The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-20
ITEMS BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.

Terrible storm in Maine on the night of the Ilth.
Louisville has sixty.six Incomes that exceed
| $4,000 each.
The wheat crop in East Tennessee is very IN.
Col. VIM. B. Randolph, chief clerk in the u.
S. treasury office, died in Washington on the 18th
| aged seventy-eight.
The telegraph announces that Secretary Seward
has been prompt in sending vessel to look into
| that outrageous business at Monterey.
The trestle bridge, 100 feet long, on the Somer-
| set and kennebec railroad, at Augusta, Me-, was
washed away on the 10Th.
Breyet Brigsdier General Joseph r. Smith has
| been placed on the retired list by order of the
president, and assigned to duty with Gen. Pope
| at Detroit.
A large cave, embracing several chambers, aud
already explored more than six hundred feet has
been discovered in Armagh, MIfflin county, Penn
| sylvana.
The statue of Thomas Benton, for thirty years
United States senator from Missouri. will be 10.
auguIated at ST. Louis on the 27th instant, and
unveiled by his daughter, Mrs. Gen. Fremont.
Preparations are busily making for the laying OF
another telegraph cable between Havana and
Key West. The United States steamer Gettysburg
is now engaged in sounding for cable TO connect
Panama with the United States.
quantity Of tobacco was seized in New York
| on Wednesday. II had been sent from Virginia,s
packed in the interior of barrels Of peanuts and
il is supposed that fraudulent shipments of the
kind have been carried on for some time.
The dispatches received from Knoxville on the
18th, in regard to Brownlow's impending disso.
luton were not reliable. Later reports state that
the governor is nothing more than slightly indis
posed.
A tablet in memory of the late Thomas darcy
McGee has been placed opposite the spot where
he was killed. The inscription, cut into the stone
OF the building, runs as follows: "Here fell, on
the Sth Of April, 1865 by the assassin's hand the
Hon. Thomas Darcy McGee."
Mr.. Seward has asked the Prussian govern.
ment to recall the members of its legation in
Washington, who were concerned in the late
duel, and has given the other party, Mr.. Law
renee, our minister TO Costa Rica, an opportunity
TO escape removal by resignng.
Robert Ammon, aged Is, claiming to be mar.
ried to an heiress of Pittsburg, was arrested in
New York on the 10th, on a charge of stealing
SO 900 worth of valuable papers and jewelry. He
was committed until his friends in Pittsburg could
be heard from.
The remains of Stephen A. Douglas are to be
publicly removed on the Sd of June, the anniver.
sary of his death. TO the tomb in the monument
now being built. Fifty thousand dollars are need
ed to complete the monument, Of which the base
only is erected.
The president has appointed the folio wing
board of visitors to the West Point Military
Academy: Gen. W. B. Franklin, of Connecticut;
Gen. John Williams, of Tennessee; Prof. VIM. G.
Peak, Of New York; Gen. Leslie Coombs, of
Kentucky; Gov. W. L. shsrkey, of Mississippi;
Prof. Henry Copple, of Pennsylvania; N. B.
judd, of Illinois,
DR.. B. Newsom, living near Nashville, was ia.
Northwestern road. He was sitting on the same
seat with man named Bobert Phpps, when the
latter quietly drew knife, stabbed the doctor to
the heart. and then, ordering the train to stop,
jumped of into the woods before any of the pas
sengers knew anything Of the tragedy.
The town Of Napoleon, at the mouth of the
Arkansas river, is now under water, and bids fair
to be entirely destroyed by the encroaehments Of
the river. few weeks ago the front wing Of the
Maine Hospital at that place, being undermined,
fell with crash into the river and the remainder
is being torn down to save the material, and il is
believed that within year at farthest the whole
town will be swept away.
II is reported that Leverich, the absconding
teller Of the New York City Bank, is not the only
guilty party in connection with the defalcatIon.
Some time since the bank officers are said to have
discovered conspiracy in which seven clerks
were engaged, who when detection became immi-
nent managed to throw the blame on Leverich.
Two hundred thousand dollars of the stolen money
has been recovered.
Lieutenant Newton II. Chittenden, adjutsnt of
the4th Wisconsin cavalry, had occasion to 'confs.
cate" some horses during Grierson's march through
Alabama in 1865. After his discharge he attended
law school at Columbia College. New York city
and last Friday, in the midst of his final examiDa-
tion, he was arrested on warrant sworn out by
an Alabama man named John G. Winter, who
claims that the lieutenant stole horses from him.
Cbittenden procured bail for $500 next morning
and was released.
1t is a singular fact in connection with the great
tornado of Sunday week, that Major Chapman,
residing in township seventy-six, about six miles
from Muscstine, Iowa, after the storm had passed,
found several stalks Of ground cherries in his
orchard, the leaves green, the pods yellow and
fruit perfectly ripe. This stage Of the plant is at
least four months ahead of that latitude, nor has
it attained that stage even in our most Southern
States, so that il is supposed that these berries
must have been brought by the tornado from some
one of the West India Islands, where the storm
probably originated.