New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1876-03-21
STATE NEWS.
WEST BATON ROUGE.

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| Bsnnon received pistol shot in the breast,
| which, ut last accounts. is likely to prove
fatal. The particulars of the difficulty we
| did not learn. Simpson Immediately gave
| himself up, and is now in Jail.
The river at this point is slowly rising,
and as all the upper rivers are reported as
doing the same, the probability is that we
shall have higher water. With many
others, better posted than Ourself, We De.
lieve that the two great crevasees now open
have saved many levees and prevented
wider devastation than the two crevasees
are now iDficting upon 8 portion OF the
State. Levees may be all powerful in their
way, but much may be said IN favor OF the
outlet system.
LAFoI acAE.
From the Thibodaux Sentinel. March l8:
It seems impossible to even approximate
the vagaries of this remarkable season. The
latter part of last week was extremely
warm, and eliminated in gale on Satur-
day night which threatened to develope
| into q first claes storm, but passed without
ipfiictiug any damage that we heard Of ex-
cept the destruction of the purgery on the
Ducros plantation; very cool clear OH sue
ceeded, and serious fears OF q frost were
entertain ed, but, luckily, were not justi
fed. Plantation work will he impeded
by the accompanying rain, which, how
ever, was needed. Corn planting and stub
BILE digging are progressing on most places,
and planters have busy time ahead, for
by the time this is completed the plant
cane will need work. The forwardness Of
all crops rather crowd work at present, but
saves future labor by the start obtained on
the grass.
The purgery of the sugar house Of Mr.. r.
s. Woods, on the Ducros plantation, was
blown down on Saturday night last, and
from the appearance Of the wreck it would
seem that whirlwind struck it.
coNcoRDIA.
From the Eagle, March Is:
We are glad to zee that the gentlemen
| having charge of the railroad interest are
| pushing ahead toward a speedy completion
| Of the road. Every merchant should give
their hearty support as it will be of great
build up our little city.
| Judge Reber left last Wednesday on the
| sChampion Lee," for Vicksburg, for the
purpose of purchasing steamboat to ply
| on Lake COncOrdia in connection with the
railroad to that place. The boat is to be
| put on the lake at once, and when the
| spring time comes gentle Annie," won't We
| have lots of fishing frolics.
| The river at this point tor the past week
has fallen few inches, and had it not been
for the havy rains would have receded
much more.
| The back water, we learn, is seriously in-
| terfering with the planting interests as we'll
as travel, and should the present rise re-
ported above strike the river here at its
present stage much damage may result.
EAST FELICIANA.
From the Bayou Sara Ledger, March Is:
We publish elsewhere an account taken
from the Clinton Patriot Democrat of one
| of the most foul, atrociOus, brutal and in
human murders that has darkened the
pages Of the history of the two Felicianas
for, 10 these many years. No one can Pc
ruse the account of the inhuman and can
pibalsh actions of the brutal and heartless
tends who perpetrated this hellish and
dsmnable deed without feeling the blood
r-n cold through their veins. For it is a
deed that is fraught with 80 much horror
and ghastlinees that one can scarcely bring
himself to believe that such thing can
exist only in tales of romance or legends Of
In6ian barbarity. Yet it is nevertheless true,
in the heart of Christian and civilized com
mun;.y there are miscreants, demons i've Can
not cay men) to be found whoee only delight
and pleasure is in the shedding of the blood
| of their innocent fellow man; creatures
| who. to witness the outgushing of the
souls crimson dye, would traverse miles
and endure every hardship that might
originate to witness their hearts coveted
pantomime. The Patriot Democrat sensi
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be attributed as the cause of the killing,
for the victim was but q child. This, We
think, all will readily admit, and join US in
the assertion that the only cause that can
be ascribed to it is that Of satisfying and
gratifying bloodthirsty and brutal pas
sion. There are some men who, by Dature
| and temperament, are destined and re-
auired to resort to such diabolical crimes
to crafty their thirst for blood. When the
| feeling or spell comes upOn them and as
serts itself, the persons are no longer mas
ters Of their actions, and are led, as it
we're, by this craving desire for blood;
when the inward demon has been satisfied
by the sight Of human gore, he at once for
| sakes the party who has become his dupe.
and by degrees the misled culprit returns
| to his former state and feeling, and beholds
| in all it's horror and ghastliness the inalien-
able and lrreparable mischief that he has
done. Then remOree, with it's most agOniz-
ing and excruclating thrOes, asserts Itself.
and the misery that the miserable wretch
is required to endure is, beyond q doubt.
fearful and narrowing to contemplate.
| To render this case of willful and pre-
meditated murder all the more hideous
and revolving, the parties who are sus-
pectedlof having committed the deed are
| men of the Caucasian race. men of good
breeding and standing in the community,
men who are endowed with education and
sensibilities " hich should have taught the m
: to turn in shivering horror from the evil
him, and deed is done! Let US hope that
God in His just and allwise ruling will
bring the culprits to the condign punish
ment they SO Justly deserve.
The following account Of the dark and
bloody tragedy enacted in the parish OF
East Feliciana on the night OF the fourth
instant, is from the pen of the jackson,
Louisiana, correspondent of the Clinton
Patriot Democrat Of the eleventh:
Last night between seven and nine o'clock
occurred, on the road leading from Nj. NJ.
McQueen's to this place, one of the most
atrOcious murders that has ever occurred in
Louisiana. The particulars are as follows:
A negro boy, between the age of thirteen
| and fourteen years, was coming with grlst
OF corn to the mill upon the place of Mrs,
A. NJ C. Brian, when he was met about one
mile from the house Judging from tracks
and signs afterwsrd found) by two horse
woods. 1t appears he was allowed to re-
main on the horse he was riding until they
came to q shallow pond Immediately upon
the side of the road, and in an old field
which had grown up in pines and briars
Here the unknown parties cut the relnf
: from the bride Of the horse which he was
riding, and tying him behind one OF thell
horses, the poor boy was pulled through
the pond until life must have been
the two horses we're very plain. The horse
tie boy had been riding, 1t is evident, had
been turned loose when the reins we're cut
from the bride. 1t could be plainly seen
where one horseman turned in at the edg
| of the pond. No tracks or marks of any
kind, save those made by the horse could
be discovered. Where the other one turned
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