Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1843-09-23
COTTON CULTURE IN INDIA.

The Natcl,oz Ffes Trader Of Saturday
snys:-"1hrough the politensss OF Mr..
| William M Quicker, Of Nashville, We have
been favored with another letter iron, u.
N. Hawly, Esq, one of the gentlemen
| who went from this place with Capt. BAY.
los. Tho account which he gives OF The
success Of The experiment OF improving
the growth of Cotton IN Indin, Is e6frobor.
ated Of all that We have llsfetotofe said
and Published on this subject. Our pl,n.
tars, we tIipl, may distniss their fears Of
competition from this quarter the expert
ment or raising from The Mexican seed
having entirely failed, and the indigenous
plant producing a staple so short, as to
preclude tho possibility of ginning It on
the ordinary gIhs."
The letter il dated Droneh. June ID.
1913. and WINS received inabout two months
aud a half from it's date.
EXTRACT.
"Messrs. Simpson and Morris, who came
out with me, have sent intheir resignation,
conditienally, and if ti,eecmpany accepts ii,
they will leave India about the first Of dan.
uaty next; and If tho company will pay
my expenses home. ! will accompany
them TO the United States. You may be
sure | am quite tired out with these Eng.
lish and Indians. and with the country nj.
30. You can have no idea how disagree.
able the country is 10 live in, We have
had 10 rain for eight months and n por.
tion Of the time the hot winds have pre-:
vailod, blowing very strong and scorclling
hot-tbe thermometer ranging from 100 to
III degrees in The coolest shades. The
earth seems 10 be pulverised to powder,
and whan a~gitated by the wind, the dust
rises in clouds, which darkens tho air, so
that TO be able TO discern IN object a yard
ahead Of you ut monday, IS seeing we'll.
eve have done nothing towards improv.-
ing the cotton here, and we have no pros
poets Of ever Doing SO and the govern.
mont sends us home the better, as we arc
doing little or nothing here. ] have ginned
some four hundred bales Of cotton at this
place, after which | gave the gins into the
charge of an engineer. These people des,
pair Of ginning the Indian cotton on eur
gins, as the staple is SO short and coarse.
| expect to hear from England soon, wheth-
erthe cotton have shipped is approved
or not. The company has sent out TO
IdIer. of Philadelphia, for some more OF his
~gins-thav have already d great many here,
Sent from England, all of which are of no
use without great alterations being made
in them, if they are then. | ameto plant
two or three hundred acres Of land with
the native or Indigenous cotton, this sea
sen, as tho Mexican has entirely taHed IN
every part of India where the experiment
has been tried yet.
II am living near a village of forty
thousand inhabitants of people, OF a great
many different castles, coloFs and FeIigisns
the most Of them Mahomedans ard Hin
docs, who are quite dark. The sedees
or Africans, you know,are black but the
black here is double or triple refined. The
Parsces are copper colored people; they
arc the principal traders and richest peo-
pie in this country-some ofthem being
worth millions of dollars ;but for every one
of this kind there are thousands who are
not worth one 'p~ice'-the smallest coin
known in the country.
"There are only nine Europeans foman-
age all the negroes in the village; they
have under them a regiment of straight.
haired negroes, TO keep theAinky head IN
awe-so that you can easily imagine the
~pusilanimity of the inhabitants of the conn-
try.
The English derive an immense reye-
nue. in India. In this small district, some
thirty or forty miles square. they e1tcrt
Annually a tax of a million and a half of
1olIars. The fact is. the English take all
the poor negroes can make from them, in
he shape of taxes, except just enough TO
seep them from actual starvation, and