Shreveport semi-weekly news. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-06-19
Our New Orleans COrrc>pon dence.
New Orleans. June IL, 1866.

! The old negroes idea that "whit.
folks had turned tool about niggers
stealing" has been fully ex-mplitied
in thus city since the emancipation
of that race in the South. More tllxu
three-quarters of the cases of larceny
which have been before our courts
have been those where our African
fellow citizens played the part of de-
PENDANT, and a large majority Of the
inmates af the parish prison and
work house bciong to the same re
spectacle race. For a nisg,r. these
places of punishment have few ter
ror>, and the ease aud leisure he en-
Joys in the first is exactly suited to
his constitution. Therefore if our
law makers wish to cure the freed
man of his hereditary and ruling
vice, some other method must b..
adopt.d than that OF .ocking him up
in Jails where he will b. we'll fed and
have nothing to do. The disgrace
does not imjure his e~p-c,ability or
destroy his credit, for he never had
either. Hecan louise and sleep around
the jail yards just as comfortably as
in the publ squ,r,s with the differ
ence that IN jail he is fed and out Of
Jail ne is not. They are growing to
be an intoierabi. nuisance here. and
l wish some means could bc adopted
by which they could be forced To-
leave town and Seek honest employ
meut in the country.
n man named George II. Bass, es-
capped from til. parish prison of JEFF
ferson parish last week in n manner
which surprised the good sheriff of
that tlk not a little. II. got out,
that was certain. As he WAS not to be
found, but how is a mystery. He
was c"ntincd on a charge of having
been one of tue parties who robbed
and attempted to murder Mr.. Levi
Durham, last winter. By some
tueaus ii became kuown to him and
two other scoundrcl- that Mr.. Dun.
ham, a stock drovrr, had taken pas
sag on the steamboat Atlantic for
some point in the West. with "A iar-r
amount ct money III belt around
his person. In"v went up to the
stock landing in jefferson City. and
d
put OH some cattle. went aboard and
representing themselves to be police
officers with Il warrant for his arrest
took Durham ashore" and after tax
ing him To secluded spot Knocked
hlm in the head, robbed and threw
him into the liver. But ID uuham
managed to get ont aliv" and report.
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fort was made TO catch the villains.
Bass was taken up and Identified by
Durham, since when he had r.
manned III jail awaiting a trial. Hi>
escape under such circumstance, aud
tn prculiar manner IN w.ich 'h. po-
lice OF Jefferson City have acted
since looks tishv.
! Rurslari,s ar" gro wing 10 be quite
common III all parts of thu city, last
week there being no less than seven,
and portable property" to quit. u
large amount Was stolen. Among
them the most notabl. CASES were as
follows Tn. residence 81 Mr.. Jas.
ICavanaugh was entered by n negro
boy ami robbed Of $500 worth of
clothing carried away. No arrests
nor clue to TIA" perpetrators vet found
District, was entered and robbed of
Il gold watch, two silver watches. u
sextant and about five hundred dol
lars in money. No arrest. And so
1t goes, our police no doubt being
too busy with their taiiors 10 keep
the run OF such matters a. rohb-ri--
and burglaries.
"A negro man was run over tv on.
OF the city cars on Saturday aud in
stantly killed. Tnes- nccidra,s have
grown TO De so common OF lat. that
they excite little or no conmcut.-
They are partly the result of care
iessness on the part Of people ia
crossing the railroad track and th.
drivers "t the cars In going across
streets 4, too great 4 speed. But as
'he people always are the sufferers
and TIA drivers are never punished,
Al has so tar been one sided affair
A httt. hemp applied To the J-Aus,
"a la I-xas, would 40 doubt work
u change tot tn better
DAM Gossip has en- unusually
silent during IN. past week, and l
have heard ct nothing excepting a
foot race which took place up town =
few mornings since but as II had
not been announced previously and
took every body by surprise, ther.
were but few spectators present TO
enjoy it. 1t was between a stout
old gentleman dressed in a check ca.
simere suit aud a light built aud trim
looking young chap no, dressed a,
all. The start was from the back
palings of an arist"craEic mansion,
but the light sei ght had tl.r advaE-
taSe of more than thrc. lengths to be-
g,n with. The old nag contested
the race nobly however aud at enc
time would have no doubt beaten his
connection n adj H.. NOT encountered a