New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-10
AIabama InteIIlgenee.


Montgomery correspondent of the Mobile
Times says:
That scourge Of the cotton planter, the boil
worm. ia beginning to make it's periodical appear
snce on some Of the cotton plantations in this
portion Of the State. During visit to Selma at
the State convention, learned from planters in
the rich Canebrake section, that the Gotton,felds
in many places are infested with them.
The Times, referring to the Mobile and Greas
Northern railroad, says
| A temporary change has been made in the
scheaale Of this road and for the present the boat
| VIII leave Mobile for Tensas at l:30 P. n. The
| change has been found necessary while the guage
! Z De1ng changed on the Montgomery and West
! Point road.
They are capturing unmuzzled dogs at large in
Mobile, instead Of bagbarousy poisoning them;
and the Times tells the following story as conse-
quent on the new practice
| The dog men were badly sold yesterday by
| Louis Dienat, on Government street They seized
his dog before his eyes, and he rushed frantieaFiY
| into the street to the reseue. They refused to
| give the dog up. They said their orders were to
take all the dogs they found Wlthont Tuzzles.
bright idea flashed through Iou1s's BRAIN.
/ q I have a license for him to go unmuzzledD he
said.
Lets see it, was the reply.
Louis rushed into his restaurant He tumbied
over a lot OF old papers and the only thing that
he could find that looked like license was an old
permit, given in Confederate times, by General
Maury, to pass the entrenchments. Armed with
. One of them examined it critically; call right"
he SAID: give him his dog; but look here, old fei-
il low, you keep that license handy about you after
q this, and it will save great deal Of trouble"
The Times has the following notice of rumored
evil intentions among the negroes:
great many people were hoodooed" yester-
day into the belief that there going to be some
IS trouble The idea was founded on certain mys-
terious hints that had gained circulation, to the
effect that the negroes had been holding secret
pd xrpra
I. did not attach any weight to the stories at the
e time and we refrained from giving them any pub
4 Iication Our own Mobile negroes are too inteli-
gent and too well behaved to commit any breach
Of the peace. and the floating negro populaton
under the influence Of Northern fanatical agltators
have the fear of the law too strongly before their
III eyes, to venture anything that would DFlng
II them ia contact with it. Mobile is able and will
u ing to defend itself.
~ The city council Of Mobile have very senslhly
passed resolution over the mayors veto against
the purchase Of steam fire engine for one of the
II fire companies The mayors objection was the
- ever plausible one of expense. The council
= thought that some five or six thousand dollars
additional might we'll be assessed on the city foI
u the purpose Of giving it 50 great an additional
protection against the rayages Of fire.
les Miss Evans, Of Mobile, has addressed the follow
70 ing letter to two gentlemen in Montgomery VIII
d; are endeayoring to establish asbrary in tina
l4E place. H.
con Nessrs Jones and Armstrong:
at (entlennea-While Isympathize most cordial,
in the noble work which now engages your atten
ton | regret exceedingly that your kind lette
My, reached me at juncture when multitudinous an
nj n nrpssin engagements almost preclude the poss
s99 bilitv of my finding the leisure requisite to
III knowledge its receipt, and beg your acceptan'
'oh tof nv earnest thanks. The deplorable pauclty
public libraries at the South has materially
lac tared the Intellectual OF our peop
ine and tie successful accomplishment OF your adn
~ rable scheme is indeed s. a consummatlon doyoul
~ to be wished"
con Appealing powerfully to the sympathies
.ces ievery educated man and woman in the state,
Ehope most sincerely that your efforts VIII
i tpraeted with cordial cooperation, worthy
object so noble. just now / have not time
ssia select contributions from my own library, but n
rat, few weeks shall have leisure, and VIII then ma
the up a package for you, In the interim sAi
for order nv publisher to send copies OF my BOOKS
hrst also of the new one soon as prlnted.is az
OBJ Accept my best wishes for your success, a
my sincere regret for my unavoidable haste .
oi bregiy. qN 48as
the lam, gentlemen, very respectfully,
bert AUGUSTA. j. EVANS.
Though the crops that had been pIeyiou:
Is of wen worked have been greatly benefited by
gned late rams we hear of many large heids OF eS
3. and cotton on the Best lands iu the State, T.
def will make little or nothing. A gentleman llyi
the in the immediate neighborhood, and who IS,
que the way one of the best planters in this seet
'e to informed u.s. q few days ago. that he had Just
lin Turned from trip to the Canebrake, where
g, saw fields of cotton on the best of land that '
tran not make one hundred pounds of seed cotton
o ne the acre.-IG Greensboro Beacon, 23d.