New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-18
Tho EHecI Of The Rebellion in Louisinnn
Ruin and DevnstatiOn-Tbe Contracts
with the Planters for slave Lnbor-Old
Uncle &amniy's Story.

one spondence Of The y. !. Tribune. -
BAYOU LAyOUECK, Ls, March J, 1858.
Abandoned plantations acres AMI miles OF roiting
cane and ruined coruGods, wildencsses of squan-
1efed wea,l. Yonder tie deserted mansion, crumb-
ling suQar-mills and lettering stearn-machnery Of
nephew Of Richard NJ. johnson, the " man who
killed Tecuneeh" hereabout last year, thriving
nlonter. maknShis 200 hhds. of sugar season
with hundred and fifty slaves, and now Colonel
in the Confederate Army, with neither home, coun-
Try. nor contrabands. Farther down the Bayou
lies Cen Braggs domain, squatted over by ebony
representatives Of The " hold-iast species On this
side rates diapidated frame, latt year subStan-
tal saw-nfll, on the other BY the cane-brakes, are
suos,.bouse vats, with tbousand barrels of good
ueolssses, calculating into bad vinegar Over the
fields are scattered moldering hay-ricks. In the
iii cs are undug potatoes by the thousand bushels.
No wisp OF fodder 10 tubcr Of cscucnt, hnds any
bu, vagrant hande TO pluck IT, albeit Uncle Sam pay
eth fabulous bills for imported Qnartermasters ra-
tions Oh these rank asters, mat were 30 lately
luxDriant gardens; these soudes that were jocund
uitb Thrifty populOusI ess what q commentary on
states lsigLie. can faucy people hgiting TO re-
tain such heIitages-bul 10 l4ht for the mere obJec
n, losing them l. stark, midsummer Madness 10
nav thinking. Bat cAacHH d sen gom. Everybody
il French here, ana the Patots 10 hbominaIlej.
We'll. SIR, on both sides Of tins bayou are rwamps
and forests bounding the cultivated districts. ALI
gato,, swarm therein ana the cattle from :" thou
eoud hills" run wild thee; nevertheless, we poor
soldiers grow bait junk, aud dare not reploniah
oar tesh.pots. In negro nuts about our camp are
luxuioGs lounges, beds and oitoiaans, TIE spols Of
African oonqaesl-~but, alas! we tender warriors
must make oar lodging OH the cold ground IN shoddy
blankets. .,
uids.Lrinnod " loyalsls" with long whips arc
s,yoo,,inU on colored asricuituallss IOw-a.days
cen Danks's late contract with the Planters where
~ Sembo rs suppoftilious party, though precious
little nc conlprehcnds OF ~, gives every quohdhm
nii nronretor "A knot.hole through which Ire may
c,ox,l back into "mastership" again. Not DAY
uasses hout forly Of some Hank cavalier on our
iiObtenea regimoDla. employees, with his "IioVoS'
nrdar'' to return poor JACK or PbIIs TO her own
a, - Sometimes n stout commanding oHicer " re-
uudiates" aud sometimes timii ono yields up the
tnoitiye Daily hear Of cases which smack VI Tie
old Eoyrt; where, for instance, young woman 10
.trinned by her oyorseer, who fIfs on her head,
wtjo be nops the American 1ag into her back with
a two-ino WnifHetree strap; or where ILL Old man
of eighty Is trussed up for the lash, because he fool
shly gels into his white pate that the nearest road
TO freedom is through tie lines Of Union regiment
Such was the case OF old Uncle sammy, an octogen-
araH, whote short aud simple annAls' may be
summed up az follows:
Born on the Eastern Shore Of Maryland, " raised
for the Kentucky MARKET whereat he was Knocked
down t. the highest bidder ut the age Of ID years;
worked on corn till near 80, when Blk picoaninnies
called him srei old story Of sals agaiD, and Sam