Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-08
THE C0TEOE MOVEMENT AND
THE GROWING CHOP.

the week ending Friday evening, Jnne 4,
amount to %, AL bales, against SO,737
for the week ending May 81, and 40, 055
for the week ending May 90. The receipts
for the correspond 5 week last year were
11,7l1 bales, against 16, 416 for the pre-
yious week. 1t will be seen that the re-
ceipts last week were 1870 bales In
excess of the receipts for the correspond
ing week last year. The total re-
ceipts at all the ports to FRI
day evening foot 2,772,4S2 bales
against 2,046,651 to the corresponding
date last year, showing an increase in the
receipts of 1885, S2 bales. The exports
to foreign ports for the week reach a total
of Sc, bales, while the stocks foot up
276, $50 bales. Compared with the cor
responding week of last season, there s
an increase in the exports last week Of
16, 6S5 bales, while the stocks are 1876, 14S
bales more than they were at the cores
pondlng date last year. The stocks held
in interior towns Friday evening amounted
to about $4,000 bales against 30, 900 tie
previous week, and is, 900 last year It
will thus be seen that while the receipts
for the week amount to %, AL bales, the
stocks In the interior towns have been d.
minished only 5000 bales. Touching the
distribution of the crop, the New York
Commercial and Financial Chronicle
has the following in its issue of June 4:
We have now reached so near the close
of the cotton year that the results of the
season can be stated with considerable
accuracy. The crop for the year ending
Sept. l.. 1870, will be about as follows /:
Receipts at the ports up to May 27. 2,750 OOO
Receipts from May y to Sept Qast
year $1,000. ...----:,...::........... l7OoOO
Overland direct to mills this year.. 22T,OOl
IiTotal receipts ...............~...... s,l47,O 0
SonsumCd South. ....---........... 90 0O0
Total crop, bales. 237 900
In the above we give the total overland
movement at 227, 600 bales, which is an
estimate based upon returns received up
to April /, and cannot be far out of the
way. Taking then the total crop at s.
237, 900 bales, it will be distributed about
as fcllows-our spinners (including South
ern consumation at 10000 bales will re-
quire (according to the estimate of the
manufacturers association) about $50, 600
bales. The exports up to last Friday
reached 1924 bales, which leaves
about 3S3, 567 bales for increased stock
and for export during the summer, as
may be seen in the following statement
Total crop as above, bales ........... S,237, o. {
TAKEN by spinners.... ........ $4,000
- 2,s53, 43a
Leaving supply for balance of year $50, SCI
Say increase Of stock. .........----... 5O,OOC
Balance for export from May 27...--- s. $50
Exports last year after June 1........ s.. OOC
Excess of expor Is this summer, bales. 24s, SCI
Should crop prospects continue very
favorable during the summer, or should
our spinners run on their stock more, our
exports up to Sept. l might be in excess
of the shove.
The New York Commercial and FL
adncSGE Chronicle of the 4th inst says:
Along a belt of land running through
South Carolina and into Alabama, the
progress made by the cotton plant has not
hitherto been quite as favorable as up to
the same period last year, though little
damage which fine weather could not
make good was done In the section
named the weather has been cold and IN
usually dry, and very limited portion of
the land in cotton, where the seed failed
to come up as soon as expected, was re-
plowed and put down in corn. With this
exception, we believe, the condition OF
the growing crop throughout the whole
cotton belt is unusually satisfactory, and
during the past week even that backward
section has been greatly benefited by
timely rains. The fields are reported 10
be clean of weeds, and the hands are
working well Our advices from Texas
are especially favorable, showing very
rapid growth, and giving promise of ex-
tremely favorable results. The New Or
leans Pjcdyltne of the 4th inst. has the
following
''With regard to the crop, advices are
generally more encouraging. The sec
tons of Mississippi, Alabama and Louis
lana which have suffered from pro-
tracted drouth have in most localities
been visited by rain, and the cotton is
now thriving. The dry spell has not
been so severe upon the cotton which had
fine start as upon that planted later.
The fields are nearly everywhere in
splendid trim, ample time having been
afforded by the absence of rain for work
ing them properly.
"On the whole, il appears that those
parts of the country where the drOuth
has prevailed are now in as good cOndi-
ton as those that have been visited by
frequent showers, as in the latter the
grass has checked the growth Of the
cotton.
1.-The Texas crops are generally repre-
scented as unsurpassed in every respect.
"Yet, it must be considered, that the
crop is on the whole very backward in
deed, and therefore subject to all the
vicissitudes of the fall; and notwithstand-
ing that it now promises so well, with a
protracted and favorable season for pick
ing, such as the one of 1869-7O, yet the
probabilities are entirely against a rcpe-
tition of last fall, and frequent rains il
October and November may cut off the
yield twenty-five or even fifty per ent.
THE TROUBLES OF RADICALISu.
The Radicals have worn thread bare
the issues growing out of the war. They
cannot be used as a hobby upon which
they can aga.n ride into power The
crushing victory of the Democracy OF
New York has satisfied the leaders that
the raw-Aead and bloody bones of ''the
Rebellion" cannot be again used with eff.
feet to brighten the timid and the igno,
rant into the support of Radicalism.