New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-11
LOUISIANA RICE.

reputation in the markets of the world
of the very highest character. McCulloeh
says, "Patna rice is more esteemed in
Europe than any other sort of rice i'm
ported from the East. It is small grained,
rather long and why, and remarkably white.
But the rice raised on the low marshy grounds
of South Carolina is unquestionably very SUI
perior to any brought from any part of India :"
Thiswas said more than twenty years ago.
But at the same time the significant remark
was made by the same authority, that while
England was principally supplied with
cleaned rice from South Carolina, the i'm
ports thence had latterly been much
reduced and in consequence of an improved
method of separating the husk, and throwing
out the grain clean and unbroken, having been
introduced in England, the imports Of cleaned
South Carolina rice had been much reduced.
Since then the demand for rice in this country
has become so great that not grain of what
can be raised need be exported. At the same
time the employment of the finest machinery
in milling the raw product has left the rice
of this country still with its pristine superb
ority, at all events at home. And many de-
eide by their preference for it in England,
that it is the same abroad, notwithstanding
the opinion of McCulloch that the grain in
the husk preserves its flavor and sweetness
better than when freed from it.
Under any circumstances, then, we say that
for home uses South Carolina rice is superior
to any imported variety of the grain And we
are further quite prepared to say that Louisi-
ana can produce, and does produce, rice fully
equal to that Of South Carolina. There is,
indeed, no reason why it should not be ex-
pected to do so. Quite the. contrary. The
| produce of lands naturally or artifoially irri-
gated is known to be from five to ten times
greater than that Of dry land having no com
mand of water. Does not Louisiana even
excel South Carolina in this respect +?
Droughts seriously interfere with the crops of
rice. Has South Carolina any advantage over
Louisiana in this regard ?-or is not the adj
vantage palpably on the other side? IN
BIASED knowledge and reflection must admit
that if there is a preference in these respects,
it is on the side of Louisiana; and that there
is no good reason why Louisiana rice should
not rank with the best in the world
We have long been convinced of this, and
when, therefore, we yesterday received from
Mr. w. E. Thompson, of Riceland, through
his agent, Mr.. j. NJ. Urquhart, of sNo. SO,
Front street, large sample Of the grain which
he had grown and prepared for the markets at
home or abroad, we were not surprised to find
it all that could be desired. With the
machinery which he has introduced, he pre-
pares it for home use as well as it can be done
either in England or in South Carolina For
foreign use, it can be exported, either in the
husk or milled, without losing by comparison
with the product from South Carolina.
Mr.. Thompson is, We learn, the only gentle
man who has yet introduced the improved
milling machinery into this State. We hope
his enterprise will prove as successful as ii
certainly ought; and that his example will be
extensively. followed.
The subject Of the subioined sketch was a
federal brigadier general, commanding a bri-
gade at Shiloh. He surrendered, on the first
day, to the Crescent Regiment, under Colonel
Marshall j. Smith, and on his way to the
place Of imprisonment destined for him was
guilty Of such unbecoming and outrageous
as to excite disgust even among the
men who composed his brigade and were the
companions Of his misfortune
GEN. PRENT1ss AT A FARO BANK--Gen Ben M. |
Prentiss, Of Quincy, Republican stump orator and |
leader and agent for raising money for State /
to the soldiers who fell in defense of /
the Union, delivered very poor, weak address in
the courthouse, in this city on Tuesday evening,
August Is. a portion of the speech was abo1t
yyas 5nu Oh IN
the benefit Of the radical disunon party and in |
abuse Of Democrats andconseryatiyG Republicans. |
After the meeting adjourned, Prentiss visited a
in this city, where he played faro |
and lost what little money he had about his
clothes.
While gambling away his money, the band was
serenading him, and few enthusiastic disunion-
lists were calling him ont for speech--he didn't |
was otherwise engaged-he was "buck- |
ing the tiger and losing his money. II is also
reported thas whisky, as well as the tiger, got the
advantage of him in the fight, and that he
had to borrow money to proceed on his patriotic
mission.
That such man should be leader ard stumper
Tor the radical disunion party is not surprising
but that gambler and an Incorporate man should
be sent to solicit money for any public Object is
astonishing. w wonder how the people who were
serenading him will feel when they learn that he
Was,at that very time, engaged in gambling and
We're General Prentiss private citizen. we
should not allude to his habits. But he is a Re
publican leader, speaker and manager, travelling
with Dirty Work Logan, Ia fit companion) ad.
dressing the people. He is also soliciting funds
for public and patriotic enterprise, and it is a
duty we owe to the public to expose him.
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The people of Tennessee are to hold a mass
meeting at Nashville on the 18th, for the pur-
pose of indorsing the policy Of the President
and the action of the Philadelphia convention
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The St. Louis Daily Press is defunct 1t
was started in 1864 by an association Of prin-
ters.
The residence of Mrs John Hollister, of
Buffalo, was entered Sunday morning Of last
week and robbed Of $4,000 in United States
bonds, with several thousand dollars worth of
diamonds and iewelry.
The city Of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, con
sumes ever a million gallons of malt liquors
yearly being an average of FIVE hundred
glasses to each man. woman and child.
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tits unusual to see anything in the Chicago
Republican half 50 good as the following
General Dix is talked of by the National Union,
lists for governor of New York. We do not see
why he should not be nominated, Their motto