The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-30

Music , for september and October, published at
Louisville. XIV. 1t is . neatly printed quarto OF
l6 pages. of which six are music arranged Tor the
piano and guitar.
Hon. John T. Hoffman, referee in the case OF
the Nicaragua Transit Company against Commo-
dore Vanderbilt, to compel the latter to pay the
former IS 600, 900, which has been pending since
1850. has awarded the company $i,s5o,ooo.
The BRAZILIAN government has offered a reward
of $4,000, gold, to the inventor of any practicable
mode of preserving beef for expectation. More
than four hundred experiments have been made,
and none have succeeded.
The Indianapolis Sentinel tells Of young man
In that city who ate cooked rat on Tuesday night
as payment of a bet lost on the election. Several
nersops who tasted the dish pronounced it equal
to-s young squirrel.
Saws the Canton (Miss.) Mail We saw and
tasted last week some fine brown sugar made
from sorghum. In fact, we don't recolect ever
having seen nicer brown sugar. Ii was clear ana
beautiful, and had q most delightful flavor"
A convention is to be held at Prairie Du Chen,
on the 10th of November, to consider the places
for uniting the Mississippi and Lake Michigan. and
TO memorabilia Congress In relation thereto. The
call ia signed by the governors of Missouri, Iowa,
Minnesota aud Wisconsin.
A curious statistcian has calculated that while
so much gold Is spent to enable men to carry
deadly iron on their shoulders, the 1900, 900
francs in the Bank of France would only require
5lO2 men 10 carry the whole sum away in useful
gold pieces.
The estimated cost of conveying ton Of mer-
cbaudise a mile on the ocean is from half cont
TO one and half cents ; on the lakes two cents /;
on the river two and three.fourth cents; on sthe
canals two to five CENTS and on the railroads from
three cents to thirteen and q half cents.
letter from the Feejee Islands says the new
trading and banking company which, in consider
alton of certain rights and privileges from King
Thskambou, had agreed to pay the debt of s45 ,OOC
due the United States, was finally in operation
and the whole of the first installment was soon to
| be paid.
VIM. A. Hauser, vice president of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company, reports the road pro
crossing satisfactorily. Application for grants Of
public lands will be made to Congress this winter
Texas gives twelve thousand acres per mile for 1t;
| construction
| A Virginia editor says the Spanish chestnut.
| have one advantage over ours; they are abou
four times as large, and one roasted will stay hun
| ger twenty. -four hours, which makes the report o.
| famine in Spain sound strangely. But they are
acrd and bitter as soot and unit to be eaten raw
The fountain on the grounds of Seth 3. Hunt, a
Bennington, is the highest but one in the world
1t is drawn from the hills through sixineh pipe
throwing stream les feet, presenting the ap
pearance at short distance Of single silver bar
Its cost was s25, 600.
At meeting of the American Oriental Society
held in New Haven last week. DR.. Martin. profes
sor of national law in the University of Pekin, wa
present. He exhibited a beautiful Hebrew manu-
script or synagogue roll of the Pen'ateuch, whic
he had purchased from the colony Of Jews in tn
interior of China, about whom SO much iuteres
has been felt. They had wholly lost the know
I edge of the Hebrew language, and were unable I
translate a single word of their Scriptures.