The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-09-24

laws an egg IN the flower of the plant. Before the
boil natures, the forms within il, which feeds
upon the green and tender fbres Of the cotton eat
ing out all the cotton within the boil before il ma
lures; leaving only a lock or two in some bolls, or
pods while, in others, not fibre is left. In some
parts of India II is also subject to the attacks OF
white ants, which cut down the plants while young,
or attack the young pods, and crt Them OIL.
All that the Americans could do, with their best
exertions only enabled them to raise on the average
about ten pounds Of clean cotton TO the acre from
the best American cotton-seed, and only seventy
pounds of clean cotton the acre from native India
coton-seed.
Mr. T., before leaving Mississippi to 60 to India,
superintendent cotton estate near Rodney, In that
State, in 1885, ON which he raised over nine hun
dred pounds of clean cotton 10 the acre! He says,
that year he made fine crop, actually sending to
market two hundred bales of good cotton, averaging
four hundred and fifty pounds each, from nnety-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 stationed at Gorickpore,
put two hundred acres In cotton; from which he
gathered only two hundred pounds ofcleati cotton
The most those sent to Combatore could do, was to
raise, in favorable year, two hundred pounds of
seed cotton to the acre-equa to about fifty pounds
Of clean cotton The most Mr.. T. could do, was to
raise, the first year. ten ponds of clean cotton from
American cotton-seed Of the Mexican variety, 1.-THE
acre! He says the American seed carried out from
about Rodney, (the best in Amerca,) deteriorated
every year; the staple or fibre growing shorter,
while the yield grew less
1t is his firm conviction, tina, il the American seed
be planted over and over again In the Same soil, in
India, in foe years will totally to mature any
cotton whatever! He also says, by changing it to
other districts, II may be made to yield something a
few years longer; but would ultimately run out
He thinks the resources of British India greatly
overraed, and that its produce Of oil kinds is grow
ing less; accompanied with an immense diminution
of the Indian government revenues. which (ke the
parent power) is immensely in debt; and, like her,
has gone largely into banking and loaning opera
tons. Paper issues are afoat all over India put in
circulation with little hope of ultimate or future re-
demption.
The afghan, and other recent wars, have added
fl3,0O0,000 to the Indian government debt. During
Mr.. Ts residence there, they issued loan for
5000 900 rupees, at per cent, having other large
outstanding loans made at per cent. The fact is,
there is no government which has been SO waste
fully and extravaganty managed as the Indian gov
eminent. The most enormous salaries have been
paid to its public officers, from the governor gene
raj down to the collector ofrevenues in district.
Reckless and oppressive exactions from the ma
tives on the one hand, with the most wastefu ex.
penditures the other have marked the progress of
the Indian government from the days of Lord Give
and Warren Hastings, down to the present time.
Under such management, since the monopoly of the
government has been broken in upon by the nom
renewal of its charter, Tin its commercial features at
leas) the seems to be- that India presents more
or less the character of squeezed orangelttle else
being left beyond the rind; while there is danger
of the governmcnt-termed ''the honorable compa-
ny"-becoming irretrievably and hopelessly bank
rupt! When the English first obtained sway over
the country, they found il full Of the accumulated
treasures of ages, which they have succeeded in
moving from the country, while reducing its own
to 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 Rad
the sword. They claim one-half Of all the rice or
other produce raised by the natives, as land-tax or
rent
MIR. r. tells us that when less than eleven
inches Of rain falls In central India, there 10 a
famine by reason Of the failure Of the rice crop,
The government makes no allowance for the fail
ure Of crop; but enforces the collection of its
dues from head renters, who hire land, and en-
ploy natives of the country and villages to work )
just the same as il no failure had occurred.
He says these famines have Kind of periodical
recurrence, once in seven or eight years. That
during the last most severe famine, in 1897, many
expired from absolute starvation! That
in some portions of India, to enable them to meet
their government dues, and obtain subsistence, they
were forced to sell out their cattle and every other
thing they possessed. They would cut down their
trees, strip their houses and themselves Of cloth
ing, and even sell their children into bondage in or
der to save themselves from destruction!
He says that India never can become settled with
a European population, on account Of the extreme
heat preventing their laboring in the open fields be-
meath burning sun, without destruction Such Is
the overwhelming oppressiveness Of the heat, that
all the travelling is done at night The traveller is
carried in sedan, or palanquin, supported by six or
eight men, who relieve each other at the end of
every eight or ten miles, They set of, usually, at
O'Clock in the evening, travelling all night and until
Dor 10 o'clock next morning, when they lay by for
the remainder of the day. II was in this way the
American cotton-growers carried from one part
of India to another. Troops march at night, and
often fight their battles at night.
Mr.. T. says that such Is the destructive charac-
ter Of the white ant in many parts of India, they
actually level mud houses in a few years-=which
are the only kind Of houses that can be used in the
interior, account of the scarcity of timber. Ma
chnery made Of wood, and carried into the country,
after while is liable to be attacked by them and
destroyed.
AT his station, in Bundsieuhd, he found the heat
SO great as to be compelled TO sleep out Of doors
the common practice In India. In such cases, it is
necessary hire the natives to keep watch all night
at l2k cents each per night, to keep off jackals,
hyenns, and wolves, with which the jungles abound,
ana winch often venture upon tne aDOues Vi inc pco
pie in the most raveDous manner.
When one attempts to sleep in house. the heat
is severe, that it becomes necessary to hire two
natives to fan you all night, by turns, with con-
trvance something similar TO that used for keeping
flies from the table in this country, which the ma
tives put in motion by pulling rope on the outside
of the house.
Mr.. T. seems to think India will continue to de-
cline in her resources, till England will cease to de-
rive great deal of benefit from its possession;
and that large tracts Of the country may, by-andby
revert back to the undsturbed possession of the
jackals and hyenas.
In this view, he may overdraw the picture; yet
the reflection forces itself upon the mind what is TO
become Of the power Of England in the eveLt of the
fall Of Indai The bare possibility Of such an event
cannot fail to fill the government and people with
apprehension for the future!
One thing Of great importance to us has become
clearly manifest--and that u.s. with the possession of
Texas, we hold the only cotton lands in the whole
universe, that are worth the snap OF mans fingers"
There is no section Of the globe which can "begin"
to compete with US in the cultivation Of this great
staple.