Show DOWN IN LOUISIANA missionary hull writes an interesting te letter from the sunny south I 1 enquirer st joseph hensas tensas parish louisiana april alyoa will perceive by the heading of my letter I 1 am elili in the sunny south st joseph is fifty eight milen south of Vicka barg miss by river and one hundred aud fourteen miles borth of black hawk from where I 1 wrote you baat we are having fine weather in this at pre Planter most of their cotton seed in the iro acl and corn haa been up for about three weeks the principal chopa raised in louisiana are cotton augir cano and corn and rank in the order named for several years cotton was down to a small figure and sold for from three to five cents per ib but last autumn it eold for fraai seven to cents the the in the price of cotton was due to the fact that the cotton crop of 95 was a failure and there was alao a in the acreage cotton seed is worth about 4 00 or per ton which just about pays for the ginal IK and baling of the cotton the eed e ed is made into joil lard batter ine aud meal I 1 have eaten aal think it superior to oleo the beitf sugar farma or plantations extend from baton rouge to the gelf coat coa t but aa I 1 was there after abe butir making season cannot your readers with the details of making corn ia the bread crop I 1 never liked corn bicad till I 1 came south thi y know how how to make corn bread down here strange thine in regard to this section ia thov raisa bat very few hoga still hoei do well here louisiana is a braat timber country i there are 1 amansa forests os the kinds of timber it does not lac in variety either there are cypress sy tic more ash white bick rod and pin oak hickory peca i w bloat haax berry jacusi magnolia and willow and many other kijja too ts men fijn I 1 have cen willow trees here more than three feat in diameter and not a limb for sixty fee willow ia largely used ajr the principal in this section ia cypress and ash bat there is also a reat deal of poplar aud cotton ft nod tand oak sawed abound in giesa hero wj w j find tha alligator tue black bear abo deer the panther the wild cat the wild birkey and any amount of wild ducki and g ess while the rivara anil edke are full of fish not your email fish either I 1 was almost forgetting to mention that the and aba and the ara hero also abent four fifths of tho hero are colored people che fall blooded dekro la settina scarce A aemi white and blacic race predominates here I 1 could bay a great deal more of louisiana but dont kioh to taace us too much valuable apace in conr columns I 1 am somewhat in here at present by quarantine denla eions the smallpox small pox at a number of points on the river both and below here and hia parish nd many others w quarantined travelers 1 shrill remain here a month or BO when I 1 expect to leave for ten essae respectfully 0 F HOLL |