Lynchburg Virginian

A gentleman connected with this said he had the snug little sum of $1000 a dead relative a few weeks since.

Last week the schooner Gamer, Capt. [something], arrived at New Haven from Havana, fever, on same occasion s. who has business was to Kahn dot it a simad to iv to endeavor to form law a Shaasbis between the United States and India. The falla Turk lg Dwt, sailed from [something] for Praa's I thus 1st instant. After there were seen with the yellow fever.

The following correspondence that we are enabled to give, and which may be interesting to our cotton cultivators in India, has been published in the [newspaper]. Crescent, May 5, 1842.

Dear Sir,

Would you be kind enough to inform me whether the government is in possession of information as to the fate of the three American gentlemen who lately set out to India to superintend and supervise improvements in the cultivation of cotton in the East India possessions, all to introduce the American cotton plant into that country?

I have the honor to remain your obedient servant,
Thos. Milner Gibson

T.W.B. Baring, Esq., Board of Control.

India Board, June 1, 1842.

Dear Sir,

In answer to your letter of the 5th ult., requesting to know whether the government has any information as to the cause of the unexpected return to this country of the American gentlemen who were lately sent to India to superintend and supervise improvements in the cultivation of cotton in the East India possessions.

I have the honor to apprise you that three only of the American planters to whom you refer had their settlements were settled in the Bombay Presidency by Sir Erskine Perry. They seem to have been dissatisfied with the amount of their salaries. They were disheartened by the failure of their crop, from which they expected to derive a part of their remuneration, and, perhaps, there was too much eagerness employed on the part of the local authorities to retain their services which the promptitude in the experiment and the interest displayed in the transactions by the Home Government should have induced. No time has been lost in supplying their places from the other Presidencies and in resuming the experiments, which have hitherto, to spite of the unfavorable season, served rather to encourage than to dampen our ultimate prospects of success.

I have the honor to be, sir, your obedient servant,
W.B. Baring

To Thomas Milner Gibson, Esq., M.P., 50 Wilton Crescent.