The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-11-24
LOUIsIANA ITEMS.

From the Planters Banner Of the 2lst we clip
the following items: The sugar planters are
generally laying in good supply of seed cane for
next year They will commence on their crop
for 1863 in good heart, and with good prospects.
One more good crop and st. Mary will be sols to
s,:,e eAe.e. sna from that time her prosperity
will be certainty.
We propose that ali of the planters. about
Christmas, give their hands big dinner and the
materials for Q big frolc. Let ali the Uncle Neds
take down the fiddle and the bow" and "Isy
down the shovel and the boe." The negroes have
DOW dropped politics be liberal with them. Give
them good wages, and show them that they arc
smopg their friends. Their enemies and srtful
deceivers have left us. Let us all rejoice Let
them all have good Christmas frolIc, and they
hearts and strong arms. -
The Unned States IN five years, from 1862 to
ls66 inclusive, paid for foreign sugar, In gold
slS394S $50; for foreign molasses, in gold
$50. 07S. and more than $50 900 900 in currency
equal In all to over 5000. 900 900 in gold or $40.
0U0,000 year paid for foraign slave labor, and in
competition with the free black labor of the
southern States. Were the sugar interests of the
south properly fostered by the government, in q
few years Louisiana, Florids and Texas could sup
ply the United States with sugar and molssses aud
negro labor In The sugar parishes would be worth
twenty five dollars month. Let the government
build and keep up the levees till the sugar plauta-
tiobs are all again under cultivation, and new
sugar plantations are opened. and labor will iow
10 the sugar regions capital and skill will some
here. and the $40 600 600 will be spent in the
South among freedmen. insted of paying for the
labor OF negro slaves and Chinese coolies abroad,
We feel so free since the election, aud since we
have dropped politics, that we sometimes think
We must be reapiDg the benefit of Lncoln's
emancipation proclamation.
And we imagine that everybody else feels
better, except the political rats that didn't reach
the corn crib.
SUGAR MAKIHG.-We still hear good reports
from our planters who are making sugar. This
weld ia usually excellent and the quality good
Had it not been for bad seed cane last winter.
the planters would have nearly all of them been
placed fairly on their feet oy the present crop
The Iberville South of the 2ist SAYS: 1.-THE
sugar planters are doing splendidy. The weld of
the cane is everywhere greater than has been
known for years back, and the qualities of the
sugar is superior to that Of past times At the
present prices Of sugar and molasses the planters
will relieve themselves of many of their embsr-
easements. Ii is not likely that those prices win
decline much, IL any.
The Meschsbebe of the 2lst says Gan sugar.
houses are shooting forth their wreath OF white
and black smoke. az they did In ante bellum times
Sugar canes do their duty pretty well. Mr.. Jas
w. GODFREY, Jr., had made lis hhds. ND to the
be ginning of this week. The yield on his place IN
u hoRsbeads per arpent. Mr.. Jimmy Is his own
sugar maker, aud If we we're not afraid to hurt his
modest, we would say that he beats his elders By
several knots. His sugar was sold for 14f cents
and his moasses 81 cents. The great drawback
with the planters lie the want of fuel. They had
calculated on burning three cords Of wood per
but the canes are 80 green that it will
average four cords instead of three.