Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1859-03-25
From the Examiner,
indian Cotton.

nt statistics of cotton is briefly stated as they are
bbted in the accurate and instructive returns of tie
BOARD OF trade for the year 1857 The raw material
worried amounted to near one thousand millions of
nonds weight and in value to little short of 100000
6O0, Our exports of manufactured goods of this ma
ral exceeded $39,000000, exclusive of articles Of
bich cotton formed important ingredient, probably
t less than $6000000. We have not the least doubt
INIT that mere exports of cotton goods far exceed in
rp the whole foreign trade of the Roman empire nm
1or Augustus Trajan, Constantine. In trade and
manufactures, at all events; are giants compared to
ibp greatest and most powerful people of antiquity
TO what extent then, does India, described by some
ne0pe as the brightest jewel in the Crown contribute
IN this mighty creation of labor, skill and ingenuity 81
Indian cotton was imported into this country before
America sent single bale we have been importing the
former article for near seventy years. yet it now what
il has always been the lowest in quality of any cotton
that we consume The cotton of Brazil is more valuable
BIZ above fifty, and the cotton of Egypt by above seven
yye per cent It excels other cottOns only in short
ness of staple in founess and in sloveny package In
dian cotton formed in 1857, when the import was IN
usually large but fourth part in quantity, and but
sixth part in value of whole supply. In word,
we're our supply Of the raw material confined to what
we receive from India, great cotton manufacture
would dwinde to small manufacture OF coarse goods,
scarcely equal to what it in the reign of the first
George, when Sir Richard Steele wrote an amusing
paper in defence of distressed calico"
The narts of India however fitted to yield cotton for
expectation are of wide extent and quite competent to
furnish England under favorable conditions with large
supply of good quality. Why, then, 1t may be asked,
do not these ample provinces furnish such supply p
The answer is to be found in the rude state of Indian
society when left to ITSELF and under bad government
showing itself in the manifold forms of uncertain landed
enures excessive and caprcious taxation, bad police
and lladminisered justice in word In the Insecurity
Of e liberty and property. The absence of navigabe
rivers the want of roads, and ocean distance
ourfold greater from England than the country from
which we derive our main supply of cotton are in
good measure compensated by the cheap ard abundant
labor and genial soil and climate of India.
Indigo, sugar, silk, acdye, on the other hand,
all commodities demanding care and skill, and all
are made fit for the market of Europe only through
the care and superintendent of European capitalists
In 1851 we imported those commodities which but for
English enterprise would have been unknown as Indian
exports, to the value of G4,000,000.
Such cotton as India has heretofore produced is Who'll
y the product of native industry that is, OF very rude
industry. For obvious reasons the Indian husbandman
confines himself to the growth of the lowest quality
He grows the cOarsest variety, because with this plant
with every other product of the SOIL the coarsest is
the hardest variety and consequently the easiest reared
1t is moreover the staple of his own domestic consump-
tOn OF the pOpulOus northern provinces, and also OF
China. No European has ever been encouraged to en-
gage IN the culture of cotton or even settled IN the dis
rcts favorable to the growth of the plant, and hence
cotton is down to this day in rude state as was su-
gar, silk and indigo before Europeans engaged IN their
production. When the tenure of land, when law and
taxation in wholesome state, such as will enable
Europeans to settle propretOrs, then, but not until
them will good cotton be produced in India 1t is but
veandtwenty years since Engishmen were allowed to
hold land in any part of india and then the terri
tories including the cotton districts were excepted.
1t may be considered as axiom that all countries
which furnish cotton do so, both to quality and
quantity in proportion to the goodness of their political
Institutions. AT the top stands the United States OF
America, which furnishes two-thrds in value of our
whole supply the amount of that value being Ell 5OO
OOO Next to it, as next in stability OF government,
stands Brazil which furnished in 1857 to the value
of a million and upward Peru and Chill between them
furnished hardly 100000 worth, and miserable anarch
cal Mexico at all. OF the vast African continent
Egypt and Natal alone furnished with cotton, and
the vast extent of nertrOpical Africa not one pound
so far at least as appears by the official returns and
yet the cotton plant known and cultivated through
out This is readily accounted for by the too weknoWr
TACT that in that vast region civilized Government
now exists or indeed has existed We repeat then
that what India wants to enable it to furnish great
supply OF cotton is Government capable OF giving pro
lection to life and property result which can only De
expected from total reversal Of the bera and rebel
hon-breedng rule under which its administration ha
heretofore been conducted. Only give Engllshmen TIT
same freedom Of action, the same security TOR lie anC
property that of the enjoy III the South
States Of the American Union and they will ineVi
in the wide range which extends from the Indus to tn
lrawadi by free and cheap labor all the useful varie
ties OF cotton that now with all the disadvantage
OF dear slave labor, produced by of the same boo
with themselves Until that takes place. 1t IS Idle t.
pirate about suitable Soils varieties of plant modes
culture, irrigation and such like irrelevant topics.
The SULTAN AND His CREDToRs-A Constantine
pie letter Of tire 9Th of December, in the NGuUeste
Marseilles says:
A demonstration took place a few days ago, on tn
part of the persons who supply the palace, and who's
accounts still remain unpaid. The Sultan on his wa
from Top Hane where he had breakasted to the paac
Of Doime Bakche, when he met by an assemblage
nearly three hundred of these creditors who crowde
around the imperial cortege calling for justice. Th
first movement of the Sultan, at finding himself SURROUND
ed by this crowd who uttering loud cries, was
lay hold of the hit of his SABRE but soon, dscoverin
the pacific character of the demonstration, he ordera
that three of the creditors should be delegated to call
Haki Bey, who should that very evening receive th
necessary orders on the subject of the claims
The following day three of the principal creditor
waited on Haki Bey, who sent them to Rizza Pash
the President Of the Commission formed for the settl
ment Of the accounts of the civil list but which has on
held one or two sittngs for forms sake Rzza assure
them that all their accounts should be paid, but that
present, funds were wanting Meantime many OF thes
unfortunate men, who are pressed by their own creditor
have been obliged to suspend payment and several
them have been completely ruined. A similar demon
stratiOn was made two days after, by the wOrkmen
the imperial buildings"
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, the other da
confessed to rather tervid admiration of Piccolomi
through the columns Of his paper whereupon the Lou
vile Courier publishes the following letter, which
claims to have received from the fair songstress,
which, though not intended for publication, it cann
withhold from its readers -
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