The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-22

A little girl eight years old committed suicide in
indianapolis on Thursday night.
The receipts Of customs from July to july IL
inclusive, were 81 $50 OIL.
1t is not expected that the bill reducing the
army will be passed at this session..
All the inmates of the Maine State Prison one
hundred and forty four in number, have voted in
favor of the prohbtory liquor law.
The banking house Of Thos. f. Norris on Wall
street, was robbed OF 81 900 in ive-tweny bonds.
No clue TO the robbers.
The Hon. John B. Needhsm, leuten ant governor
OF Iowa under Governor kirkwoOd, died in Oska-
loosa on the 18th inst, after protracted Illness
Senator Bayard, who sailed for Europe on the
China. goes TO secure the aid of foreign medical
gentlemen for impaired hearing. .-..
Special dispatches from different parts of Him
DIS, Iowa and Wisconsin, represent the crops in
very favorable condition.
Rev. DR.. William Allen, formerly president of
BoWdoin College, died on Thursday, in Northamp.
ton, Massachusetts,. :
There are now one thousand two hundred and
sixty-three Mormons at Castle Garden awaiting
transportation 10 Utah, and two thousand ons
hundred more expected from Europe soon.
The railroad bridge across the Susquehanna
river SIX miles west OF Harrisburg, took ire from
sparks, about O'Clock on the morning of the
18th. Five spans were destroyed
John II. Stills, an alleged defsulter to the
amount OF Sl2 900, to the treasury department of
the United States branch mint at San Francisco,
was arrested there on the 10th.
Extensive preparations are being made for the
exposition of wool and wooden goods to be held
at Chicago, the first week in August, under the
auspices of the Wooden Manufacturers Associa-
tion of the Northwest. r.--
The deaths in st. Louis for the week ending the
18th we're 203 Of which thirty three were from
cholera infantum, eleven from sunstroke, twelve
from spoplexy and eleven from softening of the
brain, the two latter superinduced Dy heat.
The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred visited
Farragut's feet on Tuesday week. Farrazut re-
turned the visit to the British frgste Galaets with
Alfred on the 10th, and by invitation be then Visi-
ted Queen Victoria at Osborne House. T."
Adah Wood, seventeen years of age, pupil in
Putnam School, Newburyport Massachusetts,
committed suicide with arsenic on the 18th, in
consequence OF falling to receive an expected d.
ploma at the examination exercises. r...
Report says q skeleton has been discovered
buried in the immediate neighbOrhood of the
Holmes murder, at Kingston, Massachusetts,, and
il is thought to be that Of man that boarded
with Deacon. Andrews, and mysterousy dsap-
peared some years ago. Many believe Andrews
guilty of double murder.
New rolls are being used in the organization of
the new volunteer companies in Canada by which
volunteers are required to enlist for three years.
The volunteer force now will be asked to enlist
after October LIST, when the new militia organiza-
ton will go into operation. II sufficient force Is
not obtained by volunteering, recourse viii be had
TO drafting.
The paWnbroker's shop of Nathan Folk, corner
of Pine and Third streets, st. Louis was entered
Thursday night and the back of the safe cut out,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
SIS, 00O-carried off, Among the property, 1t is
said, there were one hundred and fifty gold
watches, valuable diamonds, and other jewels.
At Thompson, Carroll county, Illinois, Saturday
week, man named Zuck having made improper
TemaTkst TO the daughter Of a Mr. Pease, of Savan-
ma, that gentlemen, without intending TO njure
him fatally, administered a sound thrashng to
luck, who died Of his injuries. A sister Of the
deceased caused the death of ayoung lady near
Thompsos last summer, by stabbing her with
butcher knife.
The Sandwich Islands legislature was prorogued
June "a, after ffty.eight days session, the king
thanking the members for their hberality toward
his family, and for the zeal manifested for the
best interests of the government. A general ap-
preparation bill was passed which grants one mil
lion and sixty thousand dollars tor carrying on the
government two years, ending March, $50. Thirty
thousand dollars were appropriated to encourage
immigration, and similar amount to promote in
terror aud steam communication. ...r .
The United States steamer Suwanee left Vic.
toria July Z, for Alaska. On the morning of July
she ran on an unknown rock in Thadwell pas.
sage. twenty five miles north of Fort Rupert, and
stove a large hole nearly amidships, causing her
TO sink. No lives we're lost. The English war
steamer Sparrow Hawk was spoken the day fol-
lowing the shipwreck, and would reach the vessel
in O few hours and render assistance. ...-
A chapel in the City of Mexico, in which osten-
fatous ceremonies were performed on the ami
versaTy of Maximisn's death, has been demol-
ished by order of Juarez. Ortega has been put
into common Jail at Monterey. The insurgents
were preparing for a desperate campaign against
JuaTez The troops in the State of Puebla and
Gen. AlatoIre had failed to make any peaceabe
arrangements with their leaders.
San Francisco papers publishing leading edito-
rails based on telegrsphic reports from the East,
that the United States had purchased from Mexico
the States of Sinaloa and Sonora. and commend
ing the action of Seward in the matter, called
forth a card from Jose GOderic, Mexican consul in
that city, officially denying the truth of the report
and prOnouncing the statement absurd, the const-
futonal government of Mexico not having power
to ALLEVIATE any portion Of the national territory.
Rear Admiral 7. G. Rowan, commanding the
Asiatic squadron reports to the secretary Of the
navy from Hong Kong, on the 10Th OF May, the
arrival of the Piscataqua at that port on the day
previous four days from Manila. with officers
and crew in good health. Admiral Rowan also
forwards to the department report OF Lleuten.
ant Commander Hatfield, commanding the United
States steamer Unsdilla, announcing the destruc.
tion OF two piratical junks, near the Island OF
HaiDan. The pirates, on the appearance of the
Unsdllar beached their vessels, and escaped TO
shore. Only Few days previous the pirates had
captured two trading juRks and hanged part of
their crews.
Senator Howard, on the 18th, submitted the re-
port of the joint committee to investigate frauds
in the purchase Of ordnance. The bulk of the
evidence is calculated TO show that the chief of
ordnance and other parties, from alleged inter-
ested motives. persisted IN using proiectes which
had been condemned after due examination into
their merits. The committee conclude by recon-
mending the removal Of Brevet Major General A.
B. Dyer from his position as chief Of ordnance.
In Milwaukee. the other day, gay old girl Of
eighty four was united in wedlOck TO a susceptible
youth Of twenty. The bridegroom's name is
George Jacobs, and the bride is the happy pos