The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-02-28
THE EAS T.
Our Special Correspondence from
Ceylon and Egypt.
Rapid Development Of The Cotton Trade
Of Western India.
SUPERIORITY OF AMERICAN COTTON.
Necessity Of fastening the Re-
covery Of Lost Trade.
The French Enterprises I'm
Egypt.
The English and French Steam Lines
In the East.
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MERICANS IN EGYPT.
DC. &c. 10.
The French Enterprises I'm
Egypt.
The English and French Steam Lines
In the East.
A M ERICA IN EGYPT.
&c. &c. &c.


Our Point de Gale Correspondence.
PoIxr DE GALE, CeyIon, Jan. 8, 1soo.
Development Of TIE Cotton Trade of Westerw India-Fn
Of 7ransp ration Over the Grea. Indian Peninsula
RNluay-N Necessity Of Immediate Aeasures to Reinsase
american Cotton In the Markets. Condition. Of ADaiys II
Bhootaw and Cdoool-Another Evidence Of the Future Of
The Reclamation Schemes in Bonsbay-Tze New Line q
SteaHUsf from Bombay to Liverpool, de-, &C.
The steamship Benares, for China arrived here to-day
from Bombay. and as usual, Will await the European
mail, fully due the 9TH inst The Benares brings
Bombay news to December 49, The newspaper flee you
win very probably have received before this the semi
monthly direct mail suez must have left Bombay ON
the day Of the departure of the Benares but there
several portions Of the which will bear enlarge
upon have Diet ermined to run the risk Of repe.
ton.
In one Of my dispatches Of last July mentioned the
fact that the cotton crop Of Egypt would fall short this
year-a fact which has since been realized There
two causes for this-cmatc in measure. but
particularly smaller planting than in the preceding
season The close Of our war had no small influence
upon this decrease. Western India has not been thus
easily deprived of the fullest benefits Of staple which,
during four years Of and rebellion In the United
States she succeeded in developing into vast field Of
industry and article Of commerce with England. I
by OF the Bombay papers that during the months
of July, August September October and November-hve
months Of last year 1s65-the Great Indian Peninsula
Railway Company carried hundred and nino thou.
sand hundred and wentyfour bales OF cotton from
the Northeastern District Of tho ncneary three times
as much in the corresponding period Of last year.
The largest portion Of the country In the direction Of
Surat and Ellora Is rapidly being converted into cotton
fields The great Indian Peninsula Railway above alluded
to branches at Alliance, about thirty miles from Bombay,
wing running in anorheaseTly direction, completed
10 hulkapore, two hundred and nncty-scvcn miles,
while the other has reached Ghoapore hundred and
sevcnty-six miles The Bombay, Daroda and Central
India road Of present terminates ut Ahmedabad, one
hundred and eighty-1ve miles, These two roads and
branches have exercda magical influence in tho dcve
ornent of the productions OF Western India Land
gwen up few years TO the imperfect tilagc of the
natives now brought out to It's fullest capacity tho
growth of cotton while the railways have given the new
staple market easily accessible and in communication
with all parts Of the world II Is lamenabc fact that
the present impetus the cotton trade Of Western India
has gained Is entirely due 10 domestic difficulties
and should be Lesson every citizen Of land never
aga to adopt the suicidal or the settlement Of
constitutional local matters by the runous arbitration
Of arms see by my authority that the Of
ton transported to Bombay above mentioned three
times the quantity this year that II during the cor.
eyes to the spread Of energy for single year IN ths
valuable department of agricultural industry.
While facing this alarming fact in our interests we
have very consoling consideration with which to
solace ourselves incentive to renew our COM
petition in the cotton trade, and that u.s.
American cotton Is admitted to be the best
preference all other cotton The ason for this MS
explained In former letter Is the superior length OF tho
staple For tho working o. India and Egyptian cotton
rnQHA ia ana tha
Tabrc OF the manufactured article Is coarser. But 10
must not be snppos that the better quality OF cot
supply assumes something OF rtainty and regularity.
There is no reason whatever why the cotton growing
than they did IN the old days under the old rSoi
believe In small farmers, because cultivation is
igid and there Is greater economy in the growth and
gathering Of crops largo planter who formerly TILED
me thousand acres, realized the return which we
AN calculate upon tho same land should hencesorth
Undoubtedly, be the system henceforth adopted Under
he old plan. too there always large number q
leeroes on al plantations iurm OF excused from wosk
N account of sickness feigned or real This humber
IL likely will not be much overbslsnced by the indo-
who are expected not TO work. nov that they have
recdom and we may safely those Of the blacks
rho viii work accomplishing much more In day, nov
hat they receive, In their hands remuneration fs
outh-a subject upon which tho English Newspapers
elight 10 harp-n my mind does not appear full
Obstacles NJ Englishmen would like the world
believe and there is the least doubt that their
vouldbe prophetic opinions upon late struggle will
rove no less goundcss and absurd In the Of the
establishment OF labor tho tton plantations. The
teps taken TO invite and encourage white labor the
ouh is movement in the right direction, and the de-
cheney II there I've any In the number OF aborers viii
more than overcom and compensated FOR by The in.
n,ivc genius OF our people In the Introduction OF ma
hnery Every effort should be made, and, indeed,
in hand at once 20 recover what we have lost 10
he trade by the late war The unhealthy notions
bout the kingship OF cotton having become extinct,
nergy In this direction will be better exercised and
tth a singleness OF purpose, uncrnbarasscd by any
Official interference or Influence The new trade,
lille II WILL in the end without question be greater
ran ever before, will at the same time be prosccuted
" the good OF the whole country for the wealth and
numerical aggrandizement q the whole country