Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-01-08

raised edges, through which openings
guarded by comb-like gates. permit the
rain-waler TO escape and stop the berries
Sometimes, between the secaderos, plas'
tered cutters are constructed to convey
the water into a general reservoir; which
is highly useful in a country, where every
pailul of that necessary fluid has often tc
be raised from well two or three hun
bred feet deep.
"The storehouse is generally abou
100 feet long, so feet wide, and 20 feel
high to the caves OF high pitched roof,
Within this large building is also the cof
fee-mill, consisting of a large circular
wooden trough two feet deep, and in width
tapering from two at the top to one foot at
the bottom. A heavy, solid, wooden
wheel plays in it, about six feet in dame
ter, and eight inches in thickness at its
circumference, increasing to two feet at its
centre. The berries are thus permitted
to roll between it and the sides of the
trough, which is kept well supplied to pre-
vent their being crushed by the wheel,
which cleanses them chiefly by pressing
them iorcibly against each other. The
shaft is fixed at one extremity by a ring to
a central post, and TO the other the horse
or OK is attached. The dried cherries,
conveyed through funnel from the store
room above, fall into the central space,
whence they are thrown into the trough;
from which, also, those already crushed
are Withdrawn, and sent into the cleans
ing-room. Here they are put into fan
ming mill, which not only separates the
husk from the berries, but divides the lat
ter into two sizes, the largest rolling over
wire sieve into another room, while the
smaller grains with the pebbles fall thro'
it on the floor. The latter are then spread
in heaps on long tables, around which the
negroes are seated and the broken and
distorted grains are separated and set apart
for the use of the planter. For this very
quality, rejected by us and called triage,
consists chiefly of the round small grains
produced by old trees, and possesses the
finest flavor. If kept from year 10 year,
and when old, is equal to the best mocha
coffee.
at is now fit for Market and is packed
in bags of Manila hemp, the only materi-
al that rosistr the force produced by the
swelling of the grain from the absorption
of tie atmospheric moisture. Some pass
the coffee a second time through the fan
ming mill, which polishes it. A few, be-
fore submitting it to this process, mingle it
with husks that have been parched by fire;
thus painting each grain dark green,
but this deception is readily detected by
rubbing them on a white handkerchief -
The grinding continues thorugh Deem
Der, and by the end of January the whole
crop is generally sent TO market"
BRITISH PERrINAoITY.--lt is impossi.
bic for us to improve upon the sarcasms
thrown out upon this subject, by the edi-
tors of the Picayune, on account of a
London Club, having refused to admit an
American citizen, into their order on the
grounds Of American reputation. TGuide.
AMERICANS IN LONDON AGAIN.
Our comments upon the awful fact, that
an American citizen had been refused
admission into a London club, because
Pennsylvania owed more money than she
could readily pay, were brought TO an ab-
rupt termination, yesterday, from the alb.
solute terror at the contemplation of the
possibility that some heir to the glorious
privilege Of expressing an exhausted ten
antry or the possessor of a parliamentary
commission to defraud creditors, or per-
chance sprig OF the royal family, nur-
tured in the hot.bed Of Illicit lore, might
have been accessory to the interdction
When we reflected upon the sensitiyeness
of some Of our countrymen TO the crlti-
cisms Of English Cockneys, the ambition
of others to be regarded as an fat in
aristocratic manners, and the consequence
which large portion Of them attach 10
foreign reputation, we could but feol a.
harmed, lest in making such portentous
disclosures we might become aiders and
ahellors Of fashionable, not to say fatal,
crisis. II is true we were bred in faith
that did not rate the good opinion of one
of Nell Gwinn's progeny as essential to !
character, much less did it esteem the Ger.
tiicale Of club, compound Of swash.
buckler and manakin, as evidence Of in
diyidual or national repnie; but We sup
pose our education was defective in an
important particulars and the suddonncss
with which he knowledge Of this truth
flashed upon MS quite pasied our weak
faculties. ladecd, we begin 10 think that
the liberties Of this country are lmmdi.
ately connected with the fashionable or.
GIGS al Almac's, and have some myNou
Gus dependence upon the length ol lhe
Duke of 81. Adams coat tail.
A remarkable coincidence To- the an
of the terrible robuko Of the
London .club, aud the determination oil
pennsylaGm i1 pay bee interest in Janu.