Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-10-15


Mr.. F., one Of the American cotton
. growers who went TO India, and was sta
toned at Goruckpore, put two hundred
acres in cotton, from which he gathered
only two hundred pounds of clean cotton
The most those sent TO Coimbalore could
do, was to raise, in favorable year, two
hundred pounds of seed cotton to the acre
--eqaal 10 about fifty pounds Of clean cot.
ton! The most Mr.. T. could do, was 10
raise, the first year, ten pounds Of clean
cotton from American cotton seed of the
Mexican variety, (the best,) and seventy
pounds of native cotton, to the acre! He
says the American seed carried out from
about Rodney, (the best in America de-
lerlorated every year; the staple or fibre
growing shorter, while the yield grew less.
II is his firm conviction, that if the
American seed be planted over and over
again IN the same soil, in India, in fpe
years it will totally cease to mature any
cotton whatever! Ioalso says, by chang.
ing il to other districts, il may be made 10
yield something a few years longer; but
would ultimately run out.
He thinks the resources of British In.
da greatly oyerrated, and that its produce
of all kinds is growing less; accompanied
with an immense dlminuton of the Indian
government revenues, which like the pa
rent power) is immensely in debt; and,
like her. has gone largely into banking
and loaning operations. Paper issues are
ahoat all over India, put in circulation with
little hope OF ultimate or future redemption. |
The Afghan, and other recent wars,
have added thirteen millions pounds to the |
government debt. During Mr.. T.'s resi-
dence there, they issused loan for five
millions rupees, at five per cent. having
other large outstanding loans made at four
per cent The fact is, there is no govern
ment which has been so wastefully and
extravagantly managed as the Indian go
vernment The most enormous salaries
have been paid TO its public officers, from
the encouragement down 10 the collector
of revenues in district.
Reckless and oppressive exaciions from
the natives on the one hand with the most
wastelul expenditures on the other, have
marked the progress of The Indian go.
vernment from the days of Lord Give
and Warren Tasting, down 10 the present
time. Under such management, since the
Of the government has been
broken in upon by the non-renewal of its
charter, lin its commercial features at
least,) the case seems TO be, that India
presents more or less the character of
squeezed orange-liHle else being left be-
yond tho rind; while there is danger Of the
oyernment--termed "the honorable com. {
,any'- becoming irreirievably and hope
essIy bankrupt When the English first /
obtained sway over the country, they found
I full Of the accumulated treasures of !
lges, which they have succeeded IN re. '
moving from the country, while reducing t
Is owners to a species Of bondage worse d
han that endured by the African race in c
my part of the world For be il known, P
hat they deprived the conquered IIindoos '
# all title 10 the land on which God had u
'laced them, without treaty, or other
means than the sword. They claim one 0
Ialf of all the rice or other produce rais- c
d by the natives, as a land-iax or rent! p
Mr.. i. tells US that when less than y
leven inches Of rain falls in central In Il
ia, there is famine by reason Of the a
allure Of the rice crop, which is almost 7
he only food of the natives. The go b
eminent makes no allowance for the fail g
re Of a crop; but enlorces the collection Il
{ its dues from head renters, (who hire g
and, and employ natives of the county y
nd villages 10 work i,) just the same as Ii
no failure had occurred. al
lie says these famines have kind Of OF
eriodicai recurrence, once in seven or
light years. That during the last most Il
syere famine, in 1887, many thousands 9,
spired from absolute starvationl That :.
! some portions OF India, TO enable them I;
, meet their government dues, and obtain .
ibsistence, they we're forced 10 sell out 4,
'eir cattle and every other thing they q
assessed. They would cut down their =
ee-, strip their houses and themselves Of -
othing, and even sell their children into !,
ondage, in order to save themselves from :,
-
He says that India never can become y
'illed with European population, on ac- II
'unt Of the extreme heat preventing their \,
boring in the open fields beneath burn !.
e sun, without destruction. Such is the =
ferwhelmng oppressiveness Of the heat, q,
at al the travelling Is done at night. - y
he traveller is carried In sedan, or pa.
nquin, supported by six or eight men, N
ho relieve each other at the end Of eve u
eight Or len miles. They set of, usual %
{, al o'clock 10 the evening travelling "a
| night, and until 0 or 10 O'Clock next ID
orning, when they lay BY for The remain n