The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1859-09-08
OPERATIONS I'M COTTON.

lhe commercial year, for all the Southern
ports, end the lsl of September The Charles
ton Mercury gives the following statement show
ing the transactions III cotton for the past COIL
m"rria year:
The total number Of bales Of cotton receiyctt
III the last twelve months, inc usive of the s,ock
on hand at the commencement Of the season, is
2S,|n2 Sea Islands anl IS3.7i2 Uplants-nn in
crease of 1881 bales Sea Islands and sO,469 Up
lands over tie last previous season.
The exports f"r the season have been o. ,Ol9
hn'cS Sea Island and $40 Upland coitons.-
This is an Increased cxIortatinn Of 1856 bales
Sea- Island and 1855 bales Upland cotton.
In Augusta tile total receipts have been 277,-
go bales being increase over last year OF ST.
ru:' bales.
The New Orleans statement gives the receipts
OF cotton at that place for the year closing on
"l,t August, 1859, are 1872 slI bales, showing
u" "crr'sc "i i."',i"1 bales over the report for
August Sls. lejS.
In" exports inr this yta have been 1,177, 900
bales, and the stock how remaining is 26 ,Oa2
bales
Th" Memphis statement gives the receipts nj
that place for til. year Of ,25,0n0 bales, against
"E'.,"o reported for August 3Ist, 1858. The
stock on hand is l3 900 bales.
Al Mobile the total recruits Of cotton for tI,e
y";:'. are IO4, 400 DaIts against 52g,S45 bales :
an' the total rccr pts Of new cotton, up to date,
l'''6 bales aga inst 1853 bncs last wear The
sl"rk on hand is lS.G0G bales against lO,G75
Ia'es' The average sales arc III cents.
|'e"ticc's Ad0iee.-Thc Louisville, Ky,
Jo"r"ai, abiding TO the report that the dcmoc-
racy of some Of the northern States mean TO
attend the Charleston Convention by thousands
says:
The metropolis Of The Palmetto State is
i"onrd. If ever those 10000 ,qualter sover
cigns, hungry, ravcnous aud wofsl,, squat on
ia" soil oi Charleston, they will make their own
pre- rmptIOn laws and then rob The banks To buy
the city III. Twenty thousand nor :ilsr- Dou -lus
men, with each two hands To steal o + fight, inva-
ding the quiet southern rep0se Of Charleston
In all friendship, we advise our friends there to
l'nr'Icale the peninsula with cotton bales some
miles above the confluence of tho Ashley and
l"per Rivers: put heavy arrnanients in Forts
r'nckncy, Johnsrn aud Moultrie mako Battery
FONT bristc with Paixl,an guns; erect block
houses at every crossing along the whole course
OF Meeting street, and hare an immense bc aeon
ready to fire up on Light IIuuse Island Al ,I,e
ilrst signal OF invasion, TO all the faithful
from the interior to arm for the common defence
I,u *, or the Cincinnati Convention wrote your
cplaph as imperativcly as the Roman hat
against tho Dido-foundcd city, " "deicndu est
Caroliurs."
Methodist Statistics-The Richmond Advo.
cate gives The following stutistcs Of Metl.od,sr,
in the United St,hs::
+" NJ. e. Church. North. nine hundred and
l'i'y three thousand four hundred and seventy.
two members: NJ. l.. Church, South, six hun.
dre& and ninety-nine thursand one hundred and
seventy five; Canada Conference, forty.two
thousand and eighty six Enst British American
Conference, thirteen Thousand i've hundred and
hity five; Methodist f.. Church in Canada
thirteen thousand three hundred and .fifty.two
Methodist Protestant Church, seventy thouoand
and eighteen :; Wesleyan Methodist Connec,
ZION. ZION. tScn'y thousand: African Methodist J.
Church. twchty nino thousand; African M. T.
I"n Church, six Thousand two hundred and
three: Evangelical Association. or Albright
Msthodists, twenty one thousand and seventy
six Total, one miop eight huhdred and
s'x'y aevcn thousand nine hundred md Thirty.
seven.