The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1876-12-30
Bayou L',fourche.

Who is to be benefited by the
closing of Bayou Lafourche at
DonaldSonvi!le?
Is it the Planter who will have
to pay from two to four dollars
freight on each hogshead OF
sugar, instead OF one to one and a
halt that he now pays; from one
dollar and upward for each h5l.
molasSes that he ships, instead OF
fifty to seventy cents that ne now
pays; whose freights Oh every ar
ticle that he eats, drinks and
wears Oh his plantation, will be
doubled or ,rehled whose sup
ply Of stone coal, western lime,
hoop poles, provisions aud forage
will be cut of, OF the cost of obs
tanning the same will be doubled
upon his purse?
Is it the laborer who will have
to pay from 80 to Is cents more
for every barrel of -four or pork
that he consumes. who will have
the same amount deducted from
the net proceeds Of every barrel
of potatoes or onions or other
products that he may ship to
market?
Is it the mechanic who will
have his treights sdoubled on
every peice of machinery OF ma
terial that he may require to exc,
cute his work?
Is it the oySterman and orange
grower on the Gulf coast who
brings and sells to our people
thousands and thousands of dol>
lars worth of oranges and oysters
annually, whose business will be
etfectually closed?
VIII it be the poor widow who
supports herself and children
from the products of her poultry
yard. by doubling and trebling
the expenses OF sending her little
earnings W ulGrhet
Echo comes back from al
sides, "Who Is itW
;. Does any one think that this is
d fancy picture
Go aud ask the planters who
lives in Terrebonne, four miles
from Bayou Lafourche, what il
costs to ship his sugar and mo
lasses to market? What freights
he pays for bis return merchan>
disc, and compare them with
those ot planters who have thu
!! facilities of Bayou navigation
:, and see if these double rates art
, not rea! and true?
/: The immense wisdom which
: the extraordinary skulls of thu
i Levee Beard contains With,
their limits has, after much Labor
and hauaj', brought forth to th'
1 gaze OF al astonished world, :
statement that it would cost les:
! to build dyke across the moutl
/, Of the Bayou at Donaldsonville
| than it would to keep up tn,
Lev"es along the Bayou.
2 Sine" the PRONUNCIATION of thi'
extraordinary statement, thu
| Levee Board has kept quiet. and
L a%scertaining that with all thei
wisdom. the people thought tina
2 was a weston with which the,
l had nothing to do, and that
they would attend to their propeI
p duties, they would not expos,
4 the great length of their ears s,
! plainly.
Z But the effect Of their machi
tons is very perceptible in til,
Act which Mr.. Darrall, who pre-.
tends to represent this portion O
Louisiana in Congress, has intro
, duced iuto that body, for the pul
4 pose of running those whose inter
ests he ought to protect.
fl Does not this famous Levet
Board remember how they char
tered a steamboat IN 1874, ant
9 steamed up the Mississippi river
/, with he redoubtable chief jeff
. Thompson at their head. in Orde
T. to re>open Bayou Plaquemine t,
e prevent al overflow in the lowe.
{, river?
And now this same Board i
+, striving to close the Lafourche
Was ever such nonsense exhibi.
S teds
Bayou Terrebonne.