American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1846-03-07

| E19 kilOlU Cdtl uUW UB liJLG uOubI ludl or H.
Peel's plan of opening the ports of Great Bri-
tain to foreign grain will be adopted by Par
Lament, it follows, of course, that the maize,
the Indian Corn of our country, will find its
way at once into England, inasmuch as there
is no time demanded for the free admission of
that, as there is for wheat. But the comment
made upon the use of Indian corn by those
members OF Parliament, who assisted to show
the advantages of its free introduction, and
| the commentator of its quality by Sir Robert
Peel himself, show our English brethren, those
Of high degree, to be exceedingly deficient in a
profitable knowledge Of the virtues and uses of
that kind Of tho cereals. Sir Robert speaks of
Indian Corn food for beasts, and, as we be-
lieve, eaten sometimes by mani!
1t is evident that much is calculated upon
from the introduction of American corn into
Eugland-much by the English, much by our
western bretheIn, whose broad fields, measur-
ed by miles rather than acres, produce beyond
the Imagination Of their eastern brethren, and
may he made to supply, at a single harvest,
enough Of corn TO fill the granares of the
world, even should it he necessary to prepare
for a seven years famine, such as afflicted the
people of Egypt, and the regions round about.
! Eighty bushels to an acre is the produce of
an Indiana farm, where ploughing and plant
ing are about ali the culture that is bes-
lowed upon the field SO that it may he said of
| the solid phaanx of stalks, bending with the
| long richly filled cars, as Colonel Barre, in the
British Parliament, once remarked of the Anne
rican colonies, ''Grown up under our care and
protection, sir! not SO, grown up rather under
our utter neglect"
Well, when some thousand bushels Of this
"Indan Corn reach the store-houses of Eng
land, and are thence distributed into the meal
tubs and kneading troughs of the laboreIs, and
the swelling heap shows double quantity, for
the same cost, of ordinary -four or meal, who
shall tell them its use? Who snail say to the
| housewife, 'Lhus shalt thou miA the material,
and so shalt thou mould the loaf?n Who shall
enter into the little laboratory of the working
mans house, and lecture the practical chem
list npon the affinities of salt and lard, hot wa
ter, and Indian meal, and who will tell her
how long she must submit her combination to
the action of fire, that it may be for the COM
fort of her household? Alas she would be as
ignorant of all the arts, parts and process eff
that work. as were the uniutiated Of the Eleu-
syrian mysteries.
Sometime alter the introduction of tea into
Massachusetts a citizen from Cape Cod came
up TO Boston, 70 trade off his fish. The mer-
chant persuaded nim to take pound Of tea
among other articles OF household require
ments. "I've heard of the article said the
Cape Cod man, "but how is ttJ be cooked
cit must be bollGd," said the merchant
''and is always used when company comes
The tea was taken home, and 1t was resolv-
ed to be hospitable. Company was invited to
spend the day. At dinner, fine piece Of boil
ed beef, and another of good fat pork, with an
accompaniment OF potatoes and carrots, graced
. 1, HI H.,
looked in triumph first TO his wife, and then
to his guests, whom lac served hountiiully with
the viands before them, "help Mrs. Basset to
something from that dish"
The pewter spoon was thrust into dish Of
we'll toiled tea leaves, from which the water
had been carefully strained, and each, from the
architrichlinos down to the youngest guest,
was served with a quantity Of the Cmnese
weed, real green Souchorg.
"Taste Of that said the worthy host, cit is
tea, such as the quality in Boston and Ply
mouth, make such a fuss about"
Each mumbled a little of the hcfbage, and
carefully rinsed it down with cider, but none
ventured to crticise the new addition to the
dinner table.
E evil you have some more, my dear:" said
the good lady TO the husband.
"Not leaf more-that plateful cost four
and-sixpence; and if it were not for the name
Of tea, | would as 'liefhave turnip tops for my
greens as that stuff. 1t is monstrous hard
chewing, and not over palatabe after all.
And so, or even worse, it may be in Eng
land, with the corn meal Of this country. 1t
may be made up into FORM or mixed in dilu-
ton, until poverty itself will grow sick of the
ingredients
Would it not be well, as soon as the adop-
f ton by Parliament of Sir Robert Peel's plan
shall be known, to send messengers on mis-
sion Of love and profit to England, to instruct
housekeepers in the use of Indian meal The
New England Envoy Extraordinary shall teach
the people how to mix the rye and corn meal,
and how to build the lofty "ioqf Of bro,on
bread, how to mingle the milk, the molasses
6 and the meal, luscious aliteration) and to
compose the soaked pudding" The messen-
) ger from Maryland would instruct in the for
) nation of ''pOneS," and he of Virginia lee
ture upon the composition and baking of shoe
cakes" and South Carolina instruct in the ia
brication and use Ct 'jOhnny cakes"
And thus the poor, meagre tribe, that had
shrivelled up on oat meal Cruel, or been drench-
ed by sour flour and poisoned ale, will grow
rugged, red and rampant upon the blood-warm-
ing and flesh-giving meal of maize. There,
the mountain brown loaf Of New Eng land
! would make the crazy table of the weaver
groan by its weight, though 1t were ever SO
''Gght"-here the "pone" and 'iohnny cake
would give grace to the tea equipage of the
poor woman, while her children would grow
ruddy and plump upon hasty.pudding and
milk. Hasty pudding!
ooh, how blush
To hear the Peansylvanians call it mush'"