Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-06-12

WI. 10. NO. 100.
~ OF New York, for the allotment of lands tc
De devoted to cotton cultivation by colony Of
Tree colored people from the United States
lhey Will commence with farm of five hun
ured acres. A company is in course of forma
tlon to assist this 'movement-One gentleman
In London offering to take $4,000 worth OF
shares This project opens new feature, by
the introduction of Africans, trained 10 the
system of cotton cultivation in the United
States, and may ultimately exercise immense
influence upon the destinies of the native pop
ulatlon as means for the suppression o. the
slave trade.
THE GOLD COAST.
On the gold coast an arrangement has been
made with the natives by the government for
the payment of the poll.tax in cotton. The
Agricultural Society at Accra, in conjunction
with a Lancashire firm, are purchasing this
cotton at I'D. per pound, in the seed, and af
terward cleansing and packing il for shipment.
MANY tuns OF cotton have been thus accumu-
lated, and several shipments which have
reached Liverpool have been sold at "a, to
74d. per pound An agent has been sent into
the interior to advise the people to extend
their cultivation, and there is now no doubt
that, with the cooperation of the colonial gov
eminent, an extensive export trade in cotton
VIII spring up. The agent who was sent into
the interior reported that in one district alone
seventy thousand people were already en-
gagged IN growing, spinning, and weaving cot
ton.
In Natal, seed has been distributed among
the Zulus, and they are to pay their hut tax
IN cotton The Natal cotton is equal to the
best Georgia Sea Island, and bales of it have
been sold in Liverpool which commanded an
equal price.
PERU.
In the north of Peru the proprietor of an ex,
tensive estate has let out portions of land to
four cotton-growing companies, three of which
are raising 100000 plants each, and one 100.
900 plants, in all 100000. The estate is cana
bic OF growing at least l4,000,00O cotton
plants large number of small farmers in
the same district are also stated TO be growing
cotton on portions of their farms to a greater
or less extent. Two landed proprietors, also
in the province of Chicago, have began to
grow cotton; one of whom has recently visit.
ed this country to purchase machinery for
cotton plantation in Peru, and he has engaged
a ship load OF $50 Spanish emigrants, who
have set sail for that country where they will
be solely employed in the raising of cotton
and Its preparation for export. He has con-
Se' H.,
water from the Andes to his estate, for the
purpose of irrigating his lands. This canal
was begun about three years ago, without
any idea of cotton cultivation. The opera-
tlons OF the association having come to his
knowledge, and finding that the soil is splen.
dldly adapted for cotton planting, they are 90.
ing into the cultivation with good earnest. In
Jamaica and other of the islands, in Gunia,
Honduras, Guatemala, Venezuela, and New
Granada, efforts are made, with more or less
success, to establish the culture of cotton. In
Java, Ceylon, and Pegu, and various other
parts OF India, the association has encouraged
cotton culture by sending out improved ma
chlnery and the best kinds of seed.
COTTON IN THE FEEJEE ISLANDS.
The committee have received through the
foreign office five descriptions of Indigenous
cotton which are reported by Consul Pritch-
ard to grow wild in these islands The plant
Yields without intermission for ten, twelve and
md fifteen years. The values of the several
samples are I'd, I'D, Sd, Cd, lid Is, and Is Old
Der pound. About eighty to one hundred of
hese islands are inhabited, the total poplha-
ion being two hundred thousand, fifty thou |
and OF whom have been converted 10 Chris |
ianity. One-half the area of one of these
stands would grow three to four millions of |
si5S n foesto1 In view of these facts and
he native king and cG naE Of the cession of
hese islands 10 the British crown, the commit.
ee felt it to be their duty to represent TO her |
najesty's government the suitability of the |
native Feejee cotton to the wants of the trade. |
from no single quarter of the globe has such |
collection of graduated qualities been re-
,eived
COTTON IN AUSTRALIA.
A considerable quantity OF cotton seed with |
bov ho, fl,,,lt m
am Dennison, at Sydney, who has taken steps |
or the distribution Of the seed among the far |
ners. More than fifty settlers have been su.
,lied with Seed and one gentleman OF large |
property has disposed OF a quantity OF seed |
lmong the tenants on his estates, to whom,
lided by the women and children of their
antilles, it is expected the cultivation will be
profitable. Several bales of Sea Island cotton
nave been received from Australia by the com
mttee during the past year, which have sold
from Is Sd. to Is. per Id. One settler at Port
Curtis, writing 10 an Australian paper, says
IL think l shall have this year cotton enough
to plant 1000 to 800 acres" A sample of
his cotton has been valued in Manchester at
Is. per Id.
A landed proprietor from Australia is now
in this country, endeavoring TO form a compa-
ny TO commence with the cultivation of 1000
acres of land. He is prepared to place 1000
acres of his own estate at the disposal of such
Il company, and to become Il large shareholder
in the undertaking. He has already sufficient
labor upon his land for the cultivation of 1000
acres, together with suitable buildings and
steam power. The rent lie proposes TO take
out of the profits of the company There are
ten to twenty millions of acres of land suited
to the growth of cotton in that part of Austria
liza where lie proposes to commence opera.
tons. He has already grown both Sea Island
and New Orleans cotton upon his estates; and
the land, which has depth of soil of twenty
feet, will grow 600 lbs. OF clean cotton to the
acre. Should this scheme prove successful,
and only one-thrd of our emigration be annu-
ally diverted to the Australian cotton fields,
England would soon be placed in safety as to
her sources of supply of cotton.
From several carefully made up statistical
tables it appears that the demand OF England
has so far exceeded the capacity of our south
eru states to supply, that if the culture of cot
ton had not been successfully pushed the Eng
fish mills would not have been able to get ma
terial to work full time, or TO supply the
worlh's demand for cotton goods.
Gas late as the year 1920 the imports OF cot
ton from other countries than America ex-
ceeded the latter by 43a per cent; after that
date America took the lead, gradually advanc-
ing over the cOlectlVe supply noth an othet
parts of the globe, until the excess OF Ameri-
can reached 2O94 per cent. in 1905. But
since that period she has evidently been most
seriously losing ground, and the nearer we
come in the consideration of this ques-
ton to the present dag the more impH-~
tant is its bearing upon the present pos
ition and future prospects. 1t will be
seen that in the five years ending 1850 the i'm
ports of American cotton actually show de.
crease of $4,000 bales as compared with the
five years ending 1845, and that from all other
sources there was also decrease In the five