New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-17
The dates of killing frosts for the past eleven


1t has been the received opinion that the crop
this is fully twenty days ahead Of last year
therefore, if on the 10th Of October 1885, the frost
checked the growth in toto, there was no greater
injury the night Of the 14th inst, the current
month, because the crop matured fifteen to twenty
days earlier this season than last. AS some of the
Bears remarked yesterday, it will all come ont
right.
Under our financial head this morning will be
found an article from late Liverpool paper, in
quiring, "Where does your cotton grow2" a
new cotton company, an auxiliary to the Cotton
Supply Association of Manchester, has been pro-
posed, with capital of 100000, or say half mil
lion Of dollars to encourage the growth of cotton
SO as to lessen the dependence on the Southern
States of the United States. Six gentlemen, spin
ners of course, have subscribed one thousand
pounds each towards this stupendous project
Why, this paltry sum of 100000 would not cover
the value of twenty different plantations on the
Mississippi river, let alone other large estates in
different parts of the country. 1t is really anus
ing and laughable to notice with what confidence
our trans Atlantic customers talk of creating
supply of cotton, by merely forming an association
with the paltry sum Of $500 900. 1t only exhibits
their ignorance in regard TO the cultivation of cot
ton; in fact, they are talking of what they know
nothing about. They will know bale of cotton
when they see it, also distinguish piece of calico
or prints from the white fabric, and perhaps know
something about mule twist and water twist yarns.
The Liverpool Post admits that cotton will not
grow where the white man can work and further
says that brown man or a black man is therefore
the only available laborer. The Post is very
squeamish it is afraid to say that cotton cannot be
raised without the aid of negroes or Africans II
might have gone further, and told the whole truth,
that it cannot be raised without negro slaves. 1t
further says: smm uu.=
There are brown men in India, but the cotton in
the United States results entirely from the labor of
black men. The article is produced there exclu-
sively by the slave. 1t is the quantity produced
that alarms the cotton spinners. Should the slave
be seized with fatal disease, or should the negro
rebel the sources of supply would be partly cut
off, As the supply then in other places would be
totally inadequate, it has become with the manu-
facturers Of Lancashire question of policy and
prudence how to provide against such contin-
gencY The proposed company is in accordance
with that view of the case.
The Post is evidently in great alarm about the
future supply Of the staple. The proposed com
pany, with only flO0,O00, will be Of no avail. We
can furnish the Post with the names Of dozen of
planters on our great river, each of whom could
buy its proposed company out on demand. There
are some other remarks in the Posts article ac-
llnowledging the entire dependence on the United
States for cotton.
The Afrfca's mails came through in part yester-
day. The private correspondence reads hopefully
for cotton. Common qualities were more appre-
ciated; in fact dust, sand and leaves, with little
mixture of cotton which were bought by specu!a-
tors last summer at 33@41d, begins to be inquired
for and some of the middle men (the flag operators