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7Ae Cotton Crop The following remarks are taken from the Natchez Courier:

 We perceive that some of our Southern exchanges are already boastng of the prospect for fine crops in their respective neighborhoods. This, although done with the most innocent intentions is productive re qnenv of injury to the planter and should be avoid ed. There is no production of our soil liable to more accidents in ifs progress to maturity than cot ton, and consequently there is none about which pre- dictions are SD uncertan From the tune il is plant ed up to the time of the picking season it is subject to thousand vicissitudes, which may Tn very short period of time reduce what promised to be super abundant crop, to standard far below the average annual product. No prudent planter, therefore, will ever place much confidence in the estimate he may form of the number of his baies, until the mate rial is stored in his cotton houses,

 Uuder such circumstances the effect of any ill., timed boastng to imp the buyer with the idea that the quantity .n mat ct will reduce the price and to prevent him from offering it's fnll value until the whole crop is in the market, and its actual amount ascertained. By this means the planter, who is com pelied to sell early, must take an inadequate price while the specuatora into whose hands all the cotton has passed qap hf benefit of the rise at end ofthe season.