New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-19
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LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
WASHINGTON TREATY COMMISSIONER
Al INTERESTING REPORT on Oo1Tou
Rum ON sAvurog RANKS
ARSENIC IalPREGNATED aRRRNas
Death from Eating Them
A COLLISION AT SEA
ONE VESSEL SUNK
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
BRUTAL MURDER IN uLIH0IS
HEAVY SNOW At OMAHA
CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES
EXPLANATION FROM sIOKIEs
SMALLPOX IN PHILADELPHIA


Wash1n0ton Treaty Coun1ssaooefe - n.
teFest1ng Report - Coeeoo.
WASHINGTON, November l0.-The preei
dent saw NO visitors today.
Tho Warrington Treaty Commission
have adjourned to the sixth Of December,
Horace H. Harrison has been appointed
United States District Attorney for Middle
The November returns of the Depart
ment of Agriculture relative to the oondi.
tion and yield Of the cotton crop, indicate
. larger product than was expected in o.
tober, and promise fully to make good the
moderate expectations Of July and August.
There bad been NO killing frosts up to the
date OF these reports. In the rich and
we'll cultivated coils Of the lower tier of
States the plant was green and vigorous -
n summer.
In some places the top crop vas matur.
ing, though complaints Of the immaturity
or loss Of the later growth are quite gem.
eral. In the latitude of middle Georxis the
squares formed between August 25 and
September 25, under favorable circum-
stances, promise to make good cotton. The
principal cause Of reduction Of yield in
Texas il dr0uth; in Louisiana, drOuth, in.
sects and black rot: in Mississippi, vet
weather in the spring, drouth in the sum-
mer and, in isolated sections, the caterpiller
or boil worm and driving winds and aoods.
which occasioned nearly total destruction
OF considerable areas. Drouths have
wrought more or less injury in Alabama,
Georgia and South Carolina.
The yield per acre, 90 intimated BY
county estimate, ia the largest in Arkansas,
decreasing in the following order: Texas,
Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, North
Carolina, Alabama. Georgia, South Carolina
and Florida The more northern belt Of the
cotton States shows tho least reduction
from their usual average. The tsbulations
for November are estimates, for each county,
of the total product Of the year, expressed
as per centages of the actual crop of last
year. These averages, adjusted with regard
to the relative production of the counties
reported, give the following result for each
State:
North Carolina, 6s; Georgia, g.; Florida,
So; Alabama, 70; Mississippi, ~; Louisiana,
IS; Texas, 68; Arkansas, 8; Tennessee, 80.
A few counties in Virginia, Kentucky and
Missouri mako reports of much the same
tenor rs the returns from North Carolina
and Tennessee. The quality of the fibre is
good in all sections up to the pres
ent time. A small proportion Of disco1ored
Or trashy cotton has been gathered. Some
attention has been paid to improved
quality by the introduction Of improved
Many correspondents note the
superiority in yield, and the comparative
exemption from decrease under careful cul-
ture and judiciOus fertilization. The No
vember and December numbers of monthly
reports will be issued together, and win
contain the substance of all cotton reports
10 December /.