Mobile register and journal., 1845-08-07
Tor the Register and Journal.

ty of hard labor has been done by our community. and is probable result regards production, IS now pretty well settled. It is now in a great de. gree ascertained what the present crop or cotton must amount 10, and which probable production will be known over Europe before boll opens, and long betore-every acre that has been planted in our country m that now more than interesting sta. pie, Tor never wns speculation on tptoe regarding II more completely than al the present moment, and never had speculation more cause or louder call to be go. And we may rest assured that every step in | the progress of this now interesting article, the forthcoming crop, will be known in Europe as fast | as wind and steam can carry it.
 The last year solicited 10 decrease the quantity in cultivation the only but certain cure Tor the evil now siairring in the face. The nexi year there will not be any need o solicitation, or
 am most egregiousy mistaken. If there is any go- ing we will solicit ourselves and under painful circumstances With these facts standing before us Tn bold relief, what calculation common discre- tion make the result of our labor or production ! | Whether we take time to enter into calculation or | not the spnners of Europe will employ figures for us, aud they will not only make calculations with mathematical certainty, but they will be rigidIy gov erned by them in their commercial intercourse with | us. IL becomes every man to reflect deeply to realise his prospects and longer amuse himself with bubbles, but endeavor anticipate correctly what must be tie pecuniary slate o the country du. ring he next year, or from what quarter relief can | rauunaliy be expected to come. Not an article in the State for 2market 10 bring money to pay debts but cotton; and after paying baling, rope, freight age, wharfage, commlssIons, drayage, and all the other ages, what will il brrng to the producer-to the country?
 It is now fully ascertained that the corn crop of the State will not fully Ihe wants of the Stats throughout ile year, until another crop is made. IL Is no;orionsly known that through many parts of the country, the positive corn regions of the Slate and about the center well other parts of the country, 'rOastIng ears" have been for some tune past the substitute for bread, and that the crop Il be heavily drawn upon from now until pulled. For weeks back corn buyers have been seen going in every direction in the southern end and middle of the State, and he enormous price ut winch corn ! has been known to have stood for weeks back in the latter and among heavy cotton planters, tells Il wretched tale for the state of things. The quantity that went up our river during the last boating son astOnished even the minimizing, and brought calculating men to intense thinking, but with the latter ended in confident conviction that II was not yet quite with us "tolly in an uproar," and that where the thousand circun, of the tnes He'd loudly for decrease in the cultivation oi the one article, for the increase of the other, that and common sense would certainly be heard As regards the other necessaries of life, he article oi meat, our domestic supply cannot vary much during tIIe next year from inc last A few, and but few have increased their stock of hogs, not howeye, under year fit for lhe knife, and d good man, small cotton planters heard now saving as the, said last year, that they going 10 turn their al f ge, however, must De two years old before they see he inside of a smDak -h0use--aud upon the whole ihe chance ls pretty fair that he stean,boats wI find during the next season, handsome freight in tho article ol bread and meat suis they received the last and lhe cotton picking will be a heavy one, d number of bales Of Northern hay will help 10 swell the outiays, and reights up the river. Gathering the staple will call for every moment Every plant CT knows the wretohed consequences that follows B anticipating a corn crop and having m July 10 be. ..,n,n E.ll l.E U,nt
 tells in December. Among tie misprics of human
 life, may fairly he fset down with planter an empty crib in June, if for fear that he crib should net be maniuliv drawn upon, the valuable aid ha' the nats crop is found to give has been nearly aban. dored, and of the few that have grown them, not five in five hundred are prepared 10 make econo- mical or even valuable use of them. While rye, 3 that invaluable grain, and mi1age the planter stock, has nearly disappeared notw hstanding the climate so highly layors iis production.
 In addition we have to acknowledge that every enterprise, matter how certain of benefuing inc community or State, cannot look to any quarter for s ald. The soul Of enterprise has departed from amongst us, while the millions brought by the nl labor of the country, 10 any real benefit, ! sumes the appearance of Tom Paine's "pont mo- , point" Every has paddle his own canoe and there are so many canoes in bad cOndi- ton, or broken without paddles, that no pad dies are found going, or fso, going 10 eeward. 1 Amidst this state of things. with full prospect of the prosraton of the staple crop of the country, an object oi the most atlering character presents
 itself. which il energeticaily prosecuted, will fill up the void in great part, produced by the depressed price of the staple of the country, and still luable as an article of export. The ALPACA or Pe- ruvian sheep is now becoming, as regards manufac- lures, of the most interesting animals known 10 man, furnishing material for clothing, exten
 sive in it's application, beautiful in appearance and durable beyond any known wool, silk cotton For il no substitute is yet known. England aware ofits extraordinary value, is striving with energy to acc- mate the Alpaca in her dominons-a nation une. qualled in either the capacity orayidiy with which II pursues every thing valuable in manufactures. The range of this animal is the Andes, although it is
 found under the equator. It seems 10 be possessed Tn common with all the sheep tribe, of singular pacity for accommodating itself to climate, and to roam. The wool in some manufactures comes faIrly in competition with silk, and found capable of the finest manufactures France, in the article of shawls, sends us an almost unrvalled work of art, fabricated from the thread of this wool, produced by British machinery. This animal is much harder than the common sheep, and lives well where they would per- ish. The wool Is whiter, brighter, and not being colored with the animal secretions of common wool, IS altogether stronger, softer, finer in fibre, pliable and elastic, resembling silk than wool, and consequently produces a fabric between silk and wool
 A valuable paper laid before the Natural History Society of Liyerpoo gives the following deail "The lpaca sheep breed the third year, the pe riod Of gesiatlon seven months, has one ut time, atans the height of three tO four feet, and lives 10 or Il years. If shorn yearly, the fleece reaches six 10 eight inches, and weighs fromisx to eight pounds A male Alpaca shorn three years ago, had fleece from IS 10 20 inches long, and instances are known of it's reaching 90 inches. full grown carcass weighs 250 lbs. and the meat is of he finest quality
 fully equal 10 venlson. It's food is the coarsest grass and herhage The wool answers in many desirable fabrics where the Saxon and Merino will not"
 Spanish gentleman, long resident in Peru, lately stated that he had been long intimately quanied with the habits and character of this animal that the elevation of mountain not essential to it, but that he coarsest grasses and heritage were with dry climate and sol-that nature to have prepared il 10 receive what all other animals refused, and to subss: where they would perish, ri valng all m real value-ihat hundreds in Peru were the mountains, but yet had access to the coarse mountain grass and herbaae, and yet superior
 in size and fleece 10 the mountain wild Alpaca are not susceptible of cold hest and bears the storm; and farther, that there singular pre- valng error regarding this and all other species of the sheep, viz: that we connected m our minds the sheep and the mountain heights with the animal
 found there as though ihe essentially neces- sary 10 the other; but in fact ihe paca, in common with all the animals of the sheep species, seeks the
 top of the mountain other heights, escape from
 it's enemies, being possessed of apparent conaliiu- tiona timidity-that were they perfectly free from annoyance at all seasons they would be found m the valleys browsing ther iavoriie grasses and her bage. especially in ineleioent seasons-thai in our pine forests and in dry mild climate this ani nal would do well during the year.
 late number of the National ntegencer gives an able aper ihe productions which ihe South ought immediately and with energy turn it's alten. ton. Among many heretofore presented to public