The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-21

president favors more positive policy for the
protection Of American interests In Mexico.
An Omaha Dispatch Of the l7h says: While the
construction tram on The Union Pacific Railroad
" backlog toward Fremont station, It raa over
COW, throwing the caooose car on the rack,
ii ing five men and w0unding twelve. Two OF the
latter died yesterday. All we're employees Of the
road.
The elevated railroad In Greenwich street, New
York city win be finished far es Thrtieth street
by the LIST Of January. 1t now takes one hour TO
reach Thirtieth street from the City Hall Park.
As soon as tie road In done, that distance can be
made In twenty inmates, aud Yonkers and Rivers
dale will be brought as near TO the basiness part
OF New York as Fortieth street is now. 80
The freedmen's village ct Arlington is to be de-
molished. The six or seven hundred aged or
manned dependents, who constitute the greater
part Of s population are to be transferred to the
Seventh Street Hospital, Washington, and will still
be the subjects Of national charity: The re-
mainder about one bundled. will be left to pro-
vide for themselves, they having been reported 90
competent to do so. 1.f ~ .-5t fsr-4.s-r.
A singular phenomenon has occurred at Mid
die Road, Suffolk county. Long Island. Mrs:
Esther Wells, nov upward of seventy years OF
age, lost her hair by sickness year or two since.
Recently it grew out again, and what is very re-
msrkable, IL. that while IL was straight before,
it is now curly and fails In beautiful ringlets about
her neck and shoulders. In youth her hair was
light, but since Its second growth 1t has become
darker, and now is q handsome dark color, very
The conservation Of Rev. Thomas A. Becker a.
Roman Catholic bishop of the new see Of Yelling
ton and Rev, James Gibbons as vicar apostolic Of
North Carolina, took place At the cathedral In Bal
impressive and solemn. The cathedral was
densely crowded, and thousands were unable to
gain Ambulance. The Most Rev. Martin J. Spsld-
ing, archbishop Of Baltimore and primste Of the
Unhed States, acted as coDsecrator, assisted by
the Very Rev. ". B. Cookery. arF
All disposable recruits Of the regular army de-
pots 81 Governors, Bedloes and Dsvidss Islands,
In New York hsrbor, are under orders for the mill
tary division Of the Pacific. The officers who
company these detachments will remain In that
department. As the reduction OF the army by cas-
ualty and expiration Of service Is being very rap
idly proceeded with, il is expected recruiting
offices will soon be reopened to al up companies
duced below the minimum prescribed 10 Gen.
Grants orders.
The Australian joint stock company made ar.
rangements with the king Of the Fejee Islands
Involving a settlement OF British protectorate
over the Fejee group. The terms Of the charter
occasioned considerable excitement among the
white settlers, and the British consul entered
protest which pointed out that the king had
granted powers to the new company such az inn
position Of taxes ETC., which he could not legally
transfer, and the whole matter awaits the visit of
the commodore Of the Australian squadron. The
companys agents have taken up 100 QUO acres Of
land. l
The Louisville Journal says that in lsI7 o
farmer named Daniel Harker, living in Wander
burg county, Indiana. was tried, convicted and
sentenced TO the penitentiary for twenty one
years, on the charge of outraging his step
daughter then young girl. His wife and the
girl testified positively against him. After serv.
ing ten years Of the sentence. ne was psrdooed
| and released. A short time since the STEP
daughter on her death bed, sent for Hsrker, aud,
in the presence OF witnesses, confessed that the
testimony on which he was convicted was false
in every particular being fabricated by herself
and her mother, and that the man who mad thus
suffered under the foul charge for twenty years,
ten Of them in prison. was entirely Innocent.
On the 18th, party of masked horsemen, some
fifteen in number, rode 10 Franklin, williamson
county, Tenn, and broke open the door OF the
store OF a Prussian jew named Bierfeld, q Rsdi.
cal. Berfeld. as soon as he saw the maskers,
attempted TO escape by fight. he was fred upon
and fell dead, pierced oy nvesoullets. Lawrence
Bowans, colored. Bierheld's clerk, was also shot.
he ran off, but was found during the night In
lot where he had taken refuge, mortaly wounded.
He died the next day. Who the msskers were,
or whether they were supported by others, Is not
known. The affair occurred just after the close
Of the circus exhibition, and many people we're
| on the streets, some of whom lnterfered, but
could not prevent the assassination. Il has
created intense feeling in Franklin. and 10 de-
Buffalo on the 10Th. They were met at the NJ
seara Falls depot by the mayor aud the presi.
| dent of the board of trade, who took charge OF
| them and escorted them, In carriages, TO view
the grain elevators foundries, etc.. OF the city.
| They were also sumptuously entertained at the
private residences of leading citizens and ,the
| Buffalo Club House, and in the afternoon one OF
| the fastest steamers Of the Erie Railroad Line
| having been placed at their disposal, they were
| taken out on the lake for an excursion, escorted
| by another steamer. When opposite Fort Porter
| the boats were stopped, and the embassy was
bonored with an international salute from the fort.
| There not&eing sufficient time to return TO the
| city to take the train for Niagara Falls, the
| steamer Wabash steamed down to Tonawanda to
| intercept the train. Here an unfortunate accl-
r.. ant nDnh a
| dor. While crossing a rickety old wharf be was
precipitated by q loose plank through the wharf
| into deep water. He seized the plank and Kept
| himself afoat until q deck hand Of the schooner
Wabash swan to his assistance. rope wa:
passed under his arms, by which he was raised
| N the wharf.