New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-01
LouIslana Inte11Igenns.
The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter Of Saturday Ii

The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter of Saturday last
says
The cold weather continues, and well may our
planters be thankful that it does. We have never
seen sugar cane look badly used up by the frosts
All the cane still standing has the appearance Of
being burnt instead Of Frozen so dry, brown and
withered are they. So long assthe present weather
lasts, no great serious injury will result bat woe
unto it, should there come thaW.
The Plaqnen1ine Sentinel of Saturday last SAYS:
The cold has continued in this section the past
week with undated severity, though the latter part
Of the week gives some evidence Of warm spell
coming.
The Rapides American of Saturday last has the
following paragraphs
The weather for the most of the week has been
all that We could ask, being cool and pleasant On
Sunday last it however rained all ay but cleared al
in the evening. 1t has been truly fortunate for our
sugar planters that the weather has remained cool
for 1t has given them chance to grind all the cane
that had been frozen before it became sour.
| The sugar crop will be an average one and the
sugar that is being made is of superior quality
superior to any before made in the parish
The river, we think, is falling slowly at this time
but there s still water enough for large class boats to
pass the falls. The Rapides went up on Wednesday
with fair freight. The R. W. Adams in coming
down on Tuesday morning got out of the channel
and got on the rocks, which detained her some hours
fire occurred ut the falls on Saturday night last
by which Mrs. A. e. Flint's large ana conmodious
warehouse entirely consumed together with a
large lot Of dry goods which had been stored there on
| the day previous. Mrs Flint lost her warehouse
with about thirty barrels pork and few other ar
tcles. We learn that the warehouse was insured,
We understand that the goods belonged to the firm
of H. Rhine & Bros, of Paris Texas and their loss is
estimated to be abont 100000. No insurance
The fire is supposed to have been the work of an
ncendiary, as there had been fire about the pre-
misses for day two. n o clue has vet been found
which will lead to the detection of The guilty party
From the St. Mary's Banner of Thursday last we
extract the following:
few days after the last freeze we Travelled from
OPeousas down the country through Vermillionville
New Iberia, Franklin, and far down the TeChe as
MIR. Carpenters plantation, few miles above Pat
tersOnville.
At Opelousas the cane leaves appeared killed as
dead as corn stalks in winter The planters did not
however. appear to feel much uneasiness about the
crop. They thought by windrnwing they would be
able to save all Of their But 10 us the cane
| peared frosted enough to do considerable damage
should the weather take an pnfavorable change.
AT Vermillion the leaves, so far as we could dis
cover, were killed perfectly dead and the cane tasted
and looked when cut open, though it were severely
| frosted. At New Iberia the crop looked almost as
| badly frosted as above. At FrakkIin the ends and
most exposed parts of the leaves were killed but the
body OF the leaves looked green and the fields in the
distance still retained greenish hue. As we de.
scended the Teche the crops looked greener STILL and
one field above Mr. Charpentiers appeared almost as
fresh and yerdau though no frost had disturbed it
1 Aud we are informed that below Pattersonvile and
at Berwicks Bay, the crops appear hardly to have
been touched at all. From this we should suppose
that the cane crop in Ayoyees and Rapides mus
have suffered pretty severely.
We notice that the oranges in the upper part d
St. Mary have nearly all been gathered, while in
the lower part many Of the trees hang full of this val
liable fruit. This crop has been quite abundant il
this parish this season, Oranges selling at dol
lar hundred.