The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-05-28
ITEMS BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL.


Two Paraguayan steam Transports near the
ChacO, have been sunk by the Brazilian guHboats.
The first load Of Irish emigrants have arrived at
Rio JsneriO.
The Adams Express Company lost $4,000 by
the robbery on the Jehersonvlle Railway on
the 22d.
/. The grand prize Of Paris. or French Derby, was
won on the 24th by NJ. Secheckler's colt " Seus-
ssin.n
will be succeeded in command of the forces OF the
province If Quebec by Major General Blssell.
Capt. WOrden has sued the st. Louis Democrat
for $4,000, for alleged libel, in copying from
lhe La Crosse Democrat statement tnat he had
Wn5led that paper.
A Buenos Ayres letter states that on capturing
Caupsiy, il was discovered that nothing but
Quaker guBs remained in the stronghold, while the
stationary sentinels proved TO be stuffed scare
crows.
Telegrsms from Sydney in anticipation of the
overland mail say Prince Alfred left for England
in command of his ship. the Galitia. He was gell'
Tie attempted assassin of the prince was executed
on the 23d of April.
The total amount distracted Z. ON the safes of
the Adams Express Company, in their car on tue
Jefferson Railroad, on the Dlght OF the 22d nst.,
amounts to 900 %, $l3 900 OF which was from
Nashville, and the remainder from Louisville.
Three of the bills passed by the Canadian par
lament are reserved by the governor general for
sanctiOn of her majesty, viz: the extraditiOn
treaty between Canada aud the United States. the
divorce bill, and the act fixing the governor gen.
erals sslsry.
Louisville merchants. in all branches of busi-
ness complain grievouSy of dull times. Business
houses that rented for $4,000 per annum one year
ago are now offered at $500, and quite a number
OF stores on some Of the principal thoroughfares
are vacant.
The steamers Mississippi, Lorany and Mary E.
Forsyth. three large boats belangng to the Allan
tic and Mississippi steamship Company, were sold
| at auction in st. Louis on the 25th. The first
brought slI 500, the second sl45OO and the third
| 5000. ..
| very fatal cattle plague is raging near Lafay-
ette Indiana. The disease is rapid in It's effects
the animals being apparently well in the morning
| and before night are dead, in many instances
dropping down by the roadside, within an hour or
! two after milking.
| Montana papers report that two miners were
killed by the Indians, twenty miles north of Lin.
! coin Gulch. party of miners have started in
pursuit. band of Barrack Indians, huntiag in
| the Wind River Mountains was attacked by a su
pefior force OF Cheyennes, who killed sixty Bar
rack Indians. The Oheyennes loss was not as
| certaiDt d.
On and after June lst the treasury department
will be prepared to receive the thirty treas
ury notes falling due June Is and July Is, 1868
for conversion into bonds dated July l, 1857 OF
July i, 1865. as parties may desire. The terms of
conversion Will be as follows: The interest on
| both series Of notes viii be allowed to July lst
and bonds issued in exchange will bear interest
| from that date.
The Honolulu Gazette says that, up to the 29th
| of April the earthquakes in Hawaii have de-
| creased in violence and frequency although the
! whole island was still moved with slight vibrs.
tions, and two " smart" shocks have been felt as
far as Honolulu. There were reports that the
| lava had again broken out in Capapalo, but they
were not credited. Full details of the first erup.
tons more than confirm the accounts previously
| sent. At kahuku on April 7th, the lava burst
forth through fssure nearly three miles long,
| and ran in a few hours twelve miles, from a
height of $500 feet, TO the sea, where it made a
projection of half a mile
| Special dispatches from zatlan, dated May
| L. via San Francisco the 22d report the forcble
seizure of 5000 stand of arms from the warehouse
in San Bias Jalisco, by the adherents of Gems.
| Vega and Losada. The arms were shipped by q
San Francisco house to a merchant named Fry
man, who denounces the act as outrageous, aud
calls on the governor for restitution. The gov.
ernor refers him 10 the courts for reclamation.
Gems. Toledo, Grandos aud Palace, three princi
pal chiefs of the Sinaloa revolution, with other
officials implicated, have been seized, and for
warded, under strong guard, TO the city of Mexico
The walking match in New York between Gold
ing and Miles came TO an unexpected termination
Thursday afternoon. The pedestrian Niles was
carried to his room after spraIning ankle, and
soon fell asleep. His attendant, man named
james Ross, took seat near the window, and
also fell asleep. friend called soon after, bu
Miles was not able TO get ont Of bed to open the
door, and the attendant still continued to sleep
Miles resorted to the questionable method of wax
ing him by firing pistol shot, as he thought, Just
above the servants head. The shot took effec
n the neck of Ross, infiicting severe flesh wound
The other pedestrian. Golding, declares his inten
tiOn of continuing until The thousand miles are
completed. He is in good health and spirits anC
will probably accomplish the feat.