The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-10-23

$780, goo, to start cor pany to run q line Of |
steamships between y ,. orfolk ana Liverpool.
The Louisville Courier is Preparing to erect q
new oficc, which IL says viii be the largest, most
elegant and commodious q that city.
Some burglars worke d all night to break open Q
San Francisco safe, and found-s joint of cold
meat. ..---.--,.
Z The Astor MINI ~ Company, of Cincinnati, re-
ceived, last We *, o silver brick from their Col
orado mines forth $500.
ArrangeT Sents are being made to commence the
building 81 an air line railroad from Charlotte to
Atlant'A, Ca.
II a United States commissioner Of pensions
a need SIS, 672, s2s for his bureau for the year
ending June 80, 1870.
The people along the line Of the North Carolina
Central Railroad richly paid for their industry
in gathering the berries and fruits that grow 30
plentfully around them.
firm in Salem, N. c., has this season sent of
1000 barrels of dried black berries, worth $4,000.
The dried apples and peaches purchased in that
small village this season will bring 100000.
Last season, more than million pounds of
dried fruit was shipped from High Point North
Caroline, @ village recently sprung up on the
Central road.
Georgia and Tennessee, IL is said. will have
10 COO 900 bushels of corn for export this season.
lot of 5000 bushels of Tennessee corn was ship
ped from Charleston for Liverpool last week.
Some very rich silver mines have lately been
| developed in Lander county, Nevada. IL is said
the ere Yields by assay, from s225 to $27 900 per
ton.
A gentleman at Brownsville, Maine, has recently
"shingled snd clapboarded'' his house with sia.e'>
with only paper bef% tQQ the boarding OF the walls
Marion county, H., has about 1884, 900 peach
trees. Last year they produced about $780, 900
baskets Of fruit which Melted about one dollar
per bushel, yielding an aggregate of $500 900.
The public buildings In Washington will require
the expenditure of sll7 900 to put them in order.
and keep them SO during the year ending June
| 80, 1870.
There is an almond tree in bearing in Macon
Georgia. 1t is about the size and height of an
ordinary cherry tree, and is in fourshing cond-
ton.
The London Times says that European govern
ments will forget that Burlingame Is an American
and receive him as genuine Mandarin. he is
going to Prussia to continue the Berlin-game.
George Francis Train says that his British
creditors won't let him pay his debts so that he can
come back to New York and run for Congress.
Political reasons are at the bottom of it, declares
George Francis.
new -four mill has been erected at Nashville,
Tenn, with storage capacity for IS 900 bushels of
wheat. The mill will be able to turn out $50 bar
rels of -four, and 24O barrels of Kindred meal,
every twentyfou hours.
Since the close Of the quarantine season at New
York the detectives of the New York Custom
House have captured about LOG, 900 smuggled
cigars on vessels coming straight up the bay to
the docks Of the city.
Libraries and reading rooms for the benefit of
young workngmen are about to be established in
New York city, with the means furnished by
fund Of $1,000, bequeathed by the late Peter Lo-
riard.
Mr.. Frank Pierce and wife, and Mr.. W. H.
Stewart and wife, members of the Natioral Thea
ter Company, of Cincinnati are passengers on the
Silver Spray, which left that city on the 18th for
this port.
A bottle of wine, thirty five years old, was pre-
scented by Mrs. VIM. Cleany to the members of
the Cincinnati Horticultural Society," at their
meeting, last week. They reported it as very
palatable."
Rev. W. G. Conner, well known and popular
Methodist minister of the South Carolina con-
ference. will soon leave the old Palmetto siaiA-
to take charge, as president, of Chapel Hill Uni.
versity, Texas.
Dr. J. Marion Sims, originally of Lancaster, 8.
c., then Of Alabama, Texas lastly of New
York-and during the past five years surgeon to
the empress of France, has returned to New
York, and will resume the practice of his
specalty-the diseases of women.
A convention of persons engaged in the fruit
and vegetable business, met at Stone Mountain
Ca, Tuesday, to devise ways and means for pro-
curinu evnresa railroad froinu 70 cor.u tho;-
duce to the Northern markets at moderate rates
and with dispatch.
plan has been projected to connect the upper
part Of the Ohio river with the Gulf of Mexico by
anew water route. canal thirty miles long, be-
tween the Coosa river and the Tennessee, will
form the principal link in the channel of commu-
nication.
1t is estimated that the present crop of cotton
will yield about 500, 900 tons of seed, of which
100000 tons may be sent to market. A ton of
seed yields thirty gallons of crude OIL worth sew
enty to seventy-fve cents per gallon; and $50
pounds of oil cake, worth $40 per ton in New
York.
A Washington dispatch of the 10th says: "A
dispatch was received this morning at the treasury
department, announcing the arrest at Richmond
yesterday, by special agent of the treasury, of
postofice department. He will be brought to
this city tonight"
At special meeting of the st. Louis Board of |
Trade, held en- the 10th, Rev. DR.. Fontaine and |
Judge Burwell, of this city, were present. DR.. |
Fontaine, by request delivered an address upon |
the best method Of controlling water currents.
After which Judge Burwen wes introduced, and |
addressed the board upon the resolutions adopted
by the Board of Trade of New Orleans in relation
to national convention at Cincinnati.
Kernersville, North Carolina, with scarcely q
hundred inhabitants, has sent North this fall near
ly 100000 worth of dried fruit. One house re-
Gently sent of $4,000 pounds Of peach stones,
which cost so cents per bushel and one lady in
the came place has collected nearly bushsI of
apple.seeds, for which she is to receive twenty.
five dollars. The two last mentioned articles are
bought on commission for nursery men in the
North.