The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1842-05-14

discussion, ana Will enQeaVOr TO show
the incorrectness Of the statement of the I,
Free Trader in relation to India Cotton
and the the utter falIacy of the editors
deductions. He says:
From an early period after the con-
ques Of the country, the East India Com
pany always closely connected with the
British manufacturing interest) spared /
no pains to encourage the culture of cot I
Ton But after years of trial-alter hav- /
( .ng shipped seed from Egypt, South
+ America andCarolina-and exacted from /
/ the wretched natives all the care, atten-
ton and drudgery necessary to success,
they could only produce a coarse, infer
Tor, short staple cotton, Of the very low
est grade, and their imported seed soon
ran into the Indigenous plant, without
increasing its staple or production. Al
though labor is cheaper there than in any
part of the world. the miserable Indians
working for a scanty daily allowance Of
rice, yet so inferior are they as laborers,
so small is the yield OF the plant, and so
lily are the soil and the long periods Of
alternate drought and rain, adapted to It's
culture, it was found, that when sold IN
: Liverpool it scarcely netted the cost Of
! transportation over such a waste of wa
: ters la India too, it was ascertaIned
Z that the rich alluvlal lands, unlike SINH
lar localities in this country were not
adapted 10 cotton, and subsequently, it Is
/ chiefly cultivated in inferior and more ell
] evated districts, and is transported from
j thence. on buIIocks, to navigable points
e mode of carriage uot only slow but ex-
g Penslye."
FINALLY, Capt Bayles was despatch
ed TO this country, and on his return he
carried with him gins, seed and ten OF
dozen practical planters from thisState
What has been the result? Why, TO
tai failure, as we are advised. The la
borers wont do, the seasons wont do-tht
:, Mississippi seed produces the ok
:, coarse East LndiaCotton- and the drought
and rains must ever render the crop an
certain"
~ 1t is true, India Cotton is of short sta
,e pie, but who ever heard of short stap
cotton being of coarse" fibre? Who
a at all conversant with the cotton trade
does not know that the cotton goods man
ufactured, from short staple cottons g
Surat and other towns in HindoostoT
have long been celebrated for their fine
ness and beauty? 1t is not the fact, thl
!. the East India Company have for an
~ length of time "spared no pains to eli
courage the culture of Cotton" Tn;
Company have found the production
indigo and Opium, until recently, tC
profitable 10 abandon them and embar
ms in Cotton or anything else-indeed the
Opium trade VITA China being cut O
has doubtless been their chief lncenti,
to exertion in extending the culture
tbs Cotton, land led them to direct the apple
ton of the physical force employed her
; tolore in the cultivation OF the poppy l
to other channels.
L. The annexed extract from d letter T
ceived by a gentleman in New Orlear
is complete refutation of tie statemer
in the article of the Free Trader T.
;. writer of this letter has resided fife
years in Hindooston. He gives it as
ms opinion, that in five years India will 81
;ot- plant America in the English marke
ow in the article of Cotton. lie estimates t
lnd exports OF Cotton from there for 1912
far 100000 bales (of 392 pounds each.)
hid adds:
not Nothing but the unsettled state of n
ON ny dlstracts, the high rates of transp
ges tatlon, the rude mode OF culture and
and separating the seed from the wool. a
t to the rapacity and extortion of the E
fac India Company have prevented CO
the petition long since. But now, the alb
'ns. lutte submission Of the hostile and reb
: ilous, RaJahs, the decline Of the OPT
sad trade, the war withChina and the introd
SAdaAss~a of the saw-gin have brought abou
and new state of things, and every district
that the country is now engaged in the c
will ture of cotton.
be- "Ihe government at home mas left
Iers store unturned to free Great Britain Fl
eri- dependence on you for the raw mater
at The use of the saw gin in two We
'een time, will be universal Ord - h;
gect been sent to the United States
the ply Of the best Mississippi. Z
'erl- from three to six cents a
lay average product per acre is
;om- OF clean cotton. Our cane
to low land, as with you, yiel9
while the billy districts
'hed as those in Mississippi. EN-
the the saw-gin is used, cotton a
anna IN the city (Bombay,) at ID II CEN
pub pound
one "The substrata of orr so;I vax;os
de IS either granite or volcanic, accordin
con- the position, and though We may not
able to produce as good staple as
ar can, yet am sure we shall soon be abl