The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-16

LOUISIANA ITEMS.

| Prepared fer 4csieA.-A ST. Sophie resident
informed It's yesterday that one day this
week, in the cane field of plantation not a
thousand miles from this point, he saw a
colored man while plewing, having large
pistol belted around his waist. On the earIy
days OF the American colonies the farmers,
owing to she sleepless and treackerous hos
| tllity of the Indians were compelled to take
their fire arms with them while following
the plow 1t is not easy to understand, how
ever, similar practice in these times when
the whoop Of the red man is no longer a
! terror in the land. Perhaps we are swing
ing around to a ravage state again.
fPlaqueIsues Sentinel 18th inst.
Crop Prasy4cts-Frapa the best information
we can gather the corn crop of Rsssier, Cad
do, Webster, Claiborne and DE Soto parishes,
and of Harrison county, Texas, are past re-
demption as to an average yield On very
many plantations it is not over knee high
and badly "twisted.' We conceive that
this region will be fortunate if SO much as
an average OF five halshels to the acre is
made. The account of the Gotten plant is
mich more favorable, and il might be safe
to assume that the crop is in fair average
condition
The corn crop on the river ia doing very
well and the same may he said of the cotton
except on the stiff lands, on many acres of
which the plant is not yet mp. The officers
OF the steamer Durfee, which came up Tues
day night. say that the improvement in the
crops below on Red River has been almost
magical since the previous trip and that they
are looking splendidly.
Partial showers have fallen in various
parts of the parish.
Ihe crops are suffering in the vicinity of
Franklin. The early corn will he failure
The cane however will soon come ont, with
a gGod shower or two.
With the crops above water burnt mp and
that on overlooked land, drowned ont, there
As not very cheering prospect ahead.
Fra Kiln St. Mary's) Enterprise, 18th inst
E,t,ei ~ Damdges By the Flood-The New
Iberia Stgar Bo,cl, of the 18th inst, says:
From the mouth of the Teche down to
Iirashear City on the east side of the Atcha-
iaiaya, nearly all the crops are hopelesslv
rnined
On the vest side OF the Teche. 10 damage.
whatever has been done by the water, and
only little on the west side of the Atcha-
falaya, below Pdtersonville
The loss on the west side of the Atcha- |
falaya will scarcely eX .eed 400 hogsheads of |
sugar. while on Knight Island. east side of
same bayou, probably the loss will be about |
1900 hogsheads.
The water having since fallen from a , or |
ton of the crops, we hone the loss will not |
be SO great as was feared, and seed NAV vet
be made on ground where it was at first /
the crop would be a total loss.
One thing is fortunate, ia our section
issst of the planters had crops on both sides
IF the bayou, so that it is not total ruin as
u O. her localities
Ii * quite difficult to estimate the loss on
the cane crop on the inundated lands lying
between Grand Lake and the T-che. bnt we
10 not believe it can exceed 5000 hogsheads,
md the large planting this season should
overcome even that loss. in these parishes.
CROP PR0sPECTs.-We are gratitied to
earn from our friends from different parts
If The parish that crop prospects are not so
gloomy as was anticipated some two or
hree weeks ago. In some places we hear
complaints about the stunted condition of
,orn. owing TO the excessive dry weather
hat it has experienced: but from most all
,arts we learn the cotton is looking we'll and
will make . pretty fair crop if the cotton
worm does not drop in npon the young cotton !,
hat was planted after the heavy rain which =
eli April 7tb.-Baton Rouge 4drocnfe, 13h