Wilmington journal., 1876-01-14
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, Jan. s. Rations are
short at the Red Cloud Agency on ac-
count It is said of the exhaustion of
theappropriation. The Indian Co.h-
missioner hopes to avoid trouble by
issuing ratious as usual until a special
appropriation to bridge over between
now and the end of the fiscal year.
T. Freund has been elected restau-
ranteur to the House.
A petition signed ~ %, 800 Mormon
women prays Congress to give Utah
State Government and TO aEnul Po-
lands anti polygamY law. They fear
their relatives will be arrested without
warming.
The administrators of Mrs. Catha-
rine G.. Sheppard, have received 50, ,S0S
from the New York Mutual Lie In
surance Company, in the Uulted States
Court at Baltimore. Mr.. Shephard
WIS Southern policy holder o Il. t II
the war rendered the full amount due
which the Company refused.
The concentration of vessels at Port
Royal, S. c., is in pursuance of ths
general plan of the Secretary of the
Navy to make that port the headquar
ters for the north Atlantic station.
| Among its advantages are. healthfui
climate and harbor capacity for naval
drills. The Secretary intends to make
his home squadron larger than those
| abroad, because he believes in beng
prepared for any emergency which
may arise from the present difficulties
il Cuba. While ;Lere is no official an
nouncement OF the condition of affairs
bet y cen this country and Spain, II Is
| bell. we'd IN we'll informed circles tiIs,t
H.; ;oI, H.,
upon Cuba may cause her to become
! involved with the United States when
she sees she can no longer hold the
Island, and thus part with it as mat
| ter of necessity. Another reason
given for ordering vessels from North
eru rivers and harbo-s TO Port Royal
| is to force them from the ice during
| the winter, as in case of an emergecy
it would not do to have them frozen
no. The Shawmat, Dictator, Pawnee
and Piuta are now at Port Royal and
| the Congress and JuDiata are en- route.
Other vessels will be ordered to | ort
Royal from Northern ports and abrOa l.
| The Marion is now At Portsmouth.
The Vandaiia, of Boston, will make
for Port Royal instead of the point
| for their West India cruise.
The statistician of the Department
of Agriculture has completed tn com
pilation of the official returns for the
| month and find correct the genera as
sumption of the lower yield of lint i'll
proportion to seed cotton. Only two
States, Arkansas and Texas, report
larger proportion than in 1874. The
Atlantic States which have previously
made lower estimate of the aggregate
productions, all return a smaller yield
of lint to seed in comparison with the
previous crops and none of them over
thirty pounds to each hundred pounds
of seed. The average decrease in all
the States is four per cent.
This reduction is attributed in most
cases to the excessive moisture and
the resultant imperfect development
of the boil and in some to the effect of
early drought in preventing full ma
turity. Cotton grown in fields heavily
dressed with commercial fertilizers is
found tn have greater propOrtionate
development of seed than of lint.
The average quality of fibre is some
what lower than last year. Arkansas
and Texas furnish the only exception
to this statement, though the average
depreciation is slightin Louisiana and
Alabama It is greatest in Mississippi
and the Atlantic States. The proper
ton of the crop gathered on the first
of December was 80 per cent. as re-
ported as follows: North Carolina, 80;
South Carolina. 95; Florida, 93; G"or-
gia, 80; Alabama, 81; Mississippi, 75;
Louisiana, 50; Texas, 94; Arkansas,
rs; Tennessee, 7S.
In anaIyzing the monthly cotton re-
port of the season the average monthly
condition from June to October is
made 93 12 per cent. against 50 per
cent. for the same period in 1874. This
wonId seem to indicate a crop of about
4. 900 900 bales, with an equally ia, or
able autumn and an equal proportion
Of lint. the loss of 4 per cent. in tn
yield of line, would make a reduction
in the amount of lint of 176, 900 bales,
aud the difference in maturing and IN
gathering since October points 70 Il
still further roduc,i iou of 2 t. per CT.
with a margin of 100, 900 bales for co.,
tingenoies after the first week in De
cember.
The seasons reports, taken together.
Indicate a crep of not less than 5,000.-
600 bales