Cheraw gazette and Pee Dee farmer. [volume] (Cheraw S.C.) 1838-1839, 1839-06-28

that there was last year.
There are three letters before US, from
which we make extracts. They are from
writer's known to US as gentlemen ofveracily.
One is dated Savannah, June 5:
"The crops at the south have in a great
degree failed. | do not think that in Vr.
ginia, North and South Carolina. and Geor-
gia, there will be one.fourth the quantity
raised that was anticipated, on the account
of the great drought. 1t not having rained
Of any consequence in Georgia for several
months, the trees have come up very badly.
and many that have come up, are now dy'
ing from that cause indeed, in many cases,
not one in fifty have grown. A person
stated to me to-day. he planted 10000
buds, and would not have more than 1000
trees. think if they do not gel complete.
ly discouraged this season, that the pros.
pect is good for their maintaining the prices
Of last fall.
"Trees are held here at so cents for the
growing crop, and few are willing TO make
sales at that price,"
Another at Germantown. MAY 30:
"Contracts are being made. to very
limited extent. however, in Philadelphia. at
20 25 cents but the producers held ont
for an advance. At Burlington they fully
calculate on from 40 to 50 cents and some
heavy contracts have, learn, been made
at 40."
And third at Germantown, 7th June,
The writer says;-
.Trees are now worth 40 10 so cents on
fall contracts. K. S. well known to the
Editor as gentleman Of the highest respec-
tabili.y1 told me to-day, that he had refused
90 cents, and said he would not take So"
We have orders to sell a large number.
but the growers have not named their price.
BUYERS and sellers fight so shyly that they
can't be brought within striking distance of
each other. Our own opinion is, that the
demand another year in Mississippi and
Louisiana, from their peculiar fitness to the
growth Of the tree and the worm. will be i'm
! mense.
This morning we had an interview with a
gentleman from Na'chez. who expressed
the belief, that if reliance can be had on
one half of what has been said on the
increase and the pro6's of Silk culture, the
business would he in few years very ex
| r-r,iv-ly substituted far cotton One reason
he yes is a fact of which he had before
heard and some hing seen. that the cotton up.
lands ofMisssissippi, are rapidly wearing out
and washing awav and the planters settling
with thei, soil, on the rver.bonoms. In lew
wears from this. If the introduction of silk
does not arrest t is course Of things, instead
of buying lands on the Mississippi at enor-
NOUS prices, when ouce in motion they will
not bring up short of Texas.
| tfthe climate and resources Of that
country, we shall avail ou selves of some
peculiar facilities to speak more at large,
regarding its indie Tndence as established,
and its advantages rs attractive beyond any
norton of The world for those who have
command of, and rely upon slave labour.
The following from the Richmond En-
qurer, may be esteemed one of the most
pregnant signs tina, the silk business, as a
business, is about to b. established on firm
and extensive basis in the United States !:
The Silk CuAure.-Mr. Morris Pollock,
,he enterprizing Throwstcr Of Glasgow. has
arrived in the Great Western, and has pro.
ceeded to Pitsylvania county. in this State,
where he proposes to est, blish large Mul.
berry plantation, Cocoonery, and Fila
,nre for reeling the Silk. He has avaIed
himself of the Act of Assembly of 1888,
and has already become q quasi citizen OF
the State for the purpose OF holding lands.
We had the pleasure of Witnessing an IN"
teres,ing in erview on Friday evening be.
tween Mr.. Pollock and MIR. D'Homergue.
They agree as to their views OF the best man
ner Of conducting the Silk business in the
United States. They think, that Virginia
IS calculated to be great Silk State but
that she ought to confne herself at present
to the raising of the Mulberry. and the
worm, and of reellng the Silk from the Co.
coons--and that it is probably best to estab'
lish large Flatures, which will furnish q
market for the Cocoons, and supersede the
necessity of each silk Culturist having aJccl
of his own-and that it is better for us to
exp. IT the raw silk, to be manufactured in
Europe-Mr. Pollock seems to possess
grea. knowledge Of his subject; and 10
show the most liberal disposition to COM
munca,e it to others, and to encourage the
enterprise in this State. He was. much
surprised BY the accounts that were gwen
him of the active and prolific qualities OF
the Morus MulicauIis. He has oTough'
ou. with him quantity of the white Italian
| Mulberry; and presumed, that he could mol
ee, his cocoonery in operation before the
third venr-but the character Of the multi
caulis will enable him to 60 to work much
sooner. Mr.. D'Homergue has also great
i Ia ty IL.