The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-07-15
THE COUNTRY PRESS.

Iberville certainly has q model police
Jury. The South publishes the proceed
ings of the June meeting, by which 1t
appears that the offices OF constable
and parish treasurer were abollshed,
the sheriff doing duty for the former at
q salary, and the clerk being also the
treasurer receiving a small salary mo
fees) for performing the duties OF
both offices. The criminal fund
puzzle was unraveled and one blow
cut the gordian knot in which
the receipts of all parishes are tied up
and nothing left for school, road or any
other purposes Of improvement. In
Iberville no officer receives fees. The
sheriff, clerk OF the court, all the JUS
tees and constables receive small sal
aries. and no matter how many cases
are tried the compensation Is not IN
creased. The sheriff receives six hun
dred and the clerk four hundred dollars,
the justices average forty dollars and
the constables about sixty-five dollars
per annum. The sheriff receives also
three bits per diem for boarding each
prisoner. - Baton Rouge Advocate.
It has been the special desire Of the
largest part of the intelligent and prop
erty holding classes Of this State for a
Constitutional Convention. This desire
was silent factor in the last campaign,
and great incentive to the energy and
activity which conducted it to success
full issue. The defects of the present
of carpet bagism and the most illiterate
element OF the State, may be satisfac-'
tory to some OF our people, but it can
never satisfy the bulk Of them. It is,
in fact, not the constitution OF the
people of the State, because at
the time more than fifteen thousand
of the best citizens of the State
were disfranchized by virtue Of
what the Federal government termed
a rebellion. Whatever may be the vir-
tues Of the constitution OF. 1868, ii they
are of the most brilliant qualities, this
fact alone in the minds Of all fair
minded men should Of itself alone de-
mand that the entire voice of the people
Of the State should be consulted in the
formation Of constitution or funda-
mental law. If we desire the memories
of the revolution to be obliterated from
our future history, we should remove all
sneering incidental allusion to the fact
from the fundamental law Ut the land.
It is O stain upon the memory OF our
dead as we'll as upon our honored living,
who will in time be numbered with the
dead, to allow the sniveling and satiri-
cal blot to remain engrafted in the con-
stitution OF the State Mansfield Re-
porter.
The effect OF white labor is seen to ex-
cellenC advantage in the size OF the
grophilists have argued that the negro
works better in state Of freedom than
in a state Of slavery, and, in confirma-
ton Of this theory, point to the fact that
there is not only no diminution, but an
actual increase in the amount of cotton
produced now over that produced
when slavery fourished. Even the
least observant who should
20 through the large plan
tations in the far Southern States,
and observe the efficient labor Of the
men and the almost total abstinence
from labor of the women, who are fond
soon discover that there is something
wrong in the induction Of those who
reason in this manner. Let any ordi-
nary planter take the statistics OF his
plantation now and compare them with
slavery times, when the same number
of hands were at work, and he will soon
see how much less cotton is produced
by free negroes than by the same peo-
pie when they were In state Of slavery.
The truth is that the increase in the
production of cotton is caused by white
labor. The war left the white people of
the South in state OF almost AFFECT
selves to labor or starve. Those who
had land worked it with their own
hands. Thousands of little farms
throughout the uplands, which had
never before received a cotton seed, were
planted in cotton, their owners being
stimulated thereto by the high price OF
cotton which they obtained Immediately
after the war. Each small farmer raised
his one, five or ten bales. as the case
may be. Hence it is that while the
amount Of cotton raised on the large
plantations was diminished, the general
crop was augmented by, the increase of
tors.-[Shreveport Times.
The bayous and bays in the rear of
Pointe-a-l Ia Hache, until quite recently,
teemed with the finest red and other
saltwater fish in the most profuse
abundance; but since the advent OF
gangs Of Spanish fishermen from st.
Bernard, who use immense seines and
capture vast quantities of fish therein,
our fishing grounds offer no attraction
to citizens who are permanent residents
here, and who fish in the ordinary man
ner with hook and line for their own
consumption. Most OF our fellow-citi-
zens love to fish, and find it both
pleasant and profitable, and some of
them fish exclusively for living, and
think it very hard and unjust that
strangers should be allowed to come here
and by a somewhat unfair, murderous
and exhaustive process strip and rob
our bsyops and nd, bays a,,. ct f their scaly
citizens who live in it's immediate
vicinity, and who only capture it in a
manner that leaves it always abundant
individually intact, whilst the strangers
referred to, with seines Of immense ca
pacity, throw away. waste and kill half
they capture to enhance the value OF
the remainder, which they sell at exor-
bitant prices along the coast, for money
which they spend in another parish |
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