New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-27

August 81, With the accrued interest thereon. if
presented in or before JnFy.
SCHENECTADY, n Y, June 26,-The extensive
locomotive works were destroyed by fire TODAY,
The loss amounts to 100000, and 500 hands are
thrown out of employment.
AUGUSTA, NE, June 2s.-GoVernor Cony mani-=
tests desire to convene the legislature for the
ratification Of the constitutional amendment.
WASHINGTON, june 25.-The freedmen,s bureaa
bill passed the Senate to-day with an amendment
to the House bill which peremptorily confirmed
the negroes in the possession Of lands under sber-
mans orders. The Senate amendment is that the
negroes shall surrender all isandIands 10 their
owners, excepting those sold for taxes. The bill
is to continue in force for three years. It goes
back to the House.
Congress has passed the House bill amendatory
Of the organic act of Washington Territory. It
makes the sessions Of the territorial legislature
biennial instead Of annual, and increases the COM
pensation of the members from three to six dol
lars per day.
The President has approved the bill for the dis
posal of the public lands for homestead actual
settlement in the States Of Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Arkansas and Florida.
Nothing of interest transpired in the House to-
day.
New YoRK, June 26-Shippng per Moravian:
| Arrived from New Orleans, Mary ANA at Bor-
deaux BeIasairi and sanco at Barcelona; Sarah
and Golden Light at Liverpool.
SOUTHWEST Pass, June 26.-Arrived and an
chored, Danish bark Bay Ben Dixon, Christensen
master, from Havana the 9th of May and Cienfae-
gos the 10th inst with three hundred boxes sugar
from Havana, and four hundred and forty eight
bhds. from Cienfaegos; vessel and cargo to D. A
I Chaffaig. The vessels which arrived down this
morning were the bark Mahlon, ship Hsrmine and
brig Columbus The bark and brig have gone to
sea. The ship IS on the bar. Passed out, steam
ship I. G. Harris and Clinton.
Weather overcast. Light wind from the north.
Tide low.
V1cEsBURG, June 26.-Passed down, Fashion at
6 p Il, Rain falling slowly
new YoRK, June 28-Evening closed
firm at 38@39c. Flour declined 5@15c.; sales
1000 bbls.; State 50 160s9 so; Ohio SO 5O9$l3 75;
Southern SO l5@$l7 Wheat quotations nomi-
nal. Corn declined l02c.; sales 10000 bushels at
s9001c. Beef firm. Pork heavy; sales 10000
barrels at s3I6s32 Lard unchanged. Whisky
dull. Sugar firm; sales 1900 hhd-.; Muscovado at
: l2c., and Havana at uic. Coffee dun at lsc.
Naval stores dull. Freights steady.
Five-twe9ties closed at 1893; seventhirties at
| lUZ4, ana Soia p 1OoQgloo'
!. LOUISVILLE, June 26.-sales, 2l8 hhds. Leaf
Tobacco; market fully sustained in sympathy
with the advance in Gold. Mess Pork dull at *3s
Flour-superfne, S. plain..extra, 50 so; family
sll So Corn CSC. to Tic. Oats 48c. Bacon
shoulders &c.,. clear sides 2l4c. Lard, in tierces
22c.. Whisky 50 25. Groceries frmer.
CINCINNATI June 26.-Flour, grain and whisky
unchanged. Provisions frmer, but the demand il
). not large 100000 pounds Of bulk meat were oli
at I4D17c. for shoulders and sides. Groceries m
changed. Gold l54.
ST. LOUIS, June 26.-Flour firm; medium an
lower grades declined; 81 50 for superfne an
50 for single extra, Wheat and corn dull an
unchanged. Oats lower at 33@34c. POrkEbacO
and lard unchanged.
A man named Clark wass robbed of 5000
while going from St. Louis to Rockport, Atchiso
y county, on Saturday.
GFrom Yesterdays Evening Papersl
- New York, e.26.-Bishop Lynch, of Charlie
VI ton has been presented with $4,000 to assist
as rebuilding the Orphan Asylum, of that city, b
"a the committee Of the war prisoners association
nd WASHINGTON, June 26.--The President IS no
~ endeavoring to the release Of all Amerlct
70. citizens now held as Fenian prisoners in Canad
TO 1t believed the intereession will meet with
sts favorable response from the British governmeI
,si. The Democrats in Congress, with the excepti
40 of Senator Harris, of Maryland, indorse the CT
u0 of a Union convention at Philadelphia. The II
va toration of the Southern States is considered
lie them paramount to all other political ideas.
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