The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-02-09
Tm,or,..ce .r Ce,,sn q Ynslaxt.

Importance Of Cotton q 1nslan&
OF s,esl 900 bales deliversd for European
consumption in 1850, the Southern States sup
piled 1850 900 bales. The total Enghsh con
sumption was 2, 2p4 900, ~ which 1901 oo was
from the United States. NotwithsananS
these large deliveries the stock on hand az tne
close Of the year did no, increase.
The London Cotton supply Reporter states
mai unwards of half million workers are
now employed in the English Cotton Faeto-
rios and 1, is estimated that al least four mil |
lion persons i'm the country are dependant on |
the cotton trade for subsistence. Lancashire |
which, n century ago, contained q population
OF only 300, GOO, now numbers 800 900, an in
crease which exceeds that Of any other equal
surface of the globe In the same time, and Is
entirely owing to the development OF the cot
ton trade. Says the Reporter: eff war
should at any time break out between Eng
land and America, general servile insurrec-
| ton take place, or the cotton crop fall short
| in quantity, our mills would be stopped Tor
want Of cotton, employers would be ruined
and famine would stalk abroad among the
hundreds and thousands Of working people
who are at present fortunately well employ
! ed Railways would cease to pay, and our
ships would lie roting in their ports, should
a scarcity of the raw material for manuiac-
ture overtake us
The London Times, commenting on a speech
of Lord BRorGHAN, in the House Oh Loros'
saws: "Ihe importation of cotton INTO TINS
country has, since the import duty was aooi-
ished increased sixteen fold. HAVING Deem o.
ooo 900 hounds, IL is now l 200 900 pounds
This is one of those giant facts which standhead
and shoulders higher than the crowd-so high
a q q, nnn mott
> nor affect not to see IT, Ii proves the exist
, enee of Il thousand smaller facts that must
stand under its shadow. 1t tells of sixteen
, times AS many mills, sixteen times as many
, English families living by working those mills,
sixteen times as much profit derived from six
4 teen times as much capital engaged III inns
5 manufacture. II carries after il sequences OF
increased quantity OF freights and assurances,
f and necessities for sixteen times the amount
of customers TO consume, 10 our profit the
= immense amount of produce We are turning
e out There are not many such facts as these,
arising in the quiet routinc OF indus trial his
4 tory 1t is so large and so steady that we can
|. steer our na tional policy by it.
p tIf France should take TO manufacturing on
d a large SCALE adds the Times, 1.-THE present
e supply will not be- enough France will be
# compel ting with in the foreign cotton mar
e kets stimulating still further the produce oil
t Georgia and South Carolina. The jump which
: the consumption OF cotton i'll England has
d lust made is but single leap, which may be
d repeated indefinitely. There are thousand
It millions of mankind upon the globe, all OF
:. whom can be most comfortably clad in cotton
e Every year new tribes and new nations arr
Il added 10 the category of cotton weareTs.-
j. There is every reason to believe that the sup
If ply of this universal necessity will for many
he wears vet to come fail 10 keep pace with ths
/: demand, and, in the interest of that large
,r class of our countrymen to whom COTTON II
N bread, must continue 10 hope that lh'
J. United States will be able to supply us IL
years to come with twice as much as We
: bought of them in years past. Let MS rais'
= up another market say the anti-slavery
: people SO say we all We know very wei
j. that the possibility of growing cotton is no
q confined TO the New World. The plains
ir Bengal grew cotton before COLUMBUS was
- born, and we vi tn our mechanical advantages
N can actually afford to take the Bengal cotton
" from the growers and send it back to them IL
r yarns and pieces cheaper than they can maxi
il up. So, also, thousands OF square mlie
t. in China are covered by the cotton plant, AM
1t some day we may perhaps repeat the sam
o process there. Africa, too, promises rs cot
= which the growth was Indigenous, and wher
rs the chiefs were very anxious 10 be taught hoy
j. TO cultivate it for a European market. Their
1t is no lack of lands and climate where cotto
I'd could be produced. 1t is said of gold that n
&c substance in nature is more widely din use
or and moro omnipresent; but unfortunately,
Nv is diff under conditions which make
We seldom possible to win it with profit so
of Is with cotton. The conditions under Whie
it becomes available for our markets are m
a. often present in the wild cotton which OF
he travellers discover; nor are they 10 De III
- mediately supplied. Remember the ehor
by which the French have made to produce co
las ton in Algeria, the enormous prizes tii'
nd offered, the prices at which they bought up 9
Id the produce, the care with which fabrics we
m prepared from these cottons at Rouen ana
ET- hbited at the Paris Exhibition, and then no
sly the miserable result after so many years
be artificial protection.
md Let the reader observe these statements;
OF from English authorities-and ask if the mi
pit, is not 4 sheer lunatic who supposes Gre
Ell, Britain will sit still and the Southe
AXE ports blockaded and her supply of cotton c
red of for a single month The Black Repub
net cans of both countries may talk of a colt
DDS supply possible at some future time, in sol
md undiscovered country, from free labor but
is ask in the language of the London Times, W
they pretend that such a supply can be pl
ub- cured, within any reasonable time, 10 dri
ley out of culture the slavegrown cotton
ro- America ~ That is precisely the questi
OF which they have now to face. AT this nome
out the storehouses of England have only t
isA mon thss supply Is England going to peri
of the Northern States to prevent that supp
ing from reaching her shores? No: not for
use month-not for one day nor one hour.
s.