The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-04-17

Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, is in a critical
stateiof health.
Joseph stettnius an old and prominent mer-
chant OF st. Louis, died Saturday.
workingmen, vote the whole Democratic ticket
The Democratic party is the party of right, Of
liberty Of jus lice, Of the people.
The remains of Gen. John a. Morgan were ex-
pected to arrive at Louisville, from Richmond, on
Thursday.
The Minnesota Historical Society have acquired
the scalp Of Little Crow who led the massacre
of 1862.
A man in North Oxford, Mass. killed four hun
dred and twenty-five feet of black snakes, in eel
lar, last week.
movement is on foot at Washington to get
Congress to strike ont the word male from the
qualifications Of voters 10 the District, in order that
female suffrage may be put in practice there. {.
The list Of incomes for last year in Chicago.
shows 466 persons having incomes exceeding
$4,000. The obly one making return OF 500.
600 is G. b. Mccormick, who reports s202, 800.
Col. WisewelL whose nomination for commits.
sioner Of internal revenue was rejected some time
ago, is trying to get reconsideration of his case
in the Senate. His prospects of success are not
encouraging.
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was lately robbed of 100000 in United States
bonds. The job seems to have been performed
with degree OF skillful audacity that quite ecaals
similar recent operations in this country.
Gen. Buchansn's order secures to every voter
the peaceful exercise Of his right of suffrage, but
it does not guarantee the right of voting two or
three times to the trooly loil y mendicants.
. This must be sad disappointment TO those
amiable patriots.
Admiral Farragut arrived at Malta on the 18th
on the flagship Franklin. accompanied by the
ship Ticonderoga. The admiral was received
with all the national honors, and marked atteu-
ten and courtesy by authorities and inhabitants.
He Is to visit Lisbon.
The Black Crookites say that If this Constitution.
be adopted business viii revive, and the credit of
the State be restored. Just think Of the restora-
ton Of public credit under the rule Of the tinerant
Warmoth, the prehensile Conway and the "trooly
oil Baker,
white man named Thomas Hopgood was
killed pear Holly Springs. Mississippi, on the I'd
inst. He had gone TO the cabin of negro named |
Gstewood to carry of colored girl living in the
latter's family. Gstewood's wife resisted, and
Hopgood shot her, and was himself shot by the |
woman's husband.
m cAHnicArt btoOn vi lfautc DuuuluH6 on
Clark street, Chicago, two hundred feet long and |,
three stories high, was demolished by a stiff
breeze on Saturday. About fifty workmen were |
employed upon it. several of whom were severely
injured. and one, boy named johnson, it is
feared, cannot recover. No one was killed out
right.
Mr.. Louis d. DeSsussure. Of Charleston, South
Carolina. offers FOR sale the original barony
trl
ward Of twelve thousand acres Of land, and win be
sold II 1t only brings twenty-five cents an acre.
Here is a chance for man to make nobleman
of himself, or, at very slight cost landholder Of
one hundred freedmen.
The customs receipts for the current fiscal
year have been, so far, fully up to the estimates;
while the receipts from internal taxation are
somewhat behind; but the treasury officials are
confident that the large amounts of income tax
to be paid before the close of the fiscal year will
bring the internal revenue fully up to the amount
of s20s, 900 900, as estimated.
Gen. Dix is under Napoleon's displsasure. The
emperor does not speak to him any more than is
absolutely necessary. What brought about the
dissension is not fully known. but it is believed
that Gen. Dix, in his dispatches to Secretary
Seward, expressed doubts as to the stability of
the empire. that the French legation in Washing
ton found it out, and that the emperor was ia.
formed Of Il.
In Portland, Me-, on the sth inst, william
Hatch. Jr., called on DR.. Evans, a dentist, to ex-
tract an aching tooth. At his request the doctor
administered chloroform, and removed the tooth.
The patient revived for few moments after the
operation, but soon became insensble again, and
died In short time. He was suffering from con-
which is supposed to have contributed
to the fatal effect of the chloroform.
Havana letter of the 4th inst. says: "The
cholera, which has disappeared from Havana and
is creating sad havoc on many planta-
ions In the neighborhood of Ssgua, on several of
which work has been stopped on account OF the
epidemic. plantation near Guines has been ,
eft to its own resources and the police guard all i
oads leading to IT, allowing ms iicines, food and
nen to pass 10, but suffering no one to depart
rom It, Whistler the establishment Of this sani- /
airy Gordon will prevent the spread OF the disease
o the surrounding plantations is doubtful"
The people of Sidney, Australia, welcomed
Prince Alfred with an immense seadragon one 9
hundred and two feet long. The steamer Yam.
"a was the skeleton of the figure. The jaws
we're about sixteen feet long. and dstended SO as
o leave an aperture for the mouth Of from six to
even feet The eyes we're very admirably repre- | !
ented, the shading Of the colors-green black i
nd red-being exceedingly effective. The tail 9
onsisted Of twenty-five ships boats, over each !
4 which, from stem to stern, rows of lanterns
we're hung. number of men were stationed at ]
he bows, and as the monster moved along it was |,
made TO spit forth q shower of rockets and other
reporks. 5
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