PKODTJCTION AKD EXPORTS OF COTTON. 
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The following table shows the shipments from Southern 
ports for the year September 1, 1857, to August 31, 1858 : 
FROM. 
New Orleans. . . 
Mobile 
Texas 
Florida 
Savannah 
Charleston 
■North Carolina.. 
Virginia 
Baltimore 
Philadelphia. . . . 
New York 
Boston 
Grand total 
Preceding year. 
Increase . 
Decrease 
1,016,716 
265,464 
33,938 
25,771 
149,346 
192,251 
495 
164 
995 
110,721 
14,110 
1,809,966 
1,428,870 
To North- 
ern Europe. 
286,596 
89,887 
1,689 
7,876 
85,508 
12,951 
384,002 
413,357 
29,355 
Other B'or- 
eign Ports. 
125,454 
10,219 
116,304 
21,462 
14,716 
7,680 8,300 
83,126 88,524 
20,808 
1,549 
215,145 
245,798 
30,658 
8,841 
4 
181,842 
164,632 
16,710 
1,495,070 
887,032 
50,333 
25,771 
167,702 
299,404 
495 
164 
995 
147,821 
15,668 
2,590,455 
2,252,657 
837,798 
The quantity absorbed by the home market in 1856 
was only about one-fifth of the entire crop— 770,739 bales 
of 400 lbs. each, or 308,295,600 lbs. This amount, worth 
about 130,000,000, was, by a moderate estimate, made to 
produce about five times the sum by the industry applied 
to its manufacture in the New England and Southern fac- 
tories. 
The following table shows the importations into England 
in the years named from the United States and the other 
cotton countries of the world. The quantity is stated in 
packages, each package containing 300 lbs. 
1848... 
1849... 
1850.,. 
1851... 
1852... 
1858... 
American. 
Brazil. 
East India. 
Egyptian. 
West India, 
&c. 
Packages, 
total. 
1,875,400 
1,477,900 
1,184200 
1,398,700 
1,789,100 
1,532,000 
100,200 
163,800 
171,800 
108,700 
144,200 
182,400 
227,500 
182,200 
307,900 
828,800 
221,500 
485,300 
29,000 
72,600 
79,700 
67,400 
189,900 
105,400 
7,900 
9,100 
5,700 
4,900 
12.600 
9,100 
1,740,000 
1.905,400 
1,749,800 
1,903,500 
2,857,800 
2,264,200 
Mr. J. B. Gribble, of New Orleans, assuming that the 
average weight of packages of raw cotton to be, from the 
