Cherokee Phoenix

LOUISIANA CROPS. The New Orleans Advertiser of the 10th ult. says, in relation to the crops, 'From a

Published January, 7, 1829

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LOUISIANA CROPS. The New Orleans Advertiser of the 10th ult. says, in relation to the crops, 'From all the information we can collect, we believe the sugar and cotton crops will be bountiful. We heard some time ago that, in consequence of drought, the cotton crops in the State of Mississippi had suffered; but since that period, there has been a considerable fall of rain, and it is presumed the injury is not so great as apprehended.

'The gradual increase of the products of this and the states bordering on the Mississippi, and its auxiliary streams, require additional shipping every year, to transport these products to different markets. Upon reasonable calculation, it may be stated that this city will have to export during the coming season,

350,000 bales of Cotton,

60,000 hhds. sugar,

20,000 do. Molasses,

40,000 do. Tobacco,

100,000 barrels of Flour,

100,000 do. Pork,

150,000 kegs lead:

Together with staves, lead, castings, 'c. That to effect this importation, it will require upwarps of three hundred and sixty thousand tons of shipping or about 1200 vessels of 800 tons each. The ship owners of the northern and eastern States are the principal carriers. They supply us with hats, shoes, coarse sorghum, negro clothing; and we give them, in turn, raw materials, sugar molasses, and employment for their shipping. May such an equality forever exist between us, the brightest link in our state of union.'