New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-17

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The Houma Ceres. II Saturday Iass has Die fol-
lowing:
ON Iast Tuesday night lie planting eersnsanity
We're favored with a eopious rain which has been
Of immense benefit to them. The weather con.
tmaes cool and delightful.
loined me jail hey, and gave Bengamin E6uyisrs
coas % saf and feathers BengaWin Is silly and
inonenslys man, and those who engaged in fhe af-
fair shonid De ashamed of themselves.
The Rapides american Of Saturday last says
The weather still continues DIV tbs yaarninsa
and evenings are very cool III this season Ri
the year. We hear . great many complaints about 4
Tie BieusIlls Parish Jefsraonisn ii the shs oh
inst. has the following
The weather has once more assumed lis wontea
warmness, and we proguosticate no more epld
nights like those we have recently bad, Nhich
proved so detrimental to crops.
Since the above was in type we have had ssxy
The sanitary condition Of orr parish d worze
than ever known at this season. Typhoid and
most every instance they battle the skill Of Eseu
lapeau science.
We are informed, says the Baton Rouge Advo-
cate, that difficulty occurred On Sunday ID PORT
Hudson, between Drs. Porter Brown and MARSH, ia
which the latter is reported to have been fatally
shot BY the former. We have no particulars Of
! the difficulty.
| Mr.. Jonas Roasesen was 4 few days ago elected
| Mayor Of Shreveport By : majority Of II votes
/ From the PiaquemiHes Rice Planter Of Saturday
last We extract the following account u lie crop
i prospects IN that parish Il 10 ~ III 81
4 Since our last review. the CROPS We are happy
to say, have considerably gained In appearallee
The plant cane ID thriving most beautifully. TIE
rattoons, with few exceptions, are poor, very poor
and no great hopes can be placed on them af fhss
Il time. However, with favorable withsr fhes may
4 improve and yield next fall from d thousand 10
i fifteen hundred pounds to the acre. ss VA
The early AL of the river had for 2 while caused
much uneasness to all Industrious rice farmers.
4 Happily, the old Father Of Waters having again
| swollen, our husbandmen enjoy now sufficient
water facilities so 40 to overflow their rice fields
| clean to the leyee. Should the old fellow remain
stationary for WHILE there Is telling the GUAM
tity of rice that would be raised in this parish this
| season All our rice millers-and here wecount
\ now four steam rice milis--woAId coin money by
4 the cart-loads, and the credit Of our merchants
i would be worth fifty per cent. on Old feree
II street, in the good city Oh the Crescent
Corn although the weather Is little too dry at
throughout the parish. Now this commodity here
is not only raised for home consumption, bGt also
for the New Orleans market. 4 Large supply 81 i
n year. The high prices which corn brought last
fall in New Orleans proved 50 highly Seruneratige,
that a number Of the Jesuit's Bend farmers have
planted this spring 10 corn double the quantity Of
land they did last year. Jesnit's Bend, u Oh o
small scale, the Illinois Of the Empire parish, five
can so express ourself. a aSssS & Il sssssss
No potato crop ever raised Ii this parish can be
n compared to the one of this season AsnfAcient
quantity of this nutrcious root the next six months
viii be shipped to New Orleans TO feed, during six
months, al the famiahing sons of Efia IN the PA
4 We are sorry to say, owing. ID the severe cold
weather Of last winter, our orange trees, particr
,arly at and vicinity WI scarcely
r we are informed, will yield an abundant CROP
IS should no untoward circumstances occur between