New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-07-08
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Louisiana Items.
From the Natchitoohes Chronicle of the lat

From the Natchitoches Chronicle of the lat
We clip the following:
The cotton crop in our Parish has been won
dertuliy brought out by the warm, dry weather
OF the last three weeks. With n continuance pt
good weather, we think that it will entirely re-
cover from the injury sustained by the long
rainy season. The corn is doing well
The River at this place is about on a stand,
or if rising at all, very slightly. The fall now
coming down will probably reach us during
next week.
The WEATHER. The present week has been
one Of intense heat The thermometer has
averaged, every day Mt u O'clock, 95 degrees
Fahrenheit. With such weather, every body
seems to be in a "meltDg mood"
WEATHER AND CRors.--For the last few DAYS
the weather has been overwhelmingly hot The
planters are getting out of the grass, and the
prospect for hountful crop is rather flatter-
ing Almost every planter with whom we have
conversed seems to be in good spirits. flake
Providence Herald.
The Capitolian of the 9Th inst says
A friend, writing to us from st, James, SAYS ::
" We have had q very poor season Tor cane !;
hrst in the season not enough rain, latterly too
much, and all the time too much grass. Rat
toon cane looks pretty well, plants quite thin
and small. judging from the many crops l
have seen in st. James and Ascension, we will
fall short at least one-third of the last sugar
crop"
MAIL RIDER Found DEAD.-The rider of the
mail between this place and the mouth of Red
ihver was found Oh Saturday last lying in Il
mud lond on the road, about Is miles below
here, with his nech broken. The mail filling to
come in at the regular time caused the contract
CT to send out to ascertain the cause, when the
rider was found rs above stated and his horse
was near grazing, with the mail on him The
riders name was Arselm Lancaster He was
native Of Marylan where he has respectable
connections, but for some twelve years past, un-
til recently, he had resided in Texas. IRed
River Republican, lst.
We find the following in the 0uachitn Regis
ter:
DIFFICULT SURGICAL 0PERATIoN.--W wit
messed Il few days since another very difficult
and interesting surgical operation performed hy
DR. Calderwood, OF this place, which consisted
in the amputatioa Of the whole of one side IF the
upper jaw hone, a portion of which he'd been
destroyed by very MALIGNANT tumur The
operation seems to have been entirely success.
tul, as the patient is now recovering rapidly.
SERIOUS DFF1crITY.-A d iRculty occurred
in this place On Tuesday last between Chas. A.
Austin, one Of our most respectable and enter
prislng citizens, and man by the name of ".
F Ramsey, which resulted in the formers re-
'etv1ne three dangerous wounds in the left
5ide, inflicted with Il large pocket knife-~fro,n
the effects Of which he is now lying in critical
condition. Ramsey was arrested
LICENSE OR No LICENSE. = The Board of
seectnen Of this CRY have resolved to take
the sense of the people in reference TO grant
ing licenses TO greg shops. The vote is to be
taken on the 20th inst. [Baton Rouge Comet
The hail stotm Of which We made q note last
week was much more disastrous in Graysou
than IN Fan1tin county. We are informed thnt
whole tiel2s Of corn, near Sherman, were ute. ly
destroyed, AMI that on the morning Of toe fifth
day after the storm, citizens Of Sherman cooled
their punch with hail-stones gathered in neigh
boring raVines. [Bonham Advertiser
The thermometer stands at 81 degrees to-day;
warm enough for US Indeed the neon sun is so
scalding in its effects, that the very grass upon
the commons S willing and parching up We
are told by planters that though the crops need
work, the heat is so expressing that the hands
cannot labor. jackson Mirror, LIST inst.