New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-03
Nsn Orleans lailp Crestent.
Louisiana Intelligence.

The Baton Rouge Advocate has the following;
The negro boy belonging to H. A. Castle, who
ran away on Wednesday night after having been
detected in 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 skif 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. The latter raised his gun and fred
upon him, the wound resulting fatally.
The Thibodaux Gazette of Friday says
During the week we have had numerous
showers, not too much, however, to render our
roads impossible.
One of our worthy planters tells us that he has
had rain every day ali around his plantation, but
none to benefit or do any good to his crop.
The Pointe Coupee Democrat of Saturday says !:
During the beginning Of the week we have had
slight rains, enough to cool the atmosphere and
start the vegetation to growing not enough, how
ever, to do much good to the cane fields. The cane
crop is lost beyond redemption. We again assert
that this crop will not yield over one-third Of last
years crop.
The cotton crop will also be short. On new and
fresh land on our bayous, however, the fields are
white with cotton. That already gathered is of
the first quality.
From the ST. Marys Banner of Saturday we ex-
tract the following:
sugar parishes generally, the yield of sugar the
coming season must be small. On both sides of
the Mississippi river, from Pointe Coupee and
Bayou Sara to New Orleans, the drouth has pinch
ed the cane severely, and even if the rains of the
present week have reached them, they cannot
make more than half crop, and probably less
than that From New Orleans down they have
had some fine rains, but the storm Of the 18th of
| August did great injury to the cane. .z
On the Lafourche and in Terrebonne the rains
have been partial; some have good crops and
some have suffered severely by the drouth. The
same fact holds good in st. Mary. From st. Mary,
sfrpn Uj Mart Tafa uatt t;nr
Opelousas, Avoyelles and Rapides, the drouth has
been severe and the crop has consequently suffered
much.
Upon the whole, the prospects for the sugar
planter the present season are quite gloomy, and
under no circumstances can the yield come up to
one half OF full crop.
Last Wednesday man by the name of David
strimpe, native Of New Jersey. but lately from
California was arrested in this place, and is now
| in Jail, where he will remain until the October
Court, on account Of some "0ld Brown doctrines
dropped in the hearing of both negroes and white
persons. He is evidently man of the darkest A b.
clifton proclivities. His expressions were too out.
| rageous for us to publish, andhe will doubtless pay
dearly for it before he sees the end. He has been
| working at the cooper's business in this place, and
| has the appearance Of being rather hard case.
| He has had some experience in California, and has
! been quite rowing character.
| The operations on our railroad are progressing
/ as rapidly as could be expected during the hot
| weather. They have several miles handsomely
/ graded III tne rear Oh lnlS place, gang Oh naHus
are working on heroad near Jeannerett's, another
gang between this place and the Bay, and we are
informed that in aboat month or six weeks tht
force on the road will be increased to seven hun
| dred hands, and the road will be graded the en-
tire distance between New Iberia and the Ba,
with the utmost dispatch.
Michael Boyler, an Irish ditcher, stabbed ant
killed his sonin-law, w. Curly, at Berwicks Bay
ON the evening of the 2sth inst. It is said tina
Curly drew gun on Boyler, and threatened t,
shoot him, just previous to the fatal thrust giYeI
by his father.in. law.