1 JANUARY 1870, Page 10

The Commissioner of Agriculture in the United States reports that

the agriculture of the South is rapidly reviving. The cotton produced in 1868 reached 2,380,000 bales, and that of next year is expected to reach 2,700,000 bales, of which 40 per cent. at least will be manufactured within the Union. Eighty-six mills are already at work in the South alone, all earning large dividends. The "sugar interest is rapidly attaining its former proportions," and fruit culture acquiring a prominence it never before enjoyed, vineyards of hundreds and orchards of thousands of acres having been planted, besides great orange groves. In the summary of the report, which we have seen nothing is said about tobacco, but there

seems no diminution in the supply, and the agriculture of the South may be considered almost renewed.