Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1862-10-03

AFFATRs IN LOUIsIANA.

EDITORS APPEAL: As the circulation of the
APPEAL is gradually extending throughout
Louisiana, probably some items from this sec
ton Zone of the remnants Of the sugar-b bowl
may prove of some interest.
The Federal lines of occupation have been ex-
tended as far up the river as DOnaldsonville, at
the mouth Of the LafOuche, but Taylor's men
hold the bayou lower down. The Louisiana
cavalry scour both banks of the river, but as yet
have earned no laurels. Texan rangers also are
making their appearance in swarms, and the
cOnscript act is # filing the army of Taylor until
it is beginning to assume considerable proper
tons. The number of men this act has given
to the army from one parish alone (Lafouche
interior sending 1910 couscripts) will give you
some idea Of its strength. The c~onscript act is
most vigorously enforced and is cheerfslly sc-
quiesced in.
COnfederacy that some feasible plan is not
adopted to secure the coasts above New
Orleans from the thieying scouting parties
Of gunboat and infantry detachments from
New Orleans, that daily pounce down upon some
unsuspeeting neighborhood and strip it of sugar,
negroes and personal property. If government
would dismount the thousands of rossting-esr
rangers that scOur safe neighborhoods-form
them into artillery cOmpanies-dying batteries
all along the coasts would soon keep the enemy
confined to the only point New Orleans) that
be now holds in Louisiana. The river is low,
and a PERCEPTIONS bank of thirty feet in hight,
crowned everywhere with a continuous embank-
ment, imperviOus to shot andS safe retreat from
shell, coRtne the waters of the river. A coed
road runs at the inside base of the leyees; cut
offs across points give artillery all the advantage
they desire, and every plantation can furnish the
labor sufficient to throw up in a few moments
the necessary platforms of earth behind the
levees. The Yankees say that not one pound of
sugar shall be made this fall upon the coasts
and as this coast district produces nine-teuths of
all that is made ia the State, the sugar prospect
is indeed gloomy.
Point COupee, a few Red river parishes, and
the six or seven thsusand hogsheads annually
made upon the highlands of tine Florida
PalLSAooi VIII 10 tuo OuIy IeSOuTc6 I0I a sup
ply of sugar for the entire Southern Confedera-
cy, if something be not done, and quickly done.
Sugar at three cents, when a crop Of 400, eco
hogsheads was made last year, and sugar at
cents when about Il, 900 hogsheads bids
fair to be the sum total of the available crop.
should startle our leaders into some action in
this matter. Nine tenths of the planters of this
exposed region have no idea of grinding, and
the remainder will pay bitterly for the whistle
if they are not protected in their manufacture of
the sscharine article. In view of these facts tie
stock of sugar has been bought up
and will soon be consumed.
Our inexhsustible mines Of pure salt will
however be protected to the fullest ability Of
both State and general governments.
Some idea may be given Of the loss accruing
to this State by the miserable failure of the Ar
kansas to clear the river, in the statement that
between four and Eve millions of property in
pianos, stocks of goods, carriages and
personal property, was carried away from this
place by the Yankees when they evacuated the
city The small parish OF West Baton Rouge
property to the extent of over one million.