New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-31


herbaceous cotton that Is chiefly cultivated; IL
grows from two TO four or FIVE feet in light, yielding
an average crop of about one hundred pounds Of clean
fiber TO the acre The cotton from which the delicate
musns of India are made is equal in fneness to the
very best Seasland and Of still stronger staple but it
ia 30 short as TO preclude the possibility OF It's being
spun by machinery. That exported has IN general
fine but short iber but it is badly cleaned and contains
much dirt leaf bruised seed, shell and sand, the whole
impurity averaging from twenty TO TWENTY-FIVE per
cent of its gross weight. The finest descriptions OF
American cotton succeed well in India, and yled iair
average crops The seeds Of this kind, however, are
roueber and in their nature difficult TO separate
from the wool than those Of other sorts known in that
country and the natives being deficient In mechanical
skill cannot keep the somewhat complicated saw gins,
usedn America in running order and are consequently
forced to cultivate such species from the smooth
ness of the shell on the seed they separate with
facility from the fiber.
The cotton tree is very abundant in various parts Of
India but more especially in the province OF Mala-
bar where it forms very remarkable feature In the
landscape towering, as it Does high above its neigh
bors be they ever gigantic in the groves and Tor
ests In Spring it has most splendid appearance,
being then covered with profuson OF most beautiful
scarlet flowers. The timber, though not durable, is
very useful for making large canoes used by the ma
tiyes for the navigation of the numerous rivers and
agoons in that country The cotton, however, is al
most totally vaueless the fiber is too short to admit
of it's being spun into any sort Of thread the trees,
moreover are so high that they cannot be conveniently
climbed to gather the CROP and the slightest breeze OF
wind as the pods begin to open scatters them down
for hundreds of yards around. Small quantities are,
however, collected, but it is only used for such pur-
poses as stufing pillow and pads for packcattle.
In 1888, the East India Company, at the suggestion
of the spinners Of England commenced series OF
experiments calculated to improve the quality OF cot
ton in India and promote its growth. These expert
mens as was to be expected from the nature OF their
origin, and the general policy of those who carried
thsm out were attended with but limited success, and
were entirely abandoned about seven or eight years
ago. There is good reason TO suppose that the Com
pany carried them with the view Of deluding
the people of Manchester and leading them to fancy
that they were anxious to give them cheap and
abundant supply of cotton, but that in reality they
never seriously gave the matter thought. To the
last of their reign il always the aim of this sngu
lar corporation keep India closed against all inter-
lopers of European descent; and every obstacle was
thrown in the way to prevent those whom the Compa
ny servants were pleased to designate as "adven-
turers from settling in the interior. Even after the
British Parliament in 1885, upon renewing the charter
of the East India Company, compelled them to allow
Europeans free access to all parts of India and permits
sien to occupy lands, the ADVENTURE still continued
to be looked upon of inferior CASTE and to be sub
eced to petty annoyances and the lconceaed hostil
ty of officials who presided in bureaus and legal courts
d;acre alnwad
ministering badly -dgested code of laws. Under the
old regime European merchant residing in any part of
the East India Companys territories outside the i'm
mediate limits of the three presidency towns, found
quite impossible to compel dishonest native to pay
any for which he might become liable during the
course of traffic; and as the natives are poor and
almost all trade is carried on by means of advances
made in cash, this necessarily proved an insupeable
barrier to any extensive introduction of Western capt.
tall If in lands with good legal codes, and jjndges !
speaking the language Of the litigants, we find the
laws often badly administered, how much must |
be when the bench is occupied by foreigners, with
mongrel code, trying in a strange tongue, often
through the medium of one, or even more, interpret
ers, in the midst of people who consider perjury no
crime and whose only notion of the disgrace to be at
tached to knavery lies not in the rascaty ITSELF but
-
story current at Madras few years ago, that viii
serve to illustrate the erontry shown by the natives
of India in matters legal. Two wealthy men quar-.
relied, about some family matter, and it is not
tomary for them to settle their disputes with sword
pistol as do the Of higher ATTITUDES they parted,
merely vowing eternal hatred to each other. few |
months afterward, one fthem commenced proceedings
against the other in the Supreme Court upon bond |
and mortgage upon his property for 200 900 rupees
100000. Defendant applied for assistance and ad-
vice to legal gentleman Of good standing, who, after
looking into the case, gave it as his opinion that the
matter was clear that there was no use mourning
law charges and that it would be wiser to pay the
money at Defendant, much detected, retired,
but returned few days afterward, radiant with
smiles, and laid receipt in full before the lawyer,
July witnessed signed and executed, for the 100000
rupees AS there was no room to doubt the genuine
nature of the receipt, and as it dated considerable
lime back the lawyer expressed great surprise that he
had not been previously informed Of the existence of
very important document. His client informed him
hat until that morning he had thought the paper ire
,overaby lost as had been distracted from his strong
box about the time that his opponent commenced the
action; that he, himself, from peculiar delcacy, had
previously said anything about it, estpeope should
suppose him careless in his worldly affairs in not hav
ng looked better after receipt for SO large an amount
Or that Others less charitable, should suppose him
pabe of telling an untruthi that he had offered large
reward among his acquaintance and servants for the
recovery of the document, that it had been returned
privately, and that his satisfaction in repossessng it
was so great that he did not much about nqurng
by whom. A short time afterward when the case
,ame on for trial. it was at dismissed, with costs
and reprmand to the prosecutor for such vex
atious litigation, dragging into court upon the
pretense of claim which had already been fully salts
led. Qefendant,s LAWYER though he had gained hs |