Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1841-01-26

patriot and phiianthropis, must reloice 10
see SO laudable eXertions being made, to
improve the character and condition of our
common schools, and otherwise to facilitate
the diffusion Of useful knowledge among
! the young.
\ | am glad to see that there is general
| disposition among all classes 10 encourage
4 schools, and give their children all the op
poruni.ies for education that their means
will admit. And think have reason to
hope from the talents and industry Of those
i now legislating for US on the subject of
schools, that good beginning will be made,
towards setting our common schools on
such Il sure foundation, and of securing
for them the services OK competent teach
ers, that useful and correct knowledge NAV
be conveyed to the minds of the young
| throughout the whole community.
By such means will all prejudces against
the proper means of improving the condi-
| ton Of society be most effcctually eradica-
| ted and the pcrpctuity of our cherished re-
| publican institutions most effectually secur-
| cd By such advantages, while the mind
is enlightened, the views will be expanded
| and every one who shall have we'll i'm
proved his opportunities, will assuredly
understand his own interests can not be
better secured than by course Of conduct
and of exertons perfectly consistent with
the general prosperity of the whole com.
munity.
Now believe every person may add
something TO the general Improvement of
society, and alienation Of the hard times.
which we have so long endured, without in
any manner prejudicing his private inter-
ests, or abridging his comforts.
While we are cautious, not 10 engage
in visionary projects or wild adventures,
very little well directed cxer,ion, will gen.
orally succeed in discovering the means, by
which industry can be made to operate
through some new channel, and some source
of our expenditures cut off. No man who
has particle Of genius or enterprise, ought
to be contentcd with what is going on, I'M
til We produce at home, all the neccssaries
Of life which our climate or other crcum-
stances will admit.
One article which taxes our resources
most oppressively is sugar; and that too,
a comfort which few OF us are willing to
relinquish. | do not think We can go into
the business Of Beet sugar making prohta-
bly, at once, for experiments, throughout
the country prove the contrary. But the
business is certainly no visionary project,
for beet sugar is made in France and Ger
many, in immense quantities and proftaby
too. The first products Of sugar here might
not be attended with much profit, yet if we
had the skill which the Europeans possess,
have not the least doubt but the applica-
ton OF Yankee ingenuity and enterprise,
would very soon make it a source of wealth |
TO those engaged IN it, and Of incalculabe |
advantage 10 this country. Ofthe ease of
cutivatng. and the perfection to which the |
sugar beet grows here, nothing need be
SAID. Stimulated by the interest, which |
almost every farmer in this regirn seems
to Ike in the introduction of the beet among
US, and with view Of making sugar as
soon as practicable, | have resolved to be
interchangeable in my humble endcavors, to
obtain the necessary information, and to
aid in establishing the culture of the beet,
and the manufacture Of sugar IN this Ter
rltory. | have correspondent with friends
at the east, where experiments were ma
king, but have not been able to obtain very
satisfactory information or directions for
the making Of sugar, but learn that very
important improvements have been made
in the process of manufacturing it in Eu-
rope, by which it is much simpifed
The white siesan sugar beet, is an ex-
cellent article to raise for feeding stock,
and many farmers in this vicinity are raj
sing them extensively. intendedto have
made some experiments on them, but mine
were TO much Injured with the frost, In
steaming them for hogs, could catch II
barrels day of liquor, which ran from
them very sweet, and much resembling
what we term maple syrup, or sap boiled
down ready TO cleans: except that it had
an unpleasant acrid taste, and made bad
molasses, but excellent vinegar. By SIM
ply putting emtyings or mother, one of my
nelghbors, an enterprising farmer made
very pleasant tasted and excellent moas-
ses from the beet, but failed to make his
sugar grain
My principle object now is to invite the
attention and cooperation Of all those who
feel an interest in the subject, for the pur-
pose of deyising the best means
of accomplishing the object in
question Gov. Cass, now Am
ercan minister to France, remarks in n
letter on the subject, that he thinks the mo-
ney would be we'll laid out, if our Terrific
rial Legislator would appropriate money
enough TO send an agent TO Europe, and
make himself thoroughly acquainted with
all the details of the business, and he would
with great pleasure afford him all the as
slsiance in his power" Gov. Cass con-
slders il an object Of great imnnrtance--