Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1851-01-01
ESTIMATE OF COTTON CROP FOR 1850
AND TALK ON CHANGE.

ESTIMATE OF COTTON CROP FOR 1850,
AND TALK ON CHANGE.
When results do nol crreSpond to anticipation,
Explanations always come awkwardly; and the
falling of in the revcnne and in tho exports is rath-
er saddcning drspite most apt apologies for def
fcicncics. The talk was, that although we are doing
/ we'll, we not d"ing we'll as ough, to do;
! that all circumstances tend to the promoi,n Of
trade thu, provisions of all kinds areabundant and
cheap; thu, butchers at is declining in price
sugar nnt dear, and ca aud coffee below an aver
agH; that, although cotton is high, wearing apparel
| is cheap enough that ampli6Ad shops tempt pur
chasers by economical announcements. and thai
scarcity is word at present not known in the
commercial vocabulary; that, notwithstanding all
this 60 on, bnt not fist enough; that. If our
PAGES be slow now, under the influence of extra
ordinary stimulants, what may they be by-andbv,
/ when some or all of these circumstances are re-
versed that the f,cis round testify to active
opposition, or Enroprn incapacity to consume:
that India and China do not respond 10 the hopes
they excited and that If America. in her great
ness did not arise as great customer the hand of
trade would positively point Mt decline; that in the
blush Of prosperity, ought to look into the fi,
ture, and by 1ashing ourselves into energy,
hold our former place among the nations OF the
earth.
The further talk was that those who fast
till that the slow and sure according TO all tabu'
lists win the race; that are 10 look for ordlna-
ry no. ina results that we ar" more prosperous
than our neiehbnrs is quallv certain; ta, although
the repeal of the avgaIion laws has increased th
foreign tonnage in ports, it has increased our
own tonnage, in com narison. still more that an
average of months, and not solitary month, is
the test of ACTIVITY and that the trade OF 1850 COM
pared with similar period Of any preceding year
demonstrates a decided advancement; that while
the United States preparing to go ahead in
manufactures, the republic is also going ahead in
populations that like ourselves. she isnow number.
ing her people and that since 1910 she has ill.,
creased in inhabitants more than so per cent. judg-
ing from The town returns already made; that 30
OO0, 900 Of people account at once for her trade
with u.s. and for her home manufactures; that, az
her subjects multiply, will our interests in her
prosperity increase and that although rival, she
wiII, in the nature of things forever be customer.
Il good and solvent one. The frequent arrivals
ofs,eamers from America make ns more intimately
acquainted with what passes the Mississippi
than on the Rhine; and tho talk was, that these
steamers more than any thingelse compliment the
science Of the age; that, without metaphor, they
srcm to walk the waters like things OF lilei that
The competition between the Cunard and Collins
line, as b-comrs the two great companies, is noble
and generous that each appears to have reached
the ma ximum Of exec Hence that IN" Yankees hav"
rig ht TO boast of the Pacific and the Atlantic, but
that none but mean men among them would at
tempt to drrreciate the Asia and the Europa that
these beautiful creations of shipwright skill pe-
speak the energy. taste and enterprise Of the pro-
prietoss; and that. if rivalry was to be dreaded
which it is not, We might lament 10 sec company
which has laid the world undcr vast obligation, ex
posed to any kind of competition that, " hen alone
they steamed the Atlantic. their management was
rfrna { 3t :
moment, that the Glide and the Hud boats have
proved their capacity that there will be work
enough for them ALL and that the public attention
need no longer be called to their respective per-
formances. ...-.. .a.. ....
In reference to ship building the talk was. tha,
. few short months have wrought wondrous
change ia the opinion Of some local Protsc,ionists
When the repeal of the navigation laws was con.
templ,tcd, some OF our gentlemen predicted that
Liverpool had s"en the las, ship tho stocks, that
the buiidiugyafds were to be all deserted aud the
carpenters transferred to the oaknm left in Brown
low-hili i; that there no more lHnches 10 b.
d"v"nr'd at aunch~s and ,ha, the graceful per-
formancc Of ladies projecting bottles at descending
vessels Was no longer 10 b. wi'nrssed the banks
o''ne Mers"y; thai in the baptism Of ships there
was 10 Dr. no d'.pnte-he ceremony only inter
rs''"s the pretty sossips in Norway, Sweden.
m.. He'n""y aud America; but now, it appears, that
.,' an ,n's was mIs,'ke; that instead of RENDERING
'"s'V'sds archaeological curiosi,ics, we arc
"">'y preparing to construct numerous new and
oe'trr ones 'ha even Mr.. Samu. Hol,nr who
"'"s '''"'e 'n"n most men ahu',, binding, con.
:f'sscs. u'runscinn>ly ,h,, h.. knew nmh;no ,bou,
the building Of ships; that he h.. dscoycr, ,h,,
we are to build many vcssrI. for n,,ny gears and
that L'vrpo"I is precisely the ,.Ice ,u,,e re ,hcy
ought to b. hu -
Trade this w''k is steady the share, ma Ike, is
rather qnirr; and the talk abu,n cotton was ,ha,
holders could sing, il They knew I,ow,' Now
hope. NOW f'ar my bosom rcnd.th,' for tho qr,e.
ton Of marc less supply is cr,iical; that while
sn'ne p"opt' 10 Amrrici, sly one thing .,hrr pro.
pI" sly a"ahcr thing; that wh,nl Mr.. GwatI,,ncy
was here" some H,eth: go. his confenl s,,e,n~ni,
"nded 10 prevent ris.' in prices, and hat srca,
e>rI''si'y has h'rn cxri'd by litter r. cciv.d
r':n him This w"rI. IL that kltrr h" sars: