New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-01
3atu Orleans 9ailg Grlst>nt.


MoNEY-For several weeks past we have heard
much complaint Of the scarcity Of this useful
article, and every day seems to draw the lines
tighter" Rents and all articles of family CON
sumption remain at " war prces,n with no symp-
toms of decline. Unless some deductions are soon
made, we will find our city nearly depopulated this
summer Register
On Saturday last a skiG containing five negroes,
who had gone out into the bay from Mobile, to
fish, was upset in gale, and three Of the negroes
drowned.
The Register states that on Monday evening,
during the storm, which was so severely felt in our
own neighborhood fine new dwelling at the
lower end Of Conception street was blown down
and is now a mass of ruins
GHos1 SToRY.--Our readers may remember
our mention Of the case of Mrs. Margaret Hogan.
snort time ago. She was turned over to the
authorities for safe keeping, being insane, and
afterwards placed in the hands OF her friends to
De cared for Night before last, Margaret got the
wlld notion in her head that there about to be
grand uprising OF the departed spirits at the
cathedral She accordingly put on a white dress,
ana F0lung up sheet, repaired to the yard OF the
CaMedFai, near the hour of midnight, " when
grave yards yawn, and ghosts do walk abroad"
Throwing the sheet over her head, Margaret
mounted woodhouse near the fence and stood
IN spectral style. party Of ladies and gentlemen,
returning from the Fidelia exhibition, happened
along, and suddenly confronted the specter The
ttuiSS tuUh iIl4Hb anu IL Seuelhl StalLptue lu4-
lowed with screams loud enough to attract the
night watch who hurried to the spot, and took the
ghost in custody. We are informed by the
officer who has her in charge that Margaret will
beisent to an asylum during the present week
FREAKS OF THE WND.-In addition to the scenes
we made brief allusiOn to in our mention Of the
young hurricane yesterday afternoon, we learn
Of considerable damage in other parts Of the city
and suburbs. Several fine shade trees that had
witbstoOd the storms Of ages yielded to the breeze
and now lie mass of rubbish to cucumber the
streets roads and walks. One or two of the finest
magnohas on our bay shell road now, since the
storm, obsruct the passage with their huge trunks
and branches, and a handsome residence lately
built by our townsman, Mr., j. G. Smith, at the
lower end of Conception street, is nothing but
mass Of ruins. A buggy or two was upset in the
same neighborhood BY the force Of the wind, ana
the contents emptied out uneeremoniously on the
shells; the horses shared the fate of the buggy
and, our informant says, were too badly scared 10
make even an attempt at escape.
Ladies who were out riding screamed for help
and a general panic appeared to exist among
pleasure seekers down the bay. On Dauphin
street some Of the scenes presented threw the
French engraving, entitled d windy day. com
pletely in the shade Tribune.
Judge Underwood is catching unshirted thunder
from the conservative press everywhere North
and South. He has no friends. He deserves to
nave none. Not hand is lifted to ward off the
blows that are showered thick as hail upon his
head. II he had the sensbility or selfrespect of
dog he would make bonfire of the ermine he
has polluted by his touch, and 90 and hang him
self.-[ Mobile Register.