Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-11-26
Miscellany.
EmIgraticu 20 Louisiana.

N.N S'N1Aia hSSo " " tue VfeNtht per-
turbed political condition contihres. for il
is driving the original inhabitants from
their hsmes. Closely following upon the
blOOssaed ia GrSHt parish, came a hurried.
yolumisous emigration TO Texas on the
part of citizens Of the parish. They
hOoked into the new Eden ia the greatest
terror, and Seemed determined 20 leave
their homes bchind then forever. But
the Troubles must some day have an eud,
while there is no cud save in the 6nal dis.
ruptlon of the world to the fairy beauty
aud fertility OF the bayou lands and the
vast plains covered With luxuriant vege;a.
tiOn. The parishes bordering on the Red
River a.e especially adapted TO the sta.
pies, sugar. cotton, wheat, cora, rye, and
oats aud are accessible at all Seasons Of
the year, the river IN their vicinity re-
maiuihg uavigable. These parishes, six
N number, comprise more thau eight thou
sand five hundred square miles OF rich al
iuvidl lani, aud some of the largest towns
are situated in them. Shreveport, os the
west bauk Of the river, is likely to be the
second city in the State. 1t is now the
great centre of emigration into eastern aud
northern Texas, and line Of railway to
it from Nicksburg Is projected, which will
give II increased commercial Importance.
In the parishes which comprise south
western Louisiana, there are more than
three millions Of acres Of land Of almost
inexhaustiLIe fertility. The forests are
COMPOSED of OAK, ash, locust, pine, gun,
maple, cypress, elm, willow hickory, pc.
can, rersinmou, dOg.wood, mulberry, and
magnolia trees. The giant cypress on the
lakes ahd bayOus are numerous enough to
last for a century, though some Of their
number be constantly taken away. En-.
plOy ment 20 hundreds OF mills aud thou
sands of workmcn could readily be fur
nished, The lamber could easily be float
ed down the lnuuR'erabe bayous aud along
the abundant lakes to market. By the
borIers of the great dc,o.ate sca.marshes
Of St. Mary aud Iberia, runs grand belt
of timber iroIa one to two miles wide. a
western editor once said that If the Teche
lands of Louisiana were in illinois, the,
would bring from three huudred to five
nundred dollars per acre. And they could
be made worth that in their present situ-
alton IN five years from this writing by
the introduction of intelligent and lahori-
Gus emigtaBrs, and by the adjudication OF
the States railway System. The Alta
kapas' region. as the Eve parishes or coun.
ties of ST. Mary, lbclia, Vermilios, St.
Martin aud Lafayette were originally
called, from the nan G OF Il tribe of Indi-
ans, is certainly seductive enough to tempt
the most tastdious Of emigrants.
The attle.gtazing regions are as cx-
tensive as remarkable. There are sevee
great prairies, respectively natned Grand
Choiseuil, Attakapas, Opelousas, Grand
Prairie, Prairie Mamon, Calcssieu and
Auhine, all covered with rich pasturage.
Thousands of cattle roam over these prai,
ries; the populations are pastoral and un'
cultivated TO a certain extent. There
uI6 IiGHCntfsNb anu hOiuNu
who are as remote form any active partic'
ipation in the politics Of the state or the
cpuntry at large, as it they we're in
France. In the marshes even cattle and
horses sublist, and Craze the year round
upon treacherous surface, which horse
bred on soldier ground will Instantly sink
and founder IN as not willing to
vouch for the Louisian:an statement taat
these marsh-brc cattle and horses are
web-foeted but such is the affirmation ;
aud one informant assures Re that u prop.
or system Of transportation iroui the
marshes to New Orleans would develop
this BOW almost useless section immensely
Thousands Of cattle might be turned il
to grow fat and bidc the time when their
owners should seek tor them for the New
Orleans market. They would not even
need cosherd's S care. All ,he prairies
in Western Louisiana are psrenaially
green and upon them were once located
the largest vacheries in the United States
--vacheries whose owners sometimes brand
cd five Thousand calves apiece yearly
Sheep by thousands were also raised, but
both these important Industries seem tc
have largely fallen off since the war.
The French paid great attention to the
cattle ard sheep hustandry lnthis section
Of Louisiana carly IN the, last century
aud it has been estimated by a competent
authority that, allowing one animal to be
produced to every five acres, nore than
two hundred and twenty thousand cattle
could be annually reared and transported
from one single prairie-that of Opelou.
sas-a vast expansc of natural meadow
1t was not uncommon for stock raiser to
possess from thirty 70 forty thousand head
of cattle, and the stock raiserB of one
parish in that section owned, twenty Ave
years before tho var. one huadrea thou
sand horses. There is no good reason why
Louisiana should not be known in future
as an extensive cattle,rsising State as hel
neighhor Texas. She has nothing Ii
fear from the dangers ncurrisg by prox
unity TO II foreign frontier, aud there arr
ne Indians to manifest their uncouqucra
Bile love for illicit acquisition Of horse
flesh.
But when you wish once again to fnc
the lost gate of Eden, when you wish tC
gain the promised land, when you wish t.
see in this rude, practical America Of our
an earthly paradise" where life is goot
because of the delicious investing of it b,
Nature with everything that is faircst
when you wish to sec plantations at tn