ourhood of
the city: they found a vent for them in the market. Two
Spaniards, Mendez and Solis, had lately made larger
plantations. One of them boiled the juice of the cane into
syrup, and the other had set up a distillery, in which he made
indifferent taffia.

"Etienne Bore, a native of the Illinois, who resided about six
miles above the city, finding his fortune considerably reduced
by the failure of the indigo crops for several successive
years, conceived the idea of retrieving his losses by the
manufacture of sugar. The attempt was considered by all as a
visionary one. His wife, (a daughter of Destrehan, the colonial
treasurer under the government of France, who had been one of
the first to attempt, and one of the last to abandon, the
manufacture of sugar) remembering her father's ill success,
warned him of the risk he ran of adding to instead of repairing
his losses, and his relations and friends joined their
remonstrances to hers. He, however, persisted; and, having
procured a quantity of canes from Mendez and Solis, began to
plant."

So that in two years after Bore began to plant, he was able to make a
crop which sold for ten thousand dollars. From this time the culture of
the cane may be considered as established in Louisiana, constantly and
rapidly increasing in its importance, until it has become a principal
product of its soil, in which an immense capital is embarked. We have
before us a copy of a "Letter of Mr. Johnston of Louisiana, to the
secretary of the treasury, in reply to his circular of the 1st July
1830, relative to the culture of the sugar cane." This interesting
document contains a mass of authentic information, which leaves no doubt
of the importance of the culture of the cane, not only to those regions
of the United States which are suitable to it, but to all or most of the
other states; and the inference he justly draws from it is, that it
deserves and still requires all the protection it now receives from the
government. If it should be discontinued or diminished so as to affect
materially the sugar planter, the injury will not stop there, but be
extended to thousands of our citizens, who may not have reflected upon
the direct interest they have in this question. We deem it to be so
important, that we believe our readers, many of whom may not see the
letter of the honourable senator, will not find