New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-11
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TUESDAY MORNING, sEpTEMBER il, lses.
Menlniana 1atelllnenee.

mp for their part of the BUSINESS. Freedmen and
women are scarcely seen npon the roads, all
nearly being lii the field getting out the snowy
staple. Pipkers are now in demand, with liberal
wages. Sugar Planter.
We arc compelled to chronicle the. fact, 1isa-
greeahle though it be, that the genuine cotton
worm has appeared in our fields aud commenced
his ravages. This is not to be wondered at, CON
sidering the weather We have had for some two or
three weeks past, To what extent they will re.
dnee cur crop cannot, as yet be estimated. We
can only hope the fears Of our friends are over
estimated ibid.
ST. JoHN BAPTIsT.-The Meschaceb6 says that
among she numerous victims Of cholera in the
parish 81 ST.. John Baptist,is Mr.. Pierre Bozonier
Marmillcn who, after attending with the utmost
seileitue and to the sick in his netghborhood
died On Thursday last, aged atty years He
leaves widow and three children and is univer-
sally regrstted in his own and the adjoining par
ishes, for be possessed all the estimable qualities
OF the genuine old Creole race.
ST. JAMES. = An omnibus line is running on Sun
days along the river bank in this parish, and as
soon rs tile Glasses in the Convent Of the Sacred
Heart shall have been reopened the line will be
run daily.
Mr. francois DIETER known as Melville Bour-
geeis died on his plantation in St. james, and was
buried on Thursday. He left a numerous family
and was much loved and respected
q 81. At AIRY The following items are from the
ElanteTs' Banner
Rain continues to fall daily, and 50 do forms and
squares in the cotton fields. Some of the lower
polls of cotton rot on account of excessive rains
\ but the evil has not yet been at all serious The
planters are net By any means discouraged though
they may be if the worms and wet weather CON.
tinae in their WORK ofFufn.
M e nope those who contemplate making sugar
N TINS parish viii put off sugar making to as late
period as possible. The disasters which this
year befelI the cotton CROP in St. Mary. and tba
probable low price Of cotton in another year, to.
gether with the bright prospects Of the sugar
pia1ter, n case the radicals are checked in their
MAJ career BY the Northern conservatives, will
INDUCE every planter to plant cane another year
pIoNlded seed can be obtained. 1t is useless to
wv! !a!k ABOUT making money by planting cotton in
Lnls parish when it gets down to ten or fifteen
cents per pound. Sugar Is our crop, and seed cane
ought to be saved and economical. But those
VINO want cane must apnlY soon or they will ap.s|
ply too late. I'd
The dreaded cotton worm has come ct last The
grand army worm nov quarters on many of the
cotton elds Of this parish. They last Wednesday
had eaten up forty acres of cotton on the Murphy
plantation in the rear Of this place, mile distant
and were destroying the crops of Hiram Anderson
and =. z. H y Many crops had not been |
s toHrhed lat that time. The holl worm has APP
peared In some places. These bore through full |
grown bolls and destroy them, while the army
Werm destroys only the leaves, blossoms and |
e y0nHg forms. But in spitesa0f army worm boil
worm and the rot, considerable cotton viii be
EaiheTed 70 this parish during the picking season.
.shen me leaves are eaten of hplls open more
Z rapidly than before and rot less. Cotton piekers
4 are ~ q enand here are the idle negroes who
fnrichUlera
oaEs enter risRg friend NJ, d. Wetrnore has
leased Belle Isle for term Of years Of Mrs r. B.
BFashaar. He intends to have Thousand Texas
COWS on llis Island by November, and to raise
calves for the New Orleans market. 1t is gplen-
did cattle range, and the captain cannot fail to
sueceed il the enterprise in which he embarks
1lr..l 81. 6rundg has sent Us d liberal specimen
J Of new sorghum molasses Just manufactured Nv
i the which he has puE ted
rms season in his field on the Teche few miles
+ The Iaoiasses is clear, thick and
OF good 4naiity 1t has taste very different from
sugar cane nolaggss but to those who use it con-
staulg IL doubtless becomes equally as paateable
hs that aoE sugar It looks as pufs and mar
keiabfe as the best ST. Mary molasses Of former
There i 70 be grand meeting of the people Of 4,
parish next Saturday, for the purposs a
;of ratfgiag the Philadelphia convention and the
policy III tile President. Il
II EAsr NA.-G Cotton picking has been act
ilyelY gresaing, subject to the drawback of :
saq NsrY Gather. We still hear of the ROT. If !
al continue ~ must largely increase h
Le 4aing On ~ Che crop In this parish in conse- 4
qaehcs VIII be quite arge-a loss to the planting n
49, ans particular time which will, to
pc quite serious. 1t is earnestly hoped that
inc may not be as serIous as i'd anticipated q
Democrat. 81
IAe cholera has not visited Jackson 81 Clinton. in
East BAToN RoU6E. The almost ineessant rains =
W. are now having must prove, we fear, very det-
Elinental 70 the crops in this region. Cotton pick
ing must 81 conrse, he at standst while sueI1 4
weather Continues, and farm work Tanarailv Inst
be getting very backward. sSeess' - '-is'99
la Jackson parish the corn crop is poor. ana
the editor Of the North Lousianian advises the
tar1nsra'to avail themselves Of the recent rains
ana plant tutnlps and rye to serve aSfood their
stock during the coming winter.
Two horse thieves were caught in the neigI1bor-
hood Of Vienna, last week, and sent to Monroe.
where the judge Of the parish court has some i'm.
portant business To transact with them.
lBERy1 During the last week it has rained
almost necessarily making the sidewalks and Fnas
muddy and disagreeahle for pedestrians and vehi.
Giles to navigator The eottoncroD is onod INT fbe
5ncleIaent and rainy weather is uniavorable for
picking, Eetardl1g che gathering Of it which is
Ihe cholera is abatiRg, and the health of our
PARISH y generally good.-[south. loia
mn PEEsrDREr ASp GESEea1 GRAEr - No one
csn doubt where Gea. Grant is in the present no.
litleai contest for the Union. afterreadne the fol-
lowing extract from the Presidents address nj !
the dinner Of Delmonico' j, in New York. The
pEes ant says.
haye III the West a game allied hammer and
ailsli and anvil and hammer, and while Davis and
eslsEs were tal boutaepa III the South
sAeIe Ms another class-Phillips Garrison and E
Iaea QI that Kind who were talking about dissou.
ls0sl ~ we N0rths and OF these extremes one was
zae hammer and fhe other the anvil, and
when the rebellion broke ont one essre me I
YES carrying i out, ana now that IL III Is
inc other class are still trying to give
Y we aud eAsct. fought those in the South who
commenced a TIE rebellion, and now oppose those
" the n orth Tho are trying to break uS Tie Union
tSheers: am for the Union am against ali
Lh s,, Who are opposed e the Union (reat ap
plause.l am for the Union, the whole Union
aIld nothing but the Union. (ReneWed applause
haYe helped my distinguished friend on lie right,
ssh g ngnt the rebels South, and must
aaI forget peculiar phrase, that he was going to
ls e Gas on o. thar line pplaqse and laughter
whipped them at one end Of the Inc / want "a "
Wy n you that am for whipping them al the &c
'tiaer end Of the line fGreat laughter and an
llanse THANK God that he ia mi in the fieis
alitarlIy speaking, but that be IS ciyy ia lie
nd Of the line tn
a eolored man named Holmes died suddenly at E.
ss!:egaEa rams: He was very excellent man u
,ls vie was Of enormous size, and formerly tray &c
- VA clrolses and sida,shows. exhibiting. for
W. q three hours after her husbands death, she
45 ". her TIVE gfowif.up girls to her ana said
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