Beaufort, S. C, November 11th, 1863.
The cotton crop has done very fairly this year. The entire
crop, from the private as well as Government plantations, will be about double
that of last year, or even more than double. The government will have this year
about one hundred thousand pounds of ginned cotton. The first frost came last
night, and that will cut off a good deal of cotton that would have ripened in
the next fortnight if there had been no frost. The money paid out to the people
for their labor on this cotton is very considerable, and makes the industrious
ones very well to do.
E. W. Hooper.
SOURCE: New-England Educational Commission for
Freedmen, Extracts from Letters of Teachers and Superintendents of the
New-England Educational Commission for Freedmen, Fourth Series, January 1, 1864,
p. 7
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