out.

"This matter was kept a profound secret among the chiefs and
the Indians employed by them, and particular care was taken to
conceal it from the women. One of the female suns, however,
soon discovered that a momentous measure, of which she was not
informed, was on foot. Leading one of her sons to a distant and
retired spot, in the woods, she upbraided him with his want of
confidence in his mother, and artfully drew from him the
details of the intended attack. The bundle of sticks for her
village had been deposited in the temple, and to the keeper of
it, the care had been intrusted of taking out a stick daily.
Having from her rank access to the fane at all times, she
secretly, and at different moments, detached one or two sticks,
and then threw them into the sacred fire. Unsatisfied with
this, she gave notice of the impending danger to an officer of
the garrison, in whom she placed confidence. But the
information was either disbelieved or disregarded."

This well concerted plan of revenge was carried into a terrible
execution; and the aggressor who had caused it was among the victims.

A circumstance, purely accidental, and, in itself, altogether
insignificant, was the beginning of an agricultural experiment in
Louisiana, which, long afterwards, was followed by a success, important
not only to that territory, but to these United States.

"Two hundred recruits arrived from France on the 17th of April,
for the completion of the quota of troops allotted to the
province. The king's ships, in which they were embarked,
touched at the cape, in the Island of Hispaniola, where, with a
view of trying with what success the sugar cane could be
cultivated on the banks of the Mississippi, the Jesuits of that
island were permitted to ship to their brethren in Louisiana, a
quantity of it. A number of negroes, acquainted with the
culture and manufacture of sugar, came in the fleet. The canes
were planted on the land of the fathers immediately above the
city, in the lower part of the spot now known as the suburb St.
Mary. Before this time, the front of the plantation had been
improved in the raising of the myrtle wax shrub; the rest was
sown with indigo."

In this humble manner was the sugar cane introduced into Louisiana,
which has now become a principal source of its wealth. We