New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-09

| The weather still continues most beautiful ant
delightful. There has been plenty Of rain to bIipt
up the turnlps and other vegetables and it is to be
| hoped we shall now have our long dry, autumna
| contemplating season. With such weather it vii
take but little while to save all the remnants o
| the cotton crop in this section. The rot and the
| worms have cut it very very short. Great mum
| 6ers OF our planters will not pay expenses, We
fear, and none will make fortunes or even pay
| much on their old debts.-[Natchez Democrat.
We continue to hear of an occasional case d
sickness, bat we believe, as general thing, the
country is much more healthy than for two OF
three months past.-[Fayette Chronicle.
For the past week, the weather has been dry
and pleasant We heard planters remark that new.
er had they known cotton to open SO rapidly. We
believe the army worm has pretty well "played
out"-[Ibid.
Cotton rolled in yesterday in wagons drawn by
oxen, mules and otherwise. From two to six
bales constituted the load. Cotton square at one
time was rather crowded with the teams, that
numbered from fifteen to twenty within one small
space. The article is rising and is going up at the
rate OF picayune q dash. Fifty cents per pound
is spoken Of, but it's not fetched as yet
tNatchez Courier
SAD CONFERENCE.-THE are panied to announce
the death of Mr. Claiborne Kaigler, who came to
his death on Sunday last from self-inficted
wound We are uniformed as to any probable
reason for this act He was found dead with his
rifle lying by him, with which he had shot himself
The wound was in the head and must have pro-
duced instantaneous death. Mr.. Kaigler was one
Of our Oldest and most highly respected citizens
and leaves large number of relatives and friends
to deplore his untimely loss.
[WoodYile Republican.
The cotton crop is being rapidly gathered dur
ing this fine weather. We say "rapidly,n though
we doubt if some of the planting community will
allow this word to express the actions of freed.
men. Almost the entire crop is open and all we
want is few weeks good weather to gather it
in; not much time is required as it is wofully
short.-[Ibd
We are called upon to chronicle another death
by violence. Mr.. Thomas j. Smith was on
Tuesday last, thrown from his horse and instantly
killed, about two and half miles from town.
MIR. Smith lived q bout four miles from WoOdyille,
on the road to Natchez via Kingston and was on
his way home at the time of his death-[lbid.
RoDgED.-The Carrollton Conservative says Mr..
Gillespie was robbed of a pOcketbook on Mon
day, containing $500 in greenbacks and many
valuable papers. A. stranger who had been EN-
ployed on our streets was suspected as he had
suddenly disappeared. Mr. Il. Moore and VIM
Moorehead followed and overlook him at Winona,
and succeeded in getting about 5000 and all the
missing papers. The fellow stated that negro
man, employed about the hotel, stole the money
and gave him 5000 to run away. Both Of these
light-tngered gentlemen are in jail.
And now last, but not least, we will speak of
the country around u.s. the fairest of this State or
any other State, and peoped by the most enter
prisng industrious and intelligent class of plant
ers to be found anywhere. We will stake Canton
against any town, double its size, in the United
States, Tor all that goes to make town desirable,
and We would rather live in glorious old Madison,
with its good hospitable, free hearted, patriotic
and intelligent people, its rich genial soil and its
countless beautiful women, than any other three
counties in Mississippi put together.
A NEGRO WHIPS RAD1cAL.--We have received
the particulars of a very interesting instance
which occurred in this county few days since
in which gentleman of African descent proved
and strikingly illustrated to radical, that if he
was not as good as the generality of white men
he was, at least, an infinitely better man, in one
sense Of the word than some radicals. Our hero
g one Of the newly imported cotton planters from
the North, and, we believe, he is about the only
man in the county who rejoices in being classed
rs radical. On the occasion to which we refer
radical had found fault with one of his freedmen
and finally began abusing him, which the freed
man, to his surprise, returned with interest
There the matter, at first, seemed likely to end
but reeollecting that it was regarded as a dis
grace to tamely submit to insult in this country,
especially from a negro, he came to the couclu.
sion he must whip the freedman. The colored
gentleman, on the other hand, considered it unbe.
coming the dignity Of Southern negro to allow
himself to be g fooled wid' by a Yankee, and
consequently when our rad. endeavored to exc
cute his threat turned the tables, and pommeled
him soundly Ibid.
To BE HUNG.--The negro man, William Brooks
who shot and killed negro woman few weeks
ago, was tried for murder on Wednesday last and
He was sentenced to be hung. The
execution is to take place on the 22d of Novem