New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-05-28
MONDAY MORNING, MAY %, 1866.---TRTPLE SHEET.

stores eight hotels, forty dwellings, church, and
a seminary. The loss amounts to Sl0000O0.
WASHINGTON, May 25.--The State Department
has received information that the Brazilian Gov
ernment resolved to open the coastwise trade to
the ships of all nations.
FORTRESS MONROE, May 27.--Messrs. o'Connor
and Shea are stopping at the Hygenia Hotel Ihey
have been in consultation with Mr.. Davis during
the day.
LOUISVILLE, May 27.--A Cincinnati special to
the Democrat says terrible fire on the east SIDE
of Pittsburg was raging last night. Seven hotels
sixty dwellings, and seventy-fve stores were IN
ashes At halfpast eight O'Clock the fire was snii
raging. The loss will be immense.
Sr. PAUL, MINI, May 27.-The Cosmopolitan
hotel, Allen & Champlain's drug store, and eight
small buildings, were burned to-day. Loss $4,000;
partly insured.
LOUISVILLE May27.-A large number Of Fenians
are reported to have gone north this evening.
SOUTHWEST PASS, May 27.-The steamers Con-
corda and Alabama went to sea at this A, II.
The steamships Harlan and Star of the Union
went to sea at 4 this A. NJ.
The ships Ida and Flying Eagle went to sea this
forenoon.
Arrived, brig Maria Wheeler, Wheeler, master,
forty days from Boston, with cargo of ice con-
signed to j. L. Warner. Spoke, Off Tortugas,
George Revenger, bound from Mobile to Barba
does, signalized sixty miles off Tortugas schooner
Anna E. Glover.
The steamship Monterey, for New York, has
stuck on the bar at Pass Loutre and is not yet off
Nothing new in sight. Weather fine. Wind
sSW. Tide very low.
Late News.
We have received, through the kindness Of the
mail agent Of the Jackson and Great Northern
Railroad. several late Western papers, from which
we extract the following:
| New YORK, May A-The evidence taken before
the coroner shows that Mr.. Brdsall, who committed
suicide yesterday, was embarrassed in his pecu-
mary affairs.
This morning lady named Rudder, whose hus-
| band is said to be clergyman, now out Of the
| city, while in a deranged state of mind, jumped
| from the balcony OF her residence, No. West
10th street, and was so badly injured that she
died.
| Yesterday Judge Russell had before him Henry
| e. Moring, on an indictment charging him with
making sale of 5000 bags of Java coffee, with
out paying a State tax thereon, in accordance
with the provisions of chapter SAT, Of session
laws, passed by the last legislature OF New York
I The defendant filed a demurrer, and after argu
ment the judge decided in favor of the defendant
The district attorney gave notice he would carry
the case to the court of appeals.
Postmaster General Dennison, in the concluding
portion of his speech at the serenade in Washing
ton last night said the theory of the executive pro
gramme for the restoration of the Southern States
looked to an early admission Of the loyal Senators
and Representatives while the Congressional pro
gramme looks to delay, conditional upon the adop
tion of certain Constitutional amendments. He
thought that unless this difference was adjusted, i
would lead to important results to the whole coun
try Still he did not think these difficulties irrecon
| ciable. Indeed, Congress and the President Wert
nearer together now than they were atthe meeting
of Congress.
Secretary Harlan did not speak. He sent
letter in which he referred to his position in til
past as shown in his public speeches and course
and said he could not change that position Withou
i betrayng the confidence reposed in him. HI
opinions being therefore so fully known he did nc
deem it worth while to reiterate them.
Attorney General Speed also sent letter sayin
e he did not have time to prepare fitting addres
i Washington specials to the evening papers So
= | that Mrs. JEFF. Davis arrived there this mornin
seeking an interview with the President respectir
her husband.
). Foreign dispatches received at the State Depal
ment are unfayorable for the preservation of Il
peace of Europe. A war is regarded as imminen
and the mercantile and financial classes a.
Strengthening themselves for the strain upon the
IS resources
/. The report of foreign gold causes no uneasine
here.
J. The condition Of our foreign trade is remarke
y as sound, and the Treasury Department will col
unue 10 sell SOlu lTeSy 10 sustain d
q drain of specie that may soon turn IN our favor
The boskkeeper of the Irving Bank of this Gil
has been discovered forcing balances to the amouI
of SIS 600, and arrested and imprisoned. Near
e half of this sum has been recovered and the r.
v mainder secured to the bank.
During the past two months twenty-five dealt
from starvation, twenty-seVen from drunkenness
y and two suicides have'ocourred in New York.
At the cholera hospital ship two more patien
n were received to-day; one died; torty-tour n
. naming.
A communication in the Times conHadicts th
ia statement of the Tribune that the protested not'
IN of Southern railroad purchasers amounted
$40 600. Only about $50 0G0, GOO worth of raj
road stock was sold, one-third of which was c
e monthly credits, which have been duly honored.
o. --s- s-t~--
We notice in our exchanges that exGener
70 Neal Dow, whose feats of legerdemain in consca
in ing Southern property were surpassed by But
of alone, has taken passage for England with the
ID tenton Of urging upon John Bull the important
a of Maine lquor law. A celebrated comedia
p. by simple remark, prevented the first Napole
II from displaying himself in magnificent chari
n. under the triumphal arch which had been erect
of at the gates of Paris, in horror of his victorit
The car was decorated with all the pomp a
re heraldry imaginable, and throngs of people we
n constantly contemplating its proportions. I
actor, after gazing att for little willie, excaime
al in stage whisper; tie char lahendn Let
say of Neal Dow-the cldTIutan.
IS, BoMBARDuENT OF CALLAo.--rhe u S. men,
~ war Vanderbilt and Monadnocz, at Panama. bri
the intelligence that the Spanish Admiral Nun
~ was badly wounded in the attack on Cslao.
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The weather editor Of the Mobile Register /
on no turn for poetry he mentions a series
ss delightful showers as having watered the earth
he Friday, and a cool, refreshing breeze as hav
ne dispersed what clouds were left after the raj
and, strange to say, he quotes neither from CHI
", Ger nor from Thomson.
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nv EVERYDAY LIFE m GHl0AGo.-One hundred
M fifty individuals were arrested on the 2lst ipst
he Chicago for being drunk and dsorderly. A rue
n. ing was held on the same day to see what co
ant be done for the young men of that city.
W u, The poet, Alexa nder Smith, speaking of R
ert Burns, says Tam O'Shanter u was written
= one day-" the best davis work done in Scotia