The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-21 00:00:00

OF FEBRUARY, 1866.

Bales.
Cotton in New York city
Cotton in other cities, viz.: Boston, Providence,
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington, Charles-
ton, Mobile, New Orleans, Florida, and other
Texas ports, St. Louis and other Mississippi
river ports
Estimated amount to come forward from the
interior. The estimates are made by commis-
sion merchants and others, who have agents
throughout the South where there is a proba-
bility of cotton being for sale

600,000

Total number of bales
The amount gone into consumption and exported
during the nine months from May 1, 1865, to Feb.
1, 1866, is thus shown :
Supply in the United States, May 1, 1865 1,255,000
Supply in the United States Feb. 1, 1866 1,477,000
Consumed and exported in nine months 778,000

Of a total supply of 2,225,000 bales on May 1,
1865, we have up to February, 1866, shipped and
taken into consumption at home 788,000 bales, 2nd
have 1,477,000 bales for supplying foreign and-no-
mestic spinners until the new crop comes to market.
The home consumption and export combined ave-
raged, for the nine months, ending the lst of
February, 87,555 bales per month ; the stock on
hand, after deducting 500,000 bales for stock at
the ports, will yield, from Feb. 1 to Sept. 1, an
average monthly supply of 139,571 bales; or sixty
per cent. more than the average during the former
period. At the same time New England is largely
stocked with cotton. The stock held at the mills
of that section is estimated at 185,000 bales, which,
upon an average weekly consumption of 12,000
bales, is equal to a four months' supply. Such are
the facts connected with the supply of cotton, as
nearly as it is possible to estimate. They show
that our manufacturers, as well as those of England,
have been acting under a grave hallucination as to
the stock of cotton, and consequently as to its value.
It would be very unsafe to assume that already the
price has fallen to the level demanded by the dis-
covery of the actual supply. With a certain supply
of 2,500,000 bales from the next crop, and possibly
even a much larger amount, it is impossible that
current.. prices of raw cotton can be much longer
maintained.—New York Economist.

subsequently
service
The Admiralty Court decided on Tuesday that
the steamer " Sumter" must be given up to the
United States Government. The history of this
notorious -rover will not be forgotten by any
who were interested ,in the late rebellion. The
vessel was purchased in the year 1861 by
the so-called Confederate States, and, huabveneinitoglnybgeeinmeng.
armed and otherwiseequipped, proceeded to sea and
cruised in the West Indies and elsewhere, and
captured and burneadndnuomheerlovauss
to citizens of the United States. In the month of
January, 1862, she put into the port of Gibraltar,
1 ocicoksaed eo, fin
where she was sold,
pshloeyeedonitninrnuendniunngtil
the
eheb the war,
when,
having put into Liverpool, she was arrested, and
were taken by
the
proceedings United States Go-
Ternraent for her recovery.
A Fort Kearney paper de,l,re's? on the highest
authority, that Brigham Young proposes to ''-
pur-
chase two of
the Sandwich Islands and emigrate
thither with his flock.
The Chicago
Evening Journal, a Republican
paper, which supported the President's first veto,
condemns the second, and expresses a wish that
Congress will
A Tennessereea-uenactthe Civil Rights Bill.
' formerly
of aAwrkeaalntshays, shlaasvenantd.
landowner, now a
fied General Fiske of his intention to build school-
housesol- on his large plantations for the coloured
people, and requests to be supplied with teachers
by the Freedmen's Bureau.
A proposition has been made by agents of Maxi-
milian to prominent politicians to give them a con-
tract to collect the revenue in Mexico for the term
of five years, upon condition that they would pre-
vent the Government from doing anything in behalf
of Juarez or the Republic during that period. The
percentage which they offer to give on the amount
collected furnishes a wide margin for a lobby fund,
to use upon Congress to prevent action.
" Stop pounding that mule," said General Sher-
man to a soldier, who was unmercifully beating the
beast. The soldier, unacquainted with the General,
told him to mind his own business. ~ I tell you
" "
again to stop. lam General Sherman. That's
played out," said the soldier. ,4 Every man that
comes along here with an old brown coat and stove-
pipe hat claims to be General Sherman." For
once the General considered himself outflanked.