New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-19

all heard q great deal about the fine blooded stock
Southern planters wont TO boast OF What khd OF
blood they may have had their plantations before
tao war am not able to inform YOU. but the class Of
animals had the pleasure TO ride upon last slAday
can be faithfully described.
sJayned foundered and blind. and with ribs 80 prom
and entire corporal structure so frs that mod
crate norther wond be very likely TO nt them INTO tue
clouds, and carry them over the cypress swaops to
tn Gulf The equipments Of there gallant steeds were
nc less frai than themselves. Saddles tied together IN
hundred places with hemp-strings stirrups OF rope
with one leg six inches shorter than the Other brides
OF twisted straw and for btts crooked piece OF am
gators spine. These were the animals our worthy
oyersecr hnd provided for evenings ride. Remem
bcr about 20 visit plantations now in our pos
session, aud which had been worked the rst year by
What kind OF animals tbese old planters may have
had before the war am uDabo 10 say. L an simply
telling you how these plantations are stocked nov after
soldiers from both armies have marched and counter
marched along this line In adj these old parishes for
60 miles along the line OF this railroad, have not seen
decent borse OK, or COW or sheep The horses arc
as have described them, the mules more numerous.
are but little better the and and sheep so far
removed their brother and sisters OF Orange and
Westeheser County that you can scarcely believe they
Mounted on our gallant steeds we crossed the Bayon
Black named from tho color OF the stream, a. black a.
midnight rode through the village oil ligervie lwhy
should have been named Tigeryle when sligators by
thous ands from three 10 fifteen feet In length
themselves along the banks OF the Bsyous and not a
tiger is 10 he seem am at TO know, and then
struck upon the Old read 10 Brsshear City There is
but little 10 describe In riding through old sugar or
cotton field All that you can see at this season OF the
year fields of subhle Of or stretching Of
as far as the eye reach sometimes however resting
upon the tips Of the trees OF some cypress swamp
Tho prairies of the West something like them,
but not so vast ia extent Here you ride hundreds
OF miles and still be below the level Of the Mississippi
and the bayous formed from II. On every side around
every plantation, beside every bayou, you see dikes
built to protect the plantations from inundaton. At
this moment ali the planters who sim remain upon their
estates and the essees oil the Government plantations
anticipating great freshet,whon the ice shall break
In the Upper Mississippi and Missouri these FOODS
however after very long intervals and IN the course
Of fifty wears benefit than they njuIe. Exhausted
plantations are enriched and the labor OF many
years 10 recuperate the soil. ... ..
Of course the plantations worked by the Government
give yon but poor idea OF what they were before the
war what they could be made by the private enter
prise of intelligent farmers The sugar mills are all
bad order and many of thom are not worth repairing
Persons who down here to lease unless they
provided with abundance OF money, are WOfnlly
disappointed and return much wiser than they came.
advise all persons OF an enterprisng spirit 10 keep
away from Louisiana until the Government has decided
upon q fixed policy with regard TO these plantations
Ii they ~ be conscated and sold and title In fee
given then oil who desire take up their abode in the
Sonth had better come not this year. for IL is too late
for a crop, but as early next a. possible.
To manage any OF the plantations successfully, IL
will require expenditure the rst year OF nom fifteen
to twenty thousand dollars, and that upon simply one
years lease with the difficulty in obtaining labor and
the risk Of having your crop entirely swept OF hy
big freshct IL not very encouraging TO small capital
ifter spending the night in an old deserted man.
sion, and days in jogging several plantations,
turned steps il tbs direction OF Tigeryie, bid
farewell 10 Mexican ponies, who proved 10 be much
better than they looked jumped into the cars and In
few hours in the comfortable quarters OF the st.
Charles. dP.