COTTON. 



tli.- kinu' many memorable works, lit- tilled 

 Munich \\iili fiv<coi'S. In tlic Academy of Kim- 

 Arts he drco rated two halls in tin- (llyptothck, 

 ilptiirc-gallcry, with frcM-ors, \\ho.-e sub- 

 drawn from the (invk mythology. 



it to Diis-cldorf, where- lc 

 director nf tin- academy, he returned to 

 l!crlin and began the decora; ion of the Pina- 

 ',, <ir picture-gallery, witli a series "t 

 illustrating the liistory of painting. In 

 lun-h o!' Saint Louis he painted four 

 > s, the lanrest, of \vliieli is "The l.a-t 

 .ludirmeiit," the largest painting in the world, 

 y-two feet high and thirty-eight feet 

 wide. In this work ho entered the lists with 

 Michael Angclo, and dared to compete with 

 him on a Held where rivalry would seem ri- 

 diculous. But Cornelius, if ho has not made 

 'o forgotten, has at least made himself re- 

 membered hy this vast work, which remains 

 atest monument. After a long residence 

 in Munich, C'ornelius and King Louis became 

 estranged, and the artist took up his residence 

 in Berlin, where Frederick William made him 

 director of the Academy, and charged him with 

 the painting of the Campo Santo. He never 

 returned to Munich, although he must have 

 often regretted whatever necessity drove him 

 th;:t city, where lie lived so happily, a 

 king in the kingdom of his art. Of the three 

 i-ers of the art of painting in modern 

 Germany whose names have acquired a Euro- 

 reputation, Cornelius undoubtedly was the 

 strongest. His originality was hampered, not 

 stimulated, by his early devotion to Eaphael, 

 Angelo, and the antique art, but it was not 

 utterly killed by it. 



He had in excess the German tendency to 

 subjectivity of treatment, and believed that he 

 was producing art when lie was painting con- 

 ventional figure-pieces by the acre. Still, though 

 he has [eft no work of universal interest, and 

 must ever lie little more than a notable name 

 to the world at large, it is not to be denied 

 that he secured an abiding place in the a flec- 

 tions of his native Germany by his enthusiasm 

 for her early liistory ; and perhaps not less by 

 the powerful stimulus his energy and 'activity 

 gave to (iei-man art, which owes no doubt to 

 him in greatest measure the high position it 

 has taken in the last fifty years. 



COTTON". The revival of the production of 

 cotton in the United States has made little or 

 no progress during the past year. The total 

 receipts at the various ports, in fact, show a 

 falling off from the figures of the preceding 

 year. This state of things is to bo attributed to 

 several causes, foremost among which are the 

 anomalous political condition of the cotton- 

 y-owing section of the country, and the disor- 

 ganized condition of labor throughout the 

 Southern Slates. Besides these grand obstacles 

 to the resuscitation of this important depart- 

 ment of the resources of the country, the iarly 

 part of the season was unfavorable. A I.MIJ-- 

 continued drought in the autumn of I860, 



and the ravages of the caterpillar, materially 

 injured the pKMMCti tif tlM Beanoii, arid HOIUO 



lo-^s \, . .I in harvesting the crop u hi< b 



was brought to maturity, owin^' to the diffi- 

 culty of controlling a sullirient amount of labor 

 at the proper time. A tax of two and a half 

 cents to the pound, impoM-d by t : 

 Government, add. d ooottderablo weight to the 

 general di-| <iv^ion which hung upon the cul- 

 ture of this valuable staple. 



The following table exhibits the total prod- 

 uct of the year ending Scpt.-mber 1, 1807, in the 

 various cotton-growing States. This includes, 

 it must bo noted, the surplus remaining on 

 hand at the close of the former year, which i- 

 estimated at 300,000 bales for all the-e States. 

 For the sake of the comparison, the figures ft>r 

 the year next preceding are given in a parallel 

 column. It is customary in the census returns 

 of the United States to reckon 400 pound- '> 

 the bale, but 450 pounds approximates more 

 nearly to the actual amount: 



Showing a decrease of 174,716 bales. 



The largest crop ever raised in the United 

 States was that of 1859-'60, which yielded 

 4,GG9,770 bales. .The crop of cotton from the 

 Sea Islands for the past year has been : Florida, 

 12,632 bales; Georgia, 7,646 bales; South 

 Carolina,. 12,060 ; total, 32,328 bales. The Sea 

 Islands yielded, in 1859-'60, 46.649 bales. Last 

 year there was no record of the supply from 

 this source. 



The Exports of Cotton to Foreign Ports. 



Where from. 



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