New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-16
MONDAY MORNING JULY 10, lqss.


Dgeh soFeTHOWed, but the waters had reCeded
when we passed along. We went up this bayou
on an express train, two plow mules and an iron.
clad Wagon-trayeing time, three and half
l0urs, distance eleven miles. 1t took about cord
oil sapimgs TO run the locomotive that distance.
Inc horses and mules on this bayou are gene
rally poor. Last years overflow destroyed most
OF Their crops and they have hard time to live.
Put they are making great effort this year, and
their crops generally LOOK pretty well. Some have
oVercr0pped themselves, and some others were
mewiiat in the grass but they will gen rally be
IN pretty good condition before the middle of this
month. II the cotton worm will let them alone,
their crops VIII be quite remuneratiye. Cane
looks quite we'll Ali who can get seed next year
VIII plant cane instead Of cotton But from ap-
pearances there will be a great scarcity of seed
cane, and greater scarcity of hands.
Several families on "culOred" bayou have
moved to Attakapas this year, and others cOntem
plate doing 80. They fear future ogerfows, and
want to find higher land.
TERREBoNNE RADICALS.
It appears that Terrebonne parish ever since the
war and during greater part OF the struggle
has been infested by set Of men who have play
ing upon negro prejudices, using the vest of H.
fuenCes to prejudice them against their former
masters, and at the same time sWindliug them out
Of their money in various ways. When one oil
these renegade phanthrOpists gets on a negro's
track protesting TO be in love with either Sambo's
soul orbody, the first thing be does when he com
mences his work of love II ~ get his hand in Sam
b0's pocket that he may make his cOlOLed friend
more than foot the phauthrOpiC bill.
So ID has been in Terreb0nne, and in this parish,
as In the instance of Brother Brainard." III these
sneaking chicken snakes continue to iBiest this
country they will produce miserable results. They
vii never let the negro alone as long as he has
dime in his pocket or the prospecto Of being allowed
to vote. There is not a worse scOurge in any
country than these sneaking hypocrites and rasGals
political, religious aud financial who have invaded
all parts of the South rob and deceive the negro
and lDiure the white population Of the country.
faithful federal officer is treated with respect and
esteem all over the South; but these swinders and
misehiet.makers deserve the legitimate fate of
horse thieves, burglars, and ncendiaries.
-esr TIGERvfbLB.
The citizens of TigeryiIle appear to be in much
trouble lately. Sam Casey, watchman, was shot
and killed. on the night of the 18th ult,, by an IN
known assassin. Mr.. ID. McEray was shot about a
month previous, while watch on the railroad
track. He was wounded by several buckshots,
but not killed Midnight attempts have been made
in the last two months to burn down an old coffee
house, Meningitis Moody's aud Frank Haynes
dwelling houses. horse was lately shot at night,
and three four midnight rObberies have been at
tempted, and still the house burners, assassius and
robbers are at large Tigervlle has not much
over a hundred inhabitants in it, and they do not
suspect any from the country, Or any stranger,
to be guilty OF these outragcs; and still the guilty
party or parties are at large, waiting, doubtless,
for the excitement to subside that they may en-
brace new opportunities to commit crimes.
On the night of the 10th ult., during a violent
wind the cook Of the schooner Swift fell overheard
at Tigeryille, and was drowned.
PILOT HOUSE VIEW.
BY the politeness Of Capt Collins, who stands al
the wheel and guides the destines of the United
states mail boat Anna E., we were permitted 70
take O pilot house view Of the lower part of ST
Mary on the up trip last Saturday evening.
From Barwieks Bay to Franklin, on bota SIDES
OF the Atchatalaya ana o9th oahks OF the Ieche,
!e SUI hao,t
cnItfyated and uaeuItiysted spread out on either
hand, and the majestic live oak, the graceful
Decan and the stately cypress planted by nature
stand here rs noble 6rnSments Of this once favored
land The Bayou Teche, by sunlight or by moon
light, at all seasons and under ali circumstances
ia one Of the most lovely havons in the State Oul
little towns along the route.Pattersonvl on the
Atcha(alava and Centerville on the Teche-art
badly wrecked their wharves and warehouses are
nearly ia ruins, still we have the localities, foun
datio1s and sites for more thrifty villages which
we eypect to see sprnring up in future
A serpent has entered our Eden, and thorns an
thistles grow where fruits and flowers once ripene
and blo0med but we hone TO see the time whel
this viii he an / den regained and these fields vii
rejoice and blossom once more in more than thei
former glory.
NEWS ITEMS
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Gentleman for whose trnthfnIpess we yonch VIII
Favored ma With the Following news items whic
he licked mn on late Trim ia Vieksbnrp and hack
on,>,p ,r,.yr
n"ANp LE' Hh.
The breach IN Gfand LeVee IS so deep that ID
chief engineer thinks the new leTee VIII nave to b
built some distance u tae rear OF tne oia one, an
must be AZ le55e taS ieea asn NE s NJ, Is
tbe ataT vas m even when thev attempted
ig ciose w The extrere shora Of the river The
we're ohIired TO cordelle by. or be towed past b
the stoamGnats Thirteen RATS of logs and tbrt
Hrovisinn asts we're drawn in the cTeyasse. m
Several lives we're lost by these disasters,
-. -, MS, ~
ooI.oFfs'
The Mississippi IS TINS year making several Gu
offs above which may next year seriously e1e
the levees below
twenty-five miles below VichsDurg' al DAVIS
Bend, there ia cutoff. The distance ls tWehl
eight miles around the bend, ana one mile acfos
me water mas been running through the cut
Tor Tour weeks; Six steamers can run down
abreast and the current is 80 rapid that
steamer can go up through 1t; II Is very deep.
At Palmyra Bend, short distance ire
NalcheA, there Is announcer cut-oH, or WI! De IN
sides till the waters nearly meet. 80
The Terrapin Neck cnt.off tbirtv.fye mil
shove Vicksbnrg was made This season II
eighteen miles ronnd The hend n ia nav a al
lake where the channel of the river was last We,
These three cut-of5 will shorten Tho riyar al Iee
seyentv-five miles ~ -
RED WATER
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