New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-09
Nem Orleans Aaitp Grestent.
Mississippi Intelligence,


ing to record the pleasant fact that we have for
department commander, one who is SO UNIVERSAL,
ENC to our people and considerate of their rights
We are convinced that the principles that animal
Gen Wood are Of the purest character, and tina
ne has at heart the Honor and the welfare Of tn,
entire nation. The selection of General Wood.b,
yen; lhomas 70 command this department, which
involved so many difficult and delicate duties
eVlnces, sound discretion. No man could have
been selected who more completely than Genera
Wood at the same time that he has his duties
1solef 10 view, yet does not lose sight of the fac
mat ne IS citizen not Of SECTION Of country bu
OF an entire country. # all the men in Congress
were imbued with tile same feelings of patriotism
re reconstruction /" would speedily be effected
zen. Woodsrepreseats that feeling in the regular
army which. while it prompts one to do his whole
duty asa solaier,yet ,harbors no jealousy, or dis
trust or unkirdness of people whom they have
peen sent to generalization.
We warn Our friends of the Clarion to exercise
more prudence in their praise of high minced ant
honorable military officials. If the above para
graph should attract the attention of the radicals
in Congress, ~ how long do stheR edtors'of the
Clarion, think il would be before the most clamor
GUS calls would be made for the removal of Gen
Wood, and the substitution in his stead of q
department commander more conscientious in the
discharge of his functions as servant Of Black
Republication p ~ 'Fat ~ 5"t ''+' s75 % A72""
REDEMPTION OF LANDS. A The Clarion calls
attention to the Importance of the fact that the
Legislature, at its last session, passed act on
the subject of lands sold to the State for taxes II
authorized the redemption of all lands, sold slnce
1850, at the Auditors office, simply by paying the
State and county taxes due thereon. No special
taxes or damages are required, but simply the
amount due for taxes. There are several millions
of Of land in this condition. and the parties
interested would do wellto look after this matter
at once. As the law stands the Auditor
alone is authorized to receive this money, and all
applications for redemption should be made in
person or by letter. -
SMALL Pox.-We hear of no new cases in this
city but much apprehension is felt that the disease
may spread, il is known that family Of colored
persons where the disease first appeared were
visited by many FIRE edmen before the disease was
known to be the small poX.
We learn that Col. Donelson Of the iFreedrnan,s
Bureau has been consulted, and has expressed a
willingness to close the colored schools the mo-
ment similar action is taken in reference to the
matter, and hope the Mayor will at once see that
the schools are stopped until at least all the child
rem in the city are yaccinated.- II Clarion.
We clip the following items from the Yazoo
Banner: 'f''@t'e' ~
r. MORE ABOUT THE TgApEG We closed our &C
count Of the horse stealing and killing affair Of last
week with the statement that several parties had
gone in pursuit of the two.fod criminals One
party was under Mr.. Dyer, brother Of our Sheriff
and another under Captain Emery of the militia
Dyer's squad left Benton w ednesday night. They
had information Thursday that the fugityes were
atithe house of Mrs. Owen, near Tenula.IG ttGl&
About three hours before day they surrounded
the house, and as day dawned, charged it, They
found only one of the men, who had been wounded
in the shoulder and could 20 further The
otbertws had fed the night before, At this peint
horses and men being exhausted, and the fugitives
having so much the start, the party came to Yazoo
City, bringing with them the wounded man, who
is now in Jail. ., His name is Nelson and his com
panions, were McDougaly and Parish, all of them
former members of Ross Texas brigade. ,r3 .I..
4. Captain Emery's party, after securing the coun-
try. day or two. returned to Yazoo City without
having accomplished any material result. pst
GONG TT STRoNG.-The records in the Office of
the Probate Clerk of this county show that there
have been sixty five marriage licenses issued
within the last six months. and in every case we
believe there has been no falling back the parties
all coming to- the scratch We challenge any
county in the State to beat Yazoo. Marrying il
an epidemic in this section and it is rumored shat
several Of those crusty old bachelors who have
held of SO long are gong to run away to
avoid the scourge. They say they feel their feso-
luton oozng out like Mr.. Bob Acres courage,
and if they do not fly now, it will be too late, and
they will fall victims. v sa1 -nr asi 8ls ID
Grim-visaged oothed his wrinkled 'front.' o.
And now instead OF mounting baroed steeds ly-s
To fright the souls Of fearful adversaries,
'Tothe lascyioas pleasing of 4 Lutte
colored school has been opened in the Demo
crat office, and there il quite large attendance
of little 'darkeys, who 60 along the Streets with
their books and satchels, ,5Tyrgg az - >,
About dozen prisoners got ont of jail Thurs.
day night and mestof them ESCAPED; only two or
three have as yet been caught. 4 -.,Isz
Meridian papers give an account of an assault
last Tuesday night by posse of negroes, upon
the private residence of Dr.. s, K.sSmth, one and
half miles from the city. There was no white
person on the premises at the time. eXcept Dr. |
Smith mother, an agedand enfeebled lady They
made many threats, fired several shots at the
house, the contents of one gun falling inside the
room Mrs. Smith occupied, and called upon the
supposed occupants of the house to show them. |
selves and they would be murdered. Mrs Smith |
so badly frightened to require the attention
of physician next morning. At last accounts |
five negroes, (all soldiers but one, who has been
found innocent and discharged had been arrested
for the outrage and were in irons. The capture |
was made chiefly through the fundamentally of |
dog that has on some former occasion been SEN |
fenced to death as being 90 niger dog"
The Mayor of Aberdeen having complained of |
the City Marshal for maifeasance in Office and the
council having limited their censure to a repri. |
mand, the Mayor has resigned.
The Mobile Register and Advertiser learns that |
@ disturbance occurred at Pontotoc, Miss q few
days ago. resulting in the death Of an officer in |
charge of the Freedmen's Bureau at that place. l.
From the reports, it appears that large party in
Pontotoc became incensed against the Bureau /
and engaged in riotous proceedings 1t is said /
that the agent of the Bureau was murdered in his |
bed, and that his assailants declared their ami /
mostly against the United States, saying that they
had not yet had war enough, and still wanted to |
light against the government. So far as informal |
non goes, no one was injured but the agent.
Tine store house of Young & Smith was entered |
night before last. The thief got in by forcing the
Ioor from underneath. He was putting the things |
down through the hole, when the clerk came in, |
winch necessltated an abandonment of his enter |
prise. He got off himself without being able to |
carry on his booty except one pair of boots missing
lie lett MS shoes, however, in part payment.
... l-..,.. --t.-.... Meridian Messenger |
A bold robbery of large sum of money from
traveller was recently perpetrated at one of the
hotels in this place.--[l b. -
Our PROSPECTS FOR THE YEAR-We,~ have |
Travelled through several portions of Marshall |
county recently, and ARE we'll pleased with the
great interest manifested by the planting COM
munity. They all seem to have made arrange. |
ments to realize good crops the present year,
Many large farms, however, still without suf.
Gent force to cultivate one.fourth of the good |
tillable land nor do we believe that hands can he
procured in sufficient numbers to be of much SER |
vice the present season.
Several of our largest planters are enteayorinp |
to procure white laborers from the North ana
Europe and if they succeed, the experiment AZ
to the capability and success of such labor will bv
another year, be fully tested. A considerable cron
of cotton will be planted in this county, but we
do not believe that one fourth of the number of
ha1 rf rf1cra yxy;1t bor