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

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The negro minstrels in St. Louis are burlesque-
| ing impeachment
The value Of the coinage ct the United States
Mintllast month was 1854, 69l.
g. 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 Sth.
Weston, the pedestrian. says he viii take up his
| permanent residence in Buffalo.
DrJ. F. Potter. for many years one Of the
most distinguished physicians 10 Cincinnati, died
there on the 5th inst, of heart disease.
The oldest doctor in the world. Prof. F. Yer.
dugo, Salamanca, Spain, died lately, aged los
years. He had practiced 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 not? Then be
sure to vote against the Black Crook Constitu-
| ton. . I. So
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 NJ. Palmer, has finally fatty declared
that he will not accept the radical nomination for
governor of Illinois, and olonel r. G.. lngersoll,
1t is probable. viii be the Jscobin 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. 1r lf9ls I
Sixteen of the most prominent citizens of John
sen county, Indiana, have been indicted for nur-
der, they having helped to lynch two other muir
de1ers several months since. f.t
Jefferson Davis has been notified to appear at the
May term of the United States Court in Richmond.
1t is believed in Washington that his trial will
then take place before Chief Justice Chase.
The election returns from Wisconsin are so
meager that II is impossible to state, at present,
ON which side the gains or losses have been. of
course the State has gone Republican. as usual.
A convention of photographers, numbering two
hundred and fifty, and representing their profess
sion throughout the country, are in session in
New ork. f.t fsn tsffas a5
The largest holder of Confederate bonds in Eu-
rope is Sir Henry de Houghton, one of the richest
bsronets in England, and descended from one Of
the Oldest families. He invested 100000
Buffers American Theater In New York was
burned on the night of the 9TH. The actors lose
about all their wardrobes, valued at $4,000. Loss
on the building and other property, sll 900.
The expenditures for the war department for
the month of March last are set down at $lS $780,
O0O-a greater sum than the whole yearly ex-
penses Of the government under John Quincy
Adams. f-..fs Y. ~
Capt. Mason Barney. the'vetersn shipbuilder Of
Barneysyille, Mass, was found dead in his bed
Thursday week. Bis age was 81 years. 1t is
some years since he launched his hundredth
vessel, and he has launched many since then.
Large quantities of maple sugar have been
made in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont this
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 is con.
cerned--now look cut for them at the polls. II
there is any style of fraud which they have not
1
pared, it must be something SURPRISING human
ingenuity. f
letter from Fort Laramie confirms the reports
about Indian depredations between Fort Laramie
and Fort sutterman. The Indians killed mum
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
just sold the Alabama and Florida Railroad for the
small sum of s55 COO. 1t is forty-fve miles long,
thirteen miles of the distance being 10 run.
ming order. and the price named included four
engines, thirtyfour cars, the office, and all the
| fixtures.
senator eprsgue, one of the richest men in
Congress. permitted himself to plead his congres.
sioDal privileges on the 7th, in defending an &C.
ton OF de bit 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, 10
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 I. Hoffman, of New York. vice.
president
That young spendhrift, 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 $50 900 from one firm Of bankers, who re-
ceived 1925. 600 as a return of the indulgence.
Washington dispatches contradict the report
that Generals Grant and Butler have been recon
ciled. Butler, it il said, wanted Grant as wit
ness on the impeachment trial. not for what be
could say for the prosecution, but to have him
worried on cross-exsmnation by the presidents
lawyers. The majority Of the managers, how.
ever, would not allow it. n
About Thirty years ago rich Charlestonian EN-.
ployed to build him cistern. The work
was done at a cost Of $40, but 1t proved utter
failure. The builder moved to New Orleans. and
recently wrote letter to the Charlestonian, (now
poor man, in which be promises to refund the
money on next quarter day. So says the Charles
| ton Mercury.