The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-08 00:00:00

Movements of Cotton in America.

Recent intelligence from Columbus, Ga., is to
the effect that cotton sells there for 20 cents per pound, and
in Goldsborough at 28 cents, in currency.
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A letter from Macon, Aliss., says :—" Very little
cotton has been planted this year in tho prairies—perhaps
enough to make seed for another crop. Memphis from all
sources will hardly be furnished' with 50,000 bales next
winter. The excessive and protracted drought has dimin-
ished the corn crop in many rich districts, by nearly one-
half. There will be, however, corn enough for local con-
sumption."

Lowell's 33 cotton mills employ 948 males and
1,650 fomales, and last year produced $7,125,953 worth of
fabrics ; two calico and muslin delaine mills employed 188
males and 11 females, and turned out $3,167,122 worth of
fabrics ; five carpet mills employed 382 males and 573 fe-
males, and turned out $3,570,435 worth of carpeting.
The most valuable cargo of cotton ever shipped
from the United States was cleared from New Orleans for
Liverpool, on the 30th Sept., by ship Emerald, 3,105 bales,
worth $637,000. Although a previous vessel took 3,150
bales, the total weight was less and the value less by
$47,000.
Corrox IN TENNESSEE.—A very' fine staple has been
raised in sections of Tennessee, but the quantity is not
large. About seven or eight hundred bales from Georgia
and Alabama also pass through there each week on their
way North ; and notwithstanding the heroic determina-
tion of the Southern people to " live within themselves "
hereafter, they aro exceedingly anxious to exchange
cotton for articles of Northern manufacture. The supply,
however, will be quite limited for soma years to come. If
every cotton plantation were in the hands of Northerners
to-day they would have at least 4,000,000 of bales in the
market by the first of January, 1867.

COTTON IN THE SOUTHERN STATES.—A gentle-
man whose judgment is reliable, and whose means for ob-
servation have been unusually good, writes as follows
from the South : "Having now eirded a pretty extensive
tour through the Cotton States, a sort of review of my
observations upon the cotton question may not be without
interest. In Lower Georgia and Northern Florida, and a
part of South-Eastern Alabama, nearly all the cotton was
in the country at the time of the surrender. In other
portions of those States the larger part was destroyed at
the time of Sherman's and Wilson's raids. Mississippi
had been so thoroughly raided that there was compara-
tively little left, but she will probably make more cotton
this year than all the other Gulf States together. The
receipts of cotton at New Orleans from the Red River
country are far below the general expectation, and the
quantity planted this year is very small. In Texas af u
average crop was no doubt planted, but the weather during
the last month was very unfavourable for maturing it ; the
army worm had made its appearance in several places, and
was threatening serious damages, while the prospect for
obtaining the labor necessary for securing the crop was
very unfavorable. The amount of old cotton in the State
at the surrender was much less than generally supposed,
probably but little, if any, more than 100,000 bales. After
a careful comparison of all the facts I have been able to
gather, I should say that 1,500,000 bales old cotton would
cover all that was in the South at the time of the sur-
render. Add to this say 400,000 bales—a liberal estimate
—for crop of 1865, and you have all that may be expected
for a year to come. It is too soon to speculate upon the
prospects for the coming year, but 1 may remark, in a
general way, that they are not very encouraging. A few
planters are taking hold in earnest, and organising thei
forces for putting in a crop next spring, but these cases
are rare. There is yet time for great improvement, and
it is to be hoped, for the good of the whole country, that
the now dormant energies of this people may be awakened,
and they be led to see that the future is full of promise of
a rich reward for all their labour."

LONDDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAIL-
WAY.—An adjourned meeting of the shareholders
was held yesterday in the board-room, London-bridge
terminus. Mr. James Scott presided. The chairman ex-
plained that the directors had intended to submit to the
shareholders at that meeting resolutions for the transfer of
the Wimbledon and Croydon line, but the agreement was
not yet ready to be submitted to them, and he proposed
that they should adjourn to that day four weeks. An ad-
journment accordingly took place to Tuesday, the sth of
December.

STRIKE OF IRONWORKERS.—Notwithstanding the
threat of the masters, that if the men employed at
the Middleton Ironworks struck, they would be locked out
for twelve months, the men have struck. Some 400 have
already left work, and others are to leave next Saturday.
Both those at work and those on strike held a meeting last
week, at which they resolved, " That it is the firm deter-
mination of this meeting not to go in until the masters
agree to the nine hours' movement."—Birmingham Post.
" Advices from Paris," says the Journal de Rouen,
" inform us that the nomination of M. Blanche to
the post of Secretary of the Prefecture of the Seine
has caused some surprise in the Council of State,
as not being quite in accordance with the usual
hierarchical march. To leave the position of
Councillor of State for that of Secretary of Prefec-
ture is to descend ; but such retrograde movements
appear to be the fashion at ptrsent. M. Fremy,
Councillor of State, offers himself as a candidate
for the place of Deputy, and here M. Alfred Blanche
accepts a post secondary to those he has already
occupied. It may be, however, that the choice of
the former Secretary of the Ministries of State and
Marine is intended to announce the elevation, so
often predicted, of the Prefecture of Paris to the
rank of a Ministry."