The Progress Of The Southern Trade

pression of tbe rebellion, attracts attention. In cotton, some eleven taundred thousaDd balea have been delivered at Northern and Western ports and towns, and at the estimated value of $400,000,000. Most of this has been paid for in money, wbioh ia at this time being applied to the developmont oí the industry of the South. Mobile, New Orleans, Memphis, Nashviile, Savannah, Richrnona and VVilmington are growing wonderfully. At Savaunah, where, before the war, thero were but two or threc Bteamboats running to New York, there are uow five Unes of steamships, or fourteen tirst-chids stoamships in all. There is al.-o a line botween Savannah and Philadelphm and Boston direct, and two direct to Liverpool, and two linea of boats with Charleston, two with Florida; and between Savannah and Augusta .there ara four linea- in all, sixteen steamers. In Bureau county, Illinois, there is a farmer who has 8,000 acres under cultivation, enploys eighty horses in the work-has one field of wheat, 1,350 acres aown, every acre oí which can be eeen from a certain point. The Trensiiry Department Inst week r.-do 'iiied ceit'üii'.-iüs óf indebtédoess aniountiDg u $5;): 000. and curre-icy and gold oerti6cates to the amouni of $5,391,430. '■■'' Tlio smull-pox is r-igin arnnng the froodmen in the vioinity of Selmn, Alabama. to such an extent th:it they aro not allowed to fnter that city, cxeept undcr tbc most pressing oircunistances. The National ItiteJlïgencer eorsiders it a significant faot tlmt Ilio acceptanco of thu resirnatinn of Butler followed almost immndiat.ely the promulgntioiï of Grant's report.