| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| January 23, 1862 |
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| Sugar |
| We would inform our correspondent "Purcell
Battery" that the Southern Confederacy is not out of sugar. On
the contrary, much more than enough for supplying the whole country
was made in Louisiana last season. The crop of that State now on hand
was, with one exception, the largest ever produced in Louisiana,
amounting to more than four hundred millions pounds. At the last
accounts sugar was selling in New Orleans at 2¼ - 3¾c. per lb. for
fair to fully fair. It is the enormous expense of transportation
which makes sugar comparatively scarce and dear in Virginia.
Being cut off from communication with New Orleans by sea, everything
brought here from Louisiana must be transported by railroad; and in
the case of an article like sugar, the expenses of transportation
in this manner are so great as to amount to a partial prohibition. |
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