New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-20
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER %, 1865.
The Income From Cotton.


We published yesterday an article from the
Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel gainst the
abandonment of the culture Of cotton by the
90uthernp and agree with the writer that
itW0uld be very foolish for them to do so a Iini-
ted culture Of the staple is desirable, and indeed
u, IN measure, forced upon us by the decrease
In elective labor, ard by the necessities of the
planter for the food requisite to raise cattle and
stock. Bnta limited culture is compensated by
aninereaEe in the value, and the difference in the
various estimates therefore, does not affect the
refurn value in proportion to the difference.
4he lowest estimate we have seon is I,250,000
Bales and the highest that Of the New York Mer-
camille Journal, 100000 Higher scattering esti
mates have been made, but we do not think on
competent authority. Let us take the lowest and
estimate the average weighted the bales at 400
pounds each and the price at twenty-five cents
per pound. and we have a gross income to the
South of SIPS GOO 900; the highest estimate will
increasethat income to $500, 900, goo. OF course
expenses labor, baggings rope, etc, have to be
deducted; but both our estimate in weight, and,
We think, IN the price, are below, rather than
above, what will be realized
This is an income that the South cannot dispense
With and two crops $500 900 900 or $3.50 900 600
willneaTly set her right upon her feet again BY
that time, the quantity and quality of the labor
either white or black, VIII probably be improved
and the cotton growing States be prepared to
enter nponia new career of 3prosperfty and inde-i
pendefiee.
Bat, as impreVious articles we have shown, the
lneoIne from the kingly staple direct to the South
mlghtshe doubte5weTe her people to engage in its
profitable than that derived from the simple euls
tlre for it would give employment to a large,I
class Of those among us who are not fit for field
labor and thus diminish the number Of the moor
and tighten the burden of taxation in that propor-
ton. So that, besides an income of S4005OO0OOO I
or $500 000, 0G0 we would render the hufDbestelass
Of our population self sustaining ana thus add to
the prosperity and independence of the South /
This we believeAto be the future mission of king
cotton let him not them be ruthlessy or raBhly /
deposed.
stf8 Il 535 8 K ~
Hos.sJ AafEs sPRHD.-The Nashville Union and
American does this gentleman ID the following
artistic manner:
3g mes Speed of Louisville, KY, late attorneyI
genera Of the United States, is the president Of
the radical convention. He was Intellectually
Jneaua to the place in the government which he
lately Quilted and deficient H. legal requirements.
Hs was appointed by Mr. Lincoln to the high po-
sition, NOT for his qualifications but because he
was an oldsashiene1 abolitionist, and with the
hope that suchan element in his cabinet, taken |
from a slaTeholding State, would gain strength to
the,poliey which the tpfessnrei had driven hi nj
toadopt But hIr. Speed is no longer the legal
adviser Of the government, and the country has
reason to be thankful forgit,
He made aspeech on taking the chair of the |
convention at Philadelphia, which shows what |
manner Of man he is, He ID miserably weak and |
one-idead. His speech proves clearly thathe is I
asitte qualified for craftsmanship he is for the
post Of chief legal adviser to the government. 1t
exhibitsi too, the malevelenee which little men
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