New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-22
FROM PHILADELPHIA.


From Or Own Correspondent.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. ~, leoS.
have been attentively studying Mr.. Coverings
pamphlet OF near thirty pages in which he has given
most lucid and satisfactory history Of his expert
ments in raising the Chinese Sugar-cane and con-
vertiDg the juice into sugar. Mr.. Lowering being
high authority on this question, there is a pro-
deious demand for his publication, and the agricul
tural world appears to be III quite fever on the
subject He says that his experiments were made
on small quantities of the cane, under many dlsad-
,aDtsges that would not occur in large operations,
and, consequently, with results less favorable. Yet
he prOnounces them " sufficiently fattering III
" themselves - warrant renewed eIertons on the
part of our agricultursts of the Northern and
Middle States especially, and perhaps those of
~ the South also, in the pursuit of this promising
4" branch of industry to the full and profitable de-
"vclOpment of which II IL certainly capable, and
(which il is destined ultimately To attain and
" they are also important and interesting In many
" respects not apparent to those unacquanted with
" the subject" Mr.. Coverings mill aud the power
he EMPLOYED were much less efficient than those III
use on sugar plantations, and he estimates the loss
from this cause to have been at least ten
per cent. He obtained only 1,sH gall
Ions of Juice from all acre, while there
is one well authenticated ease of an acre
producing 6s00 gallons. This acre, estimating
from results actsaHu reached by him, Mr.. Lover
ing SAYS would afford 400 lbs. of sugar and pa
gallons of molssses and according to his probable
results, 8 $50 lbs. of sugar and pa gallons. He
admits that such yield would be rare, but not i'm
pOssible--a medium between that and his own would
be a large return. Mr. Lowering moreover thinks
the continued cold and wet weather of last Spring
was quite unavorable for the riPening and develop
ment of the sugar juice, and attributes loss OF ten
per cent to that cause. He then institutes brief
but very satisfactory comparison between the pro-
duct Of 1.-the best conducted plantation OF
Louisiana and the probable product TO br realized
in PENNSYLVANIA. This comparison is full Of en-
courapement to us of the Middle States Nothing
could be- more OppOrtune than the publication Of
this pamphlet. 1t was the one thing needed To set
lie doubt and renew courage. That it will do both
il beyond question, as there is no higher authority
on this important matter than ts author
Three Mutual Insurance Companies doing business
here have failed within the last six months, and
gone into liquidation. The theory of mutual lnsur-
snce, when applied 10 Marine risks, seems TO be in
practice a failure. Premium or guaranty notes
are easily obtained because no money is required;
but when heavy loss occurs, they cannot he real
lied So long as premiums are paid IN and no
losses go out, the principal works well; and If such
n
accumulate bona tde cash capital sufficient 10 pay
losses without recourse 10 premium notes, then the
matter will do: but even then II is the money thus
accumulated that saves the insured, aud not the
principle Luck appears to be everything. In
rural or village communities the mutual principal
has worked toerably well; but in large cities II has
met with many reyerses, and no confidence is now
placed in any but old companies which are known
TO have realized cash capital from long series of
years free from heavy losses.
You cannot be permitted TO claim for your Courts
the practice of a rank chicanery having no imlta
tors elsewhere Our Supreme Court has gust lifted
the vail from scandalous proceeding which will
fully equal any trick performed by your most cor
rupt legal functi0naries. One Theodore T. Derrin-
ger. Loco-Foco high in the affections of his party,
was indicted before the Quarter Sessions on charge
of issuing fraudulent tavern licenses. This man
applied TO Chief Justice Lewis kindred Loco
FocO for certiorar 10 the Supreme Court. The
object was clearly seen. known, aud understood 10
be postpOnement, 10 stave on and eVad. trial.
Yet the application granted. for Derringer was
ali important pillar Of the great Loco-focO party
of this city, and must be- saved from the iniamy of
a conviction as the evidence was not only of the
ugliest Sort but was close al hand. Well, the
was called up the other day IN the Supreme Court.
but the chief witness had disappeared, having gone
10 Kansas. Resor: was then had To his bail-bOnd,
but that also had disappeared and the man who rad
become his bail thereupon denied that be had ever
become such, and defed tbe production Of bis bond.
So the whole trial came 10 dead stop, and viii -
,taId 40 ioug st The p,sipg N,toess brds It more