New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-15

ports of Cotton CrOp-ObstructiOn in
the Gulf States by Rains-Statistics of
PrOduction-MobiIe ColIectorship.
WASHINGTON, July l4.-No more applica-
tions for soldiers discharges will be enter
tanned, as the army is now reduced to
thirty thousand men.
The President remains at Long Branch
until the fifteenth of August, when he goes
to California. He is not coming to Wash
ington unless urgency requires.
The Attorney General has gone to North
Carolina to make speech.
The Ku-Klux committee examined Treas
urer Angler, of Georgia, and Mayor .Ander-
son, of Savannah. Their testimony fully sus-
tains the deplOrable financial condition and
bad management. The evidence fully sus-
tains the current statements of venalty and
incompetency of the persons in power i'll
respective States.
The cotton crop official report gives the
following: The July returns do not materi-
ally change the cotton crop prospects re-
ported in June. Severe rain storms have
continued to obstruct cultivation and check
the growth in States upon the gulf coast.
The States of Louisiana, Mississippi, Ala
bama and Florida average lower in condi-
ton than at the date of the last report
The Georgia and Texas averages yet re-
main unchanged, and improvement is indi-
Gated in the Carolinas, Tennessee and Ar
kansas.
The percentage in each State. as COM
pared with the July statement of last year,
is as follows: July, 1870, North Carolina "a
per cent; July, 1871, SO per cent; South
Carolina Sc per cent; July, 1871, 100 per
cent; Georgia, July, 1870, l0l per cent:
July, 1871, 81 per cent; Florida, July, 1870,
SO per cent; July, 1871, SO per cent; Ala
bama, July, 1870, l02 per cent: July, 1871,
Tn1
cent; July, 1871, so per cent; Louisiana
1870, 10l per cent; July, 1871, IS per cent?
Texas, July. 1870, 81 per cent; July, 1871
SO per cent; Arkansas, July, 1870, l0l per
cent; July. 1871, 80 per cent; Tennessee
July, 1870, s. per cent; July, 1871, SO per
cent.
While no estimation can, at this early
date, be authoritatively made, this informa-
ton leads to the following conclusions:
With reduction of nineteen per cent re-
latively low condition, and season as long
as that of 1870, there should be gathered
a crop of 100000 bales, or about as
large as that of 1869; with a season of
average length, 100000 bales: with an
early frost, and q very unfavorable season
for picking, 100000 bales. The prevalence
Of insects, with other unpropitious circum-
stances, would probably reduce the crop to
100000 bales, and steady improvement
OF tne IuanI 1Of Sixty Gays, Win the longest
and most favorable picking season, might
carry the aggregate up to $500, 900 bales.
This is presented as fair statement of
the range of probabilities from extensive
and reliable data, and uninfuenced by the
clamors of the spectators of the Cotton
Exchange.
1t is reported on authority that Senator
Spencer says that Collector Miller of the
port of Mobile was removed in direct viola
ton of the tenure of office law. High au-
thority says the removal was for political
reasons only.
1t is stated that eighty per cent of the
bids for mail contract southwest have
turned out straw. Parties here protest
against new advertisements claiming that
that the awards should be made to the next
lowest bidder.