The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1862-08-01
A Louisiana Parish


HORRIBLE STATE or AFFAns IN THE IN
TERROR OF LOUISIANA.
According to the Memphis correspond
ence Of the ST. Louis RepuR,ca,i, horri-
bic state Of affairs exists in the interior
of Louisiana, as the following extract
will show
A couple Of very intelligent gentle
men from Carroll Parish, Louisiana. came
in yc terday to avoid the CONSUMPTION
law. One Of them is a physician, the
other plauter--both men of wealth
They give me a sad picture Of affairs in
the parishes Of Carroll, Moorhouse, and
Claiborne. The overflow subsidized so
recently chat their corn il only about six
inches high, and now IL Is growing yell
low under tho effects of long continued
drought A famine is seriously threat
ened
Food is exhorbitanHy high, as much
as 500 in Confederate money being paid
! for a barrel Of -four. Corn sells for $50
| TO $500 and is scarce. The hogs have
nearly all died from cholera. The ne
| groes are reduced TO about half rations
| of corn, although as much molasses and
sugar as they want is given them. In
| consequence there is much mortality
among them. The physician estimates
| that at least one fourth of the negroes
are past work, and thinks the mortality
among them will soon DE horrible"
Some three years ago, one Of the edi-
tors Of the n. o. Crescent wrote a series of
letters descriptive of Louisiana, while
travelling through various parishes. And
we wildly recollect his description of this
same Carroll Parish. II is a magnificent
sugar growing region, perhaps the richest
in all the South, and possesses immense
wealth, It's wlite population was then
about one thousand, and its Stare popalaiioa
e7ern Hoasand. Many Of the estates were
valued at millions Of dollars, and none,
we believe, at less than half million.
The planters spend the most of their time
abroad in Richmond, Baltimore, New
York, and the fashionable watering
places, while many of them spend much
Of their time in Europe, dancing attend
ance on the British and French nobility
There is consequently but little whh
resident population in Carroll Parish
except oversccrs and a few shop Keepers
| Thc money derived from the production,
of the soil is not spent at home in i'm,
/ proycments, or in building churches o.
school houses, but is squanjcrcd abroad
by the aristocratic landowners, who hay,
about the same attachment for Louisiana
as the British abscntccs have for Ireland
If the distress now prevailing would fall
on the planters only we would not regre
it, but unfortunately the poor whites AM
the negroes are the sufferers No love
Of free institutions can fail to deprecat
the existence Of such pernicious aristo
cracy as that of Carroll Parish, or to pra,
that il may be eGcctually broken up. Tn
owners of its immense plantations hav
no sympathy with democracy, and ar
thoroughly aristocratc in their views an
, associations They are, we suppos,
unanimously rebels. The nest should b
broken up, and the land apportionc
among loyal men, who will not lift thei
hands in rebellion against the govern
ment. America is no place for thes
nurseries Of pride, scIiishness, and dis
loyalty, and we must get rid Of them.