New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-03-03
Nsfu 0rlsans 4aiIp Grsstsnt.
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY BT The MAILS.
s1is.lsslppa InseIIlgenee.


AN ACT was passed BY the late Legislature to
provide Tor the better security Of titles to lands
held and claimed under tag saes and - ttt,.. 7,
provaes mat after the expiration Of the time
hm'ed py law ior the redemption thereof, the pur-
chaser may proceed to have said titles made per
feet ana valid against all parties claiming or having
any interest IN such lands, which existed at the
time the same were sold for taxes.
An act was also passed extending to slaves the
privilege Of bail and the right Of habeas CORPUS.
An act likewise passed increasing the nav Of
jurors to two dollars per day.
A meeting Of the stockholders Of The Culf ard
Ship Island Railroad was held on tie 10th. and !
new Board Of Directors elected for the ensuing
year. The following resolution was adopted:
Be II rescued, That It Is the opinion ii hi.
meeting that the termini and location Of the route
Of the Gulf and Ship Island Railroad Including Dc
recent survey made By the Engineer, connectinu
Mississippi City with the previous survey Il liz
31st parallel of North latitude ought to be. and Il
adopted and the question put at rest in order that
the incoming Board may proceed to the constrnc.
ton OF the road at the earliest possible moment.
| The Meridian. published at the eastern terminus
of the Southern Railroad, says:
The Southern road is now cleared ont tn Ne
ridian. We part of the contractors force Ar,
/ grading in few hundred yards of our Office. IN,
| constan. rain retards them very much.
We learn that the road-bed from ChunkevyilI
west, is all ready for the iron. Track LAYING ha
been resumed. So soon az the road about Morto
gets in good repair, SO that the iron can b
brought through, it will be dispatched with a
haste.
The Oxford Mercury Of the 23d has the folIowin
account Of a tragedy in Pontotoc county:
A bloody tragedy occurred on the plantation
Mr.. Henry Gilmer. near Tocopola, Pontotoc cou
| ty, last Saturday. A negro man belonging to hi
made an attack upon one of his own (the negro,
daughters, a full grown woman, with hatche
He struck her with it heavy blow on the left ang
of the back portion of the head, the Ratchet ben
half buried in the skull. The desperate man tn
stabbed himself with a knife in two places, O
| wound being inflicted in the throat and the 9th
in the left side.
The woman was not dead at last accounts, b
not the slightest hope was entertained for her
covery. The man failed to kill himself, as he U
questionably intended, the wounds not being fat
| The cause alleged for this murderons ARRAY W
a suspicion on the part Of the father that some
| the neighborhood negroes had attempted to pois
| him, and had used his daughter as an instrume
| to carry out the design.
4 He was taken in Pontotoc, and after preImi
airy examination, committed to Jail, to await t
| action of the Criminal Court.
| The Holly Springs papers speak of very hea'
rain storm occurring there on the 18th inst. II
cars ran off the track above jacksonville in cons
quence Of an immense quantity of sand haviI
been washed over the track; while two or hr,
negro men, with several mules were drowned
attempting to cross the Cold Water and 9TH
streams in the county.