New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-11
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from Europe, imported with the greatest care,
planted ahd attended to by European gardeners,
at almost fabulous cost some of these paintings
did succeed-such as very fine pear and apple
trees; but others, the cherry trees especially,
never gave any satisfactory result.
| oflate, we have been told, that some German
forest farmers intend to try the planting Of forest
trees upon swamp lands, in order to see, if in
this way the European culture Of forest productions
can be advantageously introduced into the delta
Of the Mississippi. Not only would the immediate
neighborhood of our city be placed in supply of
household fuel, but in this manner, the former
source for furnishing building materials might
thus be re-established; whilst at the present
moment, nearly all the forest trees, suitable for
timber, have mostly been exhausted. To form an
idea of what, in former times, the surrounding
forest furnished almost never failing abundance
of, for the choicest building material, one must
have seen the enormous secular cypress trees, the
tall oaks, swamp elms and other trees, which now
have entirely disappeared from our view. Gould
these and other species of useful forest trees be
reared again in our enyirons, they would undoubt-
| eddy become source of actual revenue and ben
eft in localities which otherwise may not be fit for
any agricultural enterprise. This is the case,
where the ground, although subject to annual
overflow or submersion, still is yet too little ele-
waited for any cotton crop or other staple produc-
tons, because, as we have been informed, the
stand of the water in the Mississippi at the high
spring food, will occasion a permiatng of
the whole subsoil Of the border lands of the river
with this same Mississippi water, so that although
the lands are actually not oVerfown, still the roots
Of the cotton plants are immured in this element
under the surface of the ground, and thus suffer
| from too much of the aquatic humidity. This we
have been eredibly told is the main cause of most
of the failures of the cotton crops upon the mar
gin of our rivers and bayous, whilst upon the
higher rivers, such as the Ouachita Red River and
Arkansas, this staple fourishes upon the imme-
date margin of those water courses. Our own
| experience in the two localities of the Bayou
Metaire and Bayou GENTLY confirm these assump-
tons. Nay in a late excursion toward the former
neighborhood, the Metairie ridge, Immediately at
the entrance Of the public road leading from the
bridge in the direction Of the city park, we have
observed on a small farm, belonging to one of the
most successful German vegetable gardeners
Mr., John Denis, at Bayou St. John-and where a
considerable tract of land had been planted with
cotton--the present lessee, proving unsuccessful
| in his cotton culture, on account Of the above
stated cause, has actually taken recourse to the
long-trie experiment of draining the ground by
means Of Windmill which experiment any one
of our curious readers may see himself by actual
inspection.
| When in former number we had made mention
of such a continuance in 1904, in Toulouse street.
for the purpose Of turning cotton press, we then
had no idea that the same motive power should
be once more put to trial for similar undertaking.
| We have; however, been informed that the ma
chine works but very indifIerently, very capric
ously, of which we had no doubt in our mind, as
already stated upon the first occasion. ReYerthe
less. it shows the inventive faculty Of our indus
trious classes, when deprived of more energetic
means, for a steam engine, though more costly
would certainly much better accomplish the task
Of draining the low grounds of these bayou mea
dows. In this same vicinity will be found one of
the most ancient settlements in the country, the
former Alard plantation, now in part belonging to
MIR. Dogain Out of the former estate of Messrs.
Allard and Robert, which has been acquired by
the late John McDonogh, has been formed the
present city park, with its fine live oak trees. We
may on future occasion recur to the ancient sou.
venirs of this once beautiful rural retreat estab-
lished by the ancestors of the AllaTd family, of
which all the male descendants, if we do not err
have now passed from this sublunary world
There are some very interesting "reminiscences at
taehed to this most ancient and romantic family
residence, of some of the former splendid Louis
lana fortunes, and long past historical events.
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"SAvE Me FROM MY FR1ENDs.'-The Charleston
tS O. Leader-a paper published in the interest
of the Observation-Disclosures them the following SEMI
sible advice;
Colored people of the South, listen to our ad-
vice-listen to the dictates of common sense Be |
ware OF false teachers, who come to you in the
clothing Of sheep, but inWardly are ravenous
wolves These men have no desire to see you on i
amcable terms with your white neighbors. They
come to widen the breach already existing, and TO
make capital out of the dissensons in our midst
The moment good understanding exists between
you and the whites, that moment their 'oceupa-
ton is gone;" but if these spectators in ruin at
tain their aims, we tremble for your race Guilt
Vate peace with all men, and especially with those
with whom your lot is cast, rather than with those
who are here to-day and tomorrow may be far
away on the billOw."
As an illustration of the necessity of this advice
the Leader quotes the following from the letter of
a Vermont white man named Webster who is play
ing preacher to the Charleston negroes. 1t de-
scnbes his success in plundering them, under the
guise of commencing their liberality:
"a few evenings since, when the people were
invited to bring forward their offerings, one sister
brought along ten dollars in gold. 1t had been
CLEANED from her scanty income by the selfdenial
OF years, for the purpose Of paying the expenses
which would be required to give her a decent bu-
rial, when death should relieve her from the tolls
and burdens of her earthly pilgrimage. We have
now lying upon our desk before US sixteen silver
quarters which have been brought in by poor
woman, who before had paid dollar in for the
church, all she had, except this little pile of silver
which was the savings of years laid by for time
of need to afford her medicine and aid in the hour
of sickness and pain.'
The Leader says the man who would pocket
such money, and boast over it, would "take the
last peck of hominy," and rob an infant of its
bread and milk"
A sooToH srRrKE.--The journeymen tailors of
Edinburg lately made "a strike" for higher wages.
After holding off for two or three weeks the mat
ter was compromised by an agreement of the en-