The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-03-05

statss. that eeroas proc.eds Of lie sales of COT
ton amounted to nearly $29 500 0OD and the gross
= lie
perty is nearly half million ;other receipts 50 $685.
OoO, making the total receipts ss4 05s 600
q let profit to the United States Of nearly s25,-
0O9 000. The receipts in coin were S. $50 GOO and
the remainder in currency: In most OF the agen-i
to Simeon Draper, cotton agent st New York Sor
sale, and the disbursements were mostly PAID from
other sourcest SO that the receipts and disbufse-
ments stated in the table are no indication Of the
real results of the Of an agency The
number Of bales OF cotton collected as abandoned
was 3sS and the number q bales released to
Ehe number uf bales oscotton: sold was ss7s; the
of bales collected as captured Isl; ;s45; the
eo eth q appsar
the documents that the number Of bales stolen
homagents is ~ and the 4 number @ burned while
s584o; the number shipped to him, per agents re-
sa sss sang e s5ssss
faiod band, Isl maRag a.aa a.tofai Of s. $40. '
under the act 81 July 1864, Is taken the @5Sns
Number of bales Of cotton purchased 53 1893 resod
4s, s,3s9; lost in relacking L; shipped to Simeon
Draper bsS shipped 70 cotton agent 81 st. Louis
Is ,Xraport from the Quar- General shows
that in pursuance Of instructions, Colonel Ransom
took charge Of the captured cotton at SavunnahI
and Charleston, and turned over to the treasury
agents up to March q, 1865, upwards of 38, ,000
bales, and it appears from the statement that there
was bat little cotton remaining in the hands Of the
officers Of the quartermaster's department. at the
close Of the war and but very little received after
: Twelve hundred and seven bales were derived
i from cotton collected from the batteries, bridges,
trenches, hospitals, camps, fields, etc: in and
AROUND the works Of Port Hudson BY negro txoopst
| having been buried in the earth, used TOR beds,,
i and some Of it was stained with the blood OF onr
1 soldiers nntlated in the siege Of Port Hudson.
One hundred thousand dollara OF the proceeds Of
this cotton Was applied Id the rtermaster's de-
proceeds Of this cotton may said to have covered
Il an the expenses Of the schools for the poor and
colored people Louisians up to 1855, and poesi-
Ahess Vas 1t q four 6nndred and our BALES
prise Of the troops on the Rio rande, and several
!. hundred miles from the fields where it was grown,
II which cotton was sold by sthe direction Of the
y commander Of the Department OF The Cult to assist
in paying for tho steamers and vessels lost the
II expedition toBrazos Santiag and the Rio GrAnde.
IL gohnslsHo had the matter IN chsfge,
81 SAWS most OF the cotton and ether products Rath.
cred was off the Atchafaay River, In 1855, and
was 20 redandl iversd at points Of trans.
with VT rare tact md industy; used lie teams o 81
3; their masters, who had fed the enemy and
"a Brought it from all manner OF. hiding aplacea,r
swamps and forests, Sass well as from: e'plaItaS
q tiUs OF their masters They seemed ITO be Inn
pressed with the belief Tint they thus doing
es trsnsp sportation to freedom. was owing o the1
: Efforts that It could be EhuS moved In the midst d
Irapid without any real ssteutio1 bSinf
given TO thesubj g n