The Times-Picayune from New Orleans, Louisiana • Page 10

Stye fflalla picauunt TRIPLE SHEET MORNING, SEPT. ML 1879. ST. LANDRY AND ATTAKAPAS Southwestern Louisiana, Bt Landry, Lafayette, Vermilion. St Martin, Iberia and St Mary.

ish of St. Mary and seven milesfurt her tvteteroSnaof3 ajfoTtK raiT "IbontTiO wSSmmSM wic Bay is the mouth of the River Mermentau, which receives the waters of the Nez SfifJr ftcr ineseri vera ana iu the parishes of St. Landry and Vermilion. From the northern boundary of St. Landry to the Gulf Coast the distance is arn line of the parish about 85 miles.

The i Attakapas has miles. Its greatest width is about 27 miles. nth of the leans. The northern, limits of St. Landry reach latitude near the The five parishes, St.

Mary, Iberia, Ver originally from the name of a tribe of Indians that The paaseng Railroad arrives a Brashear City, from Algie; 8ag departs for fee Orleans Moraran Texas steamshiua. the shear City for Galveston daily. The steamers of the Attakapas Mail TransportationComany leave Brashear Franklin, Charenton and Jean nerette, and at intermediate landings. They frequently extend their trips to St Martinsville three times a week, 102 miles from Brashear. Steamers frequently make trips to Avery's salt mine, on Petit Anse Bayou, to Grand Cote and Cote Blanche, for cargoes of sugar and molasses.

The trips between Brashear City and the mines have been made in ten hours, a distance of about 75 miles. Formerly, cargoes of Bait were taken to Brashear by this rSteanaers in the business season make trips between St. Martinsville ami New Orleans via the Atchatala, Mississippi. It takes about nine days i leave Washington twice a River and the Mississippi. Frequently a dozen or more small jobbing boats are employed on the Attaka Vermilion River, Isle and the mouth of layou 8ale.

They towing rafts of cypress logs for the saw mills, from the bayous across Grand Lake, and in bringing pieux and other split lumber from the lakes to the planters of tne Teche. Price's United States mail coaches leave New Iberia three times a week for teau and Opelousas, and tri weekly United States mail coaches leave Wash A coach runs with considerable ragu laritv between New Iberia and St. Martinsville, a distance of nine miles by These six parishes of the i lands, and draining machines, and may become the moat productive a the State. Windmill pumps may re lieve the reclaii constant Jy near the gulf coast. And the water on most of the marshes is not salt enough to injure a rice crop until late in harvested.

1 bayous of this oounti menae. Numerous plantations from two to four feet atTMgnt andtall sup! tnry. On the Mermei Landry there is plenty of pine timber, the fineat in the South for building pur Pr2e natural timber, trees and shrubs, of Attakapas and St. Landry, varying somewhat in the different parishes, are Oo Red, white, live, post, black, brown, scarlet turkey, swamp, bear, chincapin, water, willow, overcup, Span iah, myrtle, dentata and black jack. White, water, green, red, two va of'snmacaah 8h' nd two varietl iaku mack, acacia, and three we.

ox iiouev locust. sweet and tupelo. ar, silver and swamp, and white. ack. shell bark, pignut and MtOnWhUelnd a (gumbo, ana wnise.

jar house trees st in diameter, ies to last a cen Jlenty of cypres, Sfaort leafed, yellow, pitch and Hickorv VL SffffitaMmn black walnut, cotton wood, balm eyajgt yellow P0 cherry! Wary and Iberia, extenSTngroin a point Mriah timber is from one to two miles wide, and even wider. This line of forest extends down to the mouth of Bayou 8ah5, on both sides, and down both sides of Cypremont. marsh and prairie meet and the On the side of this crooked chain of timber, next to. the plantations, in places, there is a heavy growth of gum, oak. ash, hackoerry, and an undergrowth of dogwood, vines, palmetto, haws, etc.

This line of timber, reckoning that oni.otn siaes oi uayou ai and Bay Cypremont, hundred and twen miles in extent. Bureau of Immigration, in his report, from which we take the abeve list oi trees and shrubs, remarks: "Mueh of the upland and alluvial region, comprising about three fourths of the State of Louisiana, is covered with the finest forests in the United States: and as the State is out up in every direction by navigable waters, the forests of pine, cypress, live oak, white oak. post oak, gum, ash, aud other valuable trees, furnish employment to getting out lumber for home and foreign parish of St. Mary, around Berwick's Bay and the lower Teciie, the highest land is but about ten feet above the level of the Gulf of Mexico. Near Franklin the highest bank is from twelve to fifteen feet.

Near Breaux Bridge, the first bank is twenty two feet high, the second bank twenty seven In the parish of Lafayette, the Cote Gelee Hills. Beau Basin and the banks of the Vermilion are forty feet above the level of the Gulf. The general average of St. Landry is about sixty feet above the same level. The parish of Vermilion is about on a level with St.

The highest elevations on Belle Isle, Cote Blanche, Grand Cote and Petit idrod and eighty isiana. remarks the United States, Mississippi Bottoms, the Nez Piaue and Mermentau. Healthier by far than the breeze, well watered the scarcity wood rendered of less blandness of the climate, and the traordmary rapidity with which natural hedges can crown for fences, while the exuberantly fertile soil produces both sngar cane and cotton in profusion, continuing to do so in many cases after seventy years exhaustive culture well may the Teche country be stvled by its enthusiastic inhabitants, the Garden of Plums, figs, quinces, pears, cherries, grapes, papaws, persimmons, pecans. dewberries, May apples, mulberries, crab apples, black; and red haws, chincapins, strawberries, and other fruits, of less importance, thrive and mature well in these parishes. yearly in great abundance, and the mes pilus, or Japan p.um, lemons, limes, bananas, and pineapples mav be produced in the open air as high up as Franklin, by giving them little extra protection Turnips, cabbages, beets, and all other garden vegetables and melon's grow well In these parishes.

The best winter gardens contain large white head cabbages, rutabaga and fiat turnips, onions. parsley, leeks, English peas, celery. gardens all back from the i whei frosts? way before the "In Irish potatoes to the value vwu.wu were snipped from Louisiana to the Wi than from less than Kathman's report in 1808. There is no part of Louisiana where Irish pota gent farmers in Central Illinois, aft of the Teche and I have heretofore thought that Central Illinois was the finest farming country in the world. I own a large farm there, with improvements equal to any in the country.

I cultivate about two thousand acres in small grain, besides other crops: but since I have seen the Teche and AttakapascountryI do not try caiTbe satisHed to UvVSi Illinois.1"1" "I find that I could raise everything in Louisiana that can be raised in Illinois, and that I can raise a hundred things there which cannot be raised in Illinois. I find the laads easier worked in Louisiana, infinitely riclior, and yield mate on earth, aud no trouble to get to market. I shall return to Illinois, sell out, and persuade my neighbors to do the same, and return to Louisiana to spend the remainder of my days." ot Pet nsyly ania? Tn" a survey which lie made of this country, between the Mississippi and the Sabine, raphical description of the State fifty ago, says that he spent many years foot in the woods, and on the Attakapas beef without bread or salt, camped by the bayous and lakes, in the timbered bottoms and on the prairies, and that he dom1ckdat0all.e ThmaoldTnlab6nt8 who were acquainted with Mr. Darby when he was surveying the country in of the vast natural resources the State of Louisiana is brought into cultivation far from the maximum, four hundred thousand laborers may be employed in making cotton three hundred thousand on sugar, and one hundred thousand in the production of rice. This population of eight hundred thousand people would yield above one hundred and thirty millions of dollars, at the most reduced prices of the different products.

When the elements "HaS'the" auKiived to go over the along the extreme southern part of the OPINION OF The editor of the Chicago Tribune. his 50,000 subscribers If. by some supieme effort of nature, Veettru Louisiana, with ita aoil, olunate and production, could be taken up and transplanted North, to the latitude of Illinois and Indiana, and be there set down in the pathway of Eastern and of gold in California in theshadVat the time of the greatest excitement. The people would rush to it in countless thousands. Every man would be intent on eecurin a few acres of these wonder would bring from three to five hundred dol ars per acre." The depot and wharves at Brashear have lately been improved by Charles Morgan at the expense of over two hundred thousand dollars.

Mr. Morgan has nine splendid steamships plying regular lv between this place aud the port of Texas. The largest of these ships cast over three hundred thousand dollars. The Morgan Louisiana and Tex is Railroad is in fine running order and well equipped between New Orleans and Brashear City, a distance of eighty mi Ies. The obi Opelousas liailroad, a continuation of the above railroad, is graded between Berwick's Bay and Opelousas, a distance of eighty rive miles, or one hundred and sixty five miles from New Orleans.

The New Orleans. Mobile and Texas liailroad Company lately purchased of Charles Morgan the part of the N. O. and G. W.

Railroad, and its franchises, extending from Berwiek'sTiay west. They commenced work on this road last summer, with a large force all along the line between Berwick's Bay and port is that the work is to be re and the road completod, so tbat I Houston. Texas, before I are ruuning daily to Donald ii theN. M. and T.

Railroad. ll distance of sixty from Donaldsonvilfo to Grand Rivi liies. No work Atchafalya and Vermilionville, i natoWaw Western Louisiana and Texas. The raUroaS tenyjMM leaves the foot of at. Ann street in relation to Southwestern Louisiana, must contain Poet Office rtMana.

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Breer1. ita ia Cbentore Aa ishrTeeg. PRESIDENTIAL PROSPECTS. The Campaign in the South. a rkvikw CKRTAtN 1 DL KL1 Special Correspondence N.

y. Tribune. Chattanooga. Sept. 13.

Since the opening of the Presidential canvass 1 have visited the 8taes of Maryland, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. Louisi Arkansas and bpecial object of learning, by careful in result of the coming elec 1 have conversed with leaden of both parties and of both failing to endeavor to learn litical opponents, as well as those of our friends, and familiarizing myself as much as possible with the local politics df the several States which hold eleotions for with the PresFdential eiectmnf in order to learn to what extent local issues will Ktuation in all th State where the 11 tttte In the political pro! not usually classed as Southern States, the presence of a large colored element, and, its thorough hubserviency to the politicians, makes the canvass there present the same sreneral features as in States further South. In estimating the probabilities in each State, I hall carefully endeavor to be on the sale side, and shall in no way exaggerate the btreugth of Mr. Greeley, or uuUer lf. I therefore beg the readers of th of discounting my statements, and that pect that we sha 1 do a little better than estimates contemplate.

Taking the States in alphabetical order, I will begin with Alabama. Here the contest is very close, aud the result be considered doubtful, with the The Conservativ carried, the State in 1870 bv majoritie J.m The white vote exceeds the blacl a bout 8000. i here wi it the result this year did not the election law passed by a carpet bag Legislature encourage aud protect fraud, in ways that I have explained in letters upon the nolitics of this State. An elec This State is ruled by the most desperate aud villainous oarpet bagrin? to the only State where large numbers of parUcipationTn6 the rebellion.nd the extent of the disfranchisement has heretofore depended solely on the will of Clayton, who has ruled the State like an Oriental satrap. The Grant party is in a small minority, and has no hope of success, except through the greatest frauds in the registration and the election.

There will be a Liberal majority of at least 25,00, if a fair vote can be had. Clayton's schemes, were it not for the results from the fact that the "ifrindle Greeley, in May last, it carried with it who had noted with it in former ljcal 1 dayDottheepre6fd be chosen 1 is the most powerful stump speaker in the State, and is driving his opponent from the Held in the canvass. It is safe to put down Arkansas for Greeley and Brown by majority, in spite of murders, martial law and ballot box uearlv eoual strength, the white vnt exceeamg that, or tne blacks by only baggers who have gone into other points along ttheyc ruptions of the Legislature and the frightful increase of the State debt ena other hand, the Grant men appear to count upon success with equal confidence. It is safe to class Florida as doubtful, with the chances slightly in Greeley's favor. State.

The efforts of Alex. H. Stephens and Robert Toombs in supporting a Bourbon movement in order to help Grant by indirection will, it is believed, not influence five thousand voters at the highest calculation. The straight out movement is sustained by only three domineering presence. Not a single prominent Democratic politician except the two named opposes the action of the Baltimore Convention, i he white voters outnumbered the negroes in the State by about 25,000 Greeley will get a considerable number of negro votes in the counties where the blacks are not at least SO.OOO.

An election for Governor takes place in October. Gov. Smith, the without serious PosTtion leterd dates1 SPff at leaJjudUi probably reach 50,000, The Bourbon movement has no perceptible following except in the person of Blanton Duncan. The controversy in Louisiana about ofl' on the same day as the Presidential election. Both the State tickets are strong.

The Administration ticket is composed of native white men of good character, but the ell'ect of this departure from the custom in Southern Radical politics will be neutralized by the bad nominations of carpet baggers and negroes made for the legislative aud desertedhim, and are supporting Greeley, including many of the Senators former political associates, who know his tricks and how to defeat them. Arkansas is the only Southern State where a large the State offices, which, far a tune, divided the supporters ot Greeley, threatened to give the State for Grant. Since these troubles have been harmoniously arranged, the united Democratic toarrythe although I have more conlidenoe that Greeley will carry it than I have in his success in any other 8tate that can properly be considered as doubtful. Maryland is entirely certain to give Greeley a large majority, probably about thirty thousand. The Grant party is making no erlort there, and has, from the first, given up the State as hopeless.

In Mississippi there is a negro majority variously estimated at from 8000 to 15,000. The carpet baggers control the State Government, and have got the blacks in a perfect state of organization and discipline. The Liberals do not entirely despair of success, however. They hope by hard work to win a sufficient and the greater part of thecarpet bag ion that they would a comfortable places wei hard as they would for themselves. The Missouri is one of majorities.

TheLib wonld be danger of a small vote in consequence of their great confidence, were it not for the fact that the contest for local Offices will bring everybody to the ized and make a strong tight for Henderson for Governor, but the odds are overwhelmingly against them. Gree froui 30,000 to 60,000. lion. The small majority that he 1 able to concentrate all its forces and all its corruption fund upon a single State. Besides the advantage of fighting a more eyen haufled contest, the Liberals wdl felt bound to vote" for Caldwellagaiust a regular Democratic ticket, but who are now openly for Greeley.

TThe Grant Grant beyond question. The negroes have tes, and, although their lead divided with a Thieves' party and a Reform party in State politics, both of these factions are supporting tirant. Probably the Reformers would that in case they should declare him the thieves would steal chance to get the control of the 1 offices would be lost. A Liberal The contest raginir between 1 Johnson and Gen. Cheatham, the will have the efiect of bringing am are for Greeley, and will The blunder the Grant men made in making a nomination against these two candidates will prevent the carrying out of the shrewd programme devised by some of their leaders, by which they hoped to get votes for Grant by trading carpet baggers.

The result was that Southern States. Peace and security very where prevail within her borders, aawmug natural that port. Greeley's majority will probably exceed 80,000. The recent election in West lrginia demonstrated the weak eveti ranaMdfclatmef th di1 nd contented themselveVwith choosinge tween the two Greeley Democrats who ran for Governor. The State may be counted as certain for the Liberal ticket.

The States which are certain for Gree uckv 12 WeatVirg The States which are doubtful, 1 which will probably go for Greeley, a The only Southern State which is counted as certain for Grant is South ThHame doubtfulState which is prob If Greeley carries none of the doubtful Southern States, he can be elected by Jersey and InbUanawitS thane liua. but they have small hopes of carrying it. Their frauds have been exposed and cannot be repeated, and the Cabinet officers, with all the host of tramping Administration canvassers will be so urgently needed in Pennsylvania and Indiana that none can be spared to go to light the battle over again iu the nhlN.nth State. South Carolina is the only Southern Horace Maynard, so there will be no chance for such dishonorable traffic. TheGrant men must support then own the two Democrats in return forvotes forGrant.

VDMHHI In Texas the whites outnumber the blacks by nearly two to one. At the election last year for Congressmen the Democratic majority in the State was over The usual estimate of well informed Texans of Greeley's majority is 30.000. Some place it much higher. Virginia, the Jld Dominion, deserves to nating the Liberal movement. Gov.

Walker, a Conservative Republican, was elected in 1870 by the votes of pa If he carries Alabama and Louisiana, as I am confident he will, the vote of New rkaPenlvanonewjUome quired for ahoice. Or, he could lose Pennsylvania and still succeed with Indiana and New Jersey, and either Con iStranft ia defeatedinnnsylvania iS October, there will be no further doubt about the result in the States I have classed as doubtful, and in all the South Grant will be able to expect no support save in South Carolina. A Model Manufacturing Village. BY B. G.

NORTHBOP. St. Johnsbur Aug. 81, 1872. How to harmonize labor and capital is now one of the great questions of ths age.

Their alienation has recently caused idleness, distress and crime on of business and enormous losses on the other. The many millions lately lost in New York by mistakes on this question furnish only a new version of the old story of antagonisms between those who should be partners. The Internationals in session this week at the Hague have raised questions wnicn win parptox tn fimperors of Russia. Austria and Germa ny in their interviews at Berlin nex week, quite as much as Bismarck' guarantee for the peace of Europe. this hard problem, now puzzling kings and peoples through the civilized world Here is a great manufactory of scales, by far the largest establishment of the kind in the world, employing about in branch departments elsewhere and ally.

They hundred varieties from the delicate standard banker to the ponderous hay. railroad They 1 long Australia. India. Persia, Turkey. on mules' or camels backs,) in the Bar bary States, Cape Colony.

Sandwich Islands. Isle of Prance, all the South American States, and still more largely in the great commercial nations of the earth. For use in Europe, India and South America, the larger proportion are based on the metric system, which. 1 think, ought to be and in time will De come the universal system, and which banks company are helping on this consummation. Many of their scales are fitted with double beams, giving both the common and the metric standards, thus facilitating the comparison and the use of each.

The yearly sales amount to about if J.OOO.OOO. and the demand is rapidly increasing. The business was It'has'long been a marvel how such a concern could be made a permanent success for nearly fifty years in this remote corner of the State, so far from tide water: with heavy and expensive freightage, the items of coal aud iron being yearly about 10,000 tons with numerous other supplies from Boston and New York; and the necessity of transporting the manufactured oroducts ith the hands as well as with the notconnectedC with the fac Johnsbury operatives I entered their houses and nilies. These which ill, I think, bo of i employers and employed highest reputation for integrity. Many 1 honored abroad are tarnished at I the test ofydaily business half a century.

1 hey do thing on the in substance this point. The companyhas fahdy earned and entire community, and a goods here. The workmen say that they never permitted to do any sham work, quote the pithy phrases of the men, no shoddy here," "no veneering," no puttying' The test room illustrates the thoroughness of their work, To avoid jar of machinery or movements of the air, all the sca'es are subjected to the est films of metai are used for the delicate trials. Masses of iron. hundreds of pounds, are placed scale platform, and 1 positionchanges the horoughness of the work and this severity of the test is the explanation of the world wide reputation of the Fairbanks scales for accuracy.

At the bottom of a chest of Japan tea bought in New York, and retailed in St. Johnsburv this month, was the following printed statement over tbesignnture of the contains forty eight pounds of tea, as weighed by Fairbanka's scales. We war bury store, though it has long been known that "FairbanksV was there cognized standard for tea packing China as well as Japan. Indeed, tne standards, and 1 There is a superior class of workmen this establishment. All are males.

from the surrounding towns. More ested in the schools and in all that re in neatlv furnished, and manv nf carpetelow Tliflnfroni tiie'njS known. Most of them are church goers, xanS the pay roll and found rer it is land the tendency of manufacturers haso been from the interior to the seaside. The cost of transportation has led them to abandon old sites and water privileges far inland and build nearer the great markets. For this reason, though they must there run by steam only, manufactories are multiplying in New Haven and along the shore to New lork more rapidly than elsewhere in Connecticut.

But in notwithstanding these great disadvantages, the business has steadily grown and become a succsss, which, in view of the difficulties overcome, is unparalleled in this Now what is the explanation of this marvelous prosperity What is the condition of the workmen? These points I came here to investigate. For this purpose I inspected the works, covering ten home, much less by a house of their own! The tenement houses, also, are inviting and comfortable, and surrounded with unusually large grounds. The Wher the pieceThe workteel? is" lively paratus by which he marks a hundred lWffiR2nJnSnK1a by the piece than by hours. The stimulates industry. wcdone.Bumore1 ZSZXSSr Wartime9 lirf prae1 tically to their own choice, there is ne eight hour movement here.

No 41 Leber League" or Union has ever existed ne strike ever been suggested. This would be a poor place for the Internationals to preach the gospel of idleness or agra rianism. Imagine one of these delegates just arrived at St. Johnsbury beginning his arguments for a strike with Mr. whose house I visited.

I fancy him replying somewhat as he did to my inquiry, "Why is it yon never have any strikes beref" "Well, we have a good set of men to stan with temperate and moral Then we are well paid. Wages have a interest in the and public spirited a deal lor the place and we feel an interest in the success of the concern which has been the making of St. Johnsbur patby and interest between employer ployed. Gov. Fairbanks should always father." Hen tained relations of kindness with them, visiting the sick, helping the needy, counseling the erring, encouraging their thnlt.

enjoining habits of economy. He taught them that it was their interest and duty to lay tip" something every month, and that tho best way to rise ia 1 social scale was to unite economy preached and practiced economy. He wning their 1 The notion that labor was menial, or that the tools of adgesof servility. shops and thoroughly learned The brothers of the Governor wsre in lull sympathy with him, and the same spirit characterizes the sons and the sur There Ts stilT ThefuU eat and happiest conciliation between labor and capital. It is not strange that the workmen hold on." Their permanency ia striking lact.

Many have been here from twenty to forty years. I converse over seventy years of nge who has worked here foreman who torty three years, a. few months since he tendered his resig MFrankHn Fabankrepfto hisa. Kecentv i a library and opened large reading taining the library, reading room and also a spacious lecture hall, is an elegant structure. 94x45 feet, two stories high.

The books, now numbening 8M. Though recently umes have been drawn in a single day. In the reading room, besides a good supply of American periodicals, daily, weeekly and quarterly, I noticed on the tables many European iqnmnls, inclnd weekTi es and ten monthlies? The li bray day and evening except Teeadaj the weekly which is held nt the same hour in all the churches. Having visited nearly every town of Massachusetts and Connecticut, and traveled widely in this country, I have nowhere, found in a village of this size an athena um so costly, a reading room SeSfien? Latsa HlSnSffiW liogranner, aided in the selection of the books. A large addition to the Athenaum is now going up, 37 feet by 26, besides twe very large bavB for an art gallery, being lighted only from the dome.

One room is to he appropriated to sculptor "'ThaddenFaibanksfon of tha three founders of the scale factory, and who stfUsurviye A newacademic1 hall and a large dormitory are now building. This promises to become the Wil liston Seminary for Northeastern Vermont, furnishing to the ambitious youth of this State the best academic advan 2SJS2SSTtS? two graduates of the Massachusetts Normal School, seemed to be thorough and earnest. There is also a free High School, but as the public schools are net now in session I cannot speak of them from personal inspection. These various provisions for the improvement, happiness and prosperity of this people, ccupled with liberality and li.iruess in daily business intercourse. ipathy.

good feel it better practical I the labor question. Lined Inside. I was in a drugstore in Elmira. whan in rushed a fellow who called for a pound of camphor and downed he whole of it. It was a surpise party to me, and 1 sa id, what the deuce did he do that "Why," said dn Some years ago a gentleman who wan about to give a dinner party spent whole week showing his servant bow to make mock turtle soup.

When the day came she made the mock and the turtle and the soup all right, and just a she was about toTour in a bottle of elaret, a little boy entered singing, Everything is lovely and the goose hangs high which distracted her attention and she made a mistake and poured in a whole bottle of haiiTtonic. "Did it make hair soup?" said I. Alas!" said he. "the results were What were the results! said he coming interested. Darn said he, didn't I just any re sad "5ut how did the mock turtle turn he.

"two went to the Morgue, four went to the hospital, and all who didn't die were called survivors; and that fellow you just saw was one ot eWhat the devil does hehwallow so mnch camphor for "WelVhe said, "that tonic started Porcelaine de terre dinner aets, com Porcelaine de terre. We are sole agents for those celebrated goods. E.OftmV aavsrttasasat la another. oModu. hasfWorkndweUh'G promotes skill, and strict economy and princely liberality.

His benefactions were munificent, both at home and abroad. The fact that manv of the workmen are fore haad lomes tends..