New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-07

The Concordia Intelligencer of Friday /,

The Concordia Intelligencer of Friday last says:
On Tuesday there were two or three showers of
no moment, and the succeeding morning was
draped in dense fog for a few hours, wetting the
foliage considerably and dampening the ground;
with these exceptions, the week has been one OF
blazing sun and intense heat, relieved partially by
the recurrence of that portion Of the twenty four
hours termed night
The Tensas Gazette of Saturday says:
We have been visited during the past week by
several delightful rains, which have laid the dust
and partially replenished our cisterns The corn,
| however, has long since been beyond relief, and
many planters will be compelled to purchase largely
to supply home necessities. The cotton is doing
tolerably well-the picking having actively COM
menced on many plantations. The whole face of
nature is parched, and suffers from the intense heat
which continues without abatement.
The St. Martin Iberian of Saturday has the fol-
lowing
During the past week we have had several light
showers of rain which have served to lay the dust;
further than this we have no change to note.
The weather is still as warm as we have expert
enced during the summer. Cotton picking has
commenced in our parish and as far as we have
been able to ascertain, the yield is very good. The
prospect for anything like an average crop fsugar
has long since been abandoned by the most san
guine of our planters. We are sorry to have to
record the prevalence in many parts of the parish
of dpthera putrid sore throat, several cases OF
| which have already terminated fatally.
| The Louisiana Baptist of the 26th ult., says:
pleasant, the temperature ranging about 90o in the
hottest part of the day. Last night and this morn
ing showers have been passing, and at this moment
(Tuesday, 23d, o'clock) there are indications of
| rain as we hope. Clouds from the North, but
| wind from the South-that is, the upper current
| from the North and the lower from South Their
passing we hope will cause eddies and cool places,
| and cool showers.
| The ran on the 10th, we are sorry to learn was
not general, we find from our exchanges and
| correspondents
The DeSoto Eagle of the 2sth ult. has the fol-
lowing:
On Thursday we were blessed with good rain
and, as far we have been able to learn, it was
very general over the entire parish. The corn crop
off the river will not reach one-third of the usual
yield of a seasonable year-and in fact we know
not single planter on the hills that will make
more than sutficiency of corn to supply his own
demands, while there are many who will scarcely
make bnshel to the acre. We understand that
there are families in Desoto parish actually suffer-
ing for bread not being able TO procure tor love
money for the very reason that it is not to be had
in the country. 1t is awfully distressing, with the
most gloomy prospects ahead. 1tis supposed by
some that half crop of cotton will be made on the
hills, but even that is uncertain. A good season
from now on is necessary to ensure moderate
yield of cotton.
CENSUS RETURNS OF NaTcHEz.--Thc Natclez
, Courier says:
In giving the census returns so far as collected
for this CITY, had intended to have compared
them with those of 1850, and also OF a census
taken January 30, 1856, by the city authorities.
, Since 1850 the present returns show an increase
of white population of forty per cent: an increase
of slaves of about thirty per cent, and decrease
in the number of free blacks of about forty per
cent. The increase in the number of whites and
slaves will be found to be still larger, when the
whole return is more carefully made out and
could a census be taken next January, it would
doubtless show an increase of nearly twenty-five
per cent in our population since January, 1860.
As it is the comparative result is as follows: