. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . In 1866—67 it amounted to1,951,000 bales, of which New Orleans received 780,000; in 1867-68 to2,431,000 bales, giving New Orleans 668,000; in 1868-69 to 2,260,000,841,000 of which were delivered at New Orleans; in i869-70 to 3,114,000,and New Orleans received 1,207,000; in 1870-71 ,347,000, giving theCrescent City 1,548,000; and in 1871-7
. The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland . In 1866—67 it amounted to1,951,000 bales, of which New Orleans received 780,000; in 1867-68 to2,431,000 bales, giving New Orleans 668,000; in 1868-69 to 2,260,000,841,000 of which were delivered at New Orleans; in i869-70 to 3,114,000,and New Orleans received 1,207,000; in 1870-71 ,347,000, giving theCrescent City 1,548,000; and in 1871-72 to 2,974,000, more than one-thirdof which passed through New Orleans. The necessity of a rapid multipli-cation of railroad and steamboat lines is shown by the fact that more than150,000 bales of the crop of 1870-71 remained in the country^ at the closeof that season, eft account of a lack of transportation facilities. From 1866to 1872, inclusive, the port of New Orleans received 6,114,000 bales, or fullyone-third of the entire production of the United States. The receipts fromthe Red River region alone at New Orleans for 1871-72, by steamer, were 52 THE WHARF M E N. they amounted tometropolis 89,084 in bales;1871 and theand ■m. bales; for kS/O-;! Ouachita River sent to the 151,358 in i8;o-7i- Knowing these statistics, one can hardly wonder at the vast masses of bales on the levee at the landings of the steamers, nor at the numbers of the boats which daily arrive, their sides piled high with cotton. About these boats, closely ranged in long rows by the levee, and seeming like river monsters which have crawled from the ooze to take a little sun, the negroes swarm in crowds, chat-ting in the broken, colored English characteristic of the river-hand. They are clad hang in rags from their tawny or coal black limbs. Their _ , rival in perfection of form the works of Praxiteles and his fellows. Their arms I - I are almost constantly bent to the task of re-mov
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