New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-12-12
STANDARD OF CLASSIFICATION

The market opened under the fsvoyabl q influence
of an advance At New York Of i.l5c in spots, and
l.32 13.5sc in futures (Which closed at a net i'm
prOveneut OF Lisa i3c), while Liverpool was
ported firm al previous rates with sales of 500
quest, well as by tie stringent pretenaons of
OF limited extent but lac. ia the day more sam.
PIES having been opened the movement become
noted above. Throughout the day the demand
pres:eiupon tie supry, and embraced to greater
as well as the medium and better qualities Prices
consequently exhibited !eas irregularity, and a.
tations Of strict good ordinary and the lover Ss
grades l5c; low micdling and strict low middng
h@sc m!ddlns Sc and TIE higher grades ac,
The Exchange makes the amount ship BOARD
bales, embracing 1922 for Liverpool IS, for
Havre, s5T2 for the North sea, it3a for Bremen,
e12 FOR Spain, 4li6 to- the Mediterranean, and
PA for coastwtse ports Laying IN presses accord
deduct from this the amount sold but not vet
delivered the balance will be about go 300 bales
which is withheld from the market in transit
We are indebted to Mr. Hester, secretary of the
Cotton Exchange, for the crop report of the Sa-
vannah Department for November which we
co1dense as follows:
counties. Twent- correspondents reply that the
weather since November | has been more favor
beea less favorable, and twenty three that it has
been about the same. The spring was cold and
Htte. y severe Qr0utl Au5cteu th6 plant IN july,
and the weather for two weeks past has been the
very opposite Of what was necessary to develop
the late crop. The crop has been pretty wei
of December, but in some sections-where there
is top cr0p-it will be prolonged beyond that
time. The prospect has not changed since last
report. The decrease from last yeaf will be about
Ten per cent. The bottom and middle crop was
poor and the expectations from the top crop have
not been realized The weather the past two
weeks has been cloudy, rainy and warm. In
ii ddle and Southwest Georgia, on the bottom and
strong clay lands the plant has a con slider able
amount OF green bolls upon II, are large, and
seem to be matured but do rot open, and appear
to be rotting frost is rseded and then warm
clear weather after it, to open the bolls. 1t is
still an open question whether much will be
gained by this second growth induced by the
August rains.
FLoalDA.-Thrty replies from sixteen counties
Thirteen state that the weather since November
has been more favorable than last year; ten state
tnat it has been lees favorable, and seven that it
has bsen about the came last year Picking
will be finished about the middle of December
Until it is decided what the top crop will do il is
difficult 30 estimate the yield. 1t will probably
fall below last year about seven per cent. The IN
seasonable weather for the past three weeks has
delayed the maturing of the green bolls of the top
crop. Many experienced farmers give it as their
opinion that but little will be realized from this
late crop. Complaint is quite general that there
is less lint this year as compared with last year
TO given quantity of seed cotton.
ket active" Its quotations raised "a fol los;
middltng and midc ling, and he for good middliug
It's sales are computed from p. NJ. yesterday to
p NJ. lAy,