New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-09
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Italy. .....
No solution of the German difficulty is apparent.
1t is reported Austria would dfsarm il the Brit
ish and French would guarantee the neutrality Of
Italy.
It is reported decree has been issued placing
the Italian army on war footing.
Great military preparations are making ia
Vienna.
1t Is stated the British ministry will not resign
in consequence Of the small majority on the re-
form question.
sr. LOUIS, May 8.-Cottou frmer at 81 to 32c.
Flour firm at full prices Wheat firm at full prices.
Prime fall, advanced; sales at SO 35 to 80 50.
Corn declined &c. sales at 65 to 7Ie Oats easier
at AZ to 45c. Mess pork unchanged Bacon
Clear sides, 1sc. shoulders 13c. Lard Il to 2Ze-
Whisky steady at % IS.
CINCINNATI, May a.-Flour 25c. higher and IN.
settled. Wheat held at SC. higher and unsettled.
Corn, 50 to zoe. Oats, AZ to 46c. Whisky, 50 20.
Mess pork, $50. Lard, 22c. and dull. Bulk meats
in good demand at liz to 14ic.
XNEw YORK. May 8.-Cotton closed quiet and un.
changed at 34@35c. Flour advanced 3Oc. Coffee
dull. Sugar dull at 104@13c. MoIasses dull;
Porto Rico Csc. Mess pork $50. Sterling ex-
change 1885. Gold 129. Freights to Liverpool
dull. Stocks dull.
John J. Davis, Grand Master Of Odd Fellows,
died at Brooklyn to-day.
LOUISVILLE, May s.--sales, I4s hhds of leaf to-
bacco at full rates, including few hhds Of Vir-
gfnia at $50, and 100 hhds. Of common at s5I.
Flour-superfne s8; extra family, So. Corn 63e.
Oats 47c. Mess pork $50. Bacon-shoulders,
134c,; clear sides, 1896. Middling cotton 304c.
Whisky 81 %.
vTCKsBURG, May s.-Passed down on 5th, w. n
Osborn, at a. ". Passed up, Virginia, at 4. ".
Passed down on 9Th, White Cloud, at ! P. NJ.
Passed up on 8th Ida Handy at and Henry Ames
at A. NJ. and Melnotte at p ". River rising
and heavy rains.
From Yesterdays Evening Papsrs.1
WASHINGTON, May 8.--The total government
officers deposits in the Merchants, National Bank
of Washington amounted to $6S7 600. Informa-
ton from Baltimore indicates that little or nothing
wilt be recovered from Bayne & Co. Quite rush
is made BY depositors in the banks. A large
amodnt of deposits has been removed to-day.
Cook & Co. and Maury s Co. announce they viii
resume tomorrow.
There were s24 100000 at the various deposito-
ries May lst, for which Gen. Spinner holds govern
ment securities amounting to S36 600, 600.
The inspector general of the Virginia freedmen's
bureau makes comparatively favorable report;
the schools are well attended prejudice against
the freedmen is slowly but steadily diminishing !;
the sanitary condition of the freedmen is so far
improved throughout the State that all the bureau
hospitals have been abolished; the demand for
labor greatly exceeds the supply.
DR.. Gayra, of New York, at the head of COM
mittee appointed by the recent Baltimore conEen-
ton, had conference with the Senate committee,
whereupon the committee unanimously instructed
their chairman to report joint resolution to the
effect that the secretaries of war, navy and trea-
| sury cause efficient and uniform system of
| quarantine against the introduction OF cholera.
New YoRK, May 8.-Fhe Herald's Washington
special says the President has signed the bill incor
/ porating an international telegraph company be-
tween the United States and Cuba.
Dispatches from North Carolina report further
acts Of malfeasance by agents Of the freedmen's
bureau-Colonel Whittlesey, commissioner for the
State, and several suberdinates, aided by some
Massachusetts, philanthropists. It is alleged they
have been running plantations on their own ac-
count, and working delinquent or disoFderly dar-
kies on them for punishment Several arrests,
have been made and more are expected. yss