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COTTON". 



name given to the place, Los Desamparados 

 the Forsaken. 



In October, a conspiracy against the Govern- 

 ment was discovered and defeated. 



Costa Rica refused an asylum to the Jesu- 

 its banished from the neighboring republics. 



The attention of the Legislative Assembly 

 in September was chiefly occupied, among 

 other subjects, by the following: A bill to au- 

 thorize the executive power to cause authen- 

 tic copies to be made of various documents on 

 account of the state Treasury. 



A bill extinguishing in the state certain 

 classes of entails. 



A bill " on executive judgment by coactive 

 jurisdiction." 



A bill " establishing a new way of contrib- 

 uting toward personal subsidiary labor." 



A bill " on the locality for erection of the 

 statue of Christopher Columbus." 



COTTON". The total production of cotton in 

 the United States for the year ending August 

 31, 1872, amounted to 2,974,351 bales, show- 

 ing a decrease of 1,377,966 bales from the pro- 

 duction of the previous year ; the exports were 

 1,957,314 bales, and the home consumption 

 1,137,540 bales, leaving a stock on hand at the 

 close of the year of 54,521 bales. The pro- 

 duction by States, with that of the previous 

 year, as made up from the exports, receipts, 

 and stock on hand at the beginning of the 

 year, was as follows: 



The statement for Louisiana, South Carolina, 

 and Virginia, includes the following shipments 

 from Tennessee, which were not included in 

 the product of the last-named State : 



The total crop of Sea Island, the past year, 

 was 16,845 bales, of which 5,624 bales were 

 produced in Florida, 1,567 in Georgia, 8,755 

 in South Carolina, and 899 in Texas. 



The crop of Sea Island during former years 

 has been as follows : 



Year?. Bales. 



l&55-'56 44,512 



1856-'57 45,314 



1857-'58 40,566 



1858-'59 47,592 



1859-'60 46,649 



no record. 



Years. Bales. 



1866-'67 32.228 



1867-B8 21,275 



1868-V)9 1.8,682 



18(59-'70 26507 



1870-'71 21,609 



1871-'72 16,845 



The bulk of the total crop of each year finds 

 an outlet at the great shipping- ports of the 

 South, Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, Fer- 

 nandina (Fla.), Savannah, Charleston, Norfolk, 

 etc., whence it is shipped North and to foreign 

 ports. The extent of the shipments from these 

 ports for the past two years has been : 



There is also a large overland movement of 

 cotton brought from the interior to points on 

 the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and shipped 

 thence by railroad direct to manufacturers, 

 and to the leading markets of the East. These 

 shipments for the year 1871-'72 amounted to 

 342,186 bales, of which 122,065 bales were 

 shipped direct to consuming mills, and 219,015 

 were received in Eastern markets as follows : 

 105,875 bales in New York, 46,241 in Balti- 

 more, 32,458 in Boston, 30,129 in Philadelphia, 

 and 4,312 in Portland. St. Louis is a Southern 

 point in this overland movement, the receipts for 

 the year, at that port, amounting to 36,421 bales. 

 North of this point on the Mississippi the ship- 

 ments are made by the Illinois Central Kailroad, 

 which receives cotton at Cairo, Mound City, and 

 over its branch at Carbondale, and its new 

 branch at Chester. Proceeding north, the next 

 points of shipment are Shawneetown and E vans- 

 ville, on the Ohio River ; from the former cotton 

 is carried by the Springfield & Illinois South- 

 eastern Railroad, and from the latter by the 

 Evansville and Crawfordsville lines. The next 

 -lines of railroad, carrying cotton North, are 

 opposite Louisville, viz. : the Ohio and Missis- 





