Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1852-05-22
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE SENTINEL.
EPIST LIE FROM A RECLUSE.

| CORRESPONDENCE OF IHE SENI fNCL
EpIsT LIE FROM A RECLUsE.
CROSSE TETE, May IA.
Mr.. Edior-I do not know in what more agreea
Bile way I can pass a spare hour, than in giving YOU
some items ofthis pleasant, retired country nook
Surrounded by refreshing shades, famed by balmy
breezes, and entertained by the minstrelsy of ina
lures choristers, there is hardly any thing left, il
point of exterior circumstance, to be desired. The
country is formed, for "calm contemplation anc
poetic ease" Here, all is harmony, all is unity
There are none of the jars, the ~discords, and the
artificial excitements of clannish life. The mine
is at rest, and the senses are soothed into a sweet
and delicious lullaby.
Have you never observed, Mr.. Editor, the gra,
dual unfolding of the year, how the bud bursts
from the twig, and the leaf from the bud? Oh
l have watched these things ere now, with intense
s~olicitude and pleasure. Does it not remind you
| forcibly of the greatness and wisdom of God, when
| you see the secret and dormant vitality of nature
re-invigorating and re-vivifying everything around
| you? We pass from the dreariness of winter to
the life and gayety of spring, and thence to the
deeper foliage and denser shades of summer. Ev-
! erything around me now, is putting on its sum-
mer dress. The trees are deepening and multiply
ing their summer garbs, perhaps to afford cool
Fairgrounds to the sportive Dryades. The wea-
Their is delightful, and May was never more at
~tractive.
1.-THE merry May hath pleasant hours,
And dreamily they glide,
AS if they foated, like the leaves,
Upon a silver tide;
The trees are full of verdure,
And the woods are full Of birds,
And the waters flow to music,
Like a tune with pleasant words.'
But the luxuriance of the season is not confined
to wild, uncultivated nature. The work of man
is every where apparent. The plough and hoe
are in industrious exercise. What simple means
are these, and yet how great the ends Effected
Our crops never looked more Aourishing. During
a recent visit to the Coast and Lafourche, l had an
opportunity of seeing something Of the cane crops
of the State; but, / assure you, 1 saw no where
crops so generally good as ours are. | do not speak
from Partially. Our fresh soil will retain mois-
ture, and impart nutriment, and strength, and vigor,
while the plants on older lands make but a dwin-
ding progress.
O., we have a 'great country here, Mr.. Editor.
and we are going to have a greater one when we
get our Plank Road, of which there is now no
doubt. One of our prominent planters, who has
just returned from a accommodating tour with that
object in view, informs me that the project is eve
ry where not only favorabIy entertained, but lib
orally subscribed to. Upwards of twenty thou
sand dollars have already been subscribed, and it
is thought that twenty five thousand will accom-
plish the work. Why, only think what a luxury
will be to live on Crosse Tete then, to drive
over this beautiful road of sixteen miles to Baton
What. with fine lands, cheap and free
from overflow, what with a country of the most
nnexceptionable and distressing good health, and a
Plank Road communication with the Mississippi
river, who will dare to say that we shall not be-
,one a great community" and that this will not
be in a few years, one of the finest and most desir- |
loie sections OF Louisiana AMRRIcUs.