The New Orleans crescent., 1868-06-23
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

The Iberville Pioneer of the 10th acknowledges
! rain.
In the parish Of St. Charles ia q sign which runs
! thus: "Misere Co.. Grocery and Post Office"
COncordia and lberve have been blessed with
rain
| The Nstchitoches Times says that small fields
of sorghum can be found in that parish aud antici
pales an increased yield of syrup this season.
! The Nstchez Courier. Of the 10th. says that
| large numbers Of negroes are arriving at that
place from Louisiana aud Texas, to swell the car
| pet bsRgers' vote.
A grand Democratic mass meeting is to be held
! IN Atlanta, Ca, on the 22d July. Preparations
are being made TO render IL one OF the greatest
| political gatherings ever held 10 Georgia.
| The Victoria (Texas) Advocate announces the
| death Oh the 10Th Of Rev. Joel I. Case formerly
nsstor OF the Presbyterian church in that place.
He Sss an old Texan, and was once captured BY
the Mexcsns and imprisoned two years ia Mexico.
The Claiborne Advocate boasts of a cotton
factory that will sOcn be in operation in Bonner,
lD that parish. IL is four stories high and will be
lurniIg out cloth within the next thirty days.
| Claiborne.
lbe Galveston News says: "The continued
excellent health OF our city, and the favorable
weather, with our accounts Of the absence of any
| indications Of an epidemic in New Orleans, seem
10 have produced general hopeful feeling that
We are not this year TO be visited by the much
dreaded yellow fever. IDdeed, we hear this Opin.
Ion confidently expressed by some Of our Oldest
physicians" +"
Tie Sugar Planter says: "The cheapest and
easiest route, in the end, TO st. Louis will be by
the Mississippi river. The few hours gained ia
time by opening any route through the lakes will
never compensate for the immense amount of
capital required to perform the work. all that is
necessary to be done to secure uninterrupted
travel with the great West is to construct steamers
that will stand the few hours of gulf travel from
the Baze to Mobile Bay. That done the trade
desired is permanently secured"
The Galveston NeWa Rave- GO piantara from
various parts of the country inform us that the
freedmen have this year done far better than ever
before until about the first Of this month. since
which time they have dene very little work. The
meeting OF the State convention led to a very
general impression among them that a great
change in their condition was about TO take place.
and that they were ABOUT TO be inaugurated as
the rulers of the State under the new State gov.
erpment 10 be organized by this eonvenIion.n
The Baton Rouge Advocate says 81 The late
rains appear 10 have been general aud have been
of great benefit to the country. Corn, cotton and
caDe are growing luxuriantly and If no calamity
occurs TO blight the prospect, heavy crops will
be made. The potato crop is very large aud the
amount OF money brought into the country from
sales and shipments has been of great benefit
Enough corn yll be made, and ii the cotton
escapes its sDDusl visitaut, the caterpillar, our
planters will have no cause for complaint"
The lberyile Pioneer is responsible for the fol-
lowing: "When is a duck not a duck! When it
is half chicken. A specimen of this kind was
shown 10 US a short time since, and surely it was
amusing TO behold LIS head was the shape and
size of a CHI ken's with the bill of a Mu.cOvy
duck attached. Its neck was like ducks neck;
its body was that OF q chicken. short and thick
its legs and It's feet were webbed. When il was
hatched II did not have a feather or a pascel of
down upon IT, excepting streak of very foe
chicken feathers directly down its back. This
proves TO the world that previous writer's who
have asserted that duck and a rooster cannot
amagsmate. have been mistaken"