Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-04-26
A REIGN OF DULLNEsS- BRIGHTER
SKIES BEYOND.

to this effect. The temporary vista
ton Of an epidemical disease several
weeks since, served to excite, and
unnecessarily to prolong an alarm toe
deep-seated in its character abroad
to incline our friends in the interior
to a continuance or early resumption
of their ordinary personal and bust
ness relations with our community,
Add to this the impracticable condl-
ton Of the public roads, bad at best
at the close of the war, but made
subsequently worse from usage, FREE
quent rains and want Of reparations);
a busy planting time and the uncer-
tainties attending experimental crop
ping under a new labor system and
with limited means, and we have the
| secret of the past few weeks dearth
Of business in our midst.
But with all such drawbacks and
| the pervading dullness consequent
! upon them, we think it does not re-
quire a very long look ahead to dis
Germ the rays of brighter prospect.
The season is propitious; labor has
become more settled and better regu-
lated, and the crops are looking gen.
orally very fine. Here, on our up
lands, which bid defiance to the raw
aging incursions of the old "Father
| of Waters" those planters who have
full available forces, will, all things
else being equal, be apt to realize
fair average yields. The same may
be said also of those planting on the
river bottoms, whose places are Sc
curely protected from overflow.
The fear Of low prices for their
| principal staple, excites uneasiness
in the minds of planters, lest they
may not be rewarded to a degree
commensurate with their tolls. There
is reason to justify such fears, as
circumstances now appear, and the
only relief we can see against appre-
hended results in this connection,
lies in possible reaction of prices
in the cotton market between this
and the coming autumn; or a reduc-
ton in prices of plantation supplies
corresponding with the diminished
market value of the staple. The de-
cline in gold, which has had its effect
on cotton, is also producing like
effects on other commodities, so that
there is room to hope that the losses
will not be altogether on one side,
and that what our planters lose in
one way they will be enabled to
make up in another.
With good crops at remunerative
prices, our planters will be stimulated
to enlarged efforts the forthcoming
season, and a revival in business
must naturally ensue; for where the
agricultural interests prosper, the in
terests general y of community are
made to prosper as surely as the
earth receives its light from the sun.
We hope that our fellow-citizens
will not lose sight of the absolute
necessity and Importance of inaugu-
rating some feasible system Of road
making. The bad condition of our
public roads is chronic eyesore and
hindrance to the public comfort and
prosperity, and has done its full
share toward diverting the trade of
our city into other channels. Some
thing should be done, and "twere
well 'twere done quickly" to arrest
the evil. Let us not hear for another
season the cry of stagnation in bust
ness on account Of impracticable
roads. Our fellow-citizens owe it to
one another to bestir themselves with
alacrity in this matter; and the po-
lice jury of our parish owe it to their
constituents to develop whatever tact,
ingenuity or resources they can COM