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 2¼a3¾c. 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.