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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Suffolk. (search)
outh Carolina are now engaged extensively in plans to increase the quantity of food and diminish extortion. The former may be considered within their reach. The latter, we fear, must be considered a hopeless task. the last Georgia Legislature passed a law prohibiting the cultivation of more than three acres of cotton land to a hand to a hand. The present extra session was called, among other things, for the purpose of reducing this amount. Then was great opposition to it. Mr. Hester, of Elbert, as we learn from the Milledgeville Recorder, furnished some calculations against it. The whole cotton crop of the eight Cotton States in 1862, he said was 4,000,000 bales, of which 370,000 had been purchased by the Government, and 1,500,000 otherwise disposed of, including the portion destroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy, leaving now on hand about 2,000,000 bales which, at 50 cents per pound, or $150 per bale, the price now in Europe, would bring $100,000,000, or abo