The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-19
Special COrrespOndenes Of the New Orleans Crssc.nt

fONTE.COUPEE PARISH, May l6 1868
| ride over large portion of tbis and two sd.
jaoent parishes Civ confirmation to the renorfa
OF the present tioUrishing condition of the croos
Ihe lpJnry done by the worm to the corn has re.
tafded the crop in many places and caused heavy
aaot Onal labor 10 the eutvat2r But the worms
are gene or at rest, the work of replanting is
done, end the young corn is growing finely
| On mat ride friend from New Orleans was
| met who said that there the new Consultation was
regarded as an evil which had 70 be Submitted 70
| and people were resigned tO its consequences but
| were depressed by spprehensiOns that other
| Affections were 10 be inflicted upon them. He was
told to report on return the promi ing condition
Of all crops and to reflect how much of cbear and
hope that fact afforded 70 New Orleans. Let the
| expectation Of large crop of coIn 10 be kept AZ
| home, and of largely increased crop of sn0ar
ana cotton to be sold 10 your city at an approx-
mailon 10 present prices, be realized and the frat
actual, practical advance made by Louisiana To-
wards her rdisenthralment viii have been achieved
One big crop disposed of at such plioes will
lnduce some immigration. second ike crop will
add largely 10 our white population for the world
VIII then learn that in the South more money can
ne made by agriculture tnsn in the Nor,hern or
western Territories or St1tcs. Such crops viii
confer special benefit upon those of your mer.
chants who, since the war, have aided the nlanT~ra
10 their fI0teFs struggle against disorgsnize5
labor, unpropitlous seasons, high water and low
prices, and will gladden. all hearts by the weaItb
1t VIII so university distribute. And when the
current OF immigration does once ran this wav il
VIII soon wipe out carpetbsggism and its blight.
Q ing effects.
We are rebuked and derded for not rnore rama.
rally adopting those labor saving agficultural i'm.
plements SO common at the NOt,h aud West. The
fact is, there are but few planters who know how
to use those new inventions; :" the number ia
still less of planters who have the means of oh.
tanning them, aud the negroes, who COMPOSE 40
vast majority OF the lsbOrers of the South, are
such unssiued or negligent workmen that if thew
were shown how 10 use them, they could not or
would not do as they were directed, Even in the
Middle and Eastern States, loud COMPLAINT ia
mace OF the deficiency Of skilled labor, aud in
the South the great demand for intelligent eduoa.
ted labor has mainly arisen since the close of tbe
Wsr. SO unfortunately have Southern crops
failed Of late years, that such character of labor
bad no sufficient inducement to try our fields.
put lDe Dig crops (synonomous with the
good time coming,') will bring Us those who will
teach the use Of those "neW thingsv and give us
the means to procure them.
The negroes ale gradually recovering from the
orgie IN which emancipation plunged them are
PeThaps, TelLctqntly,) learning tnat labor alone
can restore to them the personal comfort which
10 slavery it secured for them. The more honest
and intelligent are acquiring more influence over
Their felloW-ireedmen; al more oheerlully listen
TO, and more eal alnesty and trIstngly heed the ad.
vice of the resident white population, and are |
surely losing confidence Ia tho black and the |
white political iiineraIts who have SO iuiuriousIy
and merciiessly deceived and misled them. Tbs |
Improvement is most manifest in those remota |
sections where there has been the leaot confqmi.
nation with these noXiOuq political adventurers.
The water still covers a large portion of the |
parish and has occasioned much sufferinC and 1
Tu'nous damage to very many, but Il has not des |
tToyed as much as it did last year. because there
was not so much TO be destroyed and its extent |
has been less. The lands subject to overflow /
have little value, and we hesr of the sale of /
plantation for four buudred dollars, for which, |
before the wsr, when Grand Levee protected IT, /
the owner refused fifteen thousand dollars The |
reconstruction OF the levees, we begin TO believe
is dependent upon those big crops" too. Large |
Sums have been expended aud crushing liabililicr |
in this aud other parishes, in the erec
tion Of interior neighborhood levees. Few, ~ |
any, such levees can be made without iniury q |
adjacent prOprietors; while they protect ceftai1
sections from the water, they necessarily u1duly |
force its flow upon other sections. aud the money |
spent upon them is lost to the all importlnt work |
Of rebuilding and repsi,ing the great batr,ers II |
the Mississippi, which would protect all sections