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A NEW YORK COTTON CliiCUEAIl. 
We w’ere yesterday handed a New York Cotton Circu- 
lar sent out by the steamer Asia, from the house of T. J. 
Stewart & Co., dated New York, JMay 27, from which 
we make the following extract : 
The accounts from the cotton growing section have 
been continuously favorable. There is no longer any 
question about the probable issue ot the crop, as it now 
bids fair to be the largest ever grown, after allowing for 
allThe accidents to the planting w8)ich have been noted 
From Mississippi and Alabama we have very good re- 
ports of its progress. From Columbus, Ga., v/e have had- 
very disheartening advices ; these are evidently disappear 
ing, as we find in a newspaper published at Montgomery, 
Ala , the following extract of a letter from their correspon- 
dent at that place, dated as far back as the 7th instar)t. — 
“ The recent rains have caused corn atid cotton to come 
up in great abundan^-e, and to use a homely phrase, thoy 
are now spreading themselves. Theip appears lobe ex- 
cellent stands generally. loraof. ihe opinion that tnany 
planter.s ai*e more scared than hortv'’ From Louisiana, 
Florida and I’exas, the accounts are. .ctill more fayorableH 
We learn that the Arkans'j.si and Red Rivers,are now ris- 
ing. This will add maferiaily to the receipts at New Gi'- 
leans. The fujiuie for the present crop will evidently be 
between 3 ()(l0,0('0 and 3,1 00, (SOU bales. 
Your obedient servant, 
T. J. Stewart & Co, 
Cotton Brokers, No. 140 Peail near Wall-st. 
Wc fnnkly confe-s that we have rarely seen sm-h a 
■tissue of misrepresentations, (we are not sure that this | 
term is not strong enough) thrown together in so brief a 
space. YVe have been reared and always lived in a cotton 
growing State, and we have never seen such an unfavora- 
ble season, nor have we met a man, whatever his age, ob- 
servation or experience who ever saw a season thus far so 
unpropitious for the growth of cotton as this. There is 
no section of the cotton growing region in which the cot- 
ton plant is not all of three weeks behind the average 
seasons in growth and appearance. It will, therefore, re- 
quire one of the most favorable seasons ever known, to 
make even an average crop of cotton. These fiicts are 
well known to every intelligent and well-informed man 
in the Southern States, and yet Messrs Stewart & Co. 
have the cool effrontery to assert, that “/Afe crop nov: bids 
fair to be the largest ever hnoimi These men in their 
anxiety to depress the price of cotton overleap them- 
selves. If they knew anything of the growth of the cot- 
ton plant they know better; and they must also know, 
that such statements cannot deceive intelligent English- 
men. — Chronicle tf* S'vntinel, May 3l. 
Ou.R Sentiments. — In a late speech, Gen, Qu'tman 
said : “It was remarked by the gentleman from Georgia 
(Mr. Cohen) that ‘the world was in arms against us’ on 
the subject of domestic slavery ; but w-ith the cotton plant, 
a fertile soil, and slave labor, we iiave but to be true to 
ourselves to maintain our position, regardless of conse- 
quences. And 1 say to you, gentlemen, that it is our duty 
to maintain our equality at avy mid every hazovcU^ 
CUETIYATION OF COTTON. 
The New Orleans Della say ^/. — The production of cot- 
ton in the United States mcretised nine per cent, per an- 
num, from 1845 to 1855, while the increase of demand was 
sixteen per cent. If this ratio continues through another 
ten years, there will bean annual deficit of nearly 500,000 
bales. The United States produce more than three-fourths 
of the wliole quantity obtained in the world. I'here are 
400,000,000 acres of colioa lands in the United States, of 
which only 28,000,000 are under cultivation. About 
550,000 slaves are employed in cotton culture. Should 
the demand for cotton continue to increase, the questions 
will arise, how is the amount of available labor to be in- 
creased, so as to supply the demand'? By what means 
can the United Slates continue to keep the le:id of the 
world in the production of cotton ? These are questions 
to which we do not presume to give an answer at pre- 
sent. 
To Clean Wall Paper. — Soiled wall papers may be 
made to look as well almost as new, in most cases, by the 
following expedient : 
Take about two quarts of wheat bran, tie it in a bun- 
dle in coarse fl tnnel., and rub it over the paper, h v.'ill 
cleanse llie v/jiole paper of all description of dirt and 
Sfiois better than any mean.s that can be used. Some use 
oread, but dry bran i's'bij,iier, 
Cp.ops and Wea'I'her in — i.'lie corn and cotton 
crops' Hi this couiity, although rather !.)ac.k warti, look 
wtil There is geni’rally a good .'itiitid, and will! a good 
Season, which we thinlt is more tlian pro!>alile, tin re will 
tie fine crops. Vegetiitinn not ^ufierihg in this vicinity 
for want of rain ; and some of our most experienced farm- 
ers say that they are trore af aid ot too n.uch than too 
little. There is now every appearance of vain. — Texas 
Advocate, ‘May IG. 
