New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-30

ST. LANDRY.-We are panied to learn that the
recent rains have placed the cotton crop of our
parish III very precariOus condition. The cotton
which was up at the time of the recent frost has
been checked in its growth or rotted by the rains
which preceded and followed the frost. Good cot
ton seed is very scarce and. besides, the planting
season is far advanced. Add to this the prospect
of the advent of the caterpars, flor the rainy
season promotes their creatiOn,) and one will have
pretty correct idea. of the prospects of our cot
ton planters Opelousas Courier, April 81.
The new board of police of the town of Opelou-
sas has chosen F. A. King, Esq, mayor, and Judge
John H. Overton town attorney.
CADDo.-The Shreveport South Western, of the
25th instant, contains the following items of news
The river opposite this place continued to rise
until Saturday night at which time it had reached
a height of about twenty-seven feet above the
lowest water mark of the season, or within eleven
inches of the highest water of last spring. 1t
commenced falling on Sunday and up to last night
had fallen ten inches Our lastreports from above
the raft, per steamers Anna E. and Pioneer are to
the effect that twenty feet rise is on its way down
which news will be anything but agreeable to our
river planters. The late heavy rains also extended
as far up as Rowland, that we know Of, and it is
fearful to think Of the destruction of property
that will necessarily result from another rise on
the heels of the one now coming from the head
sources of Red River.
Companies and G, of the 10th Pennsylvania
cavalry, left last Sunday on the steamer Saratoga
for New Orleans, to be mustered out of service.
Late yesterday evening the 9th Illinois, which has
been on dnty at this place for some time left on
| the Rob Roy for New Orleans to go through the
same programme
On Monday evening fatal alteration took
/ place at the store of Myer Bro, on Texas
street, by which Mr. Joseph Renfroe, one of our
oldest citizens, lost his lfe and a young man
named Dreyfuss wounded in the left arm. AS
the matter is undergoing investigation we re-
| frain from giving any of the particulars, further
than that evinced from the evdence before the
jury Of inquest, that Dreyfuss killed Renf oe by
shooting him in the back, and that Myer acct
dentally shot Dreyfuss, his clerk, in the arm.
Some five or six shots were fred during the melee.
Mr.. Renfroe leaves wife and one child to mourn
his untimely end. .+
The following are the departures for the city
since our last report, with the amount of theil
Epa nnb,ao;, Like Oak, 22s baes National lls
ppnmeh hs, 1os; Thomas Powell 1853; and Anna E
zuo naes-total, 1853 bales Nearly all this cottor
was rom points above this place.
:, nave again to notice another authorizing o
tne watery element. This time the Hood gate
,oose unv asuhuer, and the pentup waters tnrne
TWO days and nights the water fall aImnst ;,nes
| santly-at times perfect cataract Tbo annsr
quences are that most of the country in tbs no;t
borhood is flooded with water, and the n,ontss,
seriously damaged The hill plantations were wr'1 3
badly washed that we fear but little will ha No
on them; while the bottom lands were. comniatai
drowned out. 1t is fearful to think of the hIasta
prospects of our enterprising planters A Iarn
portion of the river plantations are under wate,
Many of the planters have lost their ALL while III
least sufferers have been seriously damaged
Many of the freedmen who were working n
shares have become so discouraged that they hav
abandoned the plantations and come to towr
Although the river has commenced falling at th