New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1862-02-04
Louisiana Intelligence.


We hear, says the Livingston Reporter, that
many are basing their calculations for the next
crop upon the presumption that we are to have no
more severe weather-in. other words, that the
winter is over. 70 warn all such persons Of the
uncertainty of the matter, we give the dates up to
which, ia this place, we have recognized and re-
corded the presence of ice for the sixteen winters
last past: '' 81 ~
Winter of 1s45-46, February goth; 1s4s-47,
March 10th lS47-4s, December Goth; 1880,
February 18th lS49~ SO, March 2Sth ;ls50~5l Feb.
ruary l7th lS5l-52, November Sth !; 1852 453, Feb
rnary 24th l85s7 February 4th l854T55, March
23d; lS55-56, March 2sth; 1851, April 18th !;
ls57-5s, March 9th; ls5s5o, April 9th ls59AG0,
March 10th; ls60-6l, March 10TH. rs =. 'esl, q
CoTToN. This commodity seems to be on the
move from this quarter, On Monday quite3a ship
ment of it was made down the river to some point,
and other shipments have followed This cotton
has been purchased by a person residing on the
coast; for what particular destination we know
not. [Concordia 1ntelligencer. f# as{a& ss..e
| Agentleman Of Houma, parish Of Terrehonne,
reports that thirteen men of that parish, while on
Gallon Island, on visit of nature that prudence
bids US. not to diyuge, were takOn prisoners by
\ the Yankees, and were subsequently released
This is the second time that Terebonne visitors to-
Caillou Island have been taken prisoners blythe
Yankees on the Gulf shore. - sg,t 80 ags=r Il
| The Ponte Coupee Democrat says the sugar
crop will ethe largest ever made in that parish
| W. W. Wilcox killed James Furlough, on the
10Th of January, on Big Greek, in Rapides, under
circumstances making it the worst of murders.
| The widow of the deceased offers areward of s80e
for the apprehension of the murderer Wilcox il
about ffty-iye years ldfspare made, quite grey
had whiskers, also grey, vas dressed in plair
4 honespun. a He has a brother living near Sumter
Trinity county Texas, and it is supposed he has
made his way there. n, .s4gs yss5s ay.sss. d X
! From the St, Mary's Banner we extract the fol
flowing. IS, ~. AZ g-,s, "a 4,,-s-s5.g =
d, As we, write, on Monday morning, the 18th q
January, when the hills Of the North are clad will
snow, and Northern lakes and rivers are locked IN
lection against the biting cold,iwe lookout upon
i land clothed in spring like beauty, and ore IAN
1ed by gentle breezes such as those in the regions
u of New England only enjoy in the beginning o.
Il. summer. Here ore Japan plnms hanging IA vel;
low clusters up6h the trees, having ripened and
come to complete perfection in the open air during
. the winter; and some have gathered messeS o
Erpe strawberries, that have rpened IN January il
the open air. The cook goes daily to the gardeI
to select fresh vegetables for dinner, and she j
able to obtain fine cabbages, beets, tnrnips, Irisl
4 cress radshes, onions, celery and other article
n which show no signs Of having been troubled b.
I frosts. Such has been the winter of 1852 in th'
parish of St. Mary, on the border of the Gulf Q
Mexico, in the rebel State of Louisiana. And tbi
is an important portion of that country which til
hosts Of Abraham weald wipe oct" if the.
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