The national Republican., 1861-06-13
COTTON.


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On the 24th Of May, the stock Of cotton in
Liverpool, which is unprecedentsdly large for
the period Of the year, was sufficient for The
British consumption for twenty-five weeks, reck.
oned at forty three thousand six hundred bales
per week, its recent rate, and which is only FIVE
thousand two hundred bales less than the con-
sumption Of last year. As the signs indicate
most clearly further falling of in the con-
sumption, the stock on hand would answer for
still longer term than twenty-five weeks.
.'- At the same date, May "a, there were known
to be at sea, bound for Liverpool, one hundred
and twenty thousand bales from America, and
two hundred and ninety thousand bales from
India, equal to the consumption Of nine weeks.
II 10 probable that Great Britain could get
along very well till May l, Of next year, with
out bale Of the growing American crop, if
long before that 1t shall not be in market, by
the pscifcation of the Southern States.
The idea that England will be compelled to
raise our blockade, in order to get cotton, is
quite idle. England is in a condition to wait
quietly, until we open Charleston, New Orleans,
&C., by expelling the factious leaders who have
temporarily obstructed the commerce Of those
ports.
MAI. GEN. GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN.
General Mcclellan, next in command to Gen.
phis, and graduated from the military academy
at West Point, lst July, 1886, and was that day
brevstsed second lieutenant in the corps of
engineers. '' '. n
"a He distinguished himself in the war with
Mexico, and was brevetted twice-once as first
Beutsnsnt, and second as captain-for gallant
and meritorious conduct in the battles Of Con-
trsras and Churubusco, Molino del Rey, and
Chepultepec. ..
In 1853 he commanded the western division
Of the corps which surveyed the northern route
for railroad to the Pacific; and the writer Of
this brief epitoms eau say he came in contact
with no man, in either division Of that survey,
whom he did not inspire with respect and make
his friend.
When the new regiments we're created in
1855, he was appointed q captain in the cav
airy, and on the I'd Of April, the same year,
was selected one of three officers who were or.
dered to Europe to observe the war in the Cri,
mea; full and able report on which he made
in 1857. Soon thereafter he resigned, to &C.
cept the position Of vice president and suporin.
tending engineer Of the Illinois Central rail.
road, which place, after some two years service,
he resigned, to take the Office Of general super.
intendent Of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad
In this position his country found him, and ten
dered to him the commission of major general
. which he at once accepted, and which, we fee
confident, he is so well able to fill.
With strong native talent, he has happily
combined an active life with that Of student
Unostentatious, and even modest and retiring
in his general bearing, he possesses the rar
faculty of commanding men and attaching
them to him.
Of few words and little display he has ex
ecutive ability rarely equalled, and seldom o
never excelled.
And although comparatively young man
We know of no one upon whose shoulders woulc
fall more worthly that mantle which we trus
will not soon fall from the shoulders of tn
greatest captain Of the age.
LIEUTENANT GREBLE.-The affair at Grea
Bethel, near Fortress Monroe, cost the countr
the life Of a fire officer and an excellent mar
Lieutenant John T. 8eble, of the second arti
lery. He was shot through the head by car
non ball while serving his battery with grea
efficiency and gallantry. Several companies c
his regiment have been for some time posted q
Fortress Monroe, at which, till the arrival q
General Butler, Colonel Dimmick of that reg
ment was the officer commanding. Lieutensr
Greble was about twenty seven years old. H
was born in Philadelphia, Of which place hi
father, Edwin Greble, whose marble works al
in Chestnut street above Seventeenth, is one
the most esteemed and estilnable citizen
Lieutenant Greble graduated at the MilitaI
Academy in 1854, on his graduation takin
rank in the artillery. For some years past, h
has been stationed at West Point where fe
months since he married Miss Clara Frencl
daughter of the Rev. Mr.. French, chaplain
that post. He was among the first who r
ceived orders from his Government to repair
Washington to assist in protecting the flag
his country. He was modest but highly accon
plished young officer, and was much believe
both in and out of the army; md his dealt
deeply regretted by all who knew him, has struc
profound grief into the paternal household
which he was the pride and joy, His fatht
arrived at Baltimore Tuesday, on his way to IL
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