New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-08-14

Gen. Colston has taken the principalship of
Hillsboro' IN. O. Military Academy.
The brieklayers out West are on a strike for five
and half dollars per day.
The Jupiter Inlet lighthouse, on the coast of
Florida, has been Fe-established.
The us. steamer Suwanee arrived at San Fran
cisco, from Callao, on the lst of July.
DR.. Jas. Kelly, well-known physician in New
York committed suicide on THURSDAY.
The Chinese in California strongly favor the
projected steamship line to China.
Vicksburg is fast regafning its old prosperity
and bids fair to outgrow her former proportions.
A weekly paper, in the interest Of the freed
men, is to be started in st. Louis on the 1st of
September.
The deaths of gentleman and his wife by
Asiatic cholera are reported from Troy, New
Hog thieves out West hush the squalling of
their victims by administering chloroform to
| them,
| A United States cavalryman has been tarred
| and feathered by his comrades in Texas for at
| tempting miscegenation.
| Governor Patton, Of Alabama, has ordered the
distribution OF twelve hundred bushels of corn
amongst the starving families of PGkens county.
| The Democratic convention Of Minnesota, and
conservative Union convention of Wisconsin,
have elected delegates to the Philadelphia Con.
| ventfan,
| It is said that letter from the chief of Maxi
milian's cabinet has been captured, in which San
ia Annals visit TO the United States is termed 8
| great political event.
John Quincy Adams, son of Charles Franci!
Adams, the minister to England heads a call tc
Quincy, Massachusetts,, in favor OF the Phila
delphia convention.
Cen Delafied has been relieved from duty al
inspector of the Military Academy at West Point
Gen. Edward SehriVer, United States inspector
general, has been assigned to the position.
The war department has issued orders for tht
enlistment Immediately of 1000 mounted Indial
scouts These scouts are to be distributed-60t
in Gen, Shermans department, and zoo each II
Gen. Halleck's and Gen. Sheridan's
The landing of party of roughs the Unitet
States, near Port Colborne, O. W., on the 2St
ult., for the purpose of having prize fight, crea
ted great panic at Port Dalhousie, the Canadian
authorities fearing that it was another Fenia
invasion.
One of the monster farms of modern times
that of Gen, Urquiza, of Buenos Ayres 1t
composed of an unbroken body of niue hundre
square miles, over which countless thousands
horses, cattle and sheep are grazing.
: little coored boy was accidentally killed
Houston, Texas, lately, when it was discoVere
the place coptained no coroner, the one electe
being forbidden to exercise his functions. III
freedmens bureau added another character
their roll and did the coroner.
An order Just issued from the state departmel
provides that in every case in which a eOmmi
stoned officer actually entered on duty, but
reason of being killed, captured, or other cans
beyOnd his control, and withoAt fault or negle
AZ of his own, was not mustered within thirty day
. the pay department shall allow to such officer,
p! his heirs, tni pay and enOluilenIS IEoIn Lne ud
on which the officer actually entered on said dut
lie less the amount actually paid.
m Austin FL. Brown has been appointed revenl
collector for the fifth district of Indiana, vice
'e Wright, radical, removed.
ne Chester d. Hubbard, Representative from We
Virginia, has returned his extra salary to t
10 conscience fund.- of the treasury.
o The commissary general has decided that col
u mutation of rations for soldiers while confined
a. Southern prisons, shall be allowed only to the
and not to their heirs,
n The acting controller of currency issued duri
- the past week currency to the amount of Slt
VI TOO making the total amount issued to date s2S
S94 545.
ed Hon. L, G. Mason has been named as the G
,e ddate for Congress from the second distr1
Michigan.
The assistant commissioner Of freedmens
I'd fairs in Tennessee states that there is laTt
on amount of land under cultivation this year IL
~ before the war and that there will be large c
WV ton crop. Great harmony exists between
III freedmen and their employers,
The commissioner of patents has issued our
mr. the past week 260 new patents.
- The Prussian foundry at Essen at the pres
'0, moment is preparing a grand cannon loT
at French exhibition of 1867. 1t will carry sho'
about 1850 pounds.
maps of the theater of war, by one house atc
reached more than ten thousand in torty-el
hours.
ment by young man respectfully connecte
TS Boston, and doing business in a Southern city,
recently been discovered.
Asa Packer, Esq, lately gave $500,000 to 70
an Episcopal college at Bethlehem, Pa, but !
ees to have it called after himself. He sugg
~, "Lehigh university
ID The rank of General of the Army" justly
ferred upon Garibaldi is equivalent to that
marshal of France, or of ield-marshal IN
land.
WIS Petroleum has been discovered in Natchito
parish.
To prevent fish from smelling in summer
their noses off. This will do as well in winter
The Petersburg papers tell of plant OF tobi
the stock of which was four feet high, and
ours leaves ten inches and half broad in the cent
The A young girl of fourteen years has been til
ted death in indianapolis by her mother
as tn A Richmond chap was recently horseWhi
50 with cowhide by the sister Of young girl '
anu he had seducee.
lrge The Paris Moniteur announces that chaI
[ollie to be erected to the memory of the thousan
at persons buried in the hecatombs in that city
A little ste8'm vessel, with o capacity o
twelve tons, called the MoligDe, has acoO'nE
trip froUr Bristol to Perpsmhuco, III SAT
p N. forty-tA.ee days.