New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-06-16
INTERESTING GENERAL NEWS



WASHINGTON, June 15.-Rumors of the assas.
sination Of Judge Underwood startled the city to.
day. It was canard.
R. l. Buckner, of Louisiana, and VIM. Altman
were pardoned to-day by the President.
The custom receipts at the four principal ports
for the week ending the 9th, were St, $50 900. Up
wards of 81 900 600 of this amount was received at
New York.
WASHINGTON, June l5.--The trial of Paymaster
Paulding concluded yesterday. It was shown he
disbursed over 100000 in the department Of
Washington, and large sums in the South. Moth
ing was alleged against his official acts until his
deposits of large sums with the Merchants Ma
ional Bank, just before the failure, for which he
was arraigned for violation of orders None of
| the evidence showed corrupt motives. The find.
| ings of tie court martial have been sent to the
President.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-Sendte.-The President
returned to-day the bill Incorporating the New
York and Montana Iron Mining Company, with his
objections. The President thinks the bill gives
monopoly to corporation of unknown corpora.
tors, and is to the detriment of sellers who have
the right to claim land under the homestead law.
In the House, a committee was appointed to in.
vestigate the facts Of Mr.. Rousseau's assault on
Grinnell, and report the same with aresoution
looking to the vndication of the dignity of the
House for the protection of its members.
| HoGse.-Mr. Bingham submitted a concurrent
resolution requesting the President to inform forth
with the governors of the States of the passage
| by Congress of the proposed constitutional
amendment, that the legislatures may act on it at
once. The resolution was objected to by Mr.. lie.
Blond. Some remarks followed, which led to q
decision by the speaker that the Joint resolution
need not be submitted to the President for his sig
nature.
After some debate on the special order, being
the bill restoring the Southern States to their po
| litcal privileges, the House adjourned
| WASHINGTON June l5-The House committee
have added to the free list copper, salt, American
/ wines, cordage and oast-ron water-pipes, and
have taken out mowers and reapers, wooden.
| ware, sorghum, machinery and iron bridges and
paper, excepting printing; levying tax of per
cent. on all other qualities. The tax on clothing
is raised from one to two cents, Cotton is cut
down from to cents; cigars $40 per thousand
on all valued over 81 20 smoking tobacco Ii cents
and the tax of ten per cent the issues of State
| banks is suspended for one year from July.
WASHINGTON, June l5.-The Rousseau Grinneu
affairs sensational topic and the public are on
the quj OiUe, already conjecturing the final result
There will be more fighting certainly, but there
| is a feeling of bitterness against Rousseau on tile
part of the Black Republicans Whether he will
take the form of expulsion, or merely formal
censure, is not yet determined. The Northern
| papers reflect severely on Rousseau. Pending the
investigation, he has leave Of absence for week
According to the new postal law Just approved
by the President, prepaid and free letters are to
be forwarded at the request of the party addressed
from one postoftice to another without additional
postage being charged, and returned dead letters
are to be restored to the writers thereof free of
postage, ..E
| WASHINGTON, June 15.-The secretary of war
sent to the Senate to-day communication from
General Humphreys, giving an interesting account
of the levees in Louisiana, and estimates for their
repair. The report shows the importance of the
work in view of tho agriculture of the country now
damaged by the overflow. This information was
desired by Congress as preliminary to legislation
on the subject. General Humphreys recommends
five levees on the Yazoo bottom, about 1000 cubic
yards; eight on the Tensas bottom 739, 600 cubic
yards three on the Mississippi delta 554 600 yards
anaggregate expense of $4,000 He estimates the
permanent and complete repair of all the leyees
on the river at sl,500OOO for Mississippi, 81 200
900 for Louisiana, and $l2 900 900 for Arkansas
With perfect system of leveeing, he states thai
the amount of alluval lands reclaimed are capable
of growing double the whole cotton crop of 1860
Messrs. Durable aad Claiborne are representing
this great interest Of the South. There is ev.
IDENTIFY some error in the foregoing figures, but we
give them as they are telegraphed.- CREs-
CENT?
New YORK. June Is. L. Mortin, of Mont
gomery, and A. H. Coulds late of the Confede-
rate army, representing themselves the agents of
Santa Anna, in April purchased the steamer
Agnes for 100000, in gold, from W. J. Taylor &
] Co., Philadelphia, to be paid on the delivery of