New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-25
LOUISIANA IN SLICES.
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Parish of Paante Goupec.
me RAISE Rirer eount,g-Rs pecaliasisies aud
! 5,eople- The Parish The Poifate Coupe
Democrat and It's publisher Waterloo Her
Echo - Pogdrds College Lroaia =, Grand
Lecee and Raccoarci Leues, etc..The La
Jayette Grand = Red Riuey. Landing. efc =
Heavy ptaatei,s- Sidtistics-orops etc.
NUMBER VIII.
From our Special Travelling Correspondent
F Fslss h PTn' eourrr, aes 4 ls6o
Ed. Crescent--In point Of wealth, popuiation
and value of productions, Pointe Coupee has
prominent place among the first class parishes Oh
the State, there being but few which excel 1t IN
either respect, while it exces the great nody %
parishes in each. 1t is fortunate in having TWO
river borders and lengthy extent OF territory On
each. 1t is long and narrow, and IS bounded on
one side by the Mississippi and on the othef ey
the Atchafaaya and all its coast land Is ialu gu.
in thoroughly cultivated estates, me fieh sou y
the Atchafalaya lands yeing with that OF me Ms
| sissippi banks in yielding large returns 70 the
| planter, pointe Coupee is Fortunate also, IN
| having within its borders the famous False river
country and from this, one of the most ancient OF
the old Acadian settlements, now write
False river is one of the most interesting natu-
raj aspects of Louisiana. 1t is beautiful but
| still and currentless body OF Water--a lahe anu
not river-lying in huge coil thirty-tve miles
long in its circuit but with the termlni less than
three miles apart and each of these ends approach
ing within few yards Of the Mississippi, COM
| munication with which was cnt off some thirty
years ago by the building of dykes. The Mis-
sissppi rolled the massive volume Of its tide, l6o
years ago, through the now auiet enahnet q ralse
river, and the Indians were content 70 padoe their
canoes round long circuit OF 'if i,iies
| TO accomplish airect progression Oh iess tiiah
three miles put Wheh the Whee MAN. WIN ais "ee
ter notions Of the Saiue 81 lime ana tapof caine Ae
could not see the beauty Of DONG so mach % az
complish SO little, and the carry hunters very soon
cut diteh across the marrow hecA o1 lanu .iioas
winch they couio dfag tneif canoes anu pa'.eauA
Inc waters OF the river iouhu ING alIch ! shof'ei
CUT IN their Journey y 1he w.t. ,nu n
gan 70 nse u, ana soon concentrated III .hest
force, ana tore out . ehanhei' @aich ieis .ne oiu
Recommendations, with IT'S occnpauon, gone io'-
ever.
| The waters of False river are always below
the level OF the Mississippi, are affected oniy py
rains, and never vary in level more than three or
four feet. The banks are high and anleFeed. Ihe
waters of the river or lake are filed with fine fish,
/ which caught In abundance, and on IT'S fertile
4 borders, on either side are thckly clustered inc
fine residences Of large planters OF the picturesque
cottages of the .Acadans who i've and die IN SOM
il nolent ease and simplicity on the same ground
Il where their ancestors Tor many generations hyed
4 and died before them ms poorer class OF nab
i itants form the great bulk OF the population Of
The Island, as the territory enclosed by the
4 curve OF the river Is termed They nave chickens,
pigs, COWS and ponies IN abundance, ana generally
4 q few negroes; their gardens yield them vegeta-
/ bles, the woods game and the river hsh, ana the
small crops they Ialse furnish Inc tue money they
require and 50 they live On comfortably and
| sleepily, undisturbed py ameltious areams Oh
/ wealth or the desire TO mngie IN the eXcitements
OF the great outside world. Ihey are now very
much what they were century ago, ior n TINS
section was located one Of the earliest colonial set
4 Elements OF the Loulsianas.
New ROAD. OF " RAISE river post-ohiee,
whence write, is the Parish Seat. and has been SO
\ for about htteen years. IL rs on the BANKS Of
fausse Rviefe, tour or I'VE miles from the Aiissls
slppi, ana y quiet ana pleasant place. dehsht
July quiet place, loosely scattered along inc
waters edge; and, indeed, 1t Is hard TO tell where
settlement ends and the country proper begins, SC
thickiy settled IS the coast all round It's circuit
The courthouse is welladapted, commodlous
and rather handsome building. Ihere Is Catho
iic Church mere, 10 WHICH on sundays Inc sur
t rounding popuiation mock m carriages on morse
BACK ana IN roWnoats ana sallpoats wa the river.
lhere Is one large anu heaFliy-stocked store, Yep
py 4, drangnard, and several MINOR estaplisn
ments. ihe New Road Hotel, by u me bou
/ dreau, Is very Weil-nanasea ana cohioFtabi'
! house OF enterta1nment-nnusualiy 80, as am en-
| abied TO decide rom my experience among th'
{ caravanserles Of Louisiana. Here is the pubilca
, ton ONCE Of - inc Polnte Goupee Democrat,
very ably, aceeptably and successfully conducted
f BY my good friend T. A. Roy, Esq, editor, pub
+ Usher, attorney, notary, postmaster, planter
] briekmaker, ETC., being another man OF the sam
/ stripe as friend Jennings, Mayor Of Plaqnemine
i whom celebrated IN previous letter, and | hay
? no doubt that II TINS place were incorporates
8 SQUIRE Roy would De mayor also.
+ waterloo Is 'he iahaing anu shipping place OF IN
D raise tsel countty anu - nse nl1les ifoih ~
8 rafish seae' y s.anos "ne1e she upper hloull
, raise .Het was peioie y was eioseu, anu = u
soi's u piacs' s.iass.ins aions 'ne oahA " VI
q mississippi peniha 10" anu irregular iesee
waterloo ~ .l'te more s'lah loo lnles rom Ne'