New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-23

ele. satd-1He FHomfsti,tg Torn Of Bast,.op-
The Moreh0use Adcocate--12te Merchants of the
Pd4tSit-W0ter Courses and Bottom Lands
| Their Fertility and PGl,tation-If5'ge Planters
Crops, Weather, etc.
From Special Travelling Correspondent 5~ 0-.-
BAsTRor Morelouse parish, 4
August 4, 1860, :
| Ed. CfeScent-No doubt you of New Orleans
feel very proud Of your warm weather, and of the
hight to which it drives the mercury; but if you
want the conceit taken out of you Just come up in
these parts in the "yaller days Of August and
you'll boast no more of such trifes 9s and 1902
| Bastrop is within eighteen miles of the Arkansas
| line, but degrees of latitude seem to make no diff
ference in degrees of heat in natural way but to
increase 1t as the distance from the equator is m
| creased. After all, New Orleans is about as cool
place as there is in the United States in summer
| and about as warm as any in winter. But am
| wandering from my subject proper in the discus
| sion of q matter near to my heart, and which
| I" warm up u on whenever it comes under consid
| Grafton; and will dismiss it with the quotation
| of remark of a fellow-trayeler and sufferer that
! North Louisiana is little too hot for purgatory
| and not quite hot enough for something else"
This isn't elegant, but it's nightly forcble.
| Bastrop, the seat of the rich and growing par
| ish Of Morehouse, is twenty eight miles north of
| Monroe, and is a very pleasant little town. and
will compare fayoraby with majority of the
| parish seats of the State 1t is situated within
mile and thrce-quarters of Bayou Bartholomew,
| a branch of the 0uachita, which is nayigable not
only to this point, but up into Arkansas for four
| five months OF the year. By this water course the
merchants of Bastrop receive their goods and the
majority of the planters ship their produce, those
in the eastern part Of the parish shipping by Bruf
river. A lourishing business is done at Bastrop,
4 and the town wears q lively aspect at all times.
| It's population is about four hundred and fifty,
| and its principal merchants are Messrs Bobo &
Evans Silbernagle & Co., NJ. Levy 4 Co., G. A.
Williams, Friedman Brothers and E. B. Pettes
There are Methodist and Baptist churches there,
and spacious hotel, well kept by Uncle r. D.
Armstrong, the jolliest of hosts. The "Morehouse
Advocate the only paper in the parish, Is pub
shed at Bastrop by W. Prother, Esq, who is
doing most valiant battle in the of Bell and
Everett, whose advocates are very strong in More
house. Indeed find they are strong everywhere,
but whether strong enough, time will show. Bro.
Prother was off on hunting expedition while I
was in town. That's the way these country edi-
tors doand not only that but they go fishing too,
and enjoy themselves in other ways, if they had
a right to and did not belong to the same miser-
city dailies, and is severe but brief.
There is green and handsome courthouse square
at Bastrop and handsome brick building in it.
and the business portion of the town clusters
around the central quadrangle in style of arrange
ment and architecture very pleasant to look on
The Mayor OF the town is R. A. Phelps, Esq, and
the present officers of the parish are A. j. Bobo
). Sheriff; James Bussey, Clerk; J. F. Naf Re
e corder; w. L. McMurtey, Assessor. There is nc
other settlement of any note in the parish but at
tIone,'' thirty miles north of Basrop, Eason &
= Brooks have store; n s. Greenwood has one al
l. ssPantersve, - twelve miles north of Bastrop
the Messrs Wright have one at Oakridge, twenty
miles southeast; Eason& Brooks have one at Lake
Lafourche, twenty-five miles southeast; and b
Silbernagel & Co. have one at Prairie Mer Rouge
seven miles east of Bastrop.
Morehouse is distant from the Mississippi only
the width of Carroll parish, and is famons for the
fertile quality of its bottom lands and their quan
tity which is ensured by the spacious extent OF the
valleys of Bayou Bartholomew, Bayou Bonid6e
4 Bayou de Galleon, Baeuf river, Lake Lafourche
Gum swamp, Prairie Mer Rouge and Prairie Jefer
8 son. Only meety of these lands are under cul
I'd tyation but every inch of them is in the hands
: those who thoroughly understand their value ar
are willing to wait to get it, as they know the
will. These bottom lands may be averaged q
about thirty dollars per acre. The nplands, Whic
are generally good, may be averaged at five do
IL lars. Rather more than forty thousand acres ar
= being cultivated in corn and cotton.
Most of the planters are large all of those who's
names | give making heavy crops-some yer
W heavy: Harrison 4 Duval, Warren Afford, Thoma
'S Andrews, w. j. Averett Charles R. Balfour, W
. r. Barrow, Jr., W. +. Brown, Matthew Bowman
= Mrs. Eliza Barton, Mrs S. D. Brigham, Mrs. E.
Bronschelle John L. Bunting, Thomas O. BentoI
]. +. Cason, S. W. Carney, IS. Collier, DIR. Clarl
w. W. Chapman, Lewis Cammack, James
y Cooper, J. G. Caldwell, D. B. Douglas, Dayenpo
estate, J. +. Davenport, W. Fl. Davis, Stephen
Davis n. Tigner, G. 7. Dunn, A. Z. Evans, G.
Eason, ST., R. P. Edwards Fluker estate, John
Girtman, G. w. Goodwin, G. a. Hatch, James Har
S. Smith Heard, r. F. Houston, A. W. Jones, II.
w. I. Jourdan, J. ]. Jordan, A. A. FL. & j. S. kno
A. A. FL. & r. ]. Knox, Abraham Kelly, w.
Lastor, Sr J. R. Liddell, A. Livingston, S. ]. La
- kin, j. Lewis May C. L. Magee, +. Z. Mayo, P.
Miller, G. W. .McDaffie, James Monette, j. D. Moor
Sr, w. G. Myers, Levi Parks, James Petit, S.
Puckett, "A. S. Pipes G. B. Polk, II. d. N G.
Brigham Benz. Burnham. H. NJ. Polk, r. NJ. Rya
Jn Otterson 4 Potts, estate John Rains George Wa
dill, L. P. Spyker, Lewis & Elijah Scott, Jaekst
OF Smltn, d. VI +. laSlof, WI late, ID, lufpin,
ith T Turni, Fred Tnclyar p A r Williams Rnbe
arp ,,r ,4 = W. II n ..ra,,,a1, III
md "ai'lhoii' a. IA. ""sS' o. IL " ~ " ~ ~ i "
the WEBB, w. ii. " abingdon, H. w. ward, Johh w 20
wo man, r. IL. Winters. .z
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is ten tiIousaio, allu 'lte li'tiHoei "a 10 'o ~
ON nine hundred. Ihreehiths OF the populahon Il
slaves and the assessed value Of property is abo
w wurs five and half millions of dollars.
CROPS, WEATHER, ETC.
sin. Rain won1d he welcome but nevertheless ct
Who III t,o=,,,a = ,o,l a,.e,, i. ..nfdon41, ~,
pp, dlcted, and Will douetless De maoe. enough co
m to supply its wants will be made in this parish.
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