The daily Mississippi clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1866, 1866-04-28
Correspondence of HE Clarion.
LETTER FROM NEW ORLEANS.

a free State now. If our river was only as
bridgeable as Pearl, how gladly would We
/ bridget. But it is neither bridgeable nor
abridgeable. as the crevasses constantly oc-
/ curing show. The one on the right bank,
/ about six miles below AlgieTs, was closed
/ this week and just then another Occurred
/ twenty miles below on this sideinthe neigh
4 borhood Of Dan Hiekock.
/ You may know Dan He used TO be the
! Bonifacs at the lake end of the shell road.
/ and acquired there the faculty Of telling
/ such enormous tales of the wonders to be
seen in that amphibious neighborhood, that
! after the city was taken by the Yanks, and
/ information from "our people" who were
| outside the lines got in only by stealth, Dan
used to amuse US with the stretehingest
stories of great Confederate victories you
/ ever heard. Grant was annihilated before
/ Vicksburg at least ten times, and every
/ where else there were overwhelming VIC
/ tories over him, Sherman, ROsencrans, etc
/ At last the people got to doubling every
/ thing they heard until the reply was usual
! " made as to an alleged success, that's
| one of Dan Hickock's stories 2" So tins
! last crevasse turns out not half as bad as
reported by Dan, and is likely TO be easily
closed, and to do little damage before closed,
butunlike the victories, it is a sure enough
crevasse.
Sometimes / cannot but wish that the
/ crevasses were let alone until the annual &C
emulation of soil, which the river would
bring to them, and finally all become high
land. Straighten the river almost ike d
canal by cutting through all bends and let
| it 20 over the banks when too low naturally
TO prevent, and in a few years we would
have a permanent channel and high banks
/ on either side, and ten times Is much till1-
| BILE land as we now have By the present
/ system the interests Of the whole State and
of posterity are sacrificed to the annual
wants Of a few front proprietors, who would
/ themselves be benefited by letting the river
/ dow over their lands, if they would mean
| while 20 10 the highlands and raise crops
until their river lands rise above the level
Of overflow
Our people complain heavily OF your
| Legislature requiring so heavy license for
steamboats, to communicate with Mssis-
sippi's sea shore line As the people from
| here may be said to have supported all that
part of Hancock, Harrison and Jackson
counties-very near the whole Of them
they look on it as a tax on charity. if not on
| knowledge 1t is a very poor plan to drive
/ away customers who might prefer in such a
case to keep on to Point Clear or Pensacola.
There is a new boat now running to the
Mississippi watering places, the beautiful
steamer Cameha, which is as pretty as its
name and as swift as a bird, aud it is under
the command of Capt 4. P. Boardman who
used to run on Pearl river when you were
boy, Colonel
Cotton has the sore shin now in this
market, and seems likely not to recover soon
from it, l beseech all who were planters
not to hold on to the idea of cotton planting
with so much tenaoity-to change their
course and make all the corn and other pro
vision crops they can. If we would only
raise cotton when we were sure that we
would not have to buy any provisions from
! the North OF West, how soon would we find
! those regions willing TO do US justice We
| have preached the kingly character Of cot
! ton so long that we have deceived ourselves
but bread and meat are kRg after all If
we raised cotton only to manufacture it
ourselves, and bought only such things as
we could. not furnish the material of its
! growth or manufacture, we would be indie
| pendent, and in few years we would have
| the votes to declare us so.
We have a little later news from Mexico
The few troops in Mexico are gradually
thinning off the bands of marauders. If
Cortina and the Canales family could be
killed men who have been notorious. rob
beers for three generations, Northern Mex
leo would see some peace. can see no hope
for Mexico unless Maximilian's or some such
government succeeds. The people of that
country are, as mass, INDECENT and vicious
and the educated and intelligent minority
cannot control them. A few of them are
| imbued with the widest red republican and
intidel notions of France and Germany, and
are in that sense republicans, but the mass
| of them see safety and sure progress only in
| a government which shall bear strict and
! Just rule over the idle, lazy, thievish and
| dissolute multitude l should like TO see
Mexico "americanized," if by that phrase it
| is meant only that the order and industry
and love of law and justice, which once
| prevailed here should be established there ;
| but think it just as well that it should be
| Germanized to the like extent and
! purpose Whenever law and order"
loving population prevails there is
sufficient numbers to control the masses,
Mexico will become one of the most useful
countries in the world to other nations, and
to us of the South, from contiguity more
than to any others. l should like to see this
population composed in part of men of all
civilized nations, added to the enlightened
and educated Mexicans, who are the equals
of any in all the arts TO which they apply
themselves, and therefore l hope to see
Mexico not only Americanized, but CALI
cised, Germanized, Anglicised, Hibernieised
| and Maximihanised, but still remain a truly
| distinct Mexico of the Mexicans and bull
| wark against the progress of fanaticism red
repubIcanism, and the tyranny of mobs and
/ popular tumults,
| nave written you heretofore of our NOM
! nations for parish officers for this city and
| AlgierS. There is some doubts expressed as
| TO the success of the Democratic" ticket.
| The fact is that there is no old Democrat on
| lt-that mo Irish need apply seemed TO be
/ the handwriting on the wall The Demo
/ cratic working mems" nominations do not
suit very well it is true. for man by the
name of Bell, who was in the late Tory
mayoralty, for while, is nominated for
Sheriff, and a fellow named Bovee, who was
a member of the notorious Legislature of
ls64-5 and who came here as an Iowa OF
Wisconsin soldier, for clerk of the 9Th Dis
trict Court; but as the Uuiou men will sup
port that ticket, and as the malcontents
With the other are numerous, it is feared
that some names on the National Democrat
ie ticket viii fall behind the requisite vote
to carry them through. 1 regret this very
| much, because it viii throw immense pat
ronage into the hands of men who grew
rich on the spoils taken from our people
little more hberality on the part of the
new allies OF the Democratic party, who Sc
cured the place of delegates in the eonven-
ton, would have remedied all this The
spirit displayed is just that which | am
sorry to see exhibited by my good friend.
Judge Sharkey, in his testimony before the
misealled Reconstruction Committee. who
regrets that all the officers chosen at the