New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-23
Mississippi Intelligence

From the vicksburg Sun of Tuesday we extract
the following paragraphs:
The rains, we learn, have done much good in the
interior Of the State and corn again looks fresh and
growing.
Peter Frazer, we learn, sent to Jail by j. L.
Morris, Esq, of De Kalb, for whipping negro to
DEATH If Peter be guilty we should be pleased to
hear of his being compelled to dance nothing, with
a hemp cravat about his neck.
j. R. s. Pitts has been released from the Jail of
Mobile. His friends in this State paid up all fines
and costs against him. The imprisonment has done
much towards engendering i-teeling between the
people of the Eastern portion of the State Of Missis-
sippi, and the peape OF Mobile.
The Lexington Advertiser, of Friday last, says:
During the early part of the week quite a storm
prevailed in this neighborhood and quite heavy
rain FELL which proved quite blessing to our citi-
Zens, and much improved vegetation Since then the
weather has been fair and pleasant.
The Coahoma Citizen of the 18th has the following
items:
A rain over this county within the next ten days
will make the crops very promising. The hot weather
during the week has, in great measure killed off
| the worms.
The river is getting so low at this point that it
longer is matter of interest 1t is near twenty feet
| below high water mark and falling foot in twenty
| four hours.
Fishing privileges hereabouts extensive. The
overflow lett every brook and bayou filled with the
| finest of trout, bass perch and catfish; and those
fond of angling are having glorious time of it.
The hull of the steamer St. Nicholas lies upon the
Bar just below Delta, and is now partially out of
water. The wreck first discovered by William
Burton, who will probably make it profitable under
the salvage laws, as it is said to contain great
quantity of bar lead the safe and other vauables.
The Yazoo Banner says:
Mr.. M. R. Gill, who was tried and convicted of
bgamy at the last term of the Circuit Court Of this
county, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in
the Peuitentiary, has been pardoned by Gov. McWil
lie He was released from Jail on last Tuesday.
The Oxford Mercury of the 10th has the following
On last Monday refreshing rain fell here, which
we presume, extended all over North Mississippi. l,
was very acceptable, for we have not been visited by
the slightest shower for four weeks. The crops
were needing it very much, and vegetation generally
looks very much refreshed.
The crops between Oxford and Holly Springs look
excellent. The cotton never appeared more promis
ing at this season of the year, and the corn look
equally as healthy. The rain on Monday came in th.
nick OF time for the corn was beginning to bear bat
appearance for the want of it. The planters hav'
now every reason for an abundant yield.
HoMIoIDE.-1n Philadelphia, on the evening Of tn
18th, a drunken man insulted some ladies in an ON
nibus, and they asked the driver to have him pu
out The driver demonstrated with him, but wthou
avail, when young man who was sitting on the bo
of the omnibus with the driver remarked that if tn
3 driver would not put him out, he would. He the
got down and went to the rear of the coach, an
made some remark to the man inside, who got ou
and the two clenched and after short struggle, tn
man who had been in the coach fell down. Th
young man jumped on the box again, and told tn
driver to go ahead, which he did, and at Twenty ir
street the young mau jumped off, ran up Twehty-hrs
street and escaped. The man in the street was afte
wards picked up and found to be in dying condition
He had three stabs. in each breast and one i'll I'll
abdomen He died in u few minutes, without spea
ing word.