The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-04-10

Accumulation
Messrs. EdfosS the Commercial Review oil repru'
airy last, there gives (ob page @ an estimate Of sugar
produced and consumed in the dfsns countries OF the
| world. ET ~
The amount of production, = well ass consumption Of
the Untsd states are groaH erronsoqshat am mucn
sueast hat person ennently dstu9aished a. staus'
a the e6fof the Review. Professor DeBow could have
admitted eh ridiculous estimates into his columns Ihese
doubt attributable tohb having OF late devoted
much of his attention to subjects OF p0nuca
than to the legitimate purposes OF the Review as was hi
duty to have done. His subscribers would no doubt much
prefer his conping himself to the objects OF the Review
indicated by its title, than his periodically dosing them with
his and Others distractions, which not only ofesn 10
the character of the Review but dsespecu in the hghss,
degree who do in his opinions and which
if continued. conduoe sreatyto
well a. its profitableness
In the estimate of sugar Produced he makes the product
of the United States to be hundred millions Of pounds
Champomer in his pamphlet, shows that the amount pro-
duce in Louisiana, in 1849 hundred and seventy
millions.
The amount of maple sugar produced in the United States
by the report OF Commissioner Ellsworth, in 1876, was forty
millions. Surprising that the product oil maple has
manned as given by Mr. E.. we have The of three
hundred and eleven millions of pounds the produce of the
United States and not two hundred millions, stated by
Prof, ssor DsBow. .tt..4--.
the estimate of consumption he states the amount al
three hundred and sixty millions Of pounds As above
the produces of the United States three hundred
eleven millions The importation Of sugars is stated by the
Secretary Of the Treasury, in the of 1850, have
been two hundred and eighteen millions of pounds. which
amount added to our production, will show consump
ton to have been five hundred and twenty millions
three hundred and sixty millions of pounds stated BY
the Professor Of Statistics. 90
In his estimate of consumption per head he rates the Uni
ted States at eighteen pounds Assuming population
be twenty -four millions. have twenty-five pounds the
of individual consumption and not eighteen as sup
posed by Professor DeBow.
These may offs small moment to Professor
Statistics, but to his planting subscribers it is
In Subscribing to the Review of Mr. Deow they expected
to obtain reliable statistical, and other interesting
and not to be dosed with the distractions of ths editor
| surfeted with memoirs upon slavery.
IF desires the shareholders of the South only to be pr0pi
taed by this over zeal on his bis estimate Of their intel
gence is as erroneous is that OF sugar which have
feed They have the intelligence ability and disposition
to protect their rights, under the Constitution and have
disposition to abet the fanatics Of the North or ecessons
Of the South in their reasonable designs. They have toe
Just an appreciation of the benefits of the Union aid then
in its destruction. I
Of one fact Mr. DeBow may be ASSURED that large ant
respectable number Of his subscribers, if not majority
them. do his sentiments or approve of his per
version of the Review to the dissemination of doctrines of
disunon character.
Mr. DeBows protesatons of deity to the Union compor
but lily with his late course and his nsnuations that tho
VINO do not approve OF the of the demagogue
south Carolina, are not true base and caumniuu
assertion as unbecomng In him. the editor Of neutral paper
to make, Us it is dsrespecful to his subscribers.
If Mr. DeBow does not thus pervering the Review
to purposes foreign to Its character he may yet learn tina
however essentially souaern he would have us beev.
it be, that when it ceases be American (f has moi
already done so its subscription List will be essentially
reduced Union cannot consistently aid in the dssem
nation OF disunion reasonable doctrines.
Mr. DeBow. in his February No., gives to understand
that he has not ben nsensbe the aid he received from
those who differ with him. and he 10 presumng too much on
the good nature of those who do so.
fInwritipg the above. actuated nv mn
kindness for Mr. DeBow. wished correct an inexcusable
error his part and at the time to give him to under
stand that many of the subscriber the Review are not
all pleased at his course LAFouRcHr