The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-25


The "Exiles of Erie, :" Daniel Drew and party,
were to return to New York on 23d.
General Mcdowell arrived in New York on the
2zd.
A law authorizing railroad conductors to make
arrests has passed the New York Senate.
Chauncey Jerome, ex mayor of New Haven,
Conn.,, died Monday evening.
An oyerseer named Martin, IN the vicinity Of
AIendale, s. c., was brutally murdered by negroes
recently.
The Universalist church aud two adjoining
buildings, at Bnghamton, N. Y, were burned on
the 2lst. rraT
The annual reports of the Pacific Central Rail-
road show a million and half dollars IS the
earnings from all sources for the year 1867.
There are in Congress, House and Senate. thr-
teen major generals, fifteen brigader generals and
six colonies, besides eleven volunteer officers Of
lower grade.
The latest and best recipe for keeping eggs
from spelling is to place them in hot water Tor
twelve or fifteen seconds. This thickens the In
side skin and keeps out the air.
The Herald's Washington dispatch says Con-
ness, of California, and Thayer, of Nebraska, are
candidates for secretaryshp Of the interior, under
Wade.
A German meeting in Clinton, Mass, wa, as
sauted by mob of Irish on the night of the 2lst.
Knives and clubs were freely used. One Irishman
was killed, and several were wounded on both
sides.
The total valuation of real estate in Philadel.
pha is reported at s445, 563, 3I7, and the total
number of buildings ia stated at l08,ls2. The
funded debt Of the city on January l, 1865, was
s36,677 529 n.
Accounts from the interior of Alabama and
Mississippi report serious damage to plantations
from the late rains, and the creeks are very high
| in many places and running over the banks. 1t
| is feared general replanting must be done.
The Tribune's Washington special states that j.
| K. Herbert was never on Buffers stat or in his
| department, and if he wrote a letter to Senator
| Campbell urging Buffers appointment in john
| sons cabinet be did it without Buffers knowl-
| edge and on his own responsibility.
The Times: Washington special says Wade will
| return Sheridan to New Orleans McCulloch will
| 90 to New York to reside Welles will remain in
Washington Seward will go to Auburn, aud Sen
ator Fessenden will probably have the mission to
| England.
party of about twenty five colored persons
were TO leave Mobile for Savannah, on the 23d,
en- route to Liberia. The freedmen's bureau fur
| nish transportation as far as Savannah at which
| point the American Colonization Society assumes
| charge of emigrants and conveys them in the
society's ship Golconda to their new home. The
vessel is advertised to leave Savannah for the con-
| tinent of Africa May LIST.
There are In the stables at Jerome Park, pre-
pairing for the spring races, fifty seven horses.
| Among them are Kentucky, Fieetwing, De Cour
| cey, Rapture, Coon Vanhosen. Exile or Peppers
Ghost, Enchantress, Gerald or Head Center. Wild
Jessie, Jewess, Extra, Magnet, Cannie BARN,
Attraction, Australia, Fenisn. Billy Conner, Zig
Tag, Sleety, Bonny Brses, Lost Cause, Tasmania,
| etc.
The book "Behnd the Scenes" purportng to
have been by Elizabeth Keckley, the modiSte Of
Mrs. Lincoln is said by the New York Times to
be from the hand of practiced writer who has
prejudces to crafty and grudges to repay. One
of the chapters quotes copiously from Mrs. Lin.
coins confidential chat. We are told that her
hostility TO Mr. Chase and his daughter were most
bitter. She was especially severe on Seward,
despised Mcclellan, denounced Andrew Johnson
as a demagogue and Gen. Grant as a humbug.
She once declared that if Gen. Grant ever became
president she would leave the country during his
term of office.
Twenty thousand dollars to help pay of the
national debt, the legacy OF Ralph s. Fritz, a
benevolent citizen Of San Francisco, recently de
ceased, has been deposited in the sub-treasury al
New York. The testator in his last will and ties
lament, says that as he was unable, by reason Of
age and physical ailments, TO serve his country
during the recent war, he desired to leave behind
him, in that form, an humble testimonial of the
gratitude he felt for those whose virtues and valo
preserved what he regarded as the " best gov
| eminent mankind were ever permitted to enjoy. ,
The treasury department, it is understood, will
make the legacy the subject of special commu
nication in the course Of few days.