The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1864-03-05
what Gen. Gustav Did.

What Gen. Gustav Did.
WASHINGTON, March 2.-TLe Star says
that General Gustav has returned to this
city, his cavalry expedition having sue
cessfully accomplished the work he started
out to do. He harrassed the flank Of Lees
army considerably and near Stuardsville
surprised the rebel camp which he burned
and totally destroyed, captured a number
OF prisoners and horses. General Custar
did not lose man in the expedition.
From Texas and Mexico.
A Mattamoras letter to the World re-
ports that the French have evacuated Pu-
ebla, Cordova and Jalapa The Mexican
army under Uraga is said to be AZ, 900. 1t
is rumored he had been defeated by Gen.
Rajan.
Large trains Of cotton are arriving daily
at Matamoras from Texas.
What the Star Says.
WASHINGTON, March 3.-The Star, of
this p. m, says that we have late interest
ing information from the front to the eff
feet that Gen. Fitzpatrick, with five picked
cavalry regiments has arrived at the White
House, and formed a junction with a force
sent up by General Butler from the PENN
sula.
This statement is based on The fact that
come back and made the above report, and
the report is believed in the army of the
Potomac.
Fitzpatrick is thus within few miles of
Richmond and as General Butler is coop
Grating with him we expect to hear start
ling news from that quarter III a day or
two.
On his route to the White House Gene
raj Fitzpatrick received orders to avoid
meeting any large force Of rebels.
After he had left the front another party
Of 500 picked cavalry were sent out to com
municate with him. They, however, met
a rebel force, and as their force were not
to fight if he could avoid it, they moved to
wards the east and the commander not
striking the direct road came upon another
party Of rebels near Fredericksburg, cap
tured them, burned their camp and de-
stroyed quantity of valuable army
stores, and pressed on their way to join
Fitzpatrick.
WILL SoRGo MAKE SUGAR.-F. l.. Stew
art Of Murrysville, Westmoreland county,
Pa, says that he has satisfied himself by
numerous experiments of the following
facts in regard to true, unadulterated Chi
nese cane.
|. The Juice Of this cane contains uni
crystalizable cane sugar.
2. When completely ripe, all parts of the
stalk of this cane contain crystalizable SUI
gar-the juice from the lower half, how
ever, being purer. richer in sugar, and
more abundant than from the upper half.
?. No grape sugar tgincose) in apprecia-
bic quantity is found in the plant after it
has fully matured.
4. Any uncrystalizable sugar found in
the syrup is a modified form Of crystaliza-
bic cane sugar, the production Of which is
incident TO imperfect methods of manufac
ture.
5. Crystalizable sugar cannot be ex-
tracted uniformly from the best cane, I'M
less certain impurities contained in the
juice be removed.
g. The soil best suited to the growth of
the plant and TO it's saccharine qualities is
a sandy loan or clay loan, or almost any
good upland soil. such as is better adapted
to wheat than to Indian corn. The most
congenial climate seems to be that Of which
the mean Summer temperature is about
75o Fab, 1t will ripen generally where the
Summer mean does not rise above 70o, as
at Pittsburgh, Cleveland. Chicago, ILL.,,
Madison, Wis.,, and Southern Minnesota.
Z. No difficulty necessarily attends
the manufacture of sugar from the sOrgo
than from the Louisiana cane-the expense
Of production would be considerably less
the product equal in quality, and in guam
tity nearly equal to that obtained from the
juice Of the latter.
The method by which the results above
stated were obtained is entirely different,
however, from that pursued by the sugar
growers of Louisiana or elsewhere; it is
specially adapted to the nature and peculi-
arities of the juice of the sorgo.
DEATH OF Mrs. GEN. HARRIsoN.-A
mother in Israel has departed-another of
those pioneers who are passing away
nearly all gone, and Of whom it may soon
be said, ''They are all gathered to their IA