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Four years of such progression, even though all 

 were warlike, have already produced a stupendous 

 revolution. Wherever pacification became assured, 

 there agriculture, trade, and commerce, have re 

 vived. One Northern manufacturer has received 

 orders from Louisiana for a thousand ploughs, three 

 hundred farm wagons, as many carts, with harness 

 for all, and quantities of tools for carpenters and 

 blacksmiths. Others are crowded with orders from 

 the same region. The makers of agricultural ma 

 chines, of cotton gins and presses, are equally over 

 run with orders. Sugar machinery and farm mills 

 cannot be supplied as rapidly as they are wanted. 



These are but solitary indications of the astonish 

 ing prosperity which is sure to follow in the path of 

 peace. In former times these products of northern 

 workshops were demanded by slaveholders. But 

 the current of events has already changed that 

 class has disappeared, and a new race of owners 

 and operators has pushed them from their seats. 

 The orders now come from northern capitalists who 

 have succeeded to the abandoned plantations, which 

 they now conduct with great profit by paying to the 

 liberated bondman a fair day s wages for a fair day s 

 work. These openings in Louisiana are numerous, 

 and of all dimensions, small as well as large. An 

 army correspondent thus describes the country 

 above New Orleans : 



&quot; For a long distance the road runs in sight of, and but a 

 few miles back from the Mississippi, and passes directly 

 through magnificent sugar plantations magnificent before 

 the war, but now in many instances tenantless, fenceless, 



