The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN COTTON CROP.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTHERN TIMES. '
beg' to hand you a copy of a New York circu-
lar that should have been published in time for the last
steamer, the information it contains being highly
interesting at the present moment, and deserving more
general publication.—Yours, JONATHAN.

NEW YORK, Dec. 26, 1855.
We have very great pl,•asure in informing our Man-
chester friends that the crop is likely to be exceedingly
large. It is true, however, that the evidence of receipts
as compared with the large crop-year, 1852-53, is against
such an opinion, but we will state our reasons for think-
ing that the crop will be nearly 3,750.000,ba1es ; but
before: doing so, we will remark that it is something
nithough at least 200,000 hales of the old
crop was left last summer on the banks of the Mi=sissippi
for want of water to enable the steamboats to bring it
down ; -and although the crop this year has been the
largest ever grown, yet, in spite of all this, the receipts
at New Orleans are 80,000 bales less than in 18.12; this
would stagger our belief; but when we give our reasons
for believing in a large crop the whole matter will be
easily understood, and we shill shortly see the most
enormous receipts that will reduce prices to such a point
that we can orrice with perfect safety to ourselves.
In the fir.t place, we learn from correspon ients, in
whom we have the most implicit gunfidence, that a very
large crop has been made these ',last two years on the
land cashed by the Uppe7 Mississippi, above the falls of
st. Anthony; but the great difficulty that the steamboats
have hith rto mq with in passing those falls being now
overcome by American ingenuity and enterprise, this
large supply of cotton that has been waiting shipment
will soon be bro:.glit to 'market. In addition to this
well ascertained fact, we leain,, on the best authority,
'santity of Sea Island cotton has been grown
tat,

curious that

that a la

)f Ohio, and it is now in course of
Southern markets. We have yet

being'

another piece of news to report favourable to a large
crop, and although we cannot quite give full evidence

yet we feel ourselves justified' in laying it before
nr Manchester friends, with -a remark that it comes
from a highly intalizent correspondent in whom we
have great confidence. It is said that the Creek(lndians,
a most industrious body of men, have set about planting
Mastodon cotton on the banks of MisSouri river, above
Jefferson city, and we have no doubt that the result will
I:P_liighly profitable. _ _

e h ve now stated our reasins for believing in a
large crop. It is true that the receipts ought to be much

greater than they have been, and all we can say further
is, that if they do not increase shortly, to prevent disan-

intend to ascribe as the cause of the small receipts that
planters are holding their crops back and so explain the
discrepancy ;. we shall also state, as we did last year,
that the rivers are low, and, therefore, the crops cannot
be got down.—Yours,

- AND CO,

THEATRICAL HOSPITALITY.—A perfect furor attended
the opening of the theatrical carnival season at Rolle on
the 26th ult., and the ticket office of the Apollo Theatre
was assailed by a mob of ferocious dilettanti. On the
evening of the first performance the Governor of
Rome made his stare entry into the opera house, and his
appearance in the offiqial box. was the signal for the
'Dern, the " Trovatnre," to commence. After the second

act the ancient custom was revived, of sending refresh-
ments at the governor's expense to the occupants of the

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the season by the ambassadors and nobility

At the sa.- tn

Onen, and a

hundred a

I forty sPrvants appeared, two at

bearing ices, bisciats, and wax nannies.
extremely brilliant, and the rev, prelate was mud
for his liberality.—Letter from Rome (Den. 511.1

The effect was

I lauded