Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-12-28
Continued Improvements in Plaque

We are glad to perceive the Improvements tina
Mr.. LOUIS DEsoBRY, ST., is making upon his pro
perty on Bank street. Three two story bricl
stores are now going up on the corner of Banl
and Main sts, and similar improvements, we un
~derstand, are about TO be commenced by the same
gentleman, on the corner of Bank and Plaquemine
streets. 1t is mainly through such energy and en-.
terprise as this, that individuals as well as corpor-
atoms, increase their wealth and reputation. &c.
rard, Astor and McDonough, acquired their inn
mense wealth principally through this description
of policy for increasing their means. 1t is the
best and suret way of realizing the value of ones
property. Buildings for mercantile purposes. or
as residences for families, are monuments of our
success and public spirit, and carry upon their very
walls the indisputable evidence of industry and
prosperity.
At present, we do not believe that there is a va
cant house in Plaquemine, either as a dwelling OF
for a store or shop; and although, for the last three
years, the rearing of buildings of every descrip-
ton has gone forward with a rapidity unequaled,
we venfnre to say, by any other town in the inte-
rior of the State, it is nevertheless the fact, that
this increase of dwellings has not in the least de-
creased the want Of them; and at the present
they are more in demand, perhaps, than at
any former period. We trust that other capitalists
will follow the example Of Mr.. DEsoDRy: and
erect buildings of some description wherever they
nave sufficient space Of ground upon which to put
They do not consider, probably, that. by
thus building up the town, their property will be
rising in value in the same ratio. 1t is the safest, |
and at the same time the best interest that a man
can secure for his unemployed capital-and the best
that can be left to a family. Indeed, we
never knew or heard of an instance where a man
lalled to be prosperous who expended his means in
his ground property. True, there are
instances OF misfortune in this way, such as occur
red in this town the last tall-but such events are
unprecedented.
P%laquemine is certainly destined 10 increase in
and magnitude as time advances, and to
IN extent that no human intellect can pretend to
hvlne. 1t is evidence Of extreme ignorance and
hort-sightedness to think otherwise. Being the
apltal OF a Parish of nearly 100000 of real
state-its population rapidly increasing, and new
a
nd splendid sugar-houses annually sending up for
he first time those white wreaths of steam. which
peak so powerfully Of wealth, enterprise and in
it at all extravagant to believe that the
My town IN the heart of all these riches can do {
than prosper in proportion to the in { {
easing wealth that is accumulating around it - +;
hort-sighted men, whose visions only ncompas
lie present. may rest satisfied with little: those,
hose minds are capable of grasping the future,
alize the surest and greatest wealth, while they
We evidence Of a genius superior to the majority Il
mankind. f
We trust that these suggestions and reflections. n
.stily and irnperfectly thrown together, will not
entirely devoid Of interest and value-but ava
ming in the minds of some a strain of thought
t hitherto entertained, be the means of exciting CT
% action faculties of enterprise that have long il
en- dormant; yet, once aroused, have the essence ri
that animation which leads to works Of great be
rsonal value, as well as public utility and benefit. W