New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-02-23

Keeper, ti@ sowing women aiu peFDbPssipE tilS !
bankers and merchants. VIXEN cotton fails eyery--h
hing c!ss fails" But What VIII Government do
under the present aspect Of things / again de-
frIHded- ''GoTernment will 60 Whist q ba-t for |
the country, my faith in ias gizdosa Is uyahaSen."
Do you not, however, look 10 the press a. veil, az
ltseri0g the views Of Government? '4&af a, au,' |
he answered. "Hben the 'i'.a comes toF trp7ern !
ncnt to act, it viii nD5 ss}, a.5Iao IL lAe press"
Yon then esteem the influence Of the press very |
lightly? "Not at all, it excites public opinion on
all topics of interest to the country and although
it may fall into some error3 it serves to diffuse in
formation and cultivate a habit Of independent
thought
Another well informed English manufacturer
looked at the question in another light. He said
we needed the cotton not only to manufacture we
needed as well market for cur manufactures, not
only OF cotton, but well Of WOODEN, IRON, etc.
"War," said he, "deprives of these markets.
| and we are thereby doubly injured" But war,
| said ], is business under which Great Britain
seems to have thrived. " That was because Of
| her workshops" he answered. "But now the case
| is altered Formerly war, by draining the work
shops of Europe, opened market, now, it de-
stroys it.'
You may take their opinions for what they are
worth. Great Britain obtains from the Southern
| States sx.sevenths of all her cotton. So does
| France, and other countries in proportion. 1t is
| not at all improbable that the most strenuous
efforts will be made-they are already making
to obtain supplies elsewhere. Suppose these efforts
prove successful to what extent can they become
SO? twill, under the most favorable crcumstan,
ces require twenty years before the sixseyenthB
of American cotton can be replaced by other cot
TOM and in the meantime, the demand for that
product will not only grow to be sX-sevenths, but
twe wenty times greater than it is Russia is just
awakening to the Importance of its manufacture !:
and how is that vast country to be supplied
twenty years hence? Spain, too, and Italy, and
) ali Germany, only entering upon its use. In.
deed, there will not be civilized community upon
the face of the earth, to which cotton will not be
! necessity ten fifteen, twenty years hence. And
how are they to get it? This is the question which
the newspapers are yainly attempting to answer
They point to India, Africa Central America, Bra
zil etc. as regions of country favorable 10 its cul
l tiyation.
!, Look at India, where experiment has been going
: on for nearly thirty years, at an immense annua
expenditure, and what is the result? Add together
: the uncertainty of the crop by reason of frequent
n inundations, the overland carriage to Calcuttf
Il and Bombay, the long voyage hence to England
r with freight and insurance, and you have few
S thousand bales of dark coored, coarse cotton, a
C one and half to two pence pound dearer than
d American Sea Island.
|, Lock at Africa. How can you raise cotton il
J. Africa without slave labor? England must owl
o the slaves herself Or hire them Of the chiefs VIII
y own them. And how will this go down at ESete
e Hail? Tui Jfacil per alum jGci per Sc. Beside:
e what kind of cotton and how much oft, are ques
s. tons for the future to answer.
ir The sama reasons apply to Central America
d Brazil, etc. The employment of emigrant Coolie
T. is, to my mind delusion which time will serve
Sc explode. They are vicious and intractabie.
le am persuaded that the aggregate of cotton th
es is used and is to be used, must come from Il
Il. country north of the equator. There is somethit
es in the climate and soil that must ever render
ed superior to the product of any other countr
is When the bread trut-tree of the Sandwich Islam
ng was first discovered by Capt. Cook, the Engli
Government made the most persistent and ingel
e, ous as well as expensive, experiments to grow
~ in the West indies But Notwithstanding likene
as of soil and temperature, it would not aouris
II. Cotton may flourish in India and Africa, but II
nd as it fourishes in America, nor can it be pr
ry cured as good and as cheap. This is u law of Il
of ture which no policy can repeal
PSAS|4'S 'ii''' iI'"1Ni-"
ny writers in this country as much mixed up wi
n the discussion of this question as with you. B
he the time is gone by when governments acted upt
se the same views as partzan editors. They dor
go to war now about triGes, or suffer their dpl
at matte relations to be influenced by court intrgu
tic They consult the interests and welfare of the
ne people, as they are bound to do. Assuredy Ed
land will do this, without reference to the questt
IN nP cIa Farm rthnrn CnufpdevncY. al
ay whether the powers at Washington achnoWled
,l- it or no, she will. Was not the same thing do
for when Mexico revoted from Spain and when Tex
cn revolted from Mexico? Is not the independent
We of Italy acknowledged, with the Pope and Franc
&C. II still there, and the duchies of Tuscany Modem
Ter Parma, etc, still claimed by their legitima
IN rulers? Did not the United States ackn0wled
0w the Juarez Government, when it had hardly a /
5ht to stand upon? Yes and take the ships sent
raj Vera Cruz?
not So you see you have precedents enough to fOu
ing your hopes upon. ] only wish you could del
ce. sending your cotton to the Northern seaboa
ws through the interior for few months, so as
,an compel England and France to SO to yonr por
mt This would, in few weeks, determine the quest
ern of direct foreign trade.
to In the absence of any later news than such
bt- will have reached you long before you receive
, of letter through the ordinary channels, send J
in the foregoing
Of We are in hourly expectation of hearing of
on fall Of Gaeta A. T. X
ear The E1arta;'s 0rbit~--Clinnatc Changes.
oct -"---
io,1 A pamphlet has been lately published by Mr.
ot R. Hind the weknown astronomer, in Lond
~ on the question Of secular change in the incIinat
ver of the oarths orbit. According to Mr.. Hind,