New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-04-30

point, should these late rains have been general Or
the upper river, there ia no donbtSut that all our
| river plantations will be submerged and in that
| case the prospect Of crop is gloomy, indeed
Like Noah, OF ark renown, we have q let bird
loose" and when it returns with the olive branch
we shall entertain the idea tnat the rains have
ceased and the waters are subsding-not till
| then.
MERcBANDIsISG.-The Southwestern gives the
sales made by fifteen houses in Shreveport for
nine months ending March 81, 1866 amounting to
1927 ,2l3. The list includes none whose sales, as
returned to the internal revenue office, amounted
to less than $50, 900. ".n
EAST BATON RoUGE.-The Advocate urges the
construction of a railroad from Baton Rouge to
Clinton, estimating the cost of building and
equipping at 100000. Distance 30 miles, s,ri,.4
| PENITENTIARY SHOEs.--Under the energetic su-
pervision of Mr. Louis Koudert, the shoe room of
this establishment, working some thirty hands,
| turns out now over two hundred pairs of good
| pegged brogans per week. These shoes are
much superior to any in this market at the price,
and the demand is increasing. Since the access
SION OF Mr. Kondert to the superintendent of the
shoe factory, many improvements have been
made in the manufacture of the article, and much
credit is due him therefor.
good many wagons and crowds of people are
| IN town, and business to considerable extent is
being done. The most of it is confined to the pro-
duce merchants-hay, corn, oats and meat being
in most demand, The excitement in regard to the
election is increasing, and both town and country
are in habbub in regard to it.
The Advocate reports an entertaining anniver-
sary celebration by the Odd Fellows of the city of
Baton Rouge and vicinity on the 26th instant. B.
E. Clancy Esq, was the orator of the day "Take
it altogether says the Advocate, !" the day was
one of the most pleasant ever enjoyed by our
nit n with a grand hall AT nlVht
at Academy Hall, and when we left there at a late
hour the music still melting the young folks to
the mary dance"
IBERvrLLE.-The South says Capt. J. G. Slim
NELL agent of the freodmen's bureau at Iberville,
has been relieved by Lieut.. A. f. Osbourn, Of the
Veteran Reserve Corps.
LAFoURcHE.-The Dalferes crevasse, below
Lockport on the Lafourche, is still running, and
we hear of no prospects that the break in the
levee can be closed during the present high stage
of water in the bayou Thibodaux Sentinel, 2Sth.
During a recent travel on the N. O. & O. R. R.,
our heart actually gladdened with joy to see all
the fields along the line of our journey &c erspread
quite" with the verdure of most promising crops.
All along the road we saw but few plantations that
were not under cultivation. The only places that
| appeared to US neglected and somewhat grown
into crank weeds" were three farms near La
feurche Crossing; these places are not cultivated
because, I'VE are told, their owners are absent from
| the State.-[ Sentinel
! ApPREHRsDED OvERFLow.-The Chinn and Ro-
binson crevasses in the parish of West Baton
Rouge causing the Atchafalaya river to rise at
| a rapid rate. The Atchafalaya communicates its
swollen waters through various bayous and small
lakes into many of the swamps in the parishes of
| Terrebonne, Assumption and Lafourche. The
water in the swamps around Tigerville is packing
up to an alarming hight We fear that hundreds
| of unfortunate people in each of the parishes we
have just named will loose th3ir entire crops by
| overflow.-tSentinel.
ST.. JoHN.-The MeschacGbe of the 2lst instant
reports the following sentences pronounced by
Judge Beauvais of the district court
The negro Williams, for attempt to murder
eighteen months in the penitentiary !; the negro
George Washington, for theft, six months in pen
tertiary; the negro Willis, for horse stealing one
year; the negro Jean Louis, for theft, three
months; and the negro Joseph, for the same crime
the same sentence.
| AMBIGUOUS RoBBERy.-The Meschacebe reports
the robbery of the house of Mr.. Emile Mericq, BY
a burglar, who took from an ar1noir, in the room
where the family were sleeping, iewelry and othel
articles, worth $500 or $500.