SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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Taken for Home Use. 
Year. 
Ba'es. 
Y"ear. 
Bales. 
1857—8 
595 562 
1851—2 
...699,603 
1856—7 
819.936 
1850-1 
...485,614 
1855 — 5 
770,739 
1849-50 
...613,498 
1854—5 
706,412 
1848—9 
...642,485 
1853—4 
1852—3 
737,236 
803,725 
1847—8 
...616,044 
We give below our usual Estiiuate of the amount of Cotton 
consumed the past year in the States South and West of Virginia, 
and not included in the Eeceiptsat the Ports. Thus — 
1855. 1856. 1857. 1858. 1859. 
N. Carolina, bales ..18,500 22,000 25,000 26,000 29,000 
South Carolina 10,500 15,000 17,000 18,000 20,000 
Georgia 20,500 25,000 23,000 24,! 00 26,000 
Alabama 5 500 6,-500 5,000 8,030 10,000 
Tennessee 4,000 7 000 9,000 10.000 iSOOO 
On the Ohio, &c 26,000 42,000 38,000 39,000 45 OCO 
Total to Sept. 1 85,000 117,500 117,000 125,000 143,000 
To which, if we add, (tor the rast year,) the Stocks in the 
interior Towns 1st inst., (say 8,600 bales,) ihe quantity now 
detained in the interior, (say 9,000 bales) and that lost on its way 
to market, to the Crop as given above, received at the Shipping 
Ports the aggregate will show, as near as may be, the amount 
raisedin the United States ih-e past sea on — ay, in round num 
hers, 3,874,000 bales, (after deducting 12 300 tales nexo crop re- 
ceived th's year to 1st inst ,) against 
1858 bales 3.247,000 [ 1852 .3,100.000 
1857 3,014 000 1 1851 2,450,000 
1856 3.335,000 [ 1850 2,212 COO 
1855... 3, '186,000 | 1849 ■ 2.810,000 
1854 3,000,000 1848 2 357-000 
1853 3,360,000 j 
The quantify of Ttezc Cott'-n received at the Shipping Ports to 
1st September was — in 
1859 bales.] 2 369 
1857 ilOO 
1856 1 800 
1845 7,500 
1844 7 500 
1843 300 
1842 ....3, COO 
1855 26,079 
1854 1.390 
1853... 6'716 
1841 32,000 
1840 ..30,000 
1 839 no accoxmt 
1851 3 200 
1837 “ 
1850 .. 255 
1849 575 
1848.... 3,000 
1847. ll^L 
1836 9,702 
1835 3,424 
1834 saxall. 
1846 1200 
The increased and g owing importance of Memphis and yast- 
ville, Tenn., as Cotton receiving and distributing po nts, cann t 
have escaped the notice cf all interested in the Cotton Trade; and 
within a few years past, the tra'Uc in Cotton at both these points, 
has assumed a magnitude and consequence too great to be over- 
looked in making up an Annual Stateme t cf fbe Cr of the 
United States. It is well anown that the Crop as heretofore com- 
piled by us, has included only Cotton received at ibe seaboax’d, 
and was, therefore, empbatiealiy the Commer ial Crop, rather -.h-n 
a foil Statement of t)xQ Production of the Country. To inset this 
apparent omission, however, we have introduced for several 
years past, a careful estimate of the amount consumed in the in- 
terior of the Country, and have given the totals, bo hof this, and 
the consumption of the seaboard. It is now c'aimed, how ver, 
that Memphis, and perhaps Nashville, fcnd other iiaporant p ints 
at the West (on the Mississ’ppi Siver.) should be added to the 
Cotton P-orts of the Country, and the shipments from these places, 
whether to the Atlantic P.arts or to the Interior, added lo the C op 
of the United States. On the other hand, it is sail that such a 
course wou’d be a novelty, and an innvation uncalled for by the 
interests of the Trade, inasmu'.h as the Commercial C'op, ax 
heretofore made up, is alon.- applicable to the needs of Fo fijn 
and Coastwise shipment, and that comparions with former years 
would be valueless and idusive. We have thus stated the case, 
and wait further developments as to tie necessity or p-oprioty 
of any charge hereafter in our mede of ascertaiciag the Crop cf 
the CouDtry. The lollowicg from the Hemohis Bulletin, of l^t 
inst , will give an idea of the ex*ent of the busines.s referred to, 
besides which it ’s stated that 20,090 bales were shipped “North” 
from Nashville : “We append a Statement of the amount of Cot- 
ton Receipts du”ing the past year, and a so as compared with 
the past nine years as follows: Crop of 1850-’ , 163 000 bale? ; 
185 -2, 72,003; 1852 3, 202,000; 1853-4, 188,000; 18.54 5, 200 000, 
1855-6,295 000; lc56-7, 231,000; 1857-3, 243,000; 1818-9, 325,- 
4S0.” 
Of this year’s receipts, 241,541 bales we~e shippvd to N-w Or- 
leans (and is of course counted there.) and 83,56 L ‘ Up the River” 
— a large portion o' which we iuc ude in Rece pts at New York 
and other Atlantic Ports, es has betn our custom f ,r many years 
past. 
It may be well to observe, tha toe preceding Statement o" the 
Crop, is that of the UNITED States, as a whole, and does not 
purport to give the Crops of the Stat-s, though the Sbipm'^uts, 
Stocks, &c., arenece.=sar ly arranged under the different lead 
ing Shipping Ports or States, fs the case may be. 
Value the friendship of him who stands by you 
in the storm; swarms of insects will surround you in 
the sunshine. 
For the Southern Ctdtivator. 
COUNTRY UIFE, 
BY SIBYL GREY. 
“God made the country and man man made the town,” 
but it requires the highest cultivation of all our percep- 
tions, tastes and faculties, to be capable of comprehend- 
ing or appreciating the vast difference in the instructions 
to be obtained from the teachers in these two schools. 
Go out in a morn of brightness, when every life-throb, 
and pulse beat of flower, and grass, and bird and beast is 
telling of vigor and hope; enter that wood, flooded with 
glory and beauty, of light; of shadow falling gently 
aslant the topmost boughs of the trees, as if afraid yet 
to venture in and take place on Mother Earth, so eager 
is the striving towards the life-giving sun, of all the sense- 
awakened, many-statured breathers within its pale, and 
make acquaintance first with the earth-blosssoms, the 
small and scarcely noticed flowers that render earth like 
heaven’s night-roof, when it is “thick inlaid with patines 
of bright gold ;” a moving tapestry, inwoven, wonderous- 
ly, with many-tinted gems and jewels, breathing fra- 
grance, ever their woof of verdure, for there are rich 
treasures of beauty and wisdom hid beneath each bed of 
moss, the foot presseth springingly and every grass tuft 
that delighteth the eye — 
“I know a bank whereon the wnld thyme grows,” 
Vou know them not, those richly scented, velvet-petalled, 
rose-tinted little flowers, that scarce raising their bell- 
shaped heads from off their mother’s bosom, grow ever, 
“like two cherries on one stem.” Rarer, richer, is the 
perfume they throw out from their lowly bed than violet; 
jassamine or attar-gul yields, and scarcely knov/n is the 
perfume-laden essence that distils from those twin-loving 
flowerets that only lay on old winter's frost-lap, one bright 
red berry for earth’s summer-fostering, and months of 
dewy gemming, and many days of shower and rain, and 
recurring sunlight, one bright red berry from two fragrant 
flowers. Know you the shrinking, root-loving, bank- 
covering, rich, green-leaved, creeping mitehella'? the 
Partridge berry, that, delighting in shade, covers acres on 
acres of woodland, where the sun’s rays scarcely ever 
penetrate ! This is but one of our Earth- beauties. Know 
you the air-plants, the creepers, the clinging, loving ones 
of earth, that thrust upwai’d from th^jv birth-place, must 
be sustained and cherished, protected, by some nobler 
plant, not the grand old master vines, climbers, 
that by right ascends majestically to the fore-front of 
oak or maple, and hang out their banners of brilliant 
effulgence on the outer walls, and challenge sun and sky 
— and brave storm and wind-blast '1 Know you the 
myriad creepers, shy ones, that entwine lovingly around 
foot-stalk and stem of humbler plants, and mingling their 
unwonted hues with those of the protector adorn 
more varyingly the wood-side walk "? Know you the 
many Asters, whose rays of pink or blue, or white or yel- 
low, shoot out and seek air and light, through the tufts of 
blooming grasses that, in feathery lightness and varied 
fringings, are usurping too much space % Know you the 
Club rush’s, Adder’s Tongues, Gerardia’s, Wax-plants, 
the Mocasin-flowers, Noble Liverworts, Draba-vernas, 
Mkellas, Monkey-flowers, Ground pines, in all their 
varied hues and forms, their sweetness and loveliness, 
that form rising air terraces through that wood'? Cor- 
eopsis, all the tribe of sunflowers, from one to a dozen 
feet high, who, according to ancient story, “turn on their 
God when he sets, the same look cf adoring love that 
they gave when he rose 1’ Know you, as you benfl your 
eyes downward, ere you attempt to learn one lesson, from 
stately stem of shrub or bush or towering tree, the myriad 
legions that, bending in grace and loveliness, adorn every 
