New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-10-22
BY TELE GRAPH.
LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
National Thanksgiving Proclamation
AGRICULTURAL REPORT ON COTTON CROP
Internal Revenue Decision
MEDILL WITHDRAWS FOR CONGRESS-
Wreck Of Steamship Cambria
Domestic and Foreign Markets
Domestic and Foreign Markets |
WASHINGTON.

National Thanksgiving November Twenty
Foar,h-OficiaIs Going to the Georgia
Fair senator Cameron struck with
Apoplexy-COngrafula Address by
Democratic Congressional Committee
The Agricultural Department on the
Cotton Crop.
WAsiuNGTON. October 2l.--President
Grant has issued a proclamation appointing
the.twentv-tourth OF November as u day Of
thanksg giviTg.
General Capron and J. II. Dodge, Stats
tician Of the Agricultural Department, will
visit the Augusta. Georgia, fair.
Senator Cameron was struck with apo
plexy at Baltimore, and sent home in spe-
cial ear.
The Democratic Congressional Committee
have issued an address cungratulating that
party Oh their successes in the recent cleo
| tions, and nrging the Democrats to ii re-
uewal of eXertlOns.
| The Agricultural Department issues the
| following:
| Cotton-1he increase i'll the breadth of
| cotton was estimated in July at twelve per
| cent.
The appearance of the crop on the first
! of October was reported us follows:
! Below an average in eOndition-Missis-
| sippi, one per cent; Alabama, four; Louis
| lana eight: Georgia, one; Tennessee, three.
Arkansas. five; Florida, two; South Caro-
| lima, four: North Carolina, seven.
! Combining the elements of acreage plant
! ed, and the condition of the same on the
| first of October, the natural expectation,
| other circumstances being equal, would lead
| to a comparison with last year as follows:
North Carolina, fifteen per cent increase;
| South Carolina. nine; Georgia. five; Florida,
nine; Alabama, eight; Mississippi, ten;
Louisiana. ten; Texas, thirty; Arkansas.
| fifteen: Tennessee, one. This would e we a
| crop exceeding $500, 600 bales; but the indi-
| cations of the season thus far, and the re-
ports since October |, and the proba bilities
| of a favorable autumn tor maturing and
| picking the top crop, do not prognosticate
| a return Of the remarkably favorable ex
! perience of the past season.
In 1869 discouragements and drawbacks
appeared with the plant in spring, and
, gradually disappeared, the season culminat-
| ing in almost unexanlpled favor, with an
! exemption from destroying frosts, blighting
! rains insects and disease.
| The present crop was vigorous in early
| growth, running to weed rather than boil;
! it was then burned with the drought in Au-
| gust, and subsequently flooded with rain in
| September. 1t has endured vicssitudes I'M
| favorable TO a continued fruitfulness. as u
| general shedding of forms and occasional
| rotting OF bolls attest.
| The boil worm and army worm have been
| at work in places. and the rust is more CT
| less prevalent in all the cotton States. The
! opening of the later bolls is unusually well
advanced in most places, and the last pick
| ing promises to be light These indications
| instead OF pointing to an increase of a third
! of a million bales, render it probable that
! the present crop will be no larger than the
| last, and if the remainder of the season
| should he very unpropitiOus, a reduction OF
| go, 600 bales might be the result.
| Another month or two will determine
| whether the present crop shall be limited to
| 100000 bales or rise to 3,500,OOo, as pre-
dicted early in the season.
| The promise of an average crop upon the
| present area in cultivation has reduced the
| price to fifteen cents per pound, or to the
| very verge of profitable cultivation, and
correspondents are already reporting the
ruin Of planters who grow cotton eXclu-
| sively, and buy all their agricultural
supplies.
! Weather bad. Cables slow.
| The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
| decides that a liquor dealers tax for the
first SIS, 900 of his sales is a special tax, and
not tax on sales, and that in making up
| that S25. 900 he should include his sales of
malt liquors. and all other sales, except
those of tobacco. He also decides that the
tax on the sales of malt liquors on and after
, October |. 1870, was repealed by the act OF
| July II, last, and that in rendering their
monthly returns of sales liquor dealers
| should hereafter be required to report only
their sales of foreign and domestic distilled
! spirits and wines.
| IWAsE1NGTON, October 2l.-The Agricul
tural Department publishes the following:
A large increase in the product of cane
sugar is regarded certain. For several
years past considerable part of the crop
| has been used as plant cane for extending
| the area of cane culture. THIS extension
| is beginning to enlarge production materi-
! ally. and will aid, i'll connection with the
fine condition of the growing plant, to swell
the sugar yield OF the present year
| The average condition of the crop in
! Louisiana is placed at eleven-tenths, or ten
per cent above IA Iuedium; in Texas the
prospect is equally favorable, and generally
| favorable returns come from the limited
sugar area of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
and Florida. IN Brooks county, Georgia:
in Liberty county Florida, and in Rapides
and West Felciana parishes, Louisiana, a
deterioration of condition. from drought, is
| reported.
Our correspondent in Iberia parish,
| Louisiana, gives an illustration of the pro-
gress of cane growing in that State: "The
quantity OF cane planted is greatly in ex-
| cess of last year. New mills are going up
| oil over tbe pal.ish and n season of general