The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-27
The First Bale OF Cotton.

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Under the above head you offered some remarks
and presented fact, in your paper of the 18th inst
to controvert the position assumed in the last mum
Der OF do Bows Review, that g not single bale OF
1857" p'
On this interesting subject find the following
information in Governor Soabrook's Memoir on the
Cotton Plant" published few years ago.
In pamphlet of the date of 1866, entitled A
Brief Description of tho Province of Carolina, on
the Coast Of Florida, the writer, in speaking of tho
Cape Fear settlements, made only two years before,
says" They have indigo, tobacco very good, and
cotton wool" DIR. Hewitt in his historical account
of South Carolina and Georgia, while commenting
on the introduction of silk into the former, and the
products Of the earth, for which premiums ought
then to have been given to those who should bring
particularly to cotton, and after detailing the man.
ner Ofplantingit remarks that this article though
not of Importance enough to have occupied the
whole attention of the coonists, might, neverthe-
less in conjunction with other staples, have been
rendered profitable and useful
In Wilson's account of the Province Of Caro-
lima, in America" published in 1852, it is stated
that "Cotton of the Cypress and Malta sort grows
In Peter Purreys description Of the Province of Ca
rolina drawn up in Charleston, in 1871, !" Flax and
cotton" are said to "thrive admirably" In tho
journal Of Mrs. Pinckney, the mother Of Gene
raj Thomas, and General Charles G. Pinckney,
who, as Miss Lucas, when only eighteen years Of
age, was entrusted with the management of the
planting interest Of her father, the Governor of An
tigua, is the following memorandum :-"July |,
l7S9, wrete to my father to-day very long lctter
on his plantation affairs-on the pains had taken
to bring the indigo, ginger, cotton, lucene, and
casada to perfection, and that had greater hopes
from the indigo than any other' ssJune, l7il,
wrote again to my father on the subject of indigo
1t is well authenticated fact that in 1885, as far
north as the thrty-ninth degree cotton ION the
garden scale" was raised in the vicinity Of Easton,
in the county Of Talbot, on the eastern shore of the
Chesapeake Bay. About forty years afterwards, it
was cultivated in st. Marys county, Maryland, and
in the Northern county of Cape May, in New Jersey;
also in the county Of Sussex, in Delaware.
: Among the exports of "Charles Town." from
November, 17i7, to November, 1743, are in
cluded seven bags CT cotton wool, valued at
G3 lis. Sd. per bag. In 1854, some cotton was
again exported from South Carolina. In l77O there
were shipped to Liverpool three bales from New
York, four bales from Virginia and Maryland, and
three bales from North Carolina. Before the Reyo
lutionary war, Virginia exported, communiJms an
ms, hemp naxseed and cotton, to the value Of
$4,000. In 1871, an American vessel that carried
eight bags to Liverpool was seized, on the ground
that so much cotton could not be produced in the
United States. In 1875, II bags; in 1876, 6 bags
in 1857, 100 bags; in 1888, $3.50 bags; in $780, $40
bags; and in 1880 81 bags were received in Europe
from this country. OF these, 1873 bags were sent
directly, and portion of the remainder by the way
OF Philadelphia and New York, from Charleston.
The first bag of cotton sold in South Carolina
purchased in 1874, by John Teasdale, from Bryan
Cape, then factor in Charleston. The first bag Of
the wool exported from that city to Liverpool ar
rived January 20, 1885, per Diana, and was consgn
ed to Messrs. j. & j. Teasdale & Co.
Gov Seabook, in the pamphlet from which the
above arc extracts, after assigning very satisfactory
for his belief that the seed of short staple
cotton was originally introduced into this country
from the Mediterranean says: "Peter Purrey is re-
presented to have brought with him, among other
seeds, that of cotton. This, and paper of the
same MATERIAL received by the Trustees for the set
Element of Georgia, from Philip Miller, of Chelsea
England. it scarcely be questioned were from the
Mediterranean" Mr.. Wilson, already quoted, says
expressly that the Carolina sort was from Cyprus
and Malta. In pamphlet entitled american
Husbandry," published in London, in l775 the writer
remarks that "the cotton cultivated in colonies
is of the Turkey kind. On the other hand, it must
be supposed, from the language of their historian
that the Cape Fear emigrants, who began the grow
ing of the gossypium only two years after they had
established their settlements, were provided with
seed frsm Barbados"
In reference to Sea Island or black seed cotton
the writer states that it "began to be raised in
Georgia, in experimental quantities, in 1885, The
native place OF the seeds believed to DO Persia. 1t
is designated the Persian cotton by Bryan Edwards
and is called in tine West Indies and by the mer-
chants of England. The seed grown in this coun-
try came from the Bahama Islands, where it had
been introduced by the Board Of Trade, from An
guilla n small island in the caribbean sea, and was
sent by Mr.. Tatnal, then Surveyor General of the
Bahamas, Col. Relsell, and Others, to Governor
Tatnall, James Spalding, Richard Leake, and Alex
ander Bisset, all of Georgia.