The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-05-23

Correspondence Of hs Journal Of Commerce.



LONDON, April 18th, iS42
The growing of cotton still attracts considerapls
attention In this country, with the sangnine nope .,
eventually doing without the growth OF the oni'ea
States in the manufactures of cotton herr, anu VI
making the staple in question source OF hmiuess
wealth to British India is contended that II Is an
inconceivab BILE weakness give English custom 10 ior-
eign land hostile, because not yet prepared Tor war;
aud to be by such CUSTOM the greatest patron and up
holder of negro slavery in the world II is also boldly
avowed that India is capable OF supplying England
with all the cotton wool she requires, and ten lines
more if requisite These the opinions advanced
by knot of enterprsing capitalists who have adopt
ed the paper The Indian News to advocate their
views and to support them in all their positions and
future consequent operations. 1t is maintained tha,
the demand India for domestic uses alone is 75O,-
OO00 900 lbs. annuaily--that within the last twenty
years she has exported large quantities. and in one
year 39,O0O,OO0 lbs. The consumption of cotton
wool by England, in her manufacture, and sent ny
her TO foreign countries is stated not to exceed four
or five hundred million pounds; Of which India does
not furnish one-tsnth part, the greater portion Beng
produced by America. But this Indian cotton Is OIL
the Indigenous kind and fit for English consump-
tion Its staple is the finest in the market, but is
also the shortest and TO work il up to any advantage
here, requifes mixing with the longer staples OF the
United States. The mode in which it Is glnned Is
most Infamous, and arrives in this country mixed
up with foreign matter, mud, leaves, twgs &C. Now,
the object of the Assam Company is to change all this
and to havethe CO ton clearly gathered and to INTRO
duce new system in eAecng it, The gatherers are
to be taught and inspected for some time at first and
considerable outlay is to be incurred.
All the American plants have been found to TAI
where this Indigenous cotton is produced, and
seems that the upland Georgia and New Orleans hav
fourished any where to the South Of North lati
tude 81 degrees The Egyptian acclimates IN I've W.,
spots in Bengal and Bahia but the Sea Island has fai
ed every where in the interior The Pernamhuco, O.
Brazil cotton, yields well in the Coromandel Ten
nasserim coasts. The Sea Island will answer at VIE
agapatam, SAUCER Island, and at Singapore In
Bourbon also succeeds in the Southern part OF thu
Peninsula, and in Mysore, but the produce decreases
as the equator is approached.
The following are the words of the editor OF thu
Indian Neas'-
"The specimens of the several varieties of Ameri
cotton nearly, if not fully, equal in quality t
the article sent from America into the English market
although grown only by amateurs not planters chieh
to crafty the Horticultural Society OF Calcutta, ant
which efforts have proved satisfactorily, not onl
that American cotton OF the best qualities can be pro
duced but they have exhibited the places where the.
can be raised, and underwhat circumstances they cal
be brought into the market. There is, however
most important point still unnoced, and this Is tn
price at which the American cotton can be grow
on the spot where il is cultivated, leaving out Of tn
question the expense of its conveyance to IN
coast"
" The yield of indigenous cotton does not ex
coed thirty or forty pounds per acre in the Coded Dis
tricts." 'sThe average between Vzagapatan
in IS deg North lat, and Tinnevelly in deg, give
lOS lbs. per acre" The average yield
the Madura Districts is less than 10 lbs of clean
ton acre" In Guzerat MIR. Warden foun
it lot lbs per acre. Proceeding to the Nortl
however, as we recede from the equator, the yiel
becomes greater and in the latitude of 81 deg Mort
at Calpee we find Mr.. Bruce reporting that the pre-
duce varies in the worst lands from 100 to 200 lbs
clean indigenous cotton whilst in the best lands II
produce is on an average of 1886 lbs. and in some
high as GIL lbs. per acre. In New Orleans, bag,
300 lbs. Of clean cotton per is estimated fa
crop, while we have been informed that in the ne
land of Texas much as 1000 lbs. an acre have bee
raised. Now, it is clear that for the best indgeno,
and New Orleans Cottons we must look to the Mort
Western Provinces Of India alone where the cultul
may be carried on with every prospect of success
The land tax has been fixed, and it is to be hope
sufficiently low for the next twenty years, to enab
the enterprisng cotton planter to procure cotton
the English market, to be grown for him with prof
since his plantations may be situated along the banl
tan cotton seems to thrive best m6wAb tRea, eepye
cutta and Delhi; and the Sea Island, of the We
finest quality, has been produced at the factories
the Ganges, at Vizagapatam, on the Burmese coa
and at Singapore The produce at Vizagapatam w
svo IDS per acre, which would pay we'll, while inc
genous cotton In the neghborhood did not produ
more than "a lbs. at Canaan, only 50 lbs at Massu
patam, and 81 l-2 at Guntoor in the same parallel
latitude
The following is table of the population of Gre
Britain, and the home consumption of sugar, for TIL
PoPuiatioh, IN the eleven years, from 1881 to 1874