The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-05 00:00:00

THE COTTON CROP.

With reference to the crop of cotton in America,
the following is from the circular of Messrs. Neill
Brothers and Co.„ dated New York, the 22nd
ult :

The crop accounts from the South continue of the same
character as of late, the evidence of short yield being very
strong and general. The course of receipts must soon
begin to control opinion on this question. The following
is from a correspondent who gave us very favourable ac-
counts in October :—" Macon, Ga., Jan. 12, Deg.—Your
favour duly received. When your Mr. N-- was here I
was a strong believer in a crop of cotton of not less than
two million bales, but have changed my opinion, and do
not think we shall receive over one and a half million to
sixteen hundred and fifty thousand bales. Now this
opinion is predicated partly upon the receipts, but I am
influenced more by the over-estimate of planters (rather
an unusual thing.) I find the generality are not getting
within 10 to 20 per seat. of their estimate in October and
November, while sonic are not receiving over 50 per cent.
of their estimate. Mr. I. it. B-- fully expected to
make live hundred bales. I saw his overseers (2) to-day,
they say his crop falls a little short of one hundred bales.
He has been planting for several years. General Creston,
who has been running some tine plantations, expected to
make one thousand hales—he does not realize uric quarter."
These facts, which only correspond with what we hear
from moat of the Southern States. are very strong, and
point to one of two conclusions—either that the area
planted was much larger than generally supposed, or that
the crop must prove short of our early estimate. As to
which is the more correct supposition, the future course of
receipts can alone determine. We will not at present
hazard any opinion. Complaints conic from many quarters
of difficulty in inducing the freedmen to contract for the
ensuing twelve months. These complaints are no doubt
well founded. In many instances, particularly where the
failure of crop has been greatest, both masters and servants
have suffered severely, and the latter naturally want to
try a different system, many believing that they could do
better working for themselves. It is to be hoped, how-
ever, that these differences will be reconciled in time to
prepare the ground for the next crop. It I. said that many
of the Northerners who have tried cotton planting have
suffered so much as to be discouraged from attempting it
again, but we never attributed a large proportion of the
crop to Northern growers, and think too much importance
may be attached to this point.
Receipts.—'fbe receipts, as reported by telegraph, are
again larger, as we anticipated in our circular of the Bth
inst. would be the case after the holidays, amounting to
about 70,000 bales for the week ; but they still fall some-
what abort of the two weeks preceding the holidays. In
the intervening weeks our figures were and are 62,000 and
63,000 bales while other circulars have reported them
8,000 to 10,000 per week leas. As the discrepancy has
provoked a good deal of comment we give the details,
which are as follows, and which can easily be verified by
reference to the various prices current published at the
porta referred to :

New Orleans
Mobile
Texas porta
Florida porgy
13ava

Week ending Week ending
Jan. 4,1867. Jan. 11, 1867.
24,300 ... 86,019
6,608 ... 9,508
4,704 ... 6,000
2,000 ... 2,000
7,776 ... 6,914
5,378 ... 4,298

Charleston
New York, from other than
the above places
Other porta

9,M0
1,620

7.256
2,146

61,738 63,141

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