The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-22

Monday night "ss well and happy a. ever he
} was in bis life." Upon waking 10 1ext mornine
he found that be could hardly move. he man.
sged TO roll over to the end Of the bed, and sue.
ceeded IN Rrasping the bell. doctor was sum.
noned, who, with Mr.. Earl the nronr;etor of
the hotel, went TO the room. On examining the
apartment they found bottle and sponge upon
tne mantle. The doctor said that the bottle had
contained ehloroform, and that Mr. Reed had had
narrow escape. Mr.. Reed had no baggage. ex.
| cept small bag which contained t5O00 in green.
backs. white shirt aud some handkerchief The
soOOO N gteenbacks we're missing. Mr. Reed SAYS
'nlnss ne locked the door before going to bed
Dnt could not swear to 1t. There is supposition
That The person or persons who were engaged in
this robbery and would.be murder Thought that
Mr. Reed would be found dead in his bed, and
when the coroner would hold an jnouest would
come 10 the conclusion that he had committed
suicide. ~
The House committee on freedmeu's affairs.
nave sgreed to report in favor of plan submitted
W 'nem ior retaining what is known as st. Far.
TN bssin, being the suvial lands between Cape
1naroesu, Mo-. and Helena, Ark. The plan is
| ior railroad and levee, which will reclaim about
,hree and half million acres. 1t is proposed to
pulia me road by private subscription of these
ianos, end to sell the part not needed in small
tracts TO freedmen and refugees The government
ls not called on for money, but for guarantee of
the hrst mortgage bords. The guarantee to begin
| when the work is half done.
The London Times alludes in terms of the hirh.
est praise TO the treaty which has Just been con.
GUIDED between Great Britain and China through
Mr.: Burngsme and the Chinese ambassadors.
The engine house at Harper's Ferry, defended
by Old John Brown and his men. has with other
buildings, been presented by Congress to a col.
ieRe Tor eolored men, and the bill was signed by
Andrew johnson,
Dr.. Howard, of West Farley, Vermont had
his pocket picked Of s22 500 at New Haven, on
FRIDAY evening. The thieves escaped.
washington special says the president will
soon grant pardon to DR.. Mud.
WoIkmen cutting ice in Chicago the other dav
were Mortified TO find that they had completelv
severed the head from the body of a human being,
whose remains were imbedded 10 the ice.
The Washington Star says Lieut. Noonan, OF the
sanitary police, has issued orders to his men to re-
port any building which is being built of lime and
sand BRICK similar to that of which the Howard
University is composed. If, in their opinion the |
building Is so far advanced as TO be dangerous, |
they ordered TO stop the work until an nyesti.
cation can be made.
The New York Times reports that the chaplain |
OF the House at Washington. who opens the pro- |
ceedines with prayer, is beset by the members |
with requests to oer up petitions for the success
ful passage through Congress of their bills and |
resolutions.
The president nominated to the Senate. on the
18th, John A. Judson, secretary of legation to
Mexico, vice Mr.. Plumb: VIM Dixon, associate
justice for Montana; r. Fl. Hunt, collector Of 10.
ternsl revenue for the sixth district of Missouri
A. j. Brook, collector of internal revenue for the
twenty nrst district of Pennsy lvania.
A courier from Fort Dodge brings a report
from MsJor Sheridan that bands of Indians have
lately been seen near that post and that they
drove in the mail couriers Saturday. he thinks
unusual vigilance should be exercised by resi-.
dents Of ranches and settlements along the Dor.
der. Spotted Horse, prominent Cheyenne
chief, is one of the band. His sister is captive
at Fort Hays. John Smith, the Interpreter,
thinks they will endeavor to capture. along the
Saline, Solomon, and between Fort Harker and
Council (rTCVn a nf uuhi 10 |
for the ffty'three Indian woman and children
now in our hands.
Wash. Hesley, the colored man who eloped
from Bartlett Station, Tenn. with a white girl
was arrested at Germantown, on Saturday. and
while on the way TO Bartlett, in charge of Off.
GERS, was seized by KuKlux taken to the woods
and shot. His body was found by some citizens
OF Bartlett, and an inquest held.
Memphis is now swarming with thieves and |
confidence men from the north. On Saturday
night farmer from the vicinity of Cairo was
swinded out of $500 by confidence man.
rumOr is current that three citizens of Car.
lenden county were shot by militia in Arkansas on
the 9Th.
The report that three young ladies were out.
aged near Marion, Arkansas. on Friday, by nine
negro militia. of Watson's forces. Ia fully con.
lrmed. On the same day another party of ne.
sroes went to the house of Jefferson Reeves !
Z me few miles north. and outraged Mrs. Reeves ,
q a most shocking manner. :
-Four negroes have been sentenced by court
martial TO he shot for their atrocities in Crittenden
county, Arkansas. :
The Memphis chamber of commerce has memo. c
SIzed Congress to indOrse the Ieyee bonds d
The grand jury at ST. Louis has found bill of a
Ddlctment against Robert A. Watt the former 4
ontroler OF the city, charging him with embez. !:
ing and converting 10 his own use, while an off. s.
er OF the city, SIS 900 in bonds and coupons q
mounting TO $50 400; and also bill against JOS a
JeegeDdoff. the present controller, charging him
nh embezzliDg s29, ls3 belonging to the CITY -
On Saturday night, the 18th, 100 armed men
rom Plum Creek, Fremont county Iowa broke
ITO the jail In Sidney, aud took out Jackson and
orton, who murdered Holloway at a dance at mis-
otei, On Thursdsy, and hung them to a tree not
yer nile distant from the town. o.
proclamation may be looked for from Brown. 20
w calling into the field at least one regiment of OF
bite troops negroes will also be enlisted if ne. P'
sssary. The first regiment raised will be OF
most entirely composed of East Tenneseeans W
Two OF the parties to the conspiracy which re. al
llttd IN The assassination of President Lincoln &C
e DOW published for the first time The con.
ssloD was made voluntarily in Baltimore on the
tn OF April, 1865, in the Office of Marshal Nc.
larl, ard that of Atzerodt in his cell az Wash.
1ton the night before his execution.
port says that the Erie Railroad combination
trying to get control of the Central, Fort
ayne, Piltsburg and Chicago Railroads Ru.
'rs are also current that the Erie party are buy-
! the controlling interest of the Adams Express
mpaDy, and that the present management of
express company are buying to retain the
nuol, and that the company would not issue at
more stock, and were buying three millions so
satisfy the American Company which il T. sur. abb
Ot q 10 the Adams Conn the variona iioas ! ito