The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-11-11
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Wodneaday Mornlng Mov. ID. 1868.
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We make the following exttacts
from q lengthy end very interesting
article in the New York Tnass, on
cotton: ,si ,s.s, "a 81 s.,r. !.
ssThe first record we have Of the
cultivation of cotton in this country,
dates back to 1871, when Peter Per.
ny, in his description of Carolina,
speaks Of cotton thriving admirably.
but as few people know how to order
it, there is very little cultivated The
cultivationssof of the plant in, gardens
was frequentlyto bemet with as early
as 1736. An expectation of seven
bags was made from Charleston in
1747 and 174S. Among the exports
OF Carohnadn 1853. and of Charles
ton in n21757.iga quantity of cotton oottton'iis is
men toned. We are informed, in an
old London publication of 1862, that
what cotton and silk both the Caro-
linas send us is excellent, and calls
aloud for its encouragement of its
cultivation in place well adapted to
raise both. In 1884, q paper of the
seed was sent from Chelsea, England,
to the founders of Georgia, and in
1742, o french planter erected on his
plantation, in Louisiana, O gin for
separating the fibre from the seed.
Among the docnments in the archives
Of the colonial department of Paris,
there is said to be q most curious re-
port oH ooSt0n, III 1867 of the great
advantages, Louisiana might derive
from its culture We are also further
told that early in the Revolution Ker-
sey Borden, to whom Carolina is in
debted for the silky cotton of her sea
islands, constructed "a 'roller-gin, ,
which enabled him sto clothe his ne
groes in garments of domestic fabric
Not until ITO were the first ship
ments of cotton made. In that year,
there were shipped to Liverpool three
bales from New York, four from Vir-
ginia and Maryland, and three bar
rels full from North Carolina. In
1854, an American ship which i'm
ported eight bags Of cotton into Lii
verpool, was seized on the ground
that so much cotton could not be the
produce of the United States; and
when an old planter obtained fifteen
small bales from five acres, he ex-
claimed, We'll, well. I have done
with cotton; here is enough to make
stockings for all the people Of Ame-
rica.' The first regular expectation
ofcotton from Charleston commenced
in 1885. when one bag arrived in Lii
verpool, January 90, per Diana, to
John and Isaac Teasdale & Co. In
the same year, twelve additional bags
from Philadelphia and one from New
York We're received at that port. Dur
ing the next five years, the receipts
of American cotton were respectively
6, 100, 389. $40, and 81 bugs, esti-
mated at 151 pounds each, or, 1,441
bags, weighing 216,150 pounds, in
six years, from 1855 to 1890, inclusive.
In 1871, the export was 189, ,316
pounds; in 1900, it had reached
17,789,803 pounds. The first sue
cessful crop of sea island cotton is
said to have been grown by William
Elliott, near Beaufort, in 1870. The
culture of cotton was so far success
full in 1786, that in that year, at the
Annapolis Convention. Mr.. Madison
VChbutOu W IculdIh blldU 'Cucr0 Was
no reason to doubt that the United
States would one day become great
cotton producing country.
'"To encourage an article which
promised soon to become revenue,
Congress was induced, in 1889, to i'm
pose duty on foreign cotton. The
invention of devices for cleaning cot
ton gave an immense impulse to its
cultivation, and in about the year
1900, the culture became general,
and some very large estates were ac-
cumulated in South Carolina. That
State exported, in 1895, cotton to the
value of 1,1O9, 653, and in 1901,
about 5000, COO of pounds weight. -
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The recent accounts from Spain
would seem to indicate that the revo-
luton in that country is not to be