The south-western., 1869-09-01
Louisiana Items.

AUulS1dId AbC4AS
J NATeHIroeHEs PARlsH.-We copy as follows fro'
the Red River News Of the 21st:
Birds and Hoams.-several planters have informe
US that their cotton fields literally swarming wit
birds ofsvaiions species, which hunt and destroy a
worms, bugs, insects, moths and flies found in tn
. fields This avidty of the feathered tribe to max
war on insects We have particularly noticed this yeal
but has not been the case BEFORE in the cotton fields
as reported to us by planters
TIE GTops-We have conversed this week wit
planters from all parts of the parish and they almos
Unanimously agree that the cotton crop will be goo
one. Some few speak of worms having appeared i
their fields, but not in numbers sufficient to create
apprehension of loss. On the Kisatche they complai
of too much rain, making the cotton luxuriant but
creating caterpillars. Cotton picking has aread
Ecommenced and we can confidently assert from pres
ent prospects, that the crop will be larger in this paris
| than any year since the war.
/ CLAIBORNE PARIsH.-The Homer Advocate of tn
| 2lst contains the following
/ We sorry to find SO much sickness in our coun
try. We have not had chance to have a moment,
conversation with our friend, DR.. Frank Gladney in
month. He is riding night and day. The disease i
light bilious attacks yielding readily to treatment
We know what's the matter-the people eat much
The cotton is fine. Some few localities complain o
dry weather, but they scared, not hurt. The
sensation las died away, and it is now reduced to
certainty that the crop will be heavy Cotton open
/ iuS duu PICKING commenced Oh q small
scale. Land buyers are getting thick Money is in
ereasing and land rising in value
NARROW ESCAPE FROM URowN1EG--Heroam OF a,
| Aged Mau-From Mr.. Titus, agent of the Grand Isle
Hotel, we have an incident of fearful interest Or
| Wednesday last Mrs. Thomas A. Adams, wife of the
President of the Crescent Insurance Company, in this
city, and two young ladies named Green, from La
fourche, ventured to bathe when heavy surf wa.
rolling the beach.
Going into water deeper, perhaps, than the ladies
thought it was, the surgeful tide took them out
and brought them back, took them out agar
and brought them back again. until drowning seemed
inevitable. There several men spectators of the
scene, who deemed it impossible to the ladies
but there was one among them of the heroic mould
Mr. h. L. Bereier an aged gentleman crippled by dis
ease resolved to rescue the ladies' and dsregardina
him that he would vainly forfeit his own fe he jumped
into the sea upon his humane mission. And he grandly
succeeded He first brought out Mrs. Adams, and
then successivey the two Miss Greens. As he laid
them on the strand they were, apparently, feless,
and they remained insensibe some twelve or fourteen
hours. At last consciousness restored and Mr..
Bercier has the happiness of knowing that in the
hands of Prodence, he has been the heroic instru-
men of preserving them to their families and to the
society in which they are so well esteemed
N. O. Bulletin.
THE CorroN TRADE.-The paucity of the supply OF
cotton in all parts of the world invests the future OF
the great staple with than usual interest at the
present time. Notwithstanding the long continued
and uu1agging efforts of British spnnners to promote
increased growth of cotton in India Egypt Brazil
etc., the limit in those countries under present condi-
tons appears to have been reached Eminent English
authorities (Smitb, Edwards & Co., LverpooD, declare
the Introduction of Chinese labor in our Southern
States to be the solitary ray of hope that shows
itself the dark horizon for harassed and suffer-
ing Lancashire England continues to extend the
railroads of India, with the view of bringing more
land under cotton culture but the present population
of that country scarcely do more in this branch of
agriculture than they have already done, without the
risk of famine, as has already been demonstrated.
1t has however lately been suggested by the British
Commissioner in India, that if the home government
were to dispose of the surplus land in the Colony on
the same liberal terms the United States labor and
capital would be attracted in that direction and result
in the course of few years. in the raising Of sufficient
cotton in India to supply Great Britain But, in view
of the nhosptable climate and the more favorable in
ducements held out this continent settlers such
scheme would stand very poor chance of success.
The efforts which have been made in other parts of
branch of agriculture have met with better
than in India We therefore no reason to change
the opinion heretofore expressed that the South is
destined to recover and hold her old supremacy in
this important branch of commerce. Fortunately for
US, nature has given that peculiar combination of
soil and climate which is best suited the production
Of the fibre most in requiston in the manufacture Of
cotton fabrics. The American staple possesses those
Indispensable requisites of COLOR length of staple soft
ness and strength, which or less lacking in
nearly all foreign growths. For these reasons, we
possess monopoly that no competition can deprive
US Of The question of labor the paramount necessity
will become regulated in due time, and with such
auspieous capabilities as we have briefly noted, there
can be no doubt that the South will, within few
years. exceed all her past efforts in this branch of
dusry despite of the gloomy forebodngs of few who
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