New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-30
Aleu- e9rleaas Daily qrestert.
ulaNEAY MOANING. ApRn. Is. 1855.
4 TRIP to Helle Isle.


Under the above heading, the Planters Banner
70, Marv,s narish) publishes the following inter.
1's ~ q. 4 fs.,. .,s.at,
esting editorial sketch
The day before last Monday--We don't travel on
Sunday--we started LOT beiie Isle on the express
host Eureka by invitation from CAPT. Wetmore more
Wetmore and several other gentlemen. We ar.
rived at Rrashear in the night and q fog made Z
expedient for us to tarry awhile OF the WRIT Oh
the Bay City.
IN the morning We passed Slowly out o. me r pay
The ruins Of Fort Berwick were passed BY sunrise.
They brought to mind the melancholy melnoa as
81 me las. I'VE ysaIs. y hes " nneS seSeral
Io,,sas an the hsass If the Afchafalaya, of the
sheTn,sn order near Tia waters edge, hfambles
and shickets in the rear and skin, in front, women
ana ss;lsrsn II the saar In musquito season this
I;na If life must he del;rhtfal
"a Wa enteraa the mouti1 Of Big Wax Bayou early
in she FORENOON. Bright sky, gentle breezes and
an express speed of three miles per hour. This
tha. n neariy crosses It's own track in dozen in
stancas Sometimes we moved towards Belle
Tss to the right and then 70 the left.
n : An ~ M alligator once gets in this labarynth
- ratsrs ,s viii never be able to find his way out
mi m accident. 4
N Hi directions after passing into Big Wax
gayou. the 6arsh stretches out like vast prairie.
1,ccasinpally wax myrtle and shrubs and trees of
cnnsi1srable size grow on the banks of the small
havous with WHICH the sea marsh is irregularly
iinsd Sometimes in the distance small islands Of
timber are seen The Bayou Sale woods stretch
ant Il lonp distance as the far off boundary of the
marsh.
The oniv living thing we saw on this bayou was
M occasional alligator some of them of monstrous
growth. We shot one about ten feet in length,
ana some of our palty went in q skf to capture
him with a rome and moose They came long
cdo IN the hidden Ynonstsraof the BAYOU but he
lodged the moose and retredont of sight.
AZ ye T,eared Belle Isle we entered q bayou if
-I,. 49, y. III sul..-
Irho have nassed 10 or down Bayou Plaquemine
will remember me .sDeyirs Elbow, There are
nlentv az devils elbows in this Belle Isle bayou.
"a 3s rHe Isr.ANp.
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We MADE ianding Y aD w mouay: ana VT w
palsy .a ma ,aak No as stood mon 10
sa;d Ia IA one hundred ana eighty.one feetaboye
+ha lpveI If the G11lfi If Mexico Here we found
nls1,tefi 4 sn,,are white marble land mark pro-
iecting foot out Of the ground, on which were
;inscr;hed ths follownU letters 5..iJ IS. S., We
could not understand how that could mark the
grave M tha United and Confederate States, lift
had heen' at washington OF Richmond we might
have 81 undersfood Il. So We concluded the
and ;nscrint;on must have had some
fh;nr to 40 with the United States Coast Survey
I .savinu This elevation We passed throu1h a
small ravine where q GROVE Of rather ancient
trees atm mt forth leaves and hear frnit
St;,l B;uI.er m We saw several Of the famous CEN
+yrys nsnta That hlcomed an this island several
vears since. Then higher M we come to the old
hrjck house built and Inhabited about forty years
since by DR.. Walter Brashear, whose heirs now
own the Island. FARMER DOWN on me otIer sac
are the ruins q another nricR mouse, Wncn stand
here like the ruins q ancient cies8to tell their
gloomy iaie q tae pase - = ~,
FROM 5ne plnace onr par.y haa y Us Nc, V "
Atehaiaiaya Ply Wlsa ~
gulf the vast sheet 81 sea marsh With rs numerous
bayons tnreading tnelr way tnrougn the eal lhafsn
grass s,als ~ anu iolg II ~
lne Wess y Y. VIZ IyseI oseI sne isaaha w
louHh Aplhlg nsls sluss' 9usiss .sss' aa
grass me oia GOTH ana cane Iu ", Ale sf1 nv
over with bushes, sapnlngs ana smal lress. Inc
iand was toieraoiy Tici. ~ Mosiu eoeo..es' ~
goea ior grapes aha oLlier Ailas =. runs, anu
WoAa MAN VI eMoss'els ssoee
lalns aooat . tnousaiio aifes VI .niaoie iAua.
THE CRAZY HERMIT.
On Relic Isle there Is a crazy hermit by the
name Of Adams. He is perhaps As years Of age or
more. He Is the only inhabitant Of the Island. He
lives in tie old brick house which we have already
notced. He imagines himseifin the United States
employ, and that the government owes him large
sum o. hs says no ~ en-,
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