The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-12-23
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WEDNESDAY MORNING. DECEMBER IS, 1859.
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Several persons belonging to st. Louis, vht
went to Arkansas recently, to settle, have re-
turned with gloomy accounts of the condition O
The country. In Augusta, located on White River
al business was suspended in consequence O
riotous proceedings, and the people were rapidly
An old man named Brown, who has been ped
ding apples on the ferryboats at st. Louis fol
many years past. received intelligence the Other
day, through Archbishop Kennick, Of q fortune
land, amounting to $4,000.
new telegraph lice has been completed from
Santa Fe to Denver.
The Great Republic has been sold at private
sale to H. X. Hazlett, for $4,000 cash. Her for.
mer owners were w. 3. Donaldson. two-sixths
Joseph Haig, two-sixths; Sam. Morrow, one
sixth, and A. Hartupee, one-sixth. The purchaser
assumed all the debts against the boat, amounting
10 $50 600.
C. W. Tsyleure, manager of the Olympic, has
leased Pixies New York Opera House for two
years from next spring.
an old hunter. who represents the Penobscot
Indians in the Maine Legislature, has 600 traps
set for wild animals, and says that the beavers
have increased very much on the Penobscot river
within the last few years. The price of skins has
fallen from $l2 to 75c.
The National Land Company completed sale
at St. Louis, on the 18th, Of $4,000 acres OF the
Kansas Pacific Railroad Company's land to q
colony of Swedes from northern Illinois. These
lands lie in one body on the Saline river in Lin
coin cornty. north of Ellsworth, and will be occu-
pied in the spring by two hundred families. The
National Land Company have sold to actual set
tiers. within the past ninety days, so 900 acres OF
the land of the Kansas Pacific Railroad Company.
A gentleman named II. F. Bridges, of the firm
OF Mckinny Co., OF Girard, Illinois, came to St.
Louis, on the 9Th inst. TO settle some business.
He brought $4,000 in checks and $500 or $500 in
cash. He paid $1,000 TO the house of Taylor &
Bro, after which he mysteriously disappeared and
has not since been heard of.
The New York police have been instructed to
arrest all the street beggars and young peddlers
Of matches, ballads, etc., and hand them over to
the commissioners of charities, who will care for
them during the winter. Many of the children
are sentput by heartless parents to pick up Lit.
tie money with which they can buy liquor.
Admiral Wilkes wants the flag officers share of
bit captured of st. Thomas, while he was then
on the Wachusett. The navy, treasury and attor.
ney general have dsallowed his claim, and he will
appeal to Congress.
The bill introduced in the Senate by Mr.. Nor
ton provides for the purchase of thirty acres of
land on Meridian Hill, near Washington, as a site
for the executive mansion, and approprates
SIPS COO for such purpose.
There Is little doubt that the Erie directors are
negotiating for the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day
ton Railway, and with great probability Of get
ting control OF 1t. They seem determined to
have broad guage connection between that city
and New York.
meeting of the Farrsgut Prize Association
was held In Philadelphia on Thursday evening.
letter from Admiral Farragut was read stating
that he was doing all in his power to forward the
claims of his men for prize money for the cap.
ture of New Orleans. Other letters were read
from naval officers who participated in said cap.
ture. The meeting adjourned TO meet again on
the first day Of January.