New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-21
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From The CoxEiss of The Teehel
No portion Of our beloved State has been more
Borely tried BY the ravages of war than the parish
Of ST. Martin. Being for two years the disputed
ground Of the eoElending armies, it experienced
all the horrors of grini- visaged war, at its very
doors. For wnOle months it formed the canning
ground Of the invader, whence ravaging and PIT
laying parties overrAn tie whole surrounding
country, Spreading terror and dismay destroying,
burning, robbing everything, insulting women anu
children. and taking away the negroes L. may pc
safely averred, without fear Of cenTadiotion taat
not one-twentleth of our former wealth su re-
mains in the parish, whist mere than e,tehtns
of the negro population have disappeared where
are they Have they emigrated 70 other paris %
the State? 1t cannot be, for we hear from every
portion OF the State that the negroes nave 00N-
siderahiy diminished in number.
But. n snite Of the wholesale ruin and desolauon
which the Northern armies have spresa amongst
u.s. there is still our soil, unTiTsled iof ~ lery
there is our climate, unequaled iof lts uluess n9
baaitb. there are our great staples, sugar and
cotton, which still command the mafse6 OF me
whole world The parish of st. Martin possesses
GREATER variety of soil than any other portion OF
TaniSiaaa whist 40 other district, containing the
same area can boast of such an accumulation of
diversified advantages. In every part Of the par
ish cotton and sugaToane can be grown with gre
fa6ility. while there are different parts more
euitaa 10 the one than the other. The sugar
sfapie. for instance, reaches its highest ana
most perfect stageWf cultivation and maturity on
the banks Of the Teche, and cotton is produced
vest 81 New Iberia and Lake Tasse. The greater
part OF the territory IS entirely exempt from the
disasters Of the oyerflows, which are cause of Sc
many drawbacks since the neglect OF the Missis
sippi ieFees incident upon the war. Fruit trees o.
every description grow and produce an abundance
Of fruits without scarcely any care. Figs peaehgi
and pinIns grow almost Spontaneously, and thu
orange trees in the southern section Of the parsl
bend down their heads every fall with an abun
dant harvest AZ golden fruit. The coteaux in tht
west while they are eminently saited to The cult
walton Of the sugar cane, and produce corn ppta
toes, melons and all sorts of vegetables III riCl
abundance, are still the lands Of cotton par ercel
lecg The cotton raised there is of a.iner texture
more copious and secure from the invasion of tn
eaterpilars, which are equal to the Yandais 0
the Yankees when they once set themselves I
their work Of destruction of human labor and il
dnstry. The vast swamp and forest lands in th
east are covered with centenary oak, gum, sycs
more trees and cypress, of easy aecess oherin
all the allurements for the industrious to acquir
rapid wealth by telling them for cord wood an
for the finest lumber in the world, both Of whic
stand high in the market at this day. But in tb
face of all these advantages thousands of acre
are unemployed |; fields once waving with the ye
low and white haFvests have been turned into va
praiTies and pasture lands; the wide, moann
forests are still unfelied by the axe and the virgi
Wild is still unexplored, except by the hunter
deer and the pursuer of the wild bear.