The New Orleans crescent., 1868-10-29

Gold closed in New York at 134l.
Gen. Buckner is insRichmond.
Arkansas has fifty -four hot springs.
Six thousand dollars in currency were bid for a
seat at the New York Stock Exchange.
Gen. Steedman has been appointed chief of po-
lice pro te7s.
John X. Mipgle was yesterday appointed super.
intendent of the fire alarm telegraph.
There was coined at the mint of Zscatecas
during the first six months of this year 81, ,442 006
Boston arrested 2O52 people for drunkenness
during the past quarter.
The Rome Courier says new corn can be bought
in Floyd county for fifty cents bushel.
A womens christian association has lust been
started in Cleveland.
Eoston court has at last decided umbrellas
property.
Thanks to the Southern Express Company for
late papers.
Vim. Reston, Esq, an old and respected citizen
of Wilmington, N. c., died in that city en- the 10th
instant.
A corn harvester, the invention Of q virginian,
has been tried in that State and is complete sue.
cess. 1t is very simple in its construction.
Nevada silver mines have nearly reached the
place where earthquakes are made. At the bot.
tom OF some the Temperature is 100 degrees.
In the year 1867 Great Britain imported fsl,
900, 600 worth of whcot. This yeas II in estimated
that they will only need els 500 900 worth.
The Radicals in North Carolina are coonizing
negroes from Virginia, where there is to be no
voting done in order to carry the State for Grant.
The subscriptions for the monument to Maxi
milan at Trieste has reached the sum of forty
thousand forms.
Letters from the Sandwich Islands confirm the
reported subsidence of the southeastern shore of
the island Of Hawaii.
Steamship Del Norte, while en- route from Sitka
to Victoria, was wrecked October 2lst, about
fifty miles from the latter port.
Gen. P. d. Roddy, formerly of Alabama, has
recently opened Q commission and factorage
house in New York.
writer crticsing Motley's Radical speech at
Boston says: "a literary Radical is the biggest
political fool we have in the country"
The Board of Equalization in Illinois have
recommended the next General Assembly of that
State to organize State Bureau Of Statistics.
The French postmaster general states that near.
ly as many American journals are now taken In
France as English ones.
President Bsez has signed contract for the
establishment of q line of steamers between New
York, New Orleans and San Domingo.
Mrs. B. F. Enos, the song writer of Rochester,
died in that city the 18th, at the age Of thirty
six.
Louis Hilgenburg, young German, who lived
alone in log house about six miles from Ironton,
Ohio, on the Marion road, was murdered on last
Friday night by some person or persons unknown.
1t is stated that in some counties in North Caro-
lima, famous for their high.priced tobacco, dried
blackberries yield greater amount Of money
than the crop of tobacco.
A company Of seventy Germans paraded New
York the other day, none Of whom had q beard
lees than q foot long. The captains whiskers
reached his knees.
An association of the new church tSvedenbor.
gian) was formed in Columbus, Ca, last week.
embracing the States of Georgia, South Caroline
and Florida.
During the year 1867 over ninety-two million
pounds of sterling passed through probate in the
courts of England, a sum equal to fls6 for every
death in the year.
Correspondence from Constan.inople states that
the quantity of gold recently discovered in the
bed of the river Inquire, near to Koutais is equal
in proportion to the yield in California.
At banquet recently given at st. RemyJ
France, bottle Of wine Of the year l472 was pre-
sented by Baron Brisse, the well known gsstrono.
mer, who was one of the guests.
At Allentown, Rhode Island, negro was made
overseer to white workmen in factory. II IL
needless to add that the owner Of the factory is q
rank Radical, and that his white workmen left
without notice.
A Lynchburg lady, who has been to see Gen.
Early. at Dummondville, Canada, says he is some
what bent. and suffering from rheumatism, bua
otherwise his health is good. He still wears the
gray.