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

averaging four hundred and fifty pounds
each, from ninety-six acres of land!-
What contrast, this, to cropping in India !.
Mr.. F., one of the American cotton
growers who went to India, and was sta
toned at GoIuekpore, put two hundred
acres in cotton, from which he gathered
only two hundred pounds of clean cotton!
The most those sent to Coimbatore could
do, was TO raise, in favorable year, two
hundred pounds of seed cotton to the acre
equal 10 about fifty pounds of clean cot
ton! The most Mr. T. could do, was to
raise, the first year, ten pounds OF clean
cotton from American n-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, 1.-THE best in Amerlca,) de-
Perforated every year; the staple or fibre
growing shorter, while the yield grew less.
| 1t is his firm conviction, that If the
American seed be planted over and over
again in the same soil, in India, in .fUe
gears it will totally cease to mature any
cotton whatever! He also says, by chang
ing it to other districts, il may be made TO
yield something few years longer; but
would ultimately run out
| He thinks the resources OF British In
dia greatly overrated, and that its produce
of all kinds is growing less; accompanied
with an immense dlminution of the Indian
government revenues, which ike the pa
rent power) is immensely in debt; and,
like her, has gone largely into banking
and Ioaning operations. Paper issues are
aft rat 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 debf. During Mr.. T.'s resi-
dence there, they issused loan for five
millions rupees, al 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 governor general down TO the collector
of revenues in district.
Reckless and oppressive exactions from
the natives on the one hand, with the most
wasteful expenditures on the other, have
marked the progress of the Indian GO
vernment from the days of Lord Give
and Warren Hasting, down to the present
time. Under such management, since the
monopoly of the government has been
broken in upon by the non-renewal of its
charter, lin lis commercial features at
least.l the case seems to be, that India
presents more or less the character of a
squeezed orange-litte else being left be-
yond the rlnd; while there is danger of the
goyernment-termed "the honorable CON-
pany''-becoming irretrievablv and hope
lessIy bankrupt! When the English first
Obtained sway over the country, they found
il full of the accumulated treasures of
ages, which they have succeeded in re.
moving from the country, while reducing
its owners to a species Of bondage worse
than that endured by the African race in
any part of the world. For be it known,
that they deprived the conquered Hindoos
of all title TO the land on which God had
placed them, without treaty, or other
means than the sword. They claim one
half of all the rice or other produce rails
cd by the natives, as and-,ax or rent!
Mr.. I. tells US that when less than
eleven inches of rain falls ia central In
dia, there IS famine by reason of the
failure of the rice crop, which is almost
the only food of the natives. The GO
vernment makes no allowance for the fail
ure of crop; but enforces the collection
of its dues from head renters, (who hire
land, and employ natives of the country
and villages TO work it,) just the same as
if no failure had occurred.
He says these famines have kind o.
periodical recurrence, once in seven OF
eight years. That during the last mos
severe famine, in 1897. many thousand:
expired from absolute starvation! Tha
in some portions OF India. to enable then
to meet their government dues, and obtalr
subsistence, they were forced to sell ou
their cattle and every other thing they
possessed. They would cut down thei
trees, strip their houses and themselves O
clothing, and even sell their children int,
bondage, in order to save themselves from
: destruction.
lie says that India never can becom,
settled with European population, on &C
count OF the extreme heat preventing thei
laboring in the open fields neneath burn
ing sun, without destruction. Such is tn
overwhelming oppressiveness of the heal
that all the travelling is done at night. :
, The traveller is carried in sedan, or pa
I lanquin, supported by six or eight men
who relieve each other at the end of eve
J ~ eight or len miles. They set off, usual
D ly, al o'clock in the evening lravellin
all night, and until 8 or 10 o'clock nes
Q morning. when they lay by for The remain
T der of the day. |. was in this way th