Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1857-01-02
Cotton in India and AIg.-,-

mitted. England and France orr Two Do 'acty ad
commerce and manufactures have enlered ;nt"as
petition with us to secure the control in No. 'o CON-
important staple, and have failed. They ara y, his
PEELED to depend for their supplies mainly on N CON-
ton of the United Slates-and to one of tbon 9e COT
matter OF vital importance. The experiment" Ha
by Great Britain in her Indian possessions made
ed-not for want of cheap labor for a hundrsS la!l
lions OF laborers inhabit the peninsula, VIII NIL
slaves SO far as their tell is at the comm.nJ NJ ATE
masters, while they have not the benefit of t vi task
lection and care of an owner. The attemnts ~ pro.
cotton In India have been abortve because ~ raise
male Is intensely tropical. 1t grows il is trne G'
it is not at home in the burning atmosphere Of out
ana nature foLods the successful domestication of no.
cotton plant there as inexorahly as in the The
cool climate of Great Britain herself and
This question may be considered as settled.
mains to be seen what success has attended tho G
OF France 10 secure divide the Furnishing Of
cient rival and present ally, with the most imno. q"
raw material OF her manufactures. The F reOrb
Government no doubt intended Algeria nar1n cn
colony, and temporarily sort of issue to dr11n
that whph might otherwise disturb the bodv noT! W
At all events Louis PHILIPPE used Algeria to- po .
latter purpose most extensively, and The camna; VII"
against the Arabs furnished occupation for tho gus gus
just spirts, which might without this outlet bavs
earlier toppled over the monarchy of the citizen Kin"
Unquesonably such men as Theirs and Guizo, So
that if Algeria could be made great cotton grow
country, its possession would add immeasuPabIr,
the resources of the home country AT all events TN
experiment has en- tried, and like that of ENGLAND
in India it is dead failure. The following Is tba
statement of The Algerian correspondent of The Lon.
don Times, and it is circumstantial, that no one
can hesitate TO admit lis reliability.
GAS to cotton, the utmost that the most entbuSias.
tic Fenchman can say about it is that it is an exnpn
sive experiment. have asked in vain for those cot
Ton plantations which produced the tongue sole and
the cotton jaime, and the line stockings which we
saw at the French Exposition. | had been told as a
fact quite decisive of The cotton question that the
price of 10000 francs offered annually by the Empe
or, for the best specimen of Tongue cotton has
been divided in 1856 between a Frenchman and an
Arab This fact suggests the conclusion that natives
and colonsts are all striving against each other to
produce cotton, and that all French Africa is covered
with competing cotton Plantations The fortunate
winner of The 10000 francs is the Caid All Ben Mo.
hamed, whose plantation is near Guelma. AS had
asked in vain Tor cotton wherever had been, had
made preparations to take a two days journey on
mu back in order 10 see this famous plantation when
fortunately met with distinguished Arab who
knew both the place and the Caid, and who assured
me that his cotton plantation amounted TO about ff-
teen acres.
n truth, neither The natives nor the coonists have
the capital TO attempt the culture of cotton except
as mee garden patch. In the Government inslruc.
tons issued to the cotton grower there is equisition
for as many instruments as would lake up good part
of one of our agricultural s0ciety's yards The cot
ton grower of Algeria must have three plOughs.-
First he must have the chdrrue Drdugugnan with
lis movable solid SOFA bar of steel that is moved
forward as The point wears Secondly, he must have
his subsoil plough, the defonceus 1ubat, which, with
the aid OF four gorOus oxen, and travelling in the
turrow already made by the charrue Draugugnan,
will Cut and bruise the soil at depth of thirty in
ches After this he must set his hersnges work to
plane the surface and then comes, thirdly, his char
rue deur uerSoirs djte butoir, which as it travels
throws IN hat a baDk on eth form
The billions (or bods) which the cotton plant is to
grow.
Of course neither colonst nor Arab has any of these
fine instruments. What cotton is grown is cultivated
by spade husband-y. The streets of every town are
pacarded with large bills setting forth the prizes,
from The Emperor's prize of 10000 francs with in.
termediate prizes, which would axe half column
10 enumerate,) down to the much condemned gold
and silver medals of the Society of MuIhouse The
most important and the strongest incentive is that for
three years the Government will provide the seed
gratis, and buy up all the cotton grown at I'M prir de
fdveur. Yet with ali this forcing, the sum total of
all the land in all Algeria which I'll last published
returns, Was cultivated tor cotton, IS 1000 acres and
tor the produce the government paid 100000 francs
The cotton is bought in it's state it is sent 10
France to be cleaned and to Rouen TO be manufac-
tured
Seeing that the cotton produce throughout the
world is believe, about 100000 tuns, whereof Eng
land consumes about $50, O0O there does not. fear
appear much likelihood of Algeria becoming very
formidable competitor to the United States. The
tIces exhibited at London and Paris were in no in
stance manufactured in Algeria. For the most part
The cotton was grown in the Government penlniereS;
tie egrcnage was done by hand, and the cotton
Wor ked up with great care in the looms of Lille, Pr
caidy and Flanders The only logical conclusion is
that tits not impossible that at future time Al
gena may produce cotton an article of commerce"
1t seems proba Bile that our Southern States VIII con-
tinue for lew more Presidential terms to hold this
in the production of cotton, and while
they do So they can all their domestic H.
Stituons and the Union in spite OF the envy OF for
eign powers and the madness of sectional parties
We glad that they have this power, and long live
the beautiful plant which Yields power to tighten
the cords of the American Union.
TIE gvventy-rhIrd Rule on Austrian Railroads.
Within all the Austrian Railway cars are displayed
little red flags, which have been invented by the truly
paternal prudence of the directors of the roads.
notice put up IN the explains the of them );
they are to be displayed by travellers in case of any
accident; the train will stop in consequence, and
help will be rendered. But the notice in question
these pretty red flags. Whoever, it adds, displays
Them unnecessarily, shall be punished according to
the prescription of the Odd article of the regulations
What is this punishment? What are the provis-
ions of this 23d article? The notice does not tell,
and this question puzzled two Engshmen who had
just been reading it.
Parbleu,' said one of them, " there is a very
simple way Of finding out'
What is that ~
Let us display the flag at venture, and stop the
RAIN
No sooner said than done Our Englishmen put
out and laughed they did it, the signal OF distress
The train stopped, the people came rsnniug and
asked "what accident had happened? 2 "Oh noth-
ing is the matter" said the Englishmen, 'we want
ed to know what the 23d article s,"-"Oh, very