The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-10-23
NEW. ORLEANS:
TUESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER g. 1s4o.



6s- 1t is stated in the Caddo Gazette that w.
WGeorge is the wing candidate for the Legislature.
Gs-Mr Bordelon, the Wing candidate for Audi.
tor of Public Accounts, was in Vidalia last Thurs.
day, whence he passed into the interior. He has.
through the Concordia Intelgencer, given notice
to the inhabitants Of Franklin, Carroll, Madison.
and Tensas parishes, that owing to Ehe duties of his
Office having detained him beyond the time of his
calculation, his arrangements have been so far
frustrated that he will not be able to see them in
person before the day Of the election. His COM
petitor, Mr.. LedOux, preceded him west.
THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. - Having
received reques is, from various sources to uibish
Mr.. Hamanson's appointments, We last week
promised the ehortto learn them and publish such
90 nd1 not yet been met on the day Of this pubIi-
cation. We have searched in vain. They are not
III any OF the newspapers that we have received,
nor DO we hnd any Of our democratic friends
posted up" in regard TO them-Tbe same re-
marks are made In The Concorda Inteliigencer.
The SHREVEPORT PosF OFFIcE.ZThe Csddo
Gazette Of the l7lh has the following paragraphs
&c We are sorry to learn that our post Office is
closed. Those who wish to mail letters or papers.
or get them from the Office must wait until The
securities of the present Postmaster shah open il
again." F01 ~
We understand that our Postmaster. ]. C. Bar-
- mas 1siSHeu, anu delivered the Office
Tie hands OF the securities, who have sworn in r.
w. Smoker"
In the same paper of the IIth and 18th we find
the following:
MAIL RoBBERY--Mr. J. W. Smith, druggist in
this place, received by the last mail from Texas. a
letter which should have contained a note for $40
on the Merchants Bank Of Mobile bur on opaning
the letter he discovered that he money had been
stolen by some rascaly thief, By cutting an apper-
ture IN the end of the letter sufficiently large to fitch
out the bull. The scamp may be detected vet bv
any one into whose hands the bill NAV fall bv re-.
memberlng the number and letter of the bill viz :
letter A, No. 9OI.
MAIL ROBBERY AGAIN.-We received the other
gay lhe following memoranda Of moneys and dafts
forwarded from this post office to the post Office al
Baton Rouge, and receipt given to that effect hS
the postmaster, from the Deputy Postmaster at This
place. The letter came to hand at Baton Roupe
empty:
- E1.-,.-, "SHREyEPoRT, Sept I9, 1879
ENCLOSED in letter by S. G. Cole directed to 4 Nar
Shtt baton Rouge, La. draft for S47 75 on FeIoWas
S SUnSon q 70 payable to A MGggau and one of $50
aIaWR on Oakley y Hawkins payable TO 81 G Coe AM
HaneIeed 70 A maggatt both of which are PAYABLE IN
NeW Oleahs Also, two $50 bills on the Canal Bank 81
fSss OIean,Ione letter q, No I7l0 oae letter B. No
| a, No. 40O, ~ A' 'e''e
1hese occurrences are becoming so very treatment
OIL late, that 1t becomes every good citizen and es
peclaiy men who send remittances by mail. but
most OF all, newspaper publishers TO rV and detect
the thieves, and bring them to Justice for theil
crimes This is the sixth mail robbery within tbis
Stale and theadioining counties of Texas. of which
we nave heard within the last few months.