telegraph : I find the crops in this
county very poor. About one-half of this coun
ty has been without rain for over ten weeks;
the other half has been without a season for
some weeks. There is no late cotton making in
this county. I have seen a good many fields
with all the young forms hanging on the stalks
as yellow and dry as straw. The best farmers
say the county will not make a half crop of com
or cotton. There was a fine rain in this place
yesterday which extended as far east as Coving
ton. It came too late for crops, bnt was very
refreshing to mas, aa we were having awful
warm weather. Yours truly,
J ’ K
From the following extract from the Sandus-
ky Register (Ohio) 'it would seem that our
friend, Roff, who deserves to be styled Admiral
of the Lake Squadron, does not confine himself
to catching fish when summering at Put-in
Bay:'
Ed. Register : Among the many incidents
happening here in this busy and thronged water
ing place, one occurred yesterday of more
than ordinary interest, and worthy of record.
Among the guests of the Put-in-Bay House is
one family of Johnsons from Coshocton, a very
fine, well educated family. Yesterday, ns one
of the daughters was out rowing, she. by over
exercise, fainted and fell into the bay, but was
rescued almost immediately by the daring nnd
heroic efforts of A. A. Boff, of Georgia. Mr
Roff was on shore, [but in a moment pulled off
his coat, vest and boots,] and plunged into the
water, bearing Miss Johnson safely into the
boat. Mr. Roff is an old visitor at toe Islands,
and knows excctly how to manage in such a
case, requiring immediate action. Bass.
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Mr. Carter, to whom this is addressed, has
kindly furnished it to us for toe benefit of whom
it concerns
Savannah, August 25, 1869.
Barron Carter, Esq., Agent, Macon—Dear
Sir : I enclose herewith a slip, cut from one of
our papers, giving instructions to consignees,
relative to the cargo of San Jacinto.
Yours respectfully,
J ■., '■! ;»( - J. F. Waring,
..: ' Forwarding Agent.
Steamer San Jacinto, hence for Savannah, on
the 7to inst., having been stranded on Body
Island, N. O., vessel and cargo saved by wreck
ers, and now being brought back to New York,
owners of cargo will please at once procure toe
full Bet of bills of lading issued by this vessel,
[writing for such as have been forwarded) and
present toe same, with copies of invoices, as
soon as possible, to us. All parties not insured
in New York Companies, must be represented
by, a city house, who will sign average bond and
be authorized to make the required deposit to
meet charges and to dispose of the goods as their
; /.condition requires.
Johnson & Higgins, Adjusters,
' Nos. 88 and 89 Wall st., New York.
Will They Come?
It iB understood that toe Executive Committee
of .the State Agricultural Fair to be held in Ma
con next Fall, have extended invitations to the
officials of toe Federal Government, from the
President down—to the officers of the Federal
army and navy—and to distinguished gentlemen
of the North in civil life, to attend upon that oc
casion- Witt they come f That is a question
of vital importance to all sections of the Union.
That some will come, we have reason to believe
—that many will attend, we have reason to hope.
We speak what we know when we say that they
will receive a cordial welcome from all classes of
our people. No gentleman—no sensible man—
who has visited Georgia since the surrender,
will venture to say that he is not as safe here, in
person, property, and feeling, as he would be in
Boston, New York, Chicago or Washington-
miserable sensational, interested, or fanatical
scribblers to the contrary notwithstanding. It is
true that our people are not only willing, but
most anxious, to accept the situation—to return
to toe American Union—to ignore the wrongs,
and suppress the passions, of the war—to recon
struct fraternity—to invite co-operation in all
industrial enterprizes, and again exhibit to the
world toe most sublime of all historical specta
cles: a great people living harmoniously be
neath toe protection of constitutional govern
ment
Why are we not believed? Why can not the
intelligent men of all parties North give us
xui - ovuiv —. ——* honesty—some
honor, and some respect for the memories and
traditions, and past developments, of Southern
character? Our interest—our poverty—our
present—onr future—even our sorrows, are
guaranties of the sincerity of our professions.
Ah! is it true that the leaders of party at the
North are not only cognisant of the true state
of Southern opinion and Southern feeling; but
are also convinced that we are trustworthy as
to our professions ? We think it is, but we fear,
that notwithstanding, for the sake of the re
tention of political power, they studiously teach
toe people that even Georgia is disloyal, and it
is indispensable to subject her again to pro
visional and military government. We can only
say as we have said before—old party issues are-
dead; and use belong to thatpartg which will re
store ihe State fully to the Union, the Constitu
tion being the test of all obligations and the pro
tection of aU rights. And we believe that we
might, to this extent, speak for nine out of ten
of the people of Georgia. But onr purpose is
not now to dwell upon this subject. We return
to toe inquiry, “will they come ?” These are
not merely invitations of courtesy. The Fair
is toe result of the necessities of the country,
is sustained by the sentiment, and we might
add, the enthusiasm of the people. The invi
tations, therefore, spring out of toe heart of
the Empire State of the South. They area
practical iteration of the as yet, by himself, un
observed injunction of Ulysses Grant, “let ns
have peace.” A tender of toe olive branch.
The object of the Fair is to stimulate and or
ganize the agricultural enterprise of Georgia.
These things being so, why should not such men
as Boutwell, Greeley, Sprague and Sherman,
and others of like position, favor us with their
presence ? We submit that toe object appeals
to their patriotism, because it will contribute to
restore the harmony of the Union, and re-estab
lish, confirm and perpetuate free government.
Jnstice, charity and conciliation may effect all
this—force and fraud never. Force may extin
guish the life of the South, but its spirit never.
Once in toe Union upon the basis of equality
with the other States, the North maybe assured
that Georgia will, in good faith, enter upon a
new experiment of the practical working of the
venerated principles of 1776.
It appeals to toe generosity of toe North. No
civilized people have suffered such terrible dis
asters by war as the Southern States of toe
Union. We pretermit the death of our gallant
men—the melancholy bereavement of wives,
children and friends—toe sad social disorders of
our communities and the political proscription
of our ablest men; and refer now to the deplor
able poverty to which we have been reduced by
the sudden emancipation of the negroes. This
involved not only the loss of property in slaves,
bnt an immense depreciation in lands and al
most all other property—an utter change in pre
vious modes and habits of farming and planting
nnd especially great reduction of income in ail
department of business. Agriculture has been
and must be toe chief business of toe people (as
is well understood) the basis of profit in other
pursuits. The object of this State Fair being as
stated, it would seem that it makes an irresistible
appeal for sympathy and countenance from such
men of toe North as control publio opinion. If
they are men—if they are generous men, they
will give us the aid of their co-operating pres
ence.
But, again, it appeals directly to toe interest
of toe North. Our great staples are as necessary
to toe North as to ourselves. The merchants
of New York and Boston—toe manufacturers of
New England—the stock raisers of the West—
toe creditors of the government—the day la
borers of toe factories—publishers and authors
—indeed, all classes are directly or indirectly
interested in toe agriculture of Georgia and her
sister States.
We cannot stop to demonstrate these state
ments—they are like axiomatic truths, and really
need no demonstrations. We need only farther
say, that, if we are let alone politically, and
can secure the aid of Northern capital and
Northern enterprise and Northern sympathy, our
variously productive lands, and our gloriously
^fructifying climate will pour into toe whole
Union tributes of wealth, richer by far than toe
golden ore of all the earth. Bat we forbear.
WiU, they come ? The answer is with them.
Does any one amongst us suggest that these
utterances are unmanly condescensions. In
reply, by no means—they are consistent with
both national and personal self-respect. Where
trntb and honor are not compromised, it is
manly to ask aid in distress. What if we do
stoop? We stoop to conqner. To conquer
what ? Peace, order and prosperity for our
selves and onr children.
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People’s Defender (Newnan) 25th, says to-day
(Tuesday.) we are again blessed with reviving
showers and the prospect for an eastern gale is
good. Crops have suffered much from drought.
Fence Law.—We learn that on the first Tues
day in September there will be in this place a
Convention of toe people of Coweta for the con
sideration and discussion of toe proposed change
in regard to the fence system and laws. t
The Annexation Meeting on Saturday last
waa a brilliant success, the large crowd congre
gated surpassing all expectation. Col. Penning
ton delivered an excellent address, which was
• - well received and heartily endorsed. We were
glad to MiE SO-many of onr oolored people out,
* to leam toft their sentiments are in unison
—Mariano {Fla.) Courier.
Horrible Outrage.—A Respectable Lady
Violated and Murdered. — A gentleman of
known veracity and position in the State, who
came down the State Road yesterday evening,
reports that a respectable lady at Adairsville
had been found, yesterday morning, murdered,
and giving evidence of having been violated—
Her skull was fractured and contusions on her
toroat marked where toe foul fiend clutched her
in his murderous efforts. It was supposed to
have been toe work of a negro ruffian, and when
the train passed, every citizen of Adairsville
was engaged in hunting for the vile miscreant
The Bullock-Angier Suit.—In our notice
yesterday morning of the law suit instituted by
Gov. Bullock against Treasurer Angier, there
was an error unintentionally made by us. Gov.
Bullock, for toe use of toe State, has instituted
suit against Treasurer Angier for $21,000, al
leging that he has used himself the funds of the
State over forty-two times, and therefore liable
in that amount under toe law that imposes a
penalty of $500 for each and every time the
Treasurer uses or allows others to use toe funds
of the State. The declaration was filed bv H.
P. Farrow, Attorney General for toe State. We
learn that Gov. Bullock has given a retaining
fee of $500 to a legal firm in this case. Other
suits are on toe tapis, and the fight is expected
to open in earnest.
[Atlanta Constitution, 25th.
A Correspondent of toe 21st inst. writes to
the Chronicle and Sentinel: ? The pom crop in
Walton, Jackson, Gwinnett, Newton and Hall,
baa suffered severely from the drought, and toe
cotton prospect is quite gloomy. Not more than
belt crops will be tamed, yet, altogether,
sufficiency to prevent suffering.
Editorial Correspondence.
OFF FOR CHATTANOOGA—WESTERN AND ATLANTIC
RAILROAD CAT.TERSVILAE AND HER MINERAL
WEALTH.
On the Road, August 25, 1869.
Left Atlanta at 74 o’clock, on time. Morn
ing bright and beautiful. Our train is led off
by the new engine, General U. S. Grant, decor
ated by toe stars and stripes. Behind her is a
series of refreshment rooms, barber-shop, and so
on, and too rear is brought up by some five
passenger and a sleeping car. The Governor is
on board—Colonel Hulbert doing the honors,
and abont seventy-five passengers reoeiving
them, and making themselves comfortable. At
the Kenesaw House, Marietta, I saw a number
of Maconians, who reported themselves get
ting along comfortably. Air salubrious—living
good—no mosquitoes, etc.—amusements scarce.
Living just for the sake of health must be dull
business. • - ■ ■ t:■
The country does not look so badly parched
up as I anticipated, and below Marietta toe for
est trees and undergrowth show more signs of
distress than above that point. The people
will make more com than reported.
I find the Western and Atlantic Road in fair
condition and improving. The fact is, Colonel
Hulbert is a firstrate railroad man, and is mak
ing some very important improvements to this
great property of the State. One of these is a
proper ballasting of the road with stone. The
track is made dry and solid- the cross-ties do
not churn in wet weather and so throw the track
out of level—and too ties themselves, being kept
comparatively dry, last much longer. The pro
cess of ballasting is as follows: After toe rrack
is laid, it is then raised abont eight inches and
underlaid with stones not bigger than your fist,
and rammed underneath with iron crowbars.
After each tie is thus given a solid bearing, the
intervals are all filled up with toe stones and toe
sides of the roadway excavated in cuts so os to
give the track a comparative elevation of five
feet. By this means toe track is always firm,
and sufficiently dry in the wettest weather.
This work costs about $2500 per mile, and is, in
toe long run, a grand economy. Col. Hulbert
will, in time, ballast the whole road and save a
great deal of money to the State, although toe
immediate outlay will be heavy. In such per-
manent improvements which are the dictates of
a wise economy—in replacing all the structures
on toe road destroyed by the war, etc.—the pub
lic have the reason why toe road pays $25,000
per month into the Treasury instead of $40,0o0,
as under Superintendent Wallace. The aim is
to put toe road in thorough order, so that heavy
dividends can be permanently and prudently
made.
At Cartersville a very large assemblage of la
dies and gentlemen had gathered to greet us,
and welcomed the train with shouts and the
strains of martial music. On leaving toe cars,
the Governor and fraternity of press were ad
dressed by the venerable Colonel M. A. Cooper,
as follows:
Gentlemen of the Excursion /—We present
ourselves as a Committee from toe citizens of
Cartersville, to receive and greet you on this
occasion. To you, gentlemen of science, intel
ligence and worth—representatives of the press;
and yon, Superintendent Hulbert of the Western
and Atlantic Railroad, and Governor Bnllock,
of Georgia, we give a hearty welcome, and ten
der to you the hospitalities of this little place.
Tarry in it as long as your objects and conve
nience may authorize. Your visit is welcome
to several of toe people of Georgia and especi
ally to Cherokee. By toe wise and enlightened
policy of this administration, you are called to
see and examine the mineral resources of our
country. He has well remarked that toe iron
interests of Georgia are second only to that of
toe cotton region. More than that will prove
true. In its results and associations for natural
wealth, grandeur and power, in peace or in war,
it will far exceed that of cotton.
The officers of toe Cartersville and Van Wert
Railroad, have gathered an array of mineral
specimens of ore from toe vicinity of Yon Wert
in aid of your researches. These are here dis
played before you. We think, that for value,
variety richness and abundance, the like cannot
be produced from any other location in any
country. Here is slate for roofing, for furniture,
for building and for other purposes; iron ore
without limit; marble of all varieties from white
to black; grindstones, whetstones and hones;
mineral paints, plnmbago and fire clay, with
gold-bearing quartz—all in close proximity to
stone coal. We have added a few samples of
iron ore from Etowah. These are well known
and have been tested and used for all purposes
for twenty-five years. We have sent the pig
iron from these ores to England and had cutlery
made of it Here is a razor there made from it,
yet in toe original package.
Gentlemen, you are now on the line of toe
great mineral formation of toe South—toe tran
sition from the primaiy to the secondary forma
tion. Your examinations and comments will
gratify the pride of Georgians and excite toe
admiration of all who read or hear.
To these remarks Gov. Bullock responded, in
substance, as follows:
Col. Cooper, Gentlemen of the Committee,
Ladies and Fellow-citizens: I can speak as
confidently for Col. Hulbert, as I can for my
self, when I say that our ambition is to use this
great property of the State of Georgia—this
Western and Atlantic Railroad—so as most
effectually to develop the grand natural re
sources of this ancient State, and to promote
every interest of her people. I hail with joy
the prospect of the speedy construction of the
Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad, which can
not too soon be built, and the more effeotually
to interest the people of Georgia and the out
side world in those immense mineral deposite3
which constitute so large a portion of toe in
comparable natnral wealth of the State. I have
invited toe gentleman of the press to visit with
me and personally inspect these vast deposites.
I am sure that Col. Clisby, here present, who, as
President of the Georgia Press Convention, will
feel authorized to speak for the fraternity will
echo to toe full toe sentiments that you, Mr.
Chairman, have so well expressed on this in
teresting occasion.
Here the gentleman alluded to, was “brought
to the front” and Raid: Mr. Chairman, Ladies
and Gentlemen—The tremendous social revolu
tion which has just been brought upon us con
trary to our will, is but the harbinger of a more
sweeping and momentous industrial revolution
upon which we have just entered. Let us meet
it with a full consciousness of all its stupendous
consequences upon ourselves and our children.
Let us open our eyes to the future and try in
part to close them against toe past. Let us
leam to contemplate and to anticipate the time,
fast approaching, when Georgia will be, not on
ly the Empire State of the South, but the Em
pire State of toe Union.
After the speechmaking, a deputation from
toe city of Chattanooga, consisting of Tomlin
son Fort, R. S. Headrick, editor of the Repub
lican, J. S. Wiltse and C. J. Woodbury, Educa
tional correspondent of the Constitution, wero
introduced to toe press fraternity and tendered
toe hospitality of the city.
The mineral specimens submitted by the
Cartersville committee were very numerous and
surprising. There were numerous samples of
slate, and several of a beanifnl solid maroon
color, veined with black. This slate, when
quarried, is so soft as to be easily sawn or
planed, but hardens by exposure to nearly the
hardness of a flint. It was beautifully polished,
and as lustrous as Parian marble. Ab an en
tirely new and beautiful material for toe oon-
WM
struction of houses it must produce a senRa-
tion. There was also a great variety of iron
ore—one, a Hermatite ore, considered to be
ninety per cent pure iron. A surprising vari
ety of clays of mineral paints—of stone foy
sharpening purposes, eta, etc.—forming a col-,
lection of hundreds of specimens'which we
oould only glance at, but should be studied for
hours.
A collation from the hospitable people of Car
tersville closed the visit, and we moved off with
cheers and hearty regrets that we could not
stop longer. Cartersville is growing rapidly;
It is in the midst of a fine country, and is des
tined to be an important place.
But I am tired of writing on toe cars. We
have just passed toe tunnel, and I will stop,
3ETST TBIiEGBAPH:.
From Washington.
Washington, August 26.—Bawlins arrived last
night. He had a severe hemorrhage of toe lungs,
Senator Carpeiter is here.
Capitalists front the North have purchased the
Thorton estate, Fairfax county, Virginia, for one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Custom receipts from toe 14th to the 21st, inclu
sive, were over $4,250,000—unusually large.
The Lancaster flag ship of the South Atlantic
squadron, detuned several weeks at Norfolk for
want of seanen, was commissioned to-day, and
will proceed siortly for Brazil
Francis Kw Shaaf, youngest son of Arthur and
Mary Forsyti Shaaf, died of thirst on toe forty-fifth
mile in to- desert of the Arizona territoiy.
British Minister Thornton has returned from his
summer vacation. j
Applications for smallnotes and fractional curren-
are lecoming overwhelming.
Stpervisor Barbone has been assigned to the
Southern Ohio district; Conklin to toe Michigan and
Wiiconsin district; Young to Arkansas.
2he doctors hope that Rawlins will be able to at-
teid to business in a few days.
Delano declines any arrangement whereby cigar
nnkers may take leaf tobacco home and make ci-
girs. All must be made at toe factory.
General News.
San Francisco, August 26.—Two miles of snow
sleds on toe Pacific and Central Railroad have
b«cn burned. Many cros3 tics were also burned,
a*d toe rails warped by toe heat.
General Stoneman forbids the use of beef by toe
girrison at Wilmington, California, on account of
the cattle disease.
Cincinnati, August 26.—At toe conclusion of the
fifth innings between toe Red Stockings and Hay
makers, the score standing 17 and 17, the Hayma
kers found fault with the Umpire, and John Mor.
rissey called the Haymakers to stock bat. Great
excitement.
Eoreign. News.
London, August 26.—The betting is still two to
one on the Oxfords. The Police Commissioner has
detailed 800 men to maintain order along the banks
during the race.
The continued fine weather has a depressing
effect on breadstnffs. The sellers throughout the
country are asking prices above the views of
buyers.
The increase in specie is seventy-five thousand
pounds sterling.
Paris, August 26.—The committee has reported
to toe Senate the principal modifications. The Sen
ate may reject the bills without giving reasons.
The government may appoint a commissioner to
report upon toe voteBof want of confidence.
The Empress remains one week at Constantino
ple. She has abandoned her journey to Jerusalem.
The increase in specie is fire million francs.
Madrid, August 26.—Topete officiates during
Prim’s absence.
Six thousand troops go to Cuba within toe next
two weeks.
The Carlist, Polo, and his Secretary, recently
captured, have been sentenced to death. Several
other Carlisle have been condemned to death.
EAST INDIA COTTON.
India's Capacity for Production—TheJSompar-
.dative Quality of Her Cotton—Wherein India
the Staple Comes From—-Roto India JJotlon
Has Been Improved—How 3fuch-.Cotton is
Used in India. 'Vjtt . •
From the Few York Tribute, August 20.2
Recent complaints in the London press, witlf
regard to toe failure of our cotton crop to. meet
toe British demand, and particnlariy-toe earnest
article of the Times, looking to India as a nec
essary field for the further supply of cotton,
which was brought to us a few days ago by the
cable, have awakened a new interest in toe In
dian cotton ground. The opening of India by
railroads, and the cheapening of cotton by
ready transportation, are a favorite scheme of
British enterprise;’ but, up to this time; it has
lacked the vigorous co-operation of the cotton
manufacturers themselves. What is . here
further said respecting toe India cotton culture
will throw much light upon a subject now of pe
culiar interest to American planters and manu
facturers.
Since 1783 India has been the source from
which an increasing supply of cotton has been
drawn. Encouraged by all toe means at the
disposal of toe British Government, the export
reached in toe year 1867, according to Mr. E.
R. Mudge, United States Commissioner to toe
Paris Universal Exposition, the large amount of
1.908,832 bales, while toe export from the
United States, for the year 1866-67, was 1,557,-
054 bales, and for the year 1867-68, was 1,655,-
816, according to the same authority. The
quality of India is inferior to that produced in
the United States. Mr. Robert T. Saunders, in
toe address of the Memphis Convention Com
mittee, says “that there are, properly speaking,
now in use, three kinds or classes of cotton.—
First: The ‘Sea Island,’ or long staple cottons,
grown principally on the coast of Florida, Geor
gia and South Carolina. Of this character of
cotton the consumption is small. Second:
The medium, long staple cottons of American
growth, denominated in Liverpool;‘Uplands,’
and ‘New Orleans;’ in the United States, known
as New Orleans, Texas, Mobile, Savannah,
Charleston, and Memphis cottons.’ The quantity
of this class that can be produced by the United
States is essentially without limit. -We
have the surface, if we had the labor, to
• Texas Correspondence.
Richmond, Texas, August 14, 1869.
Editors Telegraph : I did not write last week
for there was nothing to write abont. The same
reason would still command my silence, but I
feel somewhat encouraged to write, even when
there is nothing very engrossing to write about,
when I reflect on the nonsensical stuff that is
raked up by toe agents of the associated press
and dispatched on toe wings of the lightning to
every point of toe compass. In imitation of
those functionaries who announced the decease
of Grant’s mare, Ada, I might tell the publio
that Sam Slocum’s bob tailed cow, Crumpley
Horn, had worms on her neck where she could
not lick them off, and unless she was relieved
soon, by being “doctored,” there would be one
cow less on our premises, and Sam would be
the poorer by that much unless his loss was
made up to him by subscription.
Last week a freedman, whom toe sheriff was
trying to arrest, charged with being a ring
leader in a negro riot, resisted and pointed a
gnn at toe sheriff, when that functionary sent
a ball through his head. The simpletons, when
a few similar examples are made, will leam that,
like white people, they must submit to be gov
erned by toe law. While on the subject of
killing, I may as well mention that a man was
killed in Brazoria county last week.
Those pretty pinks of Radicalism, Turner and
Swayzo, as their characters were ventillated on
the trial of the former for uttering counterfeit
money, are sweet shrubs. They, and two more
just like them, would make a pair at least.—
Bob Wagner is shorn of his honors. He was a
mere bungling neophyte in villainy.
A squad of thirty United States troops are
now stationed at this place. All parties who
visit town are disarmed. The troops will prob
ably remain here until after the election. If
mounted, they might be more beneficially em
ployed on our Indian frontier.
The first bale of new cotton received, last
week by Galveston was grown in Grimes
county, by the same freedman who got the prize
last year. The first received in Houston came
in last week also, and was grown in Washington
connty. It was bought by T. W. House at 25
cents per pound specie, and the producer re
warded with a silver pitcher worth a hundred
dollars. I forget his name. Planters on the
Brazos commenced picking ont cotton the first
of this week in earnest. I have heard of no
heavy picking—it is too early in the season for
that.
The caterpillar has shown himself on sever
al plantations, bnt not in numbers sufficient to
do any material damage. There is a fair pros
pect for a good crop of cotton in this State, ev
erything considered.
There has been an abundance of com made.
Except in a few localities on our extreme west
ern frontier, where live stock engrosses every
body’s attention, and scarcely any is paid on
planting. Com will not command more that
fifty cents a bushel. This will be welcome in
telligence to those who intend immigrating to
this country the approaching winter
The health of toe country still continues
good. ._ Pan Fois.
What Gan be Done in South Carolina.—The
Columbia Phcenix says:
We paid a visit, on Wednesday, to the model
farm of Mr. James M. Crawford, in Cotton
Town, near Columbia, and inspected his cotton
field—which, in size and quantity of the bolls,
far exceeds anything we have ever seen or heard
of the famous Georgia brag acre, of which we
published an account a day or two ago, not ex
cepted. An old and experienced Mississippi
cotton planter made an examination and calcula
tion of the crop on one acre as it stands on the
field—toe “brag” lot—with, the following re
sult : He connted'three stalks, taken indiscrim
inately from this patch, which averaged S00
bolls to the stalk; 52 rows to toe acre ; 70 stalks
to the row: allowing 100 bolls to the pound,
shows 10;920 pounds to 1 the aero—provided, of
course, that it matures. Some of the stalks had
over 500 bolls. Mr. Crawford has another most
excellent lot of four acres, toe smallest stalk
counted in it containing S6 bolls; another 156,
and still another 358—an average of 200 bolls to
toe stalk. The entire crop was grown from toe
well known Dixon seed. Doubters can examine
this cotton at any time. The ordinary stable
conclusion that no attempt should be made to
force or press toe new seed (i. e., NeW-Orieans
seed) upon the cultivators of his district Again,
he says if quality be regarded, he finds that the
exotic - staple, after making allowance for over-
ginning, is pronounced weak, and toe color and
deannesa which toe judges admireare almost
entirely due to careful cultivation, and ought
not to be considered in comparing this cotton
with the indigenous variety, and that, even with
all this advantage, the ootton is prtoed some:
what below fine Hingungbat.
'^comparative statement from Liverpool quo
ta tr^nrff or New Orleans,' Dhollerah, Dharwas
and Hingungbat cotton show, upon an average
of 42 quotations, from December, 1866, to June,
1868, the following result: Middling New Or
leans, llid.; Dhollerah Fair to Good, 10d.;
Dharwar Fair to Good, IO^d.; Hingunghat Fair
to Good, 104.
Major Hassard, who has had considerable ex
perience in Dharwar, says that “when sown out
of the influence of sea air, New Orleans cotton
does deteriorate in respect to strength of fiber.”
The weight of all testimony bears in favor of
Hingunghat cotton, which is an improved spe
cies of an indigenous plant, and against toe
product of exotic seed.
home consumption or raw India cotton.
The annual local consumption in the Central
Provinces is estimated to be about 60,000 bales.
And in seasons when the yield does not promise
to be great, the local manufacturers and wear
ers are first in the market, prepared to make
their purchases. Mr. Camac says that the man
ufacture of cloth and yam in the Central Prov
inces, which, as has been shown, affect so ma
terially their exports of cotton, arc not only
very extensive, but also very delicate hnd valu
able. At the exhibitions of Nagpore, Jubbal-
pore and Akola, it was difficult to convince vis
itors that the yam shown there was of native
manufacture, spun by the hand with the assist
ance only of the rude,primitive looking spinning
wheel exhibited in the same department.
, .. .. , , -.. , “ for the demands upon him bv theland^ee^l
piece of native thread exhibited at Akola was of a sea8on when he ^ no c * “ D ' s «
such fineness that it has been calculated that a t„ ..l. . 10 ™«s|
pound weight of this yam would reach a .dis
tance of 117 miles. The best compliment to its
excellence was paid by some gentleman inter
ested in the cotton trade, who, notwithstanding
that the public were particularly requested not to
grow twenty millions bales. It is stated : touch the specimens, succeeded in snipping off
that prior to the war nine bags of American cot- j pieces of it to carry away as curiosities. This
ton were used to one bag of all other descrip- j hank or skein of thread was made at Chanda,
tions put together. The American cottons are ' In England the spnn yam is always made up
used almost entirely in European - factories for ! into hanks, each containing eight hundred and
warp, while the woof or filling is of less costly | forty yards of them, and toe number by which
grades. For the warp,extended threads,strength, ! the quality of toe yam is known denotes the
and length of fiber, is especially required; • number of these hanks that go to toe pound,
while for the weft or transverse threads of the j No. 40 is the ordinary yam. It is on record
loom, softness and fullness are toe chief requi- j that No. 400, or about* 200 miles of thread- to
sites. No other cotton is better adaptedasto!toepound,hasbeen8pnn;butattoecommence-
strength and length, either to spin into toe high-j ment of this century No. 100, produced by
er numbers or to sustain toe tension and friction ; Crimston’s invention, was thought an extraor-
to which threads are exposed in the loom. Third: j dinary performance, even for machinery.
The short, staple cotton, used almost exclusive- • The Chanda specimen would then, according to
ly for weft or filling. It is drier, ‘fuzzier,’ j the English standard, be about 244 in fineness,
more like rough wool, and principally grown in j and this is produced by toe natives, without
India.” In regard to the conclusions to be ; the help of any complicated machinery. At
drawn from this remuneration, as to the neces- j Nagpore and Omrair thread of about No. 140 is
sity for American cotton, the interesting me- ! very generally used for toe fine lawns,
mortal of Mr. Saunders, published in the July '
number of DeBow’s Review, will afford ample
from
Liverpool within six weeks of
order. A mesas
Hingunghat on ILonoay^qMr. bttao.WaUa'Vt 1
Secretary of the Cotton'qBhppfe'
s^ikrsdS edt ^ 8M1 ^ a,aa ' , * thef "
Ua|il the last few years toe uharacter r
dian cotton in the Liverpool market stoo.i »
low, and toe nameti/SurSL’’ the
nnder which the cotton of fftne ptovtawaifSS?
included; was a by-woVAand a general ten^
contempt. It was not iimwy yaww^go th^
Lancashire brewer brought an action forl?K.1
against a Liverpool man for having caliL v 6
beer “Surats.” The evidence went to showiiT
the term Surat wasapplied to anything that *
considered particularly bad; one witness Lc*
preting the word to mean “muck.” The *
great obstacles to successful exportation of
ton from India—the position of the cnltirM*"
on whom the market was dependent for snt J C!
of cotton, and toe inaccessibility of the
tracts in which the cotton markets are 6)^1
—are in course of removal, and though r*
Britain may never be able to obtain in IndiW*
quality or quantity of the staple she now
cures from the United States, she mav be cu.km
to consider herself as not so entirely deiw*”
upon us as to deem toe absence of our snuni K
national calamity. According to Mr. Smith u
proximity of. the manufactory to the plantcH
is an incentive to production and a profit tn ° S
ducer and consumer. It follows that
manufacturing capacity of India waft*,?
veloped a corresponding development i» ,V"
quality and quantity of Indian cotton mZ v
reached. Until that time shall come ”
look for results not at all in Accordance
natural capabilities of the land or the producer 5
IMPROVEMENTS.
Until within a few years, the cultivator in ,k.
central provinces of India was a miserable a- i
depressed creature. Deeply in debt, a reeone
to toe money-lender was a matter of neoess'-t
information. The statistics showing the export
of India cotton seem to be drawn from toe Liv
erpool trade-tables, and not from those of the
Indian ports of export. The tatter would show
that there are other destinations besides Liver
pool, and consequently more cotton exported
than toe Liverpool tables would be likely to ex-
IDEAS OF INDIA PLANTERS.
A good answer, given by a cultivator in too
Chauda district, is worth reciting. The subject
of the rise of prices was being discussed round
the camp-fire; and wheD more than half the
audience had agreed that a recent rise in the
market was undoubtedly to be credited to the
kindness of Government in general, and to Cot-
hibit. The weights of the various bales known I * on Commissioner in particular, toe tom came
in commerce average as follows: for a Koonbee-who had ndden on the rmlway
Bombay hale.7. 394 lbs net cotton. I 81111 had aeen tte Nagpore Exhibition, and who
Madras bale 300 lbe net cotton, i was, consequently, rather on authority in the
village—to give his answer. He suggested,
with au air of assumed deference, that if he was
not misinformed, toe Shahazada (heir-apparent)
had recently been married in England, and that,
of course, according to custom, toe Queen had
| given every one in “'Walayat” new clothes; and
[ hence toe sudden enormous consumption of cot-
‘ ton there, and consequent rise in prices. This
Bengal bale ; 300 lbs net cotton.
China bale ; 240 lbs net cotton.
America bale 440 lbs net cotton.
Brazil bale 180 lbs net cotton.
Egypt bale '. .500 lbs net cotton.
Turkey bale 550 lbs net cotton.
The total area under cotton cultivation in In
dia is abont 8,500,000 acres.
married pair, the son and daughter of their
Queen; and to toe study of what may be called
a “political” pocket handkerchief (of which
thousands came to Indi&in 1865) containing the
portaits of the Prince and Princess, with ap
propriate designs, and which had been given to
toe Koonbee's small son in toe morning ns a re
ward for having distinguished himself at the ex
amination of the village school. In regard to
the introduction of foreign plants, The Times
of India mentions that an officer recently sent a
present of some tea and some tea plants to an
independent native chief on toe north-west
frontier. The ohief accepted the tea, and re
turned toe plants, with an intimation that they
were “returned in consonance with the spirit of
a tradition that plants of foreign countries should
never be planted in that country, lest when they
had thriven and leaved, and flowered, toe peo
ple of the country they had come from should
themselves come to demand their produce, and , be recognized by the side of the business it
The provinces in which toe plant is success- suggestion was afterward traced to a compHca-
fully cultivated are as follows: Punjab, where j tj ori of ja eas produced by the sight of Mr. Jen-
cotton is largely grown in almost every dia- j sen’s portraits of the Prince and Princess of
trict.” The Central Provinces, where cotton . Wales, which were the wonder of the admiring
occupies abont one-twentieth of the area nnder Koonbees at the Nagpore Exhibition, and which
plow, which was construed to mean 552,520 ver0 jjjy explained to them to he a newly-
acres in JS67-CS. The Cotton Commissioner • - - - - -
was of the opinion that, although in other parts
of toe Central Provinces the out-tnm might not
exceed 50 pounds, in the Wnrda Valley and in
Berar toe average ont-tnrn of cleaned cotton to
the acre, daring a fair season, could not be less
than 80 pounds. Bnrmah.—Among toe pro
ducts of this province, cotton occupies an im
portant place. From toe cotton of Pegu the
finer sorts of toe celebrated muslins of Dacca
nsed to be manufactured. The area under cot
ton cultivation was, however, only 3,438 acres
in 1867-68. Cotton ranged from *12 to 14 shil
lings sterling per package of 80 pounds. Madras
furnishes cotton in large quantities, and the at
tention of the Government has been devoted for
some time past to the improvement of toe qual
ity. The export from Madras in 1867 is estima
ted by Mr. Mudge to have been 300,000 bales.
In Mysore, the growth of cotton during too year
1667-68 was somewhat limited; toe land devo
ted to its cultivation was less than that of the
previous year by nearly 4500 acres. In Bombay
too English authorities, in their report to Her
Majesty’s Government, say, after mentioning
the staple crops of the Presidency, “hut over
all these cotton claims the first place,” toe ex
ports of which have of late years considerably in-
creased.more particularly since toe late American
War. The quantity of cotton exported from
here amounted to 203,257,093 pounds in 1858-
59, and increased to 549,153,475 pounds in
1865-66, or 939,679 bales in 1866, and in 1867
1,224,050 bales were exported. There are 135
steam cotton presses in operation in Bombay,
and many of the gins are worked by steam pow
er : at toe close of toe year 1867 toe total num
ber of gins in existence in the province amount
ed to 1303. Through the enforcement of the
“Cotton Fraud Acts” the cotton sent to market
is now infinitely clearer and purer than it was
four yeara ago, and a substantial improvement
in quality has been obtained. In the year
1867-8 the whole district was to be sown with
what is known in India as toe Hingunghat seed.
The area under cultivation in 1867-8 was 2,-
015,534 acres, showing an increase of 3741 acres
over IS6C-7. In Hyderbad (Berar) experiments
had been continued in the different districts of
Berar with various descriptions of cotton seed,
and among the variety tried the Hingunghat
seed succeeded best, but only where the gravel
ly substratum laid close to the surface of the
black soil; the seed obtained from Dharwar
failed to germinate at all; in the Woon district
the New Orleans seed yielded ninety-four
pounds to toe acre, the plants growing to a
height of three feet, whereas plants , from Be
rar seed attained the height of three and a half
feet, and yielded one hundred pounds to the
acre.
The number of full and half pressed bales of
3| cwt. each, exported from these districts, in
creased from 42,510 in 1866-7 to 187,599 in
1867-8.
The area nnder cotton cultivation in the Cen
tral Provinces was 552,520 acres in 1867-8, a de
crease of 46,281 acres from that of 1866-7. This
is attributable to toe unfavorable condition of
the weather. The opening of the American
supply has also operated to reduce the demand
for India cotton; the high prices which were
the result of the civil war in this country served
to foster the production of India. The price of
fair Dhollerah cotton ran from 5$ pence sterling
in January, 1S61, to 24| pence in October,' 1863,
from thence descending to 9£ pence in June,
1868. The largest proportion of India cotton is
exported from too Central Provinces and Bom
bay, and it is estimated that toe annual export
from these provinces is sufficient for 34 weeks’
supply for all toe mills in Europe, and is equal
to one-fifth of the cotton exported from India.
The average weekly consumption for toe whole
of Europe ta at present 3,800,000 bales per an
num. It has been as high as 78,000 bales per
week, or 4,056,000 bales per annum.
IMPROVING INDIA COTTON.
One measure has been toe acclimatization of
exotioseed in propagating gardens and subse
quent distribution through the community.—
These experiments have been conducted under
the supervision of a Cotton Commissioner, who
is instructed to do everything in his power to
encourage toe cultivation and improvemnt of
cottonin toe district over whioh he presides. In
the southern portion of the Hindostan Peninsula
there is a large extent of country, toe soil of
■which is adapted to the production of cotton,
and where the cotton-plant, an indigenous pro
duct, has flourished for ages. Within this re
gion, embracing what iB known as the Central
Provinces, repeated trials in the development of
the different varieties of the plant have resulted
in favor of what is known aa the Hingunghat
variety, an indigenous plant, and which pro
duces a cotton of which Mr. Bazely, the Vice-
President of toe Cotton Supply Association,
says that, from his own former observations, he j
the payments, forced him to take steps whitil
under other circumstances, he might have shn-' I
from. An agreement to furnish a certain q »- I
tity of ootton at a fixed rate—the contract bestfo-
extremely low—the terms were as favorab’evl
the grasping money-lender os they were minor J
to the needy ryot. The crop thus virtual
passed outof the cultivator’s hands, and his'-I
terest in it ceased before the plant was in b£l
som. The cotton, whether good, baa or ir£|
ferent, would bring him in no more than It J
price already fixed in the bargain to which ^1
cessity had compelled him to agree. In KoraJ
her, when toe bolls burst, and when, in order r
secure really good cotton, it is indispenabie ;hi
the fields should be picked without delay, gj
ryot would find that his contract had anogJ
month or six. weeks to run, and that the jmra
the grain on which the people of these p&rtsdie'J
ly depend, was also ripe, and exposed to the
tacks of the fitwane birds, which so decunste f
best field. The jowaree being his own acd l_
pledged to. toe village banker, the ryot
have direct interest in paying it the first J
tention, and the whole family would, tie
fore busy themselves with the harvest vli
was to provide too. food for themselves u]
the cattle during the year. In the t
time toe cotton would suffer, the ripe i
falling to the ground, and the whole cl
standing exposed to the thick dust mi i
heavy dew of toe cold weather, mornings«
evenings. If toe wind was blowing dovtttJ
cotton and tossing it about on the grottil
such a manner that toe bright wool becsz
mixed with the dust and dirt and leaves, tl
damage would not affect him. Be would;
no more for good and carefully picked c
than for this stuff. The contract for the 5
jur was for a certain weight; a moderate an
of dirt would increase the weight, and ms i|
therefore; altogether undesirable. And *i
then, should he put himself out ? Thus the r
tivator’s crop passed ont of his hands soon*
it was sown, and with it disappeared all ini'
ment to cultivate the'plant carefully, and tob
the cotton free from dust and dirt and iap
ties. This system threw both cotton crops
cultivators into the hands of a body of mtoo
lenders, who adulterated the cotton befar: j
reached the port of exportation, so that isr
hardly recogizable.
The inaccessibility of the cotton districts w
an obstacle to the improvement of the
which the railway has now removed in
measure. The prejudice against the climafel
a great degree, is unfounded, as it is endonif
as in any other portion of India. One of a
greatest difficulties that the European had t:j
counter was the system of cheating and tric'd
which was bo elaborate and intricate tbs: j
European who did not possess the most inti
knowledge of toe language and of the ps
could have hoped to combat it successfdiTl
The difference of weights correspendedwiti#
difference in locality, and constant hoiitf
bringing stoppages in toe work, and the pasi
resistance which he met every at step, were-j
enough to wear out even a very energetic B
pean. These obstpcles have been now so t?
ively removed, that the cotton trade as ill
carried on in 1SG4 in Central India, is harBJ
op
so disturb the peace of the well-conducted and
orderly community over which he presided.”
assistance of traffic.
One of the greatest difficulties, previous to
1868, which the producer had to contend with
was the insufficiency of transportation. The
limited amount of rolling stock at the dispos
al of toe Great India Peninsula Railway Com
pany, and the want of management in the ship
ment of the cotton caused grevious annoyance
and great delay to toe dealers in toe Central
provinces. A gentleman by the name of Cor-
dery had inauguarated a system in the Beroes
which had proved successful. This system, in
January, 1867, was extended to toe Central
provinces. It had for its objects: 1. The safety
of toe cotton detained. 2. The prevention of
unfair practices in toe dispatch of toe cotton.
A large yard at each railway station was marked
off into squares, each capable of holding a
certain number of bales, according to toe num
ber of tiers on which they were piled, thus it
was not difficult to ascertain the number of bales
belonging to each dealer, and toe number of
cars to which he was xateably entitled. By
counting toe squares the number of thousand
bales remaining in toe yard could be easily ar
rived at, and every evening it was possible to
form a very fair idea of the impression made
upon the mass by the railway. To preserve or
der and protect the cotton a police guard was
stationed in toe yard. The management of toe
yard was vested in a clerk, who prepared lists
of toe cotton detained, and whose register
contained an interesting record of the traffic.
A small fee or ground rent was levied on toe
cotton stacked to defray expenses. A system
of checks to insure dispatch of the cotton in or
der of arrival was adopted. Receipts in tripli
cate were issued upon toe entry of a batch of cot
ton to the yard, and the payment of toe fee al-
ludedto. The check is given in duplicate to the
dealer,one copy for delivery to the stationmaster,
the other as receipt for payment of the fee.
fling the holder of the specimen check No L,-
715 of toe Naudora cotton yard, on presenting
his pass to the stationmaster, can claim to have
his cotton shipped before the holder of No. 1,-
716. The counter foils kept on the check book
form a good check on the number of bales re
ceived and dispatched daily from the yard. The
beneficial effects of the system have warranted
the Commissioner in promising that in the
course of a season or two there will' be no far
ther occasion for the continuance of toe yard.
It has been a custom among the natives to pack
their cotton in two ways, in the loose gunny
bags called dokras, and in the nets called “jing-
nas.” Usually toe cotton shipped to the coast
was transferred to dokras. One of the most im
portant improvements tending to relieve toe
blocks on the route to the port of shipment was
toe introduction of the cotton press and requir
ing, so far as practicable, the cotton to be baled.
Thus the bulk was reduced, and though the
weight increased in proportion, the capacity of
the cars was made more available, and more
cotton was carried in toe same space. Some of
toe cotton intended to be repacked at Bombay
was what is called half pressed, so that it might
be opened before exported, and examined. The
half presses turn out 50 bales in a day. If
worked day and night they can turn out 100
bales. During the scorching winds of the Betas
hot weather, it is not possible, owing to the
elasticity of the cotton, to compress more' than
from 3 cwt. to 34 cwt. of ootton into a bale.
. The introduction of side tracks into the ootton
yards was another facility whioh resulted in
great convenience to the traffic. Instead of
baskets and rough stones, nsed in many places
by the natives, accurate balance scales of im
proved manufacture have been introduced. The
improvement of wagon roads has attracted the
attention of toe Commissioner, and steps have
been taken to make them easily passable. A
station of the Government Electric Telegraph
has been opened at the Hingunghat cotton mar-
done intbeir markets to-day. The operafel
the land revenue settlement relieved the rcil
tor of all anxiety regarding his tenure; thl
.urangement of toe installment of his res!*
fixed, so as to give him time to <fe|
of his crop first, has helped to lights f
burden with toe money lender; and £
the American war,by raising the price of e
and pouring into toe ryot’s hands vhstj
peared to mm untold wealth, enabled (J
were not utterly reckless and extravagant f j
themselves from the Mahajnr’s books. Rj
many cultivators may be met who though; ]
would be no end to the golden sge, spent *
money as they received it, and even rsni
into debt—still, the mass of the agrirj
population seized the opportunity of r j
themselves of toe burden of debt which-
long weighed tnem down. Distances fes
measured in months are now within a d?|
day and a half's journey of Bombay, nil
ryot who brings in his cart-load of cott^l
the merchant who has come up to pci
meet in the market, and transact busirsj
one another direct. The benefit of this
matters is that the cultivator has now snd!
to deliver the best article of cotton he (£I
duce at the market, and thus exton-l
England the remark that there is a gw* I
provement in Indian cotton. f
The manner of doing business in ' ;: l
markets in the Be rare is something
fashion: During the night long string^!
loaded with cotton, pour into the
are marshaled by the darqgah and his
into long lines or streets, toe small
cotton brought in on bullocks being
quarter aet apart for it in the cents
yard. In Khaugaon the number of
in the Reason, run as high as 1500, rep*®T
upward of 1000 Kaudies of cotton. »» l
daybreak the market is alive with p®*"
their attendants, clerks, brokers, *jj®
and business commences. During ^
telegrams giving orders to pureM#. _
quantity, and quoting the last »i tices , I
land, have most probably been wce>J
purchasers go round the carts
cotton and making their offers. ■ Ij
which the first transaction is
the rate of the day, and is soon t’M 2 !
the market, and most purchases g:e f\
about that rate; though it is, of coo-1
to change by tire reoeipt of later mu ^ I
murrhmnt fmm TtamhAv end the R 0 * 1 ‘ J
E tor
merchant from Bombay and the J
face to face in toe markets. A sin
gunny covering of the package, _
chant inserting his arm into the ■“"J
cotton, brings ont the sample- * J
toe quality of the sample the me: J
makes his offer. By thg time that _ 1
of bags of ootton required have m *• i
(and as six dokras must be 7>
Kandy required, the prooess is a
breakfast will be ready; and letters l ■ I
bay mail, whioh in toe cotton se j
Khaugaon at 2 o’clock, will have »
This done, it will be timeto wag ^ 1
selected in the morning. The
have in the interval taken their ro^vj
ootton to the agent’s “thuk, ’
and f hardest part of the os.
commences. Each bag, before 6 .
. undergoes a s® 000 ?..
oelity'
to the scales, undergoes
and if it be found wanting to Q, _. J _
mixture can be detected, it >* 1 ®V, f ->|
jected, and rolled on one side. ^ I
that passes muster goes to the s si
the whole lot has been weighed ^1
gets a memorandum showing twJ
of the cotton, toe rate at which
been purchased, and toe amowi jl
this check; when presented,»
ler, wh6 sits, with the bright newtw
* the shed. -
ower, the
inmbay,
him, in a corner
interest of the
toe: merchant ‘in'
iid-
con confirm toe estimate of its being equal to j ket, which is nowaot only in telegraphic corn-
manure was used, and the soil is far from being i Middling New-Orleans. The New-Orleans seed munication with ~
the best in this vicinity. Thorough tilings did in some localities seems to prosper, and tq pro- and Liverpool- As
toe business. Mr. Crawford declares tost a duce a quality of cotton that is marketable on chant sending an order to Hingunghat
man who cannot make good crops in Richland pood terms: to others toe product in not satis- trie, telegraph m^y have, hia, cotton p,—y -,^
had better Wy aside agricultural implements. factory—and the Gommissronerhss come to the a j > ,.
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