The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-26

pilot boat.
non. Edward Mcpherson, clerk of the United
States House Of Representatives, is writing life
Of Tbsd. Stevens.
The Baltimore suit against Butler has been dis
continued. Attorney General Evarts declined to
appear tor Butler.
at Sterling H., 800 feet in length, destroyed
by fire on the 2lst. II will be replaced at once.
Negotiations are pending between the
United States and France for more liberal ex-
change of mail matter.
Twenty-Five experts from Canada in the game
Of Lacrosse" are expected in New York from
Montreal ne xt week. ...
Five thousand bales Of hay were shipped
last week to Europe. and as many more go this
week.
The bronze guns appropriated by Congress to
the sixth army corps, Tor the monument at West
Point, have been cast in q full length figure OF
Msjor General Seigwick.
II has just been discovered that Charles Cabot,
president Of the Allentown rolling mills Phila.
delphis, has absconded, leaving an indie btedness
| Of $780, 600 to 81 ,000, 900.
| on reef near Para, South America, on the 18th
| of July. Her crew were picked up and brought
home by the steamship Mississippi.
4 The whole board Of common councimen OF
| New York, for contempt Of Judge Barnard. OF
| the Supreme Court, in not obeying an injunction
| of said court, has been arrested.
II is stated that the First National Bank Of Jer-
| sey City, the National City Bank Of Lynn. Mass,
and others, have. within the past three years,
| lost 81, 900 by abstraction of bills from the con-
troer's drawers at Washington.
Representatives of France, Holland. Belgium,
| Prussia and England are now assembled at the
| Hague for the purpose of holding conference
looking to the equalization of duties on foreign
| sugar.
The steamer Montreal, from Boston, was run
| into OF Cape Ann, by the schooner Stanberry.
| Ten of the of the latter got on board of the
| steamer, and three remained on the Stanberry,
| which it is supposed sunk.
The Royal Artillery serving in Canada have
| been supplied with new breecn loading carbnes,
| and the Armstrong armorers have been ordered
| TO Prescott and Toronto. with the necessary ap-
/ paratus for sighting guns at these places.
The Commonwealth states that Bon. VIM. Olaf.
I'm mot Chapln) has finally yielded TO the request
Ut his many friends, and has signihed his willing
| ness TO have his name used as q candidate for
governor at the ensuing Republican State Con-
| Vention In Massachusetts.
The trial Of the coIored Zouaves who fred into
q crowd of citizens in Washington last week, was
commenced in Georgetown on Wednesday. Con-
siderable evidence was taken, policeman testi-
| fying that be saw the occurrence, but was too
much afraid Of his life to interfere.
Crop reports from Calcutta TO the I'D Of July
have been received. They state that cotton in
the northwestern district of India has suffered
from heavy rains, and the yield 10 that part Of
The country will fall below the estimate OF the
| planters.
MIS- Monoban was instantly killed Saturday
| week. at shopiere, Wisconsin, by a whrlwind. A
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| fell uniDjured. Eighteen sacks of grain aud
| barn were completely destroyed. There was ter
rife thunder and lightning at the time.
southerner is now in Boston who has invented
| Q machine for reducing the cane of the Florida
canebrakes TO fiber, and the fiber he thinks he can
| put down in Boston at two cents pound. IL IL
claimed TO be equal to cotton rags for the making
Of paper, and superior to Manila hemp for the
| manufacture of cordsge.
Secretary Browning has received afiiavit from
| the president OF the Pacific Railroad announcing
that an additional section Of twenty miles OF road,
extending seven hundred miles west Of Omaha,
has been completed. The government commits
siOners have been instructed by telegraph TO make
| an examination of that section.
The Ocean Sweepstakes Of the yacht race at
New Bedford, for $4,000, was sailed on the 18th,
| but owing 10 the condition that the race should
| be made IN FIVE hours, 1t was declared oa. The
| Palmer came home first, but not usti long after
| the prescribed time. The course was fifty miles
| long as sailed with necessary lacking.
I An enthusiastic anti ederation meeting was
| held at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia on Saturday,
| August 10. Several M mbers Of the legislative
council and house Of assembly were present and
spoke in favor Of repeal. Expressions for pre-.
ference for anne xation rather than confederation
I were loudly cheered.
At a mammoth Masonic chowder party at Ma.
sons Island, near Stonington, Conn.,, August 10th,
| 200 gallons OF chowder were served 10 some 1000
persons, composed. of Free Masons ladies' OF the
Order OF the East, and their friends from Nor
witch. New London, Mystic, Westerly and Ston-
| iDgton.
| Advices from Havana, by steamer, state that
the exodus during the summer amounted TO 60 900
| persons, many of whom fled through fear OF the
cholera in July and August. There were 1890
deaths from that disease. Lorenz b. Shepard, a
New Yorker and ward of Mr.. Peter Cooper, died
| last week from v0mito.
The examination Of colored Zouaves for riot
log, week ago, while company Of them,
| from Georgetown. were on their way 70 the
| capital TO relieve the guard over the remains Of
| has hQau
were all fined for disorderly conduct, aud six
teen others were required TO give from $500 to
$50 bail for further hearing at court.
A statements published in Washington at some
length 10 the effect that colored messenger who
Was arrested some months since, while employed
in the comptroller Of the currency's office, but
who IL seems has never been tried though in
dicated, is The responsible person for the theft Of
genuine notes on the national banks, which have
recently appeared In circulation with counterfeit
signatures
A method of separating honey from the comb
BY means OF Centrifugal apparatus devised for
the purpose is said 10 have many advantages over
any other now in use. Among Others the hone y
Il aimed In state Of perfect purity, the bee
bread and the wax remaining behind. The cells,
also, being but little injured, may be returned to
the swarm, which Immediately proceeds to fill
Them again without loss OF time. ..
Tn ee royal DEGREES OF Spain published,
one Of which empowers the Banco Espanola, Of
Havana, TO collect all direct T. xes for four years.
Under the royal decree permitting foreign vessels
to enter the ports Of Cuba and Porto Rico, ON an
equality with Spanish vessels in the ports Of the
nation TO which such foreign vessels belong, sew
eral English and French vessels had claimed the
| privilege, but il was refused
The Bolivar (fenn.) Bulletin announces that
two telegraphic operators In that place have dis
covered that they may wholly dispense with jars
and acids in the generation of electro. mag ne tic
fluid by burying plates, one zinc and the other
copper, within two inches OF each other, two feet
deep in the moist earth, and connecting the wires
with them 10 the usual way. 1t says that the line
at Bolivar is constantly worked with power thus
drawn from the earth. This matter is worth
inquiring into.
The Chicago papers are tickling the prurient
tastes of their readers with fresh scan. mag. in
fashionable church, one or two new divorce cases,
several instances Of tarrng and featherng, not TO
speak Of the fullest and most complete instance OF
a hermit and his daughter, who have just been
discovered near that city, and who live exclu-
siyely on bread and water. and never wash them
selves. What would Chicago do If il we're not
fIr its enterprisiDg newspapers and their prying,
imaginative reporters.