Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-01-17
The Cotton Crop.


The Boston IrQUeler-a Black hepupucan paper
calls attention to the cotton crop, and remurks
that Of all the people in the world, the shareholders
of the South have been in their business and Their
pecuniary profits the most successful Nothing like
the magnitude Of their large and continually IL
creasng gains is known in the history Of commerce
and agriculture. The out-turn Of the cotton crop
the present year viii be enormous, and that too al
ter having last year the largest crop ever before
known. The price at which it sells is very high,
and the demand takes off the product as fast as It
can be carried TO market while, the Northern ships
are taking it to market, as they will find at the
close OF the season for less than the actual cost Of
transportation as no return reighs which viii pay
can be had.
The receipts Of Cotton at the shipping ports last
week reached IS5 600 bales swelling the excess
over last year to same date 3Il,OOO bales. Next
week we shall have another heavy receipt, probably
over 100000 bales and it seems now pretty certain
that when we receive the accounts from the South
up to 9lst December the receipts into the ports viii
show total Of 100000 bales or 5oO,9eo more than
to same period last year, an amount unprecedented
in the history Of the cotton trade.
The following are the estimates by a leading and
well informed house. for the cotton crop Of the pres
emit year:
Receipts at New Orleans. 100000 bales
do Mobile, ....-...--.... 100000 Is
Atlantic and Florida ports. 100000 50
Texas crop 5000. 2,Z5O,OOO %
Inferior receips.-. .--.---.... 100000 q"
Total crop. .4.25O.OO0 .'
APERrNENT QuEsuoN-A certain class Of politicians
a. g.
forcing her institutions where they are not wanted
&C. but do not attempt to show that whatever has
been DONE or proposed, was not in conformity with
Congressional enactments The South has at least
adhered to the forms Of law. But now it has been
with several States in the North? After referring to
futile attempt made by citizen of Georgia to re
cover fugitive slave from Nebraska, the Savannah
Republican pertinently asks, 'sWho obeys the law ?:
and says
'Can any man North or South point to an act com
mtted in the slaTe-hOlding States where public Opin
ion set the federal laws at defiance NO;we may use
violent language, but we have had cause to do it
We never yet assumed any position not in confoImi
ty With our duty TO the Government under which
we live. We talk Of disunion but we talk Of it as
a remedy for our grievances to be resorted TO only
in the last extremity. and to be only completed with
dignity and in obedience to the viii of the majority
AT Ine NOrJl ana vest lllSy nave Il uufe pfdctlcal
way of exhibiting their contempt for law and JUS
tce by boldly ignoring their existence, and perpe-
tratng the worst of crimes under the sanction OF
public sentiment These are practical dissolution
lists who show their faith by their works, and are
far more dangerous TO the country than any fire
eater, no matter how rabid he may be. When these
men are put down it will assure the South that there
is some hope for equality in the Union. Until they
are It is the imperative duty of the South to con
tinue her preparations for living within herself
The last adyices from Washington Indicate that
the Black Republicans had dispaired of electing
SHERMAN. They haG held caucus for the purpose
Of consulting to the next best course to pur sue
and it was argued on all hands, but few demurring,
that some other man should be substituted for him.
and it was generally conceded that the choice would
fall JOHN HICKMAN, of Pa, one of Mr. ETHERIDGEs
Ishmaelitish Democrats, who has
been acting with the Black Republicans since the
meeting of Congress. This'result will necessarily