The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1848-10-19
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.


EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Greeting Bayou Sara Comparative price q pro-
risions--Gen. 7aylor's enriabir siiuaiion-.-
'sConcordia' Of Tie ..Cigpcr'-
Poor old Laurent, etc.
Bayou SARA, Ln.,j
Sept. 22d, Isis.
Friend SANDERS.
! send from the land a.
the orange and ci,ron, 10 You Of the green
clad prarics Of my iavori'e State, cor
dial greetings and warm good wishes.
nm tarrying for lew days in this sec
ton Of Louisiana; and having n few mo-
ments Of leisure to-day, know Of no way
ofspending them more agrceably 10 my
self, than in despa,ching few lines TO my
old schoolmatc. Not tina, hive anything
of interest TO communicate but merely by
way Of remembrance.
This little burgh is pleasantly situated
on the Mississippi River, in tho parish OF
West Feliciann, and about one hundred and
sixty miles above New Orleans. II con.
tans about four hundred inhabitants. md is
the terminus Of railroad extending To-
Wooiville in Miss. 4 large amount ofco,ton
is annually shipped hence IL ..c~ Orleans.
and no less than five packets ply regularly
between the two points. Sugar j. raised
successfully as high rs Pnin, Con,,ee, q few
miles above;) hu, a yet has not been tried
here. This season however une or two
planters nre making arrangements to un-
deriake lis production in the VICINITY; and
rs the crop is much inorc profitable
than cotton, we may expect, (should they
meet with success,) To see the canc usurp-
ing the pod, upon the farms around the Bs-
you. One negro is employed TO every
eight or ten acres in raising sugar.
Nature has been truly lavish upon this
cline
"Whcrc the flowers ever blossom,
The beams ever shine.''
But after all j, isgreai.y dependent on
the north for the necessarcs Of life. From
thence is drawn all her flour, beef, pork.
potatoes &C., and even the apples which
we would gladly exchange three ins ono,
are here denrer than oranges. The latter
retail nj five for dime, but : raoi pippin
will bring half dime. ] : nre cheap
at thirty cents, and fowls at two dollars
fifty per dozen Yesterday heard man
asking dime dozen for onions Think Of
that We farmers OF Iowa. A dime dozen for
onions! Those saw. locked very mach
rs though they grew in Ilawkeye SOIL
Still you must not suppose that these prices
range throughout the whole catalogue Of
ediblcs. Ii is only for the imported ones.
They raise their own sweet potatoes. plan
tnins, yams, peas, beans, cgg plants, och
rec gumbo, aud many others; native and
nniuralized.
Our papers here are filled with accounts
Of the Taylor festival at Pass Christian
Il was no doubt most magnificent affair
but was much grievcd TO learn Of the ole
Generals indsposition, caused by kissing
all the ladies rs they were presented.
suppose il he dies, he will consider it glo-
rious death; but to moralists it would be
another evidence Of the fact thnt one can
have "too much Of good thing" Iunder.
stand that ut the next ball, he intends kiss
ing them BY plutoons, or detachmen,s.
which will be much better arrangemen,
A crusty, dry-lpped, locoioco old bachelor
ACQUAINTANCE Of mine; who never tasted
.he delicious nectar Of full blown, ripe.
cherry red mouth in the last half century Of
bis life; had the presumption to declare tina,
he believed il would cost tho old Hero vote
for every bass, as he volgarly dcnomnated
ahe delicate salute. told him that that
need not troubls the old Soldier, us, at that
price, he could afford to see an hundred bals
before November and still live in the
White House.