New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-12


4 Louisiana intelligence.
EAST BATON nouGG.-Mud in the country, rsin
in town and business as dull as it can conveniently
| get TO be without breaking every one. None Of
our citizens are going North this season, or even
| to the sea shore, for very cogent reasons. IL Is
| strange some one does not repair and reopen
! Greenwich Springs. The enterprise wound GER
tainly pay Advocate, June 8.
Two races were announced over the Royal Oak
Course for Saturday, the 9th.
Magnolia Cemetery has been re-enclosed, in
substantial and ornamental manner.
A meeting of the members Of the bar was called
for the purpose of deciding the legality and ex.
pediencyo of Judge Posey's uterohanging with
Judge Cooley, Of Pointe Coupee.
The Clerk of the Penitentiary requests doDa-
tons Of old books for Prison Library.
A soldier benevolent and monumental asssGia.
ton for the parish was inaugurated June 6th-W
F. Tunnard president j. G. stafford secretary. I.
]. Bird, j. H. iLamon F. D. Tunnard and j. NJ.
| Taylor were appointed a committee to draft
constitution, etc.
The ladies Of East and West Baton Rouge will
hold meeting on the 18th, for the purpose stated
as follows in their call
| The object of the meeting istO concert measures
| to aid the movement now being made to bring the
I remains of Governor Henry W. Allen TO Louisiana,
as well as TO aid the Soldiers Benevolent and
| Monumental Association in the attempt to raise
means wherewth TO bring home the remains Of
our dead who gave up their lives in the late great
contest, and TO erect a suitable tablet to their
memories. The attendance of every lady in the
| two parishes, that can sympathize with those
whose households are berett, whose treasures were
| lost in a cause they at least deemed sacred is
most earnestly requested.
The Advocate urges the widening Of the old
streets and the opening of new ones.
Mrs. Rachel Irene Markham, wife of William
Markham, very estimable and benevolent lady,
died on the 18th, in the fittieth year Of her age.
CADDo.-The city council Of Shreveport rendered
the Inequalities Of the city TO Gen LCngsreet to
which the general replied as follows:
SHREVEPORT, La, June It'll, 1866.
Hon. Mayor and city C0unc&-I have the
honor to acknowlede your favor of yesterday, ten
derng to me the Inequalities of the city, and to
express through you my sincere gratitude for your
kind attentions and regard
Kindness in our times ofdistress, makes stronger
impressions upon the heart than in the hour of
prosperity, and touches tender cords that cannot
be reached under other circumstances ! hope
that appreciate your confidence and esteem, and
that am worthy of them.
shall cherish the memory Of this occasion and
these attentions as one of my most pleasant remi-
niscences. beg of you to express my gratitude
to the city council and the other kind citizens of
Shreveport.
have the honor to be
Your obedient servant,
JAMES LONGsTREET.
The Gazette of the 8th says
The planters in the overlooked districts are dis
playing great industry in replanting their fields.
The young cotton was killed by the water, and the
corn was taken up by the roots and foated of by
the current. The water stood upon the land so
long that it destroyed all vegetation, The extent
of the disaster can scarcely be calculated by
those who have not experienced it.
The continued rains during the past week have
retarded operations. There Is no time to lose, as
the season is already SO far advanced that it is i'm
possible with favorable season, to raise more
than half crop. The crops on the uplands were
never more unpromising, being overgrown with
grass and drowned out with heavy rains.
The river has fallen from its highest mark Of the
season about feet, and is receding at the rate OF
inches in "a hours. The reports of high water
in upper Red River amount to nothing, as the over
flow has arrived and is now passing away. We
may have full river during the summer, but il
will be confined to its channel.
| The work on the railroad from this place to the
5 present terminus Of the Southern Pacific is pro
J crossing slowly, but the contractor feels confident
that the cars will pass over the road by the first 81
: August.
! The News complains of the rapidly multiplying
negro shanties in Shreveport as nuisance dan
gerous to the health of the city,
$ We are pleased to learn, says the News, tina
/ there will soon be line of mail coaches running
between Natchitoohes, Mansfield and this place
The necessity of such line has long been felt.
j The News reports little doing in cotton an,
q money scarce.
e The South Western Of the 9th says:
e Should the season from this outprove favorable
d the chances are that will be able to make brea
and meat Tor our own use, and few pounds 0
4 cotton for foreign consumption. 1t is however
!. like throwing high die with the chances agains
II US.
l. WEST BATON RoUGE.-The Sugar Planter, of til
4 9th, says:
" We are compelled to record an exceedingly ur
pleasant week for our planters So much rain ha
. fallen that the cotton crops have been seriousl
j. injured by it. These heavy showers are very pre-
duCtive Of grass, which in the coco lands has be
come almost unmanageable, The young plant
r. are scarcely scraped before the showers produc
~ new growth, thus keeping up one continue
- round of scraping, scarcely leaving time enoug
n for other necessary plantation work. In the rea
III of the parish the grasshoppers have appeared
~ myriads, completely stripping the young cotto
= shoots Of their leaves.
ID OuACHITA.-The Intelligencer Of the 9th inst
n says:
Ill Never since the deluge has such a quantity
rs rain fallen as within the last three months an
ST the effects have been very destructive to the agr
cultural interests of this favored neighborhoOt
L. We have conyersed with planters from all parts
p 0uachita and adjoining parishes, and all agre
n that the crops are ruined. We predicted in OF
7. last issue that this parish would produce ha
crop of cotton; it is our sorrowful duty to sa
that our opinion is now changed for the wors
Up to Wednesday morning we have been visite
d by daily storms, the whole country is sea
sb water; the crops are so much in the grass that
lie fear they will not be redeemed everywhel
e planters are discouraged, and we refrain fro
IN making any calculation as to what the Gre
of may be.
as There will not be corn enough produced to SUI
ne fee until January; We must look to the West for
Id supply, win little prospect to make money to br
=; it.
p Our Red and Mississippi river friends have bee
he totally ruined by the foundations from tho
streams; we, more fortunate in this respect, W
a make too small crops to share with them
ne The river is swelling at the rate of one-four
nd inch in tWenty-four hours No news from the IL
per river The Mississippi is falling, from its sour
to the Balize-cheering news for our inundat
friends on the ceast.
he Business in town is as dull as in midsummer.
u. u. A CURIOUS CALIFORNIA SToRY.-A late issue
So the Napa county (Cal) Register has a singul
ny story; family residing in the Napa valley ha
II within in few years past lost five OF its membe
ok by death. By some curious coincidence frieI
81 rasiinc nj San Francisco has al each 6acpas