353 
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Export to Foreign Ports from September ], 1854, to Angust 31, 1855. 
FROM 
TO GREAT 
BRITAIN. 
TO 
FRANCE 
TO N. 
EUROPE 
OTHER 
F. PORTS. 
TOTAL. 
New Orleans 
Mobile 
717,326 
215.248 
8,926 
28,068 
171,998 
204,102 
59 
178,823 
111,090 
1,570 
5,320 
8,106 
70.658 
62,682 
8,257 
5,664 
1,680 
3.08S 
13.700 
109,164 
5,716 
1,U67,947 
840,311 
16,160 
35,018 
183,167 
315,478 
59 
1,459 
1,582 
300 
279,885 
2,878 
Florida 
Savannah 
Charleston 
27,020 
North Carolina 
Virginia *’**.... 
1,459 
91 
Baltimore 
1,491 
300 
200,967 
1,284 
Philadelphia 
New Y ork 
84,366 
87,124 
1,555 
7,378 
84 
Grand Total 
1,549,716 
1,608,750 
409,981 
374,058 
185,209 
165,172 
149,362 
176,165 
2,244,209 
2,319,148 
Total last year 
Decrease ^ 
54,084 
29,972 
26,806 
74,939 
Increase 
85.873 
C'oDsamptloD. 
Total Crop of tbe United States as before stated .. 
BALES 
2 X47 8SQ 
Add — Stocks on hand 1st September, 1854 — In Southern Ports 
85,486 
In Northern Ports 
50,117 
iOOyVKJO 
Makes a supply of 
2,982,942 
Deduct ihtrffrom—llho exports to Foreign Ports 
Less Foreign included 
2,248,818 
Stocks on hand 1st September, 1865— In Sonthern Ports 
In Northern Ports 
Burnt at New York, Boston and Philadelphia 
1^0|000 
2,704 
2,889,358 
Taken for home use 
598,584 
Quantity Contumed by and In tbe Hands of Manufactarers, North of Virginia. 
Bales . 
, - 
Bales. I 
1 
Bales . 
Bales. 
■ ■ 
Bales .. 
1854— 5.... 
....598,584 
1848—9 
.618,089 
1842—3 
...32.5,129 
1836—7... 
...222.540 
1830—1 
1868— 4.,.. 
....610,571 
1847—8 
.581,772 1 
1 1841—2 
1885—6... 
...236,738 
1829-30 
1852—8.... 
1846—7 
.427,967 1 
[ 1840—1 
...297,283 
1884— 5. 
...216,888 
1828—9 
1851—2.... 
1845—6 
.422,697 1 
1 1889-40 
1888—4... 
...196,418 
1827—8 
1850—1.... 
1844—5 
.889,006 
188S— 9 
1882—3... 
...194,412 
1826—7 
...108,483 
1849-50.... 
487,769 
1848—4 
.846.744 1 
1 1887—8 
...246.063 
1831—2... 
...178,800 
We give below onr usual Table of the amount of Cotton consumed the past year in the States South and West of 
Virginia, and not included in the receipts at the ports. We have decreased the estimate as a whole, from the 
ear previous, but give it only for what it purports to be, an estimate, which we believe approximates correctness. Thus: 
1848. 1849. 1860. 1851. 1862. 1853. 1854. 1855. 
North Carolina bales 15,500 20,000 20,000 13,000 15,000 20,000 20,000 18,500 
South Carolina 6,000 15,000 15,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 12,000 10,500 
Georgia 6,Q00 20,500 27,000 18,000 22,000 20,000 23,000 20,500 
Alabama 6,000 7,000 6,000 4,000 5,000 5,000 6,000 5,500 
Tennessee 12,000 12,000 12,000 8,000 7,000 6,000 6,000 4,000 
On the Ohio, &c 80,500 85,400 27,500 12,000 16,000 80,000 38,000 26,000 
Total to September 1 .bale^. .. .75,000 110.000 107,500 60,000 75,000 90,000 106.000 85.000 
To which, if we add (for the past year) the stocks in the interior towns, (5000 bales,) the quantity detained in the 
interior, and that lost on its way to market, (unusually large the past year— about25, 000 bales,) to the crop as given 
above, received at the shipping ports, the aggregate will show, as near as may be, the amount raised in the United States 
the past season — say, in round numbers, 3,178,000 bales, (after deducting the 34,000 bales new crop received this year 
to Ist inst.) against 8,000,000 for the year 1853-4 ; 3,360,000 for the year 1852-3; 3,100,000 for the year 1851-2, and 
2,450,000 for the year before. 
In reference to the consumption of cotton in the country, the past year, both North and South, it will be seen that 
it has fallen off, although the production has been pretty nearly the same; this may be accounted for, primarily,, by 
the partial failure of the crops of cereals in 1854, the consequent high prices of breadstuffs and provisions, and the 
general pressure for money felt by all classes in all sections of the country. 
The quantity of new cotton received at the shipping ports to the 1st September amounted to 84,079 bales, against 
1,890 last year ; 716 in 1862-8, and 5125 the year before.' Thus it will be seen that the quartity of new cotton received 
at the ports to 1st September, this year, is largely in excess of last year; but it is an admitted fact, that at that date 
there remained of last year’s crop, (detained in the interior by low river, caused by an unprecedented drouth,) a very 
large quantity, say 250,000 bales ; some estimates are a little lower, but others even higher ; and had the cotton thus 
detained been brought to market and added to la'it year’s crop, it would have approximated the great crop of 1852-3; as 
it is, it will doubtless soon come forward, and materially swell the aggregate for 1855-6 — should not a similar state of 
things exist next season. 
It may be well to observe, that the preceding statement of the crop is that of the United States, as a whole, and does 
not purport to give the crops of the States, though the shipments, stocks, &c., are necessarily arranged under the 
different leading shipping ports or States, as the case may be. It is well known, that by the extension of railroads, 
and other means of transit, oftentimes, large quantities of cotton, grown in one State are received at, and shipped from, 
the sea ports of another, and this, to a heater or less extent, is tbe case with every cotton growing State in the Union. 
