New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-02-02
COTTON oIL-coTToN Yam.

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The manufacture of oil from cotton seed bids fair
to become lucrative and extensive pursuit at very
early day. Already many thousand bags of seed
have been shipped to Northern towns to be converted
into oil and olcake our Northern brethren having
no more objection to making money from the manu-
facture of slave-raised seed than they have from
save-grown COTTON They may preach abolition at a
tremendous rate, but their preachings never inter
fere with habit they have-that of pocketng dimes
with astonishing rapdty. Here is one radical differ
ence between the regular yankee ree-soiler and the
genuine fireeater The one, no matter how intense
the excitement OF fanaticism under which he appears
to be laborng, never lets opportunity slip Of turn
ing an honest penny" The other, in the enthusiasm
aroused by his distractions, forgets all about pence,
probabilities prots-has time to attend tosuch
common, everyday matters-and consequently, when
he awakens to n sense of the realities that sur
round him, he finds he has made nothing of substan-
tal value while his watchu and always alert ahtago
mist has bagged the largest measure of the proceeds
which led to the controversy and still undetermined
finally.
Or in other words, Northern and foreign opponents
of Southern slavery by shipping and abricatng, and
then transhipping the wrought products of slave
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holders themselves! With our cotton they have
undoubtedly done this Shall we allow them to do
the same thing with our cotton seed The future
the closer we hold our mouths shut questions per
tanning to Southern enterprise and independence, the
better
A correspondent of the Mobile Tribune has some
practical observations on this subject which we annex
and commend to the attention of cotton planting
/ friends:
notice The quotations in No,thern paper, ocuks'
% pI Gents per po Mw S
pounds orn a therefore worth 60 loo per ion,
Now this brings say cotton planters who their
with worth much ntrnseay than the corn itself
% @ the s w1Th vii
hoT Ss'i Dr. f @ of
Smithsonian Institute at higton last winter THAT
planter who steam engine for his ginning other plan
n ha Se4s lis Is re
ss he a Nov Sn packs h.Sn so e s
aks bis b4Ee he e9g I send yaaae crop Ct oil 2 mar
sss a Of hs
staple a M and his ' cake i
the markets thanthe weight of is absve
its :; y s so' s
twenty-five only of oil from the seed the
ducon would be very important any Calculating planter wit
s wsn a e s Of
Do f lG I preserve
L, least onshd Of plantation resi- each
enough land pursue nat system and The oil cake fed in
could besides having cake for the towns
may conclude With this remark, objection
seed food in its natural state is that it. like the pea is to
w and Stock Es,rag M
It viii ills still BE- too ri food 10 throw iatsS hog
and cattle Ihey would eqnme to pc @ @ ana f'o's
) There is cotton seed oil mandatory in town
Mr.. Fisksas will be by reference to the adver
tisement of the agents. Messrs. Green, Harding & Co.
66 Poydras street. in another column The oil from this
establishment is represented to be superior to lard OF
for burning and other purposes In the advertisement
there is mention of oil cake to which the correspond
ent Of the Mobile Tribune attaches much Importance
and gives good therefor Its fair to presume
however, that everything valuable is put to good
We mention this merely an incident, to show that Al
suspicious beginning has been made not that the
has been supplied for cotton seed is being constant
shipped to Providence, Rhode Island there to be
verted into oil and cake. Until this unnatural shiL
!. ment ceases, the want will remain unsupplied-an
another Southern product will continue to augmer
II the wealth of inmical parties, which should
enerprising and sensible enough to render tributar
t. to our own advancement and improvement.
If the cotton seed oil invention will accomplish one
, half that is claimed for it, mine Of wealth wort
> many annual Millions at small COST will be at ono
: opened to the South The supply of oils from oil
sources has been diminishing for years. and there
is little hope the dminution will not continue, Will
: the demand has increased wonderfully, and is nov
greater than ever. All of this cotton seed should b.
manufactured in the South, if not the plantations
as suggested by the correspondent whose letter "
hoe
factories of New Orleans should be able to manufac
ture all the seed the Southwestern valley can produce
Mobile should do the same for Alabama, Savannah fo
Georgia. and Charleston and other cities for the re
mainder of the cottongrowrg region.
Another advertisement also appears in our columns
entirely worthy the attention of the Southern people
from Mr.. Geo. G. Henry, of Mobile, the inventor o
machinery whereby the cotton grown on plantation
may be spun into yarns plantations, at an expens
i wholly Insignificant when compared with the grea
advantages to be derived. Quite full descriptions 0
this discovery have already appeared in these col
e umns but we shall await the detailed accoun
c promised by Mr.. Henry with more than ordinar
anxiety.
If we can only spin our cotton into yarns, and sup
ply the world with oil from our own cotton seed bot
of which enterprises are susceptible of speedy accom-
pishment if any faith is to be reposed in fair promises
the day is not far distant when will occupy posi-
ton so independent selfsustaining and 50 strong
that We will be enabled to dictate our own terms t.
, the commercial world. In assuming thus much, O
course we take it for granted that other branches
industry WELCOME into play and flourish liz proportion
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pesuitory Theatrical Items.
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Since our last weekly dcsultory items we hay
It had no mail from Boston or New York.
At Charleston, Miss Annette lnce is still playing witt
good success.
= Mr. Jno. L. Owens and Mrs. Malinda Jones close