The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-06-23
WASHINGTON.
COTTON At FIFTEEN CENTS.
Report Of the Committee Of Agriculture
on the Growing Crop.
IFRo4 THE AssoclArED aREss.l


+ WASHINGTON, June 22.
Woods, the congressional captive, has been
safely returned to the capital.
The Senate Judiciary Committee will report
BIN favor of the confirmation Of Alderman, as
Encouragement, but will oppose action until
he arrives here, which he Is expected to do to-
Rday.
The revenue to-day is s630,0O0
Secretary Boutwell, orders the exclusion
rom the money rooms of all persons not bear
ing his orders.
The revenue for the present fiscal year will
.lmount to $3.50, ,00o 900, which is largely In ex-
cess Of last year and Of the estimates.
The agricultural report .or the current
month Is as follows:
ssCotton growers seem determined this year
reduce the price to fifteen cents, with every
prospect of doing 1t. The acreage Of cotton is
materially increased in every State, while that
: BIZ wheat, and probably of corn, (although the
estimates for the entire country do not come
In until July frst) has decreased. If the ne
glect of all other interests can only be cured
by cheap cotton, the sooner the production
comes the better.
,.sThe condition of the growing crop in North
Carolina is good. In South Carolina cotton is
looking well, except that some complaint Of
bad stands is made. In. Georgia thecrop Is
late and smaller than usual, from the effects
of drought Of FIVE weeks, which terminated on
May 25th; but the plants now growing vigo-
rously. The dry time was rather shorter in
Florida and Alabama, and cotton is generally
In good condition. The reports from Missouri
and Mississippi are still more favorable. In
Tensas Parish, Louisiana, where the greatest
cotton yield Of 1869 was made, the condition Of
the crop is twenty per cent. better than last
year, and the acreage is increased one-ffth.
From Texas come reports Of the backward
spring, with the cotton late but thrifty and
promising. No State makes more unfayor-
/ abe return than Arkansas.
/: s'The acreage and the condition Of cotton are
Sbetter than last year at this time, fact desira-
,ble and gratifying In itself, but of no control
ling force in determining the ultimate result.
Last sesson was unpropitious up to August,
y and afterwards it was favorable to an almost
unexampled degrees tenth of the crop being
due to the extreme length Of the autumna
season.
ssThe acreage of sea island cotton in Texas
has been increased.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
issued regulations regarding distillation from
fruits, greatly reducing the buSdens on that In
'dustry.
>
Bills were offered authorizing cable from
the Bermudss, and to facilitate telegraphic
commuuication with the Belgans.
The Tax bin was taken up and led to sharp
contest on the income tax question. Sumner
and Conkling argued for its abolition. The
matter was finally postponed to Thursday.
HOUSE..
In the House, the bill authorizing bridge
over the Missouri River at Omaha, of three
hundred feet etan, paased.
he-ways and Means Committee reported
bill regulating the collection of internal reve-
hue, reducing the force in proportion to the
-reductiea OF revenue.
1 The bill allowing Massachusetts over half q
million for interest on debt OF the war Of 1872,
was amended 80 that this payment closes the
yaeeount, and passed, l01 tool.
The Presidents veto Of the bill to extend
the patent for Smith & Wesson's pistols was
sustained. During the discussion there was
severe collision between Farnsworth and But
ler. The former accused Butler Of having re-
ceiyed $4,000 as the attorney for the parties de-
string the extension. Butler retorted that
Farnsworth had more beard than brains.
Farnsworth said, "Whether it is long or
short, no member shall steal under the shadow
of my beard II know tn Recrlmination and
-denunclation followed.