New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-07-13
Department News.

we extract the following official intelligence
INDIAN AFFAIRS IN UTAH.-The Indian Office have
received intelligence from the Indian agencies of
Utah of date May 80. The Utahs to the number of
400 had assembled at Spanish Fork Reservation,
where Superintendent Forney has an Indian farm,
conducted on the principle Of no work no Bread"
which has been decided success. The Uina portion
OF the Utahs have recently come to this reservation.
They spurn work. and threaten to punish the ndusri
Gus Indians, and also to rayage the farm property.
A considerable number OF renegade Indians from
Oregon-Binnocks and Shosho nees, as well as some
Utah Sho.sho nees-are reported to be banding
together north of Bear river to make descent upon
the Northern settlements of Box Elder county. Super
ntendent Forney proposed to visit Spanish Fork and
the Box elder country Immediately, and make such
arrangements as may lie necessary
ISSUE OF STAMPS AND ESvELoPES-The Postotfice
Department has issued for the quarter ending June
80, 1859, postage stamps and stamped envelopes, as
follows
o2s o &c m Tsfss r cen Twelve
Total a N ouht. ST $50 as2 ''''
Noe size Lete+ Ten ssnt. Official szs
Total amount. Sss8S7aD9
INCREASE IN THE SALE OF POSTAGE STAMrs-The
accounts of the Post Office Department show that
the amount OF stamps issued during the years
Il ~ WAS isaSis5 Us Us ss .es g SS
Showing au incr' during 1s5eof l54po 5 s3i8l4 65
THE MOUNTAIN MEADOWS CHILDREN-The Com
missioner Of Indian Affairs has been Informed that
the children saved from the Observation-Disclosures mas
sacre have been kept from their journey by the bad
roads, hut would start for the East early in June.
Indian Superintendent Forney has received nforma-
ton that two more of the children, one II and the
other years of age, are at Cedar City. A reliable
gentleman aud detachment of United States troops
have been sent to Cedar City to search for them.
| AUSTRIAN DIscIpLINE.-A letter writer tells tie
| following story:
During the passage of detachment of prisoners at
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excitement in the town. The entire detachment was
composed of private soldiers, the highest in rank
| among lthem being corporal. One OF these men,
being lett to follow the bent of his own nciinatons,
INDUCED copiously in the generous grape Juice of
Provence, and wound up By getting gloriously drunk.
| Whilst in this condition he commenced qnarreing
with his companions in captivity, and came to
| blows. He was, however, very quickly overcome by
them, and tied hand and foot His outraged com
rades in accordance with their national habits even
as prisoners in foreign land, gravely held council
of war; proved the cupabity Of the delinquent, and
unanimously condemned him to undergo the punish
ishment OF the bastinado. The sentence was to he
| forthwith carried into effect. One of the judges
seized upon drum and beat the usual roll in due
| form !; the cuprlt was conducted into shed to re-
ceive the twenty stripes and in spite of tine renon
strances OF several lockers on, who had imagined the
previous proceedings mere joke, arrangements were
| rapidly made for executing the decree of the cour,
martial The whole affair occurred in the presence o
the French sergeant and four soldiers who had the
prisoners in charge but they, too, ignorant of the
Austrian system of discipline doubtless supposed the
prisoners to be merely amusing themselves at the
pense of their number without really intending him
| any harm. 1t was not until half dozen blows had
been vigorously applied to the mans bare shoulders
| that the French escort became convinced that the
joke was very serious one certainly to the culprt
and put stop to the proceeding.
HOMICIDE IN ALABAMA.-The Clark County Demo
crat, of the 7th inst, says:
We are panied to learn that on last Thursday, MI
S. 7. Cobb was killed by Mr.. Thomas Boroughs, botl
| residing some twelve or fifteen miles NORTH east o.
this place. They were both gentlemen of high re
specabilty, and the dreadful occurrence has cast
gloom over numerous relatives and friends of each
We are ignorant of the circumstances connected with
| the unfortunate affair The weapon used was, We
learn, a repeater or revolver.
MINING UP BABlEs.-The Weaverville (CalO Jour
nal gives the following account of an affair which
however it may move the laughter of our readers, we
f'ncy to have made some of the parties concerned
laugh on the wrong side of their mouths: -
Some time ago there was dancing party eiver
cup north y most OF the ladies present had llttle
babes whose noisy pelversity required too muct
attention to permit the mothers to enjoy the dance
number of gallant young men volunteered TO watct
the young ones while the parents INDUCED in {
I" break down. No sooner had the women left the
babies i'll charge OF the mschievous devils than they
stripped the infants changed other clothes, givins
to one the apparel OF another. The dance over, 1t
tlfle 10 20 NOtHe, anu ulnetS Lpok eaCn II DiDp
III the dress of her own, and started, some to the
homes, ten or fifteen miles off and were far thc
way before daylight. But the day following there
was prodigious row in that settlement mothers
discovered that single day had changed the sex o
their babes; observation disclosed startling physo
logical phenomena, and then commenced some OF tht
talest female pedestrianism living miles apart, i
required two days to unmiX the babies, and man.
months to restore the women to their naturally swee
dispositions. To this day it is unsafe for any of h
baby mixers to venture within the territory.
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A QUEER CAr-Some ten days ago cat in Cap
Elizabeth had litter of four Kittens one of which i
minus tail, and instead Of fore paws, these limb
resemble the hands Of little child, which arc sght
covered with hair. 1t also walks backwards.
} .. [iiat. Clipper.
At the last term of the Common Pleas Court
, Charley Burr was before the Grand Jury to prov
that somebody sold liquor. He did not like tn
questions pnf to him by Esquire Baker a grand jnrn
from Fairfield township, aud refused to answer
Blker pressed his questions and was bound to get q
. answer. Charley was inexprable. Baker threatent
tn put him in Jail "a a nlaRns of eXtortiug the 4,
sired information from the rebellious Witness whe
Charley said: See here, my friend there is on
thing You might as well understand at first as last
, don't scare lc0,th Cd d-m.
SurcIDE-We learn that Mr.. Green Duckwort
committed suicide last Wednesday, on .he plantAto
of MIR. Mark W. Harwell, six miles below Opelousa
, by cutting his throat with knife. Cause, nent;
alienation. LOpelonsas Patriot, oh inst.
: begear importuned lady for aims; she CAV
him shilling. - God bless yplr adysfip! said h
3 "lhs wl prevent ne rom executing my resolution
The laay, alarmed, and thinking he nrdtacd -,
3 eide, asked whab he m 'aHt. =" Alas mlit y sA
] he, "blt for This shilling should be Obliged t., {