Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-01-31
~ The following is an extract from a

dated Wheaton, ILL.,, Jan. 18th:
I" Tea and coffee are being snubbed by
almost everybody-that is, the tea and
coffee which by legislative enactment IS
taxed. The prices thereof having jump
ed up, out of all proportion to the adj
vance in duties. and house keepers only
buy pound at a time, and that only
appears on the table when company is
present. For substitutes, we hear OF
wheat coffee and barley coffee, corn meal
coffee and crust coffee,-almost all kinds
of coffee,--while the respective friends
of the above kinds stoutly declare that
they prefer it to boughten tea or coffee.
Hulled barley, carefully Drowned and
pepared a la lara or Mocha, is delicious,
and some advocate the addition of few
hops; but these l think must be lovers OF
lager beer. But give me the corn-meal-
coffee. Not that made by a careless hand
which when turned out closely resembles
thin porridge but that made right.
For the benefit of your feminine readers,
I give the modus cperandi of its r1epara-
ton. Take coarse corr meal, Put it in a
coffee burner and very sloaoy and carefully
burn it to rich brown. For family of
halfa dozen persons four hcaping table
spoonsful Of this will suffice at meal.
Now if you Vermonters have discovered
a cheaper, more palatable, or more health
full substitute for Java" or tea, why, do
send it along l have heard many ex-
press q determination that even when
coffee comes down from twenty-five cents
to nine, and tea from one dollar and a
quarter to seventy-fve cents, and even
when the country has recovered from this
war, they will never, nerer return to their
idols. Now, see if they don't
Cotton cloth is up, thread is up sugar
is higher and sander than ever, molasses
thinner pork is down 49, wheat is fat
(5Oc, )-everything that farmers have to
buy is up, and every thing they have to
sell IS down, and the farmers themselves
are savage. The South is cursed,
Congress is cursed. Mcclellan, and brig.
generals In general are cursed, for why
do not these chaps do something? Re-
cruiting officers, poor fellows, have hard
time of it, for who wants to enlist and do
nothing? But there are all the time
some who are finding out that "$l3 per
month and found from Uncle Sam, is
about as we'll as they can do, these hard
times.
But Illinoisans are making prepara-
lions to raise cotton, and it is estimated
that at least 5000 acres in the southern
part of the state will be put in cotton the
, ensuing year. The III. Central r. r. Co..
} have had an agent out making inquiries
as to the raising of cotton in the state,
t and it is found that there are many who
; for the last six, eight, ten and twenty
years have habitually raised a small
r quantity of cotton, but have not gone in
G to it largely, as the South could raise it
cheaper At present prices, cotton crop
. will pay much better than corn at ten
! cents per bushel. 1t is estimated that
e one hand can attend to eight acres which
Y will Weld over $500 worth of cotton in
e one season. ......
0 We can make our own sugar and mo-
. lasses, too. Somplcs of Sorghum and I'm
0 phee sugar can we show equal to W. /.
r sugar, and sorghum molasses of excellent
S quality is made in large quantities. II
has been estimated that i'll iowa fully two
i, thirds Of the molasses consumed in a yea,
e was manufactured the past season. You
i. New Englanders have plenty of wood,
we have abundance Of coal; you have
4 much maple-sugar, we have oceans" Of
n sorghum molasses and sugar; you have
It wool, so do we, and expect soon to have
e an abundance of that wool said to grow
t on " cotton sheep" So do not boas
yourself above the "suckers."
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j. The SToRM--After a series of snow,
and blows which have prevailed for two
IT or three weeks past, we were again visitet
l. by heavy snow storm on Saturday
> winding up as usual on Saturday nigh