New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-11-06
T.o171s,ANA COTTON FAoroIsrEs.

Two or three weeks ago we alluded at some length
to the project entertained by some wealthy planters,
having in view the establishment of large cotton
factory in DeSoto parish in this State. We spoke OF
it in the most favorable terms could and
brought argument and data forward to prove that IL
would be profitable to the stockholders advantageous
to the parish and generally beneficial ia its results
upon the prosperity of the State.
As we have before remarked on numerous occasions,
there is nothing the South so much needs to make 1t
the most aluent and prosperous section OF country
on Gods earth as Investigation of its capital and
industry Our capital is mainly concentrated upon
single agriculture-and our industry and
most of our available labor are principally appro-
priated towards the development and advancement
of that pursuit. 1t is truea audable pursuit. or
one more congenial to the mind Of intelligence and
refinement never employed human faculties. WASH
1NGToS well and truly said in one of his admirably
practical illusions, agrculture is one of the noblest
and most heathtu avocations of man." But lbrica-
ton is an Indispensable handmaiien to agriculture
Without her the inhabitants of the earth would soon
return to the primitive state, description OF WHICH
has been handed down by biblical history and tradl-
tionarv legends. And commerce, navigation, and q
thousand other things, too numerous to recapltuate
in A brief newspaper article, are necessary to the
prouer growth of both.
Rut these are rusns, the practical application and
correctness of which will not be gansayed by any man
of ordinary intelligence, and all we have now time
or room to say in regard to them is to ask the simple
question How much better off would Louisiana be if
she was as far advanced in the pursuits we have re-
felred to as in agriculture?
But to return to the De Soto enterprise we have
highly commended, and which We wish SO much sue
cess. In the last Mansfield Columbian we enjoyed
much satisfaction in perusing the following. That
there is to be an extensive cotton factory in North
western Louisiana, is now az fixed fact Here is
what the Columbian has to say on the subject:
THE FAcToRYWe glad to be able to state, upon
Stock to The has already been subscribed by
three Of orr most solid and public Ii,ed planers Mr. "m
temied all hazards make the experiment From what
planters need not be surprised if by the time of
MI their cotton and thus saved the immense of trans
porting distant m We look this hs the most i'm
viii lead 10 the most importan, results This the way fight
the North and the to pursue we would secure
our Southern independence. -
of the projectors of this enterprise VIII am Crosby
Of Mo any Es w ~s st r sI ne
vitv in public and private enterprise has gained for them
world fame and contributed more hn anything eISe to
the prosperity and glory OF our common country The people
Mansfield indebted to him Tor improvements which
n a nc TO- he e"5a s {" T nss
the manufacture of leather in which enterprise he has fully sue
ceeded He has now in successful operation IN eN'tnsNe sH"e
parishes with shoes Of quality far superior to those nm
ported from the North and at less cost Ihs is whit we en-
spirits the wh Of the spinning jenny would soon keep time to
the Of the railroad locomotive in every portion Of s sa
yield rich to the abors of the hardy husbandn"n