New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-16
Fresh Items of News.

The number of acres growing cotton in Wash
ingtOn county Miss, this year are II 700; product
295 bales. The ante-bellum crop was one to one
and half bales to the acre.
The newest sensation in theatrical circles Is the
production of "Griffith Gaunt,H at the New York,
formerly Lucy Rushton's, the dramatzation being
by Mr.. Augustine DAILY, the dramatic critic of the
New York Express. The playwright has done
his work exceedingly well, the drama embodying,
in five acts, with singular fidelity, the story as told
by Mr. Reade in his book. Crowded audiences,
thus far, have greeted representation, including
many Of the liteTati and the elite of the town
The sermons Of Rev, Henry Ward Beecher are
again printed in the New York Independent but
are discarded by the World.
There We're two destructive fires in Chicago on
the 10th. The lumber drying house OF Aid. Rus
sell, with about sixty-six thousand feet OF lumber
in process of drying, was destroyed. Total loss
about ten thousand dollars, with no insurance.
A second fire was in the planning mill and sash
factory of Wm. Wisdom q Sons, Al, 43 and 4j
Canal street, and the following property was de-
stroyed: Nos 81 and 80 Washington street, occu-
pied by the Chicago Scale Company; also three
story building in the rear, occupied by the same
company loss s2O,0OO; noinsurance. Nos. A 43
and 45 Canal street, owned and occupied by VIM
| Wisdom & Sons as above named, loss $25 0O0 in
sured for $ll 700 No. Al, job machine shop, oc-
cupied by G. G. Preble Co, loss $4,000; in
| sured for $4,000, No. 49, Jccupiea by Eagle Iron
works for storage: loss $500. Nos &c AID g Wash
ington street. box factory Of Cobb Co., i2ss
| 5000; no insurance. Nos 81 and 36, mechanics
shop Of Walker Brothers, loss $4,000 Becker d
Co, occupied the upper story Of At Canal street.
threshing machine, loss $4,000; no insurance.
There were several other losses, the whole aggre-
| eating about $93 900; $4,000 insurance.
The receipts from internal revenue on the 18th
were S640,l74 So.
The queen has written letter to Mr. Watkins,
chairman of the relief committee, sending f3O0 to
the sufferers by the fire in this city and express
| ing deep sympathy.
The barfS Onward, at San Francisco, reports
/ NJ l. atp-.
and contractors in the service of the Russian
American telegraph expedition. Ice had com
menced forming when the Onward lett, but the
| men were comfortably housed for the winter
| The people of Petropaulowski treated the party
with great hospitality Col. Bulkley started fol
Anadio Bay on the ID of August, and is expected
here during the present-month. The Russian wal
steamer Variag left the same day Tor Nicoaefsk
carving Count Aonsaff, the Russian commissioner
London letter says there seems little reasoI
to doubt that the king of Holland will at once JON
the north German confederation. There is strong
party in the country which is not only willing, bu
anxious, to transfer the government OF me coun
try to Prussia and if its members can do no more
they can at least induce the king to resign his pre-
tensions to the government Of LuXembufg. Slnc
1899 that duchy has formed part OF the Gelna!
bund, and has been garrisoned by Prusslan troops
} Not single Dutch soldier has ever occupied tn
fortress and to all intents and purposes the plac
was part of Germany, in agreement with the pre-
| vision of the congress of Vienna.
The New Ork Express says tllaI iu O4uGCl Y
! one of the benevolent institutions OF New or
recently paid an official visit to the State prison
Sing Sing, and reports most inhumau method {
+. discipline prevalent in that institution, an
I strongly recommends an investigation by I'll
prison ASSOCIATION.
:. Mr.. williams, the Episcopal clergyman who WI
i recently arrested in New York, charged with pic
:, ing the pocket of lady in Fifth avenue stag
n has been released on bail.
d A letter published from Gov. Cummins, of co
orado. denies assertions against him for giving t
e certificate of election to Mr.. Hunt as congre
Z siOnal delegate He states that Hunt had leg
n majority OF votes, the board of canvassers haYl
n counted for Chicott (the candidate OF the par
4 anxious for the admission of Colorado as Stat
a. the votes of a company of volunteers formed
u Confederate prisoners, enlisted at Chicago, VI
le Eighty counties in Missouri give an official RAJ
in cal majority of 1850. The counties yet to
OF heard from will probably increase it to betWe
~ twenty and twenty-five thousand,
ed There was terrific gale on Lake Ontario St
day morning. The following disasters are
ported hereabouts: schooner John Steyensst
To- beached high and dry near Railway static
rq schooner Caspian, total wreck; schooner
~ sunk alongside of the cribs schooner Held, ST
et' in New Harbor; schooners Union, North Star q
est Atlantic, damaged
'iS y, A LAYENr.-The Bishop of Orleans, Fran