Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1850-02-23

of considerationin the commercial world,
we hope our readers will excuse Us for
publishing the following letter from the
Liverpool correspondent of the Mercury
and although lengthy, read 1t and YOU
will learn what hope is entertained of
keeping up the price of cur staple, by one
WHO'S interested in watching the foreign
markets:
LIVERPOOL, Jan. %, 1850
Gentlemen: The Hibernia arrived here
at 81, a. m. Of Tuesday last. Her ac,
counts of s6H diminishing estimates of the
crop, and a rise of fully cent in New
York, in the very teeth OF the lowest rates
sent out since October, produced great
sensation in Liverpool, and 80, 900 bales
were sold that day, at fully i advance;
establishing middliugs at 0 7.s--very
still and little offering. The next day op-
orators began to discover that they had
got n little "ahead of the music" the
time to allow Cotton to take its natural
upward cou.se, was not yet arrived.
The famous cow on the other side had
yet rich stores in her udder, and it was
important to save as mucl of the strip
pings as possible, before the article should
be allowed togo up. So, all hands were
piped to quarters, in order to prepare
wet blanket-the spinners by instinct,
spectators by full sense of security in
what they had, and hoping for still anoth-
er suck or two. Since then the sales have
fallen off, though no reduction ii price.
1t was di covered that somebody, in New
York, had written letter stating that
friend OF his had lately taken hasty flight
all the way from New York to Mobile,
between the 25th and 31st December,
and had reported that he found quite as
much unpickel Cotton in the fields, as
when he passed through in the middle Of
November in the previous year. Quite
business maa this, and expedious withal;
doubtless he had Pacolet's horse, and
therefore, full opportunity for making an
examination into the condition of the
fields as he passed on. The deduction
from all this, howeve, is, as I have often
urged, that this market must, and will,
take its tone from yours. If you have
short crop, evince it by your frmness:
then shall you know that your labor is
not in vain.
And now a word to planters. Great
hopes and expectations are already cher
ished in England, that the present high
prices, as they call them, viii stimulate
planters to such degree. that next year
they t, will have full supply and low rates.
10 avoid whi,h two things only arc neces-
ssary to be observed on your part; plant
less: and don break your necks in get
ting it to market. Where you planted
one hundred acres last year, plant only
eighty or ninety this, and you will not
only get more money for what you make
than for full crop, but encounter less
labor, incur less expense, and at the same
time be able to raise more corn, which
makes fat hogs, and horses and cattle
and plenty of them. Why work your
selves and your negroes to death in order
to CRAFTY Manchester, and supply her
with Cotton at six cents per pound, when
you may live in plenty and at your ease
and get 10 to % cents? This is no fiction.
an experience proves IL. providence |
has kindly interposed to help you out of |
one difficulty, arising from over-produc-
ton; don't get into another or in other
words, lend your adversaries stick to
break your own heads.
Then when your crop is made, be calm,
he cautious. BY November next, these
folks will be both hungry and thirsty.
Give them then little milk: recollect
that they will not bear strong meat well.
They, like Jesharun, grow fat and kick:
avoid their heels In December, another
moderate sup; January another; but less
in quantity. In February and March
little more; in April, Nay, and June, you
may begin to gil their bellies, in order to
keep them in condition through the re-
mainder of the season. They will take
the nourishment eager as lambs, and be
glad of it.
Never send any Cotton to market with
out limit. 1t throws too much respon-
sibility upon your Factois Never allow
it to be sold until your price is obtained.
h you owe your Factor money, and he
cannot sell at your price, or wait for his
pay, instruct him to sell as much as will