The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-02
M,rming Star and Catholic Messenger
INV ORLEANS. SUNDAY, APRIL q ls7l.
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Sr1A,rxR ENTERPRISE" BAYOU TECH1,
Above Franklin, March "a, 1871.

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Above Franklin, March "a, 1871.
xaaAozs Morning Star and Catholic Messenger,
Hero I am, ON +" the Teche," the countr,
famed in song, trying. to collect my wit: :!
il busy in its anxiety to be elsewhere
Beautiful, indeed, IL the Landscape on either
side Of the Bayou Teche, and charming
and lovely many of the country seats along
its banks. But to the one who wishes for
the "untold, untried, tomorrow" beauty
its varied and thrilling memories, scarcely
feasts the eye, let alone giving food to the
muse. Hence must be, rs Of old, brief
and commonplace.
We left New Iberia--a most stirring and
thriving town, county-seat, as you know,
one Of the richest and most populous sec
lions of the "Teche Country"-yesterday
evening. to 60 to the swamp, where your
correspondent, like other birds of his tribe,
now holds forth. Since I saw you have
turned my attention to the lumber bust
and now deal in cypress and ash, and all it
can be- made into at the stump; and as the
Teche country is my market, and the
square-bowed, over-patched, half-painted,
dingy-looking Enterprise my packet, you
may know why you hear from me to-day.
we eOmeIlmes XII tlme OoElug d Irlenu. 1
risk both your time and patience, and will
succeed in killing both, or writing COM
munication!
We left, as ! said, New Iberia last even
ing, laden with sugar-cane for a plantation
near which we now approach, and tow
ing two barges. Three miles brought
us to q large barge, filed also to the top,
which we were to take to Bayou Black, in
the parish Of Terrebonne. So with tOur
burden we weEl our way down the Teche,
one of Uncle Sans highways, about as
slowly as we ttsnaked it" out of the bayous
beyond Grand Lake one day last week
with big load of lumber on boat and
barge and q long "string" of cypress timber
behind us. Two days more may take me !
to Pelican Roost," but / will not cOnnt |
yet. Large bodies move slowly land |
SO do we, for over thirty. six hours has not |
taken us out Of the Teche.
To-day we near its mouth, having laid at
seat of the rich parish of St. Mary-last
night. We disposed of our boat load of
cane last evening and one of our barges.
To-day We took on lot Of lumber and
took another barge in tow. So you see the
do good deal. Such is my experience,
but I do sDish-well, tits no use, SO I'll try
to be patient while hopeful of the morrow.
The Teehe country shows many signs of
as the horrid footprints of !
war wear away, but the planting interests
DO not show the advance of the river Sec
lions of our State. People, however. are /.
busy planting. and striving hard to- get :
heir crops ready for the season so fast I'M !,
oldipr it's green robes around them. Labor
Q called for on every side, and is needed. l
In connection with this labor question, = =
,ermit me to call attention, ON the part
specially of the people of Lower Louis
ana, to the opportunities they now have Of :
q large number of the inbabitants I
( Alsace and Lorraine-good, industrious !,
eople, who till the soil for a living-and =
yho. now anxious and determined to leave -
be- land that gave them birth, can be given =
pducements to bring them here which no =,
Cher section of our country can 90 readily =.
fer. Aside from the many natural re- %
ources of our State, ADVANTAGES of climate. g.,
to-. our people GENERALLY speak the same =. ~
.nguage and worship at the same altar. y
,nSiderations which will turn the scale - -
ith these truly GOOD and brave peonle. ~
The people Of the Teche. like others of So So
mr. country, made large staple crops the a. -
asst wear. 70 the neglect of corn. and now u
ome of them feel their folly. Our plant
rs, as a general thing, deserve a few
inches like the one tRey brought mon al