New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-17
INTERIOR CORRESPONDENCE.
Special to the New Orleans Crescent.l -.
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INTERIOR CORRESPONDENCE.
Special to the New Orleans Crescent
/ EAST FELIcIANA, June 10, 1859.
nfessrs. Edifors-After considerable spell OF
dry weather, which has caused some injury to the
earlier corn and retarded the growth of cotton, we
are now having refreshing and genial showers in the
very nick of time which will from henceforth rap.
idly improve and advance the growing crops. The
prospects of the planters in this region now con.
sidered highly favorable unless future ills shall
befall them ere the harvesting.
The health OF the people was never better, and
what more could they ask than the blessings of health
and plenty? The Clinton and Port Hudson Rail-
road Company, learn are beginning to receive their
iron for re.setting their road This will certainly
be great improvement, and speaks well for the
energy and public spirit Of the Company As the
landing at Port Hudson is becoming very difficult
to approach and inconvenient in many RESPECTS it is
not improbable that the Company will have at no
di stant day. to look out for more favorable term
nus, and if the people of Baton Rouge would con-
slider their true interest," they would not hesitate
oment in making the proper efforts and taking the
proper steps to have this work extended to that
point, the additional cost would be tring and the
| advantages to that city would certainly be very
great.
There is general quietude prevailing among the
people, excepting only in reference to political mat
tiers. That eternal cauldron, you know never ceases
its agitations, sometimes simmering, sometimes boil
ing, and next, foaming and furious. Well, don't
know but what it is best for it to be so. Ours is
go'ahead people, as essentially political they are
military in their nature They vote as they please
serve God as they like, and fight whenever it is re.
qured. Besides, it works out good results that the
people should take interest in and investigate the
political questions of the day, as they would not be
SO apt to become the dupes and passive tools of the
designing, deceptive and unprincipled demagogue.
would rejoice to see every family in the State take
at least one newspaper.
Political agitation in parish seems to be getting
little up and it is somewhat amusing to hear the
frequent inquiries as to the whereabouts of this man
and that man. So far as | am able to Judge, as an
outsider, there appears evidently to be decided
spit among the Democrats-the one portion adher-
ing to and warmly contending for the old States
Rights principles which have so long formed the
solid basis Of the Democratic party now, in con-
tradstinction, claiming to be the State Rights
Democracy. This division of the party it cannot
be denied constitute the old phalanr of the Southern
democracy as descending from the old Jefersonian
School. While the other portion, known more par
ticuarly as the followers and adherents of the new
political school and principles of John Sldell, ma.
tive of New York and a New York politician, are
modifying their States Rights doctrines with the
more malleable ingredient of conservatism political
ingredient so well known in the North and so much
used to the injury of the South 1t is this ingredient
that led the Slidel majority in the late State Con.
yention to endorse protective tariff policy, as re-
commended by the Administration under that odious
feature of specific duties, etc.. together with mauy
other departures from what is regarded as the long
settled principles and policies of the Democratic
party This portion are here called what they them
selves don't deny plainly the Slidell party and what
else should they be called? If they have chosen to
repudiate and desert the noble old principles of the
Demo cracy to follow after the new lights and new
leaders of his creation surely they ought to be proud
of the name of the SiideN party.
And yet there is another political cauldron blub.
bering up here besides the Democratic and one, per
haps, whose agitations may know something more |
about. There is not tempest it is true; but some |
thing like teapot agitation among our American
friends, which may ultimately burst that smal.szed
concern with considerable effect. Just about this
time, however, the precise whereabouts of the Amer
cans in these parts is not very definitely known or
come at-abe. Yet still there some visible ndica
lions amoHS lhuiViuHal personages who have nursed
the party very faithfully and seem to have had its
welfare very much at heart as long as there appeared
any hopes to make something by it, who are now |
very much concerned abont its future disposal and
have made quite bold attempt to kick over the
kettle at and sell the concern to eonserva-
tism and the Sdell party in general but the kettle
won't be kicked over nor the concern disposed of
until it suits them. What may be the ultimate course
Of the Americans in this parish I am unable now to
say, but may venture to predict that, like myself,
1 large majority of them will never acknowledge or
gracefully wear the soubriquet of Sam slides, for
such is the political title of few here at this
lime, who, almost solitary and alone, set that par
ocular ball in motion without the strength or help to
oil it over.
must close now but shall have something new
% communicate to you once in while. In the mean.
time, believe me Truly, yours