Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1858-07-10

sueAR.-The New York Herald gives the
following interesting particulars concerning
this important article of commerce, which
may be new to many Of our readers:
In relation to sugar, from the evidence he.
fore US it would seem that the palm for the
production of this staple is to pass from
America to Asia. The multitudinous labor o.
the East. assisted by a little guano from Peru,
has produced astonishing results in Maurlti,'s
and the Isle Of Bourbon or Reunion. The
former of these, with only 1000 square miles
of superficial extent, and a population a few
years since of only 100000 people, exports
to-day one-third as much sugar as Cuba with
her 5000 square miles and a million and a
half of inhabitants A like result has atten-
ded the sugar culture in Reunion. And it is
not alone in quantity that great advance has
been attained the quality of the sugar has
also been vastly improved. and Australia is
already drawing her supplies of refined and
washed grades from the plantations of Matt
ritius. The cry Of the planters of Maur|tius
is still tor. more labor and more guano; but
the True 1TuitS u Tue IlcN " SiCdtCO SA4Ii 0iiA
sugar manufacturing science of Mauritius will
be seen when they shall 90 from there to the
neighboring continent of In,ia and organize
the unemployed millions there for the pur-
pose of turning the jungle into cane fields
The selfish policy of the East India Company
has hitherto prevented this, but it will pre-
vent it no more and the day is not far dis
tant when the world will be supplied with
refined sugar at three cents a pound.
Not a doubt of it in the world! When re-
fined sugar can be furnished to the world at
three cents per pound, it will be time Tor the
Louisiana sugar planters to quit business and
60 at something else. For many years Eng
land has been experimenting in growing cot
ton in different parts Of the world. so as not
to be dependent upon the United States for
it. Atevefy attempt, great were the esults
cotton planters no doubt quaked terribly in
thei1 boots at the prospect of being deprived
of their Substance. Butsoma how or other,
every experiment failed. despite all that had
been said and done: and England at last, was
compelled to acknowledge that cotton of
American slave labor was her only depend
ence. Cotton grew we'll enough in India and
other places, but the main lever, slave labor,
was wanting, and to employ the indolent
natives to perform the work was out of the
question. The same result was obtained
wherever the experiments were tried. The
Isles of Mauritius and Bourbon, are capable
of producing sugar no doubt, and might, could
slave labor be employed: produce enough
sugar to materially reduce the prices of sugar
in our own country, could it be imported here
at less price thau@we get for ours. But ad-
mittins sugar could be made in those places
at a more nominal price, our planters would
have nothing to fear from 1T. The cost of i'm
portation and the duties would bring it fully
up to our own prices, so that we have little
OF nothing to fear, if it can he manufactured
at three cents a pound. But we are rather
inclined to think that it is but another "~cotton
experiment." intended for only what it is
worth.
3 Vermont is Citing tired Of providing
for runaway negroes. That sort Of philan-
thropv, the Green Mountain folks nave al
ready found out, doesn't pay, and, as might
be expected, it is Citing oat of fashion in
that latitude. The following, from the Yer
monP atriot, shows that the runaway negro
population is more numerous than profitable,
and that it is thought desirable not only to
slap further increases, but to be rid of that
already thnre:
What is to be done with this class of our
population. is the point to which the attention
of phjlanthropists and statesmen should be
directed. The entering wedge to all action,
is the Inauguration of some system by which
a certain top wi be put to the illegal intro
duction OF colored persons into the free States.
In other words, a log must belaid across
the tract of the underground railroad. This
would prevent large yearly increase of that
class Of population, which is hanging like a
milestone. round the neck Of OH, ind ustrial
progress. Then thin the present population
by fostering the colonization plan by all pos
STOLE means, and the question-what shall we
do with the free negroes OF the North = is in
a fair way of receiving practical solution,
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