Statistics Of Products

Accoraing lo tno latest ana proiessealy the most reliablo of the reports of tthe Department of Agricultura, the cotton yieldforl871 is put down at 3,400,000 bales, which is 100,000 more than tho figures of the September report. The estímate of the corn erop for 1870 was 1,084,000,000 bushels, being 232,000,000 more than that of the sinall erop of 1869, while a calcula t ion of local estímales of the present year gires a total product of 2,108,000,000 bushels. The States in which the quality of the erop compares favorably with last year are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Virginia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oregon. The total number of bushels, it will be seen, is a few millions greater than the extraordinary erop of 1870, but the ecreage being larger the average yield per aero has not been as good. The wool clip for the entire United States is put down at 101,234,676 pounds. We have no statistlcsat hand with which to compare this yiold with fonner years, and are therefore unable to say whether it is greater or less, but presume the form'er. A Washington special says that the British note to our government concerning tbs Alnbnmu claims made no formal demand for the withdrawal of any claims for indirect damagos. It alluded to the excitenient in the public mind and the different interpretations put upon the treaty. At the cabinet meeting, Tuesday, the subject was talked over, and the opinión was unanimous that roforence of all claims to the Geneva tribunal was absolute, and to that body must be left the rejection or allowance of the claims for indirect damages. This view is concurred in by Sumner and Banks. The Augsburg AUgemein Zeitung says that the attempt of Kngland to forestall European judgment and gain an opinión in her favor is as foolish as it is unjust. The Zeitung contraste the silence and moderation of the American press witli the ill considered clamor of the Knglish. The Vienna New Freü Press say's England assunies to be a party and a judge at one and the same time. The memorial diplomatiquo says the question of American claims for indirect damages against Great Britain is not a novelty ; it wasdistiuctly formulatcd in the protocol of the treaty at Washington wsthout the protest of the British Commissioners. A rich young fellow from Alabama visited New York the othor day, and having imbibed a littlo too freely, took it into his muddled head to eulist in the United States service, under the impression that there was to be imiuediato wur with Spain. He is now petlcioniog tho Secretary of War for a discharge.