New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-28

we nave no doubt that soOnerrr later we shall |
be favored with q similar modification Of the fol
lowing story derived from the same source:
A company of young men who left Atlanta on
a snakesAilling expdiuon some days ago, have
returned having killed nine thousand one hundred
and seVentynine reptiles, principally copperheads
They intend going out again in a few days.
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The purser Of the W. G. Hewes will accent our
thanks for file Of our papers from Indianoa and
Galveston.
The Southern Express Company has favored u
with Cincinnati papers Of the 23d, Memphis Of the
10th, and Jackson papers Of yesterday.
We are indebted to Mr.. Geo. A. Williams, clerk
Of the Henry Ames, for St. Louis and Cairo
papers.
TIE INvIHCIELEs.-Thi is the title of new
piece presented last night at the Olympic to a very
full house, notwithstanding unfavorablc weather.
The play is well adapted to the season, light and
humorous, and abounding in agreeable spectacles
1t is decidedly military, and one of the most at
tractVe features in it is the appearance of num-
ber of the gentler sex, Mrs. Watkins herself
among them, in the harness Of war. They play
soldier very well, and the occasional singing with
which their martial spirits are enligened is a
delightful feature of the entertainment, The In
and we predict for it successful career.
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Howard Lodge No l3, I. 0. O. F., meets this
evening at room No. 5, Odd Fellows Hall at u
O'clock for the election of officers for the ensuing
term.
GRANGE OF TnrE.-The hour of departure of
the U. S. mail Morgan line of steamers, for
Mobile, commencing on Saturday, 3Oth instant,
will ba 10 g A. 10
ehartrain railroad until further notice. After this
date these steamers will stop at Bay st. Louis,
Pass Christian and Mississippi City.
The Mary will leave the lake end on Satur.
day, 3Oth the arrival of the Il NJ train, and the
Louise will leave Mobile for New Orleans Sunday
at l23 N, stopping at above places on the evening
of that day.
SINGULAR SUICIDE. : woman in Syracuse
New York, on Tuesday, committed suicide by
poison, leaving behind her this letter:
TUESDAY, PM
Dear Husband: will write few words in re-
gard to what am about to do. take poison be-
cause am tired Of living. Tell the puuic it is not
caused by lll-treatment for you have always been
very kind to me. l attempted the same thing
several years before l was married, but was dis.
covered and saved, and l have ALWAYS blamed
them for rot letting me die then It is useless for
Coroner Ddama to make any examination for this
Will prove that killed myself with my eyes open
and in the full enjoyment of my senses, and will
also prove what have always said that I am not
afraid to die. want you to send my mother all
my clothes, and remember IT'S my dying request
that you shall always help her as long as Won have
anything left to diVide-giYe her what you would
have given me had I lived. | should have done
tins long since, but for her-it has been nv con.
stant study for the past year Do not mourn for
ne, love you both, and do not wish to make YOU
trouble, but am so tired of life cannot be happy
myself nor make others around me- | shall
take tlttV rHOts' worth pf T1orDliua Il
MRS MARY MUSELEY
P. S.-Keep me two or three nights certain,
Spread my blue vail over my face, not a sheet Ii
is twenty minutes to six, and took it five minutes
mother.
LateT-T am not sorry nor frightened the least,
though know / am dying. Do what you think
best with my rings and triukets Remember |
always loved you. Love to friends.
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An exchange, referring to the trial of Major
Gee for alleged 2nhumanity to federal prisoners
in Salisbury prison, North Carolina says the evi-
denee has clearly established the following points
l. That every officer connected with that post
and prison made every possible effort to supply the
prisoners.
.. That they we're supplied to the full extent of
the ability Of the country and the government.
). That at no time, in no way was there ever
made any difference as to the quantity and quality
of supplies furnished them ald the Confederate
4. That their sutletings were caused by the fail
ure Of their government to furnish them with pro
per supplies, by its refusal to exchange them.
An old man committed suicide at Paterson, N.
J., on his first wife's grave because he didn't like
his second. A letter was found in his pocket con
tanning feeling alIusion to his recent troubles,
and concluding with touching request to be
buried in the same grave with his dead wife,
The children Of Major Thos. T, Hawkins, late of
Gen. Breckinridge's staff, were poisoned the other
day through mistake in the administration of
morphia for caomel. One of them, a boy four
years old, died.
The gold fever is creating some excitement in
Georgia. letter from Dalton says, one company
took out enough, on Saturday, to make over ten
thousand dollars. The mines in Forsyth and Car
rol counties are being worked vigorously.
DR.. Griggs, of Detroit, who WAS recently arres-
ted on the charge of smuggling, has just had his
trial in Cleveland. The jury were absent from
the room but fifteen minutes and returned with
verdict of acquittal
Madame Julie de Marguerites, well known at the
North as lively, agreeable and gossipy operate
and dramatic critic in the columns of the Home
Journal and other papers, died in Philadelphia on
the Dist instant
CLOTHING AND FURNISHING GooDs. = Messrs.
Garthwaite, Lewis & Stuart, Nos. 81 and 33 Camp
street, are still selling their splendid stock of goods
in the above line, at the same low prices Their
goods cannot be excelled by any in the market for
fit, cut or make, and we would advise our readers
to give them a call.
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Why be in bad temper about servants? Why
oe troubled by them? Get md of them. Do as a
hundred families are doing now, so to 1O6 Camp
street and buy Gray's Petroleum Stove. It not
only saves time and money, but it saves your
temper.
BAAs AND sHOULDERs.-D. E. Morphy, auc.
tieneer calls the attentinn of dnalera IN his