New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-03-21
News FROM varloas Quarters.
A HORRIBLE AFFAIR.

ing occasion to go out into the nelo iot Shors
time left the children in the mouse tose.tel
we're three of the children, aged respectively t"o'
four and six years. The money etc., was ieft IN
the house. In half an hour, however, they returned
ond were horror-stricken to hnd ali three OF the
children stretched upon the floor as If IN dying
conSitiou aud welteriRg in their blood !! Imme-
dately giving the alarm to their nearest neignpors
it spread until the people of the entire vicinity
were out in arms, on foot and on horseback,
securing the country in search Of the hell-desefV
inc author of the horrible crime.
The suppositlon is that the primary object OF
the fiend in human shape was robbery, but atter
taking the money and such other vauables as ne
wanted, he feared, perhaps. that the eiaesI ch,ia
might be witness against him. and therefore de-
liberately knockedthem all three in the mead Mi.
Hammel stopped at the house of mourning after
the occurrence. He says he found the chiloreh IN
a horribly mangled condition, ana tns at.endant
physician had given it as his OPINION tha1 neither
" $500 Madison dnd) Courier 9th.
MAJOR wYscooP's ExPEDITIoN-CoUNoILw WITH HOS
TILE INDIANS.
| LAWRENCE. KANSAS March 13.--It will be re-
collected that Major Wyncoop, few months since,
I was Entrusted with the important mission, by the
| Indian Bureau, of collecting the hostile bands OF
| the Cheyenne Indians and placing them upon the
reservations assigned them by the treaties OF oc-
tober last, held at the mouth of the Little Arkansas
river. The special correspondent OF the Kansas
| State Journal, under date of Camps Arrapahoe
and CHEYENNE Indians on Bluff Greek, south of the
Arkansas river, March 2, 1866. writes:
El am happy to inform You the eApeaitioh arrived
here on the 18th ut., bringing in twelve bands OF
dog soldiers, and that yesterday their chlefs and
headmen signed o paper setting forth that they
eheerfuy and without restraint lndorse the action
of the said council and agree TO nrmiy ana strlcty
abide by and strictly adhere to the letter and spirit
of the said treaty. Medicine, Arrow Big Head,
George Bent, Hairy Wolf. Bear Tongue and Red
| Iron all of whose names have become terror to
| emigrants since the Chiyington massacre. united
I;,,e tha nan n
| minor importance. The only remaining band is
that Of Little Rose. and presume our further eff
| forts will be directed towards him.
There were about four thousand Indians at the
council yesterday, eight hundred of whom were
warriors. Major Wynkoop made long, practical
speech to them. setting forth the advantages that
would accrue through resumption of friendly re-
lations. and warning them against continued acts
OF hostility promising that the government will
never again make like omissions, and if fight we
must, would make an unconditional and relentless
war. He was interpreted to by Uncle John Smith,
and responded to by Medicine, Arrow and Big
Head.
We procured from the dog soldiers young lady
captive named, Amanda Fletcher fifteen years Of
age. who was captured near Fort Halleck, on the
LIST of August last, while en- route for Idaho with
her parents. Her mother was badly wounded at
the time and may have died, but her father es-
capped. The family was from Minersvlle, Henry
county, Illinois. She had been subjected to all
the crueties and atrocities incident to captivity
health, and is delighted at her deliverance. She
will be taken back to Fort Larned, and will re-
main there in charge of the lady Of Major Dryer,
| until claimed by her relatives.
ATTEMPTED suIGrDE-suIcIDE IN JAIL-PEacH CROP
DESTROYED ETC., ETC.
Especial dispatch to the Missouri Democrat
| CHICAGO March 13.--Dr. A. R. W. Barton, a
practising physician of this city, last night was
| found on the ground near the Michigan Southern
cattle yards nearly lifeless, having attempted to
commit suicide by cutting himself with knife.
| He was kindly cared for, but can hardly recover
| He was partially deranged from the effects Of
| liquor.
| A young man from Aurora, confined in jail al
Geneys, on charge Of barn-burning, committed
suicide in q singular manner Removing the bed
ding from his iron bedstead, he managed to inser
/ his head between the cross bars of the bedstead
then rolling over, produced stranguiation or dslo
4 cation of the neck, and was found dead. He was
considered to be temporarily deranged. He ha(
previously tried to strangle himself with his sus
pender, but was found in time to release him. HI
was blacksmith by trade, and had been EN-
ployed at the Chicago,g Burlington and Quincy
Company works at Aurora.
4 At st. Joseph, Michigan, the peach crop is de
stroyed. The mercury on the 18th of February
was sixteen degrees below zero.
Il it is estimated that the buildings now under
contract to be erected in St. Paul the coming sea
son will amount to over six hundred Thousand dol
lars. Excavations have already been commenced
4 for several fine buildings.
4 COL McLaren, formerly commander at Fort Smell
ling, has been appointed to treat with the Indians
| for peace and will depart for Fort Laramie in a
4 few days.
A large number Of merchants left St. Paul this
morning for the East to purchase their spring
1 stock. a@
About three inches of snow fell On Saturday and
/ yesterday.
/ Three new steamboats,, all intended for the St.
4 Croix trade, are nearly completed at Osceoa.
| Two of them are to form new daily passenger
line hnEwnen Taylor's Falls and Prescott.
/ The people of Redwng are excited over dis
coyery of oil found while digging for water.
/ The holders of second mortgage bonds issued by
| the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company
have commenced proceedings in the United States
Circuit Court for foreclosure The case will come
| up at the May term in Des Moines, and the result
will doubtless be the appointment of receiver to
| wind up the concern.
/ The Northwestern Telegraph Line is now com.
pleted and working through to Houghton, on Lake
| Superior.
| Des Moines is shipping printing paper TO Chicago.
| Tho tables have but recently turned.
| The Young Mems Christian Association of Chi
| cago has issued lengthy circular on the subject
| of cholera and its prevention.
| NEW JERSEY.
| TRENTON, N. j., Tuesday, March l3-Mr. Scovel
offered the following concurrent resolution in the
Senate yesterday, which was passed by a unani-
| nous vote
Where's, The cost of the necessaries of life, of
food, clothing and rents, have increased double,
and in many cases triple since the war of the re-
belon began; and, whereas, the pay of officers of
the navy has been otherwise reduced by taxation,
by act of Congress and by Executive orders, and
knowing that the salaries of naval officers are by
no means adequate to expenses which their posi-
ton in society at home and abroad require; since
the officers of the navy have no political represen-
tation in the country or in the government, and
since the nation well afford to place this deser
wing class of the countrys defenders whose record
is one of heroic selfsacrifee and patriotic devo-
ton, above want or embarrassment; therefore,
. Resolped That the Congress of the United States
be requested by us, as they have been requested
by the legislatures Of other States to increase the
salaries of naval officers to point adequate to the
increased expenses of the times, as suggested by
their memorial now before Congress.
Resoloed That copy of this preamble and res
tiyes in Congress, with the request that they will
bring the just claims of the navy before Congress
as speedily as possible.
MASSACHUSETTS.
BosroN, March I2.-The six individuals of Mel
rose, who were fined three hundred dollars each,
by Judge Vose, for tarring, feathering and riding
on rail, preson who rejoiced over President
Lineoln's death last April, were pardoned by the
executive council this afternoon and had their
fines remitted.
One night last week a fearful land slide took
place at Pittsburg. Rocks which were estimated
to weigh about G000 tons, covered the Councils
vile railroad track for distance of one hundred
feet, and fell upon portion of the rolling mill OF
Messrs Eyerson, Preston & Co. The rocks fell upon