The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-11
Louisiana InteIIiseuee.

That excellent parish paper, the Amite City
Times, has been trar sferred by its former editor.
Dir. N. J. Scott, TO Messrs. A. J. johnson Co.
Scott was an energetic and useful journalist, and we
are sorry TO lose him from the press. We hope
some of these days to see him again on the tri-
pod.
The editor of the Baton Rouge Gazette has been
lately feasting on watermelon raised by Me-.
ThOs. Basilisco last July, and kept in sound state
OF preservation ever since.
The Advocate thus laments over the dulness
of the times there The town is exceedingly well
behaved No cases before the courts, no fights
not even a chicken or dog fight TO interrupt the
InCnOtOny of the streets. Our reporters ia des.
pair and If this quiet state of affairs continues
will be driven to kick up a riot among them.
selves"
Archbishop Odin is to visit Ibervile parish this
week.
From the Ibervlle South of the sth we take the
following: " Since our last issue we have visited
the works on the Belthazar, Dupuy and Hickey
levees. The Dupuy levee will be completed in
ten or twelve days Of fair weather. A good deal
Of work is still to be done on the Hickey levee-
but the labor is there, and we see no reason why
the work should now fail of being thoroughly fn-
ished. We were allowed to visit the building 10
which the labOrers, who are all cOnyicts of the
State penienhary, are lodged and provided for.
We were pleased with the good order and clean
Illness maintained, and with the demeanor of the
officers and guards aud more especially with the
healthy appearance OF the prisoners. TIE officers
state that the convicts give them less trouble than
when confined in the penitentary that they are
cheerful and work with admirable good will. The
food we saw served up was sufficient, of good
quality and well prepared. 1t is hoped that no.
thing will occur to take the convicts away before
the completion of the work. We desire TO say
moreover that the new levee should be fastened
in its entire length. This is, in opinion, inds-
pensabe to its security during the first food"
The Tensas Gazette calls on the Democracy Of
that parish TO organize.
The Jackson Flag says they have had in that
nNarh al raN -.
that part of Louisiana.
negro man, named Tom Cannon, killed
another negro man, in the Southern part of this
parish, last Saturday night. The murderer was
arrested and chained in the jail here on last Tnes-
day. That night he broke the chain and made
his escape. So, we suppose, we have two voters
less in jackson this wesk-[Jackson Flag.
Mr.. Jules Druilhee, Jr., Wsbeen appointed as
sistant assessor of internal revenue for the
parishes of Ascension, st. James and St. John the
Baptist.
Our postmaster has received a letter from L.
n. Pinckston, Ocala, Marion county, Florida, re-
questing information concerning his son, Mile X.
Pinckston. a member of Capt. s. Adsms's Co. Z,
18th La. Vols, who was, when last heard from,
just after the siege of Vicksburg an inmate OF
Webster Hospital. (O Our contemporaries
throughout the state will do an act of kindness
and charity by giving publicity to the above.
The Concordia Intelligencer is guilty OF the fol.
lowing outrageous attempt at joke: Change
is so scarce in Vidalia that eggs are used for
convenience. This is considered q good egs
change.n
The ladies' of Jackson, in East Feliciana, are to
give a concert and tableaux the l4tl for the ben
eft of the Methodist Episcopal Church of that
place.
We have been informed that provisions have ar
rived here for distribution to such planters wish
10 accede to the terms on which they are fur.
nished. We have not been able to get further
information, and only give this for what it is
worth Bayou Sara Ledger, Sth.
We understand the negroes Of this parish have
been advised by a circular letter from certain
leading radicals not to contract, or something to
that amount, that they would soon have lands of
their own, etc. Bayou Sara Ledger.