The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1881-05-27
n Monroe Newspaper 81 Years Old
--Land Grant to the Baron de
BlStrOp.


was then over three years in existence.
William W. Wright was the pub.
Usher. and underneath the announce
ment of that fact appears the following:
CONDITIONS.
THE LoUIsIANIAN will be publish
ed Weekly, on medium sheet.-The
price to subscribers is three dollars per-
annum, payable in advance, or .four
dollars at the expiration of the year.
Advertisements will be inserted for
seventy five cents per square, the first,
and thirty seven and half cents for
every subsequent insertion.
All advertisements unaccompanied
with specific directions, will be inser-
ted until forbid, and charged accord
ingly.
~ Letters addressed to the editor
must come post PAIL; otherwise they
will not be attended to.
Ses"A Amy orders in the French as
well as the English, will be received
and promptly attended to.
The Louisianian was printed on a
sheet 1sx22 inches, and contained "a
columns, but only half the sheet has
been Preserved-the 1st and End pages.
We find a price-current in the first col
unn, dated New Orleans, Nov. 3, 20
days anterior to the publication, and
from this we select the prices Of some
articles at that date:
Best La. cotton, 174@1s4c c., Ala.
and Tenn. 124 ; western flour, $S@$
whisky, 3l@33c; mess pork, s12G1S13;
Kentucky bagging, gle; coffee 25@26c;
So1f IN. hnrnn l,or nails
&c; corn, 81 90 Dbl.
The news department of the paper is
taken up with foreign intelligence al
most exclusively, taken from New
York and Philadelphia papers of the
9th of October, about 40 days out from
those cities, (now reached in three
and these journals were jubilant, it ap-
pears, at obtaining Liverpool papers
only 80 days old.
Five columns of the Louisianian are
taken up in copying the title papers
Of the Baron dc Bastrop's grant Of land
by the Spanish government, made in
1895. The purposes and conditions of
this grant are, we think, OF sufficient
interest to our readers to warrant us in
reproducing the papers in full, which
we accordingly do in this issue.
1t is instructive to note some of the
reasons urged by the Baron in favor
of the grant. One was "to prevent the
introduction Of negroes ;" another, to
prevent "the making of indigo" and
a third was to encourage the cuItiva-
ton of wheat. Another feature will
not escape attention.. Where all re-
ligious denominations now worship in
public; that privilege was then given
only to the Roman Catholics.
Curiously enough, the prevention of
indigo making, alone Of all the Ba:on's
well-meant purposes, has been accom-
plished, and that would have failed,
perhaps, had not cotton making been
found more profitable employment.
Negroes have been introduced by the
tens Of thousands, and they still come
and arc on the increase. The Baron
had, perhaps, some knowledge OF the
Old, as some of us have Of the New,
st. Domingo; and while the Puritan
bioods Of his day were introducing
slaves and he seeking to prevent it,,
they, at a later date, made war on his
colonists FOR holding negroes in slavery.
Whether the Diron's Touring mill was
ever built or not, and what amount of
flour was made and shipped, we have
nc means of knowing; but the lands
granted the Baron have long since
been proven unfit for the profitable
growing of Wheat, and hero, nearly a
century since his grand project was
begun, We buy not only wheat, but all
kinds of small grain from the West
though unWisely, it must be confessed.
We refer the reader to "thc title
papers, for many other curious features
connected with the early settling Of this
portion of Louisiana.
Both the Circuit and Supreme Courts
convene in this city next Monday.
The docket of the Supreme court is not
yet made up, but we learn from Mr..
Green, District Clerk, that eleven