New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-14
st. TA.MMANY.


Unprecedented Crops Compromise and
PrOspe Progress of
the COlOred People-A Complaint About
Scho0ls-Eads' Jetty Timber Contract
Ors Invading the Homestends.
Vaudeville. July 10. 1915.
have for several weeks been riding over
this parish with the census takers. and from
personal observation as we'll as from the
unanimous testimony of several hundred
farmers. with whom ! conversed. l can
safely say that more corn will be produced
in this parish this year than has been made
for the past ten years, taken al, together.
All sorts of crops are bountitu! in their
promise. and the refreshing showers now
falling put an unprecedented yield beyond
the possibility of doubt. Much more land
is in cultivation than previous to the war,
which is an exceptional and encouraging
fact. The leading crop is corn. Next in
Importance is sweet potatoes. Next comes
sugar cane. which is. of recent years. being
titled on every hand in small patches and
converted into syrup by means Of home
made wooden mills. Then come COW peas.
pumpkins and oats. Fields Of upland rice,
cultivated in drills. are becoming frequent:
but cotton is being abandoned. ] only saw
fields of tobacco were visible. bu: it ex.
hausts the soil too rapidly to ever BECOME a
leading crop.
The progress Of our coicred people is
most remarkable. From Vaudeville to
Pearl river. a distance Of thirty five miles.
is the most popu!ous portion Of the parish.
Yet throughout this whole section it is
scarcely an exaggeration to say that fully
one-aalt the wealth is in the hands Of the
colored people. They own schooners on the
lake and brickyards. and large herds of
cattle. Almost all of the dwellings they live
in and of the farms they cultivate belong to
them. They are thrifty. hospitable and
contented.
This progress on their part has ''ad!usted"
the relations of the races on a most satisfac-
tory basis. TIE colored people till their own
soil and raise their own stock. The white
people do the same. They are interspersed
together. are upon the most neighborly and
friendly terms. and act together for the mu.
tual protection Of their stock against the
thieves Of both races. On election day they
60 together to the polls and vote opposite
tickets. but do not quarrel about it. All
the colored people ask is that their Republi.
can LEADERS make the government SO fair
and pure that their white neighbors can not
find any ground for complaint against it,
found the best OF feeling existing toward
the State government as we'll as a genera!
belief among all classes that the late com.
promise was a good thing. They regarded
it as a final treaty Of peace and seemed dis
posed to look upon their present bountiful
crops as an evidence that it is approved in
Heaven. Say what you will there is some
between Heaven and angels. and
olive branches and peace and ':adjus.men:."
The Democrats do not want another revolu
ton. but they do want the tax collector to
come around and get the money they have
laid by for him. instead Of requiring them
TO travel thirty and forty miles to his office.
II is the first time ever met Democrats in
Louisiana anxious to see the tax gatherer.
But there is one thing about which there
is much bitterness and anxiety. especially
among the colored people. 1t is public !
! was through that portion of the |
parish where the colored people principally |
live. Hundreds OF them have been paying
school taxes for years. and have never had |
any schools. when, in the name of God,
are they going to give us any schools :" is !
4 standing question which met me at every
loor. The present management Of schools !
in this parish is most unsatisfactory. but !
our people, who have never been consulted |
IN the appointment Of directors. find it i'm. |
possible to effect change. The white por'
ion OF the parish get the benefit OF nearly |
Ill the money. while the colored neighbor. !
hoods. where schools are the most urgently |
needed. are persistently neglected. de. |
ire. in this public way. to call the attention
}: Superintendent Brown to this matter.
In the vicinity OF Bonfouca there is much
excitement among the colored people who
ave taken up pine hill! homesteads. on &C.
cunt Of the appearance OF Mr.. Poitevent.
he noted mill owner o: Pearlington. Misais-
ippi. With contrac: for sixteen thousand
lies for Eads' South Pass .jetties. This is
Il right, but they say that he bears in his
and permit ~ from the United States
overnment to cut timber not only on pub.
c land subject to homestead entry. but also
Il the homesteads which the colored people
ave entered and are occupying. This
mber is very valuable TO them. and they
re not allowed to cut it themselves until
hey have occupied it five years, unless.
neg say. they pay the government timber
gent, whose name ls Scully. for the privi
,ge. These poor colored people don't un-
erstand how such things can be with all
,e offices filed by their ''friends.'' Neither
0 I. But can publish the facts.
JOHN Z. LEEr.
The Loss Of the Allnasetta.
In the Philadelphia Bullet" of July 10
n frI q f,llor opd mora infallipent ac. |