New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-12

OF surprse % Tbs side OF Tue "dler, Is tue C'uec
Of grave alarm Oh the other EDgar i. especially
observaut Of tie fact Up To July %, sbe took
S97 OO0 600 Of lest crop, ~hile all Other foreign
countries took bat So 600, 600. Hence the con.
tDuous Efforts of Ter people to multiply the sources
Of supply TIE tine Was when much Of this effort
wss the Offspring of what was considered by her
sta.esu 60 IA be- political ntc.ssity. IL con-
sideied indispensable that British industry shon!d
be made ind, peadent Of American ,tton. fields.
! Cot. mporaneous with this, strong desire was
ftlt TO bresk down American Slavery BY makDg It's
cottir usuce Do longer Profitable To tbi. cod, the
| h.lfpenpy a.dsy labor Of Iadia was invoked; but
though ..ed aid .uperinfepdence from this country
wer, sept th Their, the effort to Improve The stort
staple Of India failed the loDgstape seed deprecI-
sttd into short staple WOOL the natives refused 10
abandon TIER tlnebouored tools fJr those Of mod
err improvement, sid the costly experiment was
abandoned Since this event, 4 portion of the
snna'i1g impulse has subsidized. The desire to
bresk down Slavery here has sb,ed 10 prOnloency'
| ED been oyershadOwed b, the urgrncies Of manu-
featuring necessity More Cotton is called FIR by
| English mil owners, because the consumption OF
tie world demands IT, Like iron, lis uses are null
tiplled daily. Half the filks Which come to thi'
country sre ipeepiously ndulserated with cotton,
willie toe cld.fs,hi' ned article of pure hnen bas
almost wholly disappeared. The Ir.sa and Amer
can f,1 culture has dwindled away, depopolatlns
Wtoie districts Of country, to The ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Of the towns. Cotton has superseded flax, aud 1t
the soph stication of fabrics is 10 go on, the silk
growers of Italy will in time Cease 10 be troubled
BY wcrns.
The British manufacturers have made up their
minds that the consumption ef cotton Is out
stripping its production. 1t is alresdy apparent
that last years crop Of 3,700 600 bales - not large
enough and that for this year 0CO,0O0 will not
be too Dany The continued high prcs alarm.
and di-heartens them. 1t has bad the same efrct
here. Many of our cotton. mills have stopped from
this cause. Had We possession Of our own market,
they could all li7e. But policy looks TO s,ylns
but n single market at Manchester. Yet Man
chester consumes no Americas -four; and the
men Of this country who produce 1t CON
tiuue to vote for a policy which opens our
market for everything which foreigners pru.
duce and closes theirs to whatever surplus the
same men may have to cell The British having
mcasureaby ceased Their efforts TO super'ede
American cotton as the prop OF American Slavery
il il low intn ated in their recent journals that
they DO 10. seek even 20 emancipste themselves
from their dangerous dependence on ue for sup
ply Give them bales emo Ugh, slave or ffee-grown
AID they are content. Yet, while cOneediog this
much to the exigences of their positlOo they are
com passing the earth to increase the supply. NJ
subject is more deliberately cauysssed in Eng,od
than this. One expedent after another = debated
or adopted. India has not been given up. The
Nspcht ster Chamber Of Commerce have petitloned
the Government 10 encourage certain proposals
for the navigation of the Indian TiVerg, which
would greatly cheaper the transport OF interior
grown cotton to the coast. British mill owners
thruug bout the Kingdom have associated @gethero
promote any measure calculated to increase the
supply and have provided large funds for the pur
pose. They scout the idea that the earth contains
but one cotton county, and that the enslagement
of one people to secure the comfortable clothing of
another is q divine sequence. African rivers
are at this moment being penetrated to their upper
waters by An expedition whose object it is 10 estab
lib commercial relations with the natives, aud to
assure them Of market for oil the cotton they may
produce. Lord Palmer.ton pronounced these cot
ton districts of Afrcs "more extensive than III
" of India, and declared that their export of this
article would in few years be far mOce valuable
than that of all the world beside, this country alone
excepted. Livingstone says that Angola, y It had
been III the hauds Of EDglshmen, would have pro
duced lis re cOnside ed, more cotton and sugar
than all our Slave States. Field labor there is so
pence day, but if paid for in calico, the usual cur
rency, il would cost but penny This cotton Is
in every respect fully equal to American, and has
been grown By the natives in immense quaint ties
from time immemorial. American seed seat out
from Englond, has produced staple OF the hoest
quality. Gins have been furnished to the natives
at low prices TO enable them to clean the staple,
purchasing. stations have been established at va
r,ou. points new ones are being located, and thu
growers ask only TO be guaranteed market, aud
they will raise an almost unlimited supply. The
cotton thus produced in Africa bias been received
in annually increasing quantities 10 England, at
cost so lOw as 10 make il desirable acquisition,
and has been worked into yarns not inferior to the
best produced from own. This cheapness and
success are giving prodsious impulse to British
effort popular and Official, 10 insure national
supply.
The necessities Of the American grower are |
equally urgent with those of the manufacturer |
abroad While the latter call. for more cotton, the
former demspds more labor. His present enor |
nous gains do not satisfy his appetite for wealth,
and be must have more. While the British |
manufacture merely seeks TO set the idle q,