New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-06-04
nonls,ana rntslIIgenee.

Gov. ALLEN.-We reproduce from the New
Orleans Crescent an admirable article on Henry
Watkins Allen late Governor OF the state OF Lou
isiana. 1t is so complete, and such Just tiloule
| to the man who occupied the first place IN the
hearts of our people, thar we prefer giving IL III
| tull. Being intimately acquainted WIN the @ ue
| ceased for many years, we taily inaotss esety
/ sentiment of the article Success is poor stand
| ard of merit even in the routine OF every day
/ life; how insignificant when upheld by force Of
| numbers and by the power OF money. EN-GoV.
| Allen, the penniless exile, VINO was suheTlng IRON
| iucurable wounds received in defending his home
from INVASION will occupy in history place far
above the couquerors who burned and sacked
cities and reduced to absolute want thousands of
| women and children.-tS Shreveport Gazette.
! SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-The work on
the railroad is being pressed forward rapidly as
I possible. The road bed is being put in order and
the iron placed upon the track Owing to the
damage which some of the culverts have sustained
by the heavy rains the engine cannot be used until
they are repaired. To prevent delay, train OF
wagons are employed in hauling out the rails, to
enable the contractor to complete the road by the
first of August. All the grading from Shreveport
to the present terminus Of the road is completed,
except in one cut near Greenwood railroad TO
Marshall is now fixed faet--Ilbid.
A fine company has been organized at Shreve-
port. 1t is proposed also to bore artesian wells
there to supply the town with water
/ FrGs.-The New Orleans Pieayune boasts on
| figs as rarity in the city markets. We uns"
| have them up here also.-lBaton Rouge Advocate
THE LADIES OF C1INToN,--The Baton Rouge
/ Advocate says;
When Clinton does make the attempt she can
display the greatest number of handsome ladies
| of any town in the State.
| CRoPs-After visit to the coast portion of
Iberville and Ascension, the editor of the South
sees pitiable prospect for the crops 8 not over
one acre in ten formerly in cultivation has been
planted this year, and there has not been more
Than fnur FIVE dAysi working weather during
the past month"
CAPTURRD.-0ne of the prisoners that escaped
from the penitentiary last week was taken up in
Piaquemine and returned to his old quarters to-
day. Another that made his escape about the
same time was captured in Port Hudson, and also
made his reappearance within the prison walls this
mornng.-[ Baton Rouge Advocate.
The crops in this parish are decidedly in the
grass, and there seems to be both lack of labor
and opportunity, on account Of continuous rainy
weather, to clean them out The very cool weather
now upon us is doing great injury-[Ib.
Navigation, says the IberviIe South, snow open
to the Attakapas country from Plaquemine by
way of Chicot and Grand Lake.
RIOT IN THE FIRST WARD.--Just as we go to
press we learn that serious afiray has occurred
at the Washington House. Several negro soldiers
entered the house and demanded drinks, which
were refused them by Mr.. John Gass. Mr.. Gass
ordered them to leave the house, upon which
words ensued and difficulty commenced, ending
in the wounding of Mr.. Gass in the arm and leg,
Mr.. Weis assistant city marshal in the leg land Mr.
Gass's little boy in the leg Two of the soldiers
were also shot, one in the leg, the other in the
arm, and four Of them were arrested by the con-
stables and lodged in jail.
JACKSON PARIsH.-The North Louisanian, of
the 26th, says:
The weather here for the past week has been
very fine for farming operations, and our planters
have been turning it to advantage with very great
industry and energy. Things look shade brighter
now.
The Monroe Intelligeneer anticipates the com.
pletion Of the Yicksburg railroad to Monroe BY
fall.
THE PLANTING PRosPE0Ts.-W have deliber-
atey inquired into the condition Of the cotton crop
in this parish In the months of January and Feb
rUary the weather was good, the freedmen APP
peared willing to contract and stand to their obi
cations and although most of the plantations were
in delapidated condition, the planters were hope
tu and began the year with energy.
When planting time came, the rains began-the
seed was found TO be defective almost superhu-
man efforts were made to get the crop in, but it
rained and hailed and stormed; the cotton on the
hill lands was literally washed out of the ground
on the bottom land it was too wet to work, and at
the beginning OF this week--when the weather
cleared up--the planters found themselves with
Indifferent stands of cotton their fields extensive
pastures-in fact, the grass had taken possession,
and such grazing prospect has not been seen for
years. To add to these misfortunes the freedmen
are becoming restive; hard work and plenty of it
is the only hope to get the crop out Of the grass.
The labOrers seem listless and Indifferent; thous-
ands are scattered through the country and almost
starving, but they will not work, win not hire.
They crowd to the city and comet be induced to
come out. In the past two weeks planter of
this parish started from New Orleans with twenty
lahofers Of the lot only three arrived He went
again and started with eight, and Of this number
not one remained when he reached Monroe. 1t is
true there is not much oyerfowed land in the
parish yet the grass-the inferior stand of cotton
the want of labor, not to mention loss of mules
and other causes, all find the cotton crop of
0uachita and adjoining parishes in a gloomy con
dtion.
The prospect of low price and the enormous
tax to be levied by the government with the above
mentioned diseouraging circumstances, make even
the most resolute planters wear long yisages.
Monroe Intelligencer,
The Rev. Mr. Bennett, an old preacher, aged 79
who came to this country as Baptist missionary,
in 1920 died in Rapides parish few weeks ago,