The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-03-09
ID Co1ton Planters.
The following extract from o letter from q
Southern Planter in LIVERPOOL contains some
very sensible advice.
ADRLFHI HoTEL.
Liverpool, Jar. 26, 1850

ADRLFHI HoTEL.
Liverpool, Jar. 26, $780,
GENTLEMEN
The Hibsrnia arrived here at 81 A. N. Of
Tuesday last, her accounts of slill diminishing
estimates ofthe crop, and a rise Of fully a cent
in New York in the very teeth Of the lowest
rates sent out since October, produced a great
sensation in Liverpool, and $4,000 bales were
sold that day, at fully I'D advances establishing
MiddIing at 6fd-vsry stiff and httis offering
the next day the operators began to discover
that they had got a little "aheadofthe Music"
the time for cotton to take its natural upward
course was not yet arrived-lhe famous COW
on the other side had yet rich stOles in the nd
der, and il was important to save as much OF
the '%strippings as possible before the article
should be allowed togo up, SO all hands were
piped to quarters IN order to prepare a wet blan-
kst, the ]spinners BY instinct, spectators by a
full sense Of s%ecuritv in what they had, and
hope for still another sack Or two; since then
tbe sales have fallen of, though no reduction
in price. II was discovered thatsnme body in
New York had written a letter stating that a
friend OF theirs had lately taken a hasty fight
all the way from New York to Mobile between
the 25th and Dist December, and reported that
he found quite as much unpicked cotton N ne
felds as wh en- he passed through in The middle Of
November in he previous %yeGr-quite a busi-
-
ness man this, and expeditions withal; doubt
less he had Pacolett's horse, and therefore, full
opportunity for making an examination into
the condition Of the fields as he passed over.
The deduction from all this, is, as | have often
urged, that this market must and will take us
tone from yours-if you have a short crop
evince il BY Your irmness, then shall ye know
that your labor is not in vain.
And now a word to the planters- great hopes
and expectations are already cherished in
England that the present high prices, as they
call them, will stimulate planters to such o
degree that next year they will have a full
supply and low rates-to avoid which, two
things are only necessary to be observed on
your part-plant less; and not break your
nccksin getting it to market; where you plan
ted one hundred acres last ysar, plant only
eighty or ninety this, and you will noSonly
get more money for n fair crop, bnteRcdlpter
less labor, incur less expense, and at thegsEae
time be able to raise moe corn, which makes
fat nOgs, horses and cattle, and plenty ct them
why work yourselves and your negroes e
death in order to crafty Manchester and sup
Div her with cotton at six cents per pound,
when you may live in plenty and at your ease'
and get 10 to is cents? This is no fiction, all
experience proves it. Providence has kindly
interpOsed to help you out cfone dificultyAri
sing from over production, don't get into a.
mother, or in other words, lend your adverse
saries a stick to break your own heads.
Then when your crop is made, be calm, b
Cautiously November next these folks vii
be both hungry and thirstyi rive them q it'll
milk, r%ecOllect that they will not bear strOnI
meat we'll, they like Jeshuran grow f tand kick
avoid their heels. In December another mod
crate sup-January another but less in quaint
~, in February and March a little more, j
April, May and June you may begin to fiji thei
bellies in order to keep them in cOnditiO
through the remainder Of the season-the
will take the nourIshment eager as lambs an
be glad Of it.
Never send any cotton to market without
hmit-GtthrOws too much responsibility upO
70 your factOrs)-nOr allow it sold uutil yOl
of price is obtained; If you owe your faCtOi moi
ey and he cannot sell at his price or wait f
his pay, instruct him to sell as much as wi
pay himself (this is but JUSTICE and hold IL
al balance. II you ate much involved, selln,
c. only cotton but property which is now bsafir
agOOd price and disenthrall yourselves be fire.
ID be independent.
e, LATE FROM CALIFORNIA.