New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-04-30


mas occurred to me that people who take the
trouple 70 tfasel thousands or hundreds of miles
rom seW orleans TO find some pleasant and
heaithiuI LOCALITY to sojourn or SETTLE are taking
great aeai q unnecessary and unremunerative
troaoie' Iof they can certainly find nowhere else
more deiishuai country than they have right at
their doors. Along the pathway Of tile wide river
constant current of cool air pours above its roll.
ing lide pcloW, and thus the temperature is kept
comfoftaele III the warmest season. a continual
DRAFT is created by the cool air of the river rushing
across the banks 70 supply the heated interior.
ST. CHARLES PARISH.
write you, vide date, from st. Charles Court
House, where is located one Of the three post
offices which the parish boasts. This "yiIlage "
contains Inc courthouse building and iail. which
are OF recent construction and well and quite hand
someiy built Of brick and some five or six houses
one Of which is occupied as a store. The settle.
ment IS twenty-nine miles from New Orleans, The
other post-oices are McCutcheon's Landing, on the
ieit pahk, opposite this place, and Tayor's on the
right bank thrty-six miles from New Orleans.
fhe value Of real estate held by residents Of the
Parish of ST Charles IS Il 800 and of non-resi-
dents s5G,3s6. These figures are legally correct
and are one year later returns than have been
published by the Auditor Of the State. eThe
value of slaves s2.o5s,300; Of cattle, s25 200 !;
OF carriages and vehicles $3.50; of capital in.
vested in trade $4,000. This last item ID very
small, for New Orleans is too near to give
country dealers much chance The few stores in
the parish are nearly all scattered along the levee
tour or ave miles apart and are small AFFAIRS The
largest and best stocked concern that have yet
seen Is tiiae OF j. b. Gassen, at Gassens Landing
and Ferry, twenty-six miles above the city The
osheF stores In the parish are Levet's Bistoul's,
Wars and Labat's, all on the right bank of the
river, ana Boutte's, back on the Opelousas Rail.
road. linus, you perceive, merchandising - is a
very INFERIOR interest in these parts.
Ihe area OF the Parish of st. Charles is 81 ,4l3
acres, OF which, Is ,s8i acres is under cultivation
and 35529 uncultivated. About SO 900 acres are in
cane; about G00O in corn, and three or four hun.
dred IN rice. These are very nearly accurate, their
deviation from actual fact being so trng as TO be
Of no general consequence. The total population
81 the Parish is about 5000, of whom about 500 are
whites a7l9 slaves and about 200 free colored. The
Parish pays about sl2 900 taxes of which the mill
tax for the support of public schools, amounts to
about $500. There are three ppblic school
districts in the Parish and one school in each and
- v te AeaDie ehiiufeh IS about thfee
hundred.
:, me faflsh officers Of st. Charles are-samuel
leoutcheoh' PRESIDENT Of the Police Jury, whose
IS at AlcCuteheons Landing and Messrs.
Noei ST. Martin, Sheriff; G. St Martin, Clerk Dis
arict eourt' ana Parish Treasurer also and Emile
laste0' recorder, whose post-offce address is st.
Shafles courthouse Among the solid men of
the pafish, are the following, some Of whom are
very solid' IN the matters of money, lands and
negroes Messrs. George Wales, Gosthene Deneuf-
ooarg, webb y Broaddus, Francis Webb, w. B.
Nhteneaa, Charles Davenport, Chanom Lewis q
pa,a pi,o., = =. W E'