New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-05-29
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sT. JoHN's PAR1sm.-Ie MeseAace5s. says Sbe
river Is falling, but the plantations IRE beginning
to suffer for rain.
WEATHER, CROPS, ETc-The rain seems to have
ceased. The weather ia beautffuI--tflouuH II was
rather too cool in the first of the week. Crops
still continue to give the most cheering Indications
One of our oldest planters suggested to us that it is
very probable we might be able to assist our
European friends if they should be short OF corr
as tlooks as il we are going to have than we
will have room to pack away. And what is cheer
ing, also, the river fs now falling having fell here
two inches on Wednesday, night, as onr planting
friends inform %. Surely, we repeat, kind ProTis
dence is watching over US. EPlaquemine Gaz.
We are gFatifed at being enabled to announce
that the river at this point il the Decline hay
| ing fallen abouf four inches within the present
week All of the upper tributaries, excepting the
| ONO, were falling at last accounts. Our feyeas
| nave stood 1t finely, 30 far. The river has been
| half q foot 81 more higher than It was IN 1858.
Lake Providence Herald.
4 TOUCHING SCENE " hen the Gotten touched
at Bruy Landing to take on board the TirraiIleuFs
an old negro woman in the crowd was observed to
be much excited, and with almost frantic pleadngs
begged to go on board the boat. bystander
asked her the reason for such strange behavior.
She replied that her young master was going away
70 be Killed in the war, and that ID she had nursed
him in infancy she wished to go and attend upon
him wherever he went We confess our eyes felt
moist at witnessing sneh an exhibition of feeling
from a "poor, down-trodden slayen to Hberate
whom the North has wsged an uBboIy war upon
us for years. West Baton Rouge Ssgar Planter.
Cur FREE GsLoRED MEasy-O Our free colored men
of the Barthelemy Settleraent--who are certainly
as mach attached to the land Of their birth AZ any
of their white brethren born in Louiaiana--we ere
happy to say. have formed themselves into an in
| fantry company, and have elected Victor Reaudy
| Esq, their commander. If ever called into the
| field, the free colored men of the BartheIemy
Settemenf-who, by-the-by, own quite large
number Of slayes-wI fight the Black Republican
hordes with as much Determination and gallantry
any body of white iii the service Of tile Con
| Federate States. [Piaquemine Rice Planter.
| From the Planters Banner, published at Frank
lin, in st. Mary's parish, we take the following
| items relative to the defences at Berwiek's Bay:
| To BE BLoHN UP.-It is said that the energetic
Committee of Safety, at Berwiek's Bay, intend to
| blow up nt-Au-Fere Lighthouse, that enemies
rora the Gulf may lose the last landmark that may
guide them to, the mouth Of the Atchafaaya. This
| light house is in ruins, but it is aerviceabIe as o.
landmark for mariners by day, though of no service
| by night.
| PRoTEeTIoE OF ATrAKAFAs.-Our neighbors at
| Berwicks Bay are at work in sober earnest,
throwing up eartwork batteries for the protection
| of the mouth of the Atchafalaya and the country
into which its waters extend. Under the direction
| of Lieut. Harrod, they are throwing up works at
| the upper mouth of Wax Bayou, ahoat three miles
| from Berwick's Bay, and also at Messy Point,
| situated at the junction of Bayou Shaver and
Bayou Chtne, five miles below Wax Bayou Both
| will be in complete working order in few days.
|
| in New Orleans, ready to be forwarded, or are
perhaps already at Brashear. They hare more
than two hundred negroes at work, throwing up
embankments at both points, voluntarily sent by
the planters, principally from the lower part OF
the parish.
sBUoYs RE,loVED.-The Committee of Safety, in
the lower part of this parish, have ordered all the
buoys and stakes to be removed from the channel
leading to the mouth of the Aschafalaya, and are
carrying into effect the most vigorous measures fol-
defeating the entrance of an enemy into this eoun
try. The Berwiek's Bay people are making strong
work, and are proceeding rapidly in putting theii
section Of the country in a good state of defence
They are fixing the lock of Attakapas 30 that non,
of Lincons keys will be able to fit it. All Attakapa
should thank those Bay gentlemen for their ener
getic and weldreeted efforts to protect the coun
try from invasion. With a crooked and Difficult
channel, no buoys, two batteries, and clouds 2
| long-billed mosquitoes scorching sun and
sprinkling Of burning fevers, q thousand armet
men in ST. Mary, and five or ten thousand, il neces
sary, from New Orleans and our neighboring par
ishes, the breeders of insurrectons will have SO
ciable and merry time of itin this country. Every
body should keep his arms in order and his powde
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