Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-11-19
Cotton Demand and Production.


The growth of cotton in the United
States is the cpcndcncc-almost the sole
dcpcndence-of Europe and Great Britain
for their supply of the most important ar
ticlc OF human clothiAg. We showed last
week that India does not furnish as much
raw cotton as is required to make the goods
she buys;aad the course of events indi-
Gates that every progress made by the En-.
glish, with English capital, to improve
that country or dcvcopo its resources"
only stimulates a large consumption of
goods on the part of that people. 1t is
their small earnings, arising from the ex-
hausted state Of the country, which cir
cumscribes their purchases. The employ
mcnt of English capital in the construction
of railroads, the culture of opium-to pay
for China teas, and all branches of indus
try, only swells tho wages of the people,
cotton goods The course Of events in
China, by which ot least 200 200, 900 con
sumcrs of cotton cloth will bring their de-
mands into the European market, must
open new aud limitlcss field for the dispo.
sal Of goods. The demand in this market
is now large. The export to China from
New York has been 100000 worth Of
drills for the week, numbering at least 3
100000 yards. This demand will, in all
probability, grow until the United States
exports to that country of drills and coarse
goods will equal at least the sum of the
Imports of the finer goods from Europe
into the United States. China will be-
come great cotton consumer The other
countries whence England draws her cot,
ton, the BrNzils, Egypt, the West Indies,
nc, are all consumers to an extent greater
than they supply the material The Uni
ted States alone continue to supply a sur
plus over their large consumption, and on
that surplus the dependent interests are
enormous.
1t has been stated that the number of
cotton growers in the United States is about
200, 200, but the number dependent upon
! the manufacture of thcartice in New Eng
| land, Great Britain and the Continent is
not short of 100000, and the capital en-
ploymcnt in the manufacture, sale, trans
portaton and distribution, is as 81 600 to
81 employed in the culture. There proba-
bly, is no other industry in the world in
Which so expanded an interest rests upon
so small base. There was time
when the whole production of gold and
silver in the world, by the process of am
algamation, which involves the use of
quicksilver, depended all its vast ill.,
terests and numerous mines mall countries
upon the single supply of mercury af-
forded by the Almaden mines in Spain,
and that government was forced to lease
those mines to the house of Rothschild-
1t resulted, that that single house held the
value of all the mines in It's hands, and
when it put up theratc from $50 to $50 per
| quintal, a vast number Of mines shut up,
and Thongs of miners sought other en-
ployment. That monopoly was dispclcd
! ty the discovery of quicksilver in Caltor-
MIA, and the more general production Of
! silver in Mexico has resulted. Something
analogous to that quicksilver monopoly is
I the position of tho cotton growers at the
South. They hold monopoly which Il C
whole genius and capital at Lancashire has
not been able to shake; OH the other hand,
this vast sphere of interest, which receives
its initiation from that focus, is constantly
expanding. The price ofproducing hands
and the material they produce, is constant
ly rising, and that without pointing out
any mode of relief. The United States
not only furnish the only available surplus,
but the only description Of cotton which
works well by itself With the develop
ments going on in Asia, and the extension
of markets that has been made in South
America, in Africa, in Eastern Europe, and
in asia, beyond the growing demands of
tho United States, England and Western
Europe, the entire human race turns to-
wards the United States for supply, for
which tho domand increases in the double
ratio of growing numbers and increasing
wealth, This ia state of the facts which
does not keep itself well considered by the
trade at large, and the effects Of which are
yoarly becoming more important
t. s. Economish
CoTroS PIOKISd.--A correspondent of the
the New Orleans Picayumo, writing from East
FeIcuna. SAYS:
Seeing report Of some cotton picking done
in Mississippi OH the plantation of Mr. Barber,
known rs tho Walnut Grove, in Wilkinson
county, induces ME fc give you some of mine.
down on the plantation of Mr.. Vim. Yonng in
Fiat Felinncn Iniisli, Ia, II Is as follows.
done this day, October 2l. with part of my
hands: the boy Riley, picked 775 lbs: Rman-
uel. 7GS; Isaac. 3G2: John 895; Richard
303; the girl Hannah, 391. Total. 3.O8i lbs.
The average is 5l4 bS., aud this can be beaten
W. the sImc lands.