The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-15
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The bill granting pension to General Napier
mas been agreed to.
Governor Hartman, of New Hampshire, ha.
vetoed me bill just passed by the legislature, to
The authorities of Southampton invited Admi
raj tarragut to grand complimentary dinner
but Farragut declined.
- IL is urged IN Tennessee that colored man
ought to be elected congressman at large from
that State 70 represent the 40 600 colored voters
In speech in the corps legislatif NJ. Bsroche,
the minister OF justice declared the separation of
The church and state was only q question of time
Mike McCoole, the prize-fghter, was before the
Cincinnati police court, Tuesday, on two charges
one Of carrying concealed weapons, and the other
OF assault and battery.
The Hon. Edward Coles one OF the early GOV.
errors of the State of Illinois, and a highly
esteemed resident of Philadelphia, died n,that
city, on the It'll inst.
The artesian we'll at st. Louis which is being
bored by the county, has reached a depth of 3I47
feet, and is the deepest in the world. There Is no
water yet. The work has been going on for 26
months.
some sharp individual in Cincinnati has been
selling old potatoes Tor new. The old stock of
potatoes left over was manipulated by a chemical
process, and the tough jackets of the neshannock
and peachblow were made to resemble the tender
skin Of the early potato.
The Bath (Me.) Times complains Of a delega-
fion from Bowdoin college who hired hall in that
city Saturday evening and amused themselves by
stripping young men naked, hosting them up and
dewn from floor to ceiling in coffin, tossing them
In a blanket. and similar delicate attentions
1t has been found that punching holes in steel
plates, instead Of drilling them, INJURIES the metal
10 the amount of one-third its strength on &C.
count of the jarring. Careful snnealing, how
ever, restores them TO their original condition
CoDicsl holes, also, are found to be much better
for steel plates than cylindrical, injuring the tex
fure of the plate much less.
Father Lambert Young, the Catholic priest who
has been in jail at Louisville for some weeks on
account OF bis refusal TO testify against parties
engaged In lynching a negro in Frankfort, Ken
fucky, was called before the United States Court
on Monday, fined $50 for contempt and put under
$1,000 bonds to appear at the October {, m. He
paid the fine, gave the required bond and was dis.
charged.
DR.. Whitaker, a prominent and successful
physician residing in Lincoln county, Tennessee,
was drowned in puddle of water only four
inches deep, on the 4th inst. 1t seems that DR..
w. had allowed himself to imbibe too freely Of
liquor during the day and on his way home had
fallen from bis horse into this puddle, from which
he was unable TO extricate himself
Capt. Sam'l Barr, Jr., clerk of the steamer
Great Republic, was arrested in st. Louis on the
10th, by order Of Capt. Lee, chief of police, on
information deemed entirely reliable, that the
Grand Jury found true bill against him for muir
der In the first degree, in connection with the
shooting of Henry Anderson, a colored man, on
board the Great Republic, some days ago. Said
Grand Jury also found true bill against Captain
Donaldson.
The business and population Of San Francisco
are said to be constantly tending southwark TO.
wards the Petrero river, which the new Mission
Bay and Isar's Creek bridges, and the horse car
line to Bay View have much accelerated. On the
Petrero are three shipyards, a match factory,
glass-works, two tan yards, fuse manufacturing
company, several rolling mills, a stove factory, q
mattress factory, and a sash and blind factory
ry-dock is also completing on the river.
year ago there was not q house at Bay View. 1t
is now 1ourish;ng village.
There Is great reaction in Kansas in favor Of
The ratification of the Usage treaty, as amended
by its friends in Washington. The Leavenworth
Board Of Trade, the Common Council of Law
renee, the Lawrence county commissioner, and
Franklin, Anderson and Allen counties have
passed strong resolutions in favor of its confirma-
zion. Settlers on Usage lands are signing petit
fion in large numbers, asking that the treaty be
ratified as amended. Joseph Pahneone pahshe,
the only chief of the Ossges who wrote his name
to the treaty, says the alleged remembrance Of
chiefs is barefaced forgery and fraud, and he
afirms that the chiefs, warriors and braves of the
Usage nation desire that the treaty be ratified so
that they can get their pay, being in destitute
condition.