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THE TRIBUNE.
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THE TRIBUNE.
EDWARD F. GILBERT EDITOR.
Iff AT AG ORD A:
MONDAY OCTOBER 15 1849.
1 T-JOITN p. OI1.L. EM..omiMrb is tbe authorlied
KcrntnrilK1 Colorado Tnbont in Iliat connty.
O'CtllRIEI. EACIAN Ci.. ia thr ilnly aulliorixcd
Acrnt for the Colorado Tribune in Itic county of tiarion
tnj-JOHN MACKEV Esq.. la the duljr aulliorucil ortnl
f the Tribune ia Colorado eountr.
Mr. J. H. Deadrick of Wharton who arrive
ed here on Friday last on the Palmetto has
our thank? for a New Orleans paper of the 7th
inst. in advance of the regular mail.
The Weather During the past week up
to Sunday last the weather has been as fine
as the heart could wish and it seemed as
though dame Nature repentant hail put her
wits together in order to make amends for the
pal. However on Sunday morning a hravy
south caster set in and continued to blow
with no very favorable indications of dry
weather throughout tlic day.
Trie Sugar Discovert It appears that
tho great sugar discovery of M. Melsens the
Belgian chemist turns out to be a humbug.
A German paper says that a the process does
not do away with any thing previously
in use that during the operation a sulphurous
odor is exhaled most offensive to the laborets
and that this odor remains in the sugar."
The News There appears in be a derth
in every department of the news market this
week. Fiom Europe there is nothing to ex-
cite beyond a brief telegraphic despatch an
nouncing that a portion of the Hungarian
forces were still holding out that an army
of 30000 occupied Comorn and were deter
mined to give the Anstiians battle should they
show themselves : that the cholera had abated
hi England and the crops were abundant.
The Rift The late heavy rains have
produced so great a rise in the Colorado that
the party engaged in dealing out the obstruc
tion in that river have been compelled to sus
peiid operations for a (ew days. To-day the
Convention meets at this place and we hare
no doubt that measures will be adopted at
once to re-commence the work with renewed
energy and on a more extended scale than
heretofore. The experiments so far have not
only tested the practicability of the undertak-
ing but a large portion of the work has al
ready been accomplished by a comparatively
feeble effort with what many have heretofore
deemed necessary to achieve so great a
project. With such flattering auspices and
whereon so much is pending for good or for
evil it will never do to desert the field when
victory has already peiched upon those efforts.
NEW GOODS The fall business has al-
ready commenced here with briskness and
our merchants are as busy as bees in opening
their extensive stocks of goods which for
variety elegance and substantiality we will
venture to say cannot be equalled in any other
market in the State Galveston and Houston
included. Planters in the valley of the Colo-
rado who hare not been in the habit of trad-
ing here would find it to their advantage to
pay Matagoida a visit before purchasing their
supplies elsewhere if good articles and prices
are any consiueration with them. In our next
we shall publish a correct price current of
all the principal articles in our market and
which we aie persnaded will fully sustain the
asseition that all kinds of plantation supplies
can be purchased on as reasonable terms in
our city as at any other in the State.
Advancing Backwards A JVfcw Empire
News has been received that the negto Re
public of Hayti as if apparently spurning the
examples of (he white man in his efforts to
wards sclf-goviTiiment and the advancement of
liberal prinriplrs has taken the back tack and
merged into an empire. On the 26th Aug.
after nme unmeaning preliminaries Solouque
the President of the Republic was declared
emperor the legislative council of the Island
having conferred that dignity upon him. On
that day he with with his wife repaired to the
catholic church at Port au Prince where the
former aping the style of Napoleon placed
upon his own head the impeiial ciown and
lie and his wife were proclaimed emperor and
empress. The ceremonies on the occasion
are said to have surpassed in burlesque the
performances of some of out table minstrels.
Imtortant from Cuba. A letter has
been shown the editor of the Galveston News
dated Havana Sept. 10th in which the writer
speaks in confident terms of the success of
the pending revolution it! Cuba independent
of any assistance from the United Slates. He
says that a revolutionary leadei has made
successful negotiations with the King of the
Maroon Indians inhabiting the mountains of
Cuseo. This tribe musters 10000 armed
warriors all of whom are hostile to the
Spaniards and friendly to the Creoles. The
king and his agents learned of contemplated
plans by the Spanish Government for the im-
portation oNegro regiments from Jamaica to
co-operate with the slaves of Cuba should the
revolt become formidable. This project the
Maroons pledged themselves to defeat.
Tlio Tchamntrpco Koine.
The talked -of project of constructing a rail
road across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec is
exciting considerable interest in the Crescent
City just now. A large and enthusiastic
meeting was held at the Commercial Ex
change a few days since when a seiies of re-
solutions were passed recommending mea-
sures and the adoption of ceitain preliminary
steps for commencing the proposed undertak-
ing at once. Among others it is proposed to
form a company throw the stock into the
maiket and build a line of steamers immedi-
ately for the Pacific coast to ply in connexion
with the Matagorda and Galveston line which
it is proposed shall extend its trips to the
mouth of Coazacualco river where a smaller
vessel will kept in icadincss to recive freight
and passengers and convey them to a given
pointfrom whence a good carriage road can be
found to the Pacific. The distance by this
route is said to be some several hundred miles
less than that tiaversed by the way of Panama
and affords far better facilities for the const! uc-
tion of a rail road. It is said that a rail road
acioss this point of the Isthmus can be easily
constructed and put in operation in a twelve
month at no very gieat expense.
Dliperalnp of the notmd lalandcn
The Picayune of the Slh says : There was
considerable excitement at East Pascagoula
yesterday owing to the landing at that place
of about fifty of the men from Round Island
by order of the naval officers on the station.
The citizens of East Pascagoula expressed
great dissatisfaction at this movement on the
part of the naval officers ; particularly ss the
men were totally destitute of provisions or
means to pioeure a passage from that place.
Rather than allow there poor fellows to re-
main at Pascagoula where there aie compara-
tively few resources for destitute individuals
to retrieve themselves by honest labor the
citizens raised a subscription sufficient to pay
their passages and sent them to this city.
(FOR TIE COLORADO TRIDDNE.)
Sugar Mariuihcttire . 3.
KETTLE PROCESS.
This is the moil primitive plan neverthe-
less it is not the most objectionable when
judiciously managed for the manufacture of
Muscovado Sugar. The arrangement of ket-
tles are as numerate at can well be conceived
each variation in thsir setting having oiigina-
ted from a fantastial whim of their various
designers some bJievihg that this plan and
the other plan vtould result in saving fuel
evaporating fastetJieing more compact and
so forth ; but the truth of the matter is none
have succeeded so well as five kettles in a
row properly set and provided with an air-
opening between the itro and fiamleau for
the admission of atmospheric air which is
allowed to pass into the flue thtough numerous
orifices in the fire bed so as to supply the
murky flame with a second and intermediate
supply of oxygen thus causing a second white
flame and perfecting the combustion ofun-
consumed combust! t J; matter which would
otherwise pass up tke chimney. This plan
insures quick evaporation and concentration
as well as a great saving in fuel.
In the use of kettles where the Planter is
unprovided with clarifiers too much care
cannot be observed as to cleanliness good
and perfect skimming at the Grand regularity
in the entire management veiy quick ebuli-
tion and a sparing use of lime ; in a word no
crude lime at all. The use of crude lime has
to a very great extent been abandoned in
in Louisiana and thfuV'eit Indies as it has
been proved by expe'rence that large doses
produce very dark siijar small grain and a
large quantity of moltises; whilst a sprinkle
of pure water ovei the kettles throws up dirt
to be skimmed off 'md thus cleanses the
juice: Should the can: juice be inferiot or
weigh light by the Saclaromcler then a small
quantity of purely limjid lime water may be
used with success. Bit in any or in every
case the Grand should never be allowed to
boil by negligence or the very dirt which
must be removed as alio the fecula will boil
in and intermix never'igain to be got rid of;
and dull grey bad sur will be the product.
Having given the above instructions I will
go on to say that the .strikes must be made
with aB much despatch and equality of tempe-
rature as possible ; thil attended to caromel-
ization will bo prevented which is of vast
import as carbonization gives the dark color
and unpleasant smell tpbeltie sugar.
It is a good plan for all whether experi-
enced or not in sugtr boiling to use the
Sugar-Thermometer. The boiling point of
sugar being from 23 to 237 F. but in
kettle boiling I must add for general informa-
Thev arrived here this nnrnW n h.rt .fc """ n" nIS P" nz : &KT to 'Mr r.
steamer Oregon. It was thought that another ""'' ""' be taken for lcIe A.rP or lrike5'
detachment of the Round Islanders would be
landed to-day thus throwing them unprovi-
ded for on the people of Pascagoula although
there are some six days' provision for them at
the island.
We understood from a gentleman who was
on the wharf at Pascagoula when the Oregon
touched there that Mr. McRae of the hotel
intended to apply to the civil authorities for
redress against this conduct of the naval offi
cers.
The men who came by the Oregon this
morning are perfect pictures of distress suf
fering and hardship most wretchedly clad
and totally destitute of the means to procure
lood or necessaries of any kind. What will
they do in New Orleans ? We understand
there are yet two hundred and odd moie on
Round Island who we presume may be
looked for here in a day or two.
The Dlfflcnltjr with France.
The Republic of the 21th contains the let-
ters of M. M. Poussin and De Tocquevillc in
the French language in which they were
written. 1 Ins is but lair to those gentlemen.
The translations which appeared in that paper
of the 22d seem to us to be correct.
The Republic also gives the correspondence
between Commander Carpenter and Secretary
Mason of the INavy relative to the affair of
the Eugenie. The statement of Commander
Carpentet is sufficiently explicit to prove that
the Eugenic was in imminent danger when
she was rescued and his conduct throughout
was approved both by Mr. Clifford our Mi-
nister in Mexico at the time and by the Se-
ct etary of the Navy Commander Carpenter
seems to have acted very well in every cir
cumstance ol the case lie says that it was
not owing to any representations made by the
French and American Consuls at Vera Cruz
that he delivered up the Eugenie to the com
mander. His only object in keeping posses-
sion of her was to have time to communicate
with her consignee Senor Gomez y Gomez.
I hat gentleman however having been dila
tory in answering his letter. Commander
Carpenter at the expiration of thirty hours
restored tier to ner captain.
To Correspondents. uThc Wanderer."
has been omitted this week but shall appear
but 231 must be the proof point as the tern
perature continues to rile during the skipping
there being no means of shutting off the caloric
from the battery during the operation.
Good judgment is required in making
strikes into the coolers ; these vessels should
be of such a size as to allow each strike to
cover the bottom of the cooler from the depth
of from 3 to 4 inches. When the weather is
very warn 10 coolers may be used in mode-
rate weather 8 and when cool 6 are iufli-cient.
Bleedino Scoars. This is of great mo-
ment and should be well itiended to. When
the Sugar becomes sufficiently cool for what
sugar boilets generally (mi very enoneous-
Iy)teim the potting tenperaturc which is
rather warm it should U bleedcd ; this is
easily performed by havng a hole in each
cooler furnished with a pug and at this stage
of the process the plug. withdrawn and it
is allowed to drain. The drainings may be
returned to the grand AYrf mixed with fresh
cane juice with considerate advantage and
when the sugar it potted ;the colder the let
ter) it will drain sooner arj be of much snpe
nor quality. 1 his is iiujy on the plan of
we renner draining in the rtonlds which pro-
perly speaking aie coolers nsed for purging.
Tours Stc.
WM; F. WILKINS
Engineer anl Sugar Boiler.
RETtJBKiD-'The pilot'boat which hroke
from her moorings at theBnzos Santiago dur-
ing the late heavy gale expeijenced theie (al-
luded to in our in our last') carrying offa
small boy only ten years of age was beached
a few mile from Pass Cavallo a few days
since. After the storm abated the little sailor
had the good sense to direct his course to the
N.W. and keep that point in view being con-
vinced that by ao doing he would make the
land somewhere on the Gulf coast soon.
LATER FROM EUROPE ARRIVAL OF
THE STEAMSHIP CANADA.
The steamer Palmetto Capt. Smith arrived
in the bay on Thursday last from New Or-
leans. Her detention on the last trip as we
previously stated was occasioned by getting
egtound on the bar at the Balize in coming
out where she was compelled to lay several
days before she could be got off. We are
gratified to learn however that she has sus-
tained no injury. Her freight and passengers
were shipped on board the Galveston and
reached here on Thursday sen'night. We
are indebted to Mr. Deadrick of Wharton
who came passenger on the Sknetto foi the
N. Orleans Picayune of theTih inst. from
which we glean the following telegraphic
items :
Great Britain The refiisal by the Sultan
of Turkey to give up Kossuth to tho emissa-
ries of Austria has caused great rejoicing in
England.
France. Great improvement in trade and
general industry in France has been experi
enced and it is still going on.
Rome. The Pope still resists the dictation
of France in tho affairs of Rome. A com-
promise however had been cntcrt-tl into and
negotiations with that object in now were
progressing. It was believed that his Holiness
would finally yield to the demands of France.
Liverpool Market. The sales of cotton
for the week previously to tho departure of
the Canada were 25000 bales. The staple
closed rather inactive and as holders were
willing to sell at the prices of tic previous
week ihc Committee's quotations remained
unchanged.
Maryland Elections. At the late Miry
land elections the Whigs lost one member of
Congress for the Second District but thorc
was no other change. The Legislature is
strongly Whig in both branches.
New York Marbeti.
Friday Oct. 5. Cotton at New York was
firm but rather inactive. Sales of 1000 bales
to spinners at former prices. Flour has de
clined sixpence on all grades. Corn is firm
at (52 to G3c. for mixed. Sales of pork at S
to 1111. Sales of Orleans molasses at 2Sc.
Treasuries are 9; New Loan 0.
Baring's Circular quotes American Stock
U. S. we presume at 103 to 105.
A Gloomy Picture.
While other portions of our beautiful Stale
appear to be rapidly advancing in agricultural
and commercial prosperity it is certainly
lamentable to find such a melancholy picture
as the following drawn oflhe cily that has set
herself up arid probably been looked upon by
some as the " great commercial emporium of
Pexas" by a correspondent of the Gal taston
News. He says in urging the necessity of
constructing the contemplated canal to con
nect tho Brazos with Galveston Bay:
" The sound of tho hammer and the taw is
no moro heard. The carmen traverse our
streets with empty drays and for sale or to
let on perhaps every tenth door may be seen.
The last year Texas was favored with good
crops and the city of Galveston with uninter
rupted good health; yet our city barely main-
tained her ground. No new improvements
or edifices ot any note have been erected the
last year as trophies of our prosperity. And
now at the commencement of a new commer-
cial year her store houses are empty ; busi-
ness men paraltzed or inactive for want of
confidence as to the demand for merchandize
at Galicston seeing heavy investments have
been located at intermediate points in all
directions interrupting the commerce of Gal
veston from the country and rice versa."
Cultivation ;op Scgar Abandoned a
the British East Indies. The regular
Paris correspondent of the N. Y. Journal of
Commerce thus adverts to the frustration of
the' experiment for the culture of Sugar in the
British colonial dependencies in Southern
India :
" You will notice that the Messrs. Arbnth-
nottkCo have abandoned their great experiment
of cultivating the sugar cane under European
supetintendence. The Madras Athensum
explains the cause of the miscarriage of their
expensive efforts. It says of the firm :
" For many years they have been the most
extensive manufacturers of sugar in Southern
India converting to the extent of thousands of
tons annually the coarse jaggery made by the
ryots into the fine product which finds its way
into the market; but the first attempt to raise
the cane was made about two or three years
since and it is needless to say that no cost or
skill was spared to render it successful.
Planters were brought from the West Indies
at liberal salaries to direct the cultivation and
machineiy of the most complete and extensive
character was imported from England to irri-
gate the soil and manufacture the sugar on
the spot. No project could possibly be set
on foot under circumstances more favorable
but the upshot is that the land taken in Rajah-
mundry and Dawlaithwarum has been relin-
quished and the cattle lutned into the fields
of siinding cane."
The Athenxum concluded with these re-
marks :
" The question of competition to be main-
tained on the existing system with the West
Indies and the country in which slave labor
prevails must teit for future consideration.
At present we have arrived at the important
conclusion that under the most favorable
circumstance we cannot hope to alter the
present mode of cultivating the sugar cane ia
Southern India."
Trial of the Astor Puce Rioters.
StartlingDisclosures. The evidence brought
out yesterday on the trial of the rioters of
the lOih of Alay presents some of the most
starting facts which have yet been connected
with that melancholy emeute. It appeals by
unimpeachable evidence that rowdies from
the Northern Liberties of Philadelphia had
been engaged for the riot in question and
were present on the occasion. The evidence
also shows that a deliberate purpose had been
formed by some of these banditti to set fire
to the theatre while it was full of people ;
and preparations had been made by getting a
a collection of shavings for that diabolical
purpose. The mind of every good citizen is
startled at these new and hitherto unheard of
atrocities. The court and public prosecutor
are doing their duties in the face of all sorts
of obstructions ; and we have every belief
that the jury will also perform their solemn
duties without fear favor or affection. JY. F.
Herald.
j- Tho Panama Star ol Sept. 21 says the
cholera has disappeared from that city and
there is but little sickness of any kind among
the Americans there.
CJ-The damage to cotton in the valley of
our next. The contributions by A aub-1 Red R'Ter' b "ie reeenl overflow it estimated
ecriber" will be always acceptable.
J at $5000000.
Indians Still Adout. Mr. W. L. Rogers
of this place informs us that a Mexican came
to his rancho this side of San Patricio a few
days ago and stated that while himself and
two others were in pursuit ot wild cattle at
the heads of the arroyo de la Garto and arroyo
Casa lilanca they came upon a party of In-
dians who killed his two companions he
barely escaping with his life. Mr. Rogers and
several other persons citizens of San Patricio
immediately went in pursuit to ascertain the
fact. They came across plenty of fresh " In
dian sign" near the water hols at the head of
the creeks above mentioned some tiltceu
miles from Casa Blanca but saw no Indians.
Mr. R. also learned that there was a large
party of Indians encamped near the forks of
the Rio jno and JXueces. This inlormation
was communicated to Capt. Ford who was
then en route after Indians. We shall expect
to hear something further on the subject in a
few days. Corpus Cltrtsti Alar.
$3 It is slated in the Philadelphia Penn-
sylvaman that nearly seven hundred thousand
dollar' worth of California gold dust was re
ceived at the mint week before last and that it
is being coined very rapidly.
ff F. A. Lumsden esq. one of the editors
of the Picayune has been nominated by the
whigs as a candidate for the lower hou?e ol
the legislature in the lourlh district jxew
Orleans.
The cultivation of the Tea Plant which
was undertaken by Mr. James Smith near
Greenfield S. C in 1S49 has so far proved
highly successful. In the fall of ISIS about
500 plants weie received from China via
London and in December they were planted
in his garden. A consideiable quantity of
tea seed was planted at the same time. Not-
withstanding the severe winter and spring
the plants which were left to take care of
themselves were unharmed and are now in a
flourishing condition S.-vcral specimens of
green and black plant are in bud. The lea
plant buds oneyear but does not fruit till tho
next. Next year Mr. Smith expects to pick
tea although his great object for some time to
come will be to increase the quantity of his
plants.
Ma. Benton and the Presidency. The
union of the democracy in New York is
meant and intended the New York Herald
says as a primary step in an effort hereafter
to be made to bring forward Col. Benton of
Missouri as a candidate for the presidency at
the proper time. It appears that the leaders
of both parties have given out at Utica and
Syracuse such to be their purpose.
A Chance. A lady in Cleavelar.d adver-
tises for a young gentleman younger than
thirty neat in dress an enemy of tcbacco
poor puns and the conventionalities of society
to act as her amanuensis as she is compelled
to lay aside the duties and pleasuies of wri-
ting. He must also be familiar with cribbage
and backgammon.
05" It is slated that an Irish woman made
her appearance recently at the marshal's office
Boston with the request that a rope with
which a man hung himself in Charleston a
short lime since might be given her in be
worn round her shoulders as a cure for the
king's evil. No persuasions could indues
het to eive up to the folly ol such a belief.
and she finally got possession of a rope which
she believed to have been used in the com-
mission of suieide. With this she went to
her home manifesting a gi eat amount of gratitude.
Slaves in Different Countries. The
following is said to be a correct estimate of
the number of slaves in the following coun-
tries : United States 3095000 ; Brazil 34250
000 ; Spanish colonies 900000 ; Dutch co-
lonies 85000; South American Republics
140.000 ; African settlements 30.000. Total
7500000.
DIED in this City on Friday last Charles
A. Brower aged about 40 years. He was a
native of the town of Cassel in the Electorate
of Hesse Cassel Germany but has been a
resident of Matagorda for the last fifteen
years during which he has ever botne a cha-
racter of unimpeachable integrity.
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