The Carrollton sun. (City of Carrollton, Parish of Jefferson, La.) 185?-1???, 1860-09-05
Louisiana Etenis.

The Baton Rouge Advocate has the
following:
The negro boy belonging to FL. A. Cas-
tie. who ran away on Wednesday night
after having been detected id game Of
cards with the man Watson, Committed
to jail on Thursday was arrested above
this CITY the next day. He was tied and
put in skiff with little boy who started
to the town with him. After going some
distance the negro attempted to KICK the
boy into the river so as to escape. ii'e
latter raised his gun aud fired upon MN
the wound resulted fatally.
The Thibodeaux Gazette of Friday
says
During the week we have had nume-
rous showers, not too much, however, TO
render our roads impossible.
One of our worthy planters tells us that
he has had rain every day all around his
plantation, but more to benefit or do any
good to his crop.
The Pointe Coupee Democrat of Satur-
days says:
During the beginning of the week we
| have had slight rains, enough to cool the
| atmosphere and start the vegetation &c
growing, not enough, however, to do much
! good to the cane fields. The cane crop
| IS lost beyond redemption. We again as
sert that this crop will not yield over one
third of last years crop.
The cotton crop will also be short. On
new and treshaand on our bayous, hoWeVef
the field are white with cotton. That al
ready gathered is of the first quality.
From the st. Mary's Banner of Satur-
day we extract the following:
From what we can learn of the cane
crop in the sugar parishes generally, the
Weld Of sugar the coming season must be
small. On both sides of the Mississippi
river, Pointe Coupe and Bayou Sara tc
New Orleans, the drouth has pinChed the
cane severely, and even If the rains OF the
present wook have reached them they can
hot make more than halfa crop, and prob
ABLY less than that From New Orleans
down they have had some fine rains, bal
the storm of the 18th of August did great
injury to the cane.
On the Lafourchc and in Terrebonnc
the rains have been partial, some have
rood crops and some have suffered scveIy
by the drouth The same fact holds good
in St Mary. From st. Mary up Though
s.. Martins, Lafayette, NermIIllon, Ope-
Iousas, Avoyeles and Rapides, the droutl
has been severe and the crop has conse
quently suffered much.
Upon the whole, the prospects for the
sugar planter the present season are quite
gloomy, and under no circumstances car
the yield come up to one-half Of tul
crop.
Last Wednesday man By the name o
David Strimplc, a native OF New Jersey
lately from California, was arrested in tins
place, and is now in Jail, where he Will re-
| main until the October Court, on aCcouu
of some Old Brown - doctrines drop
ped in the hearing of both negroes anc
white persons. He is evidently a man O
the darkest Abolition proclivlties. ii@
expressions were too outrageous tor us L
publish, and he will doubtless pay dearly
! for it before he sees the end. He has beer
working at the coopcr's business in TIM
place, and has the appearance OF bern!
rather a hard case. He has had some eN
pericnce in California, and has been qWt
Il rowing character.
! The operations on OUR railroad are p""
| crossing as rapidly rs could he cN1cSie,
| during the hos weather. They have sa'