New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-08

Three bF4Ys ON the steamer Teche.
From the Planters Bannerl
On the night of the 9th ult., we boarded the
steamer Teche at our landing above Franklin, on
her downward trip, and landed at Brashear City
before daylight and we fastened to this favorite
steamer for three days and three enthusiastically
Jonah's time in the cabin of salt water monster;
| but Jonah's craft could not blow whistle and
ring bell to notify friends that he had finished
! his excursion, and was making landing.
BRAsHEAR CITY.
The Bay City looked more lively than it did q
| couple of months ago. The steamship Matagorda,
| Capt. l. n. Lewis, Mr.. Benton, purser, makes
| three trips week to Galveston and back. The
distance is two hundred and twenty miles, and the
running time is usually twenty-one hours, seldom
varying more than twenty or thirty minutes from
4 that time. She carries passengers and beeves.
| She often carries sixty or seventy passengers.
| The steamer is not in rough water, even in high
winds, more than ten or twelve hours, and the
navigation is quite safe between the two ports.
/ We found that Messrs. Yalade u DeBaillou were
driving splendid business at their Brashear City
| saw-ml. They employ fifteen white hands, and
turn out sawed lumber rapidly They also EN-
ploy nine negroes at making shingles, carrying
lumber, and chopping wood. Steamers can lay
| upat their landing with plenty OF water. They
4 can obtain an nexhaustible supply of logs from
the swamps, and can ship lumber to any of our
people who live on the navigable waters of this
section of Louisiana. They are enterprising men
| and must succeed.
Blanchard keeps comfortable "home for the
| weary" and cheerful resort for his many friends
and low spirited people. He is always in high
spirits himself, and likes to see Others so. The
"R. E. L. House is the house of Brashear City,
and Blanchard is the landlord thereof.
Business in Brashear is not very lively, except
when the cars from Algiers and the steamships
| from Galveston and Sabine arrive and depart.
1 Then everybody is in motion, with eyes aud ears
| open.
this part of the parish. The wet, weather was the
chief trouble. Here, as everywhere else in the
! parish, the crop is about one third of what it
promised early in August
| Downing Il Co. have purchased the steam saw
mill on the Berwick side Of the bay, and the mill
is doing good business.
BOUND FOR ST. MARTINsvILLE.
Before one O'Clock on Friday, after the arrival
of the from the city, We left Brashear city on
board of the Teehe, for st. Martinsyle and the
mail boat Anna E. left about the same time. These
boats get very friendly on the way up, and
Travelled side by side, wheel houses touching for
mile or more. The passengers on each boat ex-
changed steamboat civilities common on such oc-
| casions, and one of the black deck hands of the
Ieche, jumping aboard of the mail boat, threw
open the furnace doors and commenced throwing
in wood, saying that they did not know how to
wood on the Anna E., and he was going to show
them how. AS neither boat put on extra steam,
neither of them being famous for speed, it was
I,merey with the pilots as to which should 60
ahead. The Teche at length with her nose rooted
the mail boat close ontoNa mud fiat, and then took
the lead. After passing Franklin, Capt. Trinidad
ordered the pilot to turn out and let the mail boat
pass, since he never allows extra steam for a race
When six miles tromNew Iberia they were seven
minutes apart.
We arrived at New Iberia at about midnight
and our boat lay at the wharf till sunrise. The
bayou Teche above New Iberia is so narrow as to
make rather troublesome to pass up in the night.
FAUssE POINT
On Saturday morning Capt. Trinidad had the
steamer moving up the bayou soon after sunrise
We moved around an immense bend of the Teche
to Wyche's plantation where we were just four
miles from New Iberia. 1t is about six miles from
Wyche s to st. Martinsville, aud tWenty-four via
the bayou to New Iberia.
The country around this bend is by nature mag
nificent Capital, skill aud labor may make it as
beautiful as any agricultural region on earth. The
bayou here is about ninety feet wide the entire
from a short distance above New Iberia
to St. Martiusville. The surface soil appears to
have fair mixture Of sand with rich vegetable |
mould, and the sub-strata, like the banks lower |
lown, and the whole length of the Teche, appears
% be of the red clay character, doubtless a Red |
River deposit. From the edge of the bayou on |
10Th sides, the banks rise gently at an angle of |
Lbout twenty degrees to an elevation of if
cen or twenty feet above the surface of the water
nd then there is nearly dead level for miles in
he rear, Of as fine land for farming as the sun
hines on.
court ndu uOG Closed us session When We arrived !
here, and we visited the seat of justice, law and
earning. 1t was merely the winding uD of the
business of the season.
The cotton crop around st. Martinsyille is about
he same as in St. Mary. The worm injured it |
tome, but not as much as the rain They will |
make about third Of crop Their sugar cane |
ike that of st. Mary, is excellent. Those wishing
seed cane can purchase it there on reasonable
terms.
In st. Martinsvile they have four or five tam
leries and make considerable leather of excellent
quality. They send leather to New Orleans for
ale. They have several tanneries around Fausse
Point.
HONE AGAIN.
Sunday morning we went back TO New Iberia.
md met the mail boat on her way up to St. Mar
insville. New Iberia was full Of business. and
ull Of darkies, who had been paid off their
months wages, and were in town buying the luxu-
les OF life. We have seldom seen the place SO
iyey
These banks, for thirty miles, look as though
lature designed them expressly for building lots,
Q be settled up with farmers, with houses short
distances apart. The country is healtbful, has
,lenty of timber in the rear, tine navigation in
ront, and nature has done all that she can do to
make it pleasant and delightful.
The bayou is from six to eight feet in depth and
lined nearly the entire distance with OAK, pecan,
lsh, gam. an occasional cypress and hanging
willow in places, whose branches brush the wheel
louses Of passing steamers.
ST. MARTINsvILLE.
The site of ST. Martinsville, as viewed from the
yheel-house of a steamer is beautiful. The firm
banks on both sides have gradual descent to the
yater's edge. There are no mud sIonehs nor
,oggy places near the edge of the bayou A row
# buildings on each side fronting the bayou, fitted
Up with elegance and TASTE with beautiful shurb-
'ery and flower gardens, would render that part
# the town most delightful and beautiful
The cotton crop around New Iberia is about
he same as elsewhere. Some crops have not
zen touched by theworm. The wet weather did
he most harm. A third of a crop is the usual
stimate.
Below New Iberia the Teche took aboard
bout two hundred bleating calves for the New
'rleans market. The cabin was crowded with
assengers, and we had music on the piano and
larionet, There were on that faithful little
teamer sixty souls, and about three hundred and
ixty bodies including the calves, and some bales
I cotton, besides some seyenty-five or hundred
ldes that had no bodies in them.
we landed at our castle a little after midnight
nd found all on the place asleep, including two
'atch dogs, who didn't appear to be on duty.
HOW WE JARED.
We never spent our time as pleasantly on any
Their steamer, as we did the three days on the i
Gamer Teche. An abundance to eat good cook
IS, SumptU0us dinners, with claret to wash them
own, clean staterooms and good mattresses, a
1fe geOigl nOiite Ila olorJ,, | ,