The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-21 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21.

IT is to be hoped that no news that comes from
America will lessen the pains and care taken
to provide ourselves with cotton from other
sources. Thus far, we are aware of few
indications of any cotton being to be had,
while the warnings on the other side are very nu-
merous. There are reports of the transport of
cotton up the Mississippi from Tennessee. We are
soon to know how much this amounts to ; but
whatever it be, the quantity must be less than the
Northern mills demand. Against this one report
of cotton for sale we have to set a profusion of
warnings, sent from all parts of the Southern
States to which Northern emissaries have

penetrated
p warnings to expect no cotton
from either last year's crop or this. Of
last year's crop a large proportion has been
destroyed in advance of the Federal march ;
much is used for fortification along the great
rivers ; and more is spoiled by dirt, neglect, and
the dislocation of the system of labour. In places
where ginning and packing were begun under the
agents who accompanied the first incursions of the
Northern army, the work did not prosper, because
there was a scarcity of cash, and the promised
wages were not paid, and there was a scarcity of
other things indispensable to negro industry, while
the soldiers killed off the plantation cattle, and
. .

upset the only system of living the negroes bad
ever known. So they dropped off to the shore to
fish, and into the woods or villages to amuse them-
selves ; and the cotton lies where it was, or is
good for nothing. As for this year's crop, we
bare a few luminous words about it
from Major-General HUNTER, written just
after taking Fort Pulaski, and proclaiming
emancipation under the United States authority
wherever its flag is carried in Georgia. He points
out that, even if the raising of cotton were not
impolitic, the growing of food is indispensable ; and
be advises the Government agents in the Caro-
linas to employ all the negroes who are in their
charge in the raising of corn, roots, and other
vegetables. This, he says, will at once provide
for the health and comfort of the troops, the needs
of the negroes, and a proper economy of national
funds ; whereas the raising of cotton would be pro-
viding wealth for the Confederate gentry, if they
should return; or, if the lands should remain in
the hands of the Government, it would create a
sort of business that Governments have no burli-
ness with. From the agents we hear also that
the cotton tillage could not go on, because the
planters on the one hand, and the Northern troops
on the other, had carried off the live stock and the
implements and stores from the estates. If
the proprietors carried off the mules, the
soldiers seized the cattle and any horses that
might be left. The hoes were worn out, the
people were barefoot, the sowing was a
month late, the people were put out of their ways
altogether, and the brightest and strongest of the
young men were gone to the camp to be servants
to the officers. They left the women to work the
plantation ; and in some instances three-fourths of
the work has been done by the women ; but the
business has been growing food, and not cotton.
Everywhere there is the same story, as far as
appears ; horses snd mules carried off for the one
army or the other ; the tools used up, or taken for
military engineering; the negroes hanging about,
with nobody to tell them what to do, or, if they
have prepared the land for cotton of their own
accord, as has happened in many places, they had
no seed, or were called off to some other work.
If the Northern manufacturers have been turning
their attention to the prairies, while the planta-
tions were falling into their hands, and expecting
more from flax cotton than from Southern crops, it
must be highly necessary for tis to provide oar sup-
plies altogether apart from American sources.
There is nothing to be expected from the poor
whites. The accounts of them, as they have been
found in their homes by the Northern agents, are
truly shocking. Even the Northern men, who have
been brought up in prejudice against the negroes,
write of the surpassing degradation of the poor
whites. They are sunk below the lowest of the
negroes, we are told. They have no land; and
they cannot work on other men's land ; so we shall
get no cotton from them. In fact, the conscription
has removed from the land every white man
who can shoulder a weapon or a tool. The Union
men among them are carried away from their
business as effectually as the most zealous Confe-
derates. Wherever the negroes are left to
themselves, they &regrowing food or nothing; and
where they are superintended by Goverumentagents
or private benevolence, the object of their employ-
ment is anything but cotton. If, therefore, we hear
of the fall of one Southern port after another, till
all are in the hands of the Federals, it should not
affect our diligence in securing supplies of cotton
from India, and every other place which affords
fair promise. It is well that enterprising men
should grow erotica in the West Indies. With the
commonest prudence such an experiment seems
sure to mooed, wherever there is capital enough
to provide the heat means and to give good wages,
and the present may be a good opportunity for
obtaining trained labour from the American cotton
States—enough for an experiment at least. We
should inquire how much we an get from Hayti,