, 1870-06-21
Stocks On hand, bales. 2sa,ose
Total = . z aas -.


The actuI Official returns of tho movements
Of flaatyear' crops will probably not vary loo, 600
bales from the above estimates. In round
numbers, the crop Of 1868, now coming for
ward, mag be estimated at s,aoo. 600 bales.
This question now to determine is: to what
crease Of last year's crop. That We have
right to expect an addition OF 900, 900 bales
is extremely probable. The South, in spite OF
every drawback, is in very much better po-
sition this gear than last to raise large crop.
It hns more money to spend in fools and in
large amount The Savannah Republican Of
recent date stated thnt several millions Of
dollars hsd been expended In that city for fer
tiEzers- In Charleston the trade has been
very hEiak- From New Orleans, Mobile, and
I'll the leading cities Of the South, we have
t1ade in labor-sarins machines The demand
for mu]es By cotton planters is quite active
Then, again, both planters and freedmen have
learned how to economize. A Macon, Ga,
p8pec says that the old waateful syBtem of
planting is dying out and giving place to i'm
The South Is also NOW better of ia regard to
labor. The Coolie immigration can hardly be
calcu1ate5 upon to exercise much influence ~
yet But the changes in the negro population
ire more important. During the winter and
spring there has been q steady exodus Of col
nessee, and Kentucky, toward the Gulf States.
| This movement has not yet ceased. aud is
| moro likely to coutinre than to terminate.
The lAhoreIs nearly al find their way to the
rich cotton 1ands in the Gulf strtes. White
immigration is also beginning to exert it's ia-
| fuencc There is scarcely Southern paper
that does not deplore the increased quantity
| Of cotton planted, and the decreased quar-
| tity OF ce1n. We believe these complaints
spring from mistaken economical notions. a
| planter can buy very nearly ten acres Of cora
withtbe proceeds Of single acre Of cotton.
and there ia no good reason why he should not
do go. The Western farmer might just as
well be required to raise all tho cotton he
wants for his family, as to require the South
ern planter to raise all the corn that he mag
| want. The true course is for each to raise
that for which the pecaliarities Of soil and eli.
nate ia most suitable. They will find it to
account in exchanging products With each
other. That the Southern planter will not
plant more cotton than he can sec his way
| clearly to harvesting may be reasonably eI.
pected; he is no more likely to mako mistakes
upon thus subject than other people, and mag
| business
large increase on last years cotton crop. Ol
| course, there are still more serious contingen
eies. The crop is not yet gathered, and unit
it shaIl have been gathered in nothing can bt
r. the most variable and precarious crop il
The world. But for the present i is suttieien
to state that the Indications are AZ highly IA
son IL a little late. In every other respect tn
prospects arc IN that could be desired, and
is to be hoped that bounteons Prov1denc
IDay Emile upon the industry OF people VII
hsve shown their manhood in nothing NOR
than IN tho indomitable energy with Ehicl
they struggled, in spite Of government obsta
clcs, to rescue great industry from ruin.