Alabama state intelligencer., 1831-02-16

A correspondent of the Boston Courier gives the following description Of the Capital of Lousina the sugar-making process &c.
 LOUISIANA, Dec. 1880.
 l have picked up among the planters d ve Ty little knowledge of sugar making, of which Jpr F, SC to give you a "conden,ed extract /" The cahe planted in this country IS of three kinds--theCreole,( (which is the best. )the Rib ban, and the Otahcitan. The land is plough ed, md the cane planted in what are called drills, or hills, of the whole length of the field, the gutter between being of the width of the plough. This is done as seen as possible after the crop is eff, generally in January and Fe- bruary. It is tended, hood, and weeded, with great care for few months, until it becomes too thick to admit of walking among it. The slaves are then employed in getting the wood necessary for the manufacture, CT ln making hogsheads, until the cane is ripe, which is a. bout the first of November. It is then from five to ten feet in height, Sometimes fifteen, butn commonly.) The fields have then an appearance net unlike extensive cornhelds. The leaves dc n grew within four or five feet of the ground. All hands are then turned out With clcavers, CT short knives to cut the cane. They strike as near the ground as possible, for fher is more juice near the root, and cut of
  ration for the mill The cane passes between the three cylinders which mash it entirely, extracting the juice which drops into reser- vo'r upon one side, while the broken cane falls on the other. The Juice is of fine cream color. It is boiled in four large kettets, which are fixed over furnace, being dipped from cue to the other, and all extraneous matter being skinned off during the process of bol- ing and evaporation. In the fourth biler the good sugar is of light straw color. From this it runs into the coolers, holding hogshead or more each, from whence in few hours il is ready to put in the hogsheads. These stand in what is called the hnrgerie, upon false bo'trm, or upon beams, over large vats. which receive the molasses.-In ten days or a fort night from the time the cane is cut, the sugar is sufficiently drained to be shipped. The whole prcess is very smple-althc ugh fear the description is not very plain. From eight to ten hcgsheads are generally made in day, and these, at five cents pound, are worth $50 each. Upcn some plantations nine hun dred and thousand hogsheads are made in year.
 The sugar planters here raise nothing else They purchase siltheir com, beef, pork, rice, cattle, eSc. othat, although their profits may be great, the expenses ofeven moderate si- zed plantation are very considerable. Slaves are worth from five to seven hundred and even a thousand dollars each. It IS necessary to have on every plantation q sugar boiler, one or more oyerseers, and negro driver
 Gf New-Orleans l can tell you but little, for my stay here was short, owing to prefer ence for other places. The ancient city is en- tirely French in its narrow streets, its low tiled wooden buildings, its homely men, good look ing woven, and its language. In the modern part of the city, and where the Americans have made inroads, fccks of brick buildings have risen, like the issue of Banquo, with a writ of ejectment upon the style of the 17th century but the work of regenel; ;.tion or re- form will not be completed until the Ameri- cans become a majority and get the govern nent into their own hands--a doubtful period fo, the elections, it is believed, are during the summer, andthe Americans sacrifice the ssglo- rious rights of elcction'' to fastidious notions about the citrate. Had they the philosophy of Sir Lucins O'1'rigger, they would remem- Der that there is "very snug lying in the Ab- bey," in case of an unfortunate liqucfaction. 1t requires but little examination to ascertain that there is more fear than danger.
 The good citizens have the advantage ol Canute of old, for they have stopped the i" proud wavesp of the Mississippi by mean. of high and expensive levee. The whols city is so low that in the spring, the water runs constantly from the river to Lake Pon chartrsir. orths Swampin the rear. In lsl.