New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-01-17
gm Orleans 1aiu Grtsa, aysdutsaa onn ganuasy H. 1866

specie from the negroes, on one pretext or
another, and appropriated it to his own purpose
{. The whole number of ratons issued in Texas to
j INDECENT negroes and refugees, for the whole
month of December is said to have been 1876, cost
) ing $79 10. .-.- ...
J The demand for Cotton in Galveston had been
/ active, prices irregular. The market closed firm
with small supply. Quotations in SPECIE ordinary
2S@25c.; good ordinary 26@27ac.; low middling
! 29c; middling sic. Gold 1873 silver 1856. @
} Freights to Liverpool ad.t0sd.; New York lie.
I by SAIL and l4c. by steam; Boston lac. by sail ;
, New Orleans 81 by steam. Sight exchange on
: New Orleans par to per cent. discount; on New
: York par to Il per cent. discount. e
y The Civilian urges the finishing of the railway
J connection between Galveston and Kansas: and
also of the Pacific Railroad, known as the South
} ern route. 4.
The Telegraph, we should have noticed comes
to us enlarged and improved.
One of the lately appointed agents of the
Freedmen's Bureau in one of the county towns,
was brought to this city yesterday under arrest,
for approving contracts, which is in violation of
! orders from the Bureau. He will have to explain
his conduct.-[G Galveston News.
The. freedmen continue to flock into the city
from the country, and every train has crowds Of
them aboard. The majority of them seem to
!. have plenty of money, and of course theyRfnd
, plenty of friends as long as it holds out.-[fb.
There was shipped the past week from this city
2 $40 bales of cotton.
Thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty-two
bales of cotton were hand up to the 9Th instant
There was shipped the past week 100 bags of
wool. Stock on hand up to January 6, 34l bags
Number of hides shipped the past week, $780,
s,5sd. n0'' u AiA'' 'A l'DD up 10 'uS 0'A instant
We have obtained these figures from reliable
|
: We learn from the News that the first ceebra-
ton of the emancipation act was held by the
freedmen of Galveston on New Years day
i One of the sable orators was of opinion g that
the Southern people were the most dishonest race
in the world.n He was followed by another, who
conscientously believed ''that the Northern peo-
pie were the most honest people in existence
i The speaker then went into theology and at
tempted to interpret the prophecy of Daniel, but
he got into the fog and SO did his audience, oonse
quently he dropped the subject, and went back to
talk about the war and said that all the purpose
/ it was made for was to force lying nation to
speak the truth; and if General Magruder should
come here, and he could not get iron cannons to
fight him with he would make wooden one.
1 This sanguinary minded individual no doubt re-
| membered the formidable wooden guns with
which Magruder defended the Peninsula SO long,
weapons.
General Gregory, of the Freedmen's Bureau,
4 also spoke, and, amongst other remarks equally
striking and appropriate said that "to keep
saloon was too low business for freedmen, and
\ that they should aspire higher"
Two men had dispute in Galveston, the other
day, which ended in fight, and one of them had
| his nose bitten off. - 4.
bn who mint af ntt hu FIN
| late fire at Liberty was 324 bales. We regret to
| see, among the losers, the names of Messrs. F.
Hitchcock & Co., 40 bales and Ranger 4 Co., %
| bales The heaviest loser was ]. W. Grace l44
bales The warehouse belonging to Col, Wrigey,
was valued at $6000-[ Galveston Civilian.
| The District Court, Judge Colwell presiding, met
| on Saturday. r..
1t was reported to the Court that three of the
Grand Jurors had not registered their names as
voters, consequently they were not qualified to sit
as jurors. 1t was ruled by the Court that they be
permitted to take the amnesty oath and register,
in accordance with the proclamation of the Pres
| ident. After this was done, they were placed
| upon the jury again.
Foreign Items.
| There has been thaw in the ice at Cronstadt;
but in the south of Russia the cold is intense. At
| Odessa man was lately frozen to death in the
1 streets. -
| Mr.. G.. Walton, a shoemaker, residing in Filters
|
Of s6 years, being the progenitor of no less than
Ill persons, consisting of Ia children, 10 grand
children. and " grandchildren, nearly all of
whom are still living
| telegram last week stated that Prince Napo-
| leon arrived at Touon, and inspected the ram
Taurus. Surely that ram IS a Bull.-[Puneh
THE LATEST THING 0UT.-The Head Center.
tPunch.
The amnesty which the Emperor of Austria is
about TO proclaim for the benefit of political often
ders will contain one notable exception, that of
Kossuth-whom Francis Joseph thinks to be still
too powerful to be admitted into Hungarian terri
tory.
1t is rumored in Paris that the King of Greece
finds himself in a very precarous situation, and
that he has asked assistance from England. But
| this is believed to be mere Bourse talk
1t is believed that the Japanese Ambassadors,
who are now in France, will, before returning to
their own country, sign treaty of commerce with
France, Italy and Denmark.
A man has been sentenced to three months i'm
prisonment at York for attempting to hang him
self.
There is report that two gentlemen have &C.
tuay agreed to fight for fl000, and in training.
The King of Portugal has abandoned his project
of going to Compiegne, in consequence of the
death of the King of the Begians. -
DR.. Lee is to be impugned at the next meeting
of the Presbytery of Edinburs for his use of
service-book in the worship of Ole Greyfriars.
Lord William Lennox relates the following in
cident as fhavng occurred at Lord Shaftesbury's
examination of girls school " Just sR the noble
lord was about to take his leave, he addressed a
girl somewhat older than the rest and among
other things inquired Who made your body 2
Please, my lord responded the unsophisticated
girl, Betsy Jones made my body, but made the
skirt myself Another charity scholar under ex-
animation in the Psalms, was asked, What is the
pestilence that walketh by darkness" please,
sir, bugs"
The Attorney General of Pennsylvania has given
it his opinion that State has the right to tax
National bank. rl 5-N.
Illinois furnished more men to the Federal army
according to her population, than any State in the
Union. -
HOTEL RATES REDUCED.--The enormous charges
of the hotels are a subject of just complaint