The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-04-09
GENERAL NEWS IrEns.

d,ed coiored Free Mssoas, who have seven
fjou,ishipg lodges In existence. They have never
been acknowledged or recognized by the white
Free Masons Of Massachusetts. and have Tor q long
time been trying to secure whatthey term their
rights. The Masonic publications are discussing
the subject, and so Is the Grand Lodge (White) oil
Massachusetts. sITlH. ,,
named McKechnie, died on the 4Lh from disease
communicated by the bite OF glandered horse
to which be bad been administering medicine
some ten days. r,l,
A heavy robbery was Committed 10 Philsdel,
pbis on the 4th, at the 81. Johns Safety Fund
buildipp. corner Of TwelftE and Chestnut streets.
The watcbmsn left the building atsix o'clock A.
NJ, and when be returned at six O'Clock In the
evening be found the SAFE broken open and It's
entire contents, amounting to eight hundred
thousand or one million dollars. gone. OF the
stolen property over six hundred Thousand dol
lars was In available funds. greenbacks. etc.
The steamer Great Republic sailed from Ban
Francisco for Hong Kong. via Yokohama. on the
9Th. with $4,000 in tfeasure-s200, 900 for
Yokohama. sll7 600 for Hong. Kong $4,000 for
Hiaso, and $l4 600 for Shanghai
The United States steamer Saginaw arrived at
Ban Francisco on the Sd, from Sitka, touching at
Forts Wrangle, Simpson aud Rupert on the way
Gown. Since the Indian difficulty. the fur trade
at stka is entirely suspended, and the Indians are
afraid to approach the town. The lake tribes are
serror stricken at the destruction Of their villages
and, 1t is thought would surrender the murder
ers two white men) to the military authorities,
but they dare not harbor them. The weather at
Eitks was wet and disagrceable. All well at Forts
wrapgle, Simpson and Rupert. The Indians were
II Is reported that several ships Of the Pacific
squadron. including the flagship Powhatan and
Mihouga are 70 be put out pf commission on their
arrival here, and the oficera and men ordered to
the squadron of the Cubap coast II "a also stated
that tie North and South Phcifc squadrons are to
be consolidated under @He rear admiral. The
United States marine hC5pital was 30 badly In
jured by the October earthquake, and further
damages by the shock of the hrst Of April, the
building has been desertet since last October, and
Ii fast going to ruins.
The Central Pacific Ratroad is completed TO the
Cloth mile post. Since tho removal Of the Demo
cratic commissioners ~ miles have been con-
etructed but there are ho commissioners here
authorized to examine ar@f report upon the work.
Track-lsyinR progressesfH the rate OF I'VE miles
per day, and Is expec9ed TO reach Ogden In
twenty days. II.
The printers strike, 10 long existing In New
York, has been settled Ga the following basis
The employing printers lconcede the twenty dol
lars per week asked by tle Union, and the Union
reduces their price OF cosapositon sbont one cent
per one thousand ems, as follows: ffty-three
cents for solid manuscript copy, and fifty cents
for loaded; fifty cents fol- solid reprint copy, and
forty seven for loaded; The price per hour for
day work to be thirty Ave cents, aud for night
work fifty cents per hour; Compositors employed
at day work are to be allowed to charge ten cents
per one thousand ems additional for matter after
six O'Clock p. NJ. All bogtk work to be charged 10
pages. Both parties arr to sign the new scale
and o copy Of IL to bel posted conspicuously In
every Office. The employing printers also agree
to recognize the printerts Union, and recommend
the establishment Of hcilse of call for the accom-
mediation Of diprnters, TO be supplied
with magazines and newspapers, the expense to
be borne mutually by thS typos and the Union.
The Boston banks paid out two million dollars
for their own dividends on the "a. Two millions
mose were paid out by Cher corporations as in
teIsst on various securiti}s
The annual report OF tlS Union Pacnc hailroad