The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-15

Tax payers remember that the pre-eminently
"loil" Baker is on the radical ticket.
3 Miss Emma Msddern appeared last week at the
Howard, Boston, in q new piece called Nip the
Crow"
The newspaper called Every Afternoon, ex-
pired in New York on the llth. The editor FRANK
ly avows in his saledictory that it too much re-
sembled an old fashioned weekly.
Do You want to be forced to send your chiIdren
to school with negroes, You do not? Then be
sure to vote against the Black Crook Constitu.
ton. tas3 stit .r
Havana letters state that two negroes on the
island claim their freedom on the plea that they
are working in q copper mine which belongs to
England. and as that country prohibits slavery,
they are Free The case is in the courts.
Rev. VIM. Henry Green. d. d.. has been elected
president Of the College Of New Jersey, to fill the
vacancy caused by the late resignation of Rev.
DIR. Mclean. DR.. Green is q professor in the
Presbyterian Theological Seminary at Princeton.
serious shooting affrsy occurred in yicksburg
recently between J. Q. Wilcox merchant doing
business on the corner of Crawford and Levee
streets, and John J. Smith, proprietor of the
Prentiss House, in which the latter was severely,
il not fatally wounded by the former.
Two men in an o.,en boat have been picked
up, says an Havana dispatch, and ii is thought
they are deserters from some OF the prisons in
Florida. 1t will be remembered in this connec-
tion that ST. Ledger Grenfel recently escaped
with some soldiers from the Dry Tortugas.
The Black Crookites have about finished up
their cheating, as far as the registry is con-
cemed-now look out for them at the polls. If
there IL any style of fraud which they have not
conceived, and for which they have not pre-
pared, it must be something SURPRISING human
ingenuity.
We learn from Montreal dispatch, that man
3 named Leban and his wife, who were in the habit
of numbering travellers who stopped ct their
house, attacked traveller. the man with an az
and the wife with q razor. The traveller knocked
down his asssiant and his wife mistaking her hus-
band for him cut his throat. She has been ar
rested and confessed to all Of the past horrible
: transaction. Three skeletons were found In the
ouse.
Registration closed in Wilmington on the llth,
mid considerable excitement. The total regis
ton in the city for five days was whites, 40l !;
arks 40. The total. including the former regis
ion, was: whites. 1909; blacks. 2o72. The
,ical excitement is increasing daily. Both
sss are straining every nerve. The accounts
Bladen and Richmond counties Indicate
additions to the white vote under the new
ration.
stated that at the recent interview between
tor sprague and Representative Garfield the
1er said that he had no doubt in his miad that
Stanton's case was clearly within the tenure
Office act. and that the presidents position was
erefore untensble. Both Mr.. Garfield and Mr..
prague agreed that the president was danger.
us man, and ought 10 be removed for acts CON-
.nitted. Mr.. sprague admitted that the views Of
Chief Justice Chase were rather unorthodox, but
intimated that he did not agree with the chief
Justice.
The Black Crook Constitution says that every
business requiring license is "public business.n
rsae legislature and the council can require a
'ttpse for anything-so that If the Black Crook
-et into power, there will be no such thing as
lsiness or private rights in the State Of
caHh Everybody's business will be every
> business. and everybody viii be
stertsin negroes, whether he wishes to
,s's. The only way to avert such q
20 reject the Black Crook Constitn-
purg Herald learns that early Satur-
,,he house Of Mr.. Henry keenan,, in
Sss discovered to be burning. Some
ieighborhood on repairing to the
usv,,r d that Mrs. keenan, and her two
q an color In murdered, and terribly burned
nss'sa - ~ building. A further search en-
discover the body of Mr.. keenan,
ZEE CID red yards from the house, covered
- ness = bark from the trees, with ten bull
rms back. Who could have CON-
ing crime ID as yet matter Of
cture.