The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-15
ITEMS BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

The races began at Lexington on the Ilth.
Extraordinary heat is prevailing in San Fran
cisco.
Both Martin and FELTON, have confessed the de-
falcation in the Hide and Leather Bank, Boston.
Il will amount to $lS0,0O0, but not exceed
100000.
Eighteen vessels now in port at Buf.lo have
discharged their crews and laid mp, rather than
run at the present low rates. Other vessels ar
irving will do likewise.
DR.. e. W. Douglass his wife AMI three children,
were poisoned in New York, Saturday, by eating
shad which had been purchased from travelling
fshmonger. One of the children is dead.
at special election in Dayton Ohio, on the
llih, for city marshal, on a straight fight Ryan
(DemocraD; beat Hogue (Republican) forty
yotes-a large Democratic gain.
Monroe and PocahOntas counties, in West Vir-
ginia, both voted last week to make subscrio-
tions 10 the stock Of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad-the former TO the amount of s2O0 900
and the latter $50 600.
Gov. Bullock, of Massachusetts,, sent a message
to the House, on the llth, vetoing the bill to
abolish the State constabuRry. Ths House
passed the bill over the veto by l45 to 81; but it
will scorcely get twO-thrd vote in the Senate.
The voters Of Sonora county, California, have
decided to give $4,000 q mile to aid a railroad
seventy-eight miles lorg, from Cloverdale to
Sucelto, opposite San Francisco. Work on the
road has already commenced
rouT pc" Peets arc ga1etteu lu EuBlsul; uenSe
forth Sir John TrollOpe, Sir John Walsh, Sir
Brooks Bridges and the Rev. William 0'Neill will
be known, respectively as Lords Kesteyen, Or.
ma,hv ate, Fitzwalter and 0'Neill.
Commissioner Wells is collecting statistics on
whisky, which thus far go to show that the annual
product does not exceed fifty million gallons. 1t
has been determined to compel prompt payment
on whisky already In bond, so as to empty class
warehouses, with view to closing them as soon
as possible.
I. J. Clements, a special agent of the treasury
department, who was recently sent to Chicago TO
investigate the whisky frauds there, has just been
arrested on the complaint of five leading distiliers
in that city, who charge him with attempting to
levy blaekmail upon them.
1he Canada Gazette contains copy Of dis
patch from the Duke of Buckingham 10 Lord
Monck, stating that passports will not be granted
to naturallzed citizens travelling in Europe, unless
they come to the British foreign Office provided
with certificates of identity.
II. j. Messenger, q banker, who owned or con-
troled banking houses at Cortlandtvile, Canton,
Cansndaigua, Herkimer, Marathon and Ontario,
New York, failed on the 9th inst, and all his shops
are closed. The failure is said to be for half a
Million and the assets are not over ten or twelve
per cent.
In the trial of Gen. Cole for the murder of His
cock, at Albany, on the ground of adultery with
his wife, the counsel for the accused makes the
remarkable statement that 4" within the last two
hundred years no man has been punished by any
court of Justice either in this country or in Eng
land, for shooting the seducer of his wife, his
daughter or his sister when that motive and that
alone has prompted the fatal blow"
An official dispatch in relation to the shooting Of
Prince Alfred says the ball entered bis back half
en- inch from the spine, struck the ninth rib, fol.
lowed around the corner of the ribs and lodged
five inches and quarter beneath the right nipple,
having traVersed distance of twelve inches and
quarter. The same authority says that on March
20th, the duke was able to 60 on board his ship.
A certificate OF incorporation of the Pittsburg
Cincinnati and st. Louis Railroad Company Con-
solidation was fled in the secretary Of states
Office, in Ohio, on the llth; capital stock,
10000, 900. II is a consolidation Of the Pan
handle road of Pennsylvania. the Holidays Cove
Railroad of West Virginia. and the Steubenyille
and Indiana Railroad of Ohio.
The Kansas people have found way to circum.
vent the grssshoppers. It consists in turning
sheep upon the wheat to eatit down. 50 that when
the insects come and find nothing they l1REa In
ss-sUst. rrv Wu1aT RECEIVERS from the feeding of
the sheep; but if the grasshoppers 60 over it,,
they take root as well as stalk.
prominent Alexandra politician named John
HOdgekin, who was q delegate to the late Repnb-
lican Convention of Virginia, is so disgusted with
the nominations made there that he prints card,
saying: F" i this day sever my connection with all
political organizations, and shall hereafter en-.
desvor to pay more attention to my future sal.
vatioa."