The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-17

have been engaged in thefts and burglsries for
two years past. The police declare they will
soon have the chiefs of the band, which 10 the
most formidable ever known in that city. The
members of the organic alton are men Of inte-
gence, sudscity and experience. Reports say
certain detectives who were in collusion with the
scoundres have betrayed the gang, because the
members tailed to pay what they agreed to for
Auguste Belmont has fled bill of complaint
in the United States Circuit Court against the
Erie Railroad Company and II. B. Whelpley, re-
curing defendants TO answer interrogatories as 10
the issue and disposal Of stock and convertible
bonds. nT tff
German named Gunthuer, who robbed Ger
man postofice of $4,000, was arrested on the
steamer Australasisn ON her arrival at Portland.
Half the money was recovered.
Two brothers, named John and Frank Rock
well, living near Piattsburg Mo-. got into q dis
pute about horse, which resulted in the former
killing the latter.
James G. Grant, president Of the National Bank
OF Mutual Redemption. IN Boston, died on the 10th.
Brevet Brigadier General Thomas j. Leslie.
major and paymaster, U. s. A., has been retired
from active service. rf-. .s a. ..l.
The body OF Daniel Lord, one of the lost Of the
III fated United States, was found floating in the
Ohio river at Veyay, Indiana, on Sunday. Mr..
Lord was hardware merchant at Dunkirk. New
York, and until the telegraph flashed home the
news OF the recovery Of his body, his friends
not aware that he was dead. or even that he had
been passenger on the United States. The body
is said TO have been In remarkable state of pre-
servstion. and was easily identified. A gold watch
and number of private papers found on bis per-
son served to establish his identity beyond doubt
The snow storm Of last week will long be re.
membered as the great storm. Ii commenced
Wednesday. and until Friday afternoon it showed
and blowed necessarily. Travelling was simply
out of the question. and our people mainly kept
indoors and drank herb tea, or otherwise doc
tored themselves for the prevailing influenza,
ses the
Of this county. Nearly all of the teams have
come out from the woods on the Dead river. be.
ing compelled TO suspend work. We learn from
one man that five feet Of snow fell on q level.
he says the men were obliged to crawl upon
their hands and knees to get out Of the woods.
They were half day going four miles. and five
days coming from the chain OF ponds to this
place, distance of about seventy miles.-lFarm-
ington (Me.) Chronicle, 18th.
. Col. Leayenworth testified before the Senate
committee on Indian affairs on Friday to the effect
that at Gen. Custars battle Of the Washita only
fifteen Indians were killed, and only thirty lodges
were attacked In all, though Gen. Custar, In his
report placed the number OF lodges at fifty.three
end the Ird.ans killed at one hundred and three.
Mrs. Blrns, who was reported to have been muir.
dered By Sioux squew during the fight, was
shot by our own soldiers, according to Col.
Leevenworth's statement, she having started
to run toward them when the firing COM
menced.
The president OF the United States has accepted
the office of arbitrator on q boundary question
which has arisen between Great Britain and Portu-
gal on the coast Of Africa.
The will OF the late Chicago banker. Jonathan
Burr, who died few days since, is missing. Its
contents are not known, but 1t Is believed he left
quarter of a million dollars to public charities.
after remembering his nephews and nieces. Burr
was bachelor.
About two weeks ago Geo. Solmmiller was d.
vorced from his wife and the next day married
girl Of Is. The same day the divorced wife was
married by the same justice 10 man Of As. A
morning or two since, after having slept sixteen
hours, Solmmiller awoke to find sponge strongly
saturated with chloroform on his pillow, aud his
wife and 5000 missing. Is II necessary to add that
the foregoing occurred in Chicago!
John w. Long, postmaster at Brunswick, NO.,
was examined before United States Commissioner
EstonLon Friday, for stealing registered letters.
he confessed having stolen two letters, and was
sent TO jail in default of $4,000 bail.
Reports from the interior Of California indicate
that the recent storm was the most disastrous
since that Of the winter of 1862. 1t visited every
portion Of the State OF Santa Clara, and the San
Joaquin valleys suffered greatly. The lower por-
ton of the city of Stockton was flooded. The cell
lars in the principal streets were filled by the
overlooking of the Cabrarss River. No loss Of
life, however, lie reported.