The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-04-06
Tbe Inainn Cotto N Districts.

Messrs Finley, Clark L Co, in their circular, do
ted Bombay, February 20, make the following i'm.
portant remarks:
from The Government reports just published, and
the news generally that has been reaching US from
native Dealers 1t would seem to oe certain lhat We
cannot this yeac send forward Dearly ae mach coton
as We did in 1863 The general opluion now IS that
the crop will be 90 per cent less than Inst year ani
taxing into account the absence OF old cotton, OF
which last spring least 900 bales went
we think il is safe to that exports TO Great
Britain In 1869 will not exceed 100000 bales. as the
Continent at present promises 10 take OH iui'y as
much as last season. less than fourteen ships with
considerable freight engagements being on the Dertn
for Hnyre From the districts have the following:
In Cmrawuttee prices continued very stin. ruling
5r to 10r above Bombay rates. The supply OF cc tton
Offering there is small, Int after the Hoolee mondays
larger a. rivals are looked for. From kaudeish there
are complaints of the high range OF prices that has
all along been maintained fer IN inferior style OF
cotton Last years good crop induced many native
Arms to open establishments tnere put tnis seasoI
the yield is said 10 be aity per cent short and the
quality is inferior. Agents In Broach md tnat hu
pas are very scarce, and they pointing to small
er outruu than they anticipated some time ago.
The ginning factories are not very busy whilst many
of the large Churka establishments are quite idle
The best machineginned cotton that has yet come
to the Green is from Surat, though we believe that
we shalt still receive better quality from Broach
and the neighborhood. Estimates OF the Dharwar
Yield point to u crop ubout twenty-five per cent. in
excess of last year. but it is feared that tue staple Of
the latter cotton will not be equal to what WIS., fulP
ripe before the blight.
quantity and quat, the official estimate allows as
mueh as 80 per cent Y: loss. The chief demand
still runs upon a new Uoomrawuttee, whlch oon-
tnues OF excellent quality though not coming up to
ihe first pickings Barsee and Nuggor are now not
easily found good, being stained. and many docras
badly adulterated. lhe fuest OF The Hlnsunsbau1
crop has gone forward, aud for what remains
comparatively high figure is asked. Machine-gnn-
ed Droach Is the bes cotton in the maraet, but re-
Qures careful selection, there being much inferior
Neriad and Boroda cotton offering. lew :'es Of
new saw-Ginncd DharSar have been aced H. 2Sor
per candy
Messrs. Peel, Cassels & Co., OF Bombay, under
date of February 30, says;
In the Dharwar colleoorate the weather till lately
was excessively warm anil consequently unfaVJra-
bic for colt plants. especially for the indigenous
(Gom ptahL which less advanced than the exotic
iDharwar sawgirned.) The first picking has been
completed IN the most 70 ward districts, and is pow
proeeedlnn in othe g. ma lots Of Vingor'a comp
tah) and of Dharwar sawginned have arrived mere,
and 95 candies OF the latter found buyer on tho
nth at 2Ssr. The ,olor is good, and the staple,
though rather weak aud Irregular is letur than that
of the early arrivals crop old 60 ON the pur-
chases reported consist OF COO sandi"s OF Dharwar
saweinned at 2S:r to 272r, ari 1877 @ Iholisrah at
245r TO 55r. The recent ar:iv'ls d .nese sroWtns
are of good quality.
The cotton commissioner, In rcrott da,ci tho
10th instant, estimates the dehcioucs O. the cotton
per cent as contra ted with the crop OF last season,
the out-turn of which amounted to about l.2jO, 600
bales for export" Ind attributes the same to want
of rain ii surdry VI abs, Of which the chiei are
Khaudeish, Kullad.hee, Sattara. and holapore, as
also I, insufficient or irregular and unreasonable
rain. combined with decrease in the area under
cotton cultivation. in Guzerat, the latter cause
being in soue measure due to the former In
Brooch and Ahmeda -. this decrease is set down
respectively at 81 9G7 4G.3i5 acres. As to "the
crop i'll the Dharwlr districts" he states th1t 1t
'.has suffered severely from the unreasonable pre-
valence of dry ami scorching elsterly wind. the
"sudden AZ d injurious cff:ct" OF which " upon the
strongest cottor plants more than cin be accounted
for by mere OF moisture or the dryness OF the
wind" and that sit would appolr Us If 1t carried
with it some o;hcr lighting Influence" In pos'-
script, he gives from he districts up 10 the
18th Instant as to lows "a favorable change in the
weather rcvlyiug sao pl nts the estimate OF loss
iu the American varisey is given at 20 per cent on
what "the plants promised month aso, but the
quality OF TIL STAPLE so Very materially affected,
the blight caught tue plants just II the time that
the fibre was maturing il the Dolis. aS
he native plant has suffered more severely the loss
being estimated It 50 per cent but owing to tho iu-
crease in cultivation the whole crop of tbcsc dis
tricts will nowi' hstandiug b0 considerably in OK
cess If that obtained from them last year"