New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-08-23
Louisinna Intelligence.

BREAD EXCITEMENT IN OPELoUsAs-The Courier
of the 9th inst. says y d
Our townlWas thrown into commotioI last Sunday
by q circumstance never known to us before--we
breakasted, dined and supped without bread, be-
cause the bakers from general understanding had
determined to cease from this day the baking Of this
article, 50 necessary to subsistence The reason
of this :. phenomenon was, say bakers, that by
an ordinance lately passed by our Town Council it
was impossible for them to make any profit on their
-four by converting it to bread. This may be good
cause Of complaint but it is no reason why their ven
geance should fall upon their customers for the faults
of the Town Council. 1t had been better and more
courteous in them have called upon their customers
and informed them Of this matter before causing
them this disagreeable surprise
At all events these matters had taken fortunate
turn inasmuch as we have two bakers more in town,
and much more bread and perhaps in greater pro:
portions and cheaper.
THE GALE IN ST. MARTINS PAR1sH.--The New
Iberia STAR Of the 10th nst gives the following par
ticuals Of the effects Of tile storm in that vicinity
1t has never fallen to lot to witness or record
the desolatng effects Of such storm as occurred on
Sunday, Monday and Tuesday Of this week. About
2 O'Clock +. Nj, on Sunday, dark threatening clouds
overspread the heavens, accompanied by q slight
drilling rain which continued until nearly midnight,
when the wind suddenly changed to the Southeast,
and from stiff breeze soon became a perfect hurri-
cane, and continued with increasing violence nearly
thrtysix hours, during which time the rain fell in
| torrents. $
The damage done in this vicinity by wind and flood
to the crops buildings, fences, etc. etc. is beyond
computation The corn is Frustrated the late planted
| and more promising portion of the crop is a total
ruin and the earlier planted in bad condition to be
harvested; as it is everywhere covered with EARTH
and in many places overfowed with water. The cot
ton crop has Jared little better The cane alone
but little injured aud where the water does not
cover it, will doubtless do we'll unless some new ca
lamity Details it. The bayou at this place rose seven
teen feet above the ordinary stage, and as conse-
quence the whole of the bayou portion of the town
embracing wharyes, lumber-yards, warehouses; coop
ers shops etc, etc. are wholly in part submerged
4 On the plantation of John F. Miller, adjoining
town. the damage sustained was considerable and
on his Island plantation the sugar house and out
works are mass of ruins-his large stables blown
down, and much stock killed by the fall On the
plantation of FL. Hopkins one of the chimnevs OF
the sugar house is blown down and considerable
damage done to his negro quarters, fences, ETC.. on
Weeks Island the sugar works and negro quarters
are destroyed, and one two negroes killed on Hays
g. Roses Island the sugar houses of Marsh & Avery
and John Hays, ST., are blown down, beside great
: damage done their crops From Bayou Petit Anse
and Bayou Tigre, we have but little intelligence ex
cept that those sections are pretty generally under
rry houses of new settlers entirely destroyed to-
gether with their crops; at Cote Gelee many build
ings were demolished.
Such is brief sketch of the late storm and its eff
fects in our immediate vicinity. At present we arc
isolated from the rest of the world. The bayou is
the only thoroughfare that we can travel the bridges
in every direction are gone; our roads impossible
from water, or barricaded with fallen timber; anG
withal we have not received mail for a week from
any quarter.
The Marksville Vilager, of the 10th inst, has the
following remarks in relation to the weather.
Since our last, sad and unlooked.for change has
come over the prosperous appearance of the crops
i, throughout the parish. The rain began to fall or
Monday and kept pouring down in torrents the whole
day and night, aided by furious wind, blowing dow
y flooded, leaving the cotton, which presented So nt
an aspect on the previous day, bent to the ground
and desoate picture to the beholder of the sudder
and disastrous work of the angry elements
We have not yet heen able to ascertain to what ex
tent this disaster may affect the crops Of the parish
in general but there is doubt that it will be sorey
felt in many localities