The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-07-04

Ohio will pay 900 on her State debt this
month. All but s5l 900 is interest.
Gen. Grllett has been ordered to California to
take the position vacated by Gen. Mcdowell.
A dispatch from Salt Lake announces the
drown ng of six men in Green river, on June 18th,
by the breaking away OF a ferry.
The San Francisco Chamber Of Commerce has
held meeting to organize association for pro-
lection against fraudulent bankruptcy.
II is thought the wheat surplus OF California,
for export this season, will reach three hundred
and fifty thousand tons.
w. B. Stokes has been nominated for Congress
by the district convention, and w. w. Woodc0ck
as elector for the Nashville district.
The chancery court of Davidson has rendered
decision in the Medical College case in favor Of
the plaintiffs. DR.. Jennings and others were re-
moved, and the professors and Others substituted.
The San Francisco Board OF Supervisors have
finally passed a resolution reserving over 1900
acres Of public lands for a park. cemetery,
schools, engine houses, hospital and jail.
A society Of negroes in st. Louis have raised
large amount Of money TO assist IN the prosecu-
ton of Capt. Donaldson for the murder Of the
negro on the Great Republic.
Two women we're poisoned, near Chaska, Min.
nesota on Monday, and died in commissions. caused
by the poison Of the potato bug getting into sores
A Hong: Kcpg letfet says that apples from the
United States, brought by steam, packed In ice,
sell there at the rite Of two dollars dozen in
gold.
washing sheep in apond. when he got beyond his
DEPTH and Frank Drawn went TO his rescue, but
both were drowned II ten feet of water.
Two hundred men have been thrown out OF
employment by the destruction Of the Pottstown
PENN nail works, which occnrred by FIRE last
Saturday. ~
The SIS 900 subsidy to the Honoluldlne bbugates
service every twenty days to San Francisco, rips
to be made inside Of twelve days. -Phe contract
is fer two years. The next steamer leaves for
Honolulu, July 3.
Gen. Halleck is on tour of inspection through
the military division Of the Pacific. The depart
ment of Alaska has been finally organized, with
| Gen. JEFF. G. Davis as commander, headquarters
| at Sitka.
lhe steamer Sam. Gaty. from st. Louis to
Omaha, when opposite Arran Rock, on Monday
| night, struck q snag and careened. Then the
| lamps upset, and she caught fire and burned to
| the waters edge, and, together with her cargo.
| was total loss.
The excitement about the Tennessee bonds is
| unsbated. The State controller and the banks
\ refused to cash the coupons due. A call Of the
| legislature to repudate the bonds and create
school fund out of the railroad bonds is talked OF.
The two SONS Of DR.. r. Ogden DOremus, the
| well known chemist while playing In wooden
play house at the back of their residence, 10 New
| York on Friday week, accidentally set it on ire.
| They were unable to escape Immediately, and the
i younger Of the boys persisted 10 the flames.
The American Central Railway will be COM
pleted TO New Boston, on the Mississippi river, IN
|
made for iron for the entire Iowa part OF the
road. and it will be shipped as soon rs the first
| sub. division ia ready to receive it.
The MeDard (Ill.,) Republican says that a Mr..
Kimbsll, Of the firm of Davis Kimball, OF Pc
teTsburg, was found dead in Pike county, H.,
/ few days since. He had been to Texas to collect
| some money, and it is supposed he was followed
from Texas by a man called Capt. Stout, who
| murdered him IN cold blood for his money.
when the New York postofice is built on the
/ Civ Hall Park Dnaumatie tnhea will he Conatrnc-
| ted from the adjoining daily newspaper Offices ,
through which their mails will be discharged di.
rectly into the Offices, at great saving OF time
and labor" But the postofice in question ia not
likely to be completed during this generation.
Gen. Howard, Of the freedmen's bureau. has
been elected president Of Union College, at Sche-
| nectady, New York. An association has been
| formed in Washington 70 raise $50 900 among the
| colOred people TO purchase homestead for him.
| 1t is proposed to collect but one cent from each
| colored man, woman and child who feels disposed
| TO give that much.
Senator Thayer's bill to regulate and FIX the
/ military establishments of the United states.
/ amends the "Act to increase and fix the military
/ establishment of the United States By repeating
/ section -, which fixes the number Of captains in
the qusrtermssters department at 80, and the
number of majors at Is, and prohibits the filing
/ Of vacancies until the number OF officers IL 80 re-
/ duced.
| hon N. G. Taylor, commissioner Of indian af-
/ fairs, has sent a letter to Senator Henderson,
chairman OF the committee on Indian affairs Of tho
| Senate, asking a full and rigid examination into
all the circumstances attending the recent treaty
for sale Of the Usage lands. He states positively
that such an investigation will prove that the
transactions attending the treaty were conducted
10 most just and conscientious manner, both for
i the Indians and for the State Of Kansas.
During the last three years two citizens Of New
| York, Chsuncey and Henry Rose, have distributed
among charitable associations IN an unostenta-
tiOus manner the large sum Of 81 100000, equiva.
lent 70 over $1,000 day during the whole period.
Such remarkable instance Of benevolent munih-
| cence should not 60 unrecognized, and we gladly
add the name Of Rose 10 the limited bat honOra.
bic list which already includes Peter Cooper.
George Peabody, James Lenax, and the late
Matthew Vasssr.