New Orleans daily crescent., 1859-11-18


m. Bafon Rougc advocate has the following
wr IN sbsolutcly SUPPORTING here from dust, and
/ nom prs9ont appearances we arc likely g 80 on
snfrinr til the country the planters are ail win.
rowing Ne fear that they will save bit little Of
note ron, Mr. G. NJ. Pierce, Of this parish, in
forms us that his residence, together with the
kitchen and outhouses, were entirely destroyed by
fire last night. So rapid was the spread Of the
flames that the family barely escaped them. The
Ance.
) The Lake Providence Herald of the 18th says;
Up to the present writing tFriday evening" we
have had no rain for nearly q month, though q
clustering south wind which has prevailed all day
long to ss gathering G. the roads an be
Judged from the fact that the mercury in the ther-
mometer is up to eighty-two degrees. This day
year ago it was only up to forty-two.
We hear Of much suffering to the stock IN some
parts of the country, owing to scarcity OF wafer
Here the cisterns have nearly all gone dry, and
numerous water carts are daily employed in haul
ing the precious element from the lake to the
houses Of our citizens.
The Alexandra American of the 18th says;
The river is still falling, but navigation to this
no;nt ia very good, We learn that Mr.. Mallefert
has arrived, and will soon commence ms "biow-
ing's operations on the falls, whether LOT tne
benefit of navigation not, time alone can tell,
We also understand that he will blow up the wreck
| ~ the steamboat Adams, which has been lying in
the channel Of the upper falls for the past twelve
months which shows that some of the officers
under the State Government have neglected their
duties.
The Homer Had says:
We have had dry, cool weather for long time
now, and two or three nipping frosts recently.
Never has there been more favorable time for
gathering crops Of every description specially
cotton.
From the Minden Monitor we extract the follow
ing in regard to the election in that parish:
From sudden impeachment, our old rooster can
not crow with his usual shrilness therefore we do
not present him to the public gaze this week. He
is afflicted seriously; but the disease is, as we are
fully satisfied, only temporary. We believe he
will yet live to crow as loud as he ever did. We
the peach tree, but we mean the old Democratic
rooster that has been growing SO long over Dem
ocratic victories. A friend at our elbow suggests
that the Opposition have gagged him by poking
ant-c0nyention Democrats down his throat, and
says if we would get surgeon to examine him, he
has no idea but would find at least three Of the
largest sized lodged about his windpipe We had
thought linn Of too capacious dimensions to be af-
fected by such cause yet, when it comes to
they crammed in crossways by the Know Nothings,
it was little too much; but accidents will happen
in the best Of families
But we started to tell something about the
election. The Democracy have elected four Of
the nominees in the parish and lost three of them.
We still have majority Of the parish officers, the
Sheriff. Assessor, Clerk and one Representative,
while the Opposition have the Senator one Repre-
sentative and District Attorney.
In all parts Of the State complaints are made of
the long drouth and the dust.