The Portland daily press., 1880-11-11
WASHINGTON.
The Cotton Crop.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-The following is a
synopsis of the reports of the Southern Cot
ton Exchange received by telegraph and made
up to Oct. 3lst:
Lousiana-Sixty per cent. of the crop pick
ed. and picking will be finished, weather per-
hitting, about Dec. 18th. Yield reported %
per cent. below last year, except in two
parishes, where there is an increase of Is per
cent.
Mssissippi-Sixty per cent. of the crop
picked, and picking will be finished about
December 20th weather permitting. Yield
averages 20 per cent. less than last year.
Arkansas-Fifty per cent of crop picked,
and picking of remainder will be finished
about December 20tI. Yield promises to be
% per cent less than last year.
Texas reports 60 per cent of cotton picked.
Picking will be finished some time between
November and January LIST. Crop 20 to %
per cent greater than last year.
North Carolina and Virginla-Seventy-on
per cent. of crop picked Picking probably
be finished by December LIST. Yield better
than last year.
Acknowledgement per cent. of the
crop picked All will be harvested from
November 18th to December LIST. The crop is
from 10 to % per cent. less than last yaar.
Georgia-Three-fourth of the crop picked
and the balance will be finished early in
December. The crop will be from to 10 per
cent. in excess of last years.
Florida-Crop two-thrds picked, and pick
LIST. In the Sea Island section three-fourths of
the crop is picked, and picking will be finished
December list. The yield is about the same as
last year
Payment Of Skies in 1880.
The following circular relative to the pay
ment of U. S. six per cent. bonds of the act of
Feb. 8, 1861. (6s of 1880 was issued by the Sec
rotary of the Treasury today:
Notice is hereby given to holders of U. S. six
per cent. bonds sSused under the act of Feb. 8,
1861, and commonly known as the "Sixes of
$780," that said bonds with accrued interest
thereon. will be paid at this department Dec.
81, 1880, and that interest on said bonds cease
on that day. These bonds which are in the
denominations of $1,000, with coupons, and
$1,000, $4,000 and $4,000 registered, bear the
inscrip ion "Loan of 1884, but should not be
COMPOUNDED with the bonds known as "Sixes
OF 1884, issued under the acts July II and
August 5, 1861, and March 3, 1868. The hold
ers of these skies of 1880 are advised that if
the bonds are received at this department
within sufficient time prior to their maturity
to admit OF the necessary examination, pay
ment therefor can be made more promptly at
maturity. The department will receive bonds
at any Time and hold them for that purpose,
redeeming them in the order of their receipt.
All bonds forwarded for redemption should be
addressed to The Secretary of the Treasury,
Loan Division, Washington, D. c." and all
registered bonds should be assigned to "The
Secretary OF the Treasury for Redemption. -
Where parties desire checks in payment for
registered bonds drawn 70 order of any but the
payee, they should assign them to 1.-The Secre-
tary of the Treasury for redemption of account
Of (herein insert the name of the person or per-
SONS TO whose order the check should be made
payable.') The bonds of this loan (6s of 1S80)
will also be purchased meanwhile in the usual
manner at the Office of the Assistant Treasurer
of the United States at New York each We'd
nesday in such amounts as the surplus revenue
will permit, provided they can be procured on
satisfactory terms. JOHN SHERMAN, Sec'y