New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-02-27
geu Orleans Daily Qresttnt.
Mississippi Intelligence.

think thids one they can communicate to thei
business en, and ask them to admit the fact int,
their calcations.-L Macon Beacon.
: man lined Norwood has been an outlaw il
This count for months past. warrant was is
sued to arst him for shooting negro in the EN-
Payment Mr.. Joe May. TWAS never executed
he has no murdered Mr.. Woodfn, good mar
and value'citizen Of the county.-[Ib.,
sHooTIs. On Monday last negro man named
M, was ccosted by our young friend Simon
walton, Wiling to know whether he would hire
81 81 not, whreupon the negro drew revolver ant
hred at Walton, but missing his aim, fed
mf. Waltonlrew his revolver, shooting the negro
IN ~ the shoulder and thigh, bringing him to halt
Esquire TemEe, who, after hearing the evidence
~ me case, odered him to jail to await the due
course OF la*.-[Hernando Press.
- - Hon: ). A. P.Campbell, Judge of the Fifth Ju
District Of this State, has recently delivered
an important decision relative to the apprentice
laW; 1t seems that a child of freedwoman was
At his own request apprenticed by the Probate
court to citizen Of Attala county. His mother
objected, wishing him to remain with her, and
upon her representation writ of hd6eas corpus
Tor his recovery was granted. The case coming
before Judge Campbell On the writ, he decided the
action Of the Probate Court to be Illegal and or
dered the boy to he returned to his mother, On the
ground that by the laws If the State the mother Of
iatherless child is its natural guardian, and en-
titled to its custody services and earnings until its
majority, and may obtainipossession by hdbeds
corpus; and may lawfully contract Tor its service
to another for period motto exceed its majority
This decision will be of inerest to our people, as
it touches a point which it SENS is not clearly I'M
derstood by our Probate Colrts, who are charged
with carrying out the statue in reference to ap.
preEti ing Columbus lLdk.
HEAVY ON MuLEs.--We dneday night some ras-
calls succeeded in breaking into mule lot at the
foot of Main street, and Notwithstanding there
a guard but a short distance off, succeeded in
stealing some fourteen or fifteenmules.
INatchez Courier
OF INTEREsT.--Caroline Hal negro women,
4 was up yesterday before thf county court for
stealing 500 from her employer The evidence
went to show, that on beig charged with the
theft, she denied it but in tie end, to avoid prose-
A cution and arrest, agreed o pay the money in
i order to prevent scandal. From what we learn,
v the sum Of $50 was paid tothe loser ofthe money
prosecution was gone into and the defendant
\ cleared.
~ Having been pronounced innocent of the charge,
we are told that it is the intuition of the woman
to enter suit for the recovey of the $85 paid,
which payment was made undG dures.-[ Ibid.
The Courier is curious to lean whereabouts, in
the neighborhood Of Natchez HE property of the
wife of the Italian Minister at Washington, was
situated, for the destruction Of With by the Fed
eral troops during the war, shehas been paid
$4,000 by the government
The different railroads in Mississippi have re.
fused to collect the tax of one ha per cent. per
Hit Oh Ill passengers over bHai over bW6lpe
years age, as provided by theState Revenue
bill, passed by the last session ofhe Legislature.
The reasons assigned are, that thtlaw is inopera-
tive and void and in conflict wittthe provisions
of the Federal Constitution, and thu will involve
the road in difficulties with passgers.-[D Demo
crat.
KILLED--Mr. Bonner, one of tl employees of
the N. 0. railroad, was killed yesrday at Byram
Station by an engineer on the roa. The partlcu-
lars, as we learn them, are as folWs: Mr. Bonner
said SDmnthInp the pDpnnpraS the tram
going down, and the fireman reped to him while
the train was in motion. When e train returned,
Mr.. Bonner attacked the engine. The engineer
NJ tried to explain, stating to Mr.. Rnner that he had
not said anything to hm-that. was the fireman
who replied to him, whereuporMr Bonner gave
his pistol to the engineer and wn OF. and got an
other pistol and returned, sayiu to the engineer
that one or the other of them Id u die. On this
announcement the engineer treupm Mr. Bonner,
killing him almost instantly.
[Ngs and Mssssipptan
We take the following temsrom The Wilkinson
Al. Journal
Y An attempt to break ja'' by the parties
sentenced to the pententiaryt the last session of
the circuit court was frustrat on Monday night.
They had evidently been suled by parties out
side with tools for working cir way through the
wall. They had reached t outside brick, and,
after loosening it, were oged to let it fall out
suspicious of the authorize. who, after diiigent
search, discovered what 'as going on, and
promptly arrested further 'ogress.
The last plank in the frdmans platform was
kicked from under him son time since, and he
a. has fallen-to work. Tldall has evidently dis.
n located no joints, aud broh no bones. for there
1seems in him yet vitatenough to give good
account of himself in the Ids. when so disposed.
His air castles have prod, so far, - all in my
eye" and his high hope are supposed to have
gone g marching on y iuhe same direction with
John Browns body.
fal witt 4hn
'si,uationn than they vre short time since.
Since the removal of e United States forces
from Woodville, they a more quiet and peace
ably disposed than foserly. Then, backed by
to see the town filed wi drunken negroes, N01o,
an occasional case of spazzumsn occurs, but
they are becoming everyday less frequent.
Numbers of planter throughout the county
state that the freedmen. their employ are work
ing with zeal and arity entirely unexpected
This condition of thgs shows itself wherever
the planters and freedom are not brought into toe
intimate contact with g Ebony Bureau Many
negroes, recognizing aast the necessity of labor
and the importance oftrct and diligent perform
ance of stipulated c6racts, are endeavorng to
form for themselves mes, as honest and ndustr
N Gus men and women They are beginning to I'M
W. derstand that they al not working for masters
but for themselves d that in exact accordance
with labor done thahey are paid. The obliga
tons of landholder q laborer are mutual. Land
is valueless without Dor, and labor without land.
Let the laborer chetuly do the work, and inter
est, if nothing else ill compel the planter to az
cord him his dues.
The Press IN JfKsoN-The Standard says:
Our city is certaly looking up, if the establish
ment of newspapers fair indication. Its gooG
citizens are now etied every morning with the
perusal of three dies; an organ of the Baptis
denomination has ade its graceful debut, and We
a are soon to have d representing the interests
our Methodist frids. We have heard something
said about the enlistment of Presbyterian
paper; and the Qlrch Herald, of the Episcopa
church, may perlps be revived We learn that
first class agriculral paper may make its appear
ance here at an ely day and it is not unlikel,
that the fraternPs of Masons and Odd Fellow
will each have nlthly periodicals as mediums 0
connection between the various subordinate lodge
lin the State. y have even heard it intimate,
. that this woul be agood field for Temperance
.organ but wdeel satisfied that wouldn't pay
However, mphilanthropic gentleman may deem
it his duty to the experiment. Jackson is fas
regainng her5rmer prosperity.
& FREEDMEN HospITAL.-Dr. Hood, Surgeon 0
u. the Freedmes Bureau, has proposed to the cit
~ the erection hospital for freedmen. The cit
is requestedp pay onehalf of the expense Of tn
building thaJnted States government to pay tn,
other half, al bear all the expense of conducting
it. The proostion was accepted by the council
81,