The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-11


DISTRIBUTION OF SUGAR, OR CONSUMPTION OF THE
WORLD, FOB 1856.
Great Britain TOES .4l8 900
Uni 90 Slates .osV,UV
Coz tirsnt OF Europe. 1856 900
Including beet root. .l4S,0 600 -.
Canada and Provinces. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20, 600
Sweden md 1snm.,s 5000
Mexico and South America. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
SPSin .oVVo
hassle lo,ooO
Cuoa and all sugar producing countries
uonec $4,000
Total. 1881 900
Thur requiring frcu the strck at the Commence
melt OF 1866. make mp the quantity for les
consumption supposingt to equal that OF 1855 $4,000
We thus see that the production of sugar has not
increased in the same ratio as Its censumption-the
latter stimulated by the low prices ruling for several
years past. Now that prices have for nearly year
been remunerative, production will soon be again
stimulated. By the table Of production above, we
see that the production in 1854 exceeds that Of 1856
by 81 900 tons.
By the above tables we find that the following has
been the large increase in the consumption Of sugar
in twenty.three years =
Product'n Of the world, toms. 100000 s69, 900
Consomn inc'g root lbs 24s 100000 600
The apparent production in 1855, gives only
slight excess over consumption, but it is believed
that the actual consumption in 1856 will be in excess
of production. In other words, with the improved
means on the part of the people, by the greater du
sion of wealth, from the influx Of gold from the min.
eral regions of California and Australia, the con-
sumption must rapidly increase over the civil
lized world. This increase Of wealth also en-
hances the value Of labor devoted to its cul-
ture, and to corresponding advance in other tro.
pical productions which will tend to divert labor from
its production. Hence, the consumption of the
world must soon, if it has not already done 80, out
strip production. For twenty-three years the pro-
duction and consumption have struggled on to-
gether, and been pretty regularly balanced. When
labor destroyed in st. Domingo and Jamaica, it
was augmented in Cuba and Brazil by the African
slave trade, and the balance of supply and demand
kept up. But now African labor has been checked,
and must diminish in those countries, and gold in
troduced to increase both consumption and the
value Of labor employed in the production. we
must expect, in the next period of ten or twenty
years, to the production fall far short Of the de
mand, ard which can only be met at high prices
Our figures derived from the most respectable
ana reliable sources. Those for 1888 are chiefly
taken from English statistics, which differ with
those given by French writers-hence we have
given them in general terms as approximately cor
rect, from the conflicting statements, and which
may not prove absolutely exact, but afford good
general idea of the result.
Previous to the revolution in Hayti, or st. Do
mingo, the French had 1893 sugar estates, 3,ll7
coffee plantations, ,16O cotton do, and GIT miscel
laneous plantations. In 1889, the year before the
revolution, she exported l45,l92y043 lbs. sugar,
1900 900 lbs. Of coffee, 10000 lbs cotton and
about 900 900 lbs. Of indgo-of the total annual
value Of about s25, 100000
In ls36-37 the exports of Hayti had dwndled
down to l6 100 lbs of sugar 900 lbs Of coffee,
1000 900 lbs. of cotton, and Of indigo none. These
reduced exports, with some mahogany and tobacco,
are the results Of abotionism on that island, in
about forty or fortyfour years after the massacre
and ruin Of the whites Of that once hourishing
and beautiful island.
We have not space, or we could show from off.
cial documents that abolitionism has, in the same
manner, worked the ruin and desolation Of the
British West India Islands. But fanaticsm heark
ems to no reason. It ignores the commerce,
the common sense, and the life, liberty,
happiness and comfort of the whites, for
the one black idea of sinking all for the less than
doubtful benefit, or we might say for the ultimate
rum, VI Vic HeBTOeS tueWSclVcS, 1uU WIN tncW
common ruin of the whites, to accomplish the work
Of their insane crusade.
From small beginnings of the culture of sugar in
Louisiana by refugees from Hayti, we find by the
census of 1850 the whole production of sugar
in the United States, including 34,253, 436 lbs of
maple sugar, to have been 155 100000 lbs. The
value of cane sugar was sl2,s7s ,ls6, and of maple
sugar 81 1852 ,67l and the value of molasses was
s2,540,l79. There were 1851 sugar plantations,
embracing 100000 acres devoted to its culture.
Since the late census the supply of maple sugar
has greatly diminished, while the culture Of the
cane in Louisiana and Texas has been greatly ex.
tended. Although the crop grown last year, or in
1885, was only 1913 tons against 1856 ,29s tons in
1854, showing a decrease Of 6lO7 TONS The pre-
sent season has been back ward for planting, with
some scarcity of seed cane. and hence fears en-
tertained that the present years yield may again
be short. Texas last year supplied S,977 hhds.
From the annual statement of M. P. A. Champo-
mier, Of New Orleans we learn that the number of
bids. produced in louisiana last year were 231 427
number Of horse power sugar mills, 36l; number of
steam mills $685. number of sugar houses l 800