The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-09-16

| and opinions. This change, however, Is not Cd
| ssrvable until about the middle OF the season
| and when it takes place the organs are kept II
| full blast up to the close.
In connection with tn ,se remarks, it becomes
necessary to refer to series of articles which
have appeared in the European edition OF thu
Courier and Enquirer, relative to the cottor
crop The most erroneous statements have been
| put forth by that print, statements which every
| one engaged IN the ,rade-particuarly the authol
| of them, who is an agent Of an English house II
| Liverpool or Manchester, and very extensive
| shipper-knew to be incorrect at the time. Tney
| not only were at variance with ali others pub
lished in this city, but differed entirely from all
emanating from the cotton growing section Of
the country. As we have heretofore had occa-
sion to expose the gross and glazing errors Of
the Courier and Enquirer, relative to commercial
matters, and have shown, by comparing the
statements of that print with official reports, how
widely they have differed from the truth, we
again show, by extracts from their columns, the
blunders they have made upon this subject. On
the 18th of August the following appeared
The export Of cotton In the last two weeks has been
large for this season Of the year but the stocks re-
they also larger Ia the interior than At this time last
year 1t will bs remembered that the destructive ad-
rain in the frat three weeks Of the rains
OF July have been regarded with much alarm and no
c th this ds s
nearly OOo bales Of cotton last year. the feeling OF
now ths satisfaction of stating that there has been
rain Of any moment In the South since the 3st of July
and as W. believe, rain at all in Alabama, and thu
southwestern States; and many Louisiana and Misss
sppi planters now write thar, except backwardness.
which is truly important item their cotton crops
ID and hiatt he hch
has appeared 10 gr smnivOrous species and busily
gagged in eating the grass which it feared would In
lure the cotton In the Atlantic States there still
great complaints of the growing cotton CROP and pro-
badly not without cause as we may infer from tn
holding over Of stock Of 10000 bales at Augusta and
Hamburg but there is very gross exaggeration as to
rains and other matters Who would believe that the
regular diary Of the weather kept at Columbia, South
Carolina. names only one rainy day In the week ending
3lst July! Yet, such Is the fact
BY mixing up little truth with great deal of
untruth, the above possesses little pausibility,
but the real meaning of the whole is plainly vlsl-
BILE. Now the Who'll, season, throughout the
South, has been the most rainy ever known, the
principal complaint has been rain, rain, rain
and to the immense quantity of rain which has
fallen, is to be attributed all the destruction from
worms, sc. We do not think it worth while to
analyze the above, it speaks plain enough for it.
self there is evidence enough IN every price
current from the south, to show the falsity of
all the statements there made. The object of the
article was, to convey the impression that the
crop was likely to be above an average. The
idea of giving diary kept at one point in South
Carolina, as evidence of the weather throughout
the entire southern country, is about as ridicu-
lous as the rest of the statements.
On the 3lst of the same month, only about two
weeks after the appearance OF the first article,
an attempt was made at an apology for any mis-
representations which might have been made in
their previous remarks, ia consequence of re-
peated complaints from those who knew how
false they were. In the paper of that date we
find statements more untrue than those before
given. Here is an extract -
The weather during August has 90 far with some ex-
ceptions been good for the crop The stories
New Orleans have been universally voted baseless and
at Mobile less and less credit given to them In parts
OF the Atlantic States rains and boil worms have been
local showers that great deficiencies made in the
ton crop. The army worm, sweeping whole planta
ton OF every leaf Of cotton in less than week. plain
aud Ineligible cause when 1t appears 1t did in
August, lS46
We have only to refer to the remarks, given
in another column, from the New Orleans and
Mobile price currents, relative to the growing
crop, for refutation of the facts given in the
above extract. All through August the Southern
papers were filled with accounts of the ravages
Of the boil and army worm. The Southern
planters do not consider the boil worms ''trihes,"
and no one but an indiv dual engaged in getting
up "long CROP stories, would make such state
ments as given in the above. The Courier puts
down the army worm as the principal enemy of
the cotton plant. We find in its own columns
several days after the departure of the steamer,
which carried out the above statement, ar
answer to this -
The army worm, like the locusts of Egypt devoured
every green thing In ourneying from the
upon the cotton stalks except it growthit
took every one Now as you we'll know tho leaves are
the lungs Of the plantthe channels Of its extrsneou,
nourhment the mir and dews II in this way that
the army worm injured the ooton-hy subtracting it's
usual modicum Of nourshment-and thus, perhaps
But it was not the grand enemy This was the
boil worms worm Of the same genus, (cater-
piar) but dissinilar in it's habits. 1t begins Al
the top OF the stalk and With the youngest bos and
destroys every boil and square limb by limb. until it
reaches the ground 1t PORES hole, enters Int thu
thing it touches dies the DEATH This the that
destroyed the cotton last yesr-it the that
now destroying tho cotton in all parts Of the cotton
growing region
This is enough to place the assertions of this
organ of specuatng ciiques upon commercial
matters In proper lignt; and as II IS our pro-
vince to correct the errors of others, when the
commercial classes have been imposed upon, as
well as to give correct information in our own
columns, we have taken this opportunity to ex-
pose the gross misstatcments of the Courier and
Enquirer in cotton, as We have previously done
in relation to breadstuffs.
The misrepresentation of the Courier in rela-
ton to the position OF great exporting staples,
are so plainly to beseen this side, that it is the
impression among many Of those engaged in the
trade, that they are intentional. The statements
to which we allude always appear in the Euro
pean edition of that paper; and in the edit on for
home consumption, a day or two after the depar-
ture of the steamer taking them to Europe, cor
recton is made Whether these corrections ever
find their way to the other side, is a matter of
much doubt, as they would do away with the