The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-03

| IL includes other series OF State bonds.
About ten thousand dollars IN checks and four
hundred and forty.six shares in the Pacific Mail
| Steamship Line, In q tin box, were stolen from
the counter of the company's Office in Wall street
on the 18th ult. No arrests. but the payment Of
the checks and the transfer of the stock have been
stopped.
city was introduced In the New York Senate on
the 9th ult bill for the abolition OF the death
penalty was introduced in the Assembly.
In the Illinois Legislature on the 26th ult bill
was introduced TO compel the railroad companies
in that State TO charge uniform rates for ranspor.
tation of freight In proportion to the distance
carried. and providing that any railroad charging
more than pro rata proportion shall pay the
owner five times the amount wrongfuly collected.
besides the attorneys fees.
Physicians have visited Nina Rouche, of Burling-
| ton, Wisconsin, who has heen 10 trance since
January sth. and from a vein which they tapped,
blood flowed as from living person.
Capt. Jack Reid thrown from a horse and
killed in Memphis on Thursday.
| A Little Rock letter of q recent date says that
through the whole of that vast section OF the coun'
| try south of the Arkansas, where but a short
| time since desperados and outlaws roamed at will,
| all now ispeacesble as any Quaker settlement in
| the land. In every county organizations OF State
| guards are being enrolled, Differed by men ap-
proved by the governor, and placed under the
| absolute control of the civil authorities. Old
| citizens are showing most commendable zeal In
| the cause. From almost every quarter come
| most encouraging reports Of their activity in ar
| resting old offenders in their midst. The letter
also says that such q decided reformation as has
been effected through the whole of Southern Ark
ansas has never been equalled in the history of
| any State in the Union. Militia and martial law
though severe remedy, has completely revou-
| tonized the body polite.
Another Ell Paso mail driver has been murdered
by Indians audit il fey adv r"d~A u"hh~ii = -
The demand for investment IN real estate in
New York is very great. and prices have advanced
SO rapidly that many who purchased one more
years ago are ready to take their profits.
The Supreme Court at Washington in a recent
patent suit, presented series of frames, spring
balances. tramways. trucks. and railroad brakes
filling the area Of the judicial chamber. giving it
much the appearance of the Office of the commits.
sioner Of patents. The counsel argued by illustra
ton, handling the brakes and running the truck
with professional dexterity.
We learn, says the Boston Traveller, that the
collector OF Boston holds that frozen herring are
fresh fish. and not preserved fsh. So the frozen
herring now imported 10 large quantities from
Newfoundland are dutiable in New York and free
of duty in Boston.
A passenger train on the Mobile and Ohio Rail.
road was precipitated from the trestle work, I6
feet high, near Trenton. Thursday night, mortay
wounding the fireman and severely injuring a mum.
Der OF passengers. 1t is believed the accident was
occasioped by some employees of the road, who
had been discharged without being paid and for
revenge tore mp one Of the rails over the trestle
The Paris Gaulos learns that Csrlist plots in
SPAN are extending rapidly, and numerous arrests
conspiracy, and branches are established in most
OF the other cities of Spain.
Joseph Foster. farmer in Van Vert county, |
Ohio, fell from his chair last Saturday night while
sitting BY the fire, and, to all appearances expired
instantly. On Monday the remains were conveyed |
10 church, where sermon was preached. The |
lid OF the coffin was removed to give those present
a last look, when II was discovered that the
cheeks were flushed and the forehead covered with
sweat. This occasoned some remarks yet the
cortege proceeded to the grave. when Mrs Eos
ter expressed the belief that life was not extinct
and requested that the remains be returned to
tner nome and subjected to medical treatment.
they retraced their steps, the body was taken
rom the coffin, wrapped in blankets, put in a bed
and medical aid summoned. 1t was discovered
that there was warmth about the heart and neck,
and that the limbs were yet tractable. The doc.
tors exhausted their skill to reanimate the re-
mains without success. The body continues in
the same condition, and the mystery is unfathomed
Urls, says Every Saturday, are awfuly jealous
OF each other. We should call this the girls dis
tinctive fault. See them when they are intro
duced, or when they first meet at ball or croouet
party see how coldly critical they look at each
otner, now insolenty their eyes rove over every
portion OF their rivals dress read in their faces
the outspoken scorn the result of their scrutiny:
: fou think you have done it very well but YOU
nave made fright Of yourself, and l am much
better than you" Watch their disdsin Of the
more admired among them, and how excessively
naughty Tor attracting SO much attention they
think the Ada or Amy about whom the young
men cluster. How bold she is how overdressed
she Is how affected she Is and oh how ugIv
she is Sometimes, if they are deep, they will
overpralse her enthusiastically; but the ruse is
generally too transparent to deceive any one and
amply counts for what it is-a clever feint that
DOESN'T answer. II is quite a study to watch the I
way in which girls shake hands together, or take
lands in dances. The limp, cool, impertinent
way in which they just touch palms, then let their
rms fall as II paralyzed, tells volume to those
ible to read the lettering.
Canadian was robbed of fourteen thousand
lights since. Q
new device for an endless rail for railroads is
nnounced. The rail is composed of two bars the
nds OF the one on the outside tapping at the mid.
lie OF the one inside, and they are fastened TO a
hain, also part of the invention, by an iron KEY
Fhich Is inserted or withdrawn with ease, and the
Drm OF the bars is such that they can be turned
hat the under side may be used. The whole
GEMS SIMPLE and practicable, and we understand
nat the bars and chains are now manufactured, to
limited extent, to order. O
operators in stocks In Wall street were in a
'ver OF excitement, on the 2sth ult., in relation
movement that has been begun BY E. ID.
iebster, assessor of the thirty.second district.
lth view to enforcing the law providing for =.
* Of one-twenty-fourth of one per cent. on all al
spital in active use.
-Four colored men and a white man. charged OF
18th the crime of stealing the body Of Colonel
,llliams from tomb about seven miles from
inston, North Carolina were taken from the
III In that place, where they were held, few
sys ago. and murdered by band Of thirty or
rty citizens of the place. No arrests have as
1t been made. -
Lord Monck, recently governor general of Can.
la, has been elected chairman of the Franco
merican Cable Company.
A New York dispatch of the 10Th says The
rike OF the printers continues. meeting of
nployers was held, to-day, at the Astor House..
ID vote was taken not to submit to the print
8 demand. Susan B. Anthony addressed the
Getting, and asked that an opportunity be given
women to learn the printing trade. A com.
lttee was appointed to consider the matter.
English papers COMMENT fully upon the Alabama >
aims treaty. The London Mercantile Gazette. 4
eakng for shipping merchants, mainly, takes
clded grounds against it, as giving everything
America, and little or nothing to Great Britain,
lile tne London Times favors it as an honorable
just method of removing all causes of offense AL
tween the two nations. The Pail Mall Ga. moi
tie favors the treaty, and says the arrangement Dr.
tween the governments appears unmpeachable. VI
,nui suey evening, Us tne snerlH was locking null
cells in the lail in Quincy Illinois nrisoners