MANTJFACTDRE OF COTTON. 
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As an evidence that American cotton is prized more 
highly in France than any other, it is sufficient to state 
that the average annual importation into that country for 
ten years, including 1851 and 1860, amounted to 180,000,- 
000 pounds. Of this amount 160,000,000 pounds came 
from the United States, and the remaining 20,000,000 
from all other countries. 
Switzerland. — The numher of cotton spinning mills 
in Switzerland is 132 ; the number of weaving mills, 48 ; 
spindles, 1,100,000 ; looms, 7,800 ; number of pounds of 
raw cotton imported, about 30,000,000. Fine muslins are 
the leading articles manufactured. 
Russia. — The empire of Russia has kept a nearly 
equal pace with the other Continental states in the in- 
crease of consumption and manufacture of cotton. Before 
our civil war Russia was receiving about 125,000 bales, or 
66,000,000 pounds. 
There were in 1860 about sixty cotton spinneries, hav- 
ing 1,250,000 spindles, and employing nearly 60,000 hands. 
Weaving, dyeing, and printing cotton stuffs occupied four 
times that number of people. The tissues fabricated are 
calicoes, mitrales, percales, nankeens, Indiennes, shirtings, 
and Persiennes. The manufacture of fine tissues is very 
limited. The value of cotton tissues is about 65,000,000 
silver rubles. Nearly all of their tissues are consumed in 
the country, a small quantity only being exported to 
Asia. 
There are large manufactories of cotton in Austria, 
Sardinia, Belgium, and the Zolherein States, of which we 
cannot now speak particularly. 
