New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-02-27
Telegraphed to tbe New Orleans Crescent
BURNING OF THE PACIFIC HOTEL.
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u HOOAo' feD. zo,-Cnas. Il. Taylor alias Sanders
mas been arrested for setting fire to the Pacific Hotel
and numbering Ephraim Doane. one Of the inmates |
Dr. strader, the landlord and Charles wadruff the
Waterman oil the hotel, are also arrested. They will
be examined tomorrow, when IL is expected that one
OF the most diabolical acts ever committed will be
developed.
Washington News.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The defeat Of the Army
bill in the Senate is not considered as conclusive
against the increase Of the army. The Senate is
awaiting the measure from the House.
1t is not true that the House Committee on Terrific
res has agreed to report bill for the Territorial Gov
eminent Of Sierra Nevada. The Committee merely
decided to consider memorial therefor.
WAsHIEGToN Feb 26.-Surgeons Greene, R1sch-
enberger and Woliz are appointed to examine the
candidates for promotion and admission in the medi-
cal corps Of the u S. Navy. This Board will meet in
Philadelphia on the 18th of March.
During the past week there have been an unusu-
ally large number of petitions forwarded to the House
favoring homestead law. The memorials for the
passage Of a bankrupt act are multiplying
Horace Greeley and George Ashman are here as
witnesses before the tariff investigating committee
The President sent the House to-day voIuminous
documents in reference to the rebellion in Utah, in
Congressional Proceedings. n
House-The enquiry as TO whether executive in
uence had been used in controlling the votes of any
of the members, is postponed until Thursday.
Grow gave notice of BILL permitting the Govern
ment to be sued in the courts of the United States
The House went into Committee of the Whole on
the Kansas question.
The discussion interspersed with eolIoauial re-
l,rsr 4.
directing the withdrawal of the U. s. troops from
Kansas The committee rose.
The House passed the Indian Appropriation bill.
Also, bill appropriating s40s,0 900 to enable the
President to fuf the treaty spulations in regard to
the abolition Of the sound dues
House adjourned until Monday.
Louisiana Legislature.
BATON ROUGE, Feb 6.-Senate.-The Committee
on Lands and Levees reported favorably on a bill
appropratng $4,000 for the building of protection
levee in the rear of New Orleans.
The Judiciary Committee reported unfayorably on
the application of John Claiborne late State Printer.
| House.-Mr. Beggs presented an invitation from
the Fire Department OF New Orleans, inviting the
Legislature to attend their celebration on the 4th Of
March. Not accepted.
The Judiciary Committee reported unfayorably on
the bill closing Bayou Playquemines on the ground
that it was navigable stream and that as such, the
State had no right to close it.
The Kansas resolutions were taken up and dis
cussed by Mr.. Claiborne for and Mr.. Cook against
The act relative to the registry OF births and deaths
in New Orleans parish was ordered to be engrossed
for third reading. ~
Naval
New YORK, Feb. 26.-The revenue steamer Shub
rick, from Philadelphia for California was at Per
nambuco at last accounts. All well. Rfa
Canadian Parliament
TORONTO, Feb. 25.-The new Parliament met AM
elected Solicitor General Smith, Ministeriallsi
Speaker.
Domestic Markets.
New YoRK, Feb. 26.-Cotton buoyant; sales to
day, $500 bales. Flour dull. Wheat very dull Corr
66 to zoe. for white, aud SO to 6sAc. for yellow su
gars active, but lower qualities have slightly declined
Wheat better grades firm. Coffee, heavy at 81 I,
lie Molasses, 20 to 81; Porto Rico new crop, s3c
CINCINNATI, Feb. 26.- Flour, 50 rs to 90 90
Whisky lie. Lard, 9ac. Mess Pork, SIS Bull
Pork, 81 to 7ac Tor shoulders and sides Bacon, 6:
to s3c.
River Intelligence.
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 26.-The Mississippi and Missour
are rising. N.
- e,
feet in the canal.
VIcKsBURG, Feb. 26.-The Queen City passed dowr
at l, the Princess at and the Peter Tellon at P
WEATHER AT 0 A. NJ, Feb, 26-Nashvie, clear
SO; Memphis, hazy, southeast, Al; Tuscumba, north
east. SO, barometer 294O; Baltimore, (noon) west
40; New York, northwest SO; Philadelphia, north
west, &c. barometer 29s3 Louisville, clear, SO Port
land, west, clear 25 Eastport, clear 20 Calais, Me
10; Milwaukee, cloudy, 80 Fond du Lac, south, 20
Chicago, clear, 25 Detroit clear Is Buffalo, cleal
"a, northwest; Pittsburg clear, rs Cincinnati, 49,
OUTRAGEs UPON AMERICANS IN PERu.-The Ne,
York Herald, of the l4th, publishes letter whic
purports to come from Mr.. C. NJ. Jefferson, an Amer
can citizen, commanding the bark Teresa Terry. ]
contains allegations of the commission of outrage
which, if true, demand the prompt interference
our Government.
The story briefly that the writer went to CalIao
October 1885, in pursuit Of his ship, with which
alleges his crew had absconded from China that th
authorities and the United States Minister failed
render him the requisite assistance that he was a
tackled in the public streets by an armed mob, con
posed of his revolving crew and a number Of PERI
Wan soldiers thrown into prison at Calao castle will
out even having hearing as to the charges mad
against him, and that he has been imprisoned eve
since, and treated in the most cruel manner abou
fifteen months, despite his appeals to the America
Minister and the Peruvian Government for redress
We extract the following extraordinary statemer
from this letter:
have now, as my companions of captivity tw
, American mechanics, who were cruelty and publicl
whipped like negroes a plantation, hung or su
pended in the air by the thumbs, while the fagell
ton was going on-receiving one hundred lashes
the hands of the police OF Caao on the night Of Il
18th of November. Their bodies were nothing MOI
nor less than solid mass of matter when brougl
here but after the execution of Judge Lynch's se
tence, they We're then TAKEN their hands tied benin
their feet lashed together with whip cords the lii
passing from hands to feet another line or IA
thrown over one OF the beams Of the honse and II
end made fast to the center of the line Of ashinp
this way they were again suspended in the air ben
ing the body in an uneven position from that of
natural way, and left in this position until clots
e blood were raised from the stomach. They were on
r lowered at intervals to keep them from suHocatp
. and when life was nearly extinct from this tortui
they were put head first into the stocks and left
that position all night, except when any Of the bru
soldiers should please to amuse themselves by kic
!, ing them.
; Mr.. Miles, the United States Consul. took my d
e position on my nationality and was locked up al
had to pay ransom before be was allowed to NAL
u his exit by the woollyheaded sable corporal of Il
guards. Thus was OF the greatest nations on Il
earth nsulted by those vile wretches n the person
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