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Colton-.RatIs in its History.

l The following statistical facts in the history oi Cotton, will nocdoubt prove new to the most ol your readers, and instructive to all. As facts fos 1 future reference, they are invaluable: i Up to the beginning of the eighteenth ceutury, the small amount of cotton imported into England was from Cyprus and smyrna The annual average importation into England, the five years inclusive, from 7UO to 7O5 amounted to i,i7l 900 pounds.
 In i7sa, Mir Wyatt first spun yarn cotton by machinery.
 1 In l733. on the 25th November, the trustees for the settlement of Geotgia, were presented a papey of cotton seed by MT. Philip Miller, of Chelsea, 1 England, which reached Georgia in March. i734 1 In l1S0, the first cotton was sent to Holland by the Dutch colony of Sunnam, in South Amerca. In lHl, raw cotton imports into England amounted to 900, 900 pounds. ! In i142, at Birmingham, England the first cot ton spinning mil was built. it's motive power was mules CT horses. ! In i76O. only E200. 900 was the entire value oI manufactured cotton goods in England
 In 176l, Arkwright (afterwards knighted,) ob- talned the irst patent for his spinning frame.
 In i167, the spinning jenny was invented by James Hargrave, which spun eight threads instead oi one Raw eotton imports, this year, were about 3,000, 600 pound.
 In 1I54, bill prohibiting the exportation of machinery employed m the manufacture of cotton received the royal assent of England. Five years years after, the mule jenny was invented
 In l1Sl, Ireland first exported cotton goods to England, having sent over 239 pounds raw cotton. mixtures Of cotton and manufactures, to the value of fl57, and i7,33s pairs of cotton stockings. In lTS2, England received her irst cotton from brazli. The same year England received Ill., 1 e2S,OO pounds imports, and exported 42i ,OO0 pounds, setting down the quantity manufactured at l l,500,000 pounds. In i7s5, Rev. Mir. Cartwright invented the pow CT loom. The same year, Watt steam engines were first introduced as the motive power in driy- ing machlnery in cotton manufactures. The following year, chlorine was first used for bleaching
 In l7s7, the first cotton spinning machinery was set up in France.
 In i7ss, short staple cotton began to be eultiva- duced here. In l79O, at Pawtuckett, R. I. Mir Slater erect cd cotton mill-the first in America
 In l392, Eli Whitney, of New Haven, Ct, then residing in Georgia, invented his first cotton gin.
 In l19s, Switzerland introduced cotton mills The United States exported this year, 9,3OO, 900 pounds Prices in England, from 22d to 23d.; in Amercan exports amounted to 8 .5O00 GOO
 In 1902, New Hampshire built her first cotton factory. Two years after, the first power loom was introduced into the United States, at Whel- tham. Mass.
 In 1922, first cotton factory erected at Lowell. Mass. The following year, Egypt first exported cotton to England.
 In 1926, Roberts, in England, invented has self acting mule spinner.
 In the meantime. from ElO0, GOO, the value of cotton manufactures in England. in i760, it in- creased m hiile more than half century, to over G34 ,0O0, ,OOO.
 lniS4i. the eastern States had invested. in cot ton manufactures, a capital of s4O. .6l2. .9Sl.
 On some future occasion, will bring up the last ten years, and give short history of the pro- gress of manufactures in the Southern States.