New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-02-17

making preparations for the forthcoming crop.
A man BY the name of Stannard had iafS,e Is,e
sum of silver coin stolen from him on the M9ps o
and Ohio road, to-wt $4,000 in silver com. KY
before Yesterday, we learn two Of the tnleses NA
were arrested at Enterprise, and part OF t.ie noe
Ereeevered.-IM Meridian Messenger, Sth li'sss
We regret to learn that affray oeesraea sas ~
Egypt Station, on the #. 9. ~ ~ ta,s ~ az;
which Capt H soales nar and others
il sIobtJy wounded. We hare not neafo tne par
tieuars in relation to this affair, SAMMY South 9th
4 Cant Scales il reported as recovering.
i m. ,1;sa;ss;,,; and Tennessee railroad have
nlatad their junction with the Mssisslpp1 cen
tni aaa naar Grenada which enables this road TO
cross the Yaabnsha on the priage u tne ts osasi
Il road, which the Tennessee Foau assis'eu " u'''
Il 3Tha Meridian Messenger says that some horse
4,;ares lately captured and carried through that
4 Mace. On their way to KempeT county, Wnere the
Ihaft ,s.s committed are said to be lost or mis-
Aid /, on the road. Also that two horse thieves
4 from Lauderdaie county were overhauled and cap.
trad with their plunder, at the house of dentist
named Jacobs, in siasper 81 Jacobs ded ana was
shot down, but afterwards recovered so iar as to
escape-that is TO say, he disappeared me
thieves were Jasper Denham, Of Qnitman, and
Richard Dean, of Clarke county. Also. that a
Iodrer at the Ragsdale House woke up and felt as
if he was drunk. He presently found phial OF
c'loroform on his pillow, and next observed that
he had been robbed Of $4,000.
M 1sA
large number Of maranders and thieves were ar
rested and brought there last Monday, in custody
Of armed citizens. We give the rumor as it came
TO us--r reliable, We think. At all events, there Is
ganized band Of derpedators in this county, to
operate in Adams, Claiborne, Gopiah, Franklin,
and chiefly in Jefferson county.
The Fayette Chronicle learns that munps is pre-
vailing i'll Port Gibson to almost an alarming ex-
tent.
7 y The GOVERNOR AND THE RAILRoADs.-The tax
imposed by the last Legislature upon all railroad
travellers Of one.half cent per mile is difficult
thing to collect. The presidents of railroads de-
cline to collectit and pay IT over The Governor
bound to try to enforce its collection while the
railroads are ready, by aid of couqsei, to use all
legal measures to prevent it. When the order is
given to the shers other officers to collect it,
we may expect for day or two war upon the
railroads for in no county will they pc enabied TO
find posses sufficient to hold the trains till the tax
| Is paid The only way to avoid the conflict now is
to check all passengers through the State and
have no stations, wood or water tanks. The law
yets will be benefited If the State won't It's an
| i'll wind that blows nobody any good
One of our exchanges quotes letter from Mis-
sissippi, which says;
| Northern capitalists are buying plantanons
along the Mobile and Ohio railroad. BY their
agency all the late improvements in agricultural
implements will be introduced into the country"
| Now with the single. exception of reaping ma
chimes, we doubt whether any improved agrlcai
| tural implements are to be found in the North
which were not used in this State before the war.
| We had the testimony years ago, from planters
4 in Kinds county, that the fancled superlosity OF
/ Northern agriculture was delusion. With the
exception Of the neghborhood of large cities,
i they pronounced the style of farming and OF farm
/ implements in the Norta decidedly sloyenly when
1 compared to what was to be seen on an ordinary
4 Mississippi plantation. " ''' :
! Coop TAsTE.--The following is from a United
States officer to the editor Of the Yicksburg Jour
4 nal: 5s.55 R!7
/ siYsgf VIoKsBURa, February 9, 1856.
Il /. Nj. Partridge, Esq, Editor Herald ga5 5sl4
Dear Si.-I regret my inability to be present
II at the concertte be given this evening, in behalf
il of the widow Of Gen. Stonewall Jackson Appre-
ciatng fully that noble sentiment in the Christian
i character which teaches to g do unto others as
4 we would have them do unto US, and mindful ot
n the great worth, sincerity of purpose and zeal
II which actuated Gen. jackson in behalf of a cause
esteemed by him to be = right upon Principle,n, /,
Y course pursued BY her husband. to offer a small
\, contribution in behalf of his much esteemed wife:
4 II ID our duty to bind the wounds and cure all
II unpleasant receieetions of the past, by the
II adoption Of generous and humane policy.
Il Yours truly, Vi JAMES H. DoRRIs, 4
II Late Capt. q. s. Vols.
The above was accompanied by FIVE dollar
4 bill. - ,+e, =, s.ss
BunrAu RrrueEEs FsEEpmEs Asp AsssposEn LANDS
ss5s = - 7Vicksburg, Feb. 9, 1856
Col n B, Man1oye, Editor Journal
Colonel My attention has been called to an edi-
toriai in your paper this morning, in which you use
my name In connection with speech made by
Senator Sumner. Isl Il, 4f IF g4si,s 4P sas.
ii report and write letters about the affairs of this
State to no one but the proper military ofcer Tor
receiving such reports. Murders and outrages that
have been reported by me, are supported by all
| davits and statements of citizens on file in this
office, Very respectfully, ,,,,o,,a ~.
| Now, Colonel Thomas, that is dodging the ques-
ton. Your answer to a plain, simple question is
| all that is required Mr.. Sumner says you Colonel
Samuel Thomas, Assistant Commissioner of the
Lands, for the State of Mississppi) reported that
| five negroes day were killed in your department,
intending to intimate that they were killed by
white people for no other reason than that they
| were negroes. Did you, Colonel Thomas make
anysuch report? Answer categorieaily or no
4 Gov. Humphreys has offered q reward Of six
| hundred dollars for the arrest Of W. B. Prengle
and Lycurgus Matthews, charged with the murder
4 Of three freedmen, Jan 8, 1866, ~. ta&,
\ We want the Memphis Post to note this, and we
4 will add, further, that one Of the parties impli-
Gated in this murder is now in Jail, in Lawrence
county, in irons and the Jail, ii need be-, will be
4 guarded by militiamen, citizens of Mississippi. II
the military authorities don't interfere they will
II all be arrested and brought to justice. If guilty,
they will be punished by the civil law as ehectualiy
as if q military commission had acted in the mat
II ter and with much better effect in deterrng like
! Il crimes in the future Ibid.
II THE HoNoR OF THE Country VINDIcATED-
The guards of the United States Colored Infantry
yesterday made charge upon drunken Indian,
i and after q conflict of about two seconds and q
II half triumphantly captured five brass buttons that
!. said Indian had upon his oyercoat. The list of
. casualties viii! be reported to headquarters. The
, county will feel better! 1t can't help it. The
Il honor of the flag is indicated Bully for Uncle
Sam.--II Ibid.
" Oneiof Brownlow's defenders says g he fights
4 the devil with iren He might have added that
the devil expects to fight Brownlow' in the same
way.-Lt ibid. ss,5s s,a IA * e
The Mississippi Index states that the legislature
of that State at its late session. passed bill pro-
viding for the collection of tax of onehalf cent
, per mile from passengers travelling on the several
n roilroads in the State. The bill was brought to
the attention Of the managers of the roads, some
, time since, by Governor Humphreys. A confer
enee was subsequently held at atJaekson, when the
/ Governor made proposition by which the officers
4 of the roads were to become the agents of the
State for the collection Of the tax. From the Meri
|. dian Messenger, of the 10th, we learn that th'
d proposition was declined by the managers of al
Q the roads in the State. FIN ses ss ,ss Ea s6
HARD ON THE HARD sHELLs.-- .travelericallet
4 lately at nightiall at farmers house in Albany
the owner being from home, and the mother ant
daughter being alone they refused to lodge th'
wayfarer.