The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-04

Ohio will pay $3.50 900 on her State debt this
month. All but ISL 900 is interest.
Gen. Grillett has been ordered to California to
take the position vacated by Gen. Mcdowell.
A dispatch from Salt Lake announces the
drown ng of six men in Green river, on June 18th,
by the breaking away of ferry.
The San Francisco Chamber OF Commerce has
held meeting to organize an association for pro.
lection against fraudulent bankruptcy.
Ii is thought the wheat surplus of California,
for export this season, will reach three hundred
and fifty thousand tons.
W. B. Stokes has been nominated for Congress
by the district convention, and w. W. Woodcock
as elector for the Nashville district
The chancery court of Davidson has rendereda
decision in the Medical College case in favor Of
the plaintiffs. DR.. Jennings and Others were re-
moved, and the professors and others substituted.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors have
finally passed q resolution reserving over 1900
acres of public lands for park, cemetery,
schools, engine houses, hospital and jail.
A society Of negroes in st. Louis have raised q
large amount Of money 10 assist IN the prosecu-
ton Of Capt. Donaldson for the murder Of the
negro on the Great Republic.
Two women we're poisoned, near Chaska, Min.
nesota, on Monday, and died in commissions, caused
by the poison Of the potato bug getting into sores
on their hands.
A Hong: Kopg letter says that apples from the
United States, brought by steam, packed In Zoe,
sell there at the rite OF two dollars dozen In
gold.
washing sheep in apond, when be got beyond his
depth, and FTank-BEewn went to his rescue, but
both we're drowned II ten feet of water.
Two hundred men hsve been thrown out Of
employment by the destruction Of the Pottstown
PENN nail works, which ocdnrred by fire last
Saturday.
The SIS 900 subsidy TO the Honoiul6iine obligates
service every twenty days to San Francisco, trips
TO be made inside Of twelve days. -Yhe contract
is for tive years. The next steamer leaves for
Honolulu, July 3.
Gen, Haleck is on q tour of inspection through
the military division of the Pacific. The depart
ment of Alaska has been finally organized, with
Gen. JEFF. G. Davis as commander, headquarters
at Sitka.
1he steamer Sam. Gaty. from st. Louis TO
Omaha, when opposite Arran Rock, on Monday
night, struck a snag and careened. Then the
lamps upset, and she caught fire and burned to
| the waters edge, and, together with her cargo.
was a total loss.
The excitement about the Tennessee bonds ia
unsbsted. The State controller and the banks
| refused TO cash the coupons due. call OF the
legislature 10 repudiste the bonds and create
school fund out of the railroad bonds is talked Of.
The two soDs of DR.. r. Ogden Doremus, the
| well known chemist, while playing in wooden
play house at the back Of their residence, 10 New
York, on Friday week, accidentally set 1t on ire.
| They were unable to escape Immediately, and the
i younger Of the boys persisted ia the flames.
| The American Central Railway will be COM
pleted TO New Boston, on the Mississippi river, in
about six months. Arrangements are already
| made for iron for the entire Iowa part OF the
road, and it will be shipped as soon as the first
| sub. division Is ready to receive It,
| The Menard (Ill.,) Republican says that a Mr..
| Kimball, Of the firm Of Davis q Kimball, of Pc
| tersburg, was found dead In Pike county, ILL.,,
| few days SINCE lie had been to Texas to collect
| some money, and 1t Is supposed he was followed
| from Texas by a man called Capt. Stout, who
/ murdered him in cold blood for his money.
when the New York postof6ce Is built on the
/ v fio tuh viii ho
ted from the adjoining daily newspaper Offices +,
| through which their mails will be discharged di.
recily into the Offices, at a great saving OF time
and labor" But the postofiice in question ia not
likely to be completed during this generation.
Gen. Howard, OF the freedmen's bureau. has
been elected president Of Union College, st Sche-
| nsctady, New York. An association has been
i formed in Washington 70 raise $50 900 among the
colOred people 10 purchase homestead for him.
| 1t is proposed to collect but cent from each
colored man. woman and child who feels disposed
10 give that much.
| Senator Thayer's bill to regulate and fix the
military establishments of the United States.
/ amends the "Act TO increase and fix the military
1 establishment Of the United States by repeating
section Is, which fixes the number Of captains in
/ the quartermasters department az 80, and the
number of majors at 10, and prohibits the filling
/ Of vacancies until the number Of officers Is 30 re-
/ duced.
Hon n. G.. Taylor, commissioner Of Indian az
| fairs, has sent a letter TO Senator Henderson,
chairman OF the committee on Indian Affairs of the
Senate, asking full and rigid examination into
all the circumstances attending the recent treaty
for sale Of the Usage lands. He states positively
| that such sn investigation will prove that the
transactions attending the treaty were conducted
10 most Just and conscientious manner, both for
/ the Indians and for the State Of Kansas.
During the last three years two citizens Of New
| York, Chsuncey and Henry Rose, have distributed
among charitable associations in an unostenta-
tious manner the large sum Of 81 SOC, 900, equiva-
lent to over $1,000 day during the whole period.
Such remarkable instance Of benevolent mnni6-
| cence should not 60 unrecognized end we gladly
add the name Of Rose 70 the limited bat honoFa-
BILE list which already includes Peter Cooper.
George Peabody, James Lenax, and the late
Matthew YasssP.