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of the cotton, but to rot the fibre in the boll to an alarming extent.

These conjoint causes of destruction have masked a fearful ruin. The most trustworthy information it has been possible to gain in regard to the production of cotton in this state for the current year goes to show, that the amount produced will not repay the capital invested in its production.-

The important, vital, practical question arises, whence must come the supplies to feed this patently prospectively destitute population.

So humble a person as the author of this report is not, perhaps, responsible for the answer to this grave question;- but it may be safely predicated, in his judgment, that they who saved the Nation in the extremity of Rebellion will not permit any portion of it to suffer in the