New Orleans daily crescent., 1866-11-09

Prof. Playfair, at the meeting of the British As
sociation, stated that at the Riddings colliery,
there was a furEace forty or fifty years old, the
walls of which he found to be lined with plum
bago three or four feet thick, which he attributed
to the operation bf the heat on the iron but could
not fully explain the mystery.
The chief mechanic of the imperial Turkish mint
is an American, who has been employed there
thirty years. Al Constantinople correspondent
says that he has mot been paid cent of wages for
year, the fnandes of the country being in a very
depressed condition. a great temptation one
would think, to cbin few gold pieces for himself.
During recent food in China, two thousand
persons and an immense herd of cattle were
drowned. Forty men were killed by the falling
of a wall.
The British ad miralty have adopted zinc as
sheathing for thk bottom Of the new iron ships
now building.
Prince Napol BON has left Hayre for three
weeks excursion on the coasts of England and
France.
man named Poinsignon, Of Metz, France, re.
Gently committed suicide under extraordinary cir
eumstances. Hb was found laying dead in field,
with siX-barreed revolver still 10 his hand, and
with which he had fired two shots into his head
and two others Into the region of his heart.
One of the new bouievards in MR2ow has been
named the Boulevard Anerikanski.
a. London omnibus driver discovered packet
Of 81, 900 in his vehicle. He returned it to the
owner. y
A paper printed in Chinese and japanese is
| published in London,
1 DuulDhy duflCeS SLd1b IiHb Oue-llalI OI Lne pup
nlation of Oriksa had perished from hunger.
Cholera had appeared in the famine districts.
/ Large subscription had been made for the relief
| of the sufferers
| The volcanic island of Santorino has not yet
ceased its errultions. Eight small islands, which
had made their appearance, one by one, are now
Joined together and still increase nsensibly with
out emitting heat or vapor of any sort
The Berlin correspondent of the London Times
writes: 6 Mr. Wright the American envoy at
! Berlin has refubed to present to this government
| the protest against the annexation OF Frankfort
signed by 1000 f its citizens and intrusted to his
good offices fol delivery. However much min.
1 lister of the American republic may sympathize
with the melancholy fate of the Oldest free city in
Europe it is obvious that no diplomatic agent
could have taken upon himself to interfere in the
internal arrangements of foreign power.a
general sherl aan on Political Questions s-HIa
Prophecy.
The following letter of General Wm. 7. Sherman
to Chief Justic, Chase was published at the time
it was writer and is worthy of republication
now:
STEAMER Prussia, BEAUFORT HARBoR, \
May 5, 1866 o'clock a. NJ.
i am not yetprepared to receive the negro OF
terms Of political equality, for tie reason It'll will
raise passions dnd preiudiGes at the North, super
added to the efuses yet dormant at the South, tina
/ might rekindlethe war whose fires are nov dying
/ out, aud which, by sl1itifn management, might bt
kept down. As YOU must observe, / propose Ii
work with kiLoWn facts rather than to reasel
ahead to remote conclusions.
A y
We can control the local State capitalist and, i
| may be, pepolitioRi thouehts hut we canno
combat existing ideas with force fs4y, honestly
that the assertion openly OF your IDEAS of uniyer
sal negro snffrAge, as fixed policy of our genera
/ government tb be backed by physical power, vii
/ produce new war, sooner or later and which
| from its tlesultbry character will be more bloody
and destructive than the last. / think the changes
necessary IN tile future can befaster and certainly
/ made by means Of our Constitution, thanAny plat
outside Of it. lf now we 60 outside Of The G0nsti
tuition for a means of a change, we rather justify
the rebels in tl|er late attempt, whereas now, as
General Echofed tells Us, the people of the Soul
/ are ready and waiting TO make the necessary
changes without shack or violence | feel tht
i past war as bitterly and keenly as any man could
and frankly donfess myself afraid OF a new war
and new wal is bound to result nom the aotiOl
you suggest Of giving to tho ealtanehised negroe
so large shaie i'll the delicate tfsk of putting thu
Southern STATES in practical working relation.
with the geneIal government
- I 4,--5z------
EASY M0DR or sHARpRNrNu FpsEo roer.s.--rb,
] simplest method Of sharpening 4 razor 0r etAel
: edge TOOLS is to place the blade Tor ah0nt n ha
an honf III @lter containing one; ;byendeth Of it.