New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-23
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LODGE OF soRRow.-In accordance with pre-
vious notice, the brotherhood of Free Masons In
Amite county held lodge of sorrow IN tins place
on the 14t instant. An appropriate address was
delivered by the Rev. Chas. t.: OtK S,.,s ,u,.t
CoTToN.-A planter writes to the HolmesVile
Independent giving an estimate of the probable
cotton crop of Mississippi at less than 100000
bales and gives detailed estimate of two neigh.
borhoods which he sums up as follows:
Total in both neighborhoods in 1860, 2S2 hands
in 1866, 1856 hands. Now think an average crop
per hand, under forced labor, is 3 bales In 1850,
the 2s2 hands would make SAG bales. In 1866, the
lag hands would make 40s bales. Now the year
1866 would be minus ASS bales, even under the
forced labor. We must consider, also, that the
hands for 1866 are made up of women and chill
dren and the decrepid. In 1880 the hands were
all strong and able ones. Now, sir, predict that
the 1876 hands, in 1865, will not make as much BY
one-third. So, then, the crop of 1850 will be 272
bales.
An economical fence has recently been invented
by Col. Fl. G. Chambers, of Coahoma county, Miss,
which answers most admirably the exigences of
the times The fence is built of cypress Stats eight
feet long, is constructed by first setting up row
of stats on the order of rafters with five foot base
and one slat at the top as a. comb, and then nall
ing them together with eight foot Stats, with five
stats on each side. This fence can be built at
( cost of fifty cents per acre. s4aiT '".a
The Masonic fraternity of Rankin county held
Lodge of Sorrow on the l4th, at Brandon, under
the superintendent of Coleman Lodge No. ~.
The address was delivered by Rev. Dr. j. NJ. Lewis.
The Rankin county savings institutions is organ
lied and ready to receive deposits.
| CRops, ETc.-From what we can learn from
| persons living in different parts of the country,
the crops are in fattering condition, bidding fair
to make q most excellent yield. The recent cold
spell did not, as anticipated, Interfere with the
crop now growing; nor did it injure the fruit
trees, fact which we take pleasure in recording.
The freedmen are doing as well as could be ex-
Il pected under the circumstances; not working as
servitude but, taking everything into considera
ton, performing their duty in manner that gives
!, pretty general satisfaction to their employers
!, There is a disposition, it is true, among the negro
women to eschew anything like field work, consid
erlng it unadylike and not in accordance with the
usages which obtain among their late mistresses
, But we think it more than probable they will ge
the better of their 'high falutin u notions in thi
regard, and make themselves servceable members
of society. Every negro has some white person
in his eye whom he would fain act like. imitation
being one of the predominant traits of the African
r haracter.-[Carrollton Conservative.
; The Tallahatchan learns that the Taahatchi
: river is falling rapidly and will be within its bank
. in a week or so.
. DR.. Joseph G. HAIL. aged seventy.seven years
$ died in fernando, Miss. recently. Dr.. Hall wa
Q one of the Oldest citizens Of fernando, haVin
d resided there some thirty years.
n The ladies' of Columbia, Murfreesboro an
It Pulaski are getting up entertainments In thel
respective towns for the benefit of the maine
i Confederate soldiers.
: An ARRAY occurred April 10th, on the steame
u Dove near Vinton, Miss, among the negro dec
Q hands resulting in the murder of one of the nun
Der. Upon an attempt to arrest the two guilt
n parties, one of them jumped overheard, and SUI
ceeded in escaping to the shore. The other wa
= on board in irons when the Dove left our wharf.
~ ~ The Columbus Sentinel of the 10Th reports sma
J, pox rapidly increasing in that city. Twenty-iv
n cases reported, and the pest house full of pi
y tients.
= The annual session of the Mississippi Bapti
II State Convention will be held in Jackson, Miss
i. On the Thursday before the first Saturday in Jun
: 1866.
. The Columbus Index rejoces at the departu1
N of the negro troops, for some time statione
7. there.
y Governor Humphreys, says the Clarion, has
d ected the Treasurer to continue to receive cote
money in payment of bonds, and considerab
is amount was recentlypaid into the treasury.
~ The Greensboro vidette says that the sheriff al
Il Il circuit clerk of Choctaw county resigned the
IN offices recen for the purpose, it is said, of pr
- venting the circuit court from convening, that tt
'e proceedings against debtors be prevented.
- A new paper called the Star, is published
= GAINESVILLE, Miss. 1---.
- In Pontotoc county. Miss, some villains, head'
~ by man named Mcdonald, killed d Mr.. King
~ his house. and dangerously wounded his daughte
20 Their object was robbery. Some neighbors
Ia Mr. King succeeded in shooting Mcdonald.