New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-07-09
Louisiana Intelligence.

We extract the following account of a tragedy
which occurred in Clinton from the Democrat of the
9Th inst:
| Our town on Saturday evening last, was again the
scene of Of those fearful ira gedes which have Of
late years become too frequent. An alteration &C.
| cured between two carpenters Wm. Harris alias
VIM H. Perriman, and James Gravy. when the latter
shot Harris in the breast with pistol, cailsiIg his
death in about fifteen minutes. Gravy was imnedi-
atey arrested and confined in the Jail. On Tuesday,
he was examined before H. B. Chase, who refused
bail On Wednesday he was taken writ of ha-
beas corpus before Judge Eatliff, who granted him
bail in the sum Of $780,
From the following items, which we find in the
Opelouss Courier of the 5h the Parish of Calcasieu
| seems to have been the scene of several murders
lately:
We learn that Gibson Dyal of the Parish of Calca-
seu, the murderer OF his motherinlaW, was killed
some six or eight days ago, by party of men who
were in search Of him.
1t appears that after many weeks of hunts and re-
searches the party of that had been sent to arrest
Dyal met him, and upon desperate resistance being
offered by the murderer he shot at and wounded
severely that he died five six days after the en-
counter.
Gibson Dyal was accused of having murdered his
mothernlaw months ago, which crime it is said
preconcerted and coldblooded act Being in
the presence of number of determined to arrest
him, and being we'll armed himself, he tried to use
gun which he held in his hand, and upon such a hos
tHe ucHohallito Que ol tle parry ulScEafSeu his
gun at him, after which he was apprehended He was
a mulatto, OF what the Press would call OF nlired
blood.
J. A. Cole Esq, the Sheriff of Calcaseu, brought
and lodged in our Jail, few days ago man by the
name OF Bass another of n1itea blood, accused
of having committed murder the person of GER
| tain - Cochran, in that Parish some four or six
weeks ago.
Happeals that the jail of our neighbors is not Judged
sufficiently to lodge who accused of cap
| tal crime
The Opelousas Patriot has the following in regard
to the weather and crops in that section:
We have had several weeks of dry hot, sultry
weather. up to last Wednesday, whena glorious show
of an hours duration visited u.s. and infused new
| life and energy into all manner of vegetation. Ii
came too late, however, for the crops. All chance ol
cane is over there will not be realized more than
twelve or fifteen hundred hogsheads, probably in the
whole parish Corn and cotton will do better, but
nothing like reasonable yield can be anticipated the
grass worm having proved unusually destructive
Fruits slowly beginning to show themselves witt
slight sprnklins OF garden vegetables hardly worth
mentOni e.
The Collrtableau is falling rapidly, with doubt
whether there Is sufficient water to enable the boat tC
! reach Washington tie present trip. We understand
that the GlaiZe has been taken out of the trade and
| that she will be succeeded by the Opeousas- {the
| Frank Keeling have not heard from in long
| timel-thus leaving but single steamboat for the
carrying business between the Opelolsas country and
New Orleans. This is far from pleasant prospect
but so it is
| From the New Iberia Star, we learn that the crops
in the parish of St. Mary expected to be per
feet failure on account of the drought. Nothing but
copious rains will enable the planters to make even
half a crop.