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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
COTTON PROSPECTS FOR 1859. 
The Liverpool T^es contains some valuable specula- 
tions on this subject. The highest estimate of the cotton 
crop is taken as part of the data of his caculations. He 
states the American crop at 3,600,000 bales; the East 
India crop at 580,000; Brazil, Egyptian and West Indian 
at 240,000 ; making a total of 4,520,000 bales. Of this 
amount the United States will consume 700,000 . Exports 
from the United States to England will reach 1 ,900,000, of 
which 100,000 will be re-exported to the Continent and 
20.000 probably be lost at sea, making the actual receipts 
for consumption from the United States 1,780,000. The 
Continent will consume of our cotton 1,000,000 directly 
exported and the 100,000 above named from England, 
1,100,000, Of the East India crop, it is estimated Eng- 
land will take 300,000, and the Continent 280,000. Of the 
Brazd, Egyptian West Indian crop, England will take 
the whole 240,000 bales. The distribution will then be 
as follows:— Great Britain from all sources, 2,350,000, 
minus 20,000 lost by casualities at sea; the Continent, 
1.138.000 ;^the United States, 700,000; total 4,420,000 
The writer concludes his letter with the following specu- 
lation about which we commend to our readers who 
are interested in the great staple : 
We feel, however, that there is room for greater diver- 
gence from our views on the side of deficiency than abun- 
dance ; for if the peace of Europe is preserved there is 
every reason to hope for a year of unexampled prosperity 
to the manufacturing interest, and it would not surprise 
us if the consumption of the kingdom reached 45,000 
bales per week. If, concurrent with this, the American 
crop provided only 3,500,000, and our computed export to 
England was abridged 100,000 bales, it is obvious that the 
interests of Lancashire wouldbe jeopardised. It seems, 
therefore to be clearly the wisest policy for manufacturers 
to encourage for another season at least a tolerably high 
scale of prices for the raw material ; for it is in the last de- 
gree injurious to their interests that the stability of their 
trade should be liable to be disturbed by a trifling margin- 
al deficiency in the annual supply, It does not appear, 
.then, that much lower prices than the present are justified, 
viewing the question commercially; and, if trade is allow- 
ed to pursue the even tenor of its way, undisturbed by 
political commoiions, it is not !ik- iy that prices will vary 
materially from their present level. At the the same time 
it is obvious that they are no longer so absolutely con 
trolled by the elements of supply as they have been for 
the last two years. There is now no immediatedanger of 
a positive scarcity of cotton, and, therefore, prices are more 
liable to the action of secondary causes, and a feeling of 
distrust, such as might be occasioned by a European war, 
would have full scope for producing very serious results. 
Liverpool. Jaii. 15, 1859. 
Fluency op Speech —The common fluency of speech 
snmen and women isowing (says Swift) to a scarcity of 
words; for, whoever is master of language, and hatha 
mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate 
upon the choice ofboih; whereas common speakers 
have one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them 
in, and these are always ready; so people come faster 
out of church when it is nearly empty than when a crowd 
is at the door. 
||^"Many a dashing fellow is like the golden fleece — a 
fine outside on a sheep’s back. 
MEASURING CORN IN BULK. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I notice in the 
valor inquiries for the most reliable rule for measuring 
corn in the crib. The following, I think, comes nearer 
than any other, though it is impossible to find any rule that 
will be exact in all cases. 
Reduce the length, height and width to inches; multi- 
ply together, and divide by 6171. 
This rule was obtained as follows ; We took a wagoa 
body measuring 12 feet 6, 3 feet 4 ; by 3 feet. The 12 
feet 6 is 150 inches; the 3 feet 4 is 40 inches, and the 3 
feet is 36 inches. 
Now, 150 multiplied by 40 is 6,000, which, multiplied 
by 36 gives 216,000, being the number of square inches 
in the wagon body. The wagon body was then evenly 
and closely filled with corn in the shuck, which on being 
shelled, produced 35 bushels of shelled corn. 
We then divided the 216,000 by the 35 and it gave 6171 
and a small fraction, showing that it took 6171 squara 
inches of corn cob and shuck to produce one bushel of 
shelled corn. 
, A correspondent in the March number of the CuUivator 
asks how much corn is in a room or crib 20x15x9 feett 
20 feet is 240 inches, 15 is 189, and 9 is 108 inches ; 240 
mmuUiplied by 180, and that by 108 makes 4,665,600 
square inches in the room; which, divided by 6171 gives 
756 bushels of shelled corn in the room. 
Yours truly, O. K. 
Columbus^ Miss.j March^ 1859. 
A GEORGIA NEGRESS IN AFRICA. 
The Charleston Advocate is publishing a series of ^ 
scriptive letters from the pen of the Rev. C. W. Thoma^ 
Chaplain in the United States Navy, now in Africa. W« 
subjoin a few extracts : 
“In passing through the native market next morning 
in company with Lieut. M., our attention was arrested 
by a stand of ginger cakes and beer, behind which sat aa 
old black woman in a neat calico dress and white head- 
kerchief with the unmistakable tie and set of the low coun- 
try house girl of the Southern States. “This reminds 
of Georgia,” said one of the party. “I come from dareP 
exclaimed the old lady, rising to her feet. “From wherel® 
asked Lt. M. “ From Sav/annah.” “ Whatjs your 
nameL’ “Catharine.” “Where did you live 1” “Aide 
'Our House,’ Mossa.” “Did you know Col. M.I” said I, 
referring to the father of my companion, an old and dis- 
tinguished citizen of Savannah. “O yes, Mossa!” said 
she, mentioning at the same time the names ot several of 
the family. “Would you know Julian now,” said I, casi- 
ing a glance at my friend, “Dunno, Mossa; Julebelittia 
boy den.” “Look at this man,” said I. 
“She gazed a moment, and grasping his hand, exclaimed 
“De Lord help my poor soul, if this aint Moss Julel 
Tank de Lord I Praise the Lord ! I see some my peo- 
ple one time more !” Then followed many inquiries after 
old friends, a sketch of her life since she left Georgia, and 
the touching question, “Can’t you take me back to «y 
peopled’ He explained that this was impossible, and, 
emptying the contents of his purse into her hands, bid 
her good bye with a softened voice. “Tell my broder an 
sister of Andrew Marshall church,” said she, “that I beat 
see heap trouble ; but my Jesus been wid me and I try 
meet urn ober yonder.” 
“Poor woman! she had been set free at tlie age of forty 
and sent to Liberia, but her husband, becoming dissatisfi- 
ed, came to this place, where he died, leavirg her hcljh 
less ; but the white residents buy her cakes, and sto 
makes a scanty living.” 
