New-York daily tribune., 1861-07-16
COTTON SUPPLY.

Before us lies ct OF ffty-elght fresh sources OF
supply Of cottoBfty-eght places from which cotton
hes been shipped for ports within twelve mon ls.
We are not ths evidence, to umpto the ooncu.lon
thst we may make ourselves easy about our Lancashire
manufacture. We are not 10 suppose that we may 20
to sleep on the doctrine of cemsDd aud supply. We
may be thankful learn that the elements OF cotton
supply exist but there wide interval between that
fact and the fulnes Of warehouses sndthe scvly OF
spindes and loome. II is not safe yet to leave the
matter 10 the manufacturers whose business IL sup
posed TO be. They have besirred themselves more
poticeably the last few weeks than before; but they
must be kept up TO the work by the public interest IN
eveIting English famine; and they may fairly plead
that it is national object to preclude the ruin OF
four millions OF people the public ought 70 take sn
interest in every step that s taken 20 avert that ruin.
How. then, stands the matter nowi
Opinion has changed, within q month, az 10 the
probability of SUPPLY Of cotton from the Southern
Stses next wear or any year for some time come
We NAV be thankful that have obtained enough 10
90 on with this year. bat the loss count getting
more the wiser we shall be. Ii has become clear that
the leaders of the Confederacy took for granted that
neither England nor the Northern States could reIiD
qush the Southern cotton. On this notion much OF
tneir policy was based. Among other niscalcula.
tions, grave one was that the gram lands OF the
Northwest would be left open to commerce, ss q
medium and condition Of ootton-snpply, whatever
conflict might be going on in the eastern parts Of
the country. The closing of the Mississippi at
Cairo the news Of the large supplies Of fax
cotton procurable from the prairies, for the New
England mills, the Queens Proclamation, over.
throwing tie absurdhopes of English alliance which
had ben excited by tho Confederate faction, and our
awakening activity In pursuit Of cotton have produced
marked effect on Southern policy. The word Is now
given out 70 punish the North by buying nothing thence
for two years. and the first step taken Is to pow up
the cotton fields and SOW corn. In the Spring it was
copeceured that about one-eighth less cotton than
ususl would be grown. Since that time, the flight Of
planters the impressment Of overteers the disappear
ncs o. negroes and tie breaking up Of land for other
crops have altered the conditions Of the beyond
all computation. TIE dislocaton Of capital labor and
commerce is 30 serious that the only prudence Ia 70
provide ourselves with what we want eLewhere.
II looks well that We are more disposed than we
were to try for cotton In all places where there
prospect Of real success great or small Ii may be
true that our chief dependence mus finally be on India
and Australia and Natal; or on one Of the three; but
that is why we should not meantime get all
we can from any quarter. There places which
grow the higher qualities In small qusnti les. Let
have them. One place may yield hundred bales, one
q Thousand, and q million: why Should we not
buy OF them ali, If they seid US whht we want
Wherever the s[eculstors OF managers can make II
answer TO set up good good ginning, press
ing and packing, let them set about 1t; and We shall
doubtless be glad to buy, whether they OFFER us little
or much There need not be less energy in carrying
roads and gins into India and labor into Queensand
because the Jamaica people have got their ground pre-
pared and the seed IN, because Gefrards new sub
ects in Hayt bringing larger area into cultivs-
lion. month by month Now that the American news
has travelled round the world almost the whole world
would seem TO have been created 70 grow cotton. IL
ftyeght new places have actually sent us cotton,
from the alarm Of trouble IN America how many
az there not be which believe rightly or wrongly
ha tey can step into the shoes Of the Cotton States
of the Great Republics Several Of them tel us that
we shall get cotton cheaper than over before, when
little practice has taught the hands TO manage ii
we'll for there are several countries where there
two crops in the year and where the plant Yields
without deteriora Oh, for course OF yeas, whereas
the American plant annual II this proves prac-
tically true, the wonder will be how the Americans
thn Lad lang IA their iab0rera them
three shillings head per day. while 10 our colonies
the pay will seldom reach half and In India Is con-
sidersbly less than quarter we may GER
taiply reckon on getting large supplies ior sucn
prov ers. OF this we shall soon know more from
the pew British Cotton Company whose simple object
is TO buy good cotton wherever il is 10 be had Others
have for soss time pact dGused Information about the
supply and the culture have distributed good
seed, and assisted the experiment OF growing tho
product. This Company will buy what anybody has
70 re i that will answer our purposes here and there
VIII open plantation, ~ al example 70 iadian ou-
tvators, South African Australian settlers, or West
Indian farmers OF eDy complexoni but the object Il 70
stimulate production by the presence of q market
Where the prodatt 10 good Ia the pod IL viii not be
spgled for want et apparatus 70 gin sad pack WELL
and BY means Of depOte Of implements, Large qaantic
Of cotton row uRts for Iancashires,handling will be
rendered svailabe for Such is the intention.
Meantime. what Is doing elsewterei
Toe son OF John brown Is helping the negroes in q
different way from his fnher. AnticpsiiDg, as most
people do now the abolition Of Slavery as result Of
The present conflict, and meantime constant exodus
OF the bla, he s organizing greet scheme of cotton
cultivation ia Canada West, where he has found coil
AID temperature favorable 70 the crop. IL this looks
strange to those who have associated cotou.qrowinc
with negro-abor IL shoald be remembered that Hum.
bodt oiad the plant fioushiEg ia Souih America ut
1900 feet above the sea- and that Il grows ia cold re-
gions Of both Europe and Asia John Browns colony
is said 10 be carefully formed Of practised eyivaos
who are eager Ia the matter as he can 10. As cur
rssdsrs ars aware, the development Of the fsxcoto