Excerpt from The Monthly Journal of the American Unitarian Association, Vol. 1: January, 1860 (Classic Reprint)
Friends and subscribers have fearfully decreased since the mutinies (i refer particularly to American and English merchants); and expenses of food and clothing, taxes on every thing, &c., &c., have increased in the same proportion. Our remaining friends, too, feel poor, with the exception of several Calcutta young men, who have embraced our views, like Thomas Brown, William Theobald, Charles Falk, and two or three others, who subscribe generously.
Your experience of the fluctuating state of things in some of our Western cities will aid you to understand this. Happily, our Hindoo subscribers remain stanch to a man; but most of their salaries range between three er four to twenty dollars a month, and families dependent on them. No; I am wrong: there are half a' dozen Hin doo Deists, who, at the very first, subscribed a rupee a month; and these, expressly because we were too Chris tian for them, have dropped off.