The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-20
ghs glea Orleans Crescent.
MORNING. FEBRUARY 20, 1858.
General News Itens.

stens's wool factory. at Peru. Indiana, has
been burned. The loss-aDout $50 000-is Gov
cred by insurance.
More than o hundred men IN New York make
Their living by catching rats for sporting pur.
poies.
One Of the national banks Of Nashville. pro.
p'ses TO loan the city money, taking its scrip
A brook front nearly twentv.six inches in
ength, and weighing seven and half ponds is
said 70 have been caught near Middleton, Coan.
The aggregate receipts Of horse railroads IN
Massachusetts IN 1857 show net profit Of less
than i've per cent. Many roads have sustained
serious losses.
henry g. Neal. a Methodist preacher, was On
Sunday seized by gang Of rufians, while on his
way 70 Oh an appointment IN BiOuut county,
Tenn, and cruelty whipped.
The 'defalcatpn in the American Exchange
Bank, az New York, IL said 70 amount 20 $780,
600. 1t is also believed that the defaulting as
sistant cashier will not be prosecuted.
The removal Of the capital Of California from
Sacramento is aEitated. San Jose il the most
prominent bidder for the honor of being the seat
Of government.
Both the army and navy now use the same sig
nal systems, and the cadets of Annapolis and
West Point receive the same instruction in using
them.
r. D. Howells, who calls himself the Great
Southern Pedestrian, has undertaken to walk
from Mansfield, Texas, TO Council Bluffs, Iowa, in
n days. The distance is 1924 miles, and he has
accomplished s35 miles Of it in Is days.
The elegant mansion Of Edward N. Perkins, az
Jamaica Plains, near Boston, with portion 81
the furniture and costly paintings destroyed
by fire on Monday night. Loss $4,000, partly iu-
sured.
Contracts have been entered into for fhe con.
struction Of the great Masonic temple AT Phila.
delpha, 90 be built in i've years, aud to cost
three-quarters of a million dollars. The corner
stone is 20 he laid on st. Johns day.
A memorial has been presenteTto the MAssa-
chuSetts legislature IN behalf OF infants neglected
or abandoned by their parent5L who are sent to
the poorhouse. The returlE SHOW that from
eighty TO ninety out of every hundred die before
reaching the end Of their 6ssf year
bill is before hesy'Pepnsvlvania legislature
making it unlawful S.Sr any railroad company in
that State to WaTfits cars with stoves heated with
coai, Wooai o<any indammable matter. They
mus !Ii AstP <fsrl warm by some means that will
hOt occ ..sSsfSr fire in case of accident.
a <Sructive FIRE occurred at Green Bay, Wis,
Urfhe l2th, destroying Denery's Gothic block and
me contents Of .. n. Marshall's dry goods store
Skeel Best's dry goods store, and The Green Bay
Gazette printing Office. Total loss about $4,000,
with an insurance Of $4,000.
The city authorities Of Portland, Maine, have
adopted The Sebago Lake project for the intro
duciion Of water into that city. The contracts
for the construction Of the works have been made
and as soon a. The frost is out Of the ground work
vii be commenced.
The challenge of the trotting horse General
Butler 20 tTot any horse 10 the world under saddle
for $1,000 or $1,000 side, has been accepted by
The owner of the mare Lucy, for mile heats, best
three in FIVE, the trot TO take place next June on
tie Fashion Course
Some people never think of a revenue stamp
when writing letter, yet some letters require
stamping as much as a note or deed. Under the
internal revenue laws, letters acknO gledginy the
receipt Of either drafts, checks or money, eX-
ceeding twenty dollars, are subject to stamp
duty of two cents the sam as il a formal receipt
had been given for so much money. This fact is
sometimes forgotten, or is not known, even by
good business men.
The Lewiston Me- Journal relates a singular
case. About week ago, Mr.. Q. Hodgson, Of
South Paris, conductor on the Grand Trunk
Railroad accidentally forced splinter into one
Of bis fingers. The wound became na4med. the
swelling increasing rapidly until it extended
through the whole arm and shoulder. large
abscess gathering in the armpit. On Thursday,
after consultation, his physicians Onene1 the
abscess, but without giving relief and the patient
died at nine o'clock on Friday morning.
The Oxford coal vein lies uuder part OF Scra1-
ton Pennsy lvana, and the coal having been re-
moved the props left standing are quite insult
Gent 20 sustain the weight resting upOn them.
Ten OF twelve days ago the wells suddenly gave
out, and the next evidence OF the giving way Of
the earth was the leaning OF the Buildings
especially those of brick. Two brick churches
are already injured one of them cracked through
the center, aud number Of houses are in danger
of falling.
Brownlow has sent a message to the Tennessee
legislature in relation 10 the strike on the Mem
phis and ClaTksvilie and Louisville r abroad. He
declares tie resolution Of the strikers to prevent
the running of all trains except the mail train,
until all arrearages are paid, a conspiracy against
the State, aud recommends some action on the
subject. lie also recommends that the affairs Of
the read be wound up, and the road sold to secure
the State interest.
General Palmer, Of the Union Pacific Railroad,
at Visoa, February -, reports the line through
better country than was expected. Notwithstand
ing the weather, the party encountered no snow,
except at Talachauqua Pass, and there not more
than eight inches depth any time during the win
ter. At no place on the entire route will the grade
exceed sixty feet to the mile. Gen. Palmer u sat
lifted with the survey, and expects 20 leave san
Francisco for Washington by steamer on the 18th
instant.
The Saginaw Mich, Enterprise of the 18th
publishes an interesting detailed statement of the
business Of the Saginaw Valley last year, from
which We gather the following figures: Number
Of mills 81 capacity of mills, $4,000 900 feet;
lumber manufactured, 422 900 900 feet; lath,
60 900 COO; shingles 81 600 600; salt 47O 600 bbls;
capital invested in lumber manufacture, $500.
COO; in salt e. 100000. The above does not in
cude the business Of the shore Of Saginaw bay,
which would increase these figures about twenty
per cent.
to pay the huun and prize money on the follow
ing lists To the officers and men Of the U. ! steam
ers Montauk, Wissachickon, Seneca and Dawn,
for the destruction OF the rebel vessel Nashville.
To the officers and men Of the United states
steamers Ceres, Delaware, Louisiana, Hetzel,
Commodore Perry, Valley City, Underwater.
Morse, Henry Brinker, whitehead, Shawseen,
Loeb wood, General Putnam and J. Y. Seymour,
for the destruction Of the enemy's vessels Black
Warrior, Seahird, Fanny and Forest.
Some years ago, in the western part OF Massa-
Chusetts youth fell in love with young woman,
and her friends opposing, eoped with her. They
were pursued and OveTtaken at a hotel, when they
begged q final interview alone, and then, as he
serted, mutually agreed 70 commit suicide. Her
courage failed her. however, and she called upon
him. a. he says, 10 do the deed for her. He then
cut her throat and his own. She died, he re-
covered, was tried at lenOX and convicted Of
murder but was saved from the gallOws bV a
commutation OF his sentence to Imprisonment for
life. Six years have elapsed and now he has just
died in the State Prison AZ CharestOwn.
A letter from Lima, Peru, says of the gold fields
on the Maranon The lazy Indians of the region
90 TO the shore with simple wooden tray, and
wash the gold. which they deliver % q few trades
men, who give them axes, haichets and knives in
exchange Thus they work for an hour and a
half or two at the utmost, until the sun rises, and
then lie down IN the shade of some tree, only
stirring again when an opportunity presents
itself for another exchange. Daring these two
ncurs Cf work each Indian can gather two or