The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-12-19

+. l.. Claiborne, levee superintendent for
Pointe Coupee. The levee was staked out
and contracted for To close this crevasse
requires u leVeG of 10000 yards Of dirt. A
large force is now at work on the Scott and
Colomb levees, and our False river friends
can rely on their being completed Pointe
Coupee Pelican.
Our sugar planters have nearly finished
taking off their crops. The freezing Of the
cane in the fields oCcasioned only some loss
in the yield, but in spite of that one and
half hogshead per acre has been secured.
The uncertainty Of the cotton crop from
different causes and the disastrous expert
enCe Of those engaged in its culture, has de-
termined many Of our farmers to put up
sugar works and encourage the raising OF
cane. 1t s n wise conclusion, and wo hope 1t
will be generally adopted Lafayette Ad-
vertiser.
Judge G. b. Wheeler is making some steps
toward bringing efngrants to this parish.
He has inserted o small advertisement In
several Western papers, and Is now receiving
| daily one and two letters asking for informa-
| ton regarding MOrehOuSe parish. The Judge
deserves much applause for this, and it is to
| be regretted that we have not few more
men among US who would lend q helping
| hand and endeayor to populate the thou
| sands of acres Of good land in this parish
| with substantial labor from the North and
Vest MorchOuse Clarion.
We hear there is q proposition pending by
which money is to be raised to assist in re-
pairing the Ievees of our parish, viz: Ten
| Thousand dollars will be subscribed in cash,
| for which the subscribers receive certificates
of Indebtedness, which will be receivable for
| taxes in due course Of time. From the report
Of the treasurer, by an economical admins
tration of our police jury, there will be sur
| plus over and above this loan to meet all OF
dnary exigenCieS and necessary expenses. 1t
| is q matter Of absolute necessity to have our
evees repaired, and it therefore comes in
good time this proposition Of the loan. AL
ready there is over twO-thirdS of the money
subscribed, and it remains for the police jury
to consider whether or not it shall be accept
ed.-Tensas Journal.
By this time the question of short crops of
sugar is definitely setted-it is no longer one
of doubt Tho few warm days of last and the
present week gave the death blow to the
hopes and expectations of our planters. What
cane was left standing in the fields at the date
of our last issue has sOured and become al
most worthless for sugar making purposes,
while much Of that windrowed is but little
better, for the reason that their bent
lying properly in the burrows. OF
the frozen cane now being ground on
two plantations they have failed to make
sugar even with the best apparatus and the
| best appliances for the purpose For awhile
syrup will yet be made from such cane, which
will be but little better than ordinary molas-
ses, and when the market price of that com
modify is considered, with the heavy stock
on hand, the planter will seriously consider
whether it will pay expenses to grind up his
frozen cane or not. The only hope the planter
now has to realize from his wind-rowed cane
is in p change Of the weather from the present
almost temperature Of the late spring months
to that of severe frosts and freezes West
Baton Rouge Sugar Planter.