New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-11-08
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INTERIOR CORRESPONDENCE.


INTERIOR CORRESPONDENCE.
MoBEHoUsE PARISH, LA, Oct. %, 1858.
Eds. Crescent: wrote you under date Of October
LIST, and have concluded to drop you few more
lines According to the election returns Of the S0-
preme Judicial District it appears that our neighbor
and estimable citizen, the Hon John Ray, was de-
feated by his opponent Hon. t. T. Land by a small
majority. Mr.. Ray was well supported in the neigh
boring parishes Of his domicil, and no doubt, would
have been elected had each candidate run upon biz
own merits but the Democratic party made it d
political matter and the entire press Of that party
raised the hue and cry in their candidates favor
upon that ground, thereby virtually regulating the
principle Of an independent judiciary Mr.. Ray,
however, is not to be laid upon the shelf The people
have a vivid recollection Of the valuable services
rendered them by Dir. Ray, whilst a member Of the
Legislature of this State, in eifectng some Of the
most important reforms ever made in that body
among which may be mentioned the act for reducing
the then enormous fees Of clerks, sherifs ETC. Yon
recollect Mr. Ray heretofore has been highly spoken
OF in connection with the Gubernatoria chair and
he is now fayorably mentioned as very suitable
man for the times to represent this State in the
United States Senate.
word about crops: we had a heavy rain here on
LnE Eall anu EOLu lL5tduts, accompanied WIN WING
which did serious damage to the cotton unpicked.
The picking is far advanced for the season some or
of the planters being nearly done, except cleaning.
The talk " here among the planters is that they
cannot resist the conclusion with the lights before
them, but that the present crop of cotton will be
short one and, the further talk is, that all who
are able to do so will order their merchants when
they ship to hold to their cotton till spring. 1t is
true, the reports show that there is great deal
Of cotton going into the market for the season. but
that circumstance does not necessarily indicate o
large crop. The facts are, the cotton maturing and
opening this season early and all at once occasoned
by the drouth, planters, in order to protect them
selves, forced to use every effort to gather in
fast possible to save it consequently every hand
that could pick pound of cotton was put into the
field, and perfect rush was made to save the
cotton, to the entire neglect of gathering corn or
doing anything else. Some have not even taken the
time to butcher beef besides all the surplus hands
that could be procured in the country have been
hired to assist at high rates Now the talk here
is that the Talk on 'Chauge,n on Carondelet
street, with regard to large crop, predicated upon
the advanced state OF the picking and correspond
ingly large receipts in market is altogether
neOus. l would remark that the season until re-
Gently having been favorable to clean picking, the
quality Of the cotton is very good some say little
has been gathered sofar that will rank Good Mid
? ding Yours truly,
vERIrAs
rive imagine when % yeritas sees the figures, at
the end Of the year, it will he demonstrated to bis
arithmetcal vision, that the Crescents talk :" was
based on the hest data, and that the j." talk he
alludes to only applicable to bis particular re-
8 gion Our " talk embraces the whole cottonpro.
dueng section, and facilities for obtaining cor
8 rect information are unsurpassed.J
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THE ANDAMAN IsLANDs,-The following extract
from private letter, written by an officer on hoard
the British frigae Roebuck contains some interest
ing intelligence respectingtbe Andaman Islands now
converted into penal settlement for the mutnous
sepoys
Our cruise to the Andamans would have been
pleasant had we had other than ship provisions in
the mess. We called at Port Blair (Our headquar-
ters) and found two Of the ships company there,
i with DR.. Walker superintendent of the penal settle
ment, and other officers board and then went on
our cruise to the South Of Rutland Island and as far
deg. 80 min. north, keeping the land in sight
st all day sometimes within mile Of it) to look for
T Malay vessels which resort there for birds nests and
sea sugs but we were unsuccessful in fact, nothing
was to be seen but native huts, and canoes hauled
up on the beach, Only once did we see anything OF
the savages who were bathing or fishing under the
trees. There are four Andaman Isands-Northern,
Southern, Middle, aud the Great Andaman - but
these, Of course, have several smaller islands at
tarhed to them. They are covered so densey with
trees that nothing is OF them. Port Blair was
the only port where we could venture on shore, and
then only with revolyers in of meeting
natives.
The company's ships have lost several men Gone
an officer of the Put0 aud when the SesOstris sent
Watering party on shore the Otherday they were sud
denly attacked by natives with bows and arrows the
e latter pointed with hard wood and found to pene
tratG boats side. Several arrows were fired, and