The Western Register and Terre-Haute advertiser, Volume 4, Number 13, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 June 1827 — Page 2

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',?• receive any advance from the said plan*tera on the manufactured article, over «!s«d ^bove what would be paid to for.tsifruers, whether the cotton was of American product or not -, but furnish them with cotton goods at much reduced prices. -!r

The progress of the cultivation of cotton in the United States, is, every av, wonderfuL If any person hail predicted, 35 years ago, thatthe^cro|, of I8&6 would have amounted to 20.000 bales, or aboat 250 millions of pounds, we should have put him dowi for a madman or a fool—saying

much further north the cultiva-j tion will go—no one can venture to as-, pert: but Maryland, Delaware, NewJersey, and Illinois and Missouri, and perhaps, other states, may, very possibly, furnish considerable supplies of cotton and Arkansas and Florida will tail.Iy cultivate the plant as extensive' as it is cultivated any where, if profitable. The cotton-producing region of the United States thus embraces a vast tract of land—capable, in itself, if cultivated as it easily may be, •sufficient to supply the ivficle world with that valuable commodity 01 this. $ of the progress of its cultivation, the planters should take most serious notice. Ejvpt is pouring out new and ]arTe supplies for the European mar

ket,

and

that

than the annual interest on the money vested in the person of -e slave in this country and it is cost of labor and subsistence, with the requisitions of government, that must forever establish the comparative prices of coni-iio

J819, were nearlyas valuable as 127 *oii!ious in 1820 and 173 millions in 2823, produced 1,500.000 dollars less than J42 millions in 1824. These ,. fzcts certainly shew that the foreign rOetnand may be exceeded—or rather, llhat an excess quantity cannot be sold -'except at a reduced price. 'v 'I'he whole crop of. .. 182G is ehiiiiiatcd at 720,027 bales 1825

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manufacturers were the rs

in the

the hospital go if any one had as perted only til teen years ago, that

Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, &c. should now produce what they now do, "we could not have believed hia» if it had been said only five yeers ago, thaf Virginia would cultivate and send into the market nearly 40,000 bales in 1826, we should have-Unshed at the proposition and it it had been suggested, •that a crop of cotton should be in

IN.

u" «rc!Tnfi»ede the production -hing, at /»», .Hh thing. ot,W rtM lie IICAflAI I 1H« in A Cu«3v

of peculiar climates. 'I he iminenst island, or continent, of New Holland. nUo brains to furnish supplies—and the iand oif this globe fitted to the growth ol cotton, is competent to furnish athouiend times more than its .people can consume and besides, the cofton of many countries ^except as to the surd! quantity of

sea-island"' which we

rai-,e) is better than our own. It is impossible then, that we can have and ircservea monopoly" in the production or sale of this staple Our cu'tivntion has already passed beyond t/ie jpnjttablt demand. 1 iie cropot lb^2G. compared with tuat of 18^5, shews an increase of 150,010 bates, or re than one fourth of the whole quantity produced in 1B2 5 Can this increase zontiiitte -N )—no—no—indeed, no

Cotton first bes an to be railed in I7b9 or 179o, except as a ^arr/e«product. In 17SJ,we exported 19 316 lbs 1,CO 1,000 in 1794, 20 9ll.000iu 2801, it part of which was of foreign .growth, for it wa^ not till 1S0S that a •liiscriuuuation was made as to its origin. And out of these small be^inliiniis we have risen up to the production ol 250 millions of pounds in 1S2G The quantity ar.d value of coiton ex4- ported has exceedingly lluctuated, and the remarks which are applied above to tc-bicco are also applicabii to it, res)ectin« scarcity and supply. The following items are interesting.

Cotton export ad.

Yi-ors f* ^1'cunds *Value. 17!/1 189,000 ,: J7.9G 6.100,000

3800 17.780,01)0 802 27,501.000 5,250,000 "1807 -00,212,000 14,332,000 1810 93,874 000 15,108,000 5 1815

b!998/0'

17,529.000

816 81,746 000 '24,10G,000 I I8J9 82.997.000 2I.03I0:'0 I 1820 127.860.000 22,308.000 51823 173,723,000 *20,445.000 1824 \142,569.000 "21,947,000

The vears connected with a brace and seveial other pairs of years That might be offered from the table, bhew that quantity and value have no certain relation one with the other .37 millions of pountis, exported in

560,249

Jncrease in one. i/ear 150,778 Ol the 720,000 bales, we suppose excess of expenditure that about 175.000 wdl be consumed in 'the United States, and that 185 mil atlributc!

1'IOPS of pounds may be left lor exportatiofl, if the foreign market will re Cr'ive it but when the annual com

t« Keak more luhy on this inteiest-os

early-part of last se

We may expect that they wi11 require 400,000 bales, in from six tot unless destroyed by some suicidal po v. wtn Lv .tall reach that quantify, about 150,000 bales will be^nad into goods tor the foreign market, lor i°Lt as certain to our n»,na as an., almost every other future event can be. that the British

,„ust decline, and many peop»i"J' oend upon'Mw, instead of that country, for their supplies of cotton goods. Some of the reasons far this beh.f w. ,ot forth in the article publ.shed inthr REGISTER of the 27th January, ult. Let us however look to the onIT. Can any one fail to sup»o,e that the domestic demand lor one fourth of the whole quantity produced, has no et rect on the price We think that every r.Rectini calculatingmerchant or dealer, every one who has thought of what lie'ongs to scarcity arid MUi't. J, production

in Maryland in tire last year, many would have smiled at the notion.''

How

country ami Greece,an

the Greek islands are capable, in them •selves, ot supplying all hurope and

w- -rr .. -v .I ,• very reasonable then, if the crop he probably wiH do it, should the Utter

emancipated and 'hn\e peace, Aj&bor ..r AmmnvtA !e is much cheaper in those than in our southern states. A free cnan may oe hired for a (jitle more

countries

demand, would estiiuale this

demand as equal to 10, 15 or .0 cent advance. .Indeed, he pr.c.cotton esprnt-'d 18", 18^-J shews t!,in—lor in these years ou, manufacturers were exceedingly tie-nressr-d, and manv of th°m absolutely

MOP their mills and looms

nvw. and cotton, if worth eight cents would tumble down to six and the price of cotion goods would as sud .1 ...

or a

denly rise, at the same or a grater ratio, and thus make a double lot* to the American pco/nV, and a dvuble gain to foreigners No business man will contest the principle of this proposition—it rests upon tii« natural and unavoidable rules of trade, and is applicable to ail sorts of commodities But admit that the present domestic demand has eflect to rai-e th* price ot cotton only half a cent per jnund or five per cent on its value, and this we

think that the most obstinate and re^ solutelv blind opponent of the taritt will be compelled to allow as being

mi| ion8 of poUIU

(he gain to the

1 hecal 8c of ,is

$1,360,000 Tins item we v-ish especially recollected—lor it v»ill be referred to below

The*e results, simple as they are, will not fail to excite surprise in many persons. Who would have thought it But such is the result of almost every investigation, or comparison, ol

Let

us uc efttl shew this, in a case that is exactly in points the importations oT the 5 amount to ab»»ur 75 or K) million"", (which may be taken as an av Ma° olTici il value of them,) the woollen? cotton, flaxen and hempen goods, including all manrulactured aiticies of thcsefuseil for the clothing of persons, and for family or other purposes in whicli such goods are qured, will make up 21 or 2 2 millions of ti.e anount. Now if these cloths and casRimeres, worsteds and stuffs, blanketaod rugs:®, cotton piece {^oods, printed, colored or white, nankeen*, woollen and cotton hose, flaxen and hempen ijoods —worth, in the whole 22 millions of dollars, be divided among the peopie of the United States, each person might receive almOf't two dollars worth of such goods in a year—some ot which •lowever £re not consumed, being ex ported. Who cannot "draw an inference" from this?—that our people would he "clothed with nakedness" it they depended on the foreign Rupply.*' The probable value of such goods con•,timed cannot be lessin the whole, than 120 millions, which is about ten dollars only for every person, including what is required lor family and other purpose^, nevev excepting cotton bagging!'.! But such is the efiect ol scarcity and supply,as before suveral times alluded to, that the small value imported interferes with the whole quantij consumed—and ten millions worth thrown into the market over the a mount of the needful supply, will effect that supply more than the ten millions, extra, are worth in themselves, and parali/.e the whole business. •cEvery good rule works both ways''— if this foreign excess in articles manufactured produces such imposing effects on ourselves, what would be the state of the European market for out cotton, if we exported one fourth more than we now do? Let cotton planters calculate it! Again and further to demonstrate this operation, and bhevv the

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•We have since met with tbe follow

ing from a London paper, whice is not less applicable to the relation in which

Kngland stands to our country than to France. *"5^ Mr. Macdonntll in his "treatise on Free Trade,'* gives a comparative

statement of tlic expenditure of a Loodon mechanic, with a wile and four

children, and that of a Parisian mechanic with the same family. That ol the one he estimates at 78/. per annum, and of the latter at 45/. 10j». Of the in the case of the English laborer, (viz: C,2l. 18s) he

oue

Cr .ive it but when the annual com is paid, directly, or inuirecuy, uy uie tnercial tables are published from the gnKjig|, niechanic, a9 compared with -tivapury department, we shall be able tl.A. icn

It is well kuowu that our own

eighth, (or 41

Is. 3d

to the greater amount of taxation which is paid, directly, or indirectly, by the

berae by the French arti

imporhnce of activity iB the -when 'he late news arrived as to. tne ransportation ol British '""P9'0.10^ ogal, flour momentarily «dvinced on

Der

vear,

ufactore of co't.M,

barrel. Now, we could not

•jpect to send to Portugal more than or 500,000 barrels, in the present

under any probable circuimsta ces. The difference of val ue wo* 'ave been only 300,000 dollars but that difference mi?ht have afteclt'it ivhole value of all the bread-stuffs in ill the U. States—the annua consumption of which, we are mora ly certarn, i, equal to 30.000,000 barrels ol flour 5 .0 there would have been a generally increased value on euery barrel of flour ,r bushel of grain which yet "-'mauied in the U. States for consumption, had the rise caused by the cipected denand in Portugal been maintained which was only in the sum o* S00,000!

He that runs may read" and understand this no proposition in Luclid is more capable of unerring so ut.on. And who would regret this advance in price to the farmers Supposing they consume one halt of alt which they produce, it would have added several millions ol dollars to the active circuiting medium ot the country, and every inan, because of the increased facility with which he might obtain money, would very gladdly pay his own advance on the cost of a barrel of flour. The cash would all be among ourselves~®-not a cent would be lost by it. For our own part, we are perfectly satisfied that we can well afford to pay 10 dollars Rr a barrel ol flour (that being the common selling price,) better than five, and fifty cent* per lb. for the cotton used in the goods which we purchase better than ten,un less the appreciated prices shall grow out of actual scarcity in the domestic production. Either would make money plenty,"and. in the. general stir of it, we should pick up extra *um*, and receive extra subscribers, the extra p.-ofita on which would pay our ow advances on the articles named ahundred times over. And thus it with every person engaged in business Our draymen would be glad of it, and make a large profit out of such a itate ol thing*.

But further—we assert, and IC7" »P peal to the documents,* that the uliol value of all the wollen, -cotton, flax- n, or hempen goods, imported, and ol a the mixture# of them, of all sorts -izes, shapes, collors—from the di luensions of the finest thread to carpetmany yards wid^, has an average an nual value of about twenty two mi! 'ionsayear Well—by *he census of lti'20, there wen say, 8 000.000 ol the people and 10,000,000 persons tu tin U. States NVe shall, however, use the latter number to avoid the shadov. of otfence on any acoount whatever, live whole population ol the cotton crowing states and districts, (without relerenoc to the amount ol per-ons employed in the cultivation ol the plant,) mav be thus roughly shewu Due eighth of Virginia 133,000 One fourth North Carolina 160 U0(• All South Carolina 490,000 All Georgia 340.000 All Alabama 127,000 All Louisiana lo3,000 AH Mississippi 75,00-• Half Tennessee 221,000

We shall now hasten to bring thi essay to a conclusion.

Referring to those of 1623—th ear preceding the adoption ol th preseut tan If.

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rour

1.099.000

All told" 1,700.000 persons or 1 ,- 000 000 of tbe veople of the States. Now let us suppose that the duties levi ed on the goods ahove dt-seribeil are really [ves, really] paid to the amount of thirty per cent, on the reported cost, and it will appear that the whole revenue divided Irom them may he 0,600,000 dollars and then, if we admit the 1,700,000 persons to pay their full and equitable share of the whole, (which is admited only for the sake ol the argument, for slaves are not made to contribute, through their masters, a» freemen do,) we have 1,122,000 dollars p.iid by the cotton growing states and districts, ou all the goods above described and if we allow that one fourth of the duties collectcd is more for the protection of our manufactures than the general revenue of government, the amount will he 280,500 dollars a year, one fourth only of the increased value ou cotton because of the tariff', at the exceedingly moderate rate supposed above, and one fifth only of what Louisiana directly and certainl) obtains ou her kugar, through the tariH the accursed tariff'"—or an eighth part of the duties paid on that article imported and consumed by the people of the U. States, which is about the sum of $2,280,000 and would be £3, 000,000 were not the sugar of the slate just named duty free Who is not surprised at these results? The subject might be fur tire pursued, and «ve shall probably hereafter publish a statement to shew the operation of the new tariff' arid the extra amount APPARENTLY paid under it, ou all sorts of articles, it will amount to a small sum, indeed but the RKALITY is, taking all the arti cles together, that those which hav« he«n protected are cheaper because 'hat protection. So nvuch for the lav an honourable gentleman" in hi place in congress, swore by Heaven Georgia would never submit to

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The cultivation of cotton is not now .Profitable business-the capital at all a proniau.c

pro

nS^ly small A Hunts-

money, comp

january says

ville paper JWJA Alabama will

Ztt"rrUl not defray dtivatiorqgentfr^ nf the same place, or me tr ingof the prospects of the cotton plan-

"u'rHI^arf gloo-v beyond all former example, and the price is depressed below the wishes or expectations of ,ur worst enemies No sens,ble man would have ventured, five years a?o, to predict, that upland cotton ol fair oualitv. would ever fall below 6 cents nerpouod but this sad reverse we hare witnessed and felt to our astonishment and mortification It is well understood, in cotton growing countries, that the article cannot be grown and yield a reasonable interest on the capital employed, at less than eight cents per pound, and that the actual disbursements, independent of the interest on the capital employed, nearly equallhe present price of cotton

Then follow some excellent remarks on the fluctuations in the price ol cotton, and the exces9 of quantity raised, which, if much more augmented, it is stated, will cause plantations and slaves to be a tax on proprietors, tor that the proceed* will not defray the disbursements," kc. all which is very probable or very true, and we, indeed, exceedingly regret it but bad as fhetufiness of growing cotton may be

the present time, it wou be much worse" except lor the home m.iuofacture of it—it would not yield so much bv one cent per lb. though we have only supposed half a cent in the preceeding -peculations on this point ot our subject. *Ve feel confident of this, and the difference in the cotton grower* would amount to ^2,500 000 in the vear Kvamine it—it so. I.ie home oarket too, is extending. A steam boat arrived at Pittsburg, a few days -ince from Nashville, .al-n withsix

l,.undr'd

and thirteen bales! lhe home

onsumption i9 about 175,000 bales ir one lourth of the whole product The whole amount of domestic cottons odin Philadelphia, in the yearsl804, 5 and 'ti were valued at only 8-17",670 'in^e sold the last year were worth

millions. We as sincerely symiathise with our brethern, the cotton growers, as with the grain growers and vvool growers Whatever depresses f-ither, injures the whole -country. There is no incompatioiltty in the prosperity of all the^e interests and ot the manufacturing and commercial, lor all iperate to a common object. But I repeat it—except the^ugar planting interest, there is no other interest IU the country more benefited by the tariff than t^e cotton planting. lhe duty is three cents p-*r lb. which several timet lias anil in future will be, a protection* notwithstanding the export ol that ai »icle, because of the very inferior qualities that might be imported and interfere with tho^e grown by us. And ro terminate this long essay, with observing, that the time is clone at hand when the cotton planters of the U. Mates will be no less opeu and avowed Iriends of the American system" than are the manufacturers of cott^, ol wovl, or iron and expressing a hope, tha the three hundred subscribers in the south which we lost, within a lew years past, because of our preservance in respect to that system (though our list is still respectable and uow on the in-

Who are those enemies They

who predicted the present state ol things, &. warned the planters against it." —who exhorted a consumption at home to prevent so great a glut ol t!ic market abroad ?—Ed. Reg,

The following is Irom the same pa

per The leading agriculturists of South

Carolina are awake to the importance and necessity of adopting some new culture in that state. The different agricultural societies have formed a nited Agricultural Society for the state, composed of delegates from the local

tocieties. At a recent meeting, the following resolutions were adopted Resolved, That it be recommended to every member of this society, to use his best efforts for promoting*, in his respective district, the culture of some staple, suited to our climate, ajid which may divert the uttention of planters frouit he culture of cutton, uow produced iu excess.

Resolved, That a premium of forty dollars be awarded to auy experimen talist who shall succeed in introducing such new culture, on a space of ground •lot less than one acre." vt

This last resolution is evidently inended to encourage experiments wit), (he viae and the mulberry.

It is stated, that superior specimen^ domestic wines and of homespun snaburgs, were presented to tho so iety. ~r

I'he planters of Alabama should fol »w this eiample, for surely in no par »f the union is cotton auch a drug as tiia state*

crease in" p,Vt of

duct, in

Wci

will produce the gain of six because of the good we hon^. deavored to do, and sincerely \J\ that we were doing, to our fell0' zens of the soutli to whom,ajw all others, we wbh peace and

salvo lor any personal

I'rimble, a late member

—and shall always esteem oall happy, indeed, if, while suffering at a certain period appeared persecution, we can benefit have persecuted us, even in the degree, through our humble exerl tn behalf ol domestic industry,

chief agent to render these U. ^l really independent of the old and to knit them together iu the of a common interest and feelin^l the accomplishment of great nitlJ purposes, and the advancement! dividual enjoyment personal.^ I and the—14 general welfare

NOTE-Tobacco

[It will be observed that th.s a,.d was written before our rail-nut' ject was on foot. The books wereo ed on Tuesday last, though notiJ closed for ten day9, and subscrktti those'who were received at otherpfc the amount of shares taken, will pay lor them, and generally them.) already much exceeds the ber allowed in the charter.

In a bte uutnberof tne ^Ame FarnBer." the intelligeat editor, sp tng of tobacco, says—

Little or none of the article growth of 1^26, has yet come to market, except from Ohio.

From

state several crops have been insp« and sold for high "prices Ooe lo 6 Irogsheads sold yesterday lor froa to 13 dollars round, the

whole:

of the same planter, 18 ho^sheidj number, has passed inspection ia tinest order, and has avcia^ed or quite, £14 per hundred. The ftction to which the Ohio planters iu already attained, in what has be deemed difficult in the culture,andt more in the process of preprain* market i* remarkable proof of the periority t« be expected in every ci where the actual produce is under constant influence of self interest the prospect of immediate peru: profit. That influence, united it fertility of the soil, and the e.xirion! ary adaption of their newlandsft oacco ot the finest quality, is raisin a competition to which the planter»» the seaboard, slave labour district,*-^ have to yield, not withstanding liisgrei^ er facilities of transportattien to ion ets and if this transmontane Knl: be at this tune so formidable, much more irresistible when, bv meil oftheOnio and Chesapeake canal, tfi only advantage in favor of the holding planter, shall have been moved, and upon how many more art cles will that rivalry bear The 0 planters, w'io isit our market, a that whilst they can get 24 perhuac'. ou 'eir larm, or what ii tha thing, clear of expenses in t!ii« mirk they will regard it as a profnable ject for the employment of their laF and capital. I'he particular crop) which we have spoken were transpui ed from uiore than titty miles bevoii Wheeling, lor gl 75 perewt. and may probably be assumed that the rage cont of transportation from I tate ot Ohio not uow nu»re than S--»r &25 per IU00 Ibt Wken the c.l nal shall have been finished, the co? according to the anticipations of fr»ends, ,.wi1 not exceed five, per,^ three dollars per hogshead. Maj not, then, be predicted, that O.iio bacco, of the finest quality, will brought here and sold lor less than can make Maryland ol the

»orsi

And what must be the eflect of thb on the price of Maryland lauds side of tie picture wears truly a gl°om aspect in the eyes of Mar) at planters: but are there not couutef vailing advantages in st re lor tne®1' And, were there not, do they not U" in their public spirit, and their lion to the general good, an

u®la'1"

sacrifice,

known, in prool ol their pitrioi^ that the planters ol Prince have disputed lor nothiiij buttie or of who should be the first to

ground in this great National

It is stated in the lat burgh Palladium that

u'^'/

reached this place, from the assassination or

mrt or

,,resi

The particulars relating to tl^ of law and humanity, are but may (should the repoi p| be cxpected by the next iw:"

Indianarons L^11

It is staled some of papers, that Mr. Crawior .. ^e0,^ cited to represent the state iu the United States being nearly restored r.

would make an able mem I Unused to j: measures

country.

The vouns Count 1£ f^

et.i

liaps, bo more disposed to Hf .'.dmin stration b) it. smoothers, that n''Sht ^il from that particular incndBM*

ar^d

»ed atNew Vork ou 'l

|be|

|,e

ship Bayard, Irom *ranc', LilleH. a.e ooly son of&e Marqon f, ind a great fa»orit« „,s» tie. Tbe New-lfork 4 las come out expr^»y {rand tour of the Um 1 pX1 vhiijb be inteuds to ViSlt vjQlombia.