The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-02-26

nal are 10 Le nnlsheQ u eiSnseen L1O1t1s. Luz
whole contract price Is Sl0,0O0,0OO.
Advices from Harlan county, KY, state that an
armed party, headed by Lige Baker and ctheTss
have been committing depredations II the neigh
borhood Of Ut. Pleasant. Peaceable cit.z sn5Asie
been driven from their homes by them. 4 few
days since the party met Mr.. David hida.et1n IN
tn road and shot him, fairly Kidding his body
with bullets.
Parkersburg passed the House Of Delegates by a
vote of 80 to 23 and was reported 70 the Senate.
Julius Nerdorf, long connected as reporter
and war correspondent with the German papers
of st. Louis, was found dead IN his room on the
18th. An empty lsadsnnm vial lying oy him
induces The belief that he committed suicide.
Ex-Governor Patton Of Alabama has been
| elected president Of tho railroad to be built
between Decatur and Montgomery. The enter
prise ia 10 be pushed ahead rapidly.
The Charleston Courier comes TO the concluSon
that the South Carolina Railroad has msintained
| its position since the war better than any
main trunk railway in the South. The gross re-
ceips are stated at 81 294 O6l Sc; operating ex'
penses, $751;. 447 40; net, s597,6li e. As CON.
compared with 1867, there is deficit Of sl6,-
| 262 o. in net earnings.
The horrible sufsrngs Off the Africaa coast OF
the wrecked crew and passengers Of tho bark Flo
1 renee Nightingale sre recounted by tue Engish
| journals. The twenty persons Including seven
| women) were nine days in an open boat, during
which they drifted 200 miles under tropical sun,
and had only twenty pounds OF provisions and nos
| drop Of water all the time. Theit pTovlsIoos
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| water, which soon made one man, sailor, named
| Brown, crazy. When all the food vas exhausted
they drew lots who should Kill Brown before DO
| died The lot fell On c0iored boy, who, how
ever refused. At that moment the ceptain caught
] fish, three pounds weight, having made lsh-
| hook from q woman's hair pin, which be Daied
! with portion Of crab caught 10 some seaSeed.
While the fsh was being deyoaEed Brown expired,
end thrown overheard Previous 20 tais The
| crew and passengers had greediy SUCKED up soma
| blood which came from Browns body when tho
1 la 20 rno1a ia
| crabs and butterflies we're also rapsciolsiy de-
voured. They we're finally rescued by an Ameri'
| can whsler.
| A Reno correspondent of the San Francisco
| Herald says that Z" the Central Pacific Railroad
| not only charges twice the freight charged By
| any other company in the whole land. bat IS
The very worst constructed, and, | think, the
| worst managed. l cannot speak knowingly Of
| more than a6ont two hundred miles Of the road.
running east from Reno, but viii defy a0y man
| TO match those two hundred niles Ia the United
| sta'es. Grades Of every imaginable degree. for
| all liuds Of distances, and curves OF every kind,
! sre crowded into every mile. | have 1t from
! gentleman who has been employed in tue e1gi-
| Deer CORPS that there are grades Of one aGndrOd
and sixteen feet to the mile 10 the Humboldt Val
| ley These are only for short distances. Oae
| end of train will be going down grade OF this
bind, and the other up another equally as steepAi
| Not the least ehOr: has been made TO ballast tho
road over tie " self-rising" ground, and good
soaking rain viii make miles and miles OF tho
road. bed run ike wet soap. Not one train ia ten
arrives at this place on time, though tho tine card
calls for only fourteen niles per hour Tor passea-
ger trains and twelve for freight. have seen sv
trains stuck here for want Of wood, and Il is TO
unusual thing for the men to resort to sage
brush"
New York letter SAYS: The sickness and
deaths from diseased pork, mentioned recently.
have created quite panic il the market for that
article. Dealers say that there is 10 demand toC
it, and stocks on hand cannot be got rld OF = ig
love OF money" They look upon the whole,
thing, however, as bat nine days wonder, ard
expect the panic will be over, il the newErl'
per reporters will stop talking about 1t.
The Pacific Railroad Company have initiated the
necessary arrangements for grand excursion
through from New York TO san Francisco, con-
menorstive Of tie completion OF the road. Ina
time not fxed yet, but it is expected 70 start gu
| or about the let Of July. Invitations baye been
| extended to many Of the leading railroad capi5t-
s,s end bankers OF Europe, but in no caas will ~
| crowd exceed go, including the delegation iroTn
| Wall street. ID Is thought cutie probable tbat
| Presiden. Grant will be one Of the parties TO
trairs ore to leave simultaneously one from tles
end and the other from San Francisco /
1t is reported that Mr.. Hiram Henlin and NJ
| Samuel Keller, the former Of Broadway and the
latter Of The New York theater, have ma6e wager
| of $500 eide, and are to ride veloeipedes frotl
New York to Chicago. The final deposit OF stsklfs
Is to be put up tomorrow night, when me Gay ~
starting will be named. There IS no specified tgls
| in which the race ie 70 be accomplished. /;
splendid bed of the purest Chalk hss been ar
covered near Omaha, rot more that forty fec.
from the water Of the Missouri river. L
A New Yorker proposes 70 pull down tue pas
issdes along the Hudson, and build With their nae
teIial mole from the battery 10 GoverncFs
Island. Ia
The pslndrome lsa line that read alike back,
ward and forward. One of the best IS Adauls
first observation to Eve Madam, I'm AdaIg y
Another is a story that Napoleon, when e. ~,
| Helena, being asked bysn knglishman Il he cO7ld
have sacked London, replied Able was 1 exc l
. ssy Eba.n The latter is the best spSindToWfi
probably, 10 the language. The following, w
third and last, reads precisely the same backWagS
} ! Q forward "Snug raw was ere eaw waFfs
The report Of the joint committee Oh orlnaq4s
| condemns those adopted fox the army and navy,
| ard charges that officers haze caused tAese ~ u,
used from motives of personal interest. The colt
mittee thinks the experiments have not been slil,,
GENTLY extended, and 1t therefore reports 9ii
creating an ordnance commission, composed d
three army officers, two naval O6ioeIs and 81
civilians, who are to have entire control of tue o.
perirnents and Of deciding upon the aT1ls edOp 81
2 for the army end navy. Il
| The Evening Post SAYS IL r. proposed 20 esAab
lish line Of steamers between Panama and Gl
nese ports in order 20 secure sborers from Gina
Y for digging the Daren cana. 4
4 The Nashville Bsnner says: we have reoe ~
heard OF several instances where planters n All
Q ban a. Georgia, and even IN the sout iern co1n
ties OF this State have piowed up Ialgaideea'
: 'stands' ct wheaton the purpose Of putting fh'
D | ground ia cotton"
j. john ". Lee, respected citizen of Lexington
. Ky. murdered his wife by cutting her throat wiz
n . razor, and then cut his Own throat. Both ~
. dead. Mr.. Lee had been in bad health for s1fi
n days, and had given evidence of inssni'y' bufup
{ to degree sufficient to cause lis arrsBi and so1
4 dnemeDt.
2 The last deposit in the Gallagher. Allen izht 50
put up IN St Louis Ol the 10th, at M5tooS9i y
n The tine is changed TO February a. Gallarit,
;. il IN fine trim, and trained down to hne dghtl .
" weight.
Il Tie Victoria Legislature has rejected the sq1
d federation scheme by a vote Of IL 70 ). AZ
3 The remains CT large mastadOn have been5
8 ! covered near Pebauma, California.
A full. blccded negro named Thomas D0wNE
n aged twenty-thrse years, was recently tried !.
/ ! Cadz, Harrison county, for The seduction, IS
g promise Of marriage, OF q white giri named LS.ts
q T. Amos, aged fourteen years, isughter -.
. wealthy farmer in that county. Consiier1bleTk
u terest vas manifested when the girl was bgos$
. on the stand. she Is large OF hor arc, well foraS
x and good ooking-in weight about about i
p pounds intelligent and well educated. she n
9 nearfd OF an indepeadent disposition and MP