The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-09
The Cotton Fields OF the World.

4Ac FleIuo Oh the W. flOs
It appears, from the London Times of August
81, that the whole American stock of cotton n
Liverpool-about 100000 bales--would be ali
sorbed by the 2lst of November But Mr.
Baseley, M. p for Manchester, at meeting Il
the Social Science Congress in the city Of
Dublin, said" The manufacturers of England
expected to be able to command supply q
cotton which would keep them working win
tolerable regularity until the spring of tho
year." Now this gentleman states that he was
extensively engaged in cotton spinning and
had bis agent in Charleston; and, therefore, 10
understood the subject on which he spoke Bat
be has under stated the facts. The cotton fields
of the world are open to the English maniac
turers, who will take American cotton as long
as they can get it, but will resort to other kinds
when that is used up, and will find Their
customers perfectly satisfied.
How little reason there is, or ever was, for 10
vain boast of the South that its cotton is king.
the facts and statistics about the plant which W
published recently In extracts from English and
other journals plainly show. The whole super
structure of Southern confidence in Europeaa
aid is founded upon the false basis that Europe
cannot do without the cotton of the SoutheGa
States Probably if the people Of the Southen
cOnfederacy had only had their minds disabused
of this fiction in time they never would have
embarked in their present rebellion. They
were told by their demagogues that Englaad
and France must aid them in achieving their h
dependence, because they must have Americas
cotton in order to prevent starvation among 10
factory population and general revolutsa
throughout the country. But what are
the facts as they come to light-facts which
are as the mysterious handwriting O.
the wall seen by Belshazzar of Old
showing that the kingdom of Southern Gotten
is divided and given to the Hindoos, tho
Chinese, the Egyptians, the Nicaraguans, the
Mexicans the Haytiens, the Brazilians, tho
Cafirs, the Turks, the Syrians, and otherst
The injury will be great to the North but
it will be crushing to the South. Such Is
the calamity the secessionists, pure and simple,
and the abolition disunionists are likely to bring
upon their respective sections of the country.
Nicaragua, Egypt, China, India, Hayti, South
Algiers, Natal and Australia, may be numbered
among the fertile cotton fields of the world.
From q Mexican paper we learn that in tho
State of Guerrero the agriculturists are now
devoting themselves to the culture Of cotton
and making it an article of export, while in
Brazil we find that ''cotton grows with luxuri-
ance throughout the country, wherever it h
planted" and that it is only "the want of roads
into the interior and the scarcity of labor that
have been the impediments to the increased
cultivation of this article"
The Manchester Guardian. says:-"We have
now in Liverpool stock of nearly 100000
bales of East India cotton, and the same quan-
tity water-borne; it will go far towards sup
plying the deficiency Of American cotton, and
larger supplies will come forward if the trade
will buy it and use it." From the speech II
the Chairman at meeting Of the Cotton Sup
ply Association, at Manchester, we learn that
"last year, owing to the abundant crop in Anne
RIGA, Of the 100000 bales received in England
from India only $4,000 were consumed; 80
that, had not the Russians, Germans and Swedes
come in to take this cotton away, we should
have had more than 100000 bales piled up Il
the warehouses of Liverpool" During the last
ten years the annual supplies Of England froa
all parts of the world, including the large crsp
of Last year, have averaged :,9S4,00O bales.
while the consumption followed so closely upso
it as to reach 3,96O,OOO Thus, as regards cot
ton, England was living from hand to noun,
her chief dependence being upon the United
States. The cotton imports and exports It
England during the present year and last year.
from January to May 8, are respectively ~
fOllsws:--
1861. 1850.
American. bags ....... ,2O5, 67e 1883. 62e
South American . 25,208 34,63&
West Indies . 7S5 37s
Fast Indies ........ l47,eO2 2l5, S66
EUvpt. Ac.. $3.50 59,S68
Total. ,432,545 1,593,s6&
The excessive quantity from America last
wear had the effect of lessening tho import