New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-08
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uT0 COTTON PLANTERS GENERALLY

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0To COTTON PLANTERS GENERALITY"
percsye you were addressed through he columns of the
roe Delta Tuesdsy BY signing himself "Buyer aud
Consumep this gentleman seems scarcely we'll enough
with he has taken in hand 10 become
adviser for planters vii venture In all courtesy to
The into which he has obvously fallen,
while adding testimony to the truths he has enunciaed
He ses the assertion, mo doubt iron ressts
what longer than WILL" he might with the facts pub
shed concerning the experiments the Mississippi
State Agricultural Fair At the Metaiie Ridge burning,
and Montgomery Aabsma-to say nothing of iron bound
cotton bales saved from burnt steamboats, with scarcely
loss beyond the baggrg which had ed hemhave
much further and stated that cotton bales bound
be Unframed. His reflections concerning our
Companies net credabe to them, but they
to take Of themselves will that duty
them Underwriters elsewhere, however, and especially in
Europe awake the subject Of discrimination between iron
and rope bound cotton, In favor Of the former.
The assertion that iron rust coming In with cotton
In state Of friction is apt to produce re simply absurd
IRON perfectly incosoassible This fact suppose.
neither rustic philosopher doubted until the pubca.
ton Of paragraph In the Bulletin, of this city,
since in which Mr. March, asserted to be an able chem
ist Is attempted to be used witness contrary Now
Mr. March, whether able" otherwise little If al ALL
known In status locale name to the scientific world
the writer the paragraph Published in Bulletin probably
intended either Mr. Malett Mr.. Magnus both of
we'll known in this department Of chemistry
However, taking the article a. appeared testimony
scientifically and in fat pontedy agsnst the purposes for
which brought forward This shows the unansss Of
frequent practice Of perverng careessy using scen
tiHc No respectable chemist will moment counte.
the assertion that iron rust coming with
ton state Of Fiction, any .tate is apt 10 pro-
Hre that It will produce ALL Mr. Magnus quoted
Mr. Graham In his admirable standard work on the
Elements Of Inorganic Chemistry, IN treating OF the oxide
(rus Of ron Iron reduced the exide rus by
hydrogen heat under rednsss forms sponsy which,
exposed the air. takes re at the usual
Of iron being reproduced Here il re-
CURED carefully conducted chemical and the employ
ment Of gaseous agent rot constituent OF atmosphere
without aid of art would be
little than miracle. Mr. Mallet report to the Brit.
sh Admiralty or Parliament Committee upon the eects OF
subegencies Of heavy guns other large an
piancss parts chips Castron is converted into
species Of graphite BY in sea water
Of the iron being dissolved while the csbo.
remansu And the Mr.. karch Of the Bulletin publication
(which probably has misled among Others Mr. Buyer and
Consumer ~ distinctly states in that very artice-hough the
word "nvsriable" 10 doubtless interpolation, by
in the excess OF his zeal for tho welfare Of
nvarable rule with which has remained
considerable time under water when reduced grains
papabe powder become and ignite any sub
stance with which It comes in contact" Now
que habits Of scientific caro- and accuracy
whole statement and yet the points at ssue ae
with Graham, slimsn and all great expsrirn
the subject viz that long suberReucs causing
change Of the IRON essentially different from oxidation
requisite and then that this graphite dsnegated
reduced ANAL PARTICLES Fact to an impapabe
POWDER before combustion can
The extreme unfaness Of attempt pervet teach.
ngs Of science to aggrande expense Of
class will not be disputed BY The ignorant
Of propagate doctrines before
they their understood estimated is also
reprehensbe to meet the uniform condemnation
| wise and the good.
The oxidation hoopron applied to cotton bales can
in the least degree combustion form.
the csmbustible graphite and III reduction
palpable powder from iron light
exposed submesion Many years before be formed
| the cotton itself will have persisted.
Spontaneous combustion probably from packing
cotton bales after long to winter sd spring
streets and neutral grounds the banquees
and in unsheered where such storing
permitted without proper reckng and drying into the holds
Of ships where drying becomes impossible The this
kind Of union Of moisture estite fibre and vegetable
familiar many. The best prevenaives good
Dgs which hold the bales in Of closer and
far general sowase under shelter while In and the
building sheds for this purpose And
these iron bands which will certainly nan.
nation and render combustion allow that the FIRE may
| tinguished at leisure.
Mr. Buyer and Consumer says truly iron costs the
planter less than and he might have added
the with strongly painted vanished ron from
which there danger rupg staining the cotton
its covering. He much Mistaken however supposng
iron hoops worth nothing to anybody Their many
after removal from bales in European Cities fully
tail in this article MENTION however, the multiplied
millions Of light casks required in every country in Europe
the packages goods
from the article they protected originally and which
iron already applied and the of returning them
to this country to be again employed In binding bales
Cotton ships bring stones coal and salt for ballast and why
not this equally useful and important article of binding
This nineteenth century destitute of
without profitable use for such commodity.
But am constrained to depart very far from Mr. Buyer
and Consumer" with whom would be pleased
his tabular statement at the close Of his article possible
more erroneous than his attempted chemical argument
planter twelve pounds of iron
cotton Certainly Of those bands most in use from 81
pounds per bale all sufficient Some of these weigh little
the band possibly of them less
Some planters apply FIVE sig and bands
BALE The NUMBER Of varies the weight AM
one how far short it Of twelve pounds.
No further analysis Of this table is regulate.
Mr.. "Buyer and Consumer" says abiding 10 his table
Ths great difference certainly warrants the that
being made by certain cotton buyers in this city tn
Chamber of Commerce to establish uniform tare OF lively
pounds bale all ironbound cotton" Now, anything
could all Controversy show the unpreparedness Of h
gentleman offer sound advice To Cotton Planters
ay would be his innocent ausion to this myth which
has been much sought for and advertised for in this
city and other cities during the few weeks While
mre his benevolent Intentions surely conclude that he
not familiar with the of the day connection will
subjects on which he writes The Chamber of Commerce ad
ourned several weeks ago. and will again till
Der next Meanwhile this long vacation when
interested, as to what it may be asked to do when it
sembles in the winter. As we'll might Mr. Buyer Con
believe and become alarmed any other
lous experimentr who might adverise "a bsin
made by certain cotton buyers in this city the Con
Of the United States to establish uniform license
one thousand dollars to be exacted from
h cotton buyer for the benefit of the cotton buyers of bi
country There much snse Justice and truth in the
in the other proposition Even II there
men in New Orleans silly enough to attach their
OF the above ancu documents tieir friends
they had would inform them that neither the Congress
the Chamber would su themselves receive
petition The fiction about the designs of Buyers and Bro
published as it in country just after the
ournment of the Chamber of Commerce. and when that
could not be assembled off the implied reproach from
themselves the alleged petitioners worthy the fame
the Artfu Dodger and to trihng extent 1t did
ced In alarming Planters and causing them to suspend
orders for iron but like other thing of the nd, it
having its recoil and such reco will with
grace the authors if they will only themselves 1t
the interest aud advantage of all fair and open dealers that
should be exposed.
Trade will regulate itself honesty is the best policy,
is King Let ALL therefore, beware how they tre wit
| the makers of this king.
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