The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-11
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE,
from oar REGULAR eorre.rondent.l

number Of vessels Of all kinds, including sailing
vessels aud steamboats, owned registered, or IL
ceased, In the city or district OF New York; the
owners and managers of which chiefly reside In
this district. hthAH
"Some idca Of the magnitude OF the commercial
interests Of New York can be formed from an in
spection Of this table. IL includes about 1000 yes
sells, and a tonnage Of 100000 tons. The whole
tonnage for the district Of New York. for 1874, ac
cording to Treasury report, was 253sSs % tons
making an aggregate Of Sos i62 03 tons.n
The same work contains summary of the "pro-
duction of the precious metals in Russia;' the most
remarkable feature of which is that showing The
vast increase Of late years in the production Of gold
From 1901 to 1926, the mines only yielded Tin
fruncs} AZ, l46,45l; while during the period from
1926 to 1874, their produce in gold has reached
l26, 800! We may say q word on this subject
hereafter.
During all my travels, in this country and abroad,
have never met with any people, except Virgin
ians or their descendants, who understood the pro-
per methods Of preparing food from Indian corn.
II is in Virginia or Kentucky alone where the best
preparations of Indian corn bread hominy, &c. are
most unive rsally met with This may appear
strange, when il is considered that the modes OF pre-
pairing Indian corn for food are 20 simple.
You meet with various plans Of preparing In
dian corn for the table north Of the Potomac, some
one or two of which do very well; but, compared
with the yirginian housewives knowledge on the
subject, they are very poor limitations.
In Massachusetts they malsesa brown bread a
compound Of Indian meal and rye, which s q whole
some article and at all the hotels, and the steam
boats, you may meet with kind Of corn bread,
composed Of eggs, meal, butter, and milk or water
which eats very we'll The latter is the only prep
aration which resembles anything prepared from
Indian meal in Virginia. In New York the grocers
sell some mashed corn, intended TO represent Vir-
ginia large hominy, which they call "sa,np."
~ oht ;,,adfh he I
call nothing "hominy," save and except coarse
ground Indian meal, which the South Carolinians
call "g,iis," and the Virginians "snal horniny."
This ''samp," poor imitation Of Virginia 'arge
hominy,n The people. are wholly ignorant Of pre-
If more than half the population Of America are ig-
norant Of the best plans Of preparing Indian as
an article Of food where the grain is SO extensively
and abundanty grown, the ignorance of the people
in Europe is still greater. hfa
During about two years spent in travelling in
England and on the continent, never tasted or
saw particle Of food prepared from Indian meal.
Indeed, ! may say, that the % millions of people
in England, with the 80 millions in France, and the
vast population in Germany and other parts of Eu.
rope, are wholly ignorant of any rational mode of
preparing Indian corn for food. Not one in a hum
dred has ever seen grain Of corn, or knows what
it is, any more than ''the man in the moon"
This ignorance Of preparing food from such a valu-
able and nourshing grain is to be regretted, espe-
cially at period Of great scarcity Of breadstufs
like the present in Europe, when their harvest 10
short, and their potato crop nearly ruined by rot
Even were England TO remove the duty on the inn
portation of Indian corn altogether, this circum-
stance would not add much, il any, to the consump-
ton among the people, owing TO their utter ignor-
ance of using or preparing i for bread and for food
in other nourishing forms. Some moro might be
introduced for the of cattle, but little or no aug
mentaton would take place among the people.
Ifsome Virginian, well acquainted with the best
varieties Of indan corn for bread would write out
practical treatise or description of the various
modes Of preparing the article for table use, he
would confer a great benefit on mankind. The
society in London constituted for ethe diffusion Of
useful knowledge" should republish il in a cheap
penny FORM and circulate it among the people. The
various fNPeign benevolent societies in the United
States would benefit their countrymen at home, by
sending them such tract for general circulation.
Such proceeding would greatly benefit our farm.
ers who produce Indian corn, while it would put
the poor masses in Europe in possession of cheap
and nourisnang article Of food, now shut out from
them by their own ignorance. Indeed, the diffusion
of knowledge through Europe Of this important
breadstuf might justly claim the patronage Of our
government. tract of the kind alluded TO might
be translated into different languages, and large
number Published by act of Congress, and ordered
to be sent large quantities. to all our foreign con-
suls, TO be given away to the people.
One bushe Of Indian corn, properly used, con-
tains about much nourshment al bushel of
wheat while in this market 1t costs only about half
the price. What valuable and nourishing, yet
cheap food could be prepared from Indian meal for
the paupers confined in the poor warehouses; Of
Great Britain &
According to the census of the United States in
1910, the crop Of Indian corn WINS the largest and
most valuable grain crop made on the continent
Owing to a want Of market for il, large quantities
are consumed in the production Of whiskey, the
most demoraizing drink in America, because the
cheapest Intoxicating liquor in the world, being
cheaper in this country than the poorest beer in
England. Were an outlet had for our surplus
Indian corn, less of il would be made into whskey.
While on the subject Of breadstuffs, it may be
remarked that the people in Europe are wholly ig-
norant Of buckwheat flour, and nowhere il such a
luxury as our common people use, buckwheat
cake, ever seen or heard Of Besides buckwheat
Of food to which they, to extent, in
years Of scarcity, and which are unknown in Eng
land and other parts Of Europe, especially among
the mass-such as sweet potatoes and pumpkins,
both excellent and nourishing articles of food. The
latter, believe, is cultivated in the southern prov.
inces Of France.
1t may be stated, that the use Of Indian corn
bread, and Virginia large hominy, is not only very
healthy, but We have some Of the highest examples
to prove that they by means vulgar articles of
food II is well known that Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, and Henry were all fond Of In
uioh SoiH u.e"u "hu ho'Hmy, ocihS oSSuStoucu ~
them from their youth up.
City, haypasi 4, p ma rain set in this morning,
with the wind from the northeast, giving US chilly,
wet day.
About 500 balea Of cotton sold, on terms rather
more favorable TO the buyers. Prices, however, re-
main about where the last news from Liverpool, per
Caledonia, placed them.
Flouris firm to-day, with considerable sales oil
mddling to fair brands, at $6 l2l per barrel Wheat
commands from 81 90 to SI25. Rye, from
"a to IS cents. Corn sells at from 68 to 72|
cents per bushe, according to quality. Beef
mess, 81 25 to " rs; prime, 81 25 10 "A rs. Pork
mess, Sl4; prime do. $40 IS to $40 62t. Hemp
dew-rotted, seOa $50. Lead, "a 37t a "a so per
100 lbs: Tallow, 7ia7s per Id. Feat6sss-live
geese, 81 to 80. Beeswax, 80 a S0l. $4,000 lbs
whalebope n w: aold to-day at 81; 800 barrels
whale oil, 50 CENTS per gallon.
C!ersd-Packet-ship Wellington, for London
ship Colombo, for Liverpool; Br. barque Hudson,
for Bremen; Swed. brig, for Stockholm.
.7rrired-Packet-ship Liverpool, from Liverpool;l
packet-ship Argo, from Havre; and barque RolIa,