The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-16 00:00:00

Movements of Cotton in America.

THE COMING CoTroN Cnor.—The Columbus
(Georgia) Sun, in reviewing tho speculations con-
cerning the coming cotton crop, estimates the
amount to be 1,290,00') baks, or one-fourth the
quantity produced iu 1861. In Louisiana, Arkansas,
Mississippi, West Tennessee, find Alabama, there is
not one-half the required labour available to raise
the usual crop before the war. One-fourth of the
South Alabama field labour has gone, and about
one-half only of the customary produce will be
realised by what is left. About one-third of a crop
can only be expected in Georgia. In the Sea Island
districts little cotton is expected to be raised as
compared with the quantity heretofore produced.
Still, in the face of all these speculations, cotton
recedes in price, and it surely cannot do so with-
out good cause.
TILE COTTON CROP IN LOUISIANA.--We have a
letter dated Baton Rouge, March 6, in which the
writer, who has good opportunity of obtaining in-
formation, says:—" The prospect for a good crop
the coming season is promising, and even at this
early day the planters are making preparations to
plant the largest amount of land they can find
hands to work. Cotton will be the principal crop
this year in this part of the State, and I am in-
formed that nothing but cotton will be raised
throughout the State."
CORN AND COTTON.—A Macon exchange states
that little or no corn will be raised in the South this
year, owing to the enormous profits which are ex-
pected to be realised from the growth of cotton.
In view of the fact that the South must buy all the
breadstuffs it needs, the same paper says :—" The
West must now feed us ; and if the freedman turns
out to be a faithful labourer, the trade between the
South and West will exceed anything before
known."

There is scarcely any doubt but that the South
will devote its whole energies to the raising of cot-
ton. It cannot possibly cost more than eight cents

a pound in gold to grow it, while, if the crop turns
out at all fair, it must sell for over twenty-five
cents a pound in gold. So large and so certain a
margin is rarely offered for an agricultural pro-
duct, and all accounts agree that, with the freed-
men or without them, a very large amount will be
raised if the season is at all propitious.
TOTAL RECEIPTS OF COTlON.—Mobile, March
13.—The receipts of cotton since the close of the
war to date at all ports are 1,860,000 bales. It is
thought that up to September 1, the close of the
year, the total will reacli, if not exceed, 2,100,000
bales. At this port alone 100,000 bales are yet
looked for prior to that date.
A New Orleans despatch of 20th says the number
of vessels now engaged at different ports in loading
cotton for Europe is 138, of which 108 are loading
for England, and 30 for France. The exports
from New Orleans the previous week were 15,800
bales—the greatest portion for Great Britain, and
the balance for France and Spain. The receipts at
all the ports since the Ist September last aro put
down at 1,500,000 bales.
COTTON IN ILLINOIS.—The great increase in the
production of cotton in Illinois, during the last
three years is worthy of note. In 1862 the Illinois
Central Railroad carried only 1,410 pounds of Illi-
nois cotton ; in 1865 it carried 1,579,000 pounds.
It is estimated that last year's crop will foot up
fully 10,000 bales, and that the average profit per
acre is $3O. The following figures show the pro-
duction of several counties for 1865 :—Jefferson
county, 435 acres, 240 bales ; Perry county, 661
acres, 639 bales ; Jackson county, 3,280 acres,
1,876 bales ; Williamson county, 1,678 acres, 1,000
bales ; Union county, 2,700 acres, 1,458 bales ;
Johnson county, 1,600 acres, 800 bales ; Massac
county, 723 acres, 270 bales ; Pulask county, 127
acres, 200 bales; Alexander county, 310 acres, 270
bales ; Pope county, 350 acres, 190 bales ; Hardin
county, 45 acres, 30 bales ; Gallatin county, 300
acres, 200 bales ; Franklin county, 625 acres, 352
bales. The average yield per acre is a trifle over
800 pounds. This is an estimate made from cotton
in the seed, but it takes from 3 1-3 to 3:1 in the seed
to make one pound in lint. The average weight of
bales is from 350 to 375 pounds.

Shocking Murder at Tunbridge Wells.

A shocking murder has taken place at Tunbridge
Wells. The woman who is charged with the crime
is named Ann Laurence, twenty-nine years of age,
and lives at 2, Ebury-cottages, London-road. She
has been living for some time with a man named
Walter Higham, who obtains a livelihood by hawk-
ing vegetables. On Saturday morning the man and
woman and two young children were in bed to-
gether, and about five o'clock the woman got out
of bed, went down stairs, and got a billhook, with
which she set upon the man, striking him over the
head several times. He made his escape into an
adjoining house. The woman then seems to have
got a razor and cut the throat of a boy about four
years of age. Dr. Davy, who was the house sur-
geon to the Infirmary, was called in, and the man
was removed to that institution. He was found on
examination to have four large wounds on his head,
and about a dozen cuts on his back. His right arm
was quite cleft through, while on his left hand
there was a large wound, and his left wrist was dis-
located. When taken into custody the woman denied
the charge, and imputed it to the man Higham.
is said that the man has a wife and the woman a hus-
band, though they have been living from them for a
considerable time. The prisoner was brought before
the magistrates on Saturday, and remanded till to-
day. The first witness called was a woman named
Mary Taylor, wife of a bricklayer's labourer, living
at No. 3, Ebury-cottages, who said—About half-
past 5 o'clock this morning I beard a noise of " tus-
selling" in the bedroom of No. 2, occupied by the
prisoner and the man with whom she was living.
don't kno w the man's name. There were two child-
ren living in the house also—a baby and a little boy.
At about 20 minutes before 6 o'clock I heard a great
screaming of "Murder." There were two voices
screaming—a man's and a woman's. I took no no-
tice of the screaming for a nqinnto or two. not"'
I heard the man calling out, " Missus ! missus! come
in and assist me. Go for a doctor, or I shall die." I
then got up and came downstairs, and went into the
back yard. There I say the man at Mrs. Alowcum-
ber's, of 1, Ebury-cottages. I went to the front of
the house, and saw prisoner outside. When I went
round the house she said, " I want you to come in."
When I went in there was a policeman there. There
was blood all over the house. The prisoner was co-
vered with blood. 'Prisoner spoke to me, and said,
" Will you take my baby, Mrs. Taylor'?" I took the
child, and washed it, and dressed it. The child was
spotted with blood. The prisoner said, "He has
killed my child ; it was not his, and he never liked
it." She said, " The man has killed my child." I
suppose she meant the man she was living with when
she said " The man." I heard her say to somebody,
" You dirty I said I would do it, and you have
driven me to it." See what it has brought you to.
Live like this I won't." That was at half-past 5 o'clock.
This was said before I heard the cries, " Alissus! mis-
sus ! come in," and before the cries of "Murder." The
man was in Mrs. Mowcumber's wash-house when I
went into the prisoner's house. I think he went out
of the front door of the prisoner's house into Mrs.
Mowcumber's house, but I did not see him. When
I washed and dressed the baby the prisoner was in
the room, just going to wash and dress herself.
The baby was in her arms when I went into the
house, in its night-gown. During the time I was
doing this the pHs-oiler was washing herself and tak-
ing off her things, -which were covered with blood.
The prisoner had a dark stuff dress and an apron
on. Both these things were saturated with blood.
Her sleeves were stripped up, and her arms and
face were covered with blood. I was in the house
altogether about an hour. Prisoner did not speak
either to me or the policeman. I did not see the
child. I did not go upstairs. Police-constable May
said he went to the prisoner's house, about 6 o'clock
that morning, and in a bedroom he found the body
of a child with its throat cut, and the razor, which
he produced, remaining in the wound. Police-con-
stable Henley corroborated the evidence of the pre-
vious witness, and produced a billhook, which he
found behind a portion of a faggot in the prisoner's
house. He asked the prisoner if she had wounded the
man Walter, and she said, " Yes, I did." He
showed her the billhook, and she said "That is what
I did it with. I meant to do for him, for he has
brought me into all this trouble." She said it was
all through another woman coming to see him who
lived at Malting. Superintendent Emery, who took
the prisoner into custody, deposed to the following
statement made by her. He said after he had been
upstairs and seen the dead body of the child he
asked her the name of it, and she said, " His name
is Jeremiah Lawrence, and he was four years old
last March. It is my husband's child." He then
went and saw the man Higham. On his return he
told the prisoner he must take her into custody for
the murder of her child, and attempting to murder
Higham. She said, " All the man got I gave to
him ; I meant to kill him, and I am sorry that I
did not. I did not kill the child." Just before
this a man named Holland came in and asked for
a shirt for Higham, and prisoner said, "Don't
let that man come in here. He shan't come in. He
has been the cause of all this. He has gone with my
husband to the woman's house who has caused all
this mischief." After prisonerhadbeen locked up for
seine hours she called the superintendent, and asked
him if she should have an opportunity of saying
anything before the magistrates, and expressed her
determination to tell the truth, provided it was
taken down in writing. He told her she would be
able to say what she pleased then, but advised her
to say nothing about the crime to him.

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