New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1857-04-20

OVERLAND MAIL TO SAN FRANCISCO
[BY THE sATIosAL IINEl
Election in Leavenworth.

OVERLAND MAIL TO SAN FRANCISCO.
IsY NATIONAL IINE.l
Election in Leavenworth.
ST. LOUIS, April lS.-Advices from Leavenworth
state that Henry j. Adams the Free State candi date
is elected Mayor of that city.
Mob Law in Iowa.
CHICAGO, April ls.-El Griffin, half breed, has
been hung by mob in Jackson county, Iowa, for
killing white man named John ingalls,.
On the same day mob entered the Jail at Belle
view and took prisoner accused of murder and coun-
terfetng from it and hung him. There is great
excitement in the neighborhood ~
Naval Movements.
CHARLESTON, MASS, April ls.-Orders have been
received from the Navy Department to change the
crew of the Merrimac to the Roanoke. The latter
is lying at Norfolk.
Washington Affairs.
WASHINGTON, April 1S.--The Postoffice Depart
ment invites proposals to be handed in up to the 1st
of June for the carrying the entire letter mail over
land from the Mississippi to San Francisco in four
horse coaches-the propositions to be for carrying it
either semimonthly weekly or semi-weekly
The Interior Department has nearly completed its
arrangements for the construction of wagon road to
the Pacific.
of the Treasury. '
Fire in Norfolk, Va.
NORFOLK, VA, April ls.-Skinner's extensive -four
mill was destroyed by fire last night. The loss
amounts to $4,000, and is only partly covered by
insurance. -'f'
BRANTz MAyER's LEcTuRE.-We trust that none of
friends who relish pure intellectual food will
forget that Brantz Mayer, Esq, is to deliver his
lecture for the benefit of the Library fund.- in Lyceum
Hall, on Wednesday evening next. As scholar, a
profound and philosophical thinker, and a keen OBJ
server of all that comes in his way Mr. Mayer is too
well known to the world through his writings to need
any introduction from us. -"
He has chosen for his lecture theme of great mag
nitude-one which will call into play all his extended
powers of observation and philosophical application
that of " Woman in the Nineteenth Century, The
reputation Of the lecturer the interest of his subject
and the worthy object of the lecture, alike commend
themselves to the public. We shall therefore be
greatly surprised if Lyceum Hall is not crowded
when the lecture takes place. )"
LOUISIANA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL FAIR.
The meeting called at the Carrollton Hotel Satur-
day night was nunerousy attended The meeting
was called to order by DR.. Plough, who nominated
Minor Kenner for President and T. S. Maddox for Sec
| retary.
| Mr.. Kenner explained the object of the meeting tc
be the establishment of fair, to be held annually, fol
the encouragement, development and exhibition o
the of the South in the mechanic arts aut
agriculture. He spoke on the subject with much en-
ergy and truthfuness, arguing that the mechanics
manufacturers and agrculturists of the South wou
be fully able to compete with those Of the North
they would but go brayely to work and keep at wor
in the right way.
The proet of the " Louisiana Mechanical and A gr
cultural Fair" was then read, and referred to a com
mittee of thirteen, with instructions to draft pla
of operation, to be submitted at subsequent meet
ing. On motion, Messrs. Coleman, Maddox, Brad,
and Pennen were appointed committee to aid th
President in making up his Committee of Thirteen
This committee being instructed to meet in New
Orleans, and to report at the next meeting of th'
present sembly-whch was fixed for the I'd May
at the Carrollton Hotel-tke President announced thu
stand as at the disposal of any one who might wisl
to address the meeting.
Col. J. NJ. c. Brady honored the announcement, an,
spoke upon the capabilities Of the South in respect
the manufacture of leather, tanning, etc-a busines
of which he had considerable practical knowledge
The Colonel was applauded heartily in the course
his speech, and when he concluded, the meeting ad
journed.