The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-03-31


system, on account of the new law forbiddinI
nsiionsl banks to certify checks IN advance O
actual deposits. The REQUESTS preliminary step
have already been taken BY the City Bank. thi
Fulton Bank and the Bank Of North America
and others are considering the propriety o
doing the same. The chief difficulty IN the way Il
the tax imposed by the national law upon stst<
bank circulation bat with institutions which issue
few or no notes. this is Of small Importance.
The Mormons are making their last big profits
The railroad building and the snow embargo for a
month, have been 10 them this season what Cali
fornis emigrants and the Idaho and MontsJ q
ftdnes have proved in former years. All kinds OF
grain are selling at ten cents pound In Salt Lake
City. and butter ct seventy-dve cents to one dol.
lar. A farmer brought In from the country six
bushels Of oats, and exchanged them for SUIT
OF new clothes and dollar over.
svindler went into an extensive jewelry
establishment In Baltimore, few days ago, pre-.
tending to have several bags Of gold dust or
filings. He exhibited q genuine bag as a sample,
and the jeweler bought all by It, paying s27OC.
The remaining bags proved spurious. The swim.
William Crockett, living near Mitchell, indiana
has been in the habit Of brutally beating his son,
aged seven, using clubs and :hornbushes to bruise
and lacerate the flesh Of the little victim. Last
Friday be supplemented beating by kicking the
child into the fre. burning its hands in frightful
Dls,ner. When the child screamed out be tor
tared its bare flesh with q thorny switch. Next
day he was arrested and lodged IN jail. At night
be was taken from prison by crowd Of citizens
tree. One man stood with cooked pistol at his
head. It appears. he says, like there were some
left handed men IN the crowd, as two whipped at
a time, one on each side, and when they had put
on about seventy.6ve they had to commence
over again, as they had lost count. When they
thought he was about as sore as the child. they
put him back In the Jail.
John N. Buckley has been sentenced to pay a
Ind Of 500 and costs for assault on Deputy Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue Harland.
s The contract for building railroad between
Leavenworth and the terminus Of the central
branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, ct Atchison,
shss been awarded to A. II. Waterman, for $780,
Sin running order by the first Of September.
The Chicago fire department cost $3.50 800 last
year; the police, s32S, 696.
Mr.. Bruil, formerly consul of France to Lisbon,
has been appointed consul general of France for
San Francisco, vice Charles D'Acoste, deceased.
Sewell, Day Il Co.'s cordage warehouse, on
Commercial street, Boston, was burned last week.
Loss $50 900; insured.
The Msison Doree. gorgeous restaurant In st.
Louis, has burst up after career Of few onths.
The fixtures, which cost seven thousand dollars,
were closed out at auction for about three thoas-
and dollars.
dispatch from st. George, Southern Utah,
says there is no doubt but that the savages have
there and Colorado river. 1t is also reported that
they are trying to form an alliance with the Huah
Psp-shebits and Pah Ute Indians, to make gene
raj raid on the stock of the settlers.
The directors of the Atlantic Gable Company
have resolved TO reduce the tariff on messages to
four shillings sterling per word. which il about
one dollar and twenty-seven cents In currency.
The reduction will commence on the LIST Of jane
next The present rates are nearly two dollars
and twenty cents In currency for each word.
A New York court has Just decided that an ex.
press company is not relieved of liability because
1t intrusts the work II hes undertaken 10 do to
another company at the end Of its own rout }, and
the Adams Company have had to pay the amount
OF draft given them for collection, but which the
Southern Express Company. TO whom they In.
trusted IT, failed to collect before the debtor firm
failed.
The Unitarian conference of the Middle aud
Southern States, which has been In session at
Washington, adjourned recently, after electing
the following officers: President, Rev. E. w.
Clarke; vice presidents, H. Ware and Sayles J.
Bowen; secretary, Rev. Fielder Israel; treasurer,
Rev: E. K. Sewell; executive committee, Earring.
ton o. Shute, b. Ware, George G. Barran, E. NJ.
Keith, and F. ]. Priestly. The conference meets
in Charleston next year.
A letter from the city Of Mexico says that Gen.
eral Rosecrans has recently had several private
with President Juarez. The writer as
serts that the American minister is urging the
Mexican government 70 acknowledge the French
debt.
Advices from Nassau to the goth report the
presence there of one hundred Cubans. who dis
The Spanish consul was very much alarmed by
their demonstrations. The Cuban Revolutionary
Gag was flying from two buildings in town. The
Spanish war steamer Guayana was in port. One
Of the Peruvian monitors visited port Msrslyo, a
small place on the northern coast, while on her
way from Pensacola. During her stay the insur-
gent Generals Manual and Mareno went on board
At one birth, recently, q fru'tful mother in
Lillian. Minnesota. brought forth four boys. WITH
In forty.eight hours they were buried in one
grave.
The City Council Of New Albany have passed
IN ordinance authorizing the mayor to subscribe |
900, 900 worth Of stock in the New Albany and |
st. Louis Airline Railroad. which, With the pri.
The directors Of the road will hold meeting in q
lew days and order survey Of the route.
The dam built at Ranneys Bend, Of the Wei. |
and Canal has given away, calamity which will, |
or one year at least, defer the much desired Lake
erie level for the Welland Canal.
The tenants Of the Marquis of Butte, who todsd |
lin so amazingly on bis coming of age, have shot |
Jim In etfgy on receiving the news OF his CONVEX
ion TO Romanism.
A Philadelphia correspondent describes the
beer Of that city as composed of Schuylkiu /
water, literally infused with resin. soap suds, /
'iRtai tobacco, and slight tincture OF hops.-
Parshail Schouzlin, private bankers, Buffalo,
allied on the Gath. Their liabilities are $4,000 |
no assets $4,000. L. CsDumplemsn is assignee.
According TO recent assessment of the taxa.
lie property In Savannah, the lots are valued at
3 $40 900, and the improvements at S. 339 45O or
total valuation of sl2. 2l9 lao, being an Increase
I 81, 100 1858 over the assessment OF 1865.
IL Ia said that another national bank win soon be
resnized In Chicago, under the control Of an ex-
erienced banker from Richmond, Va, who has
ational bank already, with an ample circulation,
hich be wishes TO transfer to this city. IT. CAPT.
n and the precise time when 1t will 20 iuto oper-
ton cannot be made known for q few days.
In Boston young man named Pine shot Miss |
Toward, MORALLY woundng her. and then shot
imsef dead. Rejected love IL said to have been
he cause. They were both aged about twenty,
nd respectfully connected.
AT Fort Valley, Ca, q negro woman stabbed
nd killed another woman for slappir z her child.
Between ss0.0oo and 100000 have been SUBJ
,ribed at Americas, Ca, for the purpose OF
recting cotton factory at that place.
The shipowpers Of Thomaston, Me-. intend this |
ear 10 build 10000 tons more of shipping than |
las constructed last year. One of 200 tons, the |
,rgest ever built In Maine, is now on the stockr, |
Samuel kallan. constable of Anderson town. |
hip, Hamilton county, Ohio. received shot,
bich will probably prove fatal, by a criminal he
rrested. The felon escaped.
Mayor Popping, of Carondelet, Missouri, Is
larged with the misappropristion Of SIS. 900 of
he city's money, and there IL much excitement
lere in consequence. An investigating commit.
be is looking Into the matter.