The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-07
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export this season will reach 5000 tons.
There are Is, 900 barrels of whisky in the bonded
warehouses of the Covington, (Ky) district.
Mr. Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is about to build
large hotel in shat city for George 5. Leland, OF
the Union Hotel at Saratoga Springs.
Hannibal Hamlin, late vice president OF the
United States. has been chosen president OF the
Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad Company.
ThCre appears, by official reports, to be an m
| crea ed average of wheat in every state, ana
promise OF the best crop ever known
claim agent at Lafayette, lad, has been en-
tsrprisng enousg to get together sSO'OoO oeiore
Lawrence Van Buren, brother of the late Martin
| Van Burep, died at KinderhoOk, New York, on
| Thursday evening.
couple in Chicago, aged respectively twenty
one and twenty years. have been divorced. after q
n arried life of 5ye summers.
OF two hundrSd Massachusetts, maidens, Z" snx-
| ious and aimless," who went TO Washington Ter
ritory two years ago, all but three nave eeen
mated.
The aggregate amount of land in Colorado
claimed by virtue of Spanish grants ia 4,129,OOo
acres, $50 600 OF which Is now owned by Gov
| Galpin. ..r
has reached depth of 3l47 feet, the deepest
| in the world. There is no water yet. The work
4 has been goiog on for twenty-six months.
During last year over a half million sterling
| f540, ,SSOAwas transmitted TO Ireland from Amer
| ics,. by emigrants to their friends, f2O2,94 of
| the sum being in the form Of prepaid passengers
| orders
| The Boston Traveller of last Monday, says:
| "More churches In this city were occupied by
coiored clergInien yesterday, than ever on one
| day before. Among them we're five bishops of
| the ZION (colored) Nj. f. Church"
| George H. Stout, the manager of the New York
| News Association assisted by corps of ten Of
| the best shorthand reporters in this country,
makes a Uerbdtim report of the proceedings Of
| the Democratic National Convention for the Asso-
| ciated Press.
1 he trafp fnrD ~ uQa
| observed suddenly to throw up her arms, ex-
| claiming, :" 1 am a wicked WITCH and going
| to die !" She died soon after in commissions. Ia
| her pocket was found bottle labelled poison"
An experiment made last year In Germany, in
| planting potatoes, showed that where the "eyes"
| had been first removed, the yield was four times
as great as where they were left In their place.
| It was found that when an old eye had been
/ rubbed off, lhree or four new ones made their ap-
| pesrance.
The Cheyenne Leader states that the Union Pa
cihc Railroad is about to erect great hotels rang
/ ing in cost from fifteen TO fifty thousand dollars
at Cheyenne, Laramie, North Platte, aud Green
River for the accommodation and comfort Of pas
| sengers, in tue event OF being delayed or desiring
| to rest at any time while making the journey
| across the plains by this route.
| Washington evening paper, of the "a, says /:
! General Joseph +. Johnston, late of the Confed-
| crate service, has received full pardon from the
| president, through the influence Of Mr.. Seward.
| This is the first pardon yet granted to full gen.
/ ersl in the Confederate SERVICE"
| The Louisville COuriers special from Franklin,
| KY. says: "a terrible smash up occurred at the
simpson County Agricultural Fan Grounds on
| Thursday DCrDing. The entire amphitheater fell
1 to the grousd, Djurng several workmen severely.
| The stTuclIfe was nearly finished and valued at
/ sl2 600. The damage amounts to $4,000.
| The property of the late ex-President Buchanan
has been appraised at $3.50, $50, including $4,000
III real estate, and SS307 on deposit with the Bar
| iags in London. The principal portion OF his es-
| tate consists Of State and railroad bOuds. IL Is
i - NJ Dvo tha last fasr
| years, gave away TO his relations from $4,000 to
| $50, coo.
The exact phraseology Of the law repeating
| the cotton tax having become a matter OF dis
| pute certified copy Of the act has been procured
! from Washing by the journal of Commerce. The
] law reads AL cotton grown in the United States
after the year 1867 shall be exempt from internal
| tax, and cotton imported from foreign countries,
on and after November l, ls6S, shall be exempt
| from duty.
| Noticeable features Of the celebration Of the
| Fourth by the troops at Fort Columbus, in New
| York hsrbor. was the reading Of the Declaration
| of Independence by Corporal b. NJ. Thompson,
/ ana an anniversary address by Private Richard
Pealf editor Of the Soldiers Bulletin. The seec-
/ ton Of ested men for the performance Of these
| duties when commissioned officers are abundant,
speaks well for the intelligence Of the rank and
| file.
| In New York, on the I'd, Thomas E. Carey, an
attache of banking house, entered Mr.. A. G..
| Kings bank "a william street, for the purpose of
| receiving s45 600 in coupon bonds of the issue of
| 1865, and one Of the treasury clerks handed out
the bonds TO him, and while they were lying on
| the counter, Mr.. Carey and the gentleman behind
| the desk entered into conversation, during which
/ some daring thief came up unnotced, and, sez-
lug the money, succeeded in making his escape
| with it.
| Three interesting memorials of the pilgrim
/ fathers have been placed in the New England
| Congregational Church of Chicago. In the walls
| OF the church are built three stones, one from
Scroby Manor, in England, the residence OF Elder
L nr.uu nd fha frat al n
| church, which afterward assembled under Robin
| son at Leyden, and at which they embarked at
| Del5thaven for America; another from the pave
meIt of y church in Delfthaven, near the place OF
their embarkaton, 10 which church the Rev. III.
/ Cohen Stuart, of Rotterdam, by whose agency
the stone was procured, supposes them to have
| assembled for the last time before leaving HOl-
| md and the third piece of the rock OF Plymouth
| ia Massac husetts, upon which they landed, gilt
from the-Justees Of the Pilgrim Monumental Asso-
| citation. :
The provisions Of the Peabody educational fund
| do not extend to Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri
| and Texas. Attention has thus far been given
| only to tie largest towns and Cities In these 1t
| was found that only about one-third OF the white
children,f generally from the wealthler families,
| were attending schools; about two thirds OF the
| roored children were in some way provided with
| means OF education and were actually at schools
In seven OF the States free schools have thus
been established in the principal cities, the au-
| thoTities aiding in supplying funds and the plan
| has met with the earnest cooperation and sym
pathy of the intelligent portion Of the people.
|
| GKN. F. P.iBLAIR on THE SrTUATION.-G sneral
| Frank r. Blair has sent letter TO Colonel Broad
head in which he leaves it to him, after cOusuta-
| ton with Blsir's friends, whether his name shall
| be pfsented to the Democratic convention.
| MIR. Blair says there is but one way TO restore
| the government and the Constitution, and that Is
f5r the president elect to declare the recOnstrsc-
on acis null and void; to compel the army to
undo its usurpations at the South; disporse The
| karr al runi
people TO reorganize their own governments and
elect senators and representatives.
The House of representatives will contain e ma
| j0rity OF Democrats from the North. They Will
| admit the representatives elected by the white
| people Of the outh and with the cooperation of
this party it will not be difficult to compel the