New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-08-20

~ , looking spinning wheel exhibited
in the same department. piece OF native thread eI
hi6hed at A kola %"' that a pound weight Of
this VAN would reach distance OF ~ n nnnc
ae pest plted i'm the cotton trade, who nowith-
Standing that the public were particularly o
~ ~, 'n nav as curOsItles. This hank or skeu OF
thread was made at Chauda IN IHEla1u We 9P' yd
a. 81 mo io mn into hanks each containing $40 yards
n, tbo In The number by which the quality OF the
warn is known denotes the NUMBER Oh IleSe @ rIi
10 Tho nnUG No 30 Is the ordinary yarn us OH rScVIu
G 1nn or about 200 miles Of thread TO the pOnd, mas
heen nun Int al the commencement OF TINS century NO,
pVy tp IoduT Performance even for machinery Inc
Cbanda snecmen would then, according 70 INC Eus,io
standard be about No pa IN hIeness ana TINS ~ po5
dnced NV the natives without tho help OF any @
macbinerv At NagpOre and Omrair thread Vi aoouV W.
IlO is very generally used for TIE hue ld"us' "
..I IDEAS OF INDIA PLANTERS. . ,
oood answer given by o cutyatOr In the Chauua
district is worth reciting Inc subject OF Ig i and
when more than half the audience had agieed th t
recent rise IN market was undouDedy 10 9e tn
m the kindness OF Government In general ana 70 O0ton
I'm particular the turn came for koohDee
who had ridden on the railway aud nad seen Iie
Ebhition and who consequently rather an authoI
t,[N In the yiage-tO give his answer. lie suggested,
with an air OF assumed Difference tat had recenfy
been married in England aud that, OF couise.
10 custom the Queen had given every one IN maayaU
new clothes; and hence the sudden ehOrhous Ts
tIon of cotton there, and consequent rise III S
suggestion afterward traced to coPCr as ~
ideas produced by the sight OF Mr. Jensen pr nucr
the Prince and Princess Of Wales, which were tne
OF the admrng Koonbees at the nagPO ~ he newly
and which duly explained TO tnsm 10 Ve IA
married pair, the son and daughter OF thelr SueS n
to the study of what may DC ca,ed came 70 India
In 1869 containing the portraits OF the IihcS a a
cess with appropriate designs ana wCn n inward
10 the KOOnbees small son In the morning as n m
for having distinguished himself at the e1aniaSf ~ ~
the village school In egd , 70 1 tG that On ocer
recently sent present OF some tea ana some yea PnS
10 an % ief accented the tea and returned the plants,
with an intlmatiOn that they were fetuIneu ~ coa
sboud never be planted In that country, lest
when they had thriven and leaYed ana n9~eI9G tno
ees come to demand their produce, ana so disturb the
uoace of the weconduoted and orderly community over
which he presided"
One OF the greatest difficulties, previous 70 1903 Wlsn
81 transportation The limited amount OF rolling stock
AT The disposal OF the Great India Peninsula haWay
Comnapy and the want OF management In the shlpnSn
f be cotton caused greyOus annoyance ana great dey
70 the dealers in the Central provinces gentleman
the name OF COrdery had inauguated system III tho
Beroes which had proved successful inns system ~
January 1867, was extended 10 the Cern, P1toy
tanned q The prevention OF unfair practices ~ the us
patch OF the cotton large yard at each railway sta
lion was marked of into squares, each capable OF h9d
ing certain number Of bales, according TO inc hnmDe
OF tiers which they were piled; thus u was not uIGu
and the number OF cars to which he was rateaDy ente
by counting the squares the number oil tnousana
every evening IL possible TO form very far dea
the impression made upon the mass by the railway; 10
preserve order and protect the cotton police guard was
stationed the yard The manage ment OF Jno JhIu Was
Vested mn clerk who prepared lists OF the cotton de
tanned and whose gser contained interesting record
OF the traffic small fee ground rent was levied OF
the cotton stacked 20 defray eXpenses system o.
Checks 70 insure dispatch Of the cotton in order Of arrva
was adopted Receipts In tplcate were ssueu upon ln
OF the fee alluded to. The check Is given IN duplicate
the dealer copy for delivery to the statlonmhset
the other as receipt for payment Of the lee Thus the
cotton yard, presenting his pass 10 Je
No 7lG The counter fos kept on the check DOCK iOt
good check on the number OF bales received ana ais
P p;ai efee I Of the system have warranted
| the Commissioner in promising that IN th'
course OF a season or two there viii DC no furthe
occasion for the continuance OF the yards IL had been
0nsom among the natives 90 pack their cotton IN TWO
nets called .'ughas" Uusualy the cotton shipped 10
the coast transferred 10 dokras one OF the most
important improvements tending To relieve the D0eAs
the 10 the port Of shipment was the lntrodlI
tion OF the cotton press ana TelLnG, 80 Ia, ns
aud though the weight Increased in proportion the ca
carried ia the same space some OF the cotton
| Intended be repacked at Bombay was what is called
aud examined. The half presses turn out 80 bales IN
day. II worked day and night they can turn out 10
bales. During the scOrching winds OF the Beras hot
weather Il is not possible owing TO the elasticity OF the
cotton compress more than from cwl 10 % cwt oil
The introduction Of side tracks into the cotton yards
was another facility which resulted in great convenience
the traffic Instead Of baskets aud rough stones used
In many places by the natives accurate balance scales Of
improved manufacture have been introduced The I'm
proyemen Of wagon roads has attracted tho attention OF
tho Commissioner and steps have been taken 10 make
them easily passabe station OF the Government Elec
trio Telegraph has been opened at the ngunghat cotton
market which ~ now not only In Geographic communl
As matters stand, merchant sending order ia
Hngunghat by electric telegraph may have his cotton
packed IA fupressed bales at that market aud landed In
Liverpool within six weeks OF dispaching the order
message sent by Mr. CarEac from Hingunghat on Mon
day 10 Mr. Isaac Watts, the Secretary O the Cotton
supply Association at Manchester reached that gentle
! man on the following Wednesday.
Unt the few years the character Of Indian cotton
| LIVERPOOL stood
surats the description under the cotton OF these
provinces j. stil included, was byword and general
| term Of contempt IL was not many years that a
Lancashire brewer brought an action for libel against
evidence went To show that the term surat was applied
10 anything that was considered particularly bad one
| witness interpreting the word 10 mean muck" The
two great obstacles 10 successful expectation OF cotton
from Inda-the position Of the culuyatOr whom the
market dependent for supplies OF cotton, and the
naccessblity Of the inland tracts which tho cotton
markets sltuAted-are in course OF removal, aud
though Great Britain may never be able 10 obtain in
India the quality quantity Of the staple she pro-
from the United states she may be enabled 10
slider herself as not so entirely dependent upon Us as to
deem the absence OF our supply national calamity.
According 10 Mr. Smith the proximity OF the man
ufactory 10 the plantation Is an incentive 10 produc.
ton and profit TO producer and consumer II follows
that II the manufacturing capacity Of India was fully
and quantity OF India cotton would be reached Until
that time shall may look for results at all
IN accordance with the natural capabilities OF the land
IMPROVEMENTS.
UntI within few years the cuvatOr In the central
ture Deeply In debt a recourse TO the money lender
was matter OF necessity, for the demands upon him by
the land agents at when he had crop ON hand
10 meet the payments forced him 20 take steps which
der other circumstances he might have shruDk from.
An agreement 70 furnish certain quantity OF cotton at a
fixed rate-the contract being extremely Ow-the terms
favorable 10 the grasping mOneylender as they
Tunous 10 the needy yot Tho crop thus virtually
passed out the cultyator hands aud his interest In 10
ceased before the plant was In blossom The cotton.
whether good bad. Indifferent would bring him In no
more than the price already fixed In the bargain TO
which necessity had compelled him TO agree. In NOyem
ber when the bos burst and when, In order to secure
really good cotton, II Is indispensable that the fields
shoud be picked without delay the ryOt would ind tha
his contract had another month six weeks 10 and
that the Otrdrce the which the people OF these
cLlrnN lnncnh nlaO Ene and eNnoaen % the