The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-11

get your nelgnbor 10 90 likewise
The negro minstrels in St. Louis are burlesque-
ing impeachment.
The value Of the coinage at the United States
Mintlast month was t3s469l.
8. 7. King. Republican, was elected mayor Of
Calais, Maine, on Monday. by $50 majority.
Hon. Ed. Ramsey died in Greenville. KY, on
Monday.
The corner stone Of Booths new theater was
laid in New York on the 9Th.
Weston, the pedestrian. says he win take up his
permanent residence in Buffalo.
Dr.J. F. Potter. for many years one of the
most distinguished physicians in Cincinnati, died
there on the 9th inst, of heart disease.
The Oldest doctor in the world. Prof. F. Yer.
dugo, Salamanca, Spain, died lately, aged los
years. He had prscticed medicine so years.
The three railroad lines leading from Chicago
East have put their fares to New York down
to $40.
The local Of Helena, Ark. paper devotes
thirteen lines to thanks for one drink of butter
milk.
Do you want to be forced to send your children
to school with negroes? You do notg Then be
sure to vote against the Black Crook Constitu-
lion.
The ship Autocrat, from Baltimore, with . cargo
Of coal. went ashore at Arch Rock while entering
San Francisco hsrbor on the 9th. She is nearly
| full of water, and is probably total loss.
Gen. John M. Palmer, has finally fatty declared
that he will not accept the radical nomination for
governor Of Illinois, and olonel r. G. Ingersoll,
| 1t is probable, will be the Jacobin candidate.
Capt. Charles G.. Cox. of the Tenth Infantry. and
Capt. Robert Chandler, of the Thirteenth Infantry,
have been ordered to report to Gen. Hancock for
duty on his staff. 1874
Sixteen of the most prominent citizens of John
sen county. Indiana, have been indicted for MUIR
der, they having helped to lynch two other muir
deTers several months since. 1
Jefferson Davis has been notified to appear at the
May term of the United States Court in Richmond.
| IL is believed in Washington that his trial will
then take place before Chief Justice Chase.
The election returns from Wisconsin are 80
meager that it is impossible to state, at present.
on which side the gains or losses have been. of
course the State has gone Republican, as usual.
convention of photographers, numbering two
hundred and fifty, and representing their profess
sion throughout the country, are in session in
| New ork. M fat.la8
The largest holder Of Confederate bonds in Eu-
rope is Sir Henry de Houghton, one Of the richest
baronets in England, and descended from one Of
the Oldest families. He invested GOO. 900.
Buffers American Theater In New York was
burned on the night of the 7th. The actors lose
about all their wardrobes, valued at $4,000. Loss
on the building and other property, Sill 900.
The expenditures for the war department for
the month of March last are set down at sls $780,
OO0-a greater sum than the whole yearly ex-
penses Of the government under John Quincy
| Adams. .e f...l. +. r...-. t
Capt. Mason Barney. the.veteran shipbuder Of
Barneysville, Mass, was found dead in his bed
Thursday week. his age was 81 years. 1t is
some years since he launched his one hundredth
vessel, and he has launched many since then.
Large quantities of maple sugar have been
made in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont this
1 spring. The sugar sells at Concord N. H., for
twenty cents pound, and the syrup fot 81 so per
| gallon.
The tide of emigration from Germany FOR the
present spring for the United States commenced
with increased volume. 1t is estimated that up
wards of seven thousand emigrants left Germany
during the past week for American ports.
The Black Crookites have about finished up
their cheating, as far as the registry ia con-
cerned-now look out for them at the polls. If
there is any style of fraud which they have not
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pared, it must be something surprising hnnan
| ingenuity.
letter from Fort Laramie confirms the reports
about Indian depredations between Fort Laramie
and Fort sutterman. The Indians killed num-
Der of men and burned the Horseshoe and Twin
| Spring ranches. and stole considerable property
The settlers have all sought refuge at the forts.
| The United States law officers in Florida have
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small sum of s55 coo. 1t is forty five miles long,
thirteen miles of the distance being 10 run
ming order. and the price named included four
engines, thirty-four cars, the office, and all the
| fixtures.
senator eprague, one of the richest men in
Congress. permitted himself to plead his congress
sioDal privileges on the It'll, in defending an sc-
ton OF debt brought against him by his gardener.
Until now there has not been any one in Congress,
for some years past, poor enough to avail himself
| Of that plea.
| Lewis V. Bogy, prominent Democrat Of st.
Louis and late commissioner of Indian affairs, in
letter responding to an invitation to address the
Democracy OF Galloway county, advocates the
nomination of Gen. Frank p Blair. Jr.. for presi.
| dent, and John 7. Hoffman, of New York. vice.
president.
| That young spendihrift, Lord Jersey, went to
college in 1868 on $500 year. He found this too
small and borrowed $3.50 month from a usurer,
| who charged him six hundred per cent interest.
In the recent overhauling of his accounts, it was
developed that during the last six years he bor-
rowed $50 600 from one firm of bankers, who re-
ceived s2l5.000 as a return of the indulgence.
Washington dispatches contradict the report
that Generals Grant and Butler have been recon-
ciled. Butler, it ia said, wanted Grant as a wit
ness on the impeachment trial, not for what he
could say for the prosecution. but to have him
worried on cross-examination by the presidents
lawyers. The majority Of the managers, how
ever, would not allow it.
About thirty year, ae a rich Charlestonian en-
ployed TO build him cistern. The work
done at a cost Of $40, but it proved an utter
failure. The builder moved to New Orleans. and
recently wrote letter to the Chsrlestonan, (now
poor man, in which be promises to refund the
money on next quarter day. So says the Charles
ton Mercury.