New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-09-27
Hisslsslppi Intelligence.

The Woodville Republican says: "Within the
last week, causes involving amOst heavy calamity,
have been diligently at work the cotton crop IS
ruined rretrievably. The past two weeks rains
have destroyed the last hope of anything ike
crop; scarcely field that is not being foragedd
utterly out by the armies Of worms that nave, at
length, appeared in all their destructlVeness. a
few days more and not leaf OF cottoh cah De
SEEN while the bolls that are left and are ready to
open, are seized with the rot thus destroying that
which would have been exempt from the WORMS,
from its advanced stage. New Orleans merchants
need not think that this Is tancy OF sensation
sketch.
"We conyersed with planters from every sec
ton of the country, at the meeting on last tues
day, and it was the same tale from every neigh
bOrhood planters will generally no more than
clear EXPENSES and where there is one who will
make enough to pay off old debts, there will be
one whose present crop will not pay the outlay of
this year" ... -.-..-
that in his vicinity it will take from six to eight
acres planted in cotton to make bale. There
had not been rain in that region Tor over ten
iweeks. Potatoes are also failure, ana nothing
seems to prosper in farmers hands. de says fur
ther that such is the deficiency in the corn har-
vest that many of the farmers will be out Of sup
| ply before the first of next January.
The Yazoo Commercial reports that cholera mas
disappeared from GazOO CITY.
somewhat serious difficulty, some phases of
which however, were exceedingly ludicrous, oc-
Cured on Washington street yesterday evening.
stabbed the other in the neck, and Immediately
going on board Of mule which was moOTed to
the sidewalk, set sail under a stiff breeze, at the
rate of some twelve knots an hour, Tor the seclnd-
ed shades of the country All Washington street
was on the pave in a high state of excitement,
and from every pair of lungs issued the warning
cry Of I" stop thief But high above the surround
ing din came the stentorian voice Of the culprlt
himself catch that man ahead there and the
crowd under the impression that he was some
high official, parted on each side, giving him
wide berth. We since learn that he has been ap-
pretended, and is now safely in limbo
CENSUS OF NATcHEz AND ADAMS CoUNTY.-The
county assessor Mr. Lambert, has just completed
the enumeration directed to be taken by the State
legislature Of the population, May l, 1866.
The totals are as follows:
City Of S''ehs'. ,SRG: Sistf: 5i35 555- s.5u
County Tists: f4I9 f4I9
Total population city and county %, 1850
Total Total whites whites 50 ls GRO
The increase Of the city population has been
steady.
In 1872 M NJ
In 1855 ..............,... 85Ol
Being nearly so per cent. in the first decade, and
nearly 20 per cent additional in the last SIN years
The total population of the city and county has
fallen off since 1866, from 20 lG4 to $780, being
decrease Of 1854, of which 2677 are blacks
| When we remember wmany thousands OF blacks
congregated into our cities and vlcintles IN 1868
| and 1861 swelling that portion of our population
to over double what it was in 1860, 1t will be seen
| how frighttul has been the mortality among me
| blacks in their state Of freedom. Even with TINS
rush into our city of negroes, they have decreased
| nearly 90 per cent. There can be no question OF
the truth Of the assertion that over ten thousand
negroes were buried in Natchez and its envlrons
within the first year of the military occupation by
the forces Of the United States