New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-02-16
TALK ON CHANGE.

The most important topic yesterday was the nature
OF the European advices brought by the America.
As usual they are rumors reports and surmises and
u credence is to be given TO all, we might expect
something alarming" one OF these days The com
mercial accounts are no more uniavorable than ex-
pected, 50 far as cotton is concerned decline of
3D. in cotton was expected. The market here felt it's
effects somewhat yesterday, though in reality de-
cline was established the day previons We have
now reached the maximum Of excess Of last year. and
henceforward the excess will weekly fall off, The
Savannah papers, one Of them, made great error
in Its accounts on the 10th inst placing the receipts
at that port at 34967O bales or about $4,000 bales
more than they should have been. Its presumed the
error is rectifed ere this. The receipts at all the
ports now reach 2,725 900 bales We are not in pos
session of the stock hand at Memphis at the last
dates. There appears disposition to suppress the
actual quantity in the country. The Belfast left
Memphis with 5000 bales, and will be due to-day.
Business continues lively the levee and landings
with ample stocks of all kinds of produce. We al
uded yesterday to the great losses in weight ship
ments Of sugar. Yet they are no larger for warm
weather than have before occurred where the article
has been retained for longer time The talk Of BIZ
sulphate being detrimental tosngar appears to be sus
tained by the following extract from New York
paper Of the 9Th inst. The refners and manufactu.
rers are generally certain to find any Ingredients
working to their injury:
The planters of Louisiana have been IN the habit
for many years Of using smaN quantity Of lime with
the cane juice in the making OF sugar. but sometimes
when too much was added the loss was greater than
the gain, the color being injured instead Of improved
and the brightness Of the sugar destroyed Not long
since an ingenious Belgian chemist discovered uro.
cess by which the light color Of the juice is protected
from the change ordinarily produced by contact with
the atmosphere, and also prevented from souring as
rapidly as il left in its natural state. This process
consists Of slight infusion Of sulphate of lime and
its use has greatly improved the yield and appear
ance OF Louisiana sugar. and until quite recently this
| gain has been supposed to be without any cores
4 ponding disadvantage. Within few weeks there
have been whispers of doubts in regard to it, aud the
complaints have become quite general among the
grocers that the sugars thus apparently improved do
not keep we not only do they change color but the
waste by drainage and evaporation said to be very
greatly enhanced n consequence of the new process
Not only this, but the retners have made discovery
that the sugars do not crystaIze as we'll and will MOI
yield as they would formerly for the same weight
We have hesitated about giving publicity to thes,
complaints not knowing how much OF it might aris,
from prejudice but the result Of some experiment.
has satisfied that there is some truth in them an,
the Importance of the interests involved certainly cal
for farther investigation. 1t is said that the Cuba
, planters have made arrangements to introduce th
same process, and it may therefore be well to cal
public attention to it, so as to develop the who'll
truth before any further progress is made in its
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