Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-03-27
Movements in Cotton.
TEXAS CROP PROSPECTS,.
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from the San Antonio Herald, March l01
From friend Of ours who has just returned from a
trip upon the Colorado old Caney, and other of the
most important planting sections of the State we de-
rive the most satisfactory information respecting the
prospects for the coming crop. He conversed fully
and freely with very many Of the planters and found
them almost universally possessed of far higher hopes
and far brighter prospects than could possibly have
all the cotton plantations in the sections visited by
our friend are in cultivation most of them with fair
supply of labor, some with more than ever employed
upon them while some were still short of hands. In
general planting operations were fully as far ad-
ton of cotton to other crops though greater than has
been customary heretofore, was yet not such as to
threaten scarcity of grain. Most copOus rains have
fallen along the Brazos. Colorado. Caney and inter
mediate counties and mother earth was apparently
her fecundity.
In nearly every instance the planters spoke very
tayorably OF the disposition and conduct of the
groes so far, though some doubted whether they
would hold out as they have begun. The hands are
generally divided into squads. each under black
conTo qua Re h as sEGas
rapidly learning from the instinct of se-interest
the necessity Of making every niger do his duty
Inc portion OF the crops assigned to the hands varies
from one-quarter to 9nc"thrd, and in some few in
stances one-half is allowed them.
The Ereedmen's Bureau is being administered with
less Of annoyance and more of regard for the best
ed, and hopes are entertained that under the teach
nes of experience the operations of this dreaded SER
me improving prospects are rapidly restoring
value to the lands throughout the planting sections
of the State and though there yet prevalent very
general desire to emigrate to foreign Soils yet in the
opinion Of our Informant such tendencies will dis-
appear before the influences of returning prosperity
And so mote it be.
Though occasionally large and productive pIanta-
tions are found lying waste and desolate yet our
friend believes their products will be at least sup
piled by the many small farmers who, under the
stimulus OF high prices, are directing their efforts to
the production of cotton and from what he saw, to-
q hPDr FRO nt thAr-
the conviction of our informant that. barring acci
dents, Texas will make full crop of cotton. Be
Heving in him and with him, as we'll others of the
yet"
THE CROP IN LOUISIANA
From the Macon tGa) Journal March q.
Letters from Louisiana say that the planters of that
State are devotng almost their entire attention to
the raising of cotton, and that all things look
promising.
THE CROP OF 1S65HUcH LARGER THAN WAS GENERALLY
SUPPOSED.
from the New York Mercantile Journal
The quantities of cotton already brought forward
for shipment at the Southern seaboard, prove very
conclusivey that either the crop of 1865 was much
larger than has been generally supposed. that the
accumuations hidden away in the recesses of the
South unpenetrated by Northern troops, were vastly
greater than formerly reported The total accessible
already partly received and partly yet to be dev-
and. Notwithstanding all rumored drawbacks, the
present year holds out cheering prospects Some
persons are sapguine that crop of 900 bales if
not more, will be attained for 1866.
NEARLY FOUR MILLION BALES TO BE RAISED THIS
YEAR.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, who
has been travelling in the South makes the follow
ing estimate of the cotton for the present year
The crop of 1860 was 534 lG6 bales of ginned cot
ton: In attempting estimate of the crop of 1866
shall set it down at two thirds OF that of 1860 in all
the States except Texas, Alabama and Mississippi.
In Texas and Alabama. believe, the crop will be
full one for they were the two great centres of the
Confederacy, into which were crowded thousands of
negroes, many of whom still remain, while they were
very little disturbed by our armies. In Texas there
are 100000 negroes more than in 1860 and in Alabama
quiet also but lost many negroes Her crop viii not
exceed three-fourths In Virginia it will be about
nne-half Here then is the pnnss hv Stntns.