The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-28
ITENs BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

$4,000 on the Broadway bridge on the I'D.
One case Of cholera occurred in New YORK on
Tuesday, and one In Brooklyn.
The San Francisco glass works were destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, $4,000.
= Another powder mill has exploded in Gorham'
Maine.
TIE estate Of the late Moses Y. Beach is valued
at $3.50, 900.
The blockade of Mazatlan is not very strict, it
appears:
is announced by Ticknor & Fields.
An Havana dispatch says it is reported that
certain bankersin London have offered 81 ,OOO,OOO
per year rent for the Bay of SANTANA.
Hon. E. II. Moore has bsen nominated as the
Republican candidate for Congress in the fifteenth
district of Ohio.
night of the 10th. Vessels were dashed together
and some lives were lost
The tariff for ten words, allowing five for ad.
dress, over the Atlantic cable will be fifteen dol
lars in gold after the lst of September.
The trot on the 22d between the horses Commo-
dore Vanderbilt and Captain Gill, for $1,000. mile
heats, was won by the latter; best time. 1921.
The Congregational church and school house on
Elm street, in Camden, Me-. were destroyed by
fire on the 2lst. Loss $4,000.
Lieut. VIM. s. Mackey, of the Goth infantry, fled
from Lynehburg recently with considerable
amount Of money obtained by fraud.
Miss Kate heathley, the Missouri gantess. died
at her home, twenty-five miles from 5 t. Louis, on
Que WtiBncu OH pOulu5.
Edward Morgan, government inspector of steam
boat boilers, committed suicide in St. Louis, on
the 24th, by shooting himself in the head. No
cause assigned for q Q act.
The Connecticut legislature has killed the pro.
ject for the consolidation of the New York aud
New Haven, Hartford and New Haven, and New
Haven and New London railroads.
At Memphis, on the 2lst, the mercury ranged
from 81 to So during the day. There were several
cases of sunstroke ano two deaths, including j.
w. Thompson, a well known lawyer.
Scbenck has pronounced in favor of paying
the fve-twentes in greenbacks, though not in
favor OF issuing batch OF greenbacks for that
purpose.
Gen. Dyer. of the ordnance bureau, against
whom the investigating committee made out a
rather strong case their report has asked for a
court martial, and will probably get it.
The navy yard at Charlestown, Mass, has be-
come too small for the purposes for which it was
designed, and 1t ia proposed to remove it to Kit
terry, Me-, and unite II with the navy yard there.
The propagation Of shad in the Connecticut
river has been brought suddenly to a close by the
intense hest-tSe young shad dying within few
minutes after being placed in the water.
The Muscatine (Iowa) Journal states that many
farmers in that vicinity are adopting the plan of
working at night and resting in daytime, in order
to save their men and horses.
A match billiard game of 1900 points. for $500
between Professor Carme and Joseph Vermilen
at Chicago on the 22d. was won by the former
Verm;llen made only 1886 points,
Commodore Winslow has presented the proprie-
tor of the Winslow House, Kearsarge Mountain
N. H., with an elegant painting, executed in
Paris, of the engagement between the Kesrsarge
and Alabama.
The Wells Seminary for young ladies', at Aurora
New York. was dedicated on Thursday. IL cost
over $3.50 600, and was a free gift of Henry Wells
the eXpressman, to the educational interests of
the country.
letter from Shanghai, June 6, via London,
July %, says it is reported that the crew Of the
American vessel, General sherman, which was
wrecked in the Chinese waters were beheaded bv
the natives, where they landed.
Capt. Andrew S. Boodgood of the steamer
Seth Lane, has been held for trial by Coroner
Flynn, in the sum OF SO 000 on a charge of crimi.
nal negligence in the case of the recent disaster
on the North river.
negro named Bill Love, in Baltimore on the
22d, made foul assault on a lady. near Bellair,
in Hereford county, and while being taken before
a magistrate was taken from the officer by mob
and hanged.
Charles W. Wasbburne, cashier of the People's
Bank of Roxbury, Massachusetts, who esigned on
account of i'll health jumped overheard from the
steamer Scotia on her last trip to Liverpool and
was drowned.
Dates from Red River of the North are to july
4th. The most terrific hurricane that ever visited
that section passed over and devastated Selkirk
settlement. Peter Matheson was killed. The
Episcopal church was destroyed, and many build
ibes were unrOofed.
war will soon issue general order reorganiziny
the existing military districts in the South
number OF officers now on duty in those dis
tricts will be relieved and ordered to different
posts.
A letter from the city of Mexico says leading
paper there had an article intmatng that a coali.
ton of European powers with the United States
was being discussed, the aim of which will be to
divide up Mexico and sell it out to the American
government.
The latest brutality in the shape of weapon
invented for civilized warfare is q new saw.
bayonet, having one of its edges cut into an ordi
nary saw, by which a much more severe and
painful wound would be inflicted than by the
wespon now in use.
The Scioto Gazette says that's portion of skele-
ton. supposed TO have been that of a mastodOn,
was found in Camp Creek township. near Wav.
erly, recently. One OF the teeth weighed four aud
a half pounds, and the jaw bone measured three
feet and six inches in length. An effort is being
made 10 find the rest of the bones.
Recent news from Syria states that the Ameri-
can colony at Jafla has now dwindled dow to less
than twenty persons, and that Adams aud his wife
have left for England to endeavor TO secure re-
cruits. Since their departure the charges made
sgaDst Adams have been asserted by his deserted
disciples to have been well founded
1t is now stated that the skeleton recently dis.
covered in Kingston, Mass, was half a mile from
the scene of Cornelius Holiness murder, and is
supposed TO have belonged to a tailor named
Jones, who disappeared sixty four years ago,
just before the birth of Deacon Andrews.
The recent robbery Of the Importers and Ira.
ders' Bank, at New York, appears to have been
very mysterious affair. The money was secured
in burglar proof SAFE locked with combination
lock- which required five persons each kno wing
only part of its secret operations, to open vet
over $50 coo in gold was taken from it, ana the
lock apparently was not tempered with.
A train Of twenty three wagons of Josephite
families ON their way from Utah to the States, ar
rived at Cheyenne on the Sth. They expressed
themselves very much Disguised with the way that
they were treated by Brigham. They assert that
The portion of those who acknowledge Brigham
are not true Mormons, but Brighamites and that
be is not true prophet or the legitimate success.
'or Of the head of the church, but an imposter,
Who, In the name of the church, makes arbitrary
avs for his own worldly advancement and gain
They left Utah on the 22d of May, and lost no
stock and had no difficulties with the Indians
singular shooting case occurred at Cromwell,
Conn. A New Yorker came out of house OF i'll.
anne, and asked boatman rowing by on the Con.
lechcut If he would take him down to Middle
own. On receiving reply in the affirmative he
Isked the boatman in to drink, and then got |
hoard the boat, and fred one shot at the house,