New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-12-28
TANGIPAHOA.

TAEGIPAHOA.
From the Amite City Independent, Do.
cember %:
Yesterday morning our attention was At
trscted by an excited looking crowd at the
depot in this place. o. going to see what
was the matter, We found lot of large
jsre, which contained some l6 600 little
fishes, intended for the TaDgipshca river.
They we're California salmon, brougb BIT from
They were about an inch long, and only q
few days old. They started from Mchig IN
last Tueeday afternoon, and landed here
early Friday morning.
The agent who came with them, Mr..
Orrin P. Msxson, informs rs that they were
cent principa ~ through the iDfusnce Of
Mr.. w. Alexander Gordon, Of No. 30 Caror.
delet street, New Orleans, who took much
in crest in the matter and wrote and labored
to procure them. To him, as we'll ss to Mr..
MaxsoD, the gOvernme Mt, and all concerned
in this good enterprise, our citizens will no
doubt feel very thankful when these little
fishes get big enough to eat. 1t is our in.
tentiOn to eat some of them if we live long
enough.
OF the crop planted in Tangipatos, two
wears ago, We have heard nothing, but Mr..
MaxsOn informs US that they do not grow
to much size until the third year. Perhaps,
y
in our hooks.
WEST BATON ROUGE.
From the Sugar Planter, December %:
The grinding season in this parish is rap
idly drawing to close. The smaller Ilanters
have closed their labors with fer better re-
cults than was anticipated when the'season
commenced. The fret of the new year will
find but few still grinding. Without going
into de tails, We will state what is new W. II
known that very few indeed. if any, have
cause to regret their years abor. In every
instance. so far as our inquiries have ex.
tended, the yield has been Unprecedented,
to the acre. and If that yield does not pay
for the investment, then we are at loss tG
know what will pay in Louisiana. Sugar,
although doing better than some wee ks ago,
in the opinion Of many planters, will do
better in the early spring, and should there
BE- war in Europe, coupled with the fact
of the simost total failure of the beet sugar
ieisna sugars will command higher prices
than ever known in the country before. If
planters can hold on their crops entire, or
even part of them, they must be heavy
gamers in the end. Would that we could
say "a much for those who invested in cot
ton. True, cotton has gone up and better
prices are obtained than at the opening Of
the season, but by far the larger proportion
of the crop has passed from the producers
hands and the Spectator will realize ali the
benefits of the advanced price.
CADDO.
From the Shreveport Telegram, Deem
Der 81:
We had call this morning from DR.. H.
j. Harris, of DsSoto parish. who was one
of the passengers on the ill.fated steamer
-
aware, at Pavne's landing, three miles be-
low Grand Ecore. on the fourteenth in
slant. The disaster occurred at three
O'Clock in the afternoon, and the par
tculars as detailed to us BY DR.. Harris |
are full Of horror The Doctors own |
experience was fearful, and his escape
There were some twenty i've |!
p sesengers. Toe day was very cold. After
the boat struck the deck passengers were |
dsal Of the heavy freight was rolled off |
into the water. DR.. Harris was standing |
holding to one of the stanchions when |
the boat careened to one side. inclning
1e deck 80 as to precipitate several into
the water, which was ice c)ld. among
them the doctor. Toe river is quite wide
and deep at this point and the banks
steep. Immediately upon falling into the
water DR.: Harris was seized by one OF the
/
swim, and it was with the greatest difficult
~ that he succeeded, after a considerable
struggle, during which both of them sark,
in breaking loose from the colored man,
who afterward rank to rise no lore.
10 the meantime the colOred deck
hands got into tho life boat, landed
themselves and did not bring it back to the
assistance of those in the water and remain.
ing on the steamer. The doctor found it
was to be . life and death struggle with
him, and started to swim down stream. An
EoRlishman and his son, boy of about ten
years, both sank within few yards of him.
Floating down the stream he came up to
,hest, full of tools. Not being locked, the
loctor opened it, turned the contents into
;he river, and it bottom up, and with his
rand gratped the iron handle in the end.
IN this way he floated down, benumbed with
,old until he became uncOnsci0us, in q
Kind of dreamy stupor. Some colored men
brought q fat and lifted him into it and
bore him to shore and to the fire,
when he soon recovered and was fur
lished with dry clothing. The boat and
largo were . total less, and the passen.
.ess lost nearly all their effects. The doc.
or acknowledges his deep indebtedness
or life preserved and for favors and atten-
ions shown him bv the officers of the
Homer, Lotus No. 3 and Colonel Ko1ns,
md by friends, white and colored, and
rays that he may never have to pass
through such another time of horror. He
avs the anguish of the wife of the English
nan at the loss of her husband and child
vas distressing in the extreme, and the
Whole disaster terrible. Only four lives are
eported lost-the Englishman, his con and
wO col0red men.