Des Arc weekly citizen., 1869-01-26
Cotton.

King, in the sense in which It once was, its culture will very speedily re- cuperate up 10 the old standard before the war. It is now definitely ascer- tained that the crop of lS67-S crowds closely upon two and half million bales. or half million bales more than the crop of lSG6-7. The exports from the port of New York for the year ending September 1st, 1868 were 375.S50 bales, leaving an estimated stock on hand iil the city of 2S,5OO bales. The total exports from all ports for the same period is reported at i.657. .0l5 bales, leaving but 5SI.2t7 bales on hand and manufactured In this country.
 It is fair to assume that at the rate of recuperation which has been going on at the South under extremely ad- verse circumstances. and with the res- toration Of normal condition of things in that section, and the per- manent adjustment oi its political ai-
 fairs, it would not require five years to bring the cotton product up again to the standard Of 1860. which was be- tween three and four millions. It is a matter of great importance not only to the South. but 10 Inc whole country, that this should be done as speedily as possible IL is through that accom-
 plishment, chiefly, that we are to look
 for the final settlement oi the South
 ern labor problem, involving alike ihe
 future social and political status of the
 Freedmen, and the policy of Southern emigration and development which is to prevail. Moreover, it is through
 that accomplishment, also, that the
 whole world is 10 be materially assist ed in balancing its foreign commercial exchanges and ultimately turning the gold d-,de back agaii, rom the East to
 the West, as it was when the war broke out.
 ! We believe that just as soon as the cotton product shail reach the figures
 of 1860. the balance ol coin movement will be in favor oi New York, never 1 again to~be diverted; and with the re-
 sumption of specie payments, the
 check upon imports. and the stimulus
 to business and production which wi,l 1 necessarily follow. that desirable ac- accomplishment will be reached within 1 five vears-possibly in three. Aside, 1 however. from this question of foreign | exchanges, there is another feature oi ! lilt tpt{OIl tuit LII v VI iutNsN " IT i is even of greater importance. We re- 1 fer to the subject oi cotton manu.ac- ! turc at the South. With the existing I ideas and prejudices of the Southern i people on the subject of labor, il be- i comes matter ef importance to pro- l vide employment for The whites as well as the blacks. The latter hold q l prescriptive and almost exclusive mo- ! nopolv of agricultural labor. It will { take generations yet to overcome the i existing prejudice which prevents ! black and white rom laboring togetli- 1 CT. or in the same vicinage. The l whites must have some resource ot la
 bor. aud we know oi nothing which
 can supply the want better than cotton
 manufacturing. Previous to lhc wal
 it was tried with entiic success. Sen
 ator Sprague-himseit a leading cotton manulacturer of Rhode l>land-recent- i lv declared that ihe best cotton factory
 of iis size and kind to be found iu ] America existed in Augusta, Ga, and
 that ..in looking at the subject in q manufacturers point of view, taking ! the productions per hand and pei
 spindlcs and comparing them with the
 work in other mills running on the l same class of goods, he found That
 these Southern goods were equal to
 any Of their kind seen in the Northern | markets.
 | This is very remarkable admission ! 10 come from such source, especially l in view Of the generally accepted idea 1 that the Southern climate is unlayora- i bic to manufacturing labor. IL is con.
 tended that n proper distribution oi 1 the economies ot the world preclude ! successful nanu acturing m a2rieuiiu- raj districts. With so bulky Il staple us cotton we do not believe the ruit l will apply to Inc south, especially so ! far as coarse fabrics are concerned | With regard To the fine fabrics, the value oi which is created chiefly by la- l Dor, we admit the rue 10 be Il good i one. There is one kind oi cotton man.
 uiacture which seems destined 10 b,
 very generally introduced at the south We refer to yarn spnnIns. This iii'
 wolves q question oi transportation as i well as labor, and it is a business II ! which even New England cannot com
 pete. according 10 Senator Sprague He declares that the South ought |, 1 spin Il large part or it's crop, aud slil il in the shape oF yarn. instead ol n the raw state. This is an old idea al i the South. and we look to see il large l lv practiccd before long.-Buiiaio Com I Advertiser.