New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-23

mississippi Intelligence.
At a meeting Of the Cemetery Association al
viCfsburg, on the 18th, resolutions were adopted
looking to the erection of monument to Missis.
sippiaus who fell in the late war, and recommend
ing yicksburg as the proper location.
The Mississippi State convention for the purpose
Of appointing delegates to the national Union con
vention to meet at Philadelphia on the l4th Au.
gust, will be held at jackson on Wednesday, tie
25th July.
R, w. G. LopaE OF MISSISSIPPI I. O. 0. F.
The following is q list of the grand officers elected
to serve during the coming twelve months;
Oscar 7, Keller Columbus, NJ. w. G. Master
S. Galinger, Yazoo City, R. w. d. G. Master.
III. B. Evans Jackson, r. W. G. Warden.
John B. Dicks Natchez, r.. w. G. Secretary.
Samuel French, jackson, r. w. G. Treasurer.
Consider Parish, Brandon, r. w. G. Chaplain.
B. B. Mayes Yazoo City, r. W. G. Representa-
tive.
John L. Milton, Grenada, r. W. G. Representa-,
tive.
j. a. Patrick, Jackson, W. G. Guardian.
| S. w. futile, Satarta, W. G. Conductor.
/ G. J, Buchanan, Aberdeen, W. G. Marshal.
| We learn from the Koseusko Chronicle that
| horrible tragedy occurred last week in Choctaw
| county, seven miles east of Greensborough Whey
4 Eudy, OF that county, murdered his mother There
had been quarrel between old man Eudy and his
wife about bible, which the old miscreant had
ordered his son, boy of sixteen, to burn.
Mrs Eudy told her son she would whip him If he
destroyed the bible, but he did So andshe stepped
i cut 10 get switch, and while gone her husband
/ told the boy to look behind the door and get an
| axe-hande and to knock his mother in the head
| when she attempted to whip him. The son shame
full to say, obeyed his father, struck Mrs Eudy on
the head with the axe-handle fraeturing her skull,
| from the effects Of which she died.
i Matthew Davenport, ST., highly respected
citizen. died at 0kolona on the 9Th inst. He only
Fsf~f-F 4
i years. Mr.. D. was a native Of Virginia, and was
born onthe 18th Of Jnly, 1866
MURDER N MERID1As.-James Thomas was
killed in this city on Saturday morning by Ma
thaniel BFoughton, Immediately after the
killing, Bfoughtoa met John Shackelford ia the
road told him what he had done, and then went
Z aud delivered himself up to the officers Of the
law. An investigation was had before Justice
Gibbons, assisted by Mayor Armstrong. The
court, after patient and laborious investigation,
committed Broughton without bail. He was i'm
mediately shacked, and sent to the Quitman jail.
4 messenger, l7th.
/ "A SHIFTY FREEDMAE.-The Washington wilkes
| county, Gazette understands that freedman
/ / AIMED Henry Nelson, is going about in that aud
the surrounding counties, leyyng a contribution
upon the colored people Of two dollars on every
4 male and one dollar on every female, upon pre-
! tence that upon payment of such sums they will
! be exempt from ali further taxation by the State
4 and will be allowed (men aud women) the privi-
iege of voting. The Gazette learns that Nelson is
4 Known nave C0IlecbeQ ABOUT three Thousand
/ lars out of the deuded darkies.-[ Mississi0pian.
/ CRoPs.-The Brandon Republican of the I9th
| says: We have had several fine showers during
\ the past week, and the crop prospects have mate
| rail- improved. Itcame too late to do the corn
| crop much good, but there is time enough yet TO
make cotton where il has been properly worked
| The Aberdeen Examiner, Of the 18th, says We
have had most magnificent rains, and we read
1 corn y in huge characters in the ceuntenance of
4 each farmer thatwe meet-eyen in the faces of
arFf nr6
yellow corn. But we have had rain enough, and
it still rains we hard, very hard to suit. The
cotton is looking we'll, as q general thing, and we
notice but little dependency among those who
are & out of the grass"
1t is estimated that forty thousand soldiers are
buried at CGfinth, Miss, within radius OF twenty
miles. A large proportion persisted from sickness
] during Gen. Halleck's term OF command after the
battle OF Shiloh.
3 PLUR1BUs UNuM.--A eolored woman was re
Gently delivered of four fine boys net far from 90.
lumbus. She has named them respectively, Abra.
ham Lincoln. William H. Seward, Henry Ward
Beeeher and Horace Greeley.
n AT Columbus corn is selling at 81 so per bushel,
and dull
I LYNCH LAw.--The man spoken Of in our yester.
i days issue, says the Aberdeen Examiner of the
18th, as having been executed for horse stealing
in that county IN accordance with the verdict Of
Judge Lynch, was one James Rogers, the hero of
countless depredat0ns upon barn-yaTds and sta
bles Two or three weeks ago he stole fine
mare from poor widow woman, and succeeded
in escaping with it. Returning to the same neigh
borhood, he stole a mule from relative of the
widow. This exploit YVES his last one. A party of
energetic men were gotten together. Rogers was
hunted down, caught on the mule, and hung by the
road side as warning to all his aiders, abettors
and well-Bishers.
n Tie Canton Mail of the 2lst says
Some of the city papers seem TO be very hopeful
since the cessation of the wet weather, and even
go so far as to make estimate of 20G6 900 bales
! Of cotton. From what we can see around us, and
what we can learn from other portions of the
! country, this estimate is too great by about
half and it will be much safer calculation to say
100000 bales, at the highest, for the coming
yield
The presidency Of the Vermont University, at
Rnrlington has been olEered to Professor S. e.