The Opelousas courier., 1886-03-20
Confederate Monument at b.
ton Rouge.

Confederate Monument at b.
ton Rouge.
The laying of the corner stone
of the Confederate Monument,
at Baton Rouge on Washing
toms birthday, attracted quite a
crowd. Ex-senator b. r. Jonas
was the orator for the occasion,
and in closing paid the follow
ing beautiful tribute to those Of
the c%onfederacy who have passed
AWAY
In memory, | see again these
regiments and battalions Start
ing for the front, with music
and banners and all the panoply
of war, and memory brings back
to me, and to all of you, the
recollection of loved faces and
brave hearts of many who were
marching in the ranks, and who
are absent from our gathering
to-day, who will respond to life's
roll call no more forever-who
are memories now. Of those
whom to-day we honor, we can
not streW flowers upon their
scattered graves ; we cannot
mark their unknown resting
places with stone or monu-
ment ; we cannot gather their
earthly spoil into beautiful
mausoleums, or cities of the
dead, but we erect this monu-
ment in their honor, that all
people in all times to come may
know that the soldiers who died
for the Confederate cause are
not without love and honor and
reverence in the land which gave
them birth
REST on, embalmed and sainted dead
Dear MS the blood We gave,
No impious fontstep here shall tread
The heritage of your grave;
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Nor shall your glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or Honor points the haIlowed spot
Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Yon marble minstrel's voiceIess stone
Tn deathless song shall tell.
When many n vanished age hath flown,
The story how ye fell:
Nor week. nor change, nor winters
blight,
Nor Times reimorseless doom,
Shall dim one ray OF glory's light.
That gilds your deathless tomb"
A MorgantoWn wv. Va.) let
ter says: 1.-The famous pictured
rocks on the Evansville pike,
about four miles from this place,
have been a source of wonder
aud speculation for more than II
, century, and have attracted
much attention among the
! learned men Of this country and
, Europe. The cliff upon which
these drawings exist is of con-
siderable size and within a short
, distance of the highway above
mentioned. The rock is a white
, sandstone, which wears little
, from exposure to the weather,
and upon it's smooth surface are
/ delineated the outlines of at
: least fifty species OF animals,
birds, reptiles aud fish, embrace
ing IN the number pantherss
) deer, buffalo, offers, beavers,
wildcats, foxes, wolves, rae
coons, opossums, bears, elk,
crows, eagles, turkeys, eels, va
, rious sorts of fish, large and
small. snakes, etc. In the mids,
: of this silent menagerie OF spe.
/ eimens of the animal kingdom
is the fulI-length outline Of Il fe.
male form, beautiful and perfect
i'm every respect. Interspersee
among the drawings OF animals,
ETC., are limitations of the foot
prints OF each sort, the Who'll.
f space occupied being 150 fee
long by fifty feet wide. &c
what race the artist belonged
or what his purpose was III max
ing these rude portraits mus
ever remain u mystery, but ths
{ work was evidently done age
i ago.
Below we give Il statement 9
the estimated amount of appfo
Z priations needed in various
! streams in this State Soutl
J Pass of the Mississippi, S16,92O
Amite river, $500 Tangipaho;
river, $17OO; Tchefllncta river
$4,000 TickfaW river, $4,000
. Bayou Teche, $4,000; Oharen
It ton canal $4,000 Bayo'
e Black, $4,000; Bayou Oourta
ia hlaau e10 one RaVou Terre