The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-21


if the committee want him. He boasts that he can
prove that Secretary Seward urged Baron Stocked
to oil the wheels Of the Legislative machinery and
| hat among the items OF expenditure for the ne
cesrary oiiing were, to a near relative of Thad
| Stevens, 10000; to q correspondent of q New
York Radical morning paper. S. goo to Balti-
more and Chicago paper, $4,000; to an eastern
senator, 500 600; to an eastern member who en-
glneered the bill, $3.50 600; TO another eastern
member who smeit the alleged corruption, $780,.
COO; to the chief of the Washington diplomstlsts.
| 5000 GOO to New York lobby king, 5000 900.
Mertin makes the charges. end says he Is willing
to prove them II he is called upon by the corr
miitee.
The sixth auditor of the treasury who has
charge of the accounts Of the Post Office Depart.
neut, refused recently TO pass the drafts down by
The postmaster general for the payment Of Wells,
| Fargo g. Co. for their contract in carrying the
overland mail. The postmaster general there.
upon appealed to the secretary of the treasury,
and an interview was had. whereat the secretary,
the postms ster general and the sixth auditor were
present. The result of this interview was that the
auditor agreed to pay s250,O00 on the drafts, re
serving the payment of $50 900 more until the
ton of Congress concerning the proposed invest
cation of the contract OF Wells, Fargo Co. snail
be made apparent.
II is reported that the Adams Express Company
has nade a compromise with the other companies,
and is TO retire from the combination. The basis
of the compromise Is the issue of So ,000,0 900 Of
stock to the American Merchants Union Company,
ano the latter is TO surrender to the former the
tic n was made. Contrary reports sey that the
Az ans stockholders will not consent TO this. and
| m re litigation is expected.
| Facts have uanspired seriously compromising
the department of the interior concerning the sale
of eight hundred thousand acres of Cherokee lands
| 70 James I. Jsy, at 81 per acre. II appears thst
| after the sale TO the Connecticut Emigration Con-
paDy was set aside, the Cherokee agent aud dele
| CATION filed a protest with Secretary Browning
against any sale at less than 81 % per acre. at
which sum they could secure purchasers. The
secretary promised to hold the protest, but sub.
seQuently sold to Jay without advertising or even
notifying the delegation.
| The documents laid before the Senate from Sec
| Rotary Browning were of an important character,
and chow that the most glaring corruption has
prevailed for some time lin one of the bureaus of
/ his department. The stationery contract with
| Dempsy & O'Teole, firm in this city, was made
! during the administration of Stout, late commits
| sioner of patents, and the evidence shows that
| through COLLISION with somebody in the patent
bureau they have received large sums of money
for articles furnished, and much larger sums for
| article furnished but not needed. The officials
| who examined the matter report both fraud and
abuses unceT the contract, but not able to say
how much. though it is several thousand dollars.
| They also report that under the system Of pur-
chasing outside Of the contracts which has pre-.
vailed lately this firm appear TO have received
SSl, 500 for articles never furnished. Just where
AL this money has gone il is not clearly shown.
One Of the bureau messengers, named Frazier, IL
| implicated, and there is good deal said about
ex.Commissioner Stout's connection with the mat
| Ter. The facts will not be fully known TIL the
congressional committee have flushed their inyes-
| ugeuon.
There is woman living in Van Buren, count,
Michigan, WHO went there year ago last SPRING
dressed u neL's clothes, representing herself 20
/, be man, AID bought forty acres of lard. She
is about fifty years Of age, stost bnilt, has lost
the use OF ono reg, and uses wooden substitute.
4 She bunt etns"rtahle frame house, grubbed OCT
| by hand fourteen acres Of heavy oaS, wOsih $slS
per acre, ard fitted it for the pillow chopped aud
| split her own rails ard has eight acres in wheat.
| She also dug ditch on one side of her land, all
| OF which Is ocre IN superior manner. She fur.
| nishes most of her neighborS with OK helves and
| spint baskets. About two months after she came
| che finished her house and moved into il. She
| then came out in woman's clothes. She lives en-
tIely alone: and keeps her own counsel -..-----
AT Bath, n. Y, recently, a boy who was coast
ing could not stop his sled as a train of cars came
Along, and shot ike arrow across the railroad
ira between the wheels of car, aid escaped
the slightest II jury.
A fashionable woman in Lynn Mass in going
out of her house, the other evening, shut the
trail Of her dress in the door, which fastened with
aspiring, and as 10 one was in the house and she
did not have key, she was held fast until smsll
boy happened along, climbed in window and re-,
leased her.
Hon. Thos. Mickey, formerly Judge advocate on
Gen. McClesn's STAFF, and for several years a
member Of the Ohio Legislature died at his resi-
6enee in Lebanon, Ohio, recently, of pulmonary
dilesse.
A boiler in G. Woods brush handle shop az
Eizabethport, N. Y, exploded on the 18th inst
The boiler was thrown into Winans & Brothers
tin shop, two hundred feet distant, killing Benz.
II. Winans, the proprietor, and John Regan, of
Bergen, n. j.. boatmsn, and seriously wound.
ing stanley Miller and four Others
The Journal of Commerce publishes statistics
about imports at New York During the year the
total imports we're s25l 600 600, Of which about
one-third were dry goods. shipped to foreign
ports, about Sl60, 600 600.
fcr O atulc cofQ OH tsor - a..
creta Of cholera patients, Professor HALTER of
Jena, has detected microscopcal fungus in con.
siderable quantity, which proves to be species
Datve to the rice fields OF India, upon which they
exercise very Injurious effect.
The Hampshire wooden mills, of Massachusetts,,
owned by Little Stanton. were totally destroy
ed by fire on the l4th. Several adjoining build
ngs we're also destroyed. Loss SIS 600
Several bills are before both bodies of the Kan
sac Legislature amending the Texas cattle law so
as to allow Texas cattle to be driven through the
State. AS it now stands these cattle cannot be
driven east OF the one hundredth meridian. II
psssed il will greatly benefit Leavenworth.
The suit in New York, brought by James L..
sLsmb ct al. of Springfield, H., against the Cam
den ana Amboy Railroad, has just been decided In
bis favor, with judgment of 500 600. The suit
was brought in 1854 for damage by burning up OF
the plaintiff IS cotton on the road Of the defen-
dants.
London papers announce that the agents of the
Chicago and Mississippi Railroad has issued pros
pectus for small loan Of f200 600 sterling on
mortgage bond at rs per cent, bearing per cent.
interest principal and interest payable ia full in
gold in London. The money, it is stated, sre-
CURED for the adoption of the gauge con lecting
the company with the Illinois Central.
DR.. w. H. M. Howard. OF West Farlo, Vermont.
was robbed on the 18th, in the New Haven depot
OF SIS 000 sl4 900 10 bonds, and s. 500 10 green.
backs, while getting on the train for Boston.
FsHbaDks' large planning, saw and gtist mills,
az keene, N. a., were mostly destroyed By FIRE on
the 10Th. The loss is estimated at $4,000. They
were partially insured.
II has transpired in whisky circles that immedi-
aiely after the eeetion of the senators ia the
various States on Tuesday next, the movement to
increase the excise will be commenced.
Tie New York underwriters report that the
quantity Of whisky in store seeking insurance is
very great, especially in Kentucky. II is believed
that large number of members Of both houses Of
Congress are interested in the speculation.
In the baggage of woman arrested in Dsven-
port, Iowa, tor passing counterfeit money. over
four thousand d7llars of spurious currency was
found. She was the agent for gang of Eastern