New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-10


From our spsciai Traxeling Correspondent
| LAKE PRovmEscE Carroll parish,
I I'd. Crescent - Carroll parish, constituting the
extreme northeastern corner of the State ranks
second on the List Of cotton producing parishes,
though its claim to the second place is stoutly
tested by old Concordia. The lands Of Carroll are
for the most part new as compared with those of
Goncofdia, and are Of extraordinary fertility. Tie
only parish which exceeds it in the matter of cot
ton production is Tensas, Concordia is next below
Carroll in amount, and Madison is good fourth,
making nearly as much as Concorda. OF Tensas
and Madison do not propose to treat at length.
They lie between Goncorlia and Carroll, on the
Mississippi coast, have the same characteristics Of
soil and production, and like them erpopulation
consists Of handful of white inhabitants to i'm
mense proportion of negroes. Tensas has about
thirteen hundred whites to about fourteen thousand
slaves, and Madison about the same number of
whites to about ten thousand slaves. They are
both exceedingly wealthy, and together produce
about one-fourth of the whole cotton crop of the
State, while the four, viz: Carroll, Tensas Madi-
son and Concorda, make nearly half of the whole
crop of the State. The lands are very valuable,
and almost all the planters very large operators.
Carroll is a parish of large territorial extent,
creasing considerably in population. This pro-
gress is noticeable particularly in the western part
of the parish, where the opening of the Vicksburg
and Shreveport Railroad has given an impetus of
improvement and settlement to the comparatively
inaccessible section west of Bayou Macon, the nav
igaton Of which is very unreliable. This railroad
has now its temporary terminus at Delhi, in the
southwestern part of the parish, and is making
of Dude. The lands opened to clearance by this
road are Of fertile description. The population
III this part OF the parishthat is, west Of Bayou
! MaGon--tlas always been considerable, and, in
deed, majority OF the voters Of the parish, who
are about nine hundred in ALL are there resident
But they are not generally of that capitalist class
which can most thoroughly develop the agricutu
raj resources of the country; and these small
properties will soon be bought up by large owners
in the progress of that inevitable system of the
concentration of wealth which is now going or
throughout the country, and which promises to
root out OF all the most productive regions of the
South the great body of the class Of small agrcul-
tnralists--a consummation not to be desired, how
ever though it will tend to the advancement Of the
wealth of the nation at large.
Floyd is the parish seat, and tlloug u flourish
ing and growing town, is not the chief center Of
commercial interests. Lake Providence, the great
shipping point of the parish, has that prGemnence
Floyd is about twenty miles inland from the Mis-
sssippi, and is located about the center of the
parish Among the merchants there may be men
Holden and n 3 Brges ebes be WeeE1 HEqlsten 6ns
anian" is published at Floyd, and conducted with
ability and success by VIM. J. Duncan, its editor
from Floyd, and is the chief shipping point for
planters in that region when the precarious waters
of the bayou permit navigation. Gaddis q Rich
ards, Robt. McKain and D. S. Travis have stores at
Monticello.
Lake Providence, the principal town of the par
sh, is located on the bank of the Mississippi and
is held to be seventy.five miles above vicksbnrg
by water, and therefore about four hundred and
seventy-five miles from New Orleans. Lake Proyi-
dence is a place of commercial note among
the river towns, and heavy business is done
there. 1t has fine wharf,boat and an unusually
good hotel" The Sparrow House." Its stores
are extensive and heavily stocked, and in all wares
can be constantly replenshed, being on the great
thoroughfare of commerce which is always open.
The principal dealers are Hays & Guest, Simon
Lewis, A. Feiber, S. P. Bernard, Drew & Tomp-
kins, r. C. Simms and H. Stein. That old, widely
esteemed and admirably managed paper, The
Lake Providence Herald,' ? is published here 7. B.
R. Hatch, ESQ, editor, and one of the most expe-
rienced and talented in the State 1t is a journal
of deserved and wide circulation, but very demo-
cratic in its political tone.
Carroll parish is well supplied with water
courses and lakes within and on its borders as to
ensure it abundant quantities of bottom lands--in
fact it is almost all aluvial, and its uplands ESQ
called) are unusually productive. The most valu-
able lands are along the Mississippi, on Bayou Ma
| con- Joe's Bayou, Lake Providence, Old River Lake
and Swan Lake. The list of its large planters is
very long, and of small planters very short; but
these may be included among the larger: Col. j..
NJ Berry, Dr.. Blackman, Dr. Sam. Bond, Wm Sut-
ton Nathan Trotter, George G. Wilson, VIM. Dee
son, A. keene Richards, Col. 7. Stone, Rev. A.
! Hagaman, Abraham Bass, Jas. A. Bass, Dir. II. B.
Tbbatts, Oliver j. Morgan, Dr.J. G. Carson, Henry
Goodrich, Mrs. Savage, Wallace Keene, James Gal
laway estate of Benjamin, Maj. Bailey, G. A.
Newman Of whom have plantations on the
Mississippi.
On Lake Providence: Messrs. Geo. G. Wilson,
Gen. Ed. Sparrow, ]. S. Ghambliss, G. Hood, N. D.
Sellers. Dr. Fl. B. Blackburn, Fred. Sanderson, es-
tate DR.. Balfour, Maj. Walwortl, r. 7. Ford and
NJ. Ross.
! On Old River Lake, or Buneh's Bend j. B.sWil-
lams, Gen. r. ". Williams, Aaron Goza, Dr. COTE,
VIM. Showers, Gabriel Stowers Maj. Kerr, Mrs. A.
Anderson, Mrs. Helen Key, Maj Spence Sharpley
i Owen, Wm Cloman and Robert Stewart. In the
interior of the parish generally-on Bayou Ma
con, Swan Lake and Joe's Rayou-Col. I. W.
Watts, DIR. A. NJ. Waddill, Dr.. A. Bagley, Dr. ]. A.
Trcusdale, j. G. Gaillard, Samuel L. Ghamblss,
Geo. j. Hook, W. Il. C.Lyons, Col. Troutman, De
France & Hardeman Philip Guer John Il. Martin,
Col. w. l.. Allen, j. B. Tompkins, Rueker & Alex
ander Ira L. Manning, Mrs. f. S. Cable, F. NJ.
Hays, DR.. Doris DIR. j. Chamblis, Berry & Trout.
man. J. D. Catlin, John S. Deeson, S. Witkowsk
c. B. Richardson, Col. Samuel Templeton, Col. II
Short Geo. G. Wilson, John D. lmboden, Jacol
Shuwalker, II. j. Drew, Michael Morgan, Taylor
& Drew, Horace Prentiss and Gen J. G. Wyley
The population of Carroll is between fourteen ant
fifteen thousand the whites numbering only abou
three thousand. .
THE CROPS.
/ The yield OF corn will be rather short, but no
near so seanty as in most of the northern part
of the State. As to cotton, some predict that th
: crop will be third Short and others again that