The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-31

COCLOH, says the Otners knOW ltidt~
 says the first, |" but what is it ?'' s.Why,''' says the other, {" I tell you it's cotton cOt
 ton is cotton, in Augusta, and every where else that l ever heard of" know that as we'll as you," says the first, 'but what does cotton bring in Augusta ?'' 'Why, it
 brings, nothing there, but every body
 brings cOtton." ''Look here," says the
 first waggoner with an oath, ''you had bet ter leave the State: you know too much for Georgia"
 I continued my journey, passing cotton fields on the right hand and on the left,till arrived on the Oconcee, where I saw three large pole boats loaded with bales of cotton, twelve tier in highth. From thence l went to Milledgeville, where l found wagon loads of cotton coming to and pas sing by, and going through it, in every di- rection. l went to Macon, which they say is surrounded with most excellent cOt- ton land; and as proof, l saw many stores full of cotton and many large boats on the Oakmulgee, loaded also with cct- tou. From thence to the Chattahochie found cotton land spectators thicker than locusts in Egypt. And, going through the Creek nation, every now and then, would pass cotton patch. But when I got out of the nation, the plantations from there to Montgomery. in Alabama, IA miles, out strip any thing have seen in cotton plan- ting. The land is nearly level; the fields of one plantation joining by fence those of another; and all extending further back from the road further than you can dis l tinctly see and the cotton pretty even, and d>about as high as the fences. They have, almost all of them, over-planted and had not more than one half of their kc0ttom picked in each plantation has a cotton gin. I next came to Montgomery, winch found overstocked with cotton ,and no boats to take it away. From Mont gomery, I went to. Blakely; and on my way, saw many cotton plantations and met, and overlook, nearly one hundred c0tton wagons. crossed over to Mobile, in small steamboat, ,loaded up to the top of the smoak pipe s0ith cotton. This place is a monstrous acceptable for the article look which way you will, you see it; and see it moving; keel-boats, steam-boats. ships, brigs, schooners, wharves, stores, .press-houses, all appear to be full was there, boarding with about one hund- red cotton factors, cotton merchants, cotton planters, must have heard the word cOt- ton pronounced more than 5000 times. From Mobile I went to New Orleans. in schooner and she was stuffed full of cotton. Al New-Orle ans Hound steam cottOn-prcss house, where they work watch and watch, by candle light, screwing cotton, don't know how many hundred thousand bales of cotton there were in New Orleans; but was there only six days, in which time there arrived upwards of 2O,OO0 bales --and when we dropped out into the stream, in a steamboat, to ascend the riv- CT, the levee, for a mile up and down, op- posite the shipping, where they were walk ing bales on end, looked as if it was alive. Coming up the river, saw many cotton 1 plantations, and many boats loaded with cotton. And in passing the mouth of Rcd River, we took on board five more passen- gers, who live near Natchitoches. They say that they cannot get boats enough in the river to bring the cotton down that is made there; that they make the best cot- ton they ever saw that they have the best cotton lands of all the cotton countries. At Natch hez, there were number of flat, keel, and steam boats, loaded with cot- ton and one of the latter with the four, s boats she had Fin tow, had 21OO bales. At the mouth of Arkansas River, we took on board about fifty negroes and two overse- CTS, who had made a very excellent crop of cotton in the Territory, but fe.snd it too unhealthy place to remain. From New Orleans to the mouth of Tennesse River. we passed about thirty steam-boats and | fifty flat boats, nearly all loaded with cOt- ton. When we got up to the Muscle Shoals. there was more cotton in waiting than would fill dezen steam-boats. There is vast dea! of cotton made about the Shoals, | in North Alabamo. Ginned cotton was sel- 1 ling there for about six cents 1; and most of the lesser planters have sold theirs in the seed, at one and half. After leaving Huntsville, I entered Tennessee 1; passing through to Nashville and on my way saw abundance of cotton and cotton fields. . They calculate on 10 or 5O,OO0 bales of cotton going from Nashville this season. ..o
 From Nashville, descended the Cnm-a berland river in steam-boat, between two keel boats, all three piled up with cOtteR.l IIleft this boat at Smithfeld, where there was another large steam-boat, loaded with