New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-25
Louisiana lntelllsence.
PorsTr coUPrR-The Echo Of the list says.


PorNTE CoUpEE.-- Echo of the 21st says:
The crops in our parish are not so promising as
We would wish. The daily rains which we have |
had for the past week have injured the young cot
ton very much. As q general thing the crops are |
very backward, and il the unfav0rable weather /
continues many days longer, the crop in this par
ISL will he very small.
The reports from the upper part of the parish |
say that the cotton is looking very fine, and plan
tiers expect to make good crops.
ST. JAMEs-Mr. Yalerien Chopin, an estimable |
citizen Of St. James, died recently at Badon, aged
46 years
The distribution of prizes at jefferson College
will take place on the 3lst July.
SHREVEPORT Bonds of the city to the amount
Of $4,000 are to be sold, bearings per cent
wherewith to grade and pave the principal
streets.
Red river is rapidly falling at Shreveport
PASSENGER Cause.-The steamer Caddo arrived
at this place last Saturday, from the mouth of
Red river, with large barge in tow, on which
there were two fine passenger cars for the South
ern Pacific Railroad They will be put upon the
track Immediately. The construction train is now
running out about ten miles, and it is confidently
expected shat the gap of four miles will be fin
shed by the last of next week, when daily trains
4 will run through 30 MARSHALL distance of forty
miles GShFevepor Southwestern.
ST. HELENA.-They are going to have grand
ball at Yelverton's Hotel, in Amite, on the 3lst.
The smallpox has disappeared from the parish,
On Tuesday night party of ten or fifteen ne.
gToes, dressed in federal uniform and armeo with
4 D. S. muskets, made an attack upon the premises
| If Bob Cane who lives three miles from Shreve-
/ port on the Texas road. They began by shooting
the dogs, and when the step-son of Mr.. Cane
n Game to the window he was killed by well d.
rected shot The negroes rushed into the house
broke open the trunks, and carried off some specie
and other things they valued. A man sleeping up
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then jumped out of the window; he was wounded
sT9 shreveport Gazette
CLA1BoRsE--The Homer Iliad says:
Some portions Of our parish have been visited
with good seasons during the past week, The corn
! will be better than was expected and the cotton
| crop is pretty good.
GooD PLACE TO L1vE.-The Homer niad says:
The fishing in the Dorchete is frstFate now; and
the deer Just over in Bosser are plentiful as hy-
poerftes in the land of Pluto.
LAFoURoHE. Says the Sentinel of the 21st
The crops in Lafourche are in a very promising
condition. The heavy. rains that we have had |
during the week will do some Injury to The cotton
crop, though it will undoubtedly benefit the cane
fields
ST. NARY. The Planters Banner acknowledges
the receipt Of two bbets, each fourteen inches in
circumference, the growth of seven weeks. Big
beets. gs#
Banner:
pasregion Of country. If there were any it would /
be generally Known for every body that has cot
ton plant IN The ground, and everybody else is
opinion that the cotton worm and cholera will not
visit this year, from the fact that everybody
poets them. Generally, when everybody expects
yellow fever healthy season follows and the
same fact often holds good in other matters.
Itrains 10 and around Franklin much more than
any one could desire. Once in while it pours
And not unfrequentiy the sun shines Immediately
after these rains much hotter than most people
and colt IN fields enjoy. Such weather makes the
cotton plant shed its forms, It is lust such
weather at this season of the year as cotton
cotton planters, figs and fruit generally don't ad-
mire. That's our doctrine.
Last Sunday night, while the mail boat Anna
D. was making landing at the Olivier plantation (
on the Teche, above Franklin, Mr., Il. Clinton as.
sistant engineer, fell overheard and was drowned |
He at one time belonged TO Capt. Fuefss battery
and for short time during the war was attached
to Capt B. r. L. Wilson'S scouts. 1a ~
ST. LANDRY-The OpeIousas Courier relates the
following case of the shooting of desperate
character: s Fea .5s475s
y On last Friday week, free man of color
named Baptiste Provost was killed with shot
gun BY Mr. Richard Cary, a deputy of our vigil
ant sheriff
This wretch met his death nnder the following
circumstances; Messrs. Cary and F. Jonbert had
been placed as sentlnels at Mallet, in an expedi-
tion organized for the arrest Of certain iidiyi
dual. PerceiYing rider at distance, these gen
tlemeu observed that he was armed with gun.
and they separated upon recognizing Bapfiste
Provost. against whom they held warrant Of ar.
rest, Baptiste still approached, and having
Mr., Jpubert-and pro3ably not per.
eeiymg Mr., Cary--he cried out, 7" l have found
you at last, you son of 8 -. = etc., and prepared
to fire upon him, when Mr.. Cary who was watch
Ing his movements, called twice upon him to suF.
render, and, upon his refusal discharged his gun
at HIM, A few hours afleTWard he was dead.
Baptste Provost was, it is said, one Of those evil
iDers who, while our brave young men were bat.
ling for the Southern cause, were pilfering, rob
ring and burning thus ast,king terror into the t
learss of our detenseess population. Q
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