Weekly North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1858, 1852-05-19
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THE SUPPLY OF COTTON,

THE SUPPLY OF COTTON,
LONDON. April 8. The importanee of increasing
the number of the sources and the of the
for the use of the British manufacturers is becoming
every day more apparent and is every day more en-
phaIcally insisted upon. NJ. Bailey, the chairman
Of the Chamber Of Commerce at Manchester. has
been lately lectung upon the subject before Prince
Albert and the Society of Arts. MIR. Bailey strong
urged the necessity Of encouraging, by all possible
means, the growth Of cotton in the British colonies;
necessity rendered every day more urgent BY
the limited supply from tho United States and the
increased competition in the manufacture Of cotton"
Tho question is widely and ably discussed in the
principal English journals, and think the general
tone of these discussions leads directly to the infer
encs that 1t must be many years before tho cotton
mills Of Lancashire can depend upon receiving any
material proportion of It material from any other
source than the Unite States. If this be 90, and
you cannot increase your cot'ongrowing lands, nor
by improved cultivation increase the produce Of the
present cottonproducing area, is evident that the
price of the material must rise from the com.
bned effects of limited and stationary supply and
an increased demand.
The following some of the striking facts CON-
nected " ith the cotton question:
In 1900 the raw cotton imported into Great britain
anlunted to $4,000, 900 pounds.
In 1915 to lOOOOO.OOO
In 1885 to 4OO,OOO,OOO Z"
In 1851 to 7OO.OOO,OOO
or about 1000 tons day. For no less than So
venteentwentiehs of this cotton Great Britain is
indebted to the United States, and the remainder be-
ing received from India, Brazil, and Egypt. About
one seventh part If the whole amount of cotton inn
ported into Great Britain is exported again in the
state; therefore six hundred millions Of pounds are
manufactured-or at least were manufactured during
last year-n the British factories, where they give
employment to million and half of people. The
cotton thus used is disposed Of n something like the
following proportions: One-enth wasted in the pro-
cess Of manufacture, in refuse, &c. Of the remain
Ing 55OOOO 900 pounds, one-fourh s worked up for
home consumption, the other three-fourths manufac-
tnred in goods for expectation. The value of the
cotton manufactures of last year is estimated at E45,
600 900, Of which about two-thirds believed to
| have been paid in wages. About SOC, 900 tons of
shipping are yearly employed by the various opera
tions incident to the cotton trade Every variation Of
faTthIng in the pound upon the price Of tho raw ma
teral affects the annual consumption of Great Britain
at least R5CO, 900 sterling. So perfect is the cotton
machinery Of England, Mr.. Bailey says it far exceeds
that OF any other country, although France takes the
lead Of Great Britain in beauty of design in printed
cotton fabrcs that cotton has been produced 90 won
derfully fine in texture to be imperceptbe to the
naked eye unless placed upon dark surface. The
length of hank OF cotton is $40 yards; would re-
quire more than 1000 hanks of this gossamer cotton
to weigh one pound. Twenty-Five pounds Of this de-
cate fibre would encirce the globe at the equator.
1t is curious fact in the statistics of cotton that
about $780, barrels OF -four, costing abont three
fourths Of million srerling are consumed annually
in the process of starchIng the fbres whilst being
spun. Charles Dickens. ia late number Of his
" Household Words" after enumerating the striking
| facts of the cotton trade, says:
Let any great social or physical convulsion visit
the United States. and England would feel tho shock
from Lands End to John O'Groa.e's. The lives Of
nearly millions of our countrynsn dependent
upon the crops of Americas their destiny may
be said. without any of hyperbole, to hang upon
thread Should any dire calamity be!all the land
of cotton, thousand Of our merchant ships would
rot idly in dock ten Thousand mills must stop their
busy looms; two thousand thousand mouths would
starve for lack Of food feed them" ."-L0ndon Cor
respo"dencs Of the Nctional l"teliiys"eer.
The USE OF STRONG DRINKS, and its contemporary
evil-THE LOVE OF DRESS, says correspondent. arc
awakening the earnest soIicude Of the phanthropic
reformers of New York. Societies have already been
organized, under the appellaton of " Sons Of Adam"
| and Daughters of Eve," and thousands impressed
with the sin of dress, have enlisted under the banner
Of the Goat Skin and Fig Leaf The objects Of these
societies is. dispense with all superfuity Of CLOTH
ing. and all suitable occasions, to adopt the cos
tune Of first parents. 1t is conended by the most
Jealous reformers, that mora! suasion can be no
| longer depend upon. as a means OF preventing dry
goods stores and miller shops from displaying their
tempting wares, dyed with all those gorgeous tints,
invented by the devil, to tempt men and women to
destruction. They say: We have expostulated in
the kndest manner with the keepers of those
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men,s were the very gates Of hell. And we have
fairly laid open to them the horrible enormity of their
diabolical business. With the purest disnterested-
ness, we have urged then 10 turn their gewgaws and
gimcracks into the streets, and make bonfire Of them
and pursue in future some honorable calling. But
only their pary gains, they give no heed 70
our admonitions; the contrary, they tell us with
an air Of the most inefable mpudence, to mind ouf
own business!' Nay, some have even gone 10 the
extremity of eiecting from their premises, With
the assistance of contumelious kick!" -
Finding that Z" moral suasion - is Of no use what
ever they have concluded to call in The terrers Of the
law, and apply illegal saasion l." to the evil doers
petition has been forwarded to the Legislature Of
that Sate praying for the enactment Of statute, au-
horizing the seizure and destruction Of all articles Of
apparel and personal adornmeni. whatever offered for
sale and empowering any person to enter and search
articles for their 1t is expected that such
law especially if containing the latter provision,
will Be very popular. it will give the curious en-
vious and malicious. opportunity Of prying iLto
the habils of their neighbors. The Sons" psdg.
ed, and inustriousIy engaged in persuadng 9th.
pledge themselves, TO vote for no man for office
who is not in favor Of the proposed law So let po'
ticians beware. Detroit Free Press.
The high prices of Provisions topic Of remark
in the papers from Maine Georgia The cause OF the
exorbitant prcss is thought be the scarcity Of food
for CATTLE horses and other domestic animals. arising
from tho drought of the last summer, the severity Of
the winter, and the continued duration Of the cold
weather in spring. As soon as the grass shall have
attained Iuxuriant growth say in month hence, 1t
is thought that prices will materially fail.
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