New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-21


WORSE AND WoRsE-Anohey. C-ernsse The
new evee just above the creyasse at Chipns broke
| on Sunday and added additional volume 10 The
| flood. We are informed the back water ia rising
with extraordinary raapidity. gentleman informs
| us that at Col. Duralde's residence be observed
the rise, and gives one inch per hour as the result
| of his observation. We learn also that the water
| has advanced as far as the sugar-house on the
| plantation of the late DIR. Lysle, which ia not over
| five hundred yards from the river bank.
| The resources and apparently the energy, Of
our afflicted people gone, but repinng is use.
less. We can oniysit down in listless apathy and
grieve over the misfortunes of the bour-and only
| for the hour-Whie we gather strength to work
harder for the future. The State has done all she
could to save us--Wbether efficiently not is moi
for us to say. The Congress of the United States
is too busy with the negro to heed the suerngs OF
the white men of the South, and we may expect
no aid from that quarter. Let us, then, bear our
burdens with patience and dignity, and resolve to
LBaton Rouge Advocate.
UPsET-Three small boys of various coIors, in a
very small dugout, were emptied into the river
Sunday evening by the upsetting of their craft.
Two struck out for shore and made it handsomely,
but the third got frightened, seized the boat,
turned ID over three or four times fell off and was
just going under when relief reached him. There
are a great many boys in Baton Rouge, and they
are very bad and daring, and we suppose are en-
couraged in it by some of their parents who desire
to get rid of them by having them drowned, or
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MEANS 1t won't do, though, for bad boy is proof
against such accidents Advocate. 4 s-.g
ANOTHER MAN KnLED.-It is rumored that
named Bill Durbin was shot and killed last week,
whilst engaged in hauling stolen cotton to this
place. He was accused of having killed black
smith at Amite City, and whilst on his way from
New Orleans, in charge of sheriffs officer to the
former place, jumped from the train and made his
escape.
He next turned up in East Feliciana, where he
stole two mules from Mr.. Broadway, which he
traded off on the Amite for one bale of cotton. In
loading the cotton he stole five bales more, and
when pursued and oVertaken, attempted to escape.
He was, however, shat and killed by boy about
thirteen years of age, whose father ordered him
! to fire. Advocate.
| The cotton is suffering from an excess of rain.
| On many places the grass has obtained the mas
terry, and the earth is too wet for proper working
The cotton crop is now experiencing one of those
numerous drawbacks to which it is more or less
liable from the time the seed is sown until the sea
| son for picking arrives.-[Gazette.
AT THEIR OLD TKroKs.-The burglars have got
back to their old tricks again in our city. Within
| the past few nights several places have been
entered by them and articles of more or less value
stolen therefrom. The store of Messrs Tansey &
! Roberts was hOnOTed with their presence on
| Wednesday might last, but suffered only in the
loss Of few pounds of candles. They also
| entered on the same night, McCabe's T" Star
Saloon" where they stole about sixteen dollars
in money and helped themselves to drinks. On
the same night also they broke into the carpenter
shop of Mr.. Thomas and stole lot of tools
belonging principally to Mr. Isaac Collins, amount
ing to over one hundred dollars in value.
We hope that our city authorities and citizens
generally will be on the alert to put stop to such
capers.
There is in our city number of suspicious look.
ing characters who will bear close watching. Some
of these pursue no ostensible employment where
by to earn an honest livelihood others, on the
make-believe" principle, are engaged in some
unimportant calling hardly capable of yielding
them even bare subsistence, and yet, seeming
| always to have plenty Of money. Where this
money comes from is a matter of conjecture tC
those who are accustomed to see them Let oul
city authorities and citizens generally watch wei
the movements of that class of artful dodgers ant
they may finally trace out the guilty parties who
are the authors of or accessory to the acts of sucl
: frequent concurrence in our city.-[Gazette
e LAFoURoHE. We have most encouraging new
3 respecting the coming crops throughout thi
e parish, and if the season proves propitious tn
. cotton and corn crop will be more than an averag
! yield Sentinel.
e The result of the election returns from tn
d parishes composing the Third Judicial Distric
it shows that E. W. Blake, Esq, is elected distri
J. attorney by majority Of 182 votes.
1t The Clinton Cast Feciana) Democrat sugges
y that at an early day representatives from eat
# parish east Felciaca and East Baton Rouge
n meet and ascertain what can be effected by ioi
it action toward the building of railroad betwee
i Baton Rouge and Clinton.