New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-23

weeks but we are informed tb,st more thap tvs
hundred cases have been disp,,9ed or Judge
Gates ts certainly man OF dispatch, and the faem-
Ders OF the bar deserve credit for wasting no
words. There were some seven hundred cases on
the docket. The court will probably be in session
another week.-rHonma Guard.
sT. HELENA proposition il made in the
Greensburg Journal TO erect a monument to the
memory Of the Confederate dead from ST. HelsDa.
Z h4D DoGs.--La BOussole states that tbs rumore6
the parish Of Assumption is infested with mad
dogs. negro is said to have died from the bite
OF one and son Of one Of the best families, bitten
IN the hand, vas saved by canterization.
81. JoHE--This parish, according to lie Mes
chacebe, is infested with thieves who go aboat at
night, robbing people with impanity.
De soTo ELEcTIoN.-The following is the respls
Of the vote ID De Soto parish
Sheriff.. Williams CIerk-J. ri satheFIin
ASSESSORS. ToWnsend I ecdrdef-- HerfS.
BATON RagGE ANrs CLrsrax RArLrsoAD.--k pro-
position has been made by the owners Of she Gin
Ton and Port Hudson Railway Company to meet q
railroad from this city at Redwood dissat sixteen
miles. They Will compiete the line that far il we
of Baton Rouge will meet them half way. The
question now remains with the citizens q RasoEs
Rouge and the country through which the proposed
road will extend to answer. The road bed needs
no grading and is now ready for the ties and ron.
The estimated cest of the sixteen miles 1s iz's990r
If this cannot be raised among our own peops the
be invoked to aid in its completion. We beIeYe
| taat the people are eager for railroad and an
mat they want are oppor nnties for copsIltatt1ns
THIsyEs ABoyr,-It il weIl 10 remind or cit
izens tl1as gang Of thieves now iafest the city
/ On Wednesday night McGsbes salOen wss entered
and robbed Of the contents of the drawer. Thurs
| day night attempts were made upon the stores of
/ Messrs Denley and Taasey d Roberts the desk of
the latter having been broken to pieces ia search
Of money. little vigilance and well loaded arms
| should be kept by aN.-LIbid
RoBBERY.-The carpenter shop Of @essrs.
Thomas h Collins on Lafayette street was entered
| Wednesday night by thief, and robbed og large
| quantity Of valuable toolss-l IBID
| IBERyILLE-Tbe Weather, Crops, FIood,-For
l two weeks past we have had nearly every Kind Of
/ had weather, and as consequence, every one Of
/ our planters whose crops have not disappeared
| Beneath the food, complain that their prospects
] are not by any means aattering- They are very
much behind hand, and il is feared cannot possibly
| catch up. Everything is grassy and wants work.
At present writing it ID clear bnt no indications OF
| a permanent break.
/ The river continues to fall, but we have too
| serious evidences not to know the reason.
/ The tremendous flood that pours in upon the
g Fordoehen and I" Gross Tete'' has already car
ried ruin farther than the devastating overflow OF
last season, throughout that beautiful seenon OF
tcountry. We are told the levees along the EoF-
doche ridge have given way, but the report lacks
confirmation. We sincerely hope there Is no truth
in IT. LHUugn we Know they must be heavily
pressed. should they give way the ruin and desc
lation will be enormous for nearly all the stock in
i the country would surely perish Much, Ne are
told, has already been lost along the g Crosse
Tete - and, too, we hear, several OF the citizens Of
/ that section have already moved away to Attaka-
pas there to remain Paquemine South
This tremendous volume Of water, not yet at its
4 highest in our parish, must soon spread devasta-
tion again over the lower Teche and Atehafalaya
and all the country between BFasheAr City and
, lLafourche. Throughout this section the water
may not be SO high as II was last year, bat all II
i will lack may be attributed to. the closing Of
Bayou Plaquenine.
u OukcHTTA- EleUenfl Judicial Distrtct.-In the
three parishes of Jackson, Union and CIsiborne,
of this district, we have the following vote for
d;strict attorney