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Show Tlie Cotton Crop. New York, 19 The increase of cotton export Ir&m thia port this year ia 38 per ceut. over that of the same period last year. The crop prospecta in almost all sections south aro very promising. Louisiana corn is looking well aud aflording excellent promise for a large yield. The cotton crop ia yet so youns that it is difHult to form any estimate of lb prospect. In some parts of the state it is looking very healthy and fine, but in othere not eo well. In the northern part of tho state as well as Mississippi, the trouble with emigrating freed men has interfered with field work to bocuc estent, but aa many negroea are returning, re-turning, this drawback is but a temporary tem-porary one. All reports from Tcn-ueaee Tcn-ueaee are encouraging. |