New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-10-25
Louisiana Intelligence.
The St. Mny,s Banner Of SATURDAY Last 8

M '7s' 'Hss' } nahher OF saturday last sayS:
Mr. Joseph A. Frere informs rs that he has
made, up to last Wednesday, about sixty hogs
s neads from sixty acres Of superior stabble cane
Sixteen acres Of the best Of q made twenty fnnr
negshends. He thinks that not over three-quarters
oid land subtle From these results We would
1niige that much Of the old land stufbe along the
leche below Franklin, will not yield half hogs
made on a plantation on the Laseurche with an
average OF less than half hogsheaG TO the acre.
Last Thursday we called at Mr. Bethel,s sugar
hoaseto learn definitely in regard to his new sugar
as 10 the yield per acre, quality, ETC.. Mr. Fisher
the manager, informed us that he. made nineteen
hogsleads from seventeen acres Of fresh land stub
Bile, but from other cane he made much less. He
thinks the cane is yielding better now than it will
40 IN Two weeks II we have much rain in that time
He has cane at the mill which he expects will do
better than the first There is great irregular
NY IN the crops. everywhere, some cane being
hardly HI for seed and other choice cuts of fresh
WOOD iand cane yielding remarkably well. People
should be cautious how they credit the accounts Of
these favored spots as the average of the crops
The Opeiousas Courier informs US that the Grand
Jury faieM to find bill against the actors in the
Grand Toptue affair
At Democratic meeting in Harrisonburg, on the
9Th inst, Truman Brethaupt received the nomina-
ton as candidate for Representative for Catahoula
parish.
Blythe Hamisonburg Independents we learn that
two men made their escape fuom the jail in that
place on Monday night of last week. Their names
were H.. Bradford and &c onllin; the first had
been imprisoned two years nearly, awaiting trial
for murders: the other was committed recently. of.
fence not stated. They were confined in separate
rooms, and made their escape through the wall of
the secondi story, making them blankets subserye
the purposes, of rope. The locks and other fas-
Jennings bearevidence that assistance was rendered
them.
The Lafayette Echo of Saturday last gives the
following account of shocking murder in that
parish:
A most horrible and flendish double murder was
perpetrated in this parish, the northwest side OF
the bayou Vermilion, on the night of the 18th inst
The victims of this outrageous assassination were
Louis Simon and his wife-a1l old couple who were
living to, themselves (not having even a servant
and known to possess considerable amount Of
money!, which they kept at homa in an iron safe
When the assassin or assassins entered the house,
the oldlpeOpe must have run ont, each through a
separate door, and were then oanght and murdered
near the house, for there was a pool Of blood near
each DIOR which clearly indicated that they had
been murdered outside, and afterwards dragged in
the, honse.
The old man was stabbed in the right breast and
also in the head; the old lady had deep cut on
her head which must have been inflicted with an
Az. After the commission of the crimes the fiend
or ties took the bodies, laid them in the middle
Of the floor, placing thereon all the bedding and
set fire to the whole, with the intention no doubt,
of burning the house, and thereby destroying ali
traces of their helish deedss but, strange it may
SEEM, the house did not burn, although the bed
ding and floor were burnt up, and the bodies SO
badly charred as to render almost impossible for
the COroners jury to say what sort of Instruments
were used by the murderers to kill their Victims
1t was not until the next evening that the neigh
hors, several Of whom lived in about quarter or
half a mile of the place, discovered that Simon
and his wife had been murdered.
The safe resisted all their attempts to force it
open, and after battering it and nearly breaking
the lock off they were compelled to leave without
getting the money, to possess which they had so
deeply stained themselves in crime.
1t is not known who the assassins are, neither
does suspicion rest on any one.
We learn from the Floyd Louisianian, that J. NJ
Mari was shot by his sonn-law, NJ. c Reneau, at
Oak Grove, in Carroll parish, on the It'll inst. The
difficulty arose ont Of Marr's refusal to let Reneau
take his (R's) child from the formers house. where
it had been staying since its mothers death. Mari
is not expected to recover.