Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-08-02

Messrs ED1roRs ga Cotton Planter of Georgia" ex.
presses in your Of the 18th Instant his sstonshment
that any could conceive Of the production, or rather the
picking, of three million bales of cotton during the sea-
son Of ls5l-2 and in the United States He limits the
capacity Of cottonpckers and IN posse to two
million four hundred thousand bales Hear Professor McCAr
Of Georgia:
In twenty wears our average crop has increased from
s4s 900 bales 200 bales, nearly three hundred
fold"
With this wonderful increase before eyes who Is this
that speaks with such confidence and limits
capacity produce and to pick any quantity Of cotton
that spnners and call for at fair price If this
Cotton planter of Georgia" has been twenty years in the
business producon he did not probably believe in 1880
that "pcking" capacity equal to million Of bales
But Prof. McCAv puts the crop Of ls49 at 729 600
bales. Others estimate that crop at lower figure some
as low as two and half millions Well. has there been
since that period increase Of hands to pick cotton Eng
sh writers, manufacturers shippers and bankers 10 their
won't have been preaching short supplies and high prices
The London Economist (high authority in such master
proved in ls49 and very concusvely that the supply Of
cotton had been passed by Demand and that il could fall
below Is cents pound. The learned editor talked very
positively about limited capacity He fixed the average
ratio Of increase at about per cent? and corresponding with
the average increase Of slaves He seemed to be in per-
feet ignorance Of the fact that the slaves Of Maryland, V-
gnia Kentucky. and Missouri have cotton picking fingers
and that their rapid southwsrdly is necessary
consequence Of high price Of cotton.
Would not continuous price of 10 cents the pound locate
two and half millions of slaves in the cotton districts
Would not the three States alluded sell four hundred Of
their eight hundred thousand Would not the cornelds
and rice plantations of the Carolnas be abandoned for the
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suppose but million Of put to picking cotton
rich lands and what would the result be if they had
plenty pick and the could get good prices Why
somewhere from five to fifteen millions Of bales Move-
ment cotton plantation is very rapid when prices
high II the Georgia Cotton-paner" finds that he and
his neghbors have cotton this than they
gather let them advertise for labor, and they will doubtless
be supplied the full extent of their want BY the way
why cannot white aborers pick cotton the uplands of
Georgs they do considerable on the uplands
Of Tennessee and Arkansas
The crop Of last emphacaly Short when
pared with what the planters n every district expected to
get had the proved favorable Did hear from
every quarter Of the losses by rains and dough by
and foods
Georgia great State but it does not grow all the cotton
few bales grown the banks Of the Mississippi and
its tributaries and Western Manufacturer" on one Of
those tibutare albeit he does live the vicinity of
try newspaper" about full and sources
Of information this subject he would be the planta-
ton Of your Georgia correspondent.
have recently conversed with at least hundred planters
from almost every district Of Aabama Tennessee MISSISSIPPI
p, Louisiana Arkansas, and Texas, and they all unite in
the opinion that they have had favorable
the present The lowanders have ceased expect drought
the upand and tho upaaders prospect of an
flow Of the lowlands They varousy estimate the crop
from 900 g. 100 900 bales. As general remark
the producers Of great staple do not overesmae their
ing crop.
Your correspondent intmates that /" Western Manufac
tuer" desires large crop and low prices Of cotton Ger
tsiny be does Il would be very strange he did not But
he has the honesty to tell the planters that they
not likely to advance their prices by opening lands and
importing slaves He advises them to enlarge their
gouses, and send of cotton yarn instead Of cotton
to the expense Of sending leaves and dirt five or six
thousand miles, and to believe the truth Of saying Poor
Richard"
ga penny saved is good penny earned"
A WESTERN MANUFACTURERS.
JuLY %, 1851.