The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-03-18

cay sethsg adding to the force We have before
NJ . list Of the deaths by eholsrs on thirty seven
paDtations in Mssissppi and Louisiana last season.
and they amount to 1872 therefore suppose We will
BE- within the limits when put down the total loss
81 CO., ss notorious that during the panic from
that epidemic last 600 was the usual figure
inristsd At eight bales to the hand, the ability to
pick vas lessened 600 bales As the sugar panta-
tions suffered that the cotton the force is also
deficient thsre and sugar average Of seasons
IL the most profitable slave culture grown they cannot
sell their force but the contrary compete With
such Of the cotton growers fortunate securing
good crop this The only culture from which slave
jsbsr be drawn is the tobacco and hemp, of Wiz.
sinia, Kentucky and Missouri As tobacco has sd-
vanesd In price, also the growers will be- 10th to part
with single hand; but slaves must be had to
place those Losses great prices will Be paid to procure
them and the three States sell 900 esoh It viii bare
~ replace the deficiency In the cotton States. At all
events think safe in fixing the negro force
the oottcn plantations ct COCO than ct this date
last reason equal to so 900 bales which will bring
the culture up to 900 bales with every favorable
contingency. Recent accounts from the South show
that in addition to the probable casualties Of the
kst &c. the cholsrs IL likely to spread the South
and be full fatal as 1t was in lS49. Accounts from
Vieksburg Miss show that fears Of the cholera
among the slave population IL not without just cause
emigratisg party Of fortyt persons comprising
three families and their slaves, attacked with it,
while eneampsd in that vicinity, on 18th February;
and between that dls and GOTH eight deaths had oc.
CURED, and the whole party unable to ON,
from the premontory symptoms which had exhibited
themselves. 1t must be noted that those planters
this season, who only raised third Of crop, and
half crop and three quarters Of crop, Co., BY no
able to be very exravagant In purchasing sadi
opsl force il that class who wsre by necessity
She earliest sellers, and consequently they have
realised the proportionate advance Of the market.
In this statement sllude only to what 1t is posi-
BILE to produce with early planting and the latest pick
ing but II the bottom lands Of the great Mississippi
valley, from which the heaviest returns received
to remain under water during this month
but too probable. may dismiss 200 900 bales at
once from the limit of possible Yields Yesterdays
mail brought Intelligence that the river at Points
Coupee six inches higher than the dood Of last
year, and stil rising that cattle swept off, and
that crevafss had occurred at the lower mouth Of
Fausse river, and was already two miles wide The
st. Frsncisvlle La paper says that the grand levee
In Pointe Coupee parish can bear but two or three
inches more rice, and must give way in few days,
and states it win be impossible for many planters to
make crop general inundation Of all the bottom
lands inevitable and that the inhabitants OF
Bayou Sara and those towards Cat Island. laying
false floors in their dwellings, and driving their cattle
to the hills where 1t possible and whore that
denied them, putting them into fat boats,
moored to the trees We have not space, ct this
time, to 60 into the question Of demand, do We
profess that familiarity with 1t that profess to have
Of the question Of supply; but on casting our eye
over the columns Of the table Of home consumption
of the United States which, bytheby Is far greater
than appears notice that whatever the extent Of the
crop has been how high prices have rulsd-ths
quantity taken for consumption BY the New England
mills slsns has steadily increased each year. During
the last six years. this increase has reached bales
per anDum. This Is very important point in oons-
aering the consumption Of the world, and must by no
be lost sight Of in estimating the proportion Of
the crop nov being received, which will fall to the
share OF Great Britain.