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"Therefore we are led to beUeve that the estimate of the Comptroller of the Currency, Mr. Clarke, of two and a half millions of bales of cotton for the next year, is not an ex aggeration, though half of that product would he of vast benefit to the financial con dition of the country, and would afford some assurance of the ultimate success of the expe riment of free black labor in the cotton fields."
Receipts of Cotton—Stock at the South.