The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-08-25
sugar Manufaoiuro.

In commercial article Of the New York
Courier and Enquirer, we find the following trans
aton from the Courier des Etats Uais:.
IMPoRrANr DIscoyEkx.-The Paris Monfteitr
Of the 22d J6ly,spubishes officially the report Of
M. Lauiuinais, on thediscoVery Of a Belgian chems
list, NJ Melsensi pupil Of d. Dumas, Of process
by which the beet and the sugaFcane can be made
10 Weld up the totality of the saccharine matter
they contain, and whereby sugar Of superior
quality can be- Obtained without the Intervention
Of the cumbrous and expensive machinery now
required in the manufactures Of beetroot sugar,
and in refneries
If this discovery, loudly insisted on Bv men of
science, should turn out asis anticipated, the pro-
duct from beets would be increased one-third, and
that from the cane onehaf, and moreover, all the
apparatus, except that for the trturation or grind
ing, ard that for purifying the juiee, would be dis
pensed with.
% In presence of such an imminent revolution
says the report, "all operations connected with
the manufacture Of sugar are suspended, and can
not regain tlheif accustomed course, until public
opinion shall be satisfied to the merits of the
alleged discovery. The Minister proposed the
appointment BY the President Of a Committee to
verify the results, and this was accordingly done,
with the understanding that if the report Of such
Committee should be iavorables Recommendation
should be made 10 the Assembly to buy for the
State, the right Of the dscovereF to the end that
II be made public
I'he Committee is composed of nine representa-
tives, two or three sugar manufacturers the head
of the Customs, the Directors of the Colonies the
Chief Assistant in the Ministry Of Commerce, and
some others-M. Dumas being the Chairman.
These experiments on the new method We're 10
be made forthwith before the Communicable first,
purely scientific, We're to take place in the labora-
tory Of NJ. Dumas-the second the sugar works Of
Nj. BARN, a member of the Committee, to test its
value in manufacturing point Of view-and the
third at the great establishment of NJ Claff, at
Valencennes, where the proceedings were to be
on very large scale. "
A letter addressed to the Iadependent news
paper gives these details: ,s
The discovery Of NJ Melsens is Of the most
grave and serious import for all the interests,
whether colonial or at home, connected with the
manufacture Of sugar.
By this process, of marvellous simplicity,rapd Of
the feadiest application--the decomposition and
separation of the portion Of the plant containing
the saccharine is aecomplished-and the clarified
ton takes place without any other prOcess-the
condensing, the fltering, the boiling, and bad
almost said, the Swimming are dispensed with.
The new process applies 20 the syrup-hence the
cutters presseTs, and even the boilers for purifying
the juice are still needed-bur the syrup once
obtained then commences Nj. Melsen's miracle
With single pinch of the marvellous substance
which remains the secret of the nventOr-he
brings about in few minutes the clearing and the
capitalization of the sacchaTine matters. Good
by! therefore, TO rehneB with their slow and costly
process, since IN seven quarters of an hour, may
be produced loaf of the whitest and purest sugar
The correspondent may well add, as he does,
surprising his version of the effects Of this discovery
70 be correct " it is impossible TO conceive, or to
ealcuiates the consequences of this new process
The sugar growers and the sugar refiners in the
United States-in both which branches large CAPT.
tails and expensive processes are employed-will
doubtless look early into this alleged discovery
which seems too marvellous.