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The Daily Dispatch: may 28, 1862., [Electronic resource], Twenty-five dollars reward. (search)
How much cotton have they stolen We has it stated, in the Yankee papers that a ship of war, or some other sort of public ship lately carried to New York from, Port Royal. 5,000 bags of unpinned See Island cotton, and the Yankee editor raises a perfect yell of triumph over the acquisition Now, the See Island cotton is put up in bags, and such bag with its contents weighs 150 lbs, that is when the cotton is ginned Four pounds of anginoid cotton make one pound of ginned cotton; so that mass 6,800 bags of unpinned cotton yield Just 1,700 bags ginned cotton. At 150 lbs to the bag, we have 255,000 lbs of has Island cotton the result of their successful stealing at Fort Royal This is only a portion it is believed but when all is put together the profits derived from their various marauding expeditions in that quarter have been miserably small. At New Orleans Picayune Butler has fared still worse. The whole crop deposited there was destroyed before be took possession of the place.