New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-03-29
Louisiana Interior.


THE WILD Mry OF BoRNEo-IRe Mob at Jackson, Ia
Our readers will recolect published few days since
teegaphic dispatch from Baton Rouge stating that two
having exhibition at Jackson the so-called Wild
Men of Borneon had been set upon by the citizens of
that place and severely handled
The Southern Mirror Of the 9th published at Jackson
contains the following account Of the affair:
On last Tuesday the so-caed Wild Men Of Borneo were
exhibition in this place and crowds Of men went to
them. We had the pleasure. modification aud vexaton
of seeing and examining them ourselves and to the
conclusion that they only pure human beings though
tinted growth being dwarf and somewhat detormed
in their stature.
They were brought to town by two white men, who cir
culated handful stating that they part human
and part anm and again that they have the features
of the animal and the intelligence Of the human''
During the day nearly all who to these part
human and part anima these curioties of the brute
worlds convinced themselves that these human be-
ngs kept in ignorance and subsection and that their
history known it wonid be of cruelty and foul play
At dark multitude gathered at the place Of exhibition
demanding that these beings should be examined by
committee of physicians The keeper in the time,
locked himself in the building with his wild men,
bowed out his lights and there knocking at the
front door he slowed the dwarfs in corner and lifting
window in the of the building he jumped cut and
fed In jumping from the window or in clambering
several fences he injured his side but not severely and is
doubtless before this time we'll
In the morning DR. 7. Jones and Dr. L. G. Perkins in
ttuted the examination and to the conclusion that
they human beings that they much stinted in
their growth being dwar that they slightly other
wise deformed that they have reason, memory, judy
ment will and shame being very delicate in their feelings
and pleading earnestly that they might not be stripped
and examined.
The showmen had designed 60 on to Clinton but as
there seemed DO necessity of getting of town
possible 1d the stage in town its way
to Baton Rouge they catered and went back the cap
ital where they had before exhibited.
The Shreveport South esteru Of the 9th says Red
River is rising that point and at Fulton The hoatmen
have fears that the rise does not extend to the head of
navigation
The survey Of the yicksburg Shreveport and Texas
Railroad has been completed The engineers report will
be published in few days
The Concora Inteligencer says the youthful murderer
Simmons who killed and robbed two fatboatmen on the
Tensas has been fully committed for trial in the Concor-
da Parish Prison.
The Plaquemine Sentinel says that Mr. Bowie member
Of the House from the parish of st. Landry has resigned
aud gone home
0rsLousAs GREAT WESTERN RArIRoAp.-The 0pelou-
sas Wing of the 23i inst says that this entire work will be
ready for contract in few days The Western route is the
settled upon The road is located within
the buildings of Franklin College and thence in straight
line to the eastern limits Of the town of Washington
All accounts from the interior make mention of heavy
rains and the unusually backward state of vegetation
The crops are in similar state of backwardness,