The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1865-12-29
From he Nee York Times.
The Cotton Crop at the South,

conspicuous for many years by their trust
worthy statistics Of cotton-the Messrs
Neil Brothcrs-gives US some very inter-
estng data on this important topic. The
different partrers have ,raversed carefully,
since the war, the various portions of the
cottoh-growlng States-oue taking the At.
lantic States, another Tennessee aud
Northern Alabama and Mississippi, and
third Arkansas, Louisiana, Red River
and Texas.
Widely conflicting estimates of the
! Southern stocks of cotton have been con-
! fdenlly put forward since the surrender
OF the Rebel armies, some running as
high rs 5,C00,0 900 bales, and others as
low as 100000.
The most favorite figures, and those
which it was understood its Treasury De-
partment had sanctioned, from investga-
tions made for revenue purposes, being
/ 100000 bales of all kinds, old and new.
The Me,ors Neil, however, have arrived
/ at the conclusion that the supply will
count up from 100000 to 100000
bales, Of which they estimate the old
stocks at | $50, 900 bales, aud the growth
of this year at 400, 900; and it appears
by the data they furnish that more than
half Of the entire quantity, viz: l,09O,-
39+ bales, have already been sent to mar.
ket.
This fact alone seems to justify their
estimate, that the total will not fall sh orl
Of 100000 bales, however much it may
exceed it..
The history of the war may, 10 u nen-
sure, be traced in the facts which this
business report discloses. Thus, while
the aggregate figures represent about half
crop Of the y ars preceding the war; the
! Caroinas, in Mcssrs. Neill' estimate, only
.tand for 10000 bales or about ono.ffth
of an old crop. Thisis doubtless ex planned
by the fact that he great ports from when
colt was shipped during the war through
( the blockade, were Charleston and Will
mington, which thus drained those States.
The great State Of Georgia was hermeti-
cally sealed, and the bulk of the crops of
1861 and 81 would have been found there
| by Gen. Sherman, had it not been for tie
! homc manufacture, for which Georgia has
so long been distinguished among South
crn States, and which attained to consid-
cradle Importance, during the war. Not
wi:hstandipg the quality of cotton that
must have have been thus used up, this
State, in connection with Florida, stands
Ill the present estimate for 100000 or
about half an old crop.
Alabama suffered less than any other
Southern State, except Texas, and had it
not been for Wil,on's great raid nearly a
whole crop would have been found. And
even after allowing 10000 bales for the
destruction thus effected, the State, is es-
timatcd to yield 1900 bales, of which
100000 have already been delivered at
Mobile.
The extensive region drained by the
Mississippi suffered much more severely,
the presence of cnutending armies having
been felt ever since tic Summer of 1862,
much cotton having been destroyed to
prevent its falling into the hands of our
armies, or contiscated by them, and long
SINCE forwarded North
The total receipts of old and new cot
ton at New Orleans are estimated at 700.
900 bales, Cor only about one-third of a
former CROP Of which 43l 900. have al
ready been delivered. Is *
This large supply of cotton will be an
important wind-fall for Mr. McCulloch.
AZ the former average weight of the bales,
460 pounds, the total weight of 2, 100, 900
would be 960,0O0,000 pounds, upon
which the revenue tax of two cents pei
pound will amount to $1,000, 00O-an
excess of SIS, $4,000 upon the sum a.
500, 600 blles) which is understood to have
been the Secretary 3 estimate, would have
produced.
Another important consideration is the
effect Of 50 large an exportab'e surplus of
cotton upon tue money market aud the
exchanges. AT present, our spectators,
aided 10y the currcncy imitation, are carry
ing enormous stocks of cotton
One million che hundred thousand bales
have already been delivered at the ports
and Northern and Western towns, lnd it
will not, to those who know the trade,
seem unreasonable TO presume that halt
ot what remains in the iaterioI has already
been bought from the planters, and paid
for by Northern capital. No wonder that
money has become scarce and dear, for the
whole estimated supply, at present prices,
is worth SlO0, 100000, and Of this the
proportion exported thus far l., Gully about
one sixth. Let the stocks of cotton and
grain he moved forward more rapidly by
the holders coming on the market, aal we
should hear no more of advancing rates
for gold GA account Of the demand for OK
port
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