The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-09-02
VOLUME 5.---NO. 10.
The New York Tribune on the Cotton Sup.
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From an able, lengthy and judicious ar.
tice in the New York Tribune, on the
subject of the cotton supply, we make the
annexed interesting extracts:
A geographical fact of the greatest I'M.
portance lies at the foundation of all just
views on the question of the Cotton Sup
ply. England believes that deeper plow-
ing, selecter seed, more diligent culture,
nicer picking and marketing, will enable
her to offset our South with her India.
As to quantities this may be; as to quail
ty of staple, never; and this is the reason:
Cotton, as to the size Of the plant and
the number of pods it holds, depends up
on richness of soil and solar heat. These
England finds in sufficient pefection in
the valley of the Ganges and on the
table.lands of Deccan. But as to the coll
or and oiiness OF the seed, the fneness and
length of its silken filaments, cotton varies
in guilty according to the mildness and
evenness of the autnmnal climate. Differ
ent regions in our sunny cotton belt differ
in this respect. but the contrast is mild
one, and we have great advantage over
the whole of the East Indian peninsula.
After July our Southern climate is for the
most part rainless till late in the Fall.
This is caused by the high lands, which
commence from one to two hundred miles
from the seaside, where the best cotton
grows. Clouds loaded with moisture from
the gulf and the ocean off Florida are waf-
ted northward, but do not discharge their
contents till they reach the cool wooded
slopes of the Cumberland and the Alle'
ghapy Mountains. These circumstances
gives America her unequaled advantages
as producer of long cotton.
In India there is small district where
the conditions are somewhat similar, and
rain-clouds in the picking season are at
tracted northward across the lower por-
tion of the Ganges Valley to expend
their waters upon the frigid slopes of the
range that parts India from Tibet. Dac.
ca is the central city Of this region, ana
Dacca lawns have romantic fame like
that of Damascus blades. A study of the
geographical conditions in India, as
sketched on any good map, will show
how limited is the area to which England
must be confined in her endeavor to grow
such cottons as her finest looms demand.
In Lancashire, the great seat of the cot
ton industry of the kingdom, there is at
present no more cotton than will keep
the mills going FIVE days out of six, and
there is continual struggle among the
manufacturers to obtain cotton necessary
to prevent stoppage of the mills.
Sad effects are showing themselves in
the rapidly growing number of operatives
thrown out of employment, and in tho
increase of pauperism. At meeting just
held in London of representatives of the
cotton industry OF the North of England;
and of members of Parliament whose
constituencies are interested in that in
dustry, the conviction was generally ex-
pressed by the speakers that Lancashire
will have to look elsewhere than to this
country, seeing that the Americans are
using their cotton more and moro largely
themselves, and will be able to spare less
and less of it every year: AS to other
fields of cotton supply, Egypt and Tur-
KEY, it was said, could not be relied upon,
and the South American States, including
Brazil, had disappointed expectation. In
dia, therefore, appeared to be the sole
quarter to which British manufactures
could look for succor.