New Orleans daily crescent., 1857-12-16
Louisiana Intelligence,
The De Soto Columbian Of the 5th, says

The De Soto Columbian of the 5th, says: .
The weather has been clear, and rather pleasant
the greater part of the week. and from the appearance
cotton fields now present, we Judge there is little
more cotton to gather, and small crops are made
Our planters are now hauling it OF to our shipping
points on the Bayou Pierre lake, and Red river.
1t commenced raining, however, yesterday morn
ing and at the time of going to press, the weather is
yet unsettled. --u. 7-se
On Friday last, three negroes belonging to the
estate of Mrs. Sharpe were hung in Concordia parish
for the murder of Duncan B. Skinner.
The Concorda Intelgencer says that the late rains
have done immense damage to the crops having been
so violent as to beat large quantities of the opened
staple into the mud.
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cane. A number Of planters have stopped grinding,
the juice not yielding sugar enough to pay the ex
penses of making it. On other plantations the juice
will yield no sugar at all. All planters, however,
have not suffered alike still make sugar and of
superior quality, but it requires two-thirds
more juice than usual to enable them to do SO.
neghbor of ours remarked to yesterday while
speaking of the injury to the cane, ~ have cane
enough in the rear of my sugar-house to make one
hundred and fifty hogsbeads, but will be perfectly
satisfied if it will yield me fifty"
The Lafourche Union of Saturday last has the fol-
lowing:
More rain and more warm weather during the past
and present week have quite ruined every chance
planters had of making any more merchantable sugar
this season. Very little more than half the crop has
been manufactured up to the present time and it is
certain that nothing can now be made of the remain
ing blighted cane except, perhaps, some inferior
lasses tit only for the manufacture of rum and vine
gar Now tits pretty certain that the supply of Lou
siana sugar this will fall short at least one
half of what the consumers counted on; hence we
naturally conclude that the prices now offered must
be doubled when the actual deficiency becomes gene
rally known. ;t4 .t t vi
The Young America Of Saturday last, published in
the parish of st. John the Baptist, says:
The weather of the latter part of last week and the
first of this has come near finishing the cane in this
section. We have heard of some planters who have
lost two-thrds of their entire CROP while others who
calculated upon hundreds of hogsheads will fall short
of their anticpations.
We believe that we will be safe in saying that very
little sugar will be made this season, the
greater part of the yet to be ground will give
more molasses than sugar.
The Iberviile Gazette of Saturday last has the fol-
lowing:
Having visited almost every portion of our parish
during the past ten days, able to form quite
correct estimate of the injury done the sugar crop by
the early frost in November and the late warm
weather: Many planters of large experience inform
us that the crop cut off fully one-thrd more.
The complaint is general in this parish. Some plant
ers that calculated to make from 1000 to 1900 hogs.
| heads will make no more than five or six hundred
In instances, where rolling was commenced late
crops will be almost entirely lost; and there are also
few instances where they have been entirely saved
The sugar crop of this year excels that Of any pre-
| cedlng year in quality.
The Iberville Sentinel Of the same date confirms
this account, and says:
There is question, we think, but that the sugar
crop in this parish has been cut off one quarter, il
not more from the calculations made previous to the
freezes of last month Since Wednesday the weather
has been clear and cold.
The Jackson Tmes of the 9Th inst, states that ar
old man named John E. Moore has been arrested in
that parish for attempting to persuade slave Of Mr.
Samuel Skinner to murder and rob his master. Ths
negro promised to perform the deed, and then re
vealed the whole matter to his master.
The Shreveport Southwestern Of Wednesday las
says:
The river continues to rise rapidly and snow With
few feet Of ordinary high water mark. The larg
packets resuming their regular trips and the boat
ing season has fairly opened.
A sheaf from the shock Of an earthquake must