The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22


tonight were 100 bbls. mess pork on private
terms, and 500 bbls. -four on its merits, on private
terms.
FOREIGN CIRcULARs.-Our thanks are due to
Messrs Levy Solomon for late foreign circulars,
from which we hope TO be able TO make some val
liable extracts for our next issue.
The SUGAR TRADE OF THE UNITED SrATEs.-We
are indebted to the New Y ork shipping List for
the following extracts from their issue OF the 18th
inst of review OF the sugar crop of 1868, exclu.
Five of California and Oregon:
GENERAL srArExESr-RFcEPTs OF FOREIGN II THE UNITED
STATES FROM JAN to De 81 i06s Tau.
N snd Bbl. and Mat:ssd Tonsof
New York direct Ssis1 a4s7 ssiss $50 sssgss
P BSs,SS Ss 81 S sss SIS i So5S SIsl
S S;S G Ss;s. ls g; ao Sss ISIS 1855 1855
Total receipts. G,s8l s6687 % "a 25i GOg7s
AGO SSr siU JAN. 4 J. IS i8e8 n. s 49, as 1856 1915
Total .6ssas8 56687 57s@l 49l $50 as672l
Deduct exports and
shipments inland 70
ports, in isSs... 10 295 SO 4l5s 1891 s2is
625.I6s 55S77 563.Ol8 1855 4,8G75
pf ponts J si1' l. 1850 a57 m A7a $3.50 n9is
ii poeiS1 IN 1s7 522 s9sss Ass
Consumption of foreign in 1863 above-tnns 4t6 by
Consumption OF foreign in loo-tons VoS
,D,r.... in 1sss-tOps. 6sl65
Consumption Of foreign in is6s-tops is; ;fioaS5
bulk Of which distributed in lS6S 2SOOO
Total consumption of foreign and domest sugar
Total Consumption Of fsreen and domestic sugar
in ls6l-tons iOO,'oo
Increase in 1ses-tOns. IS 965
Receipts of foreign into the United States, ex.
elusive of the States and Territories on the Pa
cIic for the year ending Dec. 81 1868. were 40.
S75 tons against receipts in 1867 of $50 sol tons;
in 1866 of 493,497 tons; in 1865. 362,2 tons IN
1884 2l4 099 tons; in 1868, 243 l37 tons; in 1862,
247Ol5 tons in 1861, 242, sos tons and in 1860,
3ll 1872 TONS while the consumption of foreign in
1868 was 446 ,533 tons, against consumption in
1867 of 37S 069 tons in 1885, 1888 lis tons In 1855,
345 500 tons In 1854 1872 $50 tons in 1863 23l,-
SOS tons: in 1852, ll,4ll tons; in 1851, 24l, 42O
tons and in 1860 1886 $50 tons, and that the total
consumption of foreign and domestic cane sugar
in 1868 may be placed at 469 533 tons, against
total consumption in 1867 of 400 56S tons, in 1866,
39l ,678 tons in 1865, $50 500 tons in 1864, 220
Geo tons in 1868. 2s4, 306 tons ia 1862, 432 All
tons in 1851 1868 $40 tons, and in 1860, 4l52 Sl
tons, being an increase In the consumption OF
foreign In 1865, as compared with that OF 1861 OF
6S 465 tons, or Is ID cent, and increase in
the consumption of foreign and domestic of 6S 965
tons, or about Ia b cent.
The manufacture Of sugar from molasses con-
4inues TO be prosecuted with great vigor. the sale
of molasses for this purpose during the past year
and the yield of sugar, being larger than we have
ever before recorded; owing, however, to the in
ferior quality of the crop of last years molasses,
the sugar product has not been as great per hogs.
head as in former years by at least ten per cent,
so that while our estimates point TO consumption
in the United States of nearly one-tenth more
molasses, say about one hundred and sixty
thousand hogsheads against a consumption
of l20 900 hogsheads in 1867, the sugar produced
therefTom has only been, say seventy-tW0 million
pounds or in round numbers 80 900 tons, against
yield Of q 600 tons in 1867. The sugar also was
not Of as good quality as usual, and finding
less ready sale during much of the year, the stock
left over at its close is larger than Is generally the
case at the end of the year.
The crop of Louisiana, now about made. is esti-
mated at 100 900 hogsheads. The season has been
unusually favorable, so much so, that at one time
strong hopes were entertained that the yield would
reach 900 hogsheads, but fhe weather has
been recently less propitious, and the e,timates
have been reduced TO the first mentioned figures.
The planting interest Of that State is much more
hopeful the crop has steadily advanced from
little over ten thousand hogsheads in 1861, to
about 100 900 hogsheads the present rolling, with
much cane reserved for next seasons planting,
and already, with q favorable year, a crop of
ESQ COO hoesheads for the coming season is talked
of as not an improbable event.
Advices from the principal West India points
indicate full supply. Cuba last year turned out
a crop nearly or quite one-fourth larger than was
ever before made upon the island and IL is from
that quarter we receive the bulk Of our supplies,
the greatest interest attaches TO the events now
interfered to some extent with grinding opera
tons the south side Of the island but it remains
to be developed how far these injurious effects
may be extended, and consequently our markets
generally are IN q waiting attitude. The prospect,
until recently was that the yield the present sea-
son would fully equal II il did not exceed, that of
last year and the course of prices will depend
very much upon the ability of the Spanish gov
eminent TO suppress speedily, or prevent the
spreading Of what has become rather fOrmida.
bic rebellion.
Great difficulty surrounds the collection of sta
tistics relative to the crop of Maple Sugar, much
the larger part being consumed upon the farm.
With our rather imperfect data, we make the last
years crop about $4,000 tons.
The estimates for the consumption of raw in
our States and Territories on the Pacific the past
year are in the neighborhood Of Is, 900 to 10 900
tons. very considerable increase on these
figures Is looked for the present year, as, owing
to unexpected short supplies, and low prices for
the refined article, the refneries of San Francisco
were idle during q portion of the past year; be-
sides which, one or more of the establishments
have recently considerably enlarged their works.
with the intention of prosecuting the business
with renewed vigor.
The cultivation of the beet root for sugar is yet
entirely in its infancy, and the quantity OF sugar
made from It here, as well as the results of the
Sorqho culture. as far as sugar making is con.
cerned are so inconsderable that we make none
other than this passing note of them.
Having thus reviewed the several points of in
terest, the consumption of the various descriptions
throughout the country may be stated as fol.
lows:
Cane sugar consumed In the United States the Al
lanuc 80, -,