New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-20
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4 report reached this city last evening that a
planter In Franklin county had an alteration with
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learned the particulars at the hour Of going to
4 press. 70 Natchez Democrat, Nv
Negroes are demanding fifteen dollars a month,
board and lodging, and two suits Of clothes year,
to work ON cotton plantations in this vicinity.
Wiy not take the land and improvements A few
more weeks, however, will bring Cnffy to his pork
and beans. Mark the prediction.--[Ibid.
/ We announce, with sincere regret, the death Of
I MI. James Harrington, of Franklin county, which
occurred last week. The returned soldiers of the
community, with very few exceptions, have *
Experienced the Kindness for which he was eminenty
disHnguished and the poor for miles around his
hoitable home are called upon to mourn for one
70 wRta they never appealed in vain. The wife
OF Mr. Inc less admired and respected for her
good wd died q few months since.--[Ibid.
The I4nocrat has heard of many apparently
well founded reports from planters in the neigh
borhood Of Natchez, complaining Of interference I
N with their negroes, while the city itself swarns
with freed people who live and act as they please,
the laws Of the State to the contrary notWith- |
standing.
The Democrat calls for the enforcement of the
Y vagrant act.
CouRT MARTIAL m THE suLTANA CAsE.-The
4 court martial for the trial Of Captain Frederick
~ Speed "A G., for disobedience Of orders and
neglect Of duty, in connection with the loss Of the
steamer Sultana, last spring. is now in session in
Fvicksburg Gen. Chas. A. Gilchrist is President, /
h and Lieut. Col N. S. ellison Judge Advocate.
n ERaILRoAD CONNECTION The Mississippi Central
3 has connected at Canton with the Jackson Rail
road, and travellers now 50 by rail through TO
the North without detention.
I'VE have private adyices of most cheering
Eharacter from the prairie country in this State.
The freedmen during the holidays have deported
themselves well, and are universally making CON
tracts for the year. Our informantwrites US that
he expects to make full crops Of cotton, wheat and
corn.-l vicksburg Herald.
The Herald Of the 18th says the Mississippi has.
nearly reached the turning point, the rise in "a
hours being only inches.
Thomas Hanion white, quite youth who says
ne halls from Cairo, ILL.,, was arrested yesterday
for maltreating q freedman, and fined $40 and
costs. He gave d fictitious name, but he was up
again this morning, charged with being drunk, dis
orderly, striking or kicking another freedman, and
rAny, for all Of which his Honor remanded him to
DE- workhause unless he could pay fine of s25
and Costs Yicksburg Herald.
Tho river had fallen Is inches during the "a
| hours ending midnight, 18th.
The forty-eighth Grand annual communication
of the Grand Lodge, F. A. NJ, Mississippi, met on
Monday last, January Is, at jackson. Propositions
for the preparation by each subordinate lodge Of a
roll Of its members who were killed or died
during the late war. for the establishment of a
Lodge Of Sorrow, and for the. education Of the
orphans of deceased soldiers, entertained and
II referred to committees. committee was also
appointed to take into consideration the praetica
biiity of at once nangurating the proper measures
for establishing House of Refuge, for destitute
orphans of deceased brethren of that Grand Juris-
dicton.
Under date Of the 18th instant, an order by
General 0sterhaus directs the execution of James
sRoberts on Friday next, the 2eth instant, in the
4 yard ofprson No. / in vicksburg. A eommunca;
4 ton to the Mississippi Standard, dated New
Orleans, January 1lth, 1866" gives the following
as the facts Of this lamentable case, gathered
from neighbors and from the record Of the Military
Commission:
About the 18th October, some men. with faces
BACKED and otherwise disguised, made their ap-
pearance on the plantation of DR.. w. L. Wilson,
Yazeo river, doubtless for the purpose of doing
= any deyiment that might be in character with the
Lives and tastes of set Of desperate creatures,
who had been terrorto the neighborhood for two
years. Of course, when they found United
4 States negro soldier who might be supposed to
4 have a few greenbacks, they were not long in
81 disposng of him.
The negro was killed. This fact was communica-
Il ted TO the garrison at Yazoo City by negro man
q by the name of Ben; and he, with malice in his
heart, to revenge the loggngs he had received at
the hands of Mr. Roberts and of Mr. Adcock, man
ayers on the place, had them arrested as the per
petrators of the crime. Adcock was examined
and acquitted Roberts, on his examination, intro
dueed his wife and her mother, and they both
swore pointedly that on the night Of the murder
they were dangerously sick at home, two miles
4 from the plantation, that he was TO them both
q nurse and physician; and that to their certain
knowledge he did not leave the room five minutes
during the night.
Ben who was considered an outlaw by his
I owner years before the war, and other negroes
one of them the wife of the murdered man, alone
swore against him, and their testimony seems to
haye'been received as true, without making any
allowance for the rebntting testimony. Without
wishing to censure the motives of the court, the
writer of the communication says there is but one
Il opinion in the county Of 4azoo, and that is, thai
Il in their anxiety to make an example, they have
passed sentence on an innocent man.
j. S. Roberts was born and raised in Yazot
county, and has ever borne an irreproachablt
U character.
j At the time he was arrested he was at home
n His wife was in bed, unable to turn herself, from
III abroken thigh. His mothern-law. n years old
Il was suffering from severe attack Of asthma.
II In addition, the writer has been informed that
81 portion of the gang who committed the crime
y are still in the country and dark as their deet
has been, are not entirely devoid Of feeling fo
81 Roberts, who is the innocent sufferer for thei
acts. They have proclaimed, wherever they have
"a gone, that he is clear Of any knowledge Of thu
I deed Or any participation in it, and have said tina
Nh he should not suffer for them.
A u such is a fact, they have no time to delay, ans
II is sincerely hoped that they, with their friends
Eill do something to stay the hand of the execu
&oner, now appraised against a man as innocent a
"a angel in heaven.
With the Standard, we cannot but hope that tn
cts will be inquired into, and if found as stated
. N bat Mr.. Roberts will be exonerated.
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