The daily comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1850-1856, 1852-12-18

FRANKLIN, d.. 10th -.

FRANKLIN, ~. IVtn -.
Dear Csma THE banks and braes o
Bonnie Doun," may Be justly parrodisd into
The swamps and boys Of Terrebonne," and
apply to part Of the country between the
Lsfourche and the Bayou Buef. Leaving
Thibodaux on Tuesday week we reached
the Berwicks Bay on Friday morning, pass
ing over route which in time will be one
Of the finest portions Of our state. Bay on
Black, from where it rises near Thibodaux
until il Join the Chickahoula or Tiger at
Tygerville, is narrow muddy ditch full Of
wedds and logs, though am told that not
less than 5000 hhds., Of sugar, and 10000
bbls., Of molasses are every year taken
down the Black on flats and floats, and
shipped at Tygervill on Steamboats, for New
Orleans. The road by Houma is very good
in dry weather, but oh crackeyP when wet
it's any thing else you please. We crossed
the Buef about two miles from the Paloura,
lake which is nearly dry in low tide, but
Manageable for small crafts in places, in
high tides. consider the Bayou Bunf one
of the finest streams of the kind in the
world, aud l predict that in ten years, its
banks will be studded with beautiful dwell
ings & cultivated in the finest plantations
in the State. The Buef is about one hum
dred yards wide, and Of ample depth for the
largest vessels Of all kinds, its bottom and
banks are composed of small seashells, out
of which can be made, at little expense the
best roads in the world. The cane crop is
everywhere in this region, of the heaviest
growth. surprising by far in quality any
crop that has been made in ten years. The
Opelousas Railroad will pass down the
southern side of the BuGf. and cross the
Chen, the Cheval and finally the Atchaia-
laya, just below the junction Of the BuGf
and Berwicks Bay. The gang Of surveyors
or locators have got beyond Tygervilie, and
will reach the Atchafalaya in ten days i;
thus finishing one part ofthe work on that
road from Algiers to the Berwicks Bay
If the same energy and resolution is per-
sued by the Company hereafter as has
marked their action for the past six months,
the swamps of the Black, the Ch,ckahoula
and the Chen, will echo to the shrill whis-
tie of the Locomotive and the laundering
tread of the rail car in two years from now.
BerwicKs Bay and the BnGf have each am
pie deposites of shells, and from either the
RAILROAD Company can peocure enough to
grade their road to any depth and thus make
one of the finest Railroads in the World
find vast deal of b-autiful and romantic
scenery along the rout have come; and
was surprised that SO fine. a region should
be SO little known by the great majority Of
our citizens. Change the spirit of the in
babitants into the go-ahead, :mogressireness
of the age, and the lower st. Marys and
TerrebonDe will assume an aspect of rural
beauty mingled with natural scenery, that
might have charmed the soul of Telemichus
and detained among its bowers and groves,
for more than ten years, old Ulysses himself
In my next will give you few trough
sketches of life, &C., &c. Adieu. c
Mr.. CoMEr.-"Pinto' in yester-
days paper wishes the. enlightened
citizens Of this enlightened city to be
informed when a house was set on fire
by crackers. will inform them,
that the houS now belonging to our
estimable and worthy citizen Leon
Bonnecazc Esq: the present vice. Con
sui of the Empire of France, was
many years since set on fire by a
cracker falling on the roof and was
with difficulty extinguished, there be-
ing no ladder at hand.
A gentleman was thrown from his
horse at the wooden bridge formerly
on Lafayette street, opposite the house
now occupied by VIM. Bogel, Apothe-
cary, in consequence of some misciev-
GUS urchins setting fire to crackers.
This gentleman was severely bruised
I could recite several other accidents. I
noticed last Sunday several boys, throw
ING fire crackers in the street in from. Of