Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1842-03-09


t!laps atillionsa year,
I.Ss si 3achinaiioHs of those.
Who are inter-
e0tlDsl luio, because they
skeap. Entertaining pre-
pinions you express in regard
Causes and objects of,he present pa
have been surprised al the silence of
Bur public journals on this important sub
iec,, aud that none of Them have come for
ward before this 10 disahase the popular
mind of The numerous ialsehoods invented
acd propasaied. 10 aid the designs and sus-
tain the Interests of the speculators and
manufacturers. l trust you will follow up
iiie attack you have commenced on The
combinations against US, aud fully expise
The wicked designs and ar,i6ecs Of the pa
Gic makers.
The following facts, while they fully H.
| lustrate and corrObora'c your views, as en-
pressed in the articles referred to, serve TO
shaw in q strong light, the INSCRIPTIONS
means employed, to gull the country, and
what false and unfoun,lcd statements are
made, 10 effect the end intended. The
American Farmer. published in Baltimore,
extracted last fall from an English paper,
an account ofrhe arrival in England, Of n
shipment of the frs, cotton produced in the
| Eas, Indies, under the supcrntcnience oi
Capt Baylcs. According 10 this account,
the cotton reached Liverpool in The month
Of September last. Nav, as'an offset to
this absurd Story. aud To pruve it gross ia-
brica,inn. ! am credibly Informed. that
gentleman in this nei. .hb"rhood, received
"A letter from one OF the young men who
wen, out. from this rcighboriIood, 10 India
with Capt. Bavles. stating that the expo
dition only reached Calcutta about The lat
ter end Of February last. The writer OF
this article received n letter from another
Of tho party, dated only two months pre-
vious 10 that time, u. the island OF Malta
so that there is no doubt that The planters
who went from Mis,issipp; 10 the lnd''s
with Capt. Baylcs, did not reach their des-
,ina,iou until The beginning of last spring.
lfihcn. The English account, copied by The
American Farmer. be true, n0iwl'hstand.
ing The expedition only reached India The
!asl o! Fcbruary-nu,wiilsia II takes
an average Of three months or ninety days
10 peflorm The voyage from Calcutta TO hi.
verpool, vet a cotton crop had been made.
gathered, packed, shipped aud Landed safe
~ a, the latter port, some time IN TIC
mouth Of September following. Al ih's
raie. The cotton must have been an boar'!
,l.ip in ahou, one hurried aud twenty
dsys from the arrival of lkc planters. This,
your readers will say. is rapid business,
and throws iuio the shade nny thing ever
done in these "digsins." The whole Ste
ry is obviously one manufactured at The
expense of cvtry thing like truth and pro-
babiiily. aud deserves to oe classrd with lis
kindred hu,nhus, ahnu, the crop of bali a
million Of bales. Ma, is 10 come from the
East lndies this season. But again, the
same paper Of The S;h December. pubIishe.
: another and a very different account, CO.
pied from the London Alias OF October
| ID, which completely Talsifes and conlrn-
diets the first story in all It's parts and par,
ticnlars. Tho Atlas copying FROM the
Madras United Service Gazette Of the 25ft
Of Juno last. tells US on ibe authority Of that
paper, e that the government has ordered
the lransfer Of The American cotton plant
ers. senl TO organize their plans OF that pre-.
sidency, from. Tinnevelly TO Coinbainr,
which country is better suited 10 the pro.
;s.ot G. tise-@l.s8.s
% the spol, instead of "ihe FIRST cotton
produced under the superintendcncs oil
Capt. Bayles," being in- the British mar
kei by the FIRST OF September last, why il
turns ou'. that the Mississippi planters were
shifting about as late rs The 25th or las;
June, 20 6ud place Smiied 10 he pro-
jeet," and thai although many crea, and
marvellous thing, 'ceTe 10 be done, yel no.
thing, os YET, had bsen done. The same
paper (lhc United Service Gazcile) in
forms us, that The cotton seed and irnp!e.
men,s of husbandry. sent out from AmerI.
ca, had just reached India. Hour plaut-
ers allow themselves 10 he hnaAed and
humbugsed by such 1lmsy lalsehood aud
thereby to be frightened into The sale of
their cUltni AZ Il sacrifice, they deserve to
bc ilceced. Let ali who are able TO do 81.
hold on until April or May, aud lhry will
find the spectators aud manufacturers
when no longer able TO resist The proofs OF
un eT,sseiinstJ diminished crop. aud when
no longer able TO impose on The planters
hy their decciliul fctluns. coming forward
ard giving fair round prices for heir cotton
\ JEFFERSON PLANTER.