The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-11

least 100000 bales went forward. we think II is
safe 10 assume that experts to Great Britain in
nent ct present promises to take of fully Is
much as last season, no less than four
teen ships With considerable freight en-
gsgements being on the berth for Havre.
From the districts we have the following 10
Oomrawutty prices continued very stiff. ruling
Or. TO Tor. above Bombay rates. The supply OF
cotton offering there is small, but alter the Hoolee
holidays larger arrivals are looked for. From
Khandeish there are complaints OF the high range
of prices that has all along been maintained for
very inferior style Of cotton. Last years good
crop induced many firms 70 open establishments
there but this season the yield Is said to be so per
cent short and the quality Ii inferior. Agents In
Breach find that Keppas are very scarce. and they
are pointing TO q smaller outrun than they sntici'
psted some time ago. The ginning factories are
not very busy. whilst many OF the large Churks
ginned cotton that has yet come to the Green Is
from Surat, though we believe that We shall still
receive better quality from Breach and the
peighborhood. Estimates Of the Dharwar yield
point to crop about rs per cent in excess
of last year, but 1t Is feared that the staple of
the later cotton will not be equal to what
was fully ripe before Che blight. The Comptsh
crop will suffer severely both In quantity and
quality the official estimate allows as much as
80 per cent. of loss. The chief demand still runs
upon new 0omrawutty which continues OF excel
lent quality, though not coming up to the first
pickiDgs. Barsee and Magyar are now not easily
sdultersted. The finest Of the Hingunghaut crop
has gone forward, and for what remains o COM
psrstively high figure u asked. Machine ginned
quires careful selection there usius muoS nferiUr
Nerad and Boroda cotton offering. A few bales
of new saw ginned Dharwar have been placed at
2S5r. per candy.
Messrs. Peel. Csssels & Co., of Bombay, under
date Of Feb. 10th, say:
In this Dharwar collectorate the weather till
lately was excessively warm, and consequently
uDfavorable for cotton plants, especially for the
indigenous, (Comptah,) which are less advanced
than the exotic (Dharwar sawRinned). The first
picking has been completed IN the most forward
districts. and Ia now proceeding In others. Small
lots of Vingorls (Comptah) and Of Dharwar saw
ginned have arrived here, and twenty FIVE candles
of the latter found buyer on the 18th at 285r.
The color Is good. and the staple, though rather
weak and irregular is better than that Of the early
arrivals Of last crop. In old cotton the purchases
reported consist OF 600 candies Of Dharwar saw.
Pinned at 265r. to 272r, and SIS Of Dhollerah at
245r. to 255r. The recena arrivals Of these growths
are of good quality. TIE cotton commissioner in
a report dated the 18th instant estimates the de.
fciency of the cottor tcrop Of this presidency
for the year 1869 at rs per cent. as contrasted
with the crop of last seaaon the out-turn Of which
amounted to about ], go, 900 bales for export"
and attributes the same to want Of rain in sundry
zillshs, of which the chief are Khandeish, Kul-
ladghee, Sattars and kAIapore, also insufficient
or irregular and unreasonable rain, combined
with decrease In the area under cotton cnltva-
ton, in Guzerat. the litter cause being in some
measure due to the former. In Breach and All.
medabad this decrease IS set down respectively at
81 ,967 and as 345 acres, As TO the crop In the
Dharwar districts, he states that it has suffered
severely from the unreasonable prevalence of
dry and scorching easterly wind" the sudden
and injurious effect Of which upon the strongest
cotton plants is more than can be accounted
for by want Of moisture Of the dryness of the
wind" and that it would appear as II 1t carried
with It some other blighting influence In a
postscript he gives news from the districts up to
the 18th instant, as follows: +" A favorable change
in the weather was reviving the plants the esti-
of loss in the American variety Is given at 20
per cent" on what " the plants promised month
ago. but the quality If the staple Is also very ma
terially affected, as the blight caught the plants
just at the time that the fiber was maturing In the
bolls. . . The native plant has suffered
more severely, the less" being I" estimst ted at so
per cent, but owing 10 the increase 10 cultivation,
the whole crop Of tLese districts will. notwith
standing. be considerably In excess of that OBJ.
tanned from them last year.