New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-10-19
AvoYELLEs CORRESPONDENCE,

j .-r AvoYELLEs, La, sth Oct, 1867.
Dear Crescent !: The sky is bright above us to-day,
notwithstanding the very heavy rains with which
have been visited during the early part Of the week
The cotton crop, which is very short at best, can
but have been somewhat injured by the torrents that
have just fallen upon it. The planters gathering
it in as rapidly as the weather will permit and will
probably have finished the merry days of Christ
mas come upon us. Sugar planters are everywhere
busily engaged in preparing for the rolling season.
The cane looks remarkably WE'LL and will doubtless
make large YIELD if it be not too green. This is to
be feared for the is already far advanced and
it continues to grow and to look unripe almost
it did month ago. There is very little time left it
to mature and rpen. The crop of corn was never
better. Everybody has made asuperabundance even
in the prairies, where you know nothing flourish
ordinarily but crawfish.
In the political phases of parish, there is such
a variety of sentiment, and such an antagonsm of
aspirations among the sap:jack-salmagundi and ne
grocratc champions, that it is difficult for outsider
like myself to conjecture what will be the result.
There never was such a caterwauling carried on in
the ranks Of the faithful as is going on among them
at the present time In the parish, we have an old
and faithful Democrat running candidate for the
Recorders office against the nominee of the party
He is heightened and honorable gentleman, who
scorns the ntrgues usually yea universally resorted
to by ambitious modern Democrats to secure nomna-
tons. He has SEEM others have, that here no man
need offer his name to convention who has not pre-.
viousy stocked it, and he has resolved to lend his in
auence and his energies to put it down. would not
be venturing too much to say that there is not a
parish in the State where few and leaders,
forming political Democratic clique do not dictate
to the masses whom they shall vote for.
Such is the trckery and contemplate wire.pulling
resored to nowadays by that party, that it is per-
ecy useless to call conventions of the people, This
every intelligent man knows 1t has been peculiarly
in Avoyelles, but do hope that the present re-
buke will bring it somewhere in the neighborhood of
political decency, if there be any such place on the
map of modern Democracy. I notice correspond
ence in the Baton Rouge Advocate, in which the
writer asserts that the Democracy in this parish had
been divided but that all its dissensions were healed
by the nomination of j. Ducote for the Office of
Recorder. The writer's GO imagination bodies forth
the form of things unseen, and gives to airy nothing
a local habitation and name" Mr. Ducote's nomi.
nation left the party precisely ,chere it found it, and
the writer of that communication may rest assured
that untlthe ides of November will remain in statt
quo. The convention did ratify the nomination OF
the Hon. Tainted Green Davidson, but this had no
tendency to harmonize the party.
! Although Davdson's nomination has been ratified
by the clique in this parish, Mr. sigurs chances here
are as good his. This is secret and the know
ing ones say if he will come here and make speech
it will have the effect of winning him the parish
They may talk as they please about harmony here
but there is none. More anon.
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