New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-09-27
Louisiana Intelligence.

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The Shreveport Southwestern Of the 14th has the
following:
Our town and suburbs appear to be infested with
thieves, robbers and runaways Hardly night passes
without some depreciation being committed. At all
may be seen passing from the graveyard and Muggns
towards the head Of Silver Lake Even in the day.
time they may be seen sleeping under the trees.
Lately several valuable negroes have disappeared !;
day night fugitive from justice was captured in this
town BY some men from Texas, and rumor says thew
hung him on the way to the county where he stood
charged OF committing crimes. A few days ago
which he offered for sale. Not being able to obtain
more than $500 for them be concluded to take them
to some other market. He had not left long before
pursuers came IN search of him. We have not heard
Cotton begins to come in, but rather slowly. The
crop on the uplands will be very short. From what
we can learn by the papers from all the cottoa grow.
ing States, we feel justified in predicting that the
whole cotton crop will fall short at least onefourt the
present season.
The Morehouse Advocate Of the 18th says:
We have not had drop to do any good in about
four months. The ground is perfectly parched and
the dust very dsageeable. Our crops have suffered
greatly from the protraced drought and will be very
short. Many planters will not make near corn enough
to do them The fields are white with cotton, but it
will be picked out much earlier than usual. Crops
must be short throughout all North Louisiana indeed
throughout the whole South. Why will our city ex-
changes continue to proclaim there Is large cotton
crop made!
The Caddo Gazette Of the 18th has the following /:
During the week the weather has been excessively
warm for the season. We had light shower on
Tuesday last. We have heard that heavy rains have
fallen in Northern Texas, and we trust that rise
will occur In Red river BY the LIST of October
The late showers have improved the hill crops very
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and forms. Il is believed by planters Of experience
that all the blooms to the 10th or Goth of this month
will nature If we have late fall the planters on
the hills may yet make an average crop. The crop
on Red river is very good, provided the fall is dry.
The Pointe Coupee Echo Of Saturday last says:
About month or six weeks ago the prospect for
an unusually large crop Of sugar. this year. most
aatterng But the continued dry weather since that
time has so checked the growth of the cane and
otherwise injured It, that the yield will inevitably
be very much diminished fully one third. Had the
weather been propitious, with the fine stand all Of
planters had in the early part OF the season. the
CROP we believe, would have exceeded tho one OF
last year by some five thousand hogsheads but as it
is it will be that much loss. The cane is very small
and is now ripening rapidly. All now necessary to
complete the ill-fortune Of our planters would be
rainy spell of weather, which would set the cane
growing, and thus diminish the quantity of saccha.
rine matter Our cotton planters having just the
weather they wish, and are "making hay while the
The Pointe Coupee Democrat Of the same date
says:
Since our last issue the weather has changed from
warm and sultry to cool and pleasant fall weather.
No rain of any consequence hence no more propi-
tous weather could be desired to favor the picking
the cotton crop, which turns out to be quite large.
But not SO with the sugar planters; continual
drought at this season OF the year takes away their
last hope of making even medium crop; hence,
under no circumstances, will the sugar crop reach
more than twothrds that of last year. It will be
little over $4,000 hogsheads against $4,000 hogs
heads, the crop Of 1858.