Louisiana capitolian., 1880-09-11
" New Style Letter Heads.
saturdays edition.

We are happy to note tho recent i'm.
proycmcnts ia the New Orleans City
ltCm. 1t is now seven column paper,
aud fuller than ever with excellent mat
ter, both selected aud original. The
Item is ono Of the most readable papers
that comes to our office, aud NO rejoice
to see evidences Of its prosperity. May
it live long and "keep its funny column
rolling" bccause-if il does cut aud
hruise in some quarters--its curt hints
arc calculated to check evil.
We hud upon our table this morning
that excellent publication, tho Southern
Live Stock Journal, published ut Stark
vile, Miss. Not many weeks since, the
Office Of this useful paper was destroyed
by fire, but with the vim and push char
actcristic of Southern enterprise, its
managers have renewed their pnblica-
ton upon . more crctlitablc and sub
stnntial basis than ever. II is hand
some in form, able in quality, and we
wish it y long and prosperous life in
pursuance or its noble work.
"a bull can only run seven miles ~,
hour, but when you've got to shin six
feet up Il telegraph pole before he ar
rivcs, yon think as yon gaze at his ap-
proach that the statement is Il blamed
lir." So said AZ acquaintance Of ours
yesterday.
llr. NJ. Chambers advertiscs lit anotli-
er column new supply Of school books
base balls aud bats and 200 volumes
of the famous Seaside Library. It is
proper in this connection to return
thanks to Mr.. Chambers for "a copy Of
that great Democratic Journal, the New
York Weekly Sun.
Mr.. Henry Skipwi'h, in his dcscrip-
ton of this parish, written for the New
Orleans Democrat, makes the following
statement in regard to n plan adopted
10y our genial friend, Mr.. Fergus Gar
dere: "The old proprietors, while they
observe with regret their lands becoming
less and less productive each succeeding
year, are fully alive to the necessity of
introducing q better class Of labor, but
if that is only attainabr by dividing
into small lots their patrimonial posses
sions their pride rcvolts. How to obtain
better labor without dividing into small
lots is u question over which Mr. Fergus
Gardcre has puzzled his analytical brains
and this is the method he has evolved.
He proposes, in order to rcInstate his
land, to offer such Industrious immigrant
who will come and cultivate it AZ much
land as he desires to cultivate free Of
rent ; Il cottage to dwell in, also free
of rent Il mule, and corn to feed the
mule through the first year, provided,
that the immigrant shall obliyats him
self to deliver all his crop Of cane ut Mr..
Gar'lercs sugar mill, for which he will
receive the market price; and that the
said immigrant shall purchase the mule
at fair price rs soon as he is ablo, and
the immigrant is to return out Of his
first crop as much corn as he has used in
feeding the mule while making it. Mr..
Gar,lere tavors the plan because it is
giving to the immigrant y splendid
spaNcc to make Il crop with very small
outlay, and because it relieves the pro-
pretor of all care and risk in the cuiti-
walton Of the crop, and because it keeps
the agricultural branch entirely separate
from the manufacturing department. 1t
remains, however, to be seen whether
immigrant laborers will favor the plan.'