New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1849-09-21
Cotton Crop.
Correspondence of The Tribune.
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NEwOsLEAss, Sept. i, ls49.
GENTLEMES; Business, as usual at this season
oil the year, Is dormsDtin fact, nothing Of impor-
lance IN any Of the great staples of the country
Transporting nor likely to rsnspiro for the next
sixty days A few bales of this years cotton have
been received say nineteen bales from Mississippi
one bale from Texas ard one bale from this State.
Tue growing crop had been Injured by the frost il
April last, and is still represented to be- from con-
t'noed rains, in very gloomy condition. Ii is
reasonable 10 Judge. from the incessant rains in
this city for the past two months, that they have
extended over the most important part of the cot
ton-gro~ing region, aud that the annual cry o.
short crops, short crops Is now really somethin.
more than wolf
The receipts at this port for the commercial wear
nov ending, which are the growth for the year
l54c, are 1000 bales This 10 q larger crop
tnan ia any previous year. Although new lands
are yearly brought into cultivation the crop of
lefy Viii be much diminished. The receipts at
shis port for this year lls4s and 1851 will not
probably reach over $4,000 bales The continued
favorable accOunts from Liverpool OF the cotton
market thore for the past sixty days, have caused
a more than corresponding advance IN this market
Midding cotton, that Ia May was dull at 7ia71
cents. IL now iniar demand at u q 81 cents, while
fair, which a, that time sold at cents now quo
n
pool OF ~. has always been followed here by a.
advance OF to &c. so that at this time the mar
ket here rules on al average Q TO 81 cents higher
than Ia May and June, and these rates are IN ad.
vance OF your market Toe quotation, for to-day.
here, NAV be placed for middiIng to middling fair
Il 9, TO y and 10 cents, while 10 aud IA cents il
asked for the new crop. But this is fancy price
If not. it is fancy demand, as invariably tue few
FIRST bales Of new crop bring more Than they are
worth.
On the other hand accounts of the growing crop
Of sugar cane are very Hatte'iog. The production
Of this article is steadily increasing. Heretofore.
rather until within three or four years /,
generally supposed and maintained that cane
could only be produced on the low or river sde
lands. but those ideas are now dispeled. Lands
etusted back from the river, called the high OF
hollands 1--WE have no hills and mountains stone
or rcck ia tins State have been tried and yielded
cane equal to any produced on the river courses
aud II Is fully established that the culture on up
lands is not attended with so many vicsstudes
as on the low lands. Ia fact, WORKOUT lands,
heretofore devoted TO the raising of cotton have
been in many instances planted with cane, and the
result has been of the most satisfactory nature.
The crop of sugar has never exceeded 100000
hhds. OF say 900 lbs. The average yield Of mOias-
ses is ~ 10 45 gallons 10 each 1000 lbs. sugar,
that IL for this State, while there IL land sufficient
aud susceptible, with some drainage Of producing
cane To make 100000 hnds. annually. But wil
the cultivation ever reach this quantity Not IN
this century, for the want OF suitable and suhcien
force (laborl and capital to produce IT. There Is
no plant su oieot to so many trials and conlingen
cies from the time 1t is put into the ground until
It Is ripened ground and ready for market, as the
cane To prepare vacant and wild lands for the
recep ton of the plant requires larger outlay OF
ready means, capital and its appliances, than any
other business extsnt. To open asngar estate on
any extended scale requires alone for engine. ma
chiuery, buildings. sc. from geo 600 10 $4,000; II
fact, poor man or sgricuitufist cannot succeed
IN a.
Then take the large and most productive estates
and plantations one year with another and the
investment will not yield over seven per cent per
annum. Were u not for the great and varied i'm
prove ments 10 machinery in the process OF boiling
aud preparing the juice, present prices OF sugar
would be rulnous ami destructive. Those prices,
noe carrent here, are: common II, prime a 81
choice 81 cents The new crop, or the trst lew
hbds. OF IL, generally makes its appearance IL
market about the last OF October or first OF No
vember There is some sugar imported throush
this port from Cuba for some rehners at ST Louis,
Mo also syrup and moasses for other western
cities. Toe entire Western couatry, howe.er.
depends this market for annual supplies Some
IL or 20 months ago some good nstured merchant
sent 20 bids. OF prime LOU ians sugar 10 Liver
pool. more for an experiment than auyt thing else,
perhaps. The result was SO disastrous as TO deter
the experiment from being repeated. well
conducted sugar estate. with means on the part o.
the owner 10 cOsduct II and work 1t To advantage,
would be, at u cents per pound, preferable oc-
cupatlon and investment TO a cotton estate AZ 81 10
cents per poand for cotton.
Oar city continues unusually healthy Deaths
for the past week loo. in population Of 10000.
Heavy supplies Of Western Produce, say Flour,
Corn. Oats are on hand, and stocks daily acon-
muls,ing, a. that Flour is dull at "a 50 IS for
good brands; Corn sOc and Oats from 20 TO Csc.
Lard, no demsud. at 81 s7c.
Thermometer 900 ia the shade. 4. h. 4.