The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-10-13
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Sunday Moruing, October Is. 1857.
Tho Cotton Crop OF Last Year.


The, Cotton, Crop OF Last Year.
We hayetpublished several articles
in relation to the extent of the cotton
crop of 1S66-67; but we find in the
New York Commercial Chronicle q
much more, (apparently at least }
correct estimate of the number of
bales produced last year, and of the
movements os she staple, than any
we have yet seen published.
According to the Chronicle, the re-
ceipts this year arc very nearly as
much as that of last year, being
2,O19,271 bales, against 2,193. .9S7
bales in the previous twelve months,
which shows the small decrease OF
174,716 bales in the produce of the
year, ending August 81, 1867. From
this aggregate Of produce must be
deducted that portion of the old
crop, brought forward at the close of
1865 and 1S66-say, 100000 bales
which leaves 1,70O. 900 bales of the
whole production of last year. The
stock in the interior at this time is
unusually small, and the receipts of
cotton during the next twelve months
must be looked for from the new
crop. The total cotton export from
the United States, for 1S66-67 was
1,552,311 bales, against 1,552,457
bales in 1866, and (taking no note of
the four years during the wary 3.727
in 1861. So the present is about
one-half of the former cotton export.
The largest cotton crop of the
South was in 1859 go, amounting to
1863, ITO bales. It was 1855, O96 in
.1s60-61. OF the crop during the
war, only an estimate can be made
some authorities at g, 800, 600 bales
during the four years; others as high
as $500, 900 bales. In the first year
after the war, it was 3, 1913, 9s7 bales,
and this year it is very little less.
OF the crop of 1S66-67, more than
three-fourths we're exported, leaving
466, 965 bales for home consumption.
Add to this what was on hand, there
are 5s6,307 bales of cotton in the
Northern States for the year-a
Northern consumption of about
IL, 600 bales week. AS the largest
crop was in 1s59-6o, "a, $50, 700 bales
SO the greatest home consumption
(972. DAB bales) also was in that year.
The home consumption in IS60-6I
was 843,740 bales. There is no exact
record for 1860-65, but 661, 292 bales
were consumed in the Northern
States in 1866, and 656, ,3O7 in
1866-67. There cannot be such q
great home consumption in the COM
ing year, unless the Northern manu-
facturers import cotton, which was
actually done last year, though not to
any great extent.
We condense these facts and figures
chiefly for the information and bene-
fit of our commercial friends, who
deal with the planter in their chief
staple. But they would also prove
profitable reading to the planters
themselves. as they embrace, in COM
paratively few lines, statistics of
the leading article of their products,
which would cover several columns
of unintellgible figures. We hope
that in doing SO, we are giving in the
Phenin that diversity and variety of
topics, embracing solid instruction
and valuable information, which must
make it an acceptable journal to all
GLASSES, representing the various inte-
rests of our State.
THE COMPROMISE. The New York
Herald itself, discredits the sensa-
,tionH story telegraphed to it from