New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-01-02
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crop would be falr average one Whne wv Opheiss
side has maintained that the crop would prove
short one. We have taken the side Of the shortcrop
men and have, from time to time, brought forward
evidence and data sustain our position of tie verify
of the predictions we have INDUCED nwe have always
been sincerely convinced, and now we are quite con-
dent the future will develope we did not shoot vide
of the mark. ssssssi.s
Not long since, as our readers aware, the mem
bers Of Congress from the cotton growing States
met together in Washington for the purpose of COM
pairing notes in regard the crops in their respective
States and districts We have the detailed results of
that conference now before us, embodied in letter
from the Hon. John Mcqueen, of South Carolina,
which appeared in the Charleston Mercury of the
27th ut. The letter is long one, but we shall con-
dense il within measurable compass, giving all it's
valuable substance at the same time.
MIR. Queen sets out by stating: Believing, as1 !
do, that systematic effort has been carried for
years in this country and in England, by spectators
and manufacturers of our great staple, cotton, to
swell the estimates Of the annual production in order
that it may be obtained from its honest producers at
less than its real and intrinsic value, have concluded
to send you the result Of an inquiry which, for my
own satisfaction, instituted here, and which may
have some effect in accomplishing my object"
He then refers to estimates that have been publish
ed and sent to England that the crop would vary from
2S000O0 to 5000 0o0bales. neither which he thinks
will be realized that last year we had the credit Of
making 100000 bales" and although probably that
amount reached the ports, still at least 100000 bales
were Of the previous years production, having been
retained in various States in consequence Of low water
lack Of transportation, etc. which rendered it mpos
sbe to send it to market and that notwithstanding
the war In Europe, high rates of interest in England
and higher prices for provisions than usual through
out the civilized world, the whole crop was sold,
leaving no extraordinary accumulation in England,
and commanding, at the very last Of the sales IN this
country about twelve cents per pound " that the crop
Of last year completely sold outat the com
mencefnent of the present than has been known IN
many years previous, and that everything in Europe
and elsewhere betokens prosperous business at high
prices. #
Recommending the reader to bear these facts in
mind MI. Mcqueen proceeds to give the results Of his
inquiry among members Of Congress sfrom different
parts Of every cotton growing State in the Union,
many Of whom are planters, and nearly all of whom
left home after the picking season was far advanced
and from whose statements, in writing, he proceedsto
make up his calculation.
the data the honorable gentleman submits is ex-
tremely interesting, il it be not entirely worthy
the attention Of factors buyers and sellers, we give it
in full ~
n Tesas Cen Ruk thinks e crop will exceed that Of 1855
by Cents in ofneease Of land in
and hands rsm immgra1l9n ~ n ner
in Of extended enityaon from in
short ii lii district 20 per eeu. on he lanes cult
xaea IN 1872 oai make no estimate from eS'ehaeo cur
~ Louisiana NJ sandidse estimates the crop as 20 per cent
n Mssspp Mr. Benne estimates The crop at onethird less
s ~ e.op e. MI ~ ,, III 9s a. one
fourth sherl, and MI. Wright at one-tonrth short
short 81 iss Dowdell short; Nj. Harris third
s sor Mr. eooo snort ana MI az
IN Geergi Nh Crawford repFesents the crop at cent
half short Nh Stephens TWO thirds short MI Foster at 60 per
cent ana WI ye D ~ Pr Gs be rop
onehalf short Of 1885, Mr. Wright one,half shot Mr. Jones
last year !
In SSn Ssrona' MT. oas estimates me crop az 0hsa
In Florida, Mr. Maxwell estimates the short deei-
n sou Garena Tr Orr estimates the crop at opefourth
shar IF ls5 NJ kei a. hor Mr Brooks a ons
. sIor Sn0 anu M ana A l0's '
In reducing the foregoing estimates to q summary,
u wl pc seen that the extreme increase IN Arkansas
+ ~ per cent ana u iesas - per ven' - Misss.
sppi 'he decrease Is siieh'iy over % per cent III
Aapaina slle aeheib y sohe'lins iess s'ai ''s PEI
cent. IN georgia Wnele tne iaihs on IS greatest
q hlsle more 1nan nan crop IS considered iar
aselae ~ tennessee the Two iios' u'''
lfiets afe estilnatea onc-naii y eiop ohe az 'Mo
thirds, and one full crop CIR. Readys) where the
cotton is manufactured at Nashville, and does not
affect the estimate at the ports In North Carolina,
335 per cent deficit. A short crop is set down for
Florida. In South Carolina the average deficit is
thought to be over % per cent; and in Louisiana,
the crop set down as 20 per cent short Of that pro-
dueed in 1855.
Setting down the actual product of 1855 at 100000
bales which the writer assumed at the beginning of
his communication the above data would warrant an
the nreyions wear Of something more thar fonrth
..,.l -, .,;. -, :. = g. g COZ non
"nNA "ouu w, ''AihS slaS 90 suo nsuie, o-o'ooo
paes-haklng the crop grown this year z,ata,oou
bales. Then Mr. McQueen proceeds to discuss the
probabilities Of the increase of production on new
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