The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1841-07-16

expectation from, Mississippi.

Mr.. Editor:-In my first Agricultural
communication published by you on the 18th
June, suggested the propriety of establish
ing, by legislative assistance ,COTToN MARTs
in our own State, where our GREAT STAPLE
PRODUCTION would meet lis purchasers, and
from whence it could be shipped 10 marke
without unnecessary loss, expense or dam
age. have been requested TO urge this
important subject further upon yonr notice,
and as | look upon it as the grand platform
upon which the prosperity of the State can
alone rest, you will please indulge me in the
use of column occasionally for It's advo-
cacy. The subject is not q new one with
myself or with hundreds of others who have
looked into it, Several years ago | advo-
Gated it IN a correspondence with the news
papers in The South and West of the State,
and had the satisfaction of observing that
nv arguments met the universal appreciation
OF the press and its correspondents, SO far
as | saw, and many of them were copied in
all the papers of the State that | recollect
to have noticed ] have never met with a
we'll informed individual who had examined
the subject, that doubted the great utility
of DIRECT EXPECTATION OF our cotton,
except those who were directly or Indirect
ly interested in the cotton commission bust
ness of New. Orleans The time and the
manner and the circumstances Under tDhich
some direct expectation has been made, that
did not turn out advantageOusly to the plan
ter, need not now be particularly enquired
into. They are generally known, and every
candid man will admit that they form not
the least argument against or objection 10
tho system. The Mississippi Shipping Com
pany, besides being established when no
enterprise could, and no enterprise did sue
coed in the South, ran into the false error
of expanding between one and two hundred
thousand dollars for the erection of Steam
Presses, which are entirely unnecessary
The deranged state of the currency is main
" ifnot entirely the cause of all the disad-
vantages which have arisen from the direct
shipments Of cotton which have been made
and which it is needless now to enlarge up
on. think, however, that most o. the di
rect shipments that have been made OF
planters account, since about 1886, (anC
none were made before) have resulted al
vantageously. They amount to something
near one hundred thousand bales. But thi
advantages which it is believed may be Sc
cured by a general concentrated movement
1t is humilliatng reflection to Missis
sippian that our State produces the larges
expectation of any in the Union, and We
we are not, in fact, an exporting State. W.
are not known as such, and we never dit
export but some ninety or hundred thou
sand bales of Cotton. We derive none o
the advantages directly consequent upol
exporting. We produce an expectation ant
the city Of New-Orleans carries on the trad
with all its numberess emolumeDts ant
profits.
1t is notorious that the cotton from Missis
sippi fields has built ne-third or one-halfo
New-Orleans; and now sustains that proper
ton of the business and the men Of tina
city. The half of her banks are establishe
to conduct our cotton trade-the half c
her hotels throng with persons connecte
in various ways with It. Whole streets c
her stores conduct the mercantile operation
which intervene between the Mississippi
planter and his cotton. And numberless ar
merchants, clerks, agents, brokers, samplers
weighers, draymen and labors Employed fror
year to year in "receiVing and forwarding
the cotton of the planter of this State
This agency costs those planters an enorn
Gus sum every year, and it is WIDELY an
entirely unnecessary.
We have no more need for an agency {
New-Orleans than at any other intermediat
point between here and the market. 9Th
place where cotton is bought to be used
call the market.)
With safe and convenient sea navigation
which we have upon our whole western DO
der, there is but one circumstance whC
could possibly exist that would render sue
intermediate agency necessary And tn
did exist few years ago when we made b.
a few bales of cotton. But now when "
invite purchasers here, they are asked
come into the tvery heart of the cotton n
gion Of the world And they can see moi
cotton than at any other exporting poll
upon earth. 1t can no longer be aske
whether our export is in amount sufficier
TO Justify a trade with the seas, since "
furnish more than every thing else whc
goes out Of the mouth of the Mississippi
A large portion of the best cotton region
Louisiana, it will be recollected, includin
the river parishes Of Concordia and thos
above il, are in the same situation in tn
respect with the Mississippi side of til
river.
The transaction of this immensely heaV
business would be an almost incalculabl
advantage TO the State, besides the dire,
benefit TO the planter. Our river tow
would be built up, business Of every kin
would increase, commission merchants an
trading merchants would be patrOnized