The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-01-19

We extract the following from the Mobile
Tribune, contributed by q correspondent OF that
paper: 3 --,F
send you few items concerning the introduc.
ton of the sugar cane into Louisiana, which, il
you think of sufficient interest you at liberty
to publish. They are taken from the Paris Journal
de Pharmscie ct de Chime:
:" 1t was in 1851, under the administration cf the
Marques de Vauhreuil, the governor Of the colony
Of Louisiana, that the sugar cane was first intro.
duced into the province. On the 18th of April in
that year two hundred soldiers were sent from
France TO complete the military force in that
colony. The transports touched at Hispisnola,
and the Jesuts at Leogana, In the Bay of Port-au-
Prince, obtained permission to put on board these
vessels, and send to their house in New Orleans,
some sugar canes and some negroes accustomed
to their cultivation and the manufacture of sugar.
These canes were planted in the garden of the
reverend fathers, where the First District of New
Orleans now is, just beyond Canal street, above
the town, it then existed. This cane was of the
Malabar variety, from Bengal.
For the first two years after the planting,
the Jesuits only thought of propagatng the
cane; and the endeavors which they made the
following years TO extract the juice were fruitless.
Nevertheless they did not despair Of attaining their
end.
The canes planted by the Jesuits developed well,
but they did not attain to perfect maturity; the
climate did not allow 1t. The cane was, as we
have mentioned, of the Malabar variety since
named Creole cane. 1t was, consequently, to the
practically useful spirit Of the Jesuits that Louis
isno owes the naturalization Of the sugar cane
which has since been of such immense wealth to
her.
/ In l754 the Jesuits tried TO make sugar from
their canes, but being unable 10 succeed, they
thought that their confined space was unsuitable
to it; they persevered.
From 1852 to 1858 several inhabitants OF the
neighborhood Of New Orleans procured cane from
the Jesuits, and multiplied IL carefully. In 1853 a
rich planter of the name Of Dubreui tried this cu-
tivaiion on a large scale. He built sugar works
on plantation adjoining the lower part of town.
This property is now covered by the Third Dis
trict of New Orleans.
From l75S to 1853, Dubreuil, notwithstanding
all his care, obtained very doubtful, or rather
hopeless, results in the manufacture. The Jesuits
on the other hand, succeeded no better.
in l764 the Chevser de Mazan, whose planta-
ton was on the right bank Of che river, facing the
town of New Orleans, succeeded no better. In
some reports, at the time. the sugar of Chevalier
de Mszan is comparable to st. Domingo raw sugar
this was evidently attery, and encouraging false
hood. The raw sugar Of Louisiana has never
equsled and never will equal in value that of the
Antilles and East Indies, although it sometimes
surpasses them in color but this is in consequence
Of the age of the cane, and the constitution of the
juice Of the cane.
The author is at fault in his last statement
There is no sugar in the world equal to that of
Louisiana. The market reports show this con-
clusiyely.