The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-12-15
3 om the ch.rago Tdhrua.
FREE LABOR IN 4 SUGAR MILL.
Gratifying Success OF the Experiment
Letter from Louisiana hy North
era Lady.

Letter from Louisiana BY North
ern Lady.
lTbe following Interesting letter from s
Northern lady, who-- husband is now work
lag q sugar Fl@nJatiol ia Louis.aus. has
been furnished us Tor puhlcsr0n.
--, Nov. rs, lsdJ.
avn writing YOU RON a place that the
wade,J drramS of my rhilih,oi never i'm
I agIned myself 10 sugar hOU,e .'aVsy down
IA Louisiana I su sltung p the gallery
OF building go feel long. This gallery
was made expressly fol the white 1veysaeT,
and overlooEs all that is going on IN the
main building There is sleeping room
in each end oil il and a large open space in
the middle which serves as dining room +;
here am writing. In the opposite end or
/ the building, can see the engine which car
ries al the machinery just this side Of &c
are the great rollers that crush the cane. and
td- apron, or feed-Carrisr that carries th.
cane from the shed outside q . 10 the crush
| ers.
just this side Of hecrusher ere tour large
/ Fats THAI receive the juice From these it
! IS carried INTO two large kettles where tue
I lime IS put IN, and the Juice is raised 10 the
/ boiling point, and thea skinned Ffom
| these Eettles the Juice ia transferred by
means OF bueket sttaehed 70 . long pole.
[ and worked 10 gim lock, 70 lhe text keI-
l lie, where 10 is worked o. the right consist
ency lor classifying. This done, it il cun-
! yeyed, by means Of q steam pump, 10 the
| hlterins room, where 1t is passed into large
Yats hlled With burnt b0ues, called boue
black, through which it is filtered, and thus
freed from q limpuritie'. From these filters
It Is run OF lnt1 large cistern, snd pumped
up by the same steam pump into tanks, |
where by means Of faucets, il IS drawn INTO
the sugarIng- -od pan. To- this pan, Il is (
heated by means Of a coil OF pipe that winds I
round and round ill 10 fills The bottom o.. /
the pans and carries the steam which. IN /
from fifteen 20 twenty minutes finishes the /
boiling process. From this pan L is let Of 4
INTO p9x ear, set on railroad traek whch |
runs Qp and down between the coolers. \
which are ranged aIoag e,ch side otthis end \
Of the huiiuiDg, like pews p . ehurru.
The Creoles along tie coast have looked
With smazemeuL sIi sumut-r UpOu our sue
Cess with iree black la5,iyr., I'D have been
obliged O. ackuuWleise that shev never saw.
a mVre cheerful, Industrious SET Of labore-s
IN all their experience. 4 Bu. wait tiI
sugar-making COMES, they have .sid. .sand
then sec Ifyou caa gel Oh your crop with
out the old system Of c0mpu.siUu Your I
niggers will dare up when you get Of your |
leu hour system They are not going 70
work light and day, and YOU cauDyt .-eJ on
The crop unless they do.
White sugar makers presented them
selves, telling us, in all s0brIety, "uigsers 4
cannot be trusted to make sugar" and
offering, with great msguamity, tO oversee ,
he matter f,r ave hundred dollars. J-
ieclined all such friendly offers, and last
Monday morning commenced grinding I .
'ane. The colored men and women weat !
o work with a will-ao Sinking or iincu- d.
ng. The cutters pushed the handlers, the d
handlers pushed the haulers, and 30 on. / =
light and day. each gang taking their re- /,
pective watches, and all moving on with =
ne regularity of clock-work-
Aud 60 the business went on with black | A
ngneers, black crushers, back dlterers =,
lack sugar -makers-all black thr0ggbout | II
but the sugar came out splendid in guam / h
ty and quality. Sixty hogsheads oi su- / tf
sr, finished by Saturday night, and ihings ! q,
D readiness Tor The Sabbath's rest, IS uc- q,
nowlsdged by old planters 70 be the larg- .,
81 run ever made 10 this sugar house Tor | n
le first week Of the sugar season. a.
So they cape and stare, 2nd wonder that .,
umanrty and justice can bring forth more IN
-ofiable resu Is thsn the drivers whip. o.
The more I see Of the col0red peouie, the q,
ore faith have in their ability 10 q come "
t-llgent ana euterprising 2, and the grea. er I Do
I'd
no used 70 thrive aud iatteu on their re- ~
lifted toll. sr
A fellow who has been chosen Representa- IN
We 20 the new State Legislature said 10 "a,
- that Abraham Liuco p had made the M
Ioret people free by a stroke pf the pen. IN
ld if he could annihilae them Iust as ! n
silly. he would do il. j. gave him nj
ithering look, aud asked him II he rx- an
'Sed men 20 labor Tor him, towards whom
, felt such sentiments, and added. 81 would
soon work iOr the Evil One himself"
shortly after making this declaration, he
asted that he would do all he could TO Ia,
ake laws 10 compel the blacks to work
ason why, "Irs cannot lire unless ttrv lCiF | a
'rk for ~" Contempt does not halt ex- tb
ess my feelings towards such a person. / ~
Q honest negro IS exalted manhood beside n,
We have been doing all we could for the bs
vancemeut uf our people this summer. wi
d feel well repaid for our efforts We
Id session Of al hour Sabbath morning III
r reading IN the Bible aud singing, and
the afternoon Tor reading. Nearly rverv la
e. 90 che plantation can read easy reading, H.
d quite number can read the Bible. "a
will start q night school soon 20 teach | h.
e elements Of arithmetic and writing sa
lev feel very grateful, and many Of them Al
iru quite readily. There are colored
noola along the coast as often as once in w,
rec miles, whore ,olored children are
ugh, and, though all the teachers sre not IN
the highest orde-, still they are succeed On
g hs well as could be anticipated.
Yours truly, VI. 4. L.. bo