Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1851-11-01
A Trip to Crosse Yete.

a Trip to xet6s
We had the pleasure, a few days since, o
visiting this beautiful region Of our PARISH
Certainly, to our fancy, it is one Of the mos
delightful districts of country we have eve1
visited. 1t reminds US more of the upper lands
of Texas than any section we have yet travel
led through; and we were told that we did
not 90 far enough up the bayou to see the best
and most charming portion of it. On another
occasion, we will try and stretch our journey.
ings as far up as Livonia. We may, som OF
these days, live in the woods, where man can
pursue his business in peace, unmo!ested by
the intrigues, the selfshness, the scandal, and
hypocritical intermeddlings of village life and
we are at present aware Of no spot in Louisi-
ana, or scarcely any other region, that suits our
taste better than Crosse Tete, where, it seems
to us, we should be glad to spend our remain
ing days, and exclaim with the poet, in feeling
at least
"Here is my own, my native land!'
Our visit was not extended farther up than
the plantation of Mr.. CHAs. A. SLACK, where
we had the pleasure of witnessing the process
of making sugar, and received from the intel
ligent and gentlemanly proprietor much infor-
nation upon this subject of which we were
before ignorant: he seems to conduct his SUI
gar works with a great deal of system and
neatness, and we are told by others that his
apparatus is the most complete and efficient of
any on the bayou. Mr.. S. assured US that his
cane would make a better yield this season
than it has done in former years, and such
would doubtless be the case with his neigh
bors: from the portico of his sugar house, we
had a fine view of the country for miles up and
the bayou, which, enlivened by the steam
from several sugar houses, shooting in circu-
lar wreaths TO the skies, rendered the scene
quite cheerful and picturesque: these were
the plantations of GREAUD BRoTHERs, Mrs. |
DICKINSON, |. ERWIN, OrARD g. LABAUvE, Or.
ILLroN & PELICHET, and DR.. CAMPBELL.
The road from Plaquemine up is a very good
one at this season of the year, and we trust
that the Police Jury will lend it's assistance to
keep it in fine travelling order, that strangers
at all times be enabled to visit with ease
the handsomest part of the Parish. For the
whole length the road lays Immediately on the
bank of the bayou, shaded by tall oaks and
cotton-woods-the stream itself (now too low
for navigation) pleasing the eye in witnessing
he fish leaping III every direction, of which the
bayou is plentifully supplied, and with some
If the most delightful species.
When within a short distance of the first
plantation, that of Mr.. DA1GRE, the land makes
sudden and very considerable rise, and this
Use gradually continues up Crosse Tete and
he Marangouin. Except that Of a cooper, we
aw no branch of mechanics as far up as we
cent. There are, however, three stores on
ne bayou-that of JAMES p. LoNGLEY, about
venty five miles from Plaquemine, E. LEFEB-
(adjoining,) and that of Mr.. JOHNSTON, !
bout fifteen miles higher up. a
We cannot close this hastily written sketch u
ithout thinking of the fine bear meat we had -
'e pleasure of digesting-nor of the fine 8
l~uirrel hunt we had, in company with DR.. G. r
I'd another gentleman, about four miles back Il
ON the bayou, upon the "margin of a beauti-
full lake imbedded in the deep wild woods"
ut the wind was high, and we bagged but few u
and these had to be shot upon the o
and we must give the DR.. the credit of G
this operation on all but one, which :,
G had the honor of bringing to the ground, ~
1t not being dead, he crept into a cypress hol- '.
W, and we gave him up; but here again the .
got ahead of US as a hunter, for he smoked Al
m out in double quick time. te
And lastly, we must admit the pleasure we W
in bearing evidence to the social,
and friendly feeling prevailing on
bayou; in The midst of such a community tn
G might be happy if his residence was a no. p1
!, however humble. Our trip will long be 70
rendered, as one of the sweets which are W
netimes found amidst the NORWOOD of la
IS battlings for existence and independence. SIC