New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-11-11
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orsIcJAI JOURNAL OF THE UNITED STATS
arelclAL JOURNAL OF NEW ORLEANS
. MoDEL LETTER TO A POLICE JURY.
A Plea for a New Road.

dressed to the President Of the Ponce jury
OF Rapides parish:
TO Mr. James r. Andrews, President O. tHe ioiice
Jury of Rapides parish;
y SIR-At your last meeting youf honoraoie
body, see, has given us the ancient prIVn-
egc Of a road "away down east" II our re-
ZION in this remote and happy valley 81
magnolias," the "lauros grandlnora, the
norus alba, the white and the m0rus nIsra,
the black mulberry, the various 0noes on
eaks. ouercos rubra, Q. priEOs, Q. alba, the
elegant white ash, trdrin1sS ercetstor, the
beech trees celebrated by Virgil, Fagus Sy-
xaticus, the dog wood, cOr,,us HOfsdG, besides
MANY Others OF much value, but OF less DIS
tinction, amid whose branches waroles the
field rObin-turgOs migratorious 4. poly
glottos, the hooking bird, T. melodies, the
wood thrush, oriolus Baltimore, the baltl-
more bird, manula f1ammul meruia famm'l-
Ia sand hill red bird, of South Carolina,
while the wild turkey, Meleagris Amen
canus, the partridge, tetraO minor =. cotuf-
nix. whilst high up in the air, the turkey
buzzard. vultur aura, the carbon croY OF
black yulture, vultur atratus, the L. u IA" -
falco piscatoriorus, the fOrked tai haWh,
falco fureatus, sail away in geohetorlcal
gyrations with noiseless ICING but eagereyes
in quest of prey. which they poN'7e Upon
with extraordinary raridlty
their g leaves have their time to Ia.." Here
the wild deer and wolf TO IL covert can
fee
Once in a season, too they taste Of love
Only the beast of reason, Is rs slave,
And in that folly drudges all tie year
- Here, too, among the green Gins you
NAV, at long intervals, by luck. IND a log
cabin, where good cheer ana q Iriehuis ~
ceptiOn will be given you, OF 'boTny ciaD,
harv bopov yenison pumpkins and
POTATOES, with coffee as black as Ercbus,
and YOU will enjoy ballny sleep III our cool
nights in the hottest summer, IN their open
sheds, or galleries, without any worrying
with musquito-barS. for there are no mus
auitOes to sting-they are confined TO the
river bottom, and less saluhrious sect4ohs'
hut inviting and lulling you to sleep you
have the Chuck Wills Widow apr.mu9us
tucifuqus, or if you smoke or eat too much,
Won NAV be admonished of passing events,
land the uncertainty of life" By the weird
songs of IL screech owl, strir assoc, or the
more deep1oned, and distant hooting Of she
larger horned owl, st,-ir dcclanaatof--
Which does to the moon complain, -
OF such as, wandering near her secret po"eF'
Modest her ancient solitary reign
Well, jim, YOU have heard the owls
MANY q time and no one is less AFRAID OF
them than you are.
Red River and Rapides can boast OF many
A yotary, ..whO spent his days in not most
n,ncouth,"
"And vexed with mirth, the drowsy ear OF night
We will call this road which your jury
have resuscitated, 'Byron's road BY, way
Of a tangent from the Marksville road, ane
as Rome had her Appan, and her Claudiar
Ways; Magnolia Valley may haveiher by
ron's r0ud,' bear it in mind, gentlemen O
the Jury; that the road from o. w. Nally' 8
on the Marksville road, to the Reynold:
place, is known, and to be known hereafter
as Byron's (by-iNas Big creek, Cow creek
set id on,sie genus" Bdy0ps road. Now, Il
think that your body refused to give tltt1
dollars to build a bridge ocer Co10 cTeeh
when it was at the same time giving som'
sections across the river two or three 'Oppro
priations close together for $500 bridges OF
the same stream. dry eight months IN III
wear. in ttrO or three miles OF cart other!
You ought to build bridges eyerywher
that YOU tax the people for the purposes OF
and ii you don't do it you should not lev,
a bridge tax upon them. ''Justitia fat au
ruat in coelo;"' let justice be done though
the heavens should fall'' We thank 20!
all, however. for this very small reCognl
ton, IA it will give us hope for the 1utur
that taxes will diminish. that the towns o
Pineville and Alexandria will bepronolnceC
by the ensuing General Assembly ''olac an
ne same" and that our parish and its cit
zens be able. by your active attention ln'
wisdom, to the improvement OF our high
ways and opening of new ones whereve
they may be wanted, and turning oyer +
prirate. enterprise all future big bridges,
and letting every section fare alike. then
and not till then, will be equality i
the various wards of the parish-mind
EQUAL, latin, equals from equus. equal
equal quantity Of land having the same de
gree. aye say the way of the Lord is 10
equal" (quoting from Ezekiel xvii by you
enactments on the bridge over Cow creel
ON Byron's road. EQuus also means a hors'
and Jim, yon and your jury have hors
philosophy enough to know that the publ
oircd that bridge 10 Magnolia ralley.
This lovely region OF country commence
at the head of Big and Cow creeks. an
embraces the land from their sources t
where Big creek runs into Red river, an
thence all the high land out OF Black rive
Swamp to the Live Oak timber Stuercu
sempervirens), on the marginal lines betwee
it and Catahoula Lake at the Indian tuInu
iChevalier's). This is as healthy and tertll
q body of land as any on the planet, an
possesses fine range for stocks OF horses
cattle, sheep and hogs, and has this seaso
a fine crop of corn, pumpkins, cotton an
potatoes in every acre planted. Two thou
sand pounds of cotton will be made III severa
fields in different sections of our valley
Wnllt Jne GOTH Is very dHti lCttN di'
a fine crop of that is made This is a heav
gray soil with fine dark loan and there
no wearing it out. There are old fields II
cotton this year making 1900 pounds tina
were cleared in the first settlement Of tn
country, Notwithstanding that it raine'
continually all the crop time. and tn
trouble was to keep down the weeds
was next to impossible to do anything else
The Magnolias commence at the high land
on Red river at the confluence OF Big creek
calls for all the land in their fork, and run
north from the head of Big creek, embracnl
Vacherie Prairie, Holoway's Prairie. and
striking the Black river Swamp at Angu
Crooks in township five, north OF rang
three eaSt-section %.
The day is passing away, and the ink
wasting from my pen. Paper costs II goo
deal, now that We have nothing to bu
with "Res augusta do0,i." We are still
breathing. Let us fix mp our roads, repai
our houses and fences, look after our stoc
and poultry, and again, if We deserve i
prosperity and self-respect may be ours.
j. DUNCAN ALLEN.
WOMAN's SoCIETY.-Do you anu 90 OF
TO dine that we may have the pleasure
drinking tea in the drawing Snd hea
ING Miss Anne or Miss Jane sing Fiddle
dedee! | can get the best singing III IL