The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1843-12-15

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what it is worth. could give you score
Of such items of profit had time andFyou
had room in your paper.
The following is the principle portion of
the Bulletins "REMARKs'' on Saturday morn.
ing the 2nd inst.
CorToN.-our receipts this season are
225 900 bales, against $50. 900 bales to the
same date last year-a falling off OF only IS,
600 bales.
"On Wednesday last the sales were report
ed at $4,000 bales, at prices rather in favor
OF buyers. Thursdays mail brought as Eu-
ropean accounts to the 4th of November, via /
Boston. We find the Liverpool Cotton Mar
ket had declined I'd. per ID. from the top
prices paid in October last, on receipt of ad- |
vices per Great Western, to the 9th andd0th |
Of October from this city giving an account
of KILLING FROST in this quarter, which is
news to, us even at this late period of the
year,l prices advanced I'd. per h., and they
were anxiously looking for the next packet
to announce general killing frost through
out the Cotton districts in this country. In
Havre the spectators got frightened at the
decline in Liverpool, and sold at all rates,
from 8 TO 9 centimes decline"
The N. o. Price Current and Transcript Of
the same date and speaking of the same time,
Says us ndihCt vi " eUHCSuUH again 6Aul-
bed a rather quiet appearance, though a
bout 3 200 bales changed hands. and gener-
ally at remarkably JuIt prices. The Bulletin
says 2 500 bales al prices rather in favor Of
: buyers. On thursday both agree that only about
900 were cold, and nothing particular is
said by either to price. o. "yesterdGy''
(which was Friday LIST Dec. J the Price Cur
5 rent says that buyers-''came forward more
J freely as the day advanced and operated to
the extent OF 3,40O bales, paving Gerry full
prices.-ndeed The tendency of-the market
: is rather upward" And then goes on to
\ remark that a more extensive business woad
have been transacted but that holders would
not offer their stocks, and the weather was
$ bad &c:-3, 400 bales-very full prices-ten-
J., dency upWard-and holders wOuld not offer
Bulletin says 10000 bales principally in
" small lots" And withholds entirely the
d most important items of information in re-
e gard to that DAYS business. | have now be-
fore me a private letter from highly respect
= able merchant OF the same date of both these
3, papers, corrobOrating the statements of the
o Price Current, and were colouring thu mar
r ket more favourable 10 coed prices than il
y was.
Il The market in Liverpool previous to the
y sailing of the Caledonia on the 4th of Nov.
: is still more fraudulently stated by the Bulle,
J. tin than that of N. Orleans. He says "a
IT find the Liverpool Cottan Market had de.
- clined 3d. per H." Let us see If he found
it. The Price Current before quoted says
N (of the news oftne some steamer.) ''AI Liv.
erpoo the demand from the 18th Oct to the
- close of that month had been unusually IL
mited, both on the part of consumers ana
at speculators, and prices fsr Americas Cottor
Of declined obout Id per ID. This reduction
- however, was partly regained before the
u sailing OF the Steamer on the 18th New,
u more active and general demand having
III sprung up, and tho quotations therefore, only
. show decline of I'd. since our previous &C
= counts. The Bulletin says it tell haLf anC
ID rose one eighth, making q fall between tht
ID two dates Of three tighths ofa penny. Tn,
Il Price Current says, fall (both speaking o
:" the same interval and of american Couoi
e, generally of one eighth o. a penny. Now
< which tells the truth! Neither, The torme
makes wide and sweeping misrepresenta
lion of the facts, and the latter is about hal
way between him and the truth. On tn
same page of the Price Current from which
l make these quotations is a Cotton Circula
III per Caledonia, dated Liverpool 4th Nov
which opens with the following language
IL 'since tho departure of the last steame
until the last two days, our cotton marke
has continued unusually quiet, with a tota
III suspension OF speculation and the NEST lin
on TIED buying on the part of consumers, an
n; the loo and nniddLing qualities further de
nm clined fully I'd. per To-, but we have ha
some revival Of demand again since the IL
y inst, both on the part OF consumers and spe
culators, which has given a more health
tone to the market, aud. this last decline hs
IN been nearly recovered"
ht The circular then goes on to account fc
hn the "depression,' scarcely peTceptible as
~ was, and attributes il in part 10 the last ad
vices from this country cot more taVourahl
Ia weather for the CROP Now when III
Of news as received in New Orleans it wa
~. known that the very reverse OF the ad vice i
England of our favourable toeatlser was true
Use So that according to the Circular, If the trut
"a. had been known there would at leas n,
have been the slightest "depresston'' muc
less decline from the 18th Oct, to the Al
November.
Yet the Bulletin FINDS, within that perioe
in Liverpool, dectiHe of about cent poun
ers on our cotton generally, and admits only
is. I'd. advance. The Price Current (neare
the truth Of the twe) says there was a fall
nv I'D. and rise OF I'd. en- american cottons.
OF but the Liverpool Circular, published by hin
is, SELF, says there was not ''decline''-n
i've no: ''depression'' al all, in '.American Co
a, tons' except the ssEolO and middttag quail
iies" They declined I'd. bu1 even This WI
'hs NEARLY recovered" So that when the ste
40 mer sailed there was only s'dePressionn n
nd amounting 10 a "dectiae," which hoWevt
10 was onty ~ regard 70 our slew and mIddlin
qualities and even that based upon intorn
~ atioR, in part, from this country now know
M 70 be vastly incorreci. The tone of the ci
cular is also sustained By my private adVic,
81 from New Orleans.
lie Now viii Jour readers please 10 look aga
III atthe Bulletins remagks 81 the FROST, 81
note the attempt at tho skillful misrepressl
tati0n. He had not heard 81 frost on q
not 10Th 0cl s.in this qaaYfers that Is, in Ne
out Orleans. Now such news was carried