Semi-weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1852-1853, 1853-03-23

Presidents have had much influence the operations
of The Government in legislation well az in the
ton Jefferson, Madison onroe John Quincy Adams,
lack son and Polk, ha left the impress OF their
minds The legislative annals Of the country and
the progress of the nation while the wayward and
| whimsical course pursued by John Adams and John
Tyler and their qaarrels with their Cabinets and po
liiica supporters effected the destruction of the pow
er of the respective parties with winch they were
connected. ~
The administrations of Van Buren, and Fillmore,
although quite different in their political character,
may be said have been both oS negative charac-
ter, owing partly to the decline of their respective
political parties while they were in power 1t remains
10 be seen whether the new administration of Gen.
Pierce will exhibit, think it will, features of a
decided and positive character, under The influence of
Its distinguished head whose inaugural address has
produced so profound an impression on the public
mind
We repeat the names of the new cabinet, as here
| tofore given.
ZaOeLfth administration, 1e53-FTanklin Pierce,
President.
State-WilIiam L.. Marcy, N. Y, March, 1853.
Treasury-James Guthrie, Kentucky, do
War-Jefferson Davis, Mississippi, do
Navy-James e. Dobbin, N oTth Carolina, do
Tnteror-Robert McCl iceland, Michigan, do
Postmaster General-J. Campbell, Penn, do
Attorney Generai-Caleb Gushing, Mass, do
SUGAR. Sugar is used all over the habitabe globe.
Ii is made from the Juice cane, which contains it in
also from the maple cocoanu and beet. In the latter,
however, it is difficult separate it from foreign
matter and render it pure. Its history is obscure.
Judg ing from what Theophrastus and StTabs say
about it, the Inference is that mperfectIy known
to the Greeks and Romans. Sugar, sugar candy,
has been made in China from remote antiquity, and
large quantities of sugar have been exported from In
dia in all ages, when it probably found its way to
Rome. Sugar occurs in wild on islands
in the Pacific but nowhere the continent of Amer
Its cultivation and manu- facture were introduced
by the Saracens into Europe. in the ninth century.
Columbus brought ii to the West Indies in l403. In
1904 ii fourished in ST. Domingo where it succeed
ed better than in any Of the other Islands.
The introduction Of sugar cane into Florida, Texas.
California and Louisiana, probably dates back TO the
earliest settlements of the Spaniards and French.
| Jesuits from 81. Domingo commenced small plant
alton the banks Of the Mississippi just above the
old city IF New Orleans, in ISL Other plantations
followed, till there sugar enough made in 1865
| for home consumption; and five years after sugar
became of the staple products of the colony.
Alter the Revolution adventures ted from the
United States TO Lower Louisiana, where they cult
waited this plant with such that in 1903 there
no less than ei9hIy-one sugar estates in Delta
alone. Since then, while sugar has been increas-
ing in the South the acture of maple sugar has
| been extending in the North and West.
The common sugar cane is perennial plant, very
sensitive TO cold, and is consequently restricted TO
countries within or bordering the tropics. II is
probable that it is gradually growing more hardly,
and will eventually endure exposure much further
north along the Mississippi and some Of its tributa.
RES In part of Louisiana, i, yields three crops
from planting. The first season it is dehomna-
ted g plant caAe, and each of the other growths,
g ratoons' Blu, in places it requires repant-
ing every year. Within the tropics the ra,oons FIRE.
quently yields twelve, fifteen and even twentY.fou
years from the roots. In different countries,
several varieties cultivated, which designated
by their color. The quantity of sugar produced upon
an varies from five hundred 10 three thousand
pounds, averaging eight or fen hundred.
There has not been sufficient made in this country
! for its consumption. In 1915 it estimated
that there made the banks of the Mississippi
ten millions of pounds In 1850 the crop of Louis-
amounted to 226 ,00O, 900 pounds, besides about
| twelve millions of gallons of moasses. The same
year in the United States, there made 2I7. $751;
900 pounds of sugar, besides 100000 gallons Of
moasses; maple sugar 34,369,Ss6 pounds, making
2sl, 93Oss6 pounds of sugar, showing increase in
! ten years OF lee, 739 OF pounds.
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