New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-15
Conservative men, therefore, from the President
down, must stand froIn nnder.--



Mississippi Intelligence.
Seven more conyiets from Vicksburg arrived
yesterday at the penitentiary-four black and
three white. Among the latter is one R. L.
Dodge, formerly an officer on General Dailey's
staff. He was sentenced by the criminal court of
Warren county for stealing the small sum of thir-
teen thousand dollars from somebody The other
white men are Phillip and VIM. Carroll There
are now about fifty convicts in our State hotel.
As soon as the spring courts begin, it will be one
of the most popular resorts in the State. The
landlord clerk and attaches generally are very at
tentiFe to their guests.-tJackso Standard.
The Standard announces that the time prescribed
by Governor Humphreys proclamation for the re-
demption Of cotton bonds, expires on the Sth of
April.
We take the following items from the Natchez
Courier:
Notices of an aurora boreatis on the night of the
Goth February are appearing in some OF our Mis-
sissippi exchanges. Others again doubt the fact.
The Raymond Gazette thus describes the phe-
nomenon:
"A portion of the sky was lighted up to magni-
fcent degree. Extending about IS degrees on
each side Of the North Pole, and rising some 10 or
SO degrees towards the zenith the sky appeared
a sheet Of fire. When fiji observed the color was
almost scarlet, and corr ,ations Of yellow light
were shooting upwards 1t did not touch the h0r-
zon, but was b0rdered below By belt of deep
blue. 1t far eXcelled in brilliancy similar APP
pearance in 1881
The aurora certainly extended as far as the Mis-
sssippi Sound. AT Pass Christian, at II P. NJ it
was plainly perceptibe. The whole north was
lurd with light, the general red glare being emil
vened by transient streamers of silyery white. The
phenomenon was observed all along the coast
The Vicksburg Herald wastes a quarter of a
column in proving Dan Rice to be a great liar,
as well as greet coward and humbug." Hardly
three months have elapsed since the Herald
poured small vial Of wrath upon the Courier, for
abiding to the same individual as bufoon, unde-
serving of Southern countenance. Time effects
changes.
The Liberty (Miss.) Herald of the oath ultimo,
contains full refutation Of the charges made by
one Capt. Mathews, of the freedmen's bureau,
against several citizens OF the Zion Hill settlement.
1t is made by large number OF most respectable
citizens over their own signature.
The darkes of the colored Baptist church in
vicksburg have been giving tabeaux and fair
The object was charitable one, and received the
applause of the Herald.
REAL SOUTHERN ITEM.-We saw, yesterday, a
pardon under the great seal of the State, granted
by Gov. Humphreys to Caesar, freedman, con
yicted oflarceny in Attala county. 1t was proved
in court that he had been concerned IN the steal
ing of two bales of cotton, but the citizens who
had known him for years, and who had become ms
bail when arrested, were able from facts Whlci
came to their knowledge but could not be used IL
court to satisfy his Excellency that Caesar was
more snned against than SHINING, chat he actet
under duresse) and this pardon was the conse
quence. A gentleman who had no other nteres
than that which every Southern gentleman teels II
the old negroes he has known from boyhood--al
original strebeln too one who took the field whel
are would have exempted hin-undertook Cesar
cause. Cesar had no cold master. to attend u
it, for he was dead and the faithful fellow had de
voted himself to the support OF his former mlstres
and her orphan children.
Let this one fact 60 for what it is worth agalns
the torrent of Misrepresentation that IS 6eln
poured forth respecting the relations OF the black
whites in the South and let II be remembers
Non the day when Caesars pardon was granted
-four white convcts from the same county arrive
at the penitentiary but not a single appilcauonfo
pardon atlompaned them.
The fol owing very interesting case was latel
decided by oneof the circuit courts of Mississippi
The extract is from the Clarion:
An interesting case of habeds corpus was re
Gently tried before the Hon. II. W. foote, cTca
judge of the sixth judicial district VI .,r1
which the complainant wasa freedman VINO sousl
relief from the injustice of the bureau. Inc lact
as they appeared in evidence, were that the agel
of the bureau had apprenticed Two MINORS, oi
aged fourteen and the other twelve iof h l,t al ~
eleven years respectively, and this without u
consent of their father or mother, both OF VINO
were living. The father, freedman named oil
sued out a writ of habeas corpus to recover pc
session of the children, who were IN le c u.s. y
trial he proved that they were MS children, I'll
hoth narents were living. and that he was able
take care of and support them. ltalso appeared
proof that he had not consented 10 tiei "pP1e
ticeshp by the bureau
The defendant claimed that as the minors we
regularly bound to him by an othcer Oh inc , D
reau, he was entitled to hold possession OF the ne
for the time specified in the lndentufes. l.
court decided that the act of Congress estapils
ing the freedmen's bureau conferred no pow
upon commissioners to bind out or apprentice I
children of living parents who are competent t
take care of and support their chlldren. lia1
intention was evidently to protect orphans ana I
children of those who were not competent to 81
mort themselves. That it was perversion OF
law to take minors from their parents Wlth'
their consent in cases where they were aole
nrovide for the children. It was contended
the nlaintff that civil authority had been restol
in the State before the act OF apprenticeship
the agent of the bureau, which took place on
lst of November 1865, and that, therefore,
whole proceeding was vold. Inc coula neiu
the decision of this point was unnecessary
whether the act of Congress or the state if
governed the case, the decision would De
same-that wherever the parents are aple "
vide for and support their minor cnl,u .I no
bnnal can, without their consent bind them GU
q tbrS marty, The prayer of the petition
"ranted. and the minors delivered to complains
and The defendant taxed with the costs OF
case. ,a ~,
stance in which State court gave that justice
the freedman which his bureau denied.
A very large portion Of the, colored troops
Gently mustered out at Vieksburg, have gone
plantations dsTegardg the great IT. IND ND
Notwithstanding their professed aversion to
slave trade, have themselves become dealers
human iesh.--[ Standard.
The "trade in human flesh here is very
just about now, The colored regiments are !, D.
nnrchased from their late officers at prices '
Ing from i've tt to twenty-five dollars, aGeordir
quality. They are not encouraged, as they they So p
be, to seek good homes but they are USED 1au .
fessions as their " only y friends. The main
appears 10 be to get the highest price per he sa
. speculating upon the demand Of our planter
labor. Let the men who have charged the y
ern people with being the enemies OF tle
race, put thisin their pipes and smoke TITLE
The STITCH made by the Wilcox Gibbs
ng Machines is unexceptionable, and sup