Alexandria gazette & daily advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [Va.]) 1817-1822, 1821-05-04

ny fcSCulOiC OuT wv pot
may resul, from transitory evil, Their woes
may excite in our southern brethren
warmer spirit of sympathy than they nave
hitherto evinred towards the middle ana
northern states in their adversely; and when
one general misery pervades the country
we may expect something will be done for
general relief There is nothing like 'filc-
ton Tor bringing mankind to reflection; sno
no stronger bond OF union exists than COM
munity of sorrow, with asuitabe conviction
that mutual exertion is necessary to secure
mutual happiness. Union.
From the Savannah Republican.
! The editor of the Georgia News, says:
".The state OF foreigl markets iOl the great
staple Of our state, is very uniavorable; ana
the prospects of an amelioratlon far from be-
ing 1atterng to our farmers. By the last
accounts from Liverpool Upland Cotton was
in no demand. We are of opinion that a
material change in the price of that article
will soon take place IN Europe" We agree
| with the News" in his remarks generally,
according to the depreciation OF cotton; and
join with him in advising our tanners 10
prepare for further reduction OF their pro-
fits at no distant day. For this opinion we
give the following reasons: The extension
of cotton planting to the fertile lands OF The
Mississippi and Louisiana, must ere long
treble or quadrupe our exports and conse
uuently lower our prices. But that Is not
all. Cotton in India is plentiful and 'heap;
and England, for the double purpose 81 ~
creasing the trade Of her oriental commerce
will endeavor to draw her supplies from hat
quarter. la fact she now receives great
quantity from thence, and is actively eDga-
ged in increasing it, That it is inferior to
American cotton. no one can dispute, but
that is owing to the mode of cultvating the
plant and separating the wool from the seed.
The climate and soil, being equal to those
of our southern states, it is more than proba-
BILE that the English government will before
long remedy the deficiency, by introducing
into the east the improvements we have
made in that line. They have likewise in
| troduced the cultivation of the plant in the
colony of Sierra Leone, and at the Cape OF
Good Hope. The character Of the coonists
at the former place, and the annual ravages
ofthe locust at the latter, may paralIze their
attempts in Africa. But India is sufficient
to supply the whole manufactures OF Great
Britain, and as the southern province OF
China may soon be subjected to her sway,
we should not at all be surprised TO find her,
before the expiration OF many years, sup
plying the continent of Europe with raw
cotton from Asia. Besides, since 1916,
the quantity OF co,toG raised in the United
States, has every year increased. The
| quantity raised in Alabama was trlflng, ana
now il is immense: in N. Carolina the cul-
lure of cotton was not pursued; now IT is
in high state Of improvement" In all the
West India Islands, the culture OF cotton, OF
late, has been attended to with Vigor, and
great quantities are raised in Brazils. 1t is,
therefore, highly important, that cur far
mers should betake themselves to the pre-
parslion of those primary articles OF domes-
tic life, for the supplies OF which, they now
depend on foreign countres-and not place
all their hopes in branch OF commerce,
which, at best, is liable TO yexations and
interruptions, and OF which it is the interest
as well as in the power Of Europe to de-
prive them.
To this forcible statement. we subjoln
the following paragraphs from the Georgia
Journal, which are calculated further 10
e'ucdate the subject. The closing remarks
of the editor. deserve The serious considera-
ton of every friend Of bis country.
From the Georgia Journal.
MilledgevilIe, April -.
From ali quarters we hear of great injury
being done to the wheat crops by the late
| frosts. The spring has been unusually Sc
we're; and every Ching like fruit has been
destroyed. The late rains too have made
great inroads on the preparations of the
farmer for new crop. But they have been
productive OF one great advantage: they
have convinced the people OF the necessity
of deep horizontal plougbing. An intelli-
gent gentleman with whom we conversed
few days ago, states, that in this particular,
they have done more to bring abou; gene
raj adoption of this principle than all the
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