Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-11-24
Shinping Cotton.

We notice that the newspaper press n plant ing regions are advising cotton planters not to ship their crops while the market is so much depressed. In part we think this advice ex- cellent. The present crop of cotton will be short-probaby falling off even from the crop of last year. Prices must, therefore, grow better. In December and January they will probably reach their lowest point and will then rise as the spring advances and the deficiency of the crop becomes apparent We believe they will, by the first of April reach higher figure that the highest in September last. All calculations in regard to the future prices of cotton are of course mere speculatlons, but we can see no cause why the price of cotton should not advance in the coming spring. We are as- sured from all sources that the panic is over that in fact it was mere fright without cause and that the money market is daily improving If such be the truth, why should not our pre- dicton in regard to high prices in the spring be verified? We believe it will be. Cotton is king-it must be bought-the world cannot get along without it--there is now none Tn h. verpool or scarcely any where ese but in the gin houses of the planters, and but httle there
 There are one class of planters, however, whom. of course. we would not advise to hold back their crops We allude to those who are in debt, who have bills falling due and mer- chants too weak to honor them. This class of our citizens we advise by all means to ship, what ever may be the sacrifice. It is then duty to use their best exertons to meet their engage ments.
 But to those who are free from debt, and in Arkansas there are thousands, we would say hold on to your cotton. Prices must improve, for the crop is short. The whole year has been unfavorable to the production of the staple, while the fall has been unusually bad for gath ering it. We do not think there has been any one single week of fair weather for picking since the first of October. We have had two or three days in every week, since that period, of weather either too wet or too cold for pick ing. This fact will certainly shorten the crop even in localities where the crops were tne.- There must necessarily be very great falling OH, ana the lTulu Ol liI5 IS IlONcII III the great falling off from the receipts of last year at the various points of exportation
 There are some croakers who predict that the price of cotton will sink lower. They base their prediction upon the unsettled coudi- ton of monetary affairs in Europe. This has been the cry ever since we were a boy. Such croakers are generally either ignorant or inter- ested. They know nothing about the matter and in the very nature of things cannot know. There is more gold and silver in the world than ever before. Why should there be then so much Arrangement in the monetary affairs of the world? The revusion in this country is easily accounted for. The enormous issue of paper money had driven ont the specie. Pay day had to come, it did come, and with it of course revulsion. Such a condition of things does not exist in Europe and never did. It will not long exist in this country. Specie is flowing in from all quarters, the money market will soon become settled and with it all the price of cotton will rise.